i just want to play video games

i really don't care how much I pay as long as it's less than ESEA. If it's more the everyone is going to go back to esea

Because no one wants to play for a league we've never used before and there's no guarantee that anyone will actually pay to play in. If it's a choice between this and ESEA, I'd probably pick ESEA for being a better guarantee of people actually joining

you forgot muslim christmas

your name is literally cut off from your album cover

because last time we had this thread we had people complaining about malignant contracts and most people assume that a league that doesn't understand tf2 is gonna be toxic as fuck

mite b cool

Where do you get an engi in 6s? You might as well swap out your heavy for another one of these bad boys to ensure that both combos stare at each other while scouts fly off into the sunset

i can play usually and ive never been on a team that's made it through a season

open preferably will play CEVO or UGC or whatever

/id/_elliott

I don't think it's as much of an attempt to buff engi, as much as reduce the effectiveness of Demo/Soldier. The two are some of the most powerful pub classes, and tons of noncomp players resent that. This entire update kind of felt like a bunch of indirect nerfs or paradigm shifts for soldier. Gunboats are less effective in pubs because you can get neutered by the SC, shotgun is a lot more attractive because flying scouts, and the buffs to the banners make them look a lot more attractive for players who want to be supportive. If their goal is to make certain classes more effective for full time running, which fits their whole HL positive agenda, this buff is a solid attempt.

The SC itself isn't that powerful as an assault tool, so it's hard to pass judgement on it before it's used in some HL matches. Wrangler is still offensively powerful, and raw tanking + better DPS might still be better than hard denial to projectiles, especially with classes like heavy and spy being fairly common occurrences in HL. Valve is apparently terrified of changing core mechanics of classes 7 years in, so they have to band aid unlocks in an attempt to make classes that are otherwise ineffective (pyro) or so skill less as to be out classes by other classes in high level games (heavy, engi). The actual goal isn't bad, but I'm fairly sure valve don't know enough about HL/6s to actually approach it correctly

it's really funny to play against scouts using it

it's like trying to airshot a soldier who has air accelerate at 1000 and is strafing massively

The difference is the diamond back isn't a new strategy. It's literally getting a reward for what you were going to do anyway. If scout got a weapon that made him insta kill after getting a meatshot, it wouldn't change scout strategy, it'd just be a scout doing his job and getting a buff for doing what he was already going to do. There's better ways to buff spy, giving him a babymode ambassador isn't one.

it's banned isn't it

also where is the gunslinger + wrangler nerf

where

I wish I hadn't failed spanish II :(

so this is a prolander KotH tournament ?

pretty sure you can
DX8
mat_filterlightmaps and mat_filtertextures 1 in autoexec
set them to 0 in all class configs

that's mat_picmip 2

all of that's with stuff at min in game, higher picmip needs cheats on. Unless you actually mean LOD which I don't think because 90% of the items in TF2 have no LODs so forcing higher wouldn't actually do anything

mat_filterlightmaps 0/1 is weird. I can only get it to work if I change it while the server is already loaded. Just remove it from autoexec and put 0/1 in your class configs if you want it.