I actually don't think this is true. Properly done, installing a free game where all of your items and stuff can still be used with 1 click directly from the store page is much less of a barrier to entry than what we currently have.

Cool that valve has basically given a full green light to a project like this existing now. What sort of things would we actually want to see that couldn't be achieved with just server plugins? I can think of a few but not enough to justify a full standalone promod.

• More visual options (flat textures, no restrictions on viewmodels, larger max fov)
  
• Merged optimization improvements from like teamcomtress
  
• Sane default settings and a general optimization of the pipeline from install game to play 6s on a server with other humans

Everything balance related doesn't really need a standalone mod. You have been able to do balance stuff with server side plugins for almost 2 decades and we don't do that. If there are compelling reasons to require something standalone I'm all for it, especially now that the fractured community argument that has been going around for 10 years is less relevant. In game items and what not being usable is a huge win. Maybe anticheat is the real upside. I'm pretty confident that a standalone client would provide some real options for properly implementing and maintaining an anticheat system.

godspeed youngman i forgive you for surfing in ammomod o7

tf2cc runs pugs for new players, newbie cups where you are assigned a team and a coach and get to play with and against other new players as well as a ton of other resources for getting into 6s. There is a ton of great stuff there, join the discord it is exactly what you're looking for.

newbie.tf also runs mixes every friday night where you can play some pick up games under the supervision of an experienced coach.

edit: oh you're EU. I think tf2cc is the only one of these two that has EU stuff going on.

cu@ its like insomnia in my damn backyard

first real PTO I've taken since 2021 I will be vibing in new and interesting ways

This man is cracked

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Those sunshine textures are just like that. IIRC the texture files themselves are missing some attribute that allows the flat textures to work properly. I have since reinstalled my OS and no longer have it, but my solution for a long time was to simply exclude the affected textures from the mod and have them be normal rather than a grainy mess.

game is a hobby man

what a crazy set of priorities

My middle school language arts teacher would regularly go on rants about how pearl harbor was an inside job. Not even that they let it happen to join the war, she was convinced that the US masterminded it and ordered the attack. She would regularly get sidetracked while teaching us about To Kill a Mockingbird and rant about it.

She did fervently believe however that 9/11 had no such fuckery going on.

My bad on this one fellas

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