This update is pretty based, and it came out of nowhere

I mean, you could have said that about them changing Pyro into schizophrenic waggling mode as well, but they did it anyway.
I don't think it's too much to ask for a lightning-gun-like Flamethrower when most people agree it would solve the problem.

Thank you and OP so much for all the hard work you've done, will the mod still be updated for community server users at least?

Make Flamethrower act more like the lightning gun from quake- actually requires you to aim it, and in compensation has longer range (though still counts as a short-ranged weapon)

also give pyro an airblast jump and nerf the powerjack, there, class is fixed permanently

go one better and buy a GPU, it's the perfect time

rewind 2 was fast-paced but also painful to watch. grats to froyo though, their skill carried the day

something else you might also need to be able to defend against:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

best of luck to them, hopefully will be a good season

first song would listen to while driving on a hot day but not otherwise/10

second song reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8vzbezVru4

how do u do, fellow kids

point against: he purged a huge part of his own officer class for suspected treason (to secure his own position) right before the outbreak of WW2, meaning the red army was very inexperienced when it came up against the nazis. you(r opponent) could argue this caused many preventable deaths and even made the war take longer than it needed to, not just for the ussr but for everyone else

whoops missed the earlier discussion by marxist, but surely one can admit that even if the red army was already underprepared, making the situation worse is still a point against stalin

didn't say you did, some guy earlier said it. valve has slowly started to shift to balancing for comp, hence stuff like the atomizer/sandman/parachute changes, just shitty staffing policies are making it take a long time, but if you think valve doesn't care this discussion is basically moot anyway

i admit matchmaking as a service needs to be better.

not to be cynical but, while ToTH is a great thing by the community, stuff like pro showmatches, newbie mixes, youtuber exposure, lans, leagues on every continent bar africa, even valve's website advertising streams and games in the game itself (didn't i58 get a global notification to all players)? have all been tried. to put it bluntly, what matters is money and mass appeal if you want the scene to grow and survive. no amount of newbie mixes is going to make somebody want to competitively play a game which they don't find fun and has no reward, surely you can admit that.

Out of the class mains who would want to play tf2 competitively, 5/9 of them can't play the class they enjoy, which means they either play highlander (dividing the playerbase) or don't play at all. so many missed potential players. asking valve to label 5/9 classes as "specialists" implies to them that we want it to stay that way.

"generalist" and "specialist" class division is a thing in 6s because valve hasn't been balancing the game around competitive, until very recently- but for pubs, labeling a whole group of classes "specialists" is utterly disconnected from what they see. For pubs, valve has been balancing the game so that every class is fulltime viable, and gru, huntsman, gunslinger, spy speed buff etc. are examples of this. "specialist" barely has meaning in a pub. we'd be feeding information to pub players that's irrelevant to their actual experiences.

what i said was 6s. competitive matchmaking is 6v6 but isn't "6s".

well yeah, that's my first point, that casual players really don't give much of a shit how things work in competitive, since pubs operate so differently. so it's pointless asking valve to implement something in the game which tells pubbies what classes shouldn't be used in 6s when it's not relevant to them.

secondly, the only way 6s is ever going to grow, realistically, is by valve providing prize funding (so people can afford to play), and making 5/9 of the classes having a healthy place in the competitive game (so people who enjoy the offclasses, a huge part of the userbase, actually want to play).

suggesting to valve "these classes are shit, please give pub players a message you're writing them off " is counterproductive to keeping the scene alive, and its benefits would be marginal anyway since most people know what classes not to pick by the time they come to 6s.

You may have missed it, but this whole discussion began specifically because some guy suggested that something should be added telling pub players that offclasses were useless 99% of the time, and not to use them.

here is the post under discussion. http://www.teamfortress.tv/45353/december-global-whitelist-changes/?page=9#253

I even referenced it in my post: "so why add something to the pub game that tells pub players "these classes are meant to be useless 99% of the time". If you hadn't skimmed the post you might have picked up on that.

the offclasses see a hell of a lot more playtime in pubs than they do in 6s and valve actively encourages it, so that doesn't make any sense. if it was a "basic fundamental" of the game, why is it not really present in the part of the game valve primarily focus on? clearly they do want all classes to be seen full-time, in pub play at the very least, which is why they keep buffing them towards that. spy's speed buff, heavy's GRU, engineer's gunslinger being some clear examples.

the "weird stigma" you talk of arises from the fact that valve has always treated the 9 classes as real people, rather than tools, and in pubs they *aren't* tools, they work as full-time classes. and it seems to be what a vast part of the playerbase actually wants from the game. people invest a large amount of time and money into each class, because they see them as their unique playstyle they identify with, not a tool to win. and why shouldn't they?

the whole point of having classes at all is to let the player do what they find fun as often as possible. theoretically, 6s could just be all Soldier and we could be playing quake right now. the reason team fortress split up into med/soldier/scout/demo is because people enjoy different things, it isn't hard to understand how the same principle applies to the other 4-5 classes.

that feeling ignores two things. 1: valve is in the process of changing the offclasses. 2: in pubs, offclasses aren't anywhere near as useless as they are in 6s.

so why add something to the pub game that tells pub players "these classes are meant to be useless 99% of the time" when it's probably not going to be true in competitive for much longer, and it's already not true in pubs?