I just hopped into tr_walkway. 48 damage on long range directs for both. The human brain is pretty good at timing/rhythm, and my brain feels like the stock and the original have the same rhythm/timing for firing and reloading.

A super long range direct rocket from the stock rocket launcher does 48 damage, not 45, so I already don't trust that information.

Edit: I think if there really was a difference, the competitive community would've noticed by now.

Offtopic: Maybe I'm biased but I hate the sound of the original, and the stock sounds like music in comparison. :/

I've long suspected that one of TF2's biggest logistical problems is 6v6 over 5v5. Maybe the gameplay itself would be shit, but having to find 2 fewer people and having all those players spread among more teams seems like such a benefit. idk, maybe the swiss system fixed the difficulty of finding a time and date, but I still feel like most of the teams I've been on would've been able to play much more often if they only needed 5 players.

Looks like an interesting map. Aside from one by the traffic barrier, there are no low roofs that you can't stand on, which always annoys me in other maps.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=700625327

Nodraw texture for sections of the top of this roof.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=700625642

These girders are weird, don't go all the way up to the roof (only stopping at the door) and you can stand on them which doesn't look intentional.

Are you aware that you can jump around most of the buildings on the cliff as soldier and demo? And that if you're trying to do this deliberately, it's very jarring to have to avoid invisible walls that keep you off the cliff that extend above all the fences. (It's always annoying when mapmakers put low roofs or fences in and don't let players jump on them)

Signed up. Guess I'll see what happens. Still not sure what to expect (like is this all free?).

I presume it's NA-only? (or mainly NA, like ESEA)

What is it? Another ESEA?

Dima sounds like the best player to play with.

Lobby asymmetry. You can stand on the lower-ground AC unit on blue side but not red side.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698170324

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698170758

This may or may not have been intentional, but you can use the pipe (to the left in this screenshot) to get on the ledge above toxic's entrance to 2nd without double- or rocket-jumping.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698170801

Didn't the community (or at least the NA half) vote to ditch all stop-watch game-modes half a decade ago?

Edit: My bad, 2 years ago.

Stupidest comment you could've said. My team doesn't decide the ETF2L map pool.

Is there a way to get the STV demos? I couldn't find any on any of the match pages and I wouldn't know how to find the games on logs.tf. Do we just have to make do with casted VODs?

It's product and reckoner this week in ETF2L, then reckoner and gullywash next week.

My team has no idea what we're going to do for reckoner and the only think I can think of is try and get a Thursday game so there's time to watch a prem/high match or two.

I literally just posted an update saying the original TF2 sound problem is fixed. The microphone crickets are therefore of course due to interference.

Quick update. I crashed a lot after all this debugging and the sound was so garbled that I had to turn sound off.

I'd forgotten verifying game data was a thing, so I did that and there was a lot that needed fixing. Since then the screeching has gone. \o/

Just need to fix the crickets in the mic now.