The plugin was originally made to allow playing without medic attach speed, this was explicitly made to have something more substantial than theory-crafting. I then saw the opportunity for me to include various fixes to things that annoyed me directly throughout the 7k hours I played, those weren't made because I had thought of balance changes.
The issue I have is that theory-crafting is (historically very) noisy, and I'm particularly interested in hearing about feedback rooted in experience, which I would like not to be drowned out.
I don't mean to be dismissive, I hope you understand.

I understand and agree that the change makes directly bombing a lot more powerful, that's not what the change was implemented for (dealing 70 self-damage because a scout brainlessly ran into you is what). I'm not sure I see where it has a large negative impact on the game, it helps breaking holds and doesn't seem impossible to counter..? Am I mistaken?

If that's the case, agreed, although that's not my decision

I appreciate the comments but I'm sort of disappointed by the lack of depth in the feedback given, bar Mak and Sil, we learn nothing from "disable medic attach speed" or "it makes the game boring" (???).
I have a hard time believing the feedback on gunboats isn't mostly theory-crafting, I haven't paid an enormous amount of attention but if it is "way too powerful" like suggested, I would expect to see some clips demonstrating it.
I would like to try implementing some features before next season, granted I have the free time to do so:
- Making Soldier's base self-damage reduction always apply (as opposed to only in the air), this may not be possible as it may affect rocket jumping
- Normalize pipe sizes (hoping to ask Shounic about what he learned when making his video on the subject)
- Making engineer buildings collide with all teammates (to stomp the "medic hides in a dispenser" defense, which is incredibly stupid in my opinion)

Any reflections on the plugins? Interested to hear

hate to go "akshually" but that's obviously false considering twitch are one of the biggest AWS customers
slicing and transcoding large video files on demand isn't the cheapest thing in the world, especially at scale, but hard agree that the clipping experience is poor partly because of the time it takes, i don't think throwing infrastructure at the problem would help much however

Quite an impressive piece of work, have to commend the code quality (the Three.js rendering with React components is pretty cool)
As I'd have expected, the valve assets seem to be a big pain point, it's neat that you managed to get something working altogether, is your current pipeline able to extract animations as well?

cheers leth

Yep

If people generally agree that it is actually "much harder" to see, I would suggest making it known (upfrag Sylent's post) and I'd suggest ETF2L remove this change for now, I have to admit that I have overlooked the visibility aspect as I assumed it would not be an issue, apologies.

The no-spin thing actually affects how pipes travel in the air, as air drag affects their trajectory. I agree that consistent spin would be better than no spin (but I still think no spin is better than random spin), I just have not had the time to make that happen.
The variance you're seeing is the random spread that pipes have. (Yes, that's a thing)

That's if you're in the air, if not, that's closer to 31 damage.

That's not a condition which affects Soldier's base self-damage resistance, the only factor is whether you're in the air or not.

That's not a particularly good reason against trying out changes.

The wiki explains the behaviour, the implementation rather than the intent of the feature, the latter seemed to be "gunboats only apply for rocket jumps", that is quite different. I implemented the change because I feel that situations such as the one described by Kermit feel incredibly absurd - the behaviour is hard to expect, to predict.
I would prefer to have Soldier's base self-damage resistance always apply (as opposed to only mid-air) rather than this, but I've not had the time to develop the change.

I've never understood the point about positioning when it comes to this change, I just cannot envision a situation in which this can be abused and not be reproduced without the plugin. This testing season could show me otherwise. The point about communication makes even less sense, you shoot a rocket, your scout who faces the other way runs into it, you're just never going to be able to prevent that through comms, that seems silly.

Sorry I didn't catch your message earlier. That was a bug in a previous version of the library I depend on, which has been fixed late May, Versions `2.2.0-detours11` and above should work fine. If you could send me the serveme reservation ID, that would be great too. Thanks

Related issue: https://github.com/peace-maker/DHooks2/issues/3

- Fixed the chat window not always being restored to the appropriate place

This forces default position for chat, some custom HUDs move it, practically cant do that anymore
EDIT: seems that you can with workarounds

Hats off to your dedication, that's genuinely inspiring
Do you have any set goals? Is being able to play on a server one of them?
I'd be happy to cover the costs and management of a decent global gameserver infra
I might also try my hand at getting the tf2-comp-fixes plugin features in PRs

Pazer knows how to fix this IIRC, I don't remember what the issue is anymore, but this should be recoverable

IIRC most browsers are framerate limited to 60 and have VSync turned on so you're pretty much encoding for a minuscule minority of users (those who disabled the framerate limit and vsync or those who use a media player to watch streams), moreover, you're fucking over the few that have to rely on software decoding.
Besides that, you're cramming twice the data into the same bitrate limit, making the image quality much worse.
The additional processing will most likely cause intermittent frame drops.
120fps is genuinely barely noticeable compared to 60fps.
Try it out, but there's absolutely no reason to keep it.
Sorry for buzzkill