I haven't played 6s in a very very long time, and as some people mentioned, I have some opinions that are a bit "spicy". But for the sake of this video, I wanted to be as objective as I could be, even contacting Arcadia for questioning and advice.

nah I use network settings that are ideal for hitscan weapons

Finally, someone who understands me there.

I do admittedly get a bit heated when it comes to balance topics, which is why I unfollowed truetf2. Getting into pointless balance debates isn't exactly healthy (game's not getting updated anymore, what's the point) and I'd much rather use my time on something beneficial, like explaining league rules to people who might be curious about how competitive tf2 works.

I'm of the perspective that wallbugs should be allowed, just like how rampsliding etc. should be allowed. (knight main wants movement tech preserved? Who would have guessed lol)

That said, some of my viewers don't even play TF2, let alone 6s, so I sometimes have to say seemingly obvious things to make things extra clear. Had I not mentioned this, some people (who don't know any better) may have gotten the incorrect conclusion that comp players ban things arbitrarily, with no real reason behind the bans.

So there's why I did the comparison: Phlog cancelling was (likely) banned because people hated playing against it, while wallbugs are considered fun.

But yeah, while I do have some... unique takes... (not that one, though) those hopefully won't come up when trying to look at things from an objective, unbiased view. That's why I ask people for feedback during the script-writing process, to catch out any potential bias.

Pretty sure this mainly applies to the whip, hitreg on that thing has always been bad when hitting teammates

Yep. It's much easier to notice when charging as a Demoknight, since charges are also affected by this debuff. The airblast stun does not go away until landing.

A bit late to this thread here, but the actual console command responsible for (new) airblast stun is:

tf_movement_aircurrent_aircontrol_mult 0.25

The value represents the amount of air acceleration the player has after getting airblasted, and this debuff lasts until the player lands. In which case, it's set to 25% by default. Doing the math, it turns out that a revved Heavy is capable of air strafing more effectively than a Scout who is under the airblast debuff. Because air accel in TF2 is 10x your max ground speed.

Revved heavy walks at 110 HU x 10 = 1100 hu/s^2 for acceleration.
Scouts run at 400 HU x 10 = 4000 hu/s^2 for acceleration. But when airblasted, 25% of 4000 hu/s^2 is 1000 hu/s^2. It's obviously lower for any class that isn't a Scout.

(Using this air strafing guide to help with this)

I have tested this command a few months ago. Setting the value to 1 (for 100%) restores full air acceleration and effectively removes the stun from the airblast. It's a sv_cheats command but you can still change it anyway using sm_cvar.

Definitely incentivising, not sponsoring.

Nobody was actually paid specifically to say good things about FACEIT (except maybe scrap.tf but I'm talking in terms of "influencers"). However, the number of views you can get by streaming in faceit matches is admittedly hilarious and I've been abusing this, but only because I genuinely like the idea of a middleground between casual and comp. I can finally play Demoknight in a somewhat serious manner without having to trouble myself with competitive formats nor farm bad players in Casual mode over and over.

Zesty pointed out the free stuff that was delivered to these guys. I will admit that I was randomly offered free stuff from them, but I was never obligated to do anything as a return. I assume this is also the case for everyone else involved with this. It appears to be more of a tactic to get these "influencers" to like FACEIT, as opposed to directly saying "we will pay you X if you say that it's good in a video".

This does have implications when it comes to bias, yes. But I dislike the notion that FACEIT forced us to say good things. In fact, a lot of these guys are quite critical of the match balancing, which they do need to improve.

FACEIT is planning on adding a server browser type thing with no leaving penalties as a separate option so I'm not sure what all the fuss is about with some of these guys ranting as if things will not improve. If you're a casual player who wants regular community servers then just wait until FACEIT comes out with their own version of that. I think a lot of the complaints are coming from the fact that not everyone even knows that this is being planned.

This is a misconception, these servers are not running at 128 tick. 128 tick actually causes several bugs in TF2, from what I remember.

I am 99% certain that Dario watched my video of me getting an 84 killstreak in his gamemode, so he decided to nerf Demoknight and the Strength power in response. It makes up nearly half of the changelog.

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Oh. I must have missed it. That's good to know, though!

I wonder why they hide those commands in the first place.

Since some of these are very nice quality of life fixes, I have some feedback of my own.

I'd appreciate it if tf_demoman_charge_regen_rate and tf_demoman_charge_drain_time were made unhidden so that players could change one or both of these values when running maps offline to practice trimping. Skipping the need for Sourcemod or having to use an impulse 101 script. Neither of which are perfect solutions.

Those commands change demo shields' cooldown and charge duration respectively. I know not many people here care about Demoknight, but the commands already exist, I'd just like them to be usable for practicing so that I don't have to give people a config file anymore.

grinding demoknight for 1.7k hours isn't a good idea, considering that it's not viable and I will probably be dead before valve gives it decent buffs

Thought it was a Tide Turner map. Nice clickbait!

(JK, this is a very creative idea for a map. I'm sure it'll be quite helpful!)

annoying demoknight main

Just happened to be looking on here...

How you should trimp depends on how steep the surface is. I'll sort them into three types of surfaces. You have gentle slopes, steep slopes and basically-a-wall slopes.

The easiest kind of trimps involve steep slopes. Steep slopes are the kind like on Degroot Keep where you just charge into the ramp/rock and you fly off it, no spacebar required for this one. All that matters is finding the right angle. You can find these by experimenting with the map terrain. Binding a key to impulse 101 and enabling sv_cheats 1 will help you experiment offline.

Second easiest are the basically-a-wall slopes. These are slopes that are so steep that you can't walk up them, and you also cannot charge directly into it, but they're not complete walls, meaning you can charge up them with a jump. All you need to do for these is stand directly next to them (to the point where you're touching them!), then jump and charge at the exact same time. That's it. You are now a climber.

Lastly we have pretty much everything else. Gentle slopes. Hills. Stairs (if they're clipped). Ramps that don't normally launch you. Even control points can work. For these you need speed. The more gentle the slope, the more speed you need. The only thing that's required is you be airborne, and hit this slope or ramp at a significant enough speed. Assuming you do that, you will fly.

The best way to gain speed is to do chargeturns whilst mid-air. A.K.A. Charge strafing. Charge strafing is basically W strafing on steroids. In short, ignore the A and D keys because they do nothing while charging. Just use your mouse to strafe, and try to look 90 degrees to the left or right of your current trajectory whilst strafing. This acts as a "replacement" for the A and D presses you would normally do in an air strafe.

demoknight viable