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#14 Redeye thinks TF2 should be an esport in TF2 General Discussion
eXtine

I get where you're coming from, but at this point, I feel like any growth in TF2 is going to be in spite of Valve. At this point it's clear Valve doesn't care what happens to the game or the scene, whether you're talking about the monolithic Valve Corporation, or the "work on whatever you feel like" people there. Either way, nobody's working from the inside to make TF2 be the best thing it can possibly be, and as far as we can tell from the outside, nobody is working on the game period. I agree we should keep building stuff and trying to grow our community, but at this point, expecting anything from Valve is a mistake.

I guess what I really want to say is that I wish Valve weren't part of the equation. I wish that TF2 were a game from one of the hundreds of long-dead studios out there and that there weren't the shadows of Counter-Strike and DOTA to make us feel insecure. I wish TF2 could be TF2 without having to be "TF2: The game Valve forgot" I wish Valve wasn't even a consideration, so that we could just get on with a promod and a compendium and majors and everything else that proper grassroots esports do without having to talk about how the non-existent developers might feel about it.

The fact that they are a part of the equation, and yet patently refuse to even communicate with us about literally anything to do with the game or the scene, let alone take any action whatsoever to make the game work better in a competitive context, is what's so frustrating about our relationship with Valve. Because I think we do understand them, at least as well as we can when they are literally incapable of communicating, and I don't think that understanding them is the issue. It's the fact that they're standing with their foot in the door just enough to make all of us think that they might come back some day, but when you ask them if they're coming in or leaving, they pretend not to hear you.

If Valve is going to stay a part of the equation, they should stop pretending that their presence is irrelevant to the community around the game. And if they won't, then we should tell them, and more importantly ourselves, that we officially don't care what they think, and whatever we think is best for the game and the way that we want to play it, that's what we're gonna do, Valve be damned. I'm just so sick of their ghost looming over every decision we make like that of an abusive step-dad. We should be doing and building things because we love the game and want to share it with as many people as we can, not because we think that maybe if we build enough and change enough, Valve will come down from on high and save us from ourselves.

posted about 5 years ago
#20 RGL Main Pre-Season Social in TF2 General Discussion

GGs to the burnsiders and ULTRALORD! that was actually a really fun format to play.

and some shoutouts to my boy 24 for providing servers, and the legend eXtine for putting this on. Looking forward to tomorrow!

posted about 5 years ago
#5 RGL Main Pre-Season Social in TF2 General Discussion

hype as fuck, can't wait

posted about 5 years ago
#46 Gritoma lft soldier in Recruitment (looking for team)

absolute fucking gigachad. please pick him up, as without a team, I fear he could grow too powerful for this realm, and possibly threaten the natural order.

posted about 5 years ago
#11 lfp s3 adv in Recruitment (looking for players)

SAVE THIS TEAM !!!

I love these guys, you WILL enjoy playing with them!

posted about 5 years ago
#10 main chill team in Recruitment (looking for players)

babump soldier please tyvm :)

posted about 5 years ago
#9 main chill team in Recruitment (looking for players)

BUMP

need soldier + demo pls&thx ily god bless <3

posted about 5 years ago
#4 how many fps you nerds get? in Hardware

hover around 200 with a similar setup and a pretty config. I imagine 240 is doable with minecraft settings. please don't kill your dog.

posted about 5 years ago
#53 RGL Traditional Sixes Season 3 announced in News
xattuu

wut? solemn vow is completely passive

posted about 5 years ago
#35 S3 RGL in TF2 General Discussion

Adding a ninth map to invite brings up something that's bugged me about pick/bans in TF2 for these past few seasons: Why do we do alternating pick/bans for playoffs with an 8 map pool?

Right now, with our 8 map pool, this is how we're doing things:

A Bans | B Bans | A Picks Map 1 | B Picks Map 2 | A Bans | B Bans | A Picks Map 3

The way it is right now, the higher seeded team gets both advantages in the draft: they get to choose how to kick off the series, and where the series will end. This just strikes me as strange coming from CS, where there's a 7 map pool, so for playoffs deciders there's actually a choice to be made on whether you want to go for the throat, or take the safety pick and make sure you can take map 3 if it goes that far. That means there's an actual decision to be made for whether you want to be A or B. But in TF2 with the draft the way it is and an 8 map pool, your choices are to make both of the most important decisions for the draft, or make neither.

And the solution is really easy: Just have B do both of the final bans, so that it looks like this:

A Bans | B Bans | A Picks Map 1 | B Picks Map 2 | A Bans | B Bans | B Picks Map 3

I guess the question comes down to how much value you should get out of a higher seed. Seeding in TF2 is more valuable than in other games with similar playoffs structures (CS is the only game I have experience with this in, but my understanding is that MOBAs and fighting games use a similar system for hero / stage drafts). It just strikes me as strange and possibly an oversight, since when I looked back at my RGL S1 playoffs pages, (and I just checked my ESEA playoffs pages, they also had the same issue) the instructions had the teams banning 6 of the 8 maps. If we've decided that the seeding should be worth more, that's one thing, but if the system is the way it is just because nobody's ever thought about it, I think that this is something worth talking about.

Or you could just add one more map (or take away one) and not have to worry about it.

posted about 5 years ago
#11 S3 RGL in TF2 General Discussion
GrapeJuiceIII

nvm im retarded lol

posted about 5 years ago
#8 S3 RGL in TF2 General Discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dns556pSjsI

this shit busted

also

SOLEMN VOW UNLEASHED!

prepare for even dumber scout feeds for low health players.

posted about 5 years ago
#2 rgl promod survey in TF2 General Discussion

https://rgl.gg/Players/My/Survey.aspx?r=24&s=27

posted about 5 years ago
#5 origin story in The Dumpster

I dropped out of high school because I was really depressed. I spent a few years playing CS, not going outside, generally being my worst self, and flipping between wanting to be dead and wanting to never have been born on a daily basis. Then I met some cool people that made me want to be somewhat less of a loser. So I got a job, quit CS, and eventually came back to tf2. Then I met a girl, fell in love, and got burned. Lost some friends on the way, but I made a few new ones. Now I don't have a job or a girlfriend, tf2 isn't as fun as it used to be, and going outside is no longer just anxiety inducing, it's terrifying, and even potentially life threatening. I can't decide if things are any better than they were right after I dropped out, but I'm only miserable most of the time now instead of all the time, so I guess that's something. hbu?

posted about 5 years ago
#17 Med speed buff removal EU DMIXES in TF2 General Discussion

played some 4s pugs with the boys and these all felt really good. I think I prefer medic like this tbh, but I haven't played a real gamemode yet. twiikuu ur the fuckin MAN.

posted about 5 years ago
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