tf.tv post from esl rep

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thank mr skeltal

were you dropped on your head as an infant

pubg/h1z1 if you like shooters where you can hop in with some friend, get some kills, but go for gold and try you ass off

a big thing for me personally with razer arena was that there wasn't a separate open and invite cup so yeah even if you got a pug team together or even an established team and played, yeah you may have made it to like semi-finals of the cup at best but then would lose to an invite team like froyotech or ascent

that coupled with the fact that prize distributions were fuck all terrible outside of first and second place made a lot of people stop playing because the only teams who ever won were the invite teams because again, there was no invite cup and open cup, just the two merged into one cup.

like people have already stated, faceit would be great if its pug system was more like a traditional pug system and not a pug system that was designed for games like csgo and frankly was half-assedly ported over without to much thought into things that are relative to a tf2 pug such as class lock-ins and a sub system, which are things that don't really matter in csgo because there are no classes so you don't have to fight to be the first in the server and subbing into a csgo game puts you at a possible advantage/disadvantage due to the complex economy system of the game

pugchamp has a lot of issues that have been brought up numerous times and to be brutally honest, unless tsc/erynn/whoever runs them anymore decides to sack up and make some fucking changes like banning down to the last map, having a substitute system that isn't just whoever smashes the button the fastest, and a system that doesn't afk people every two minutes, people will continue to bitch and complain

newbie mixes are making a comeback, but yes, growth is slow, and will probably be a bit slow because a lot of people have been busy scrimming hard with their teams. i for one don't want to boot up tf2 just to sit in a server and spectate on a friday night after scrimming 2-3 times a night for 3-4 days that week, i want to do something else. now that regular season is over a lot more coaches and even players will have time to sit down and join in on helping get newbie mixes back off the ground

also tf2stadium failed because a) it had to go up against a very well established albeit shittily run competitor and b) didn't have the tf2-wide brand recognition that tf2center has and continues to have

asking why tf2stadium failed is like asking why a family owned mom and pop burger place failed after being setup right next to a mcdonald's, it got beat out by brand recognition and prior experience

use mumble

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insane in the membrane

there is a god

also be advised he may accidentally turn off his pc when trying to close his disk drive so don't let him type .cupholder in your match server

bumping again

good mechanics and cool person

e-dating syath though...

there actually was an update a few months ago that made the game completely crash on launch but was pushed out to all clients anyways

that update proved to the entire tf2 community that practically zero play testing is done for tf2 updates anymore, and since the tf2 beta client isn't used anymore there's no way of knowing if those kinds of updates will break the game or not

nutty aim on sniper

he also looks like shaggy

i think what people are really annoyed by is less of the fact that the pyro update hasn't come out yet and more of the fact that valve has time to make balance changes and game fixes to a game mode that 1% of it's player base plays on valve servers and less than 1% of it's player base plays on third-party servers

you can't sit there and tell me that a company who promised it's putting all of it's 3-5 tf2 devs (because valve obviously needs about 130 people to work on just vr) towards finishing an update that 2-3 times the size of the standard tf2 content update isn't slapping you in the face metaphorically by releasing little to no communication to it's player base besides one little blog post on what the devs are speculating changing and pushing updates to game modes and aspects of the game that frankly less than 1% of tf2's player base gives a single shit about