Constructive criticism towards an update is significantly more helpful than just being positive about changes, although kneejerk reactions that "new update is shit" aren't helpful at all and people should be willing to try and roll with and test changes initially before deeming them to be bad.
Criticism of valve for locking viewmodels is entirely legitimate particularly when there are a fair number of people even in just this thread saying that it gives them nausea which actually straight up prevents people from playing the game as opposed to a hypothetical where players find the option confusing.

When someone asks this on a stream they get told "it's a setting that allows you to turn your gun off" and 9 times out of 10 they then go "Oh, how do I use that?". This is the entire point of the community surrounding a stream chat or youtube comment. People asking questions is not a problem and I genuinely don't see how this can ruin people's experiences to the extent that they wouldn't continue watching the stream/play the game. The game even has other cues that tell people what weapon/class is being used such as weapon sounds, class portraits, the killfeed, and what projectiles are being fired.

Imo viewers being confused for the first time they watch a game can be a good thing because it leads them to pay attention to more subtle things in an attempt to understand what's going on and therefore gain a greater understanding of the game as opposed to just watching passively, removal of viewmodels also removes something that's inherently distracting to viewers as well as players and forces people to focus on what's actually going on ingame.

Have people tried verifying their files? I'm not crashing at all

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https://clips.twitch.tv/teamfortresstv2/ShinyMartenSeemsGood

The fonts and ui etc in ow are well polished and look pretty but a lot of stuff is positioned in dodgy/non functional ways.
The minmode in this hud legitimately just looks like that but with everything in a sensible place.

Fire's linked post is what actually happened. He's talked about it on his stream before.
Sad thing is he did it more than a year ago and has only just been punished now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi57d50pCUw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A

Jasmine tea will also probably go if they reach their fundraiser goal.

I can understand valve not looking to the community for balance changes. They probably get barely legible essays emailed to them by 12 year old pyro mains about balance constantly, so a lot of the time it's going to be difficult to know who to trust on balance changes.

Balance changes across the board were fairly questionable imo but hopefully with mm these changes will be more frequent and better targeted so stuff like this becomes less of an issue.

Core balance changes to non 6v6 classes were generally pretty well deserved, making med more enjoyable is a good design target but indirectly buffing scout by doing so probably isn't helpful (though imo the buff ingame actually isn't as significant as a lot of people are making out).

However, the change to the main menu that makes casual and competitive the default modes is really good, as is the emphasis on community servers for pub style gameplay over valve pubs- something that really kept people playing this game. If valve can improve balance more frequently then I think the game can succeed hugely, there were 1000 people concurrently searching in mm in the nearby region when I last played which was really nice to see. The actual patch itself was underwhelming but the infrastructure at least was sound.

Anyone know how to change the size/location of this text for the ds_record stuff? I like the idea of recording and bookmarks notifying me on my hud but I don't want it to be right in the center of the screen like this.

Quickiebomb update seems kind of dumb, should at least remove the deleting stickies attribute now and buff the scottish resistance to make that the sticky deleting weapon.

There's another cup today, so far only 1 team signed up, make sure to sign up guys.