Jk, I just wanted people to know the truth.

We had a deal.

I didn't really care until I realized I wanna start streaming more and people asking me if I'm actually a blonde mentally handicapped thirteen year old is getting annoying, especially when his reputation is everything I strive not be in life.

Also pretty sure he spammed my twitch chat last night with alts and rude comments.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=341321049

edit: for the non believers, Tagg was witness to the slaughtering.

if its arena respawn this game is actually dead.

maybe theyre gonna give spies c4 explosive so they can 1 shot engi nests.

terrorists win.

maybe the logic is we'll give the tryhard nerds their competitive mm update and the pubber plebs more weapons for their favorite classes.

I do not mean to offend highlander engi and spy mains.

but it makes sense.

Medic vs Scout coming 2018

personally I don't like the blue, too cloud9, but that's just my opinion, try a shade of oj or grey

can you change your name now so people dont think im an autistic 13 yr old with no social skills

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You also have to take into consideration there are actually so many unlocks that are just reskins that it makes it that much more difficult.

In CS at the higher levels you can somewhat predict/estimate the amount of cash the other team has compared to you, whether they are going to eco or buy, and make decisions off that as the game progresses. TF2 is literally a controlled pub when you get down to it, you can get any weapon, at any time, on any class, whitelist-wise.

I honestly don't think you can cast this game at any point if unlocks are ALL allowed. The players would think the game was awful and the skill aspect would be removed. There are DEFINITELY weapons more powerful than the pistol, the default rocket launcher, the med beam, etc. You currently can't tell what weapons a class is holding without them switching to it (a problem we discussed VERRRRY early on when the class updates were rolling out). This is a massive problem fundamentally. Sure some weapons come with different reskins for classes but you can't tell if the scout is running atomizer or bat or three runed blade without them using it. All of these items have different 'passives' and change the gameplay. Same with bonk vs critacola vs pocket pistol.

Game has a lot of things that need to be fixed competitively fundamentally before there is any hope of a legitimate game mode that is both fun for the players and spectator friendly, and more lenient on the weapon bans.

Is that acidrenix? oh baby.

I'll post in response to you not disagreeing but stating that your argument is too well thought out for something like this.

I can almost guarantee this mode never gets large. It's fun, but it's random. There's a reason why we have weapon bans in TF2 6v6, there's a reason we limit classes to 1 medic 1 demo, and there's a reason every season we talk about map pools and new whitelists and rulesets (ESEA SHOULD MOVE TO THE EURO MATCH TIMELIMIT/RULES IMO).

It's that tf2 by itself isn't a balanced game. You can theorycraft all sorts of strats for this 5v5 AR mode but at the end of the day it might as well be All Random and not Arena Respawn. You can't plan for weapons on the other team at all, one round a pyro with degreaser shotgun axe and the next round natascha heavy, there's actually no way you can predict a round or organize a flawless rollout, or counterplay because literally you may as well be thrown in a blender every round.

If tf2 actually wants to be esports viable, which arguably it isn't in its current state due to the fact that pubbing and 6v6 are COMPLETELY different, it's going to need matchmaking and it's going to need matchmaking that is 6v6 and somewhat restricted weaponwise. We'll see what happens though, that's up to Valve.

AR is a cool idea, but again, this game needs weapon bans to be legitimate spectator-wise. You can't cast a game with no whitelist. "HOLD ON LET ME CHECK HIS LOADOUT" would be 90% of the cast.

sound drivers.

all the drivers, make sure theyre up to date

are you ok?

also i liked the pcgamer article because theyre praising it and historically have been massive valve fanboys when it comes to articles.

definitely skill ceiling.

i had this conversation last night, it's like if every class had some sort of big cooldown similar to medic uber that they had to properly synchronize and use efficiently.

Enemy team pushing badlands last and you blow your overcharged gorilla self healing turret in yard, and don't have it for last, but the enemy crossbow weilding dude has his ulti up, you lose last.

obviously im making that up but the concept is the same. like dota when you teamfight with/without your big spells on cooldown. definitely high skill ceiling.