That pug/lobby system would be exciting, if not in the cards now, but eventually.

It’s subjective situationally, depends if you feel slow rev up times plus shorter damage spread in tight areas vs faster rev up time vs long distance damage accuracy.

I took the day off from work to watch this. Hope we get some decent demos rendered of the matches, a high quality compilation edit would be a treat. Don’t get enough high quality frag vids from anything official with mge.

I get all of that, being able to hustle positions, help a scout close to opening at last, but when it comes to last, what’s wrong with getting tanky? And of course if shotgun pocket is worthwhile, what’s the damage difference between a heavy switch up? Curious to see numbers, what is the average output? Feels silly to suggest shotgun pocket in any situation because god knows what a scout can do, but let’s say if we treat pocket soldier as a damage focused class; how much can two scouts meech from that? I also know wonder what’s better, between reload speeds, is it better to reload a rocket or kill a weak scout, or hell a medic? Does that stand alone cheap shot hustle better? I honestly wonder what is better with that reload speed difference, how much can that change fights?

For the record. When talking about soldier as a damage focused class, not a pick class while roaming. Not some stand alone hustle, I’m talking serious damage between all 6. Peppering everything for scouts to work on.

Another thing I wonder, what would happen if a team practiced old ways, shotgun pocket focused vs scout pocket? DM ALONE is entirely different these days. I know the spread on the soldier shotgun isn’t close, hell not even damage wise, but damn I wonder what a team that slowed it down a bit (not as fun, of course not nearly as aggressive) vs a team with a pocket scout leading uber pushes. I honestly think 4 rockets, let’s even say 2 of 4 are directs, then if still alive, a full clip into a team, say the average push, even a mid fight, combo plus 2, maybe 3 still alive? When I say a full clip, I mean a solid shotgun follow up.

It feels like in the end a pocket soldier can do more damage in a fight with a secondary?
I honestly want to know the damage numbers compared to pocket scout fights, what would honestly add up more.

Or for the sake of argument, do prefer you prefer agressive soldiers with gunboats? How often do you see your pocket switch up to shotgun on last? Anything defensive for that matter, esp longer last holds. With that situation in mind, we see offclassing, heavy / level 3 builds, sometimes a sniper hoping to stuff a uber push. Sometimes you get the old split second situation with a pyro trying to counter a uber.

Honestly it seems like you don’t see shotgun soldiers in play even on situational stuff. The class itself used to be such a primary thing, but of course after the meta changed and a you could drag a medic with a scout at top speed, the meta itself sped up.

So if I had to sum up the situation, do you think shotgun soldier as any place in 6s these days? Situational or not, also curious to thoughts on it in highlander. For a brief time I remember seeing it happen, after the scout / medic speed buff.

Logs get fucked almost every season man

- Fixed a few floating trees! Exceptional

I haven’t kept up with them in ages since act 2, had no idea dear hunter still played.

It was rough this year for me, felt like I was waiting for a thing I honestly liked to come out, Falco from Future of the Left was gunna do a new Mclusky album, but he ended up getting some serious ear infection and cancelled his entire tour, don’t even think he can feel good enough to keep up with the new album (singer from shellac that has a studio) that was gunna get recorded in NA.

Was lucky to get that Oxbow live album tho, getting a quality performance with gold recording plus crazy horns was nuts. If future albums with them don’t have saxophone stuff mixed in I will be bummed as hell. Can’t even go back to shit on the previous albums, it feels like I’m missing something.

I did get lucky with my fav band tho, pile had a new album in February and it’s a fresh breath of air for me. Usually they do stuff to be accurate to how they sound live, true instrumental stuff. But because of Covid and the front man being sorta restricted over the time, he’s sorta getting out of his comfort zone. I didn’t expect them to do an album that felt like a listener only experience, but it turns out after 2 years of solo tours this dude figured out how to make that work. I don’t normally like studio stuff that seems like you can only make it work in production, but this shit is great. Fav bit is how they are doing industrial drumming stuff, it’s the little shit, sounds like they got a 2nd drummer banging on a build site for a new skyscraper.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR3MjYxoknf87Y5i9hSuSCkN3w7UxIZMkGTCVbVEHr_bxl9xQOXA1Qv9Uy4&v=8P0G0lDmSQA&feature=youtu.be

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2022/11/pile-all-fiction-1667929064.jpg

Grape owns the old school shotgun pocket category, don’t care if the meta changed, that man was a damn monster.

website looks really clean btw, nice work.

He will only show up if you save his name 3 times in front of your monitor.

Any of you guys had any luck playing longer then like a hour or two with this gpu hangup crash shit? Longest I’ve gone maxed out on a 3070 without rtx has been about two-ish hours, and that was on the 28th before the launch. I’d play at lower settings, and maybe it’s because I’m stuck at 1080p up-scaled on 27inchs, this game is not comfortable at lower settings for me, it’s hard to read and see long distance stuff, environments clashed hard visually.

Could suggest a lot, could even reference that thread you wanted some actual feedback, but if real stuff is more important, if it actual has fruit, go for it. You don’t need to say you’re retiring. Taking a break is always important, you’re extremely young and anything is possible in your freetime. I’ve been an ass, extremely critical after said thread, only because you ignored an entire community on this site being vocal, constructive, giving actual feedback.

If had to sum it up, focus on what’s ahead of you, if you think your extra time is worth the progress as a gamer, keep playing. Would rather see you come back and be more constructive, less with this entitled bullshit with you being young and being able grow in the scene just because you have that time. Taking a break is extremely healthy, lets you grow and retrospect. If you don’t come back it’s fine, only take away you can have is the idea that in the end you enjoyed yourself.