The original just makes soldier a bit easier by making it a lot more straight forward (literally and metaphorically). Vanilla requires a little finesse to hit relatively difficult rockets whereas you would just point and click with the original. Just think how much easier pipes would be if they shot out of the center of the screen.

With the original you have to think less about rocket jumps compared to vanilla, but with somebody who's already mained soldier with the vanilla launcher it's a negligible benefit if one at all.

scnet hosts some of the most shitty servers that I route through to get to chicago NFO servers. They bump up my ping by like 80ms pretty much at complete random. Fuck SCNET.

Practice for as long as you want to. Don't force your self to play the game.

A bottleneck in a computer is anything limiting your performance. That is why unless your computer is infinitely powerful, you will always have a bottleneck. So in this case, since TF2 is very CPU dependent, his slow CPU is the limiting factor or bottleneck.

Unless you have some obscene or cryptic problems with your computer you can easily determine what kind of bottlenecks your computer has with certain applications without spending any money.

What do you think a CPU bottleneck is?

server still lags.

Then lets make an effort to update the spawns instead of playing on an outdated map.

Yeah my teacher said it's supposed to take around 3 hours to get their desired altitude.

Also the server's whitelist still blows.

I used to ping ~65ms now I get 80+ms. Nothing's going wrong on my end and someone else said they were pinging higher too.

I get higher ping on this server than dallas even. I'm even rubber banding a little.

I bought a 120hz viewsonic for ~$90 on ebay only problem was that it only came with a single-link dvi cable. You just make sure that all of the reviews that guys has are positive and that they aren't for extremely cheap things.

It's a very good game but it's still very much a beta. There aren't any more quests than the couple of introductory ones they give you, but there's still plenty to do as far as getting resources, upgrading your battle frames, PVP (which has a bunch of esports focused updates), and etc. Not to mention that the map is fucking HUGE and there's plenty of places to explore and look around for cool stuff.

Also -nod3d9ex causes very frequent crash problems for me and a few other people. I wouldn't use it anymore at all.

Yeah I just started using it the other day and my game seems a bit more responsive now.