Good job everyone, was fun :)

last mentioned count was ~15 people, 5-6 of whom are coders. but due to the way valve works as a company that number is in flux because people can just "roll their desk where they want to be"
robin walker also said once the game has never had more than 20 devs working on it since release, for perspective (though comparing some of the earlier updates to more recent ones I find that hard to believe)
some people fall into the trap of thinking the coders are the only ones who do any real work, which is probably where the "5 devs" number some say comes from, but without sound and visuals, coding can't produce content on its own

do you have steam cloud backup active? if your laptop is half decent, then disabling steam cloud and uninstalling/reinstalling tf2 might fix that

people abusing their bind and blocking out the rest of chat/taking up voice comms with garbage

I actually wouldn't mind this as a variety thing

Last I checked, Switzerland is a "first world country", yet it's easier to obtain a semi-automatic gun there than in most US states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Switzerland https://www.quora.com/How-hard-is-it-to-get-a-gun-in-Switzerland-vs-the-United-States And at the same time, it has a much lower rate of gun homicides than the US.

Now stop and think for a second what the primary underlying cause of people going on murderous rampage sprees is. It's mental illness, yeah?

https://www.thelocal.ch/20131122/long-living-swiss-top-tables-for-psychiatrists
Switzerland has 45.1 psychiatrists per 100,000 population in 2011, far ahead of the nearest challengers Iceland (22.3) and France (22.1). That's 3x more psychiatrists than average.

By comparison, the United States had a rate of 14.1 psychiatrists per 100,000 people.

By no means are the US's gun laws perfect but Switzerland shows that you can have relatively lax gun laws and a lot of firearms in the country itself and still avoid commonplace gun crime if you pay proper attention to mental health services. Aka: treat the disease, not the symptoms.

maybe you only played tdm in like 2017? months ago they put a pvp siege mode and king of the hill mode, and to be fair shooting cannons in first person is still first person shooting too. crosshair is being added for all guns

this is really cool, good work OP

quality thread

Blackwake is 50% off (9 bucks right now) and it's a pretty good value for money game; it's similar to tf2 in that it's a casual FPS with a deceptively high skill ceiling, but you might not like it if you don't have hitscan skills

https://store.steampowered.com/app/420290/Blackwake/

Learn something new about this monster of a game every week

I mean, epic does kind of have a tendency to add new content before they've even finished fixing the content they just added

I don't really believe that, that logic doesn't really hold up. "Hey, valve treats this game like shit, so we're going to shit it up even more."

It's like being pissed that the fire department hasn't showed up at your house yet, so you light more fires in your house to make them come faster?

I just think they're seeking to piss people off. There's no actual concern for the state of the game involved.

Unfortunately it just happens with age. But what everyone else said about taking a bit of a break is very true, too. I find that with other sports/activities I've done, a brief break and you come back and it comes back to you immediately

competitive matchmaking needs some sort of prize from valve to actually be deemed "competitive"
AFAIK, you still can't even see your comp MM rank anywhere but in MM itself