They basically crashed their own ship with "we need to control the player experience". Its so stupid that you cant join friends midgame, you cant have a larger party than 6, you cant join which team you want to make it more fair, but most importantly the personality completely disappears when you run a matchmaking system.

As for minding the "new" casual system, I like it less than I liked the old casual system and that wasnt great either. There was no need for this in the first place. Its sad that they used this kind of system to deal with the influx of players that were anticipated (and came) from the F2P patch in 2011. What they should have done is dedicated "valve servers" that you can access from the server browser to make sure there are at least some kind of not-modded experience and make sure there is always a leftover of servers for the players.

Obviously I understand the dev teams fear of what if someone joins a modded server or gamemode and get a skewered first impression but come on really? That wasnt a problem back in 2007-2010 where everything was ran by the community.

What pendji said has made me avoid solo pubs completely, I enjoyed it back in 2012-2013 but nowdays it is so life-less. Players have no reason to get to know eachother, no reason to feel that they want to improve or join a "quickplay community" (lol) because in the end it'll only be limited to the system. And the system is so bad it has effectively killed interest in public tf2 for me, personally. There is no fun or excitement in pulling off a master disguise, going for crazy sniper/rocket shots on players or trying ninja engineer shenanigans. 99% of the players are around the skill level where they cant even control their mouse let alone react to something happening 10 meters in front of them. Its like bullying bots.

Playing around a community would give you much more room to receive help, see what other players are doing, have more fun (the game gets more fun the better you get) and get to meet the good and bad guys. Instead of harvesting the future of tf2 pubs, we got quickplay. You reap what you sow.

Smirre: Nice roster
vani: :D:D
vani: it wasnt me who gave them the roster hahahah
Smirre: Not a single correct class :D

εὕρηκα! Mia!: tell you team they have to play it like this coz now its official
εὕρηκα! Mia!: haha

I am a man of honor but is the rest of team Sweden? Find out only at Dreamhack Winter http://i.imgur.com/4ychWTh.png

The best thing you can do as a new player is to get a config for netcode, raw mouseinput, fov, viewmodel fov etc as people here have mentioned, custom huds are also nice, there is a big variety out there.

If you have a good enough processor snd_mixahead 0.05 (or any slightly lower/higher value) makes the game sound more responsive

tf_scoreboard_ping_as_text 1 removes the newly added ping bars and displays ping as text

tf_hud_target_id_disable_floating_health 1 disables the newly added floating health feature. In the end its personal taste but I have not found a single person that wants floating health

If you plan to use ingame voice chat
voice_overdrive 1
snd_ducktovolume 1
^ fixes voice chat making other sound quiet

There are a lot of differences in TF2 and Overwatch but generally speaking tf2 is faster and more technical. If you have any questions or wonder about anything, feel free to ask

Pyro definitely deserves t o be D or even C tier, the utility and damage reflect of airblast is annoying but respectable. The disable + damage of poof + flare / shotgun against, say scouts, is probably the easiest one-shot combo in the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lG84iq2WxQ

A few months ago I got in touch (or perhaps tried to get in touch) with a TF2 MM beta moderator to provide feedback (back when zoom_sensitivity was locked) and said he'll try to forward it. Took months to fix. I also asked him if I could provide consistent, constructive feedback somewhere that wouldn't be drowned in the 1000 threads on the steam group - which perhaps I shouldn't expect. But when the competitive community is quite literally offering free advice, suggestions and explanations behind the decision making for the dev team, which they ignore on step 1 and we get this, I cant help but wonder What is going on?

I'd love to see balance and ideas, but the dev team has to realize you cannot throw random ideas in updates and hope the gamble works. Or wherever they get these ideas from.

ｗｈａｔ ｉｆ ｄｅａｔｈ ｉｓ ｊｕｓｔ ｌｅｖｅｌ ２？

Fragga was the first one I discovered back in the day that that really impressed me, favourite as an aspiring medic main was kyynel. Jaeger from coL made some really good stuff back in the day too. Mad dogz, xensity and dignitas were the first teams that I saw on youtube. Jägarna comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uH69JSQ33E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfc9l67Gy4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHHtEZWBJqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ZAhfdfhWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4juJEX9RkGo

Its crazy how the game has changed so much.

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I was god awful at TF2 in general back when I started 6v6 may 2010 and got a little bit less awful when a friend helped me with the basics, some months later I got into high/prem mixes (solid div5 medic at the time). Players were kind enough to teach me the ropes / be patient and half a year later I was a confident prem player. I wouldnt have had that kind of jump in skill if I didnt play with better players in a good environment.

Having that said a lot of my old teammates from SOLAR were people that went from lingering in div 5-4-3 to prem in a season or two (hycz qnx maidu cor lalli silleh). Honorable mention to gozo and hawku, the former who would have played prem with us if he didnt have to quit for uni and the latter who played div 1 on a macbook pro at sub 60 fps while complaining about dm. Ironhawk from my first team made it to prem (scrims, I dont think he has any prem official games) in less than a year.

Back when we were div 6 (low open) my good buddy and teammate chryspyon/chrysanthus would consistently beat and play even with prem soldiers at the time in ammomod which I thought was insane. The guy didnt play for almost 2 years and one day we talked and I convinced him to play with us for old times sake. 90cm/360 with machine-like scattergun precision and the gamesense of a potato, he would run around confused and topfrag almost every time he played div2/1 scrims with us. Best 6 months of my life.

This are european players way back a few years, maybe someone will recognize them. Im sure other players have improved faster, Im a bit biased since Ive known some of the players way back in pubs when we were all super new and improved over a season or two together later on.

Amazing event, amazing people and an incredible video. Lets do it again next year.

I thought they were going to for photos and not video footage at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y8N39_MtKY&t=23m14s haha

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Spanked. adysky : my waifu is george lopez

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https://puu.sh/qPcno/0e59b5b7a0.png

LOOKIN GOOD

He stood their by the riverbed. Waiting for him to come. He put an advertisement on Craigslist, subtly hinting at how he wasn't selling anything ordinary, but his ass instead. Sondi knew the risks, but he didn't care not one bit, he needed to pay his bills SOMEHOW. And this way seemed the easiest. Not 10 minutes later, a tall, lanky man approached him. The man whispered to the lithe young Sondi his secret pass-phrase, "shit the bed" the man said, with a thick, English accent. Sondi grabbed his hand, and led him up the river. The client, confused, said "Don't I have to pay you first? Don't you want to at least know my name?" Sondi,decided to entertain the man, and replied to him "Sure! What is your name?" The man replied hesitantly, "I.. I guess you shouldn't know my real name, but... Can you call me Sideshow?" Sondi shook his message off, and continued up the river to the nearby local park. At the park, Sondi led Sideshow into the public bathrooms. and into the last stall.

Sondi had been through this process a million times before. He unzipped his ass and pressed it onto Sideshow's shirt. He pulled a bottle of baby oil from out of his bag, and poured it onto his back, down to his buttocks, which were still on Sideshow's shirt. Sideshow, afraid his mother would wonder why his clothes were drenched in oil, quickly removed as much clothing as he could, starting from the bottom, slowly moving his way up, unbuttoning his shirt. Sondi, still pressed onto Sideshows stomach with his ass, started moving upwards and downwards. He grabbed onto Sideshow's arms as he was bent forward like the letter L sideways. He peeled away from the rock-hard, deathly pale English man, and grabbed his enormous member, stuffing into his own "brown hole". Sideshow groaned, and tightly shut his eyes, pure pleasure was overwhelming the virgin. He knew he couldn't last very long against this trained professional, so he yanked his dong out. The sausage was throbbing, anything could have caused it to cum. Sondi reached towards it, but even that had triggered the poor man to spray his man milk wildly all over. Sondi, satisfied with is work, licked the salty, sticky juice from his hands. "Cough it up, creep." Sideshow nervously checked his pockets, only being able to give 15p to the man. He threw the coins to the ground and ran out of the bathroom, still completely naked, and into the park.

Sideshow the Frugal had struck again.