my return!...

the game itself isnt alive before 7pm

my open experience:

• have the medic and scout of my first team try to cut me for an IM pocket, and when everyone else would rather play with me the two leave and kill the team
  
• have a pretty cool 2-season stint with a team until i become a scapegoat for bigger team issues and get replaced by an IM pocket
  
• get picked up on a pretty cohesive roster until last season's team deteriorates due to unsolved previous issues; new team salvages old team's demo but he won't play without his roamer friend (read: according to the team leader, not the demo himself) making me lft on the day the season starts

is it just me or are a lot of team leaders and players in open super two-faced? am i just running into all the really cut-happy aids rosters or is this the norm for open teams?

i for real just wanna play some esea tf2 but i forgot the meta was cutting your way to the top to win the equivalent of mcdonalds meal vouchers, damn man

95% of my nerdstar came from shitposts

its really quantity over quality if you want to make progress here

rivers went from respectable to soap opera in .45 seconds

i saw shades of roethlisberger and that is never ok

lmao got baited lft again

just got cut whats up

the season didnt even start yet, i just pb'd

got cut the day the season starts

lft last minute, wont let you down

yooooooo its rewind time!

mafia city was never funny but at least its better than what we had last january...

https://i.imgur.com/w970PT5.png

everything on avast is up to date, as far as i know steam isnt registered as a threat in its databases, and hasnt caused problems in the past (i set hl2.exe as an exception as well, just in case)

i also reinstalled steam, if that helps

edit: fixed the problem somehow

Stopped playing tf2 last night as normal and shut down, booted up today to encounter the "your computer cannot connect to VAC servers" issue

followed through with https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2117-ilzv-2837 :

• dont use any of the conflicting software listed
  
• restarting the computer (as well as steam) didnt fix
  
• repairing steamservice didnt work
  
• tried to restore boot settings but for some reason the values prompted didnt exist (?????????)
  
• tried to repair the system files but everything was in working order after scanning

additionally:

• uninstalled and reinstalled tf2, didnt work
  
• uninstalled every other potentially conflicting steam game, didnt work
  
• tried playing the game with and without config (comanglia's stability), didnt work
  
• not using a vpn, though i had a couple of people ask
  
• game ran fine before and up to 5am est before i shut the computer down

if anyone knows any potential fixes id be willing to try them out

it took us nearly a decade but we've finally found the objectively worst tftv thread

pack it up enigma, the experiment was a success

https://i.imgur.com/uNfCgsd.png

to sum up tasheem's night

afaik showing up for the fourth quarter only works for new england

gl next year Houston