Played this map on tf2stadium today and found a few things. Take it with a pinch of salt as I'm an open shitter and this lobby wasn't exactly a top-level gaming experience.

http://imgur.com/a/TvBKW

Could you say what you did to fix it? I have the same issue on my laptop, which is also Lenovo.

I had the same issues a while ago, and I'm still working somewhat to overcome them. What helped me most was just trying not to care. For example, if I fed or died stupidly I'd just laugh it off and console myself with the fact that it happens to even the best players - if you watch banny's stream, he too makes mistakes or doesn't hit shots from time to time.

I also found that treating it as a learning experience really helped. By that I mean, when I died to spam or beefed all my shots, instead of instantly getting pissed I thought what I could have done better and tried to apply that to my play.

Methods suggested by others, e.g relaxing music, can also help, but I thought I'd offer a different perspective. I still suck though.

the scout from tf2

From my experience with the Discord overlay it's been very temperamental - working fine one day then not working the next, for example. I eventually decided it wasn't worth the trouble and just stopped using it altogether, which is probably for the best (the overlay can be pretty laggy even when it's working and has a tendency to crash games sometimes).

https://clips.twitch.tv/PricklyAverageMeatloafOSsloth

Open:
Quarter Final 1: The Abusement Park vs Punctuation Obliteration
Quarter Final 2: Command Seven vs Spanish Rockets
Quarter Final 3: Verbfusion vs The Shaggers Club
Quarter Final 4: HUSARZE vs Five Scrubs and a Furry

Open fixtures have all been reworked after a team which joined 3 weeks in with 2 wins against trash teams and 2 default wins got 4th seed.

Abusement will obviously take it easily though so who really cares tbh

ah, I wasn't aware of that - thanks for clearing that up.

free shirts

should never have cut snow

actually i take that back ez for whoa

Open is an easy roll for Abusement Park tbh, they destroyed verbfusion yesterday + their only loss was a 5v6

This really helps, thanks - I'll try and work on the teamfights aspect more in future games.

Yeah, that's the general impression I'm getting. From what my team have said I thought my dm was at a decent level, but of course when it's just open players giving feedback to other open players it creates a feedback loop which can be pretty bad. Either way, I'll work on the dm a bit more.

Thanks to everyone who offered some advice, and to those who offered to look over one of my demos. I'll most likely hit you up on that at some point in the near future.

That's true. I still think my dm is at a decent level because I win most of the fights I take in match settings, but I'll make sure to keep at it with soapDM/MGE.

I generally stay about halfway between our med and our roamer - this is because our roamer is generally capable of holding the flank by himself and our med needs protection. If the roamer does some good damage I usually attempt to follow up on it, but I've got more cautious since I fed a lot previously trying to finish off individual players.

Yeah, that's probably the worst I've performed (it was our first scrim on granary and I struggled to deal with their soldiers).

I'm open btw.

Hi tftv, was hoping you could help with an issue I've been having.

I'm playing in my first season of etf2l open as flank scout, and my team is doing moderately well so far. However, I feel I'm really being kept back by one issue - damage. In pretty much every scrim and official we've played, my dpm has barely risen above 140, and I regularly get the lowest kills/damage out of everyone except the medics.

I'm pretty sure it's not a dm issue, because my dm is at a decent level right now - in pregame I'm able to out-dm most of the enemy team fairly easily. I tend to play quite passive and stay near the combo while watching the flank, but so does our other scout who regularly breaks 250. In the past when I've chased/tried to follow up on kills it's just led to me being baited into the enemy combo and feeding, so I try and avoid that unless I know the other guy's weak.

There are often scrims where I've felt my performance was great, only to look at the logs and see 110 dpm. It tilts me pretty hard because I think that I'm not playing half as well as I should be, and that my team would be better if I was able to do any damage at all.

Any tips/words of instruction would be greatly appreciated. No saam jokes please.