Well of course we don't see that, they didn't put DX8 into the game. I'm sure if it was an available option they would.
I feel that it is unnecessary to make it where only DX9 players can play competitive mode as in a few other competitive games people are allowed to use whichever settings they would like. But considering that we have seen the behaviors of the TF2 team and how they are a bit more communicative with us than before, there may be a good reason for doing so or an optimization update that would blow our minds(if you think about it, MM might attract new players, but the number of players you can attract and keep playing is kind of limited by the hardware). I definitely do support keeping DX8 on though as it has yielded fps increases for years.

I can see this being a pretty great and useful guide that will be used or referenced a lot. Just needs some work and making sure there are disclaimers and making sure each thing actually does contribute to fps. Once you truly finish the aspects and steps, it'd be cool to later update and finish with pictures/videos. Good luck!

Don't know if this will be helpful at all but there's still the video of Puppy21 hacking if no one remembers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llsRbnEZw1E
He did end up getting banned from TF2Center for this it seems. Overall this thread looks like one hell of a mess.

There are so many options and ways to find scrims, but nobody really uses them. I currently noticed that in the TFTV discord is a scrim channel, this could be a more simplified way to replace IRC. If not then a subforum or use of the other sites is good also.

It's so hard to pick a favorite aspect of competitive TF2, when there are so many good aspects that I love. I think overall in the end, the best aspect to me and my most favorite is the community.

The community is what makes a game thrive and keeps it moving forward, but not only that the comp TF2 community has amazing people in general. We have pro players that interact much more with the community, the people who create/host TF2 related sites that we use(thanks Enigma and others), the casters who dedicate their time to it, the people who are a part of the production, the people who year to year keep donating to make events happens, the charity events that we have, and so much more.

I also generally love how this community is much more personal, since we generally use Mumble to communicate, there have been people we usually hang around with in mumble and interact with much more than just playing TF2 matches, they become our friends, and overtime we make more friends through this personal interaction. If you were to go to someone's steam profile from the community, you'd probably have multiple friends in common with them. The community is small of course, but also still friendly in a way and easily interactive. Also compared to other game community forums, I always enjoyed comp TF2's the most, I genuinely enjoy how much more we're able to express ourselves in comparison to other forums we're I feel that it's much more different and we have to abide to certain standards.

The relentless, caring, and most of all amazing spirit that this community possesses is truly remarkable, to last like this over the years. Besides the community aspect, competitive TF2 also has so much to it that makes the game skillful, unique, and fun with teamplay elements. In my opinion, it's the perfect game, and if not then at least close.

Quake, StarCraft, Melee, Pokemon Emerald(The start and end of my Pokemon career), zOMG!(If that counts?), Dragon Fable, and if it counts Yu-Gi-Oh!.

There is a lack of a certain pokemon.

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/0/02/129Magikarp.png/250px-129Magikarp.png

I giggled myself too man, I thought everyone would forget by now rofl.

But overall, the start of this thread was horrible, all you did was bring up information from 3 screenshots that are old, and a skial thread is that is old. No demos, logs, or etc. of Hassassin cheating. I've been friends with the guy for a long time and he's always been one to try and improve his game, and always brings up the "It doesn't matter how many hours you have in the game, it's how you spend them" quote. When he MGEs he tries, when he DMs he tries, and when he plays matches he tries. If he ever did hack in pubs then that's just pubs and is irrelevant to competitive TF2 matches that matter to us. It's like using gameshark on the gameboy, many of us have done it before but it's a minor thing.

I enjoyed all of it. The editing, music, and the kill notifs were awesome. Also the frags weren't so bad either so pretty great, I hope to see more CSGO vids from ya.

You were kind of right until you said the cosmetic shit. Dota 2 has quite a lot of cosmetics(there are possibly more cosmetics just for the head of a hero in Dota 2 than there are skins in LoL). But it's not the cosmetics that bring those people in(but possibly a reason to stay), it's just how casual and easy the game is to others. First the game was easy to get into so it attracted players, than those players attracted even more players including friends, family, and etc. It's a chain, you go to some high school and nearly all the asian kids play LoL because it's just their thing and their way of being "in".

But it is true that they focus more on their skins possibly and other stuff rather than actually improving the game. I'm sorry but when it's been like over a few years and the most used champion skills are Flash, Smite, and that other one, and the other ones are barely used, there is definitely a problem. The same goes to how many of the old champions in LoL become irrelevant.

This was how I felt about Protoss during Blizzcon ;_;

I agree, I always thought that was the great positives for Dota 2 and CSGO compared to LoL and Hearthstone. Also I usually keep my ubersaw, kritzkrieg, escape plan, and gunboats drops to give out to new players that want to join competitive. It sucks that people have to go as far as Milestone 2 & 3 for kritz and ubersaw. I hope Valve changes it to where maybe you can give kritz, ubersaw, escape plan, and ubersaw for free and replace the milestones with things like Crusader's Crossbow(or free?), Vitasaw, Black Box, and etc.

That stuff is hilarious, but setting that aside, I just noticed that the discussion of how MM is going to be hasn't been brought up, or at least I haven't seen much discussion.

Not talking about 6v6, whitelists, and etc., but more on how the game will be when people enter the server. Since there are no class limits it seems, it is a wonder how people will first start out in the selection of their class or if someone else on the team wants them to choose a certain class. In Dota 2, a team usually wants to consist of a mid, carry, offlaner?, and like two supports. So generally the players most of the time try to discuss who goes what hero to be able to play those roles.

In TF2 with 9 different classes and no class limits, I can only imagine people who are new to competitive will have the craziest team compositions from 6pyro to 6heavy. If our 2121(2 scout 1 demo 2 soldier 1 med) meta does become a norm in MM TF2, it'll somewhat be a battle between players trying to pick the class they want. Imagine 3 players that want to play scout, 2 wanting to play demo, and none wanting to medic(which is also one of the least favorites to many). Unless I miss something in the MM threads about class selection during the MM process or anything else, I can imagine that with the current parameters and things that have been confirmed, there may be a tiny amount of chaos or conflict in the MM system.

Kind of a good question, but it's just as he said, if OW was $40, and and free shooters like TF2 and a $10 CSGO(most played) are available, there would almost be no point. You do have a point that the game could potentially give tens of thousands of hours worth of gameplay but you never know of course. It's like why pay $40 for Diablo when Path of Exile is free and has been known to be better than Diablo and have extra aspects that Diablo never had?

Don't forget that 3% off discount g2a codes that many streamers have in their about.