from angiepawing to "palmtopangie" please

TF2 Lighting, and how we can fix things

I wrote up a short little document talking about how your lighting and shading settings in TF2 can drastically affect your visibility, and how you can change it. For a long time, new players getting into competitive, or already existing advanced players have been using and recommending absolutely horrid and, by all means, destructive and harmful lighting settings. With the massive effect that mastercomfig has on TF2, in terms of performance, these settings have become more accessible and easy to use. If you're interested, give my little write-up a read. Maybe I can convince you to change up your config for the first time in eons!

Turns out that JarateKing's CleanTF2plus makes certain textures like grates and windows invisible. I talked with RGL staff, and they said this isn't allowed (Here's proof of that), and would result in a full cheating ban. So to fix this, I made my own!

Here's the aptly named FlatTF2RGL, which keeps things legal by excluding affected textures. I also have a Pre-Compiled VPK for you to use. My version still works on sv_pure servers by keeping the "resized" option to flatten the textures to a 1x1 size.

Enjoy!

(The generator only works on Windows, sorry)

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spunchg mbop : maybe this quaint little chud life isnt so bad after all

I think the issue of these pyro specific cosmetics breaking team recognition comes up a lot, and for good reason, but in a situation like competitive play the pyro doing this is really failing to achieve two things:

1. Competitive players are extremely quick on their feet and can usually recognize that the pyro staying with them and spy-checking / NOT attacking them is likely their teammate or enemy within the first view of the player, and deal with it accordingly
   
2. Running these cosmetics, if anything, has a chance to mess up the pyros own team just as much as the other. As rare as it would be, teams allowing this would honestly just be stupid on their own right. Would obviously only possibly affect extremely low divs.

So I think allowing it is just saying "If you're doing this, it's really stupid and only has a chance to harm your own team more than anything.

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displace : lol u are a bug in jar that i shake

Back a while ago, someone released a mod that replaces the sounds of the original with the rocket launcher. It was outdated since the reload sound was fixed in the Jan 5th, 2023 patch. I updated to fix that, and also changed the draw sound to stock. This works in every server regardless of sv_pure setting.

Download

I've tried this one multiple times, but it doesn't work in sv_pure 2 and most sv_pure 1 servers. it's like the green overheal particles.Canr use those either.

Like the title says, is there a way to disable the damage particles that spawn from taking damage in an sv_pure 2 server? I'm not interested in sv_pure 1, RGL uses sv_pure 2 and I'm wondering if there's a way to get this working on RGL.

https://imgur.com/a/TuBHEZf

This is what I'm talking about.

THE TITLE IS FALSE, IGNORE THIS THREAD

Although the fix is actually just removing -dxlevel from your launch args.