I think a lot of you guys are looking at this from the wrong angle. The reason 5cp can induce stalemates is not due to the configuration of how round timers work, and thusly changing said configuration won't suddenly vanish the need to stalemate.

Sideshow said it best in his Some Flaws with 5cp video. The reason teams would (and frankly should) rather stalemate than push is because without a big advantage, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage when pushing just because you're more likely to make a mistake pushing as compared to holding. Teams chose to stalemate because waiting for your opponent to make a mistake when they push involves less risk than pushing yourself.

For example, in equal uber situations, using your uber earlier than the enemy team is seen as putting yourself at a slight disadvantage, however TF2 is designed in such a way that in order to push against a team that defends well, you will almost always have to use your uber first. This means that in such a situation, you are taking a risk by simply trying to push. Let's not forget about all the other things that can go wrong when pushing that can lead to a failed push attempt and a successful counter-push from the enemy team.

Stalematey TF2 is a result of the way TF2's classes and their mechanics are designed, as well as how the community has designed 6v6. If we want to rid stalemates from 6v6, the game's mechanics and the gamemode's rules need to be designed in such a way where the chances of pushing successfully outweigh those of holding successfully.

My bad guys, turns out I had -autoconfig in my launch options all along and it was just resetting my dxlevel to 95 as soon as I'd remove dxlevel from my launch options.

dsp_enhance_stereo 0
dsp_slow_cpu 1
snd_async_fullyasync 1
snd_pitchquality 0
snd_spatialize_roundrobin 1
snd_mixahead .05

-novid -mat_dxlevel 81 -noforcemaccel -noforcemparms -noforcemspd -console -windowed -noborder -h 1080 -w 1920

I'm afraid your sound settings didn't do anything for me, and adding -mat_dxlevel 81 seemed to launch tf2 as expected without any sound glitches, but when I closed and restarted TF2, the game was started with dx9 even though I had that command in the launch options. Using mat_dxlevel 81 in the launch options or as a command seems to give me fucked up audio all the time.

Tried this and it seemed to solve the alt-tabbing issue. However now my sound is really buggy. My hitsound is sort of clipping through any other sounds and I sometimes don't hear things like nearby gunshots, explosions and footsteps. Could this be a flaw with mat_dxlevel 81 or is there something up with my sound commands? I'm using these, if knowing helps:

dsp_enhance_stereo 1
dsp_slow_cpu 0
snd_async_fullyasync 0
snd_legacy_surround 0
snd_mixahead 0.1
snd_pitchquality 1
snd_spatialize_roundrobin 0
voice_fadeouttime 0.1

For whatever weird reason, I managed to run TF2 in dx8 using -dxlevel 81 in the launch options, but every time I remove -dxlevel 81 from the launch options, my TF2 will start up in dx9 again.

I'd really like to be able to run TF2 in dx8 without having to keep the launch option there every time, as it apparently makes alt-tabbing a lot less of a hassle to do.

i legit thought your mom was you cosplaying as black widow with your dad beside you before i read the caption

Go Foxes!

I'll become a little boy in spain

Sorry if this is old news, but the dropbox links in the op don't work anymore. Also, can we get a link to the potato pc config? Or is that the same one as the gfx/stability configs in the op?

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We have a couple Scan stores in the country, but nine times out of ten, buying from Amazon is cheaper than buying from their retailer.
My friend who has a €2.1k build told me he bought all his parts except his case from universalcomputers.com. I checked out their prices for the parts I'm looking for and they're way cheap compared to anywhere else I've checked. I might just get my shit from there, thanks for the help though <3

My grandfather has a blood-orange tree in his garden and it's always exciting when he comes over and gives us a few, cos we get to make blood-orange juice and it's bloody delicious.

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I'm buying stuff from, and need it shipped to Malta. It's a bit of an esoteric location to ship to, and I'm not sure how many other online retailers aside from Amazon ship to here. Do you think Ebay is an option worth considering if I find sellers on there that ship to here? I usually buy a lot of the stuff I can't get from amazon from Ebay anyways, but idk if it's worth it for computer hardware as of yet.

https://youtu.be/4WhYe25bTpc

Which is the best website to order PC parts from that ships to EU? Is Amazon good or are there better options? Is it worth it to buy different parts from separate online retailers if I can find the same parts for a cheaper price from somewhere else, or should I try to buy everything from the same place?

Ay this was really fun. Can we please have more of these please? I'd legit love to donate towards every single ETF2L ulti tournament as long as I have the money to do so.