does valve not understand why this item is banned in competitive games?

hyped for the disgaea items/carlton taunt tho

nidhogg
jackbox party pack 1/2
castle crashers
worms
rocket league
sonic all stars racing transformed
speedrunners
battleblock theater
gauntlet
lethal league
metal slug x
jamestown
monaco
magicka
keep talking and nobody explodes

3 is still my favorite song of the series lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXOdn6vLCuU

i'm glad it ended on that note

I was a competitive 1.6 player, and they added ads into the game on random walls and stuff, I saw the Orange Box being advertised and the community I was a part of was playing it. I heard there was a sniper that had a charge mechanic in it, among other class gimmicks, and it sounded really interesting, so I bought it. Pretty much was a pubstar on LUElinks christian gaming experience, the lost continents, and team fortress 2 fort (the community). We had a huge enough community on LUElinks where we decided to start doing in-house PUGs and we had a lot of really good players that played in there regularly (DLman, jaeger, yz50, stultus, tri, denial, caspian, and many more). Some of us in the PUG group decided to form teams and I was basically forced into the medic position when I thought I was going to be playing soldier or scout. On my first team, I basically died to a random crit rocket (you couldn't disable crits) right out of dustbowl spawn doors, and I got cut right after that first scrim lmao.

I joined another LUElinks team and we played in the first few seasons of CEVO (the first incarnation, not the revived one that everyone knows now), I basically got to play sniper as my main class and scout secondary. We weren't really good, but we did play against a lot of good teams that would just rotate classes since we were relatively unknown. This was during high school, and I was a delinquent and basically just grinded TF2 every day while skipping classes, which is probably why I was at my prime and had a lot of people accuse me of cheating during this time. At the same time w1rex was basically cheating and aliasing as "Foxie", which is why everyone ended up thinking that I was him (he confirmed that he was trying to frame me from his leaving thread, where he apologized to me on gotfrag, but a lot of people still think I'm w1rex to this day). I made a lot of frag movies during this time, but stopped after I got a death threat for making them (lol).

I got picked up by mainline gaming in IM that had soup, kaidus, and defy. This was my first ESEA team, and it basically disbanded right after our first match lmao. Right after that, I got picked up by blight gaming to backup for fanom and arizona, where I clearly remember being very confused since I was basically an idiot dm scout, since all I did was play PUGs and play sniper 99% of the time, and I still remember getting yelled at for not capping points. At the same time, I was playing in #tf2gather and was basically being forced to learn scout since I got yelled at for running sniper to granary mid, it was so weird to me because I normally ran full time sniper everywhere else.

During ESEA seasons 12-16, I basically stopped playing TF2 seriously to focus on finishing college. My school basically had insane workloads (I had to write a 40 page thesis in my sophmore year lol), and so I couldn't play both TF2 and pass my classes at the same time, so I decided to ease up on TF2. This caused me to pub/pug a lot more, and while pubbing someone named BattleBull was like, "Hey! You're pretty good! I hope you don't mind that I added you to my highlander roster haha!" I honestly had no idea what he was talking about, and only realized what he meant when I ended up with a UGC medal in my inventory. Tangerine was a plat team and contacted me about playing sniper for them in highlander, and I basically got shuffled around when vhalin took me to backup for jake on the syndicate. I didn't actually realize at the time, but he did this as a powerplay to kill Tangerine, who was their main competition, and by losing me as their starter, they ended up disbanding. I went with vhalin, just because I actually knew him for an incredibly long time, and I guess I hit it off with stabby, because he just invited me to all of his latest highlander teams, which was great because highlander wasn't as much of a timesink as 6s with 1-2 scrims a week and a match 1 day a week.

I streamed a load of TF2 and went to two GXL events and got to meet so many people I've known online for years. I'm still friends and keep in contact with a lot of TF2 people even though I don't really play TF2 anymore. I've moved on in terms of competitive play, but I still have a special place in my heart for TF2, and the community is something I will never forget. I sometimes regret not pushing myself harder to get into invite, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't feel the same getting in now compared to when a lot more of my friends were competing at the top level. I definitely don't regret focusing on school over pursuing playing in invite, and I don't regret all the time I put into TF2. I love you guys, and I'm happy to have been a part of this wonderful community~ :3c

ggglygy's soldier skill enhancer and cooking with pyyyour videos are so hilarious that i still occasionally watch them to this day

kwazi and bolwind are super funny together

really sad, one of my friends from socal knew her personally, apparently she competed in smash tournaments

rip

idk from the streams i've watched, viewers also prefer 1hl than cancer comps
people just complain about widowmakers now

still a bit confused how someone would still get banned from basically recreating his PC addresses from the ground up

does that mean blizzard bans based on hardware id lmfao

i feel like this is the third or fourth time you've got me

well you have to admit there's pretty disgusting people out there anyways, like willing to make a new account to bump a week old thread to start an argument that always comes up every time this is brought up

try to stay calm while playing and try not to think of the numbers, and rather think if you're helping your team

look back at your demos to see if you're making any huge mistakes like:
am i taking a fight when i'm out of position
do i have buffs when i can get crit healed
am i playing with my teammates, i.e. fighting things that are already hurt

are you dming/mgeing with a purpose, or are you just doing them to do them

you have to be focused when practicing and work on things you're weak at i.e. close range/mid range fighting

a lot of times even if you're playing poorly, you'll probably be in a much better situation if you are playing with your team and try to stay buffed as long as your medic is in a position to heal you and you'll eventually see your numbers go up as well

i'm happy i got to see the day where both medics drop uber within 15 seconds of each other in a grand finals match

hopefully this scares away most of the people that are currently cheating that people haven't caught yet, really glad they're adding a report function in-game though because it seemed ridiculous there was no option for it during the beta test

i had a lot of fun playing it

i don't know if i can actually compete in it at a high level though because you need to learn a handful of heroes to actually be a worthwhile teammate in that game, and the only thing i know how to do is snipe, though think i just need a lot more hours in it though

honestly even though i feel like it's an easier game than tf2, i'd just rather play a game that has a dev that backs its competitive scene over a game that doesn't; until valve decides to be more public about their motives with tf2, i don't really want to invest the amount of time it takes to practice tf2 over just picking up another comp game that does have dev support, as much as i still love the game

this is more towards being worth it because of time zones though, since scrim times starts at like 2-4 pm my time every day

i mean, from the shots i've seen, taimou doesn't look like he cheats imo, but that clip looks incredibly sketch LOL

i watched the entire VOD he uploaded from that game and that was only one of like two sprees he got that game, but that switching back and forth between the respawning players is super fishy even from a skeptical viewpoint

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

he removed the VOD though because he said his team doesn't want their comms up, so that makes it even more fishy so who knows!

https://twitter.com/EnVy_Taimou/status/728899042403594240

he got banned on twitch for mass reports of cheating too