Let's go 20b!

Is this exclusively geared at the 6s format?

DON't joke about tc_hydro, i almost got excited

Hey.

I'm hoping to find someone with solid experience and game sense who can help walk me through finding a class I can commit to playing. I played scout on a silver team per friends' request last season and have played my fair share of in-house pugs, so I'm not unfamiliar with the format, I've just never gotten to the point where I want to really focus my energy on 6s, like I have now.

I'm prepared to put a lot of effort in to get better and would appreciate any help figuring stuff out. Thanks.

Yes. A million times yes. I would wholeheartedly love to see that.

In regards, to demoman, I feel this was Valve trying to make a change back to what they intended demoman to be. His stickies were a tool of territorial denial, not necessarily constant damage output. Take a listen to the developer commentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-rXp1cFYq_Y#t=273

Karova is such a baller. I talked to him like once, doubt he even remembers it, but he's crazy good and has awesome vibes.

omg. i cant imagine being more excited about tf2.

return full force as

This is actually seriously fantastic. I don't even know why, but damn, this is cool.

All of the great events lately have been on the few days I'm totally not available. Watching the vods is cool, but I'll miss the live hype. ;$

music

not tf2

Huge recommendation to anyone going to check out Paul van Dyk's set. It's hard to think of other DJ's who really put that sort of actual work into a 'live' set, insanely talented guy.

Cool lineup, nice to see some hardstyle acts, I would have loved to see the pitcher a few years back. Have fun everyone~

Experiment with all of the frame improvement configs: dx8 high frames, dx8 max frames, dx9 high frames, etc. Different ones perform differently on different setups, so the best way to see which works best is by testing each of them.

There are reduced particles you can use that remove projectile trails, most smoke and explosions, and significantly reduce the amount of visuals going on. Though this won't work in matches with sv_pure, it should give you a noticeable frame boost in all other environments.

No-hats mod is also an essential for frame boosting, and isn't effected by sv_pure.

Also /experiment/ with different resolutions, not everyone's rig will handle things the same. For instance, I get the best frames @ 1280 x 720, compared to my native resolution (1440 x 900) and even lower resolutions (640 x 360). See what works best for you.

Keeping steam's use of your resources down to a minimum is important too, being this is the only other program you /have/ to have running while playing. Disabling notifications has removed a lot of frame stutters and freezes when they popup for me, as well as the in-game steam community.

Understand the rhythm of your PC, and when it performs best. For instance, I've gotten in the habit of restarting my machine, waiting 10 minutes to launch steam, watching my cpu temperature and usually turning on some additional fans in my room to lower the ambient temp, launching tf2 once I'm at my cpu's comfortable idle temperature, then grabbing an icepack and applying it about 1 minute into the program running. It took me a while to determine one of my main issues was overheating, killing my performance. Especially for those living in scorching, summery climate, it can be very difficult to keep the temperature of your room down to a level that doesn't also give your rig a heart attack. Watch your cpu's temp in relation to your pc, I feel insufficient cooling is a frequent issue, especially for laptop users.

If you do a lot of tweaking and spend time to see what combination of changes works best, you should definitely be able to get 60 fps, atleast /sometimes/. 35-50 isn't a bad starting point. Best of luck.

It's been years since I've thought about this kind of thing, but I would definitely search around/check out Film Riot. They've made hundreds of videos specifically pertaining to DSLR video shooting, and I recall a good dozen or so of DIY rig tutorials. Stuff that doesn't cost much more than a trip to home depot. You may have to dig a little bit, as the videos I am thinking of are now a few years old, but I'm sure you can find guides for anything you need there.

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