my excuse is that this is one of like 2x this year that counter has been above 15

and do you really want to be more like me?

Obviously watching STVs will make you better, but is it actually possible to continue improving at TF2 without watching other players or participating in demo reviews? Can you make it to invite while only playing scrims and pugs?

thanks!

trying to play video games professionally is even more useless than trying to be an NFL player. At least if you play college sports you'll have a kinesiology or PT degree or some shit. If you spend your formative years playing tf2 you're not going to have anything to show for it.

If you spend more than ~10 hours a week playing video games you're making a terrible decision.

this thread became shit when it went from pointing out how his argument is flawed to shitting on his credibility

as someone who plays predominately pubs and has a mild interest in comp, muselk is 100% within the MM target audience and he's perfectly qualified to speak about it from that perspective. The way he tried to explain his reasons was shit and that's why his post was terrible.

are you friends with or could you be friends with this person

are they +/- your division in skill level

literally the only two things that matter, and #1 is way more important than #2

p bad opinion overall. Even if all 1/10th of current tf2 players play MM enough to be interested in becoming competitive, you're looking at easily 10x more new players in the scene than there are now. That's assuming the game doesn't grow at all as a result of MM.

none of these people are funny

obv, but refusing to update the pistol or remove RNG because it prevents hacking is a bad reason

That was me and I went on to say that CSGO did have 2 other similar titles in the same series that other players were playing before switching BUT the majority of CSGO's growth (>85%) came from outside the existing playerbases of 1.6 and source. Point being: MM brought in thousands of new players who weren't playing CS before.

making your game worse for the 99% of the population that plays legit just so cheaters can't cheat isn't a good idea imo.

i shitposted about this

his post is terrible for a bunch of reasons but key points:

1. he compares tf2 player counts with 2016 CSGO in an attempt to say TF2 cant support MM, even though CSGO had similar player counts when MM was added. He has a very poor understanding of the demographics of both games when MM will be/was added, and without looking at that you can't really comment about them.
2. He assumes valve will fuck up MM in some catastrophic but nonspecific way and refuses to expand on why they would or how it could be avoided. "It will be bad because valve is bad" isn't a good reason, no matter how hard he plays the victim card.

he compares CSGO in 2016 to TF2 for some reason rather than CSGO in 2012 when it didn't have MM

like the dissonance required is p sad imo

Spread is just the most efficient and simplest way to make some weapons have weapon inefficiency based on range. Falloff is also a way of doing this but isn't enough on its own. Spread sucks cause it has RNG in it and can be kinda gay. The minigun is also RNG but its RNG is less severe so it sucks less

An engine nerd (wareya) might wanna confirm the validity of this but: tf2 rounds damage down if it is a decimal, meaning <1 damage per shot will deal 0. If you wanted to remove RNG without touching close range damage and keeping long range shittiness, turn the pistol into a "shotgun" a la the shortstop. Give it a tight spread, even tighter than the current one. Making each pellet fire for ~1.5 damage would make it do the same DPShot (15) as it does now at medium and close range if every pellet hits, while making it so once you get to around the point where minimum falloff is, only one or two pellets will hit meaning it'll do 1 rounding down damage. At best, you might be able to maintain damage at spire-to-choke ranges if you can get perfect tracking for >1 pellet and guarantee a strong 2 damage per second maybe. You could make it cosmetically the same as the current pistol even, just give it one visible tracer or w/e. Seems like it'd remove a lot of the gay from pistol RNG without adding more gay of long range single taps. I don't think people complain about shotgun spam outside of DM servers.

Wari: give it the reflex chaingun thing where it'll hit each spot in the spread once before resetting

i was talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfafLuLmy8

iirc its why some pipes will go about a foot or two further ingame sometimes

stop fucking downvoting me im right u fucking nerds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G550Hqjef4Y