There are so many actual good ideas here.

Is it possible for us to grab a Sourcemod plugin and make some of these weapon changes? I would love to test these in a bunch of PUGs, and get in touch with Valve to help pick the best variants.

TF2 could have a resurgence. A gameplay-focused rebranding or promo or something. It would include a surge in player numbers, and if Valve ties matchmaking into that rebranding, TF2 could get really popular again. I don't know I guess I'm just hopeful, but the TF2 team does seem to want to improve the game, and testing weapon rebalances is a really simple but solid way to do it.

^^^ It'd be a little hard to implement, but I don't see why it can't be done. The server could check with the client's cvar value whenever a projectile is fired so that this can be a per-client thing, not a per-server thing.

Then there's already a system in place where the server checks for the left handed value. It's even easier, just re-use that code as an override.

What if only the Medic can cap in a QF uber, along with a residual cap loss for those that just lost the QF beam, similar to uber fading?

Great changes, no opposition. I would prefer to keep the 3 clip, because 2 is such a cripple, but I'm okay with tweaking damage in cases like this.

Sounds perfect. The biggest issue with the BFB originally was that there are so many spots on maps where you need to jump slightly to take a natural path, and the BFB screwed that up - Upward is a fantastic example. When playing defense on Upward, for BOTH spawns, you need to jump up a ledge in order to get back into spawn easily, or take the long ramp way around. Reducing jump height would make it so that Scouts can no longer 'double jump' in regards to height and distance (as much), but they can still execute a second jump to change direction midair. This would also allow them to still access all the spots achieved with single normal jumps at the cost of 25% speed, while disallowing typical locations that require two jumps (like some rollouts). Trading vertical speed and the ability to dodge with jumping for horizontal speed, without stopping all maneuverability. Great change.

what the fuck I've never seen that issue

Color correction? Maybe prod around Google with "tf2 remove fog"?

http://puu.sh/hwNwM/7984f8ebe7.png

also lange

I don't believe so. I've experimented with different cross hairs in scripts, but they all require sv_pure to not be set to 2 with Valve's whitelist, which blocks custom crosshairs and anything besides hitsounds and HUD elements.

People achieve custom crosshairs universally by building it into the HUD rather than using the game's crosshair, but those can't be changed on the fly like the game one.

tldr possible if the sv_pure 2 whitelist becomes more lenient, otherwise not possible. Even that would require a bunch of scripting to try to recreate the Amby one, it can't just be put on the Scout.

Are STV bugs being fixed?

What kinds of spectator tools are in the works?

What about replays/demos? Any changes?

Regarding matchmaking, are there whitelists and rulesets? Is it paid like Mann Up, or free to all?

Are there any better tools for making videos?

Lastly... What was it like to be there? Did they pull you into a dark room, did they discuss it over lunch? I'd love to know what the general attitude was towards hosting you guys, because their attitude and mindset says a lot about their ideology.

Fucking this. If they would be willing to do this, man it would mean a lot. Working for Valve to better a game that's lasted so long with one of the best communities out there...

Agreed with these fine gents

So, what have you gents done so far? It came out yesterday and I've been playing it ever since.

Heat shields are awesome, I fucking love the new aerodynamics model, and service bays are pretty cool.

What version did they add the new navball options in, the few versions just before release? I haven't played since late last year, and being able to have SAS target prograde/retrograde/node has pretty much made me ditch MechJeb for almost everything. I still don't like airplane landing and it can be helpful for targeting specific landing locations, but I don't need to use it for moving about in space anymore now that SAS can target node vectors.

Building a solid rocket early on in career mode that flew by the Mun, Minmus, and had enough fuel to travel to Duna and back felt really fucking good, especially when it gave so much science.

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ok

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about what

edit: thanks for the edit

UGC admins...

3CP is pretty popular in 4v4, because 5CP is deemed as too large, and KOTH gets boring.

rip WRT54G