People typically use mumble to augment their communication when playing together (i.e. as a team) or as a way to hang out in a channel. I never leave it on if I'm just MGEing or DMing - you can always just mute/deafen yourself if you find it distracting.

I was on the losing team of that pug - it's a beautiful map and has fun architecture, but I feel like the lobby between last and 2nd has way too many entrances to ever allow defenders to push out. We defended at least 6 or 7 last pushes one round but were unable to push back out. You're also extremely susceptible to being sniped throughout the map, especially at mids and defending last.

I also think that the cap times on last are too long and the map felt a bit too big in general. I think it's a really exciting map and has some great potential but those are just some of my thoughts from having pugged it.

The stream was smooth for me the whole time, thanks for the hard work!

Honestly idk what answer you want - no, you can't get them now. Yes, they cost money/keys/metal. Figure it out?

No

"The Summer Shades were awarded to players during The Steam Summer Camp Sale in 2011 by collecting and exchanging three tickets earned from various achievements."

Advice on getting two things: save up until you have enough to buy them

Pretty good read, but some small details: the formatting on the second paragraph of the HRG article is really awkward because you made eMg/Quantic/Prophets/Leviathan/HRG one word and it's justified.

Also when you wrote "all for not" (in Mixup's writeup) it should be all for naught.

Thanks for the preview!

Two of the items are a silenced USP and a silenced M4. I wonder how they'll balance those and if you can add/remove the silencer like in the past or you have to pick which one you buy.

Nice guy, pretty chill.

Makes sure the earth is flat.

Viber should work for you - it has Windows and OSX versions as well as iOS, Android, Windows phone, etc. versions

Also it's free

Mumble

Edit: I heard Viber is pretty good

Valve's going to remove that spot after seeing this

Strongsuit is probably my favorite medic to pocket for. She's pretty smart and doesn't get herself killed stupidly, times ubers well, and gives good feedback on what might be behind . If you ask how you could do better she'll give good feedback and is very open to criticism of her own play.

She's fun to hang out in mumble with and is really dedicated to improving and having fun.

Do older versions work for you? 1.2.4 crashed for me all the time but 1.2.3 is perfectly stable, so you might wanna check it out.

Super nice guy, fun to play with

The S4s were ~$70 when I got them, and I'm still happy with my purchase. They're generally in that range so I'd venture a guess that they would outclass most of the $30-50 earphones.

As far as being outside and all that, I feel like I get pretty decent isolation with them, but I don't use earphones outside that much so I'm not the best to ask about that.