Unban:

Battalions Backup: You need ~600 damage to charge it. Even good pockets aren't really doing more than 300 DPM consistently on viaduct so you're looking at something that takes about 1.5 ubers to charge for a relatively meh ability. Its not terrible but honestly the 330 HP soldier is more annoying than team kritz immunity, especially now that kritz is less common than it used to be. I doubt anyone would use it

Machina: No one seems to be mentioning its biggest upside, penetration. There's a ton of spots in this game where it actually becomes a fairly big deal. Hitting 173 on 2-4 people pushing a choke is strong af, and you can do it pretty consistently on Badlands, viaduct, granary, and a few others. The 173 fucking scouts isn't a super big deal. I can't think of many situations where I've survived or tagged a scout with a full charge bodyshot that didn't die but also had <170. Its such a bland weapon that you really just have to weigh if slightly weaker scouts (yay) is worth the excitement/annoyance of penetration shots.

Lunchbox heavy items: Heavy only gets ran on last anyway, so the slight utility increase of a medium health pack doesn't seem too big. If he eats on last, he'll get fucked so idk why its still banned. The fast one should stay banned tho

Air Strike: Its not a super great weapon. You're giving up a shit ton of reliable damage for the occasional burst, but any time you use that burst it'd be preceded by a 5k streak (obvious) and would result in you dying. I doubt anyone would use it

Quick Fix: Its really not all that great anymore. The uber and move speed are both gone. You're now weighing shitty buffs vs increased heal rate. not 100% sure it should be unbanned but it should be discussed now

Phlog: I want to kill people with it in lobbies. Its only banned because you can uber with it on point, but that's such a niche/specific thing that I really question if its worthy of a ban

Cow Mangler: Why is this still banned? The charge shot doesn't even do anything important and the reload + no kritz kinda makes it ass

Holiday Punch: Banned cause you can block ubers with it or some shit but if you get backstabbed by a heavy we're already laughing at you

Caber: Its shit, covered earlier in the thread

Persian Persuader: You get literally one back up magazine with it equipped. Its incredibly shit

Pocket Pistol: Its shit now, unban.

BASE Jumper: I think the bug with crashing was fixed, unban

Tide Turner: It shit now, unban

Iron Bomber: Why is this banned?

Neon Annihilator + Powerjack: Literally no reason for them to be banned. Pyro to mid is still useless even with the speed boosts

Candy Cane: its shit

Back Scatter, BFB: both shit

The Anime Minigun: Its shit

Warrior's Spirit: bad gun

Cleaner's Carbine: its shit

Enforcer: its shit

Spycicle: why is this banned?

Ban the Eviction notice: you can go fast with them as heavy

Everything else seems fine (sample)

I predicted a clorg post to be incoming and i was gaming for upfrags but i was baited

this is a warning u can NOT trust this man

pls bring back OP downvotes for looking threads. It was tangentially to see if someone was a nobody or hated but mostly I just liked looking at threads hit -100 because someone is an asshole tyty

i live in semi-rural alabama my man

"you look like you should be writing sad poetry"

-my dad (2016)

is he RIGHT!?!

the IW engine is about as closely related to the quake live engine as TF2 is. By the time they added all the support for particles and rendering techniques modern AAA games need to have, they'll have done most of the work of making a new engine.

Updating Quake Live wouldn't work since the game is old and ugly.

tbh I think people need to wait and see just how gay the abilities are. If the (esports part of the) game is 90% CPMA but you can pick up "power orbs" that give you class abilities it won't really matter. If they try pushing it too much like TF2 or overwatch and make it team based with objectives it'll be shit tho

so its going to be overwatch but not shit?

zippers break faster ime but unless you're consistently dick-zipping yrself it shouldn't matter

its mostly just a heritage feature that some guys like

gunboats halve my frags and double my assists but dont do anything to my DPM

ok but seriously the big part of this is not just playing w/ tf.gg in your name (which I think is a bad idea) but also actually being a good player. Make sure you're being helpful, courteous, and encouraging. Don't be silent the whole game, actually try to lead your team and explain strats they don't get, complement other players on their successes, say gg; basically don't play like you do in pugs. You're being a direct ambassador of the tf.tv community, and by extension the high level comp community, to the pub players. Make sure you make a good first impression so they actually stick around. Its really easy to get upset in MM (i do) so if you're actually getting tilted, don't take it out on the other players. If you get mad mode 24/7, it might just be worth not doing this.

as far as what tag to use, I think "| www.teamfortress.tv" or "| www.tf.gg" works better because it makes it more clear its a website that they can visit.

this was my idea im taking u to court over my missing upvotes

are those bootcut wtf

play the sniper game where you have to touch your player model to his before you can headshot him

Its easy to think they're good when you're a TF2 player who only plays CS casually that CSGO is getting good and consistent updates

but if u spend like 20 minutes in mumble with fen after the update drops u hear the same things about valve that tf2 players say

so I dont think CSGO is well received either