I've always seen these arguments about crossbow being good or bad. It's pretty even on both sides for the main arguments, which is that it's much harder to push off damage, as well as some guy just getting an arrow in a 1v1.

For pushing off damage, it goes both ways. Meaning the damage goes both ways. One team may have their med up, but can keep rolling points because their medic can arrow players to heal them faster to get into the fight. So this argument is irrelevant since crossbow opens up as many opportunities as it takes away in this area.

For getting an arrow in a 1v1, I can see how this is more annoying. The main counter points are all about how it's a team game. I guess medic sniping someone who is in their line of sight is no different to a sniper sniping someone in their line of sight.

In terms of what the crossbow offers though, is much more free flowing gameplay. Your medic doesn't need players constantly surrounding him to be useful during fights. It allows for people to be more aggressive and not just stalemate it out with spam on two sides of a point. It allows for much higher risk plays to occur as well.

Plus crossbow is fun to use. It fits medics style much better than needles. Low close damage, extra healing, rewards being far from the enemy.

Personally I think nerfing crossbow by 33% healing/dmg would be good. 50-100 healing, and 25-50 damage seems fine.

I think with the stickybomb nerf, crossbow being banned/removed/nerfed out of existence would make the game so stalematey. There would be so much less of this damage you talk about to push off of. Thinking the game would revert to how it was before when there are so many other changes that have been introduced would be very naive.

http://logs.tf/2102314

svift didn't have a good time at i63 i guess

If you want to know how to clean a mechanical keyboard and stop it from double tapping there are 6 steps:

1. Don't put it in the fucking dishwasher.

2. Pull off all keycaps and clean with warm soapy water. Maybe let them soak for a couple hours and scrub down depending on how dirty they are, and then leave to dry.

3. Use damp cotton ear cleaning buds with a bit of soapy water to scrub down the top of the keyboard and get a lot of the hairs / crumbs / dust off. Don't use too much water on the buds/wipes as you don't want water going into the keys. Don't use any alcohols on painted bits as it can remove the paint.

4. For the switches, you can use cleaning alcohol, also called isopropanol. A higher concentration will dry faster as it contains less water.. Common concentrations are 70%, 90%, 95% and 99%. I use 99% and it works great. (This one). Using a little syringe/pipette you just put a drop or two on top of each switch pushing up and down on the switch to ease the alcohol inside. It'll dissolve any crud stuck inside the switch. That crud is what causes double tapping. Do this cleaning outside, or with a face mask on since the fumes are really strong.

5. Reassemble keyboard after alcohol and keycaps have dried. You can tell if alcohol has dried off if your keyboard stops smelling of it.

6. For the love of god do not put it in a dishwasher.

I did all of these when cleaning my own keyboard and it works as though new. So if anyone was as nervous as me putting a bunch of chemicals into electronics know that someone has done it before.

For a membrane keyboard, mostly just wiping down the top is fine. Some keyboards can be soaked over night in a tub of water which is cool, but the usb input shouldn't really be getting wet ever, so keep it out of the fucking dishwasher.

Had epic games on both days (online vs lan servers) in the real tournament vs "fun" tournament. As well as in dmixes.

Mad respect for getting stuff working. Talking to people we played vs, seemed most teams had a good time playing.

Shoutouts to organisers and admins like blackout jon (set up so much stuff day 1, and he was shattered).

Twikuu, kermit, gemm, sim, warhuryeah, aoshi, drhappinness, eepily and anyone else I missed.

Shoutout to my team, especially kimo and bubbleman (top osu player) for saving our asses and playing in the main tournament with like 5 mins before it started. IF ANY ADMIN SEES THIS, PUT THESE STEAM IDS ON LIST TO GET PARTICIPATION MEDALS:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198045641126/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/gidro1998

Shoutouts to everyone I met (too many to list).

Shoutout to security and the ninja cleaning people that helped out anyone who puked after drinking too much. Real nice people.

https://clips.twitch.tv/PlumpWimpyCrabsLitFam

The big thing I notice is that things go from a one time joke (which can be funny) to months being a meme. It grows old over time, and at one point, when it doesn't stop because it's just so set as a meme, you either end up just blocking and muting everyone who says it until you give no reaction; or you pop off and yell at them to piss off which results in being made fun of further. At least from my point of view, this is how it was handled when being a meme angered me too much. Some people are still blocked from months ago since they offer nothing other than these memes in conversation.

I definitely agree that the harassment definitely does drive people away from the community. It's why I'm a member of my current circlejerk, because people in it don't just meme me constantly.

Real talk, idk why b4nny is in the ufo, so many better things you coulda done there.

I don't deserve this.

https://clips.twitch.tv/AltruisticPerfectSrirachaDBstyle

edit: streamer legit deleted it 1 second after i posted here. Shame on mak77

edit2: got a new one from vod https://clips.twitch.tv/BillowingOpenPartridgeBuddhaBar

Mak upfragged his own post, nuke his shit

Unstoppable, except by our dead team, gg ez beating high/drunk/completely out of it gamers

If the first cup doesn't happen, then why would sponsors pay money towards a prizepool for a non-existent tournament? I doubt essentials.tf get the money and are able to invest it in future months.

It's mostly the time commitment that prevents people from playing anyway. Shortening to 45 mins for rounds over an hour was a good start, but it's still a 4 hour commitment of time. Most scrim sessions and post game talks are completely over within 3 hours, so this should be the target, maybe making 40 minute rounds.

Another point is the time it starts. Starting early (17:30 cest) is really fuckin early for EU players. A lot of people do things like eat dinner with their family, are out during the day, just living their lives. The second target should be to time the tournaments around standard scrim times, and people who do stuff during the day would still be able to play. Start the tournament at 19:30 instead, and try to do 4 rounds with 45 mins. Just try some new stuff each month instead of trying the same stuff for multiple months before changing it. I get that it can be confusing for players doing it like this, but tf2 doesn't have the lifespan to take time with it.

Final point is that the lack of lower level teams is actually astonishing. I personally didn't realise it, but there is as many prem teams as open teams that apply to these tournaments. Pretty weird if you consider there are 6 times as many open teams as prem teams. A lot of the time this is because "we aren't going to win anything, so why bother getting 5-0'd by prem teams" or w/e. Which is fair, so why not try offering something to players similar to how faceit does it. Like all the teams who played their matches without ffing any get put into a raffle, and at the end of the sunday stream, the winner of the raffle is called. All players on the team can win a key or something (just given over steam trade). Just a bit more of an incentive to play.

seriously can admins/mods ban the likes of starkie, AMS, etc. they are derailing every thread ever and their circlejerk jokes are not even funny

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