a hell of a lot more people have played or at least heard of scrabble than tf2

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its based on the way you would say it, i.e. january 7th, 2016

the hitscan hitboxes are really similar to that already though, admittedly they could use an update in the same vein of the new cs ones. the projectile/collision hitbox could never work like that though, and im sure the cs collision hitboxes are nearly identical to the tf2 ones

just try to abuse the holes that will exist in their team. if a scout and a roamer are dead, then a hole will exist on the flank. if pocket or demo is dead, then a hole will exist in choke. you should be taking ground that isn't being held and forcing the enemy team to either commit more resources to fight you (freeing up other areas of the map) or forcing them to concede an area and back up/out

yeah i'm aware of this, but the bots in cs are both A.) more useful on their own due to fewer specific mechanical skills and 100% hitscan weapons, and B.) more usable by players, because of the control a bot function. having a bot replace a disconnected player will just straight up be less effective for tf2 matchmaking than it is in cs, which means leavers are a more serious problem, which means valve will want to keep the number of players in a match to a minimum. this issue is actually amplified even more by highlander, because being able to change up your team composition on the fly will allow you to semi-negate the issues that having a bot presents, maybe by letting you play more defensive classes if you're already ahead. with highlander though, you just have to deal with having a useless player in one slot.

look at current csgo queue times. to queue for certain maps generally take 1-2 minutes, if you queue for a lot of maps at once it can take as little as 20 seconds. now lets pretend csgo had 1/5th of its current players, which would make it roughly the size of tf2¹. that changes queue time from 1-2 minutes to 5-10 minutes, or 1:40 if you queue for a lot of maps at once. now imagine instead of 5 players for team, you had 9. double queue times again. now imagine every person on each team has to queue for a specific role, rather than a general role. another significant increase in queue times

you get the idea that for tf2 hl matchmaking to be as balanced as it is in cs (which is just about balanced enough that there aren't a huge number of total stomps), you would be looking at 10-15 maybe even 20 minute queue times. this is only the major issue with highlander matchmaking as a concept, which doesnt even begin to breach the concept of leavers², and the difficulty in designing a rating system for every individual class which hooks up players of a similar skill level

generally, 6's is the much safer and easier to manage format for the time being, and i'm sure valve will be spending a longer period of time developing highlander to be sure that it is stable and usable if/when it first gets released

¹ and honestly, because tf2 is in general a game that attracts a more casual audience, assuming the same proportion of the tf2 community will play matchmaking as the csgo community is likely a mistake.

² bots are inherently more effective in cs, where permadeath ensures that a player can take control of a bot for a significant period of time if they die early, and when there are fewer crucial mechanical skills like rocket jumping, pyro combo-ing, hell even double jumping as scout is something that bots are currently unable to do.

also experienced this guy blatantly wallhacking and aimbotting in a pub, dont have a demo of it though

he's gone back to his roots a little more with this (noise music, generally weird shit) and it has very few straight bangers, this isn't the album you bump at a party. that said i think this is more cohesive project then basically anything he has ever released and the production is so fucking top notch that i find it hard to dislike anything about this. pretty sure this is the perfect way to go out, especially w/ intent and purulent discharge, just chanting WHATS IT ALL MEAN, WHATS HE SAYIN WHEN HE SAYS IT gettin progressively more fucked up as it goes along. sick album honestly, i totally understand why some people might not like it though its definitely sorta "out there" as far as LUM releases go

i see you're still a retard ludgey

oh yeah i didnt consider that you only have to reload 9 times, but also your last arrow will have travel time of like 1/2 a second if you want to get into the real nitty gritty of the timing. its definitely a worthwhile exercise to see how fast you could perfectly build with 2 soldiers running shotty and a demo all at range, and w/ a boston bashing scout to heal next to you, i bet you could get it under 14 seconds if you switch on and off of medigun perfectly

well, 17.6 seconds if you manage to do it in 10 arrows all at max healing, or marginally faster if you reload the arrow while you heal someone else and switch back every 1.7 seconds. this is pretty totally unrealistic though, because a class has to be doing 150+ damage to itself every 2 seconds at max range from a medic. i'd imagine you cant do it with any class alone. scout obviously you can only heal like 100 safely, for soldier and demo their reload speed would likely prevent them from being able to do 150 damage to themselves at such a consistent rate. so to optimize your uber build you'd have to have 2 classes full time hurting themselves at max range while a third stands near med to heal during crossbow reloads

Reserve Shooter
No longer mini-crits any airborne target (i.e. jumping). Target must be forced in to the air via blastjump, knockback, airblast, or grapple.

about this change, im interested in seeing if it will effect enemy rocket jumping soldiers, like if a dude rj's at you will you mini crit him? gonna try to test this out in a minute

Crusader's Crossbow
Healing a player with an arrow now grants a small amount of ÜberCharge

they fucking buffed the best medic weapon, this is amazing

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