Thanks.

the important change

we will see

any update nerfing spy is a good update

this is a spy buff
unless ur being sarcastic in which case u got me

Tested this out because I wanted to see if the note was accurate (they have a history of not entirely being accurate after all) and make sure they didn't just revert to the Jungle Inferno build rate change, the note is actually correct the Razorback essentially was given a hidden attribute that makes the Medic not build at max rate on him unless if he's hurt.

Was important outside of 6s because this means the Quick-Fix is no longer penalized for healing anyone at full HP like it was during Jungle Inferno up until the Competitive Update.

Good way of doing it tbh.

Now fix backwards movement speed penalty so that it actually works properly and remove random fall damage, I believe in you Valve!

Can you explain it a bit?

Regarding Random fall damage, there is a 20% random variance in fall damage. Its supposed to be disabled when either random spread or random damage is disabled (Not sure which, I think its the former), but it isnt, therefore that 20% random variance occurs anywhere, even LANs

Supposed to be -10% when walking backwards, hasn't worked properly for 11 years now. Moving diagonally increases your movement speed which is normally prevented by each class having a ground movement speed cap, except moving backwards doesn't temporarily decrease your movement speed cap to match the -10% penalty so if you hit any strafe key & S at the same time you bypass the penalty entirely and move at full speed (you can see this with cl_showpos 1 in console).

This is something people involuntarily do even if they're not aware of this because holding only S is awful.

The -10% penalty exists to disadvantage retreating and to make players choose between worsening their retreat but being able to fight back or moving at full speed but turning away from their attackers.

However, since everyone bypasses it very easily there's no disadvantage to retreating & fighting back, in fact turning away from your attackers is just worse if you have the map memorized since you're just moving at the same speed as walking backwards but not able to fight back/surf rockets as easily.

Fixing this mechanic would actually help pushes a bit, you'd be able to close the distance on people fighting back at you and at lasts retreating into spawn when attackers are close would force you to not fight back to maximize your ability to tap the resupply.

Not much to explain, random fall damage is always enabled because tf_damage_disablespread 1 only applies to weapons/buildings and not world damage which is what fall damage is. Every time you take fall damage it's RNG how much you'll take and it's really the biggest source of RNG left in competitive play. While the damage spread is not immense or anything, it is more than enough to make a Medic surf that leaves you at low HP pure luck if you live when you hit the ground or not.

Excerpt from an email to erics@valvesoftware.com on March 14th

The Demoman's weapons, aside from the sticky launcher, do not call "SecondaryAttack()" or "DoClassSpecialSkill()" during "ItemBusyFrame()" and while "pOwner->m_nButtons & IN_ATTACK2" returns a truthy value. If they did, the bug commonly referred as "Sticky detonation delay" would be fixed.
You could either generalize that behavior into "CTFWeaponBase::ItemBusyFrame" or specialize "CTFGrenadeLauncher" and "CTFWeaponBaseMelee".

Please fix sticky delay bug

EDIT: also

Pistol/SMG is big RNG too :(

https://i.gyazo.com/bdb1a75f064fcdd94a5a17f5c886db30.png

thats a rip

Seems like something was changed with the professional's panama model, since it's not hidden by my nohats now

- Fixed the Short Circuit orb not being able to destroy rockets/grenades during the first 0.25 seconds of their lifetime

why did they make this even better...

They need to make that you only ready up when all players join the server fully. I played half a round with 5 players + bot because our player was connecting too long and the timer for ready up expired.

Are the queue times properly fixed now though or is it a bait again?