far cry 3, orchestra seats to see the play wicked with my mom, and money to go to coachella. so stoked!

is steam community in-game broken for anybody else? i can't access it when i'm on full screen.

here are my launch options.
-full -w 1920 -h 1080 -console -novid -useforcedmparms -noforcemaccel -noforcemspd -nod3d9ex

i liked the music

don't we still owe sal money?

sorry, we won't be having a mumble cast this time.

how does a qck compare to speed/artisan

http://www.last.fm/user/misterslin

very high with truk and deny

you got me there guan

What shootist is saying is that it's riskier to shoot your feet with shotgun than with gunboats. If you shoot your feet with gunboats, you can not only damage the scout but be confident that you'll have enough health to survive the meatshot. If you shoot your feet twice with shotgun you have a higher chance of dying in a point blank fight with a scout at a corner.

Gunboats reign surpreme. If you watched S12 LAN and looked at the play of Harbleu, Dave__AC, Blaze, or Taggerung you wouldn't see shotgun. I always watch the LAN play as I feel that is where teams are playing their hardest. If you feel the sample size is too small, then check the regular season matches, but for the most part you'll be seeing gunboats.

To those of you arguing that top players can use shotgun on roamer, please do not misinterpret what I am saying. I never said the shotgun was not useful. I simply said that gunboats is better. It's flat out better in almost every situation as you can see from the other posts. Shotgun has very niche uses, and from the question that the OP asked, he made it sound like he was running full time shotgun. If I say full time gunboats is the way to go and the rest of you pick that argument apart saying that shotgun has niche uses, you're not really reading my posts correctly.

To those of you saying that top players can run shotgun and play just fine, yes of course they can. Top players can run inferior loadouts and get away with it because they're that good. A more telling story would be to look at the players at the bottom of invite to see what they are running. That being said, shotgun isn't THAT inferior as to be not viable. You can still get away with it. But just go back and look at the posts that are said. Current roamer style says that you should run gunboats, as movement and positioning trumps the finishing power of a shotgun.

To those of you saying that you can run shotgun and play better with it, that may be the case. But I am simply saying that at the highest levels of play you'll see more gunboat use than shotgun. If you did a poll of ESEA you'll see more gunboat use than shotgun by a landslide.

@Swedes and Walka: telling a player who is trying to learn to not listen to any other opinions is just being ignorant. The whole point of forums is to hear other opinions and discuss, not -frag and ignore opinions that are different than your own.

@Defiance: do you even watch demos?

@Setsul: I don't think the europeans have been playing with gunboats long enough for their metagame to change. In 3 season you'll be seeing more gunboats than shotgun. In north america we used to be able to exchange pockets and roamers, but now we have fully dedicated pockets and roamers. Roamers will only pocket when the pocket is dead, as the point of running gunboats is to allow that soldier to stay away from the combo and take less heals.

@Asianriceguy: hypothetically you shouldn't be taking those fights in the first place, and gunboats would let you escape from that situation so you wouldn't have to fight the scout. after all, you wouldn't want to fight the scout if he has that kind of height advantage.

@Vanilla: Gunboats allows you to push out of last faster. If you're on shotgun and you push out with it, you're stuck with shotgun until you die in the same way that pushing out as engie, heavy, or pyro sucks. Running back to spawn and exchanging shotgun for gunboats only proves my point. Running full time gunboats makes your push out of last faster with less health.

@Guan if you want to blindly listen to one opinion you can, but you should probably read some of the posts on the second page.

and i never said that you were wrong lol i'm simply stating an opinion and you seemed to take offense.
i apologize, but i'm just adding my part to the discussion.

i'm not trying to discourage you b33f. if you want to run shotgun all the time then by all means go for it. i'm simply saying that as an american player who watches a ton of ESEA demos, i hardly ever see shotgun anymore. feel free to give me some examples of shotgun usage, but i haven't seen it in a while from the top players.

while top players can be wrong sometimes, i think there is probably a good reason that they're all using gunboats. i'm just trying to give you some advice and save you some time so that you don't have to find out the hard way.

hopefully maybe some roamers can comment on this thread if you don't want to take my word for it.

k i just loaded up the last mixup match of s13 week 1 mixup vs xensity and harb is running gunboats full time. the first loadout he shoots 4 rockets into the ground so that he can equalize. then after the death it looks like hes running gunboats full time to me.

so you may want to go check your facts.

just trust me on this one beef. everyones using gunboats in ESEA.

Yeah but then you're slower on the push out

i watched the whole fucking thing. fuck.

go to 1:49:20 as the three questions JP asks here are the most meaningful:

question 1:
does riot supporting league of legends mean that they've already won against all other moba games trying to be the best.

question 2:
it's clear we don't have an FPS game as the dominant one in the space. what do you think about shootmania

question 3:
what are the cores of a competitive FPS