Not trying to talk trash, but when you barely have any HL experience, most maps are probably going to seem like that.

Yes, it's the hardware. 720p 30fps is very demanding for a Phenom II. (Also 1000 bitrate is too low for that resolution, so i'm willing to bet your stream looks pixellated whenever there's movement)

I would recommend making a video talking about what draws in viewers, and what pushes them away. Not about what to stream, because you should just stream what you like, but how to keep viewers so that streaming is interesting for the broadcaster and the viewers.

A lot of people make mistakes like video/audio issues or music that turns people off, and it would be helpful for new streamers and old ones.

don't play in windowed mode

OR
open a picture of a large black screen in your browser and fullscreen it with f11, set your taskbar to auto-hide, and then tab into tf2
looks like this when i did that

http://puu.sh/hqJ5o/1a92002748.png

Posted a UGC forum thread asking for teams to test and give feedback. It looks great just walking around in it, but play testing is important.

http://www.ugcleague.net/forum/showthread.php?35030-koth_viaduct_pro7-amp-6&p=202334#post202334

You're missing the part where we want people to actually leave steel. Perks for higher divisions add to the prestige, making people work harder to improve and reach those levels. You might not think so, but to many people, being able to call yourself a "gold player" means a lot. That gold participation badge is something you can't just get by asking your pub buddy to roster ride, it means something to players.

Winning steel isn't supposed to feel like a big deal, because chances are whoever did it was intentionally sandbagging (trying to appear less skilled than they are so they don't get moved up)

These perks such as placement medals also serve to keep higher level players from thinking "I could try my hardest to place, or i could go down a division and win every match running full time spy". There is a strong case for 6s gold medals, but that will come when the competition warrants it.

It's not laziness, it's not stupidity. It's what we think is best within the constraints Valve puts on medals. Giving placement medals to every division is impossible, and what we have now is a pretty good way to divide them.

Windows 7 is sweet. Hoping Windows 10 and DirectX 12 change my mind!!

4v4 is the lifeblood of competitive TF2 and deserves more respect. I have no excuse for you.

Haven't had them for several seasons. HL Silver and Gold still get placement medals because people actually take those divisions seriously.

aren't jokes supposed to be funny?

No placement badges for 6v6 below platinum because the skill just isn't there to justify it, and because we found they encouraged sandbagging more than they inspired improvement from newer players. Participation badges and double elimination playoffs are rewards for making it to higher divisions.

I'm not actually striking against the devs, I'm just not going to buy the game until full release. And I absolutely plan to buy this because I love Killing Floor.

#     48 "WTF YOU GOT TO EAT IN THIS BITC" [U:1:177648844] 01:17   81    0 active 76.66.169.33:27005

This is from DM servers? We talked about him already and schnell banned him, so I think it's taken care of.

The problem is that devs take their sweet time getting to the finished state because they already got paid and there is next to no motivation to complete the full release. It's happened many times with indie games, and I've gotten burned by one too many early access/kickstarter titles that failed to deliver.

KF2 looks like they're doing things right, but i'm holding back to "vote with my wallet" against the early access fad.

bump s19? will play below or above mid open if you need me to

EDIT: I thought the season was starting a little later than it is. I can't play weekdays for the next two weeks due to exams so I'm probably not going to be able to join a team this season. My bad!