Considering how people have been saying "hl3 will free the gaming industry praise 2 gaben" for a few years I doubt it will ever live up to the hype just because it such a big meme.

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Keyboards- Logitech K120 is good for a cheap non mechanical keyboard
Mice- Logitech G400, G400s MX518 were all really solid mice but they're all discontinued and logitech now makes mice that look like they're designed for people with hooves or something- Still using a g400s, don't know what to say in that regard.
For headphones Sony MDR-V6 are a solid relatively cheap headphone choice.

Game doesn't require one just is about 300% better with, I played without 1st time through

Best way to get your machine to 1000 coins in greedmode.

1. Reroll runs until you get the d20 on 1st floor.
2. Find a floor with a battery charge in the shop, complete the floor without picking up coins, d20 the drops, buy the battery over and over to keep d20ing, you'll get a shitload of everything including items from golden chests, (dont actually take these unless theyre damage ups though), you'll need to do this for 30 mins to an hour.
3. You're looking for 2 things from this process, a fool card and either a d6 or a blank card and dice shard or perthro rune. Keep the fool card in another room so you dont d20 it.
4. When you've got that, you also need to start buying items from the shop until you get "the battery" item (you can also use the shop to get your blank card/d6).
5. Reroll the items you got from d20ing until you get glowing hourglass, take whatever you want.
6. Take the fool card and hourglass down with you.
7. When you get to super greed, kill him, use the fool card, go back into the room and start donating. If you run out of money or it jams, use the hourglass. For whatever reason when you have double charges with the battery you can use it an infinite number of times.
8. Congrats, you donated 1000 coins in a single run. The setup is long but its way quicker than doing it the normal way.

imo letting r_drawviewmodel 0 be allowed and making it a prominent option would be the best way to do things, it doesn't make the game look worse and it's really not something that's THAT confusing to new players if you make it obvious how to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNaCenKYRFE

Hafficool's cod videos are pretty great!

Im off my pc atm but if I have graphics affected by this I'll check.
Rarely got dips below 200 in pub fights prior to the patch, if my framerate is bad after I'll check.
Graphics configs _should_ still give you better frames than the max settings though, I think we should try and test the cvars which are making people have worse frames with the configs
I'd suggest looking at
r_fastzreject
mat_clipz
mat_forcehardwaresync
mat_levelflush
mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware

as well as the threading part of the cfg
can comanglia or someone with more knowledge get on this?

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uh oh b4nny ud better watch out!

It does give demo and shotgun soldier a bit more power in 6es which is pretty nice, also means that you can do some funky stuff switching between building with arrows and buffing players as med. Pretty much the only class you could say this negatively impacts is scout as it's the least affected compared to demo and soldier in 6es and in pubs/hl it probably won't matter.

If the ubercharge build on arrows proves too powerful then they should make the 1st arrow give 10% and all further arrows give no more than 3-5% for like 4s or something, that way you still get a lot of ubercharge for hitting that big arrow but can't build way too quickly on lasts.

Phlog isn't a good unlock when compared to the old degreaser but I think people are underestimating its use when you play around it with a team. Like you can whip and uber a phlog pyro with the crits and it fucks everything. (obvs not in 6es but whip and phlog are banned anyway lol)
In any case the core mechanics of pyro are pretty dumb and the whole class needs a pretty big rework to be a viable class that doesn't rely on weird gimmicks.
I think the same could also be said for engi and heavy though, it would nice to see the classes do something more than just "build area denial machine" or "be area denial machine" without being completely broken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgcL3HbT4GQ

I Saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail,
I saw a Blazing Comet, drop down hail,
I saw a Cloud, with Ivy circled round,
I saw a sturdy Oak, creep on the ground,
I saw a Pismire, swallow up a Whale,
I saw a raging Sea, brim full of Ale,
I saw a Venice Glass, Sixteen foot deep,
I saw a well, full of mens tears that weep,
I saw their eyes, all in a flame of fire,
I saw a House, as big as the Moon and higher,
I saw the Sun, even in the midst of night,
I saw the man, that saw this wondrous sight.

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This is really wrong, the intellectual level of TF2 is way higher than you might expect considering the size of the game but the amount of effort teams put in and the stuff they think about is so much lower than a game like CSGO, despite the dm being different, and for good reason, a prize pool is the only thing that will drive that standard up as realistically you can't expect people to put the time in for no money. MM might actually allow valve to balance the game with respect to weapons and classes that are pretty broken currently and will introduce more people to a comp 6v6 format. I don't trust Valve to pull it off well from the start but after the initial shitfest it probably will mean more 6v6 players, more demand for tournaments and more support from valve which will grow the game, although I doubt we'll ever reach CSGO levels.