I'm really glad we have etf2l in europe. Although the prize pool is a lot lower, ESEA do seem to consistently do stuff that seems like it's either really shady or terrible business practice from a PR perspective, and not just to the detriment of TF2 players. Even if I played another game, companies like ESL still seem a lot less dodgy although I guess in other scenes you probably have more choice with which league to support.

Even so ESEA is probably the best and only choice NA players have right now and it does seem like they like and are committed supporting TF2, even if their business practices with their client aren't the most sound. I hope all the client is doing is checking specifically for cheat program executable while it's always on and not gathering any other kind of data.

It's weird seeing this game have a resurgence. I played it 10 years ago and haven't touched it since.

I think he's on to something here. We should enforce it by running vsync too! That way the mouse input lag will favour demomen even more!!

Hi I realised that my design was not dangerous enough so I have remedied this

http://i.imgur.com/fQvrY3X.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/q6bo0xM.jpg

here is my contribution its tf2 themed because hes wearing a hat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH5yKr_c62A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnf6FHj-_zU

This guys entire channel is him pissing on things saying "peepee" and laughing

So if this affects the drop in arcing weapons how badly does it fuck demomen?

I personally think all the new people getting into tf2c is great. Not 100% are going to stay (which is probably a good thing) but if even 10% do, it's great for us. It'll settle down a few weeks in, that one video isn't going to keep people coming back.

As to the star_ doing a vid thing, I had a convo with him about this in someone's streamchat. He had done 6es vids in the past and they got around 1/10th of the views of his other vids which made it just not a viable use of his time. We're in a different climate where a ton of people are bored of pubs and looking for something more now.

I think actually changing a bit of the architecture of second itself might help better address this rather than changing the height of last. Look at the location of spire on second and the routes that you have to take up onto, moving this stuff around you can probably force the team on 2nd to hold a bit further back when they're being pushed from lobby. The ideal is to force at least some of them to have to hold behind spire, e.g. on badlands where many teams hold on pride rock/launchpad. Currently its not only the height adv but that you're able to hold so close. Doing stuff like widening the lower flank between 2nd and last to make it more viable as a push route might help a lot too.
I think the map actually has a cool amount of potential but the two things I always had issue with was that losing mid made it incredibly hard pushing last to 2nd or 2nd to mid. Without the houses on mid, you've solved a large part of the issue with the latter, I think you can solve the former too.

True, but sensors can be an issue and so can bad mice. I had a mouse where there was so much friction that it pretty much stayed glued to my pad and I had to pick it up constantly, moving it too fast from side to side also made me look straight down. I'd say build quality/weight/design you're comfortable with over sensor, but make sure the sensor in your mouse isn't total garbage too.

I don't understand everything that's being said here. Does the inability to play without aero in win 8 mean that you'll get the same input lag associated with that in win 7 and be completely unable to get rid of it? Do people know if this is also the case in win 10?

This was really well put together as a vid. n1

If froyo personally don't want to come to i55 I get it although there might be more motivation now that matchmaking is a thing. I don't think people should say no if they want to for practical/time reasons. Other NA teams seem to have expressed an interest too, if froyo don't want to come let's at least get a fundraiser for them.

Idk about other people but I always felt the main reason the map stalemated between 2nd and last was because pushing out of lobby if you're holding last is very hard when you can hold on the spire with height adv.
Compare to other maps with spires on 2nd: Badlands the spire is small and hard to get on so your whole team can't hold there. In process you can push behind through lobby to pc or from rollout, and you have flanks at lower lobby and shutter. On this map, you're forced to push with significant height disadv and a wall blocking your spam (also theirs but they can sit ontop of it) through main, through the flank which also has height disadv and is easy to spam or through the house area which doesn't have height disadv, but you have to walk a long distance in an area you can easily get spammed. House push is probs the best route but it's pretty easy to lock down, you can't get spam on the point going through it and its pretty easy to get fucked by a trap making pushing out slower if you want to clear.

Idk if this is just me, but it seems like its a problem when I play, although I might just be doing entirely the wrong thing.
Also, the moving of cave might force teams to hold a little further back but I doubt it.