have you tried a system restore? Restore your computer back a week or two. If that doesn't work, try a few restore points. And when you say "there wasn't an update during the night", are you referring to Windows Update? What type of Graphics card do you have? Radeon, Nvidia?

usually the time it takes to troubleshoot the problem and find the culprit is longer than just re-installing the game. have you tried re-installing TF2? obviously saving media, maps, replay, screenshots, your HUD, etc...

I'd assume your sound/video card driver are updated? Does it crash in Windowed mode as well? Have you tried with no launch options (if you have any)?

When does it crash? Demo playback? Server initial join? Random?

that damage per inches.... lol

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Not smart to fight fire with fire. The coolant would be to let the negative comments such as "You're bad" slide and continue seeking advice to improve your game. You're "new" and don't want to come off as snotty.

Are you on a UGC Highlander team? If not, try to join one. Doesn't necessarily matter what level it is, as long as you are playing in actual matches against good (or better) teams. As the others were saying, there's not much to criticize when one team rolls the other. That is what happens in TF2Lobby majority of the time.

When you get more comfortable with your medic mechanics, hop into mIRC and join the Highlander pug channel.

9s (Highlander) - #tf2.pug.nahl

I'd also suggest looking at the Mentoring section of this forum. In addition, as a reference point, look up a higher level demo from a high lander match and study the medic mechanics. Positioning is half the battle. Start with that.

Do you every play on surf maps? Movement is important and sometimes a good surf can save a round :)

How do those skinny ass wings support that huge bear? Regardless, if that actually existed, I would want to come back as one of his best friends. It looks scary :(

http://www.foundshit.com/pictures/animals/rachachuros-seasonging-ad.jpg

lol WTF MATLOCK...

No. Anywhere you like. Even a body part. I'd come back as a pinky toe. I swear it's the ugly duckling of the body

I'd come back as an infinite loop of a pig.

common man, you're killing me...

As I stated before, just relaying information and making people aware. Communication is key. All of us here know that you aren't the ESEA Client Engineer. You are the Voice (messenger). You are supposed to give information when necessary and constant updates to show you "care" about your clientele. What could you have done better? Well...

I am on these forums on a daily basis and not once did I see a post about how the Client will be down for this week (if there was one, please point me to it). As other people pointed out, how long did you (ESEA) need to get the client working? Another month? If you did not know it was going to be down, then obviously the "engineer" is not communicating well enough to you (or you to him). ESEA sure as hell will spam a mass email to all users about paying their fees on time, but no email in regards to the client having issues? Communication.

Did you and other ESEA admins know about this before this week? If so, why weren't matches pushed out until this was fixed? If not, why don't you communicate better with your company? We don't need an update every hour, but we at least want reliable information. Customer Service isn't always about getting things fixed, it's about putting the customer at ease with honesty and communication instead of unrealistic standards and false promises. It is built upon trust. All these people pay money and trust that ESEA is the best system for competitive gaming, but come to find out, they paid for something that doesn't even work?

Even as admins, you could have held a raffle of some sort. A way to show you're "sorry" by raffling something off free due to "our" (ESEA) incompetence. A free month of ESEA Premium? An unusual? I don't know, something that a good customer service rep would offer?

Ok, I'll stop there for now.

The face of something is sometimes more important than what goes on behind it. That's what customer service is. As people already stated, it's one thing to claim to know when things will be resolved, but it's another to give a duration and repeatedly not hold to it. Sure, Killing has gotten comfortable with the community so he talks to us in sarcastic tones, but there's a time and place for that. People are genuinely upset *as they should be* and the "face" of ESEA isn't representing it any better than what's behind it.

The honest and courteous thing "they" should have done was posted about this earlier. Even if they had to delay the 1st week of matches out a bit more, it would have at least given the community awareness as to what is going on and why. But instead, schedules have been crammed and the only answers we have received in regards to this issue are "nope" and "tomorrow". I agree. "Nope", it won't be fixed "tomorrow".