I was gonna close this thread immediately when I heard about the competitive mode and new matchmaking, although I want it, I was like "Wait, this is Valve, they'll find a way to make me lose faith", glad I kept reading and saw mp_highlander.
Also, I don't think the matchmaking will require that many servers. If it was 6's, then yes, but since it's HL, that's 18 people a server, and a big part of TF2 players might not play it and stick their pubs/trading.

But would restricting this mode to people with a certain amount of hours be a good idea? That way players with barely any TF2 experience or knowledge can't join and possibly create a disadvantage for the team. This would also help limit the amount of people that can join matchmaking, and require a bit less servers. I think maybe setting it to requiring 100 hours to play would be fair. This would also help stop people making a new alt and trying to matchmake and try to stomp players that are lower skilled. They have their own kind of guard like this for Dota 2.

thank you!

This so much. Don't be like me who's pulling all nighters like 3-4 times a week. I've been sleeping in some of my classes(luckily not during some important times) and been trying different methods just to stay awake in school like 5hr energy, energy drinks, sugar, and etc. I'm probably going to regret this as I've been told by many friends that I'll be paying it all back in the future. Heck, I'm actually doing an all nighter right now, and I know I'm in for trouble.

It's always been like that even before released on steam. Try ALT+ENTER.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=315055175

Was waiting for Benroads but this'll do!

EDIT: Darn you DanceNumber, 38 seconds X_X

Well there's probably a reason for that, maybe because many pubbers have found the pyro to be one of the easiest classes with it's critshots and airblasting, and that gives the kills that many pubbers want. But It wouldn't be bad to nerf Pyro, also I wouldn't say it's the biggest nerf in TF2's history, I still say the demoman one was a big one that affected the stock weapon. Back then before the time of degreaser, Flare Gun didn't do critshots, and people effectively used the Flamethrower+Axtinguisher fairly well.

There's a few very old video's like Bloodsire's and TMP's that include frags where they didn't need to rely on what pyro has now and was able to make do with it, and somewhat showed a level of skill. I feel that degreaser is just a training wheel flamethrower that people use just for the faster switch to ensure that they get their critshots in with the enemy barely having a good enough reaction time to stop it most of the time. Degreaser doesn't have much of a con also since the beginning, it would definitely be fair to get rid of airblasting since players like to focus on their "fast crit flare shotting" when choosing the weapon.

There's more than one class other than Pyro in the end. Too many pubbers likely rely on it for their "fun and frags" and so much of the pyro population is probably based off that. There's more than one way in TF2.

EDIT: Also I think reworking the range and how airblast works is a fair balance. Maybe not like a forcefield, but a more closed in area so pyros would need to be a bit more exact.

When the announcer said "impressive", it didn't feel like it was impressive anymore :(

Although this might not happen or work, maybe we should just allow no weapon bans and class limits and allow the 6v6 format.

Games will be played, and if the competitive TF2 as we know it with the 2 scout, 2 soldier, 1 demoman, 1 medic using certain weapons every time is so good, then let's show it to them. Pubbers may try the 6v6 format, go engineer/spy and etc. and realize it's not as viable as they keep losing each round and don't understand why. If enough of the competitive TF2 community plays the format we play, eventually they might learn what works and what doesn't.

Despite we are use to our class limits/weapon bans, and for certain reasons too of course, it might be good to make things unrestricted and let things go as they are in order for the game to evolve, like how CSGO gives the freedom of weapon choice, but certain guns are used anytime anyway cause they know what works. Same for Dota 2 to an extent. It wouldn't hurt to have it implemented, if we don't like it, we can just go back to our own matches/pugs/lobbies where there is weapon bans and class limits.

Couldn't one just put
bind w "+forward; jump" ? Then you'd never have to hit spacebar and just hold down w.

This for duels so much. Duels should be kept the same throughout, new players shouldn't be dueling so early anyway and can practice getting better in the other game modes. Let duels somewhat be the last place for the current players of QL.

This so much, StarCraft, Quake, CS, Dota, and some fighting games. When will we reach the dream?

I don't even know this game anymore. This somewhat goes against Quake everything stood for in FPS.

This, it seems a bit awkward when you watch moments like that and it just looks like one lonely dude hyping over a virtual item. Now having the whole chat of people over the world to go crazy about it is where it's at!

10/10 Glad there was no pyro. Subscribed and hope to see more!

mid - freight
second - badlands
last - granary

Whoa, when did you guys start making this site? It's pretty well done and already steam integration for login.