bump, my time with cloud 9 will soon be coming to an end after playoffs. big thanks to them for paying my fees and picking me up so late in the season =)

lately ive been trying extremely hard to improve, and my drive to play has never been greater
hit me up with some tryouts

This looks like its going to be great.

Also what a radical video!

So its Halo 3 with a terrible business model and russians.

I can't see this ending well.

Can we talk about VAC not being effective anymore?

Between CS and TF2 it feels like I've been playing against at least 1 cheater a day for weeks, with a sudden rise of them in comp TF2 now. It's simply too ease for people to cheat, not only are most of their hacks not detected for months, but when they are a delayed VAC ban allows them to keep cheating until they swap over to 1 of their many cheap alt accounts and get right back to it.

I honestly don't remember this being a problem years ago. Seems like cheat makers are better at making hacking than Valve is at stopping them.

IP and HWID bans won't stop every cheater but it sure should make it a lot harder. VAC should take into account new profiles scoring irregularly and subject them to stricter screening. With the rise of undetectable LAN cheats and people getting VAC'd in matches this is getting out of hand fast.

thanks lpkane

$45 still seems like too much
Playerbase doesn't look happy either

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

http://i.imgur.com/llmAUZvl.jpg

Hearthstone, CS:GO, your choice of moba (disgusting)

Been meaning to play more Nosgoth if they ever fix the terrible matchmaking and Dirty Bomb when it comes back

http://i.imgur.com/yGtBnf2.jpg

that looks amazing pls dont do this to me

Some criticism so far:

Class icons next to the class headers and maybe in the player list would make things a little more aesthetically pleasing, they would also help show what class a captain is playing.

Something that would be very cool is a way to view pug stats of someone including class percentages, DPM, K/D/A etc. Right now the player list doesn't seem to do much. If you ever implement steam authing, direct links to peoples ESEA/UGC/Steam profiles from the player list would be awesome.

The AFK timer should only activate before captains begin picking, it seems to go off too much for me.

I get this message

wayy too much, and there's no way to X out of it without disconnecting and rejoining. Disconnecting during picking phase will lock you out and you won't be able to rejoin with the same nick.

A minor issue, I saw some people flooding chat. Maybe use a less restrictive slow mode similar to twitch.

Some people have nicks longer than 10 char, I'd like to see it increased to 15.

The help button doesn't seem to do anything for me.

The sidebars are a perfect place to put the server status, how long ago a game was started, etc. There are free server banner websites like this:

http://cache.www.gametracker.com/server_info/192.223.30.242:27016/banner_560x95.png?random=38630

but they're pretty ugly and don't go with the minimal theme.

I realize the mumble connect icon is pretty obvious, but unfortunately it seems it's not obvious enough for some people. Maybe have a green arrow pointing to it after someone is picked that says "click to connect to mumble" or something. A server join button would also be nice instead of having to paste the connect info in.

TF2Center has that nice mini-tutorial when you first open it that prevents a lot of confusion.

As some people have already said, the config could use some tweaking and I'd like to be able to play with hats. Some servers I've seen have AFK timers in-game which are pretty neat and help with the "r u guys rdy?!!?" problem pugs seem to have.

Not sure if this is already in, but a way to vote for the map either on the website or in-game is needed.

I personally like to see the (captain) has picked (player) on (class) messages in chat.

I like the captain only system in favor of an alternating automatic pick system.

All in all it's good. Keep up the good work =)

those particles look really nice

cool! my favorite was 135:20

had to pause half way through, very intimidating and scary!!

i played back when it launched until about a year after, most of my time spent was in pvp
i highly recommend you play through with a friend, gw2 has this feature where levels scale based on your zone so you dont have to worry about outleveling your friends

pvp is great, highly skill based with a mix between tab target and action combat (many abilities are aimed AoEs, everyone has a invul dodge that recharge over time)

wvw is fun if you get a group, its server vs server and most servers have their own mumbles you can join. its very zergy, but if youre skilled you can pull entertaining stuff like this off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvkKHR8zz34

pve is extremely lack luster and boring and there is no gear treadmill like in a lot of other mmos. most people just go through the instances as fast as possible for gold (which is pretty useless and is practically only used for dyes/cosmetics)

leveling was probably the best out out of all the mmos ive ever played, i dont care at all for story but theres a good amount in there if youre into that.

great customization and exploration is actually a thing, there are jump puzzles and seasonal minigames that are pretty fun

once you get to the "end" (shortly after hitting level 80 and whenever you get bored of pvp/wvw) there isnt really anything to do. updates have mostly been geared towards one-time group and solo events.

gw2 is a short and sweet mmo, which is counter intuitive to the genre and a lot of the hate comes from that. its definitely past its glory days but dont let that stop you.