Even if TF2 comp is dying, who gives a shit? Look at how much people have achieved with this game based off just the communities efforts to make it happen!

Anyway, for me the game is suffering from a few things:

1. No matchmaking, this may be a small thing for some but for me it's a big deal. There's a massive change in player habits in terms of games over the last 10 years, it used to all be about joining your favourite server and meeting the same group of people etc. Now it's based mainly on matchmaking and playing a competitive format, community aspects of games are somewhat slipping away and no longer being a focus (CSGO, Dota2, LoL, COD). This means that people are used to hitting play and actually playing the god damn game straight away in a competitive environment.

This creates a feel that TF2 is more casual as there isn't really a progress report unlike the other games out there.

2. Unlocks ARE shitty, people you can argue all you want about how us not using them is hurting the popularity but we literally have no choice. No other FPS title has such a diverse set of weapons and classes, balance is an integral part of FPS games, OP guns get used and toned down, underused weapons will at most part be left underused. In TF2 it's not like this so much, OP weapons are INCREDIBLY OP and will get used but not nerfed. Valve can't expect 6v6 players to start using wrangler mini sentries on badlands spire in the hopes they will see how OP it is and nerf it, we already know it's a fucking joke but they just leave it.

3. Competitive resources are also a big thing for me, before TF2 was F2P we used to have MGE which was a great source of pro player guides etc. Now with TF2 F2P we don't have anything like that to help people come in to the game, yeah we have streams, but MGE was actually pretty decent as the content was pretty good quality.

4. Hype, I can't really comment on the NA scene that much but for the EU scene there is a large lack of hype these days, the grand finals for S19 happened and there wasn't really much hype being built around it, it might be because of the shit teams but who knows.

Regardless of what happens to TF2 you can still be fucking proud of what we've done, look at logs.tf , spectator plugins, NodeCG, i52, i49, i46 and many more, this was all done with the communities efforts who love the game and nothing else.

this hurts more than i thought it would

ive got one of those malkolm chairs and it's really nice.

however i played in one of those dxracer chairs and OH MY GOD ITS FUCKING AMAZING.

It looks pretty good, nicely integrated as well, it will be interesting to see where Valve take this, I'd like to see them go balls deep and try and really compete with twitch because that will be amazing to have a service that will force twitch to improve their service.

The only thing that I am really sceptical about is that Valve have a history of starting these projects that look really cool and have potential, and then they just leave them to one side for a while or they really half ass it.

http://zowiegear.com/index.php?i=news&p=59

Do you think this was even needed?

http://i.imgur.com/Lt0VVZb.png

PLEASE

Problem is though nobody has taken the move to actually ban the guy if he is hacking, and to me unless there is some solid proof I wouldn't want to be the one to make the call and ban a player unless I was 100% sure.

It's an incredibly shit situation for pretty much everyone involved, I think the majority of the community need to stop playing internet detectives and just let the tournament organisers, valve and AC admins deal with this.

Hey,

So sometimes, when I watch a youtube video, vine, or anything of that sorts my main monitor will either turn blank, have lines going across it and stuff. I've messed around with the display properties and if I swap the displays between monitor 1 & 2 the effect transfer to my second monitor.

Sometimes if I close the video down it will be working fine again, sometimes I have to completely reboot my PC. Any help would be swell.

Holy fuck man this is so tense. I really like fliff as a co caster as well, I hope he is in the final.

And a good move from fnatic tbh, with the amount of hate they are getting as it is this really wouldn't be good for their already weak image.

DH do seem to be slipping, especially with the admin side of things, in Dota2 they tried to make a team play with standins just because the other team needed one. Hellspawn was also involved in those decisions as well afaik.

I'm confident that it will be fine, I enjoyed the new StarTrek films. The main problem is that he takes on board these films that have a HUGE fanbase. I don't think this film deserves as much negativity that it's been getting. It can't be any worse than the prequels, which for me mainly suffered on having almost every scene featuring Anakin really awkward. The cast for this film is really good and I feel like that was a big plus for StarTrek as well.

we did, that's how we got the backcap

I don't think it's that bad, the coach was pretty cool at understanding that LDLC were the better team, but they just put a lot more effort in to preparation. It's a cheesy strat but these are the sort of things that win you games.

+1 on the HyperX Cloud, it's really fucking good.

It's also so then we don't have this fucking stupid 2 weeks of morons trying to fuck each other by scheduling games when they know the opposition can't play.

Even though the one evening thing can be a bit harsh for various reasons, at least it gets the season finished in a timely matter.