Looks like the good old days of CoD. Its refreshing to see a dev that can aim for once.

Shotgun lets you have more stopping power/versatility but gunboats lets you make space/escape for very little health. "Better" is subjective, with the scout meta I personally think gunboats are objectively* better since you can take a more independent role in terms of heals and making space for scouts.
But you dont have to play super meta if you can do efficent with shotgun, its pros and cons and how you work around those is up to you. Shotgun soldier is less about jumping around lots and more about staying within the medic range and utilizing hitscan for guaranteed damage.
Obviously nothing is set in stone but both are viable.

* = highest level

Are you implying that T0m is a toxic player/person? During the time I played with Spanked he was far from toxic; granted he wasnt satisfied with our DHS/i58 performance (I dont think anyone of us really was) but he never took it out on someone or raged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCKkfZ8NZ90

I was never able to reproduce this issue to the point where I was wondering if the server/player had bugged out, glad to know its fixed and things will feel more consistent now.

(The secret class selection order they didn't want you to know)

woof

The gameplay of 6es is fine apart some minor balance changes, if anything a reworked whitelist to get rid of some of the weapons sounds good. Ive always liked the idea of a rollback client but when you think about it who would realistically support the decision since it would bring back security issues that have been patched out.

The problem is that its going to split the community even further, and not just the pub vs comp community but the existing players. Call me crazy but I think 6es is fine as it is, and the things that are in the game - while they could be reworked like this - should be dealt with on a ban/allow case. I like that you can transition from getting good in pubs to beginner level competitive and for those who already play both comp and casual its going to be a pain dealing with 2 different muscle memories for different gamemodes. Perhaps not muscle memory but say if damage or timing stats were modified for weapons.

If the promod client or plugin is solely focused on competitive exclusively, then how do you deal with globalization of said promod and how do you deal with people who play both and will have to play with awkward changes every time. Responsibility, influence and pros vs peoples opinions to mention a few.

As garbage as it sounds with the current dev team, realistically the only idea would be to get tf2 balanced from the core, and not with modded clients or plugins. Im open to anything if ideas are being thrown or projects being worked on but the above concerns are there.

I think 6es is fine but the current whitelist is spaghetti deluxe. Gimmicks and crutches dont belong in competitive, like this for example:

If we are going to base it on "your opinion" there are many more people who would not play vs pyro than a gunboats soldier. Have you ever played vs an engineer who sits in spawn, repairing his sentry with rescue ranger while a pyro is deflecting incoming spam and at the same time the enemy demoman is spamming the choke with loose cannon? Thats a gimmick for you. If you get killed or stalled by a bombing soldier he earned it, if you get killed or stalled by the composition above youre being gimmick-ed, same with pyro m2 reflect > flare 1shot combos, same with being zoned by a minisentry as a scout, for some examples. I prefer the term crutch but gimmick works too.

I play a fair amount of alternative game modes and the fact that the game is always the same on 6es, offline, pubs, dm, mge, inhouses makes it feel globalized and whatever you do there will work in 6es as well as it will work anywhere else.

What about the pyro rework? Where is the performance optimization? Absolutely no interesting game changes / balance changes, you still cant queue with more than 6 in casual / join a friends (or a friends groups) game and matchmaking is still a joke.

How can anyone remotely like or respect this update. They spent resources fixing cosmetics, PASS time and pd_watergate ffs. I was looking forward to the dev team somewhat redeeming themselves but this is hot garbage.

LOL

http://i.imgur.com/6itBRdv.png

Also, post your lists if you have them saved

http://i.imgur.com/Tavvhxj.png

Never saw a reason to go full vegetarian and never liked the idea of changing how Ive grown up eating too drastically. How many breads have you eaten in your life?

Thanks to my team for the amazing games (eu gimmicks) and my friends who cheered for us
Razer for sponsoring the event, it really helped a lot
TFTV crew for casting and taking care of me when I emptied half a bottle of vodka (also granting me access to vip for free drinks)
Esport United for their longtime support, letting me crash at their place and being awesome guys and girls in general
Heny for answering basically every question I had
Norway, Denmark and Finland for the games
Sideshow for trying to be relevant only to end up in Federal Prison. I'll visit you once a week ;_;
Corsair and MSI for the merchandise

Share what you have (looking at you Heny), I'll start

https://imgur.com/a/60DIf

https://i.imgur.com/YeFfSpH.jpg

turbotabs got me drunk, I fell asleep in a sofa and woke up in a bed
where am I?

I found three more videos

eXposing eXtine (you wont believe this)(must see) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRWiHJF75-E
Extra Extra Hot PERi-PERi sauce with Geoh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ux1HgYQr0
Deox FIGHTING Warped? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SksCJ8UvN-g

I'll organize the photos I took after Dreamhack, its a bit late but they are good memories (such as paulsen cosplaying a "I <3 anime" cat).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuftGIk5lMw
Full consent from hank. Take us all with a pinch of salt, it was a long night of drinking and whatnot.