this is how you learn. that's what i'm saying dude. was i upset the first time i was spawn camped? yeah sure. does it frustrate me still? yeah, if my team is full of idiots. but if your team is being spawn camped, they probably deserve it. they did something stupid or are just very bad.

bonk is a mechanic. wait for the like 5 seconds of respawn time and bonk out of spawn. you don't need to do anything with your team lol

stop. stopstopstopppppppppp

I'd rather this game die competitively than devolve into 12 year olds that get upset when people use mechanics of the game to their advantage.

If you think players that are bad enough to not understand that there are ways to counter things like spawn camping are going to look at getting into this game competitively, you're lying to yourself.

ubercharge is a mechanic
airblast is a mechanic
you can knock the sticks off with rockets
you can knock the sticks off with stickies
you can destroy the sticks with scottish resistance
you can destroy the sticks with scorch shot
you can destroy the sticks with detonator
you can destroy the sticks with literally any hitscan weapon
you can kritz out of spawn if enough idiots are right next to the door
you can deadring out of spawn
you can switch spawns in 2fort

these are all mechanics that are easy to use and will help these players in all aspects of the game. there's literally no reason to kick or ban for spawn camping other than being really fucking ignorant to how tf2 works.

which is funny because the same people that get mad at spawncamping don't like competitive because of the restrictive unlocks.

the people unknowingly playing on servers devoid of things like spam and good players will never get good at the game. they won't even know how bad they are.

once in a blue moon, someone from servers like this come into newbie mixes and despite having 500+ hours in tf2, their movement/ dodging would make you think that they have never seen a keyboard before. it's sad almost, knowing that they've wanted to be getting better but due to things they didn't realize they're just as shit as when they started over a year ago due to something they have no control over. :(

my reaction to b4nny's livestreamed reaction to Buick's response to b4nny's reaction to Lange's thoughts on competitive tf2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob1lw6efb3Q

can this please become a thing?

you'd be the spychecking champion dude

This sounds pretty neat.

I think the majority of an edit's artistic value comes from the smooths though, so it will be interesting to see what people do with this. I may try it out too.

honestly the people complaining about playing against invite teams rather than invite pug teams would have gotten beaten by the pug teams too. at least this way you can say you were beat by one of the top teams not just some hodgepodge of really good players. iunno

i'm gonna miss everyone that's leaving, but i feel like it's not going to be as significant as a lot of people are saying it will be. just like when relic and co. left or when extv took that break. there will always be people to fill in the gaps over time. next season might be kinda shitty but whatever. let's just play some video games kids.

i know it was a joke but it hurt my heart reading this :(

All of us at REALTourney are really looking forward to this! See you there guys! :)

if you think that door is the spawn then... i don't even know what to say

a bunch of dudes said this about i46 so i wouldn't count on it

I think what I posted on the matchmaking thread still holds true. TF2 won't be a big esport if Valve doesn't want it to be. But that doesn't need to stop us from keeping it a sustainable competitive game. There are enough pubbers to keep this community alive for a longggg time, but we as members of the competitive community will have to work at translating a tiny percent of those pub players to become competitive players.

If you haven't coached newbie mixes and you complain about the game dying, go coach newbie mixes.

If you haven't ever ventured into the deep dark realm that is /r/truetf2 to answer some ugc/ sub-ugc players' questions, do it once a month or so.

If you see someone saying something blatantly false about this game, correct them. Don't let ignorance be the way this fantastic game dies.

Have you ever recommended a good pubber in your server try competitive? Do it, they'll be fucking FLATTERED.

Seriously, if 5% of this community put forth like 10 minutes of effort a month into recruiting for this community/ helping these new players, this game can last for years and years to come. Will it ever grow to be a huge esport? Nah. But it will still be a fun one that we can always find a scrim or pug for.

Also saloon.tf, please. it's been months.

http://i.imgur.com/dkMJyPB.png

This is the calendar for deadlines now. If you have not finished you UB round 2/ LB Round 1 matches, you have to have that done by WEDNESDAY. Stay tuned for an official announcement about the finals event/ stream. I'll be adding this to the main post.

"tf_player_drop_bonus_ducks" = "-1"
game replicated
- -1 Default (Holiday-based)
0 - Force off
1 - Force on

+

a whitelist to remove the bonus duck item thing

(WithADanceNumber posted this in the update thread)