whoa there just to clear up any confusion I'm not saying valve is right I'm just trying to explain that it probably isn't because "lolskins". obviously we should be able to disable viewmodels, i can't aim with them on no matter the class unless it's a melee weapon. i was just trying to determine why they're enabled, i wasn't actually defending that reasoning.

comanglia why is hud_fastswitch in a graphics config

having the GC go down for half an hour six times a day

If I recall correctly the VTF plugin for Photoshop doesn't even work in 64bit Photoshop, which means even disregarding vtflib relying on Windows, you're SOL because OS X hasn't been 32bit in almost a decade.

yeah it forces motion blur on and it's still a hacky workaround.

The most logical reason they're forcing everyone to have them on is so that people who watch streams don't get confused about what's going on, because little to no other competitive games let you play without viewmodels entirely.

There are better ways to go about this though.

for the record blizzard attempted to do the same thing with overwatch but sucked at it. it's supposed to match identical size parties - so, for instance, a party of 2, 3, and 1 will go up against another party of 2, 3, and 1. it doesn't work in practice though because blizzard set wait times where the matchmaker would just pair you up with odd teams if you waited too long. valve doesn't have such a timer... hence the even longer wait times for larger groups, on top of the already absurdly long wait times that Jill called a bug.

not anymore :^)

Do all of the custom images actually work okay with sv_pure? If so how did you do them?

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I honestly have never touched the HUD crosshair stuff so that's probably all left over from yahud (even before takyahud). I can probably take a look at it and maybe I can fix it, but no promises.

As it is right now I'm already cleaning up a lot of shit left over from the other HUD lifespans that I no longer support. I'm still happy to help people with customizations, but maintaining huge numbers of slightly different files for every version is tough.

As an aside I'm aware of all of the misalignment issues in matchmaking and will be looking into them in the future.

you can't change r_drawviewmodel, viewmodel_fov, etc while in comp mode.

all of those cvars are still unlocked in regular play though. no amount of scripting is going to get around a cvar lock.

random question, does anyone actually use any of the backgrounds from the Alternative Main Menu Backgrounds folder? those being the gray gradient, normandy, and trees. they're left over from takyahud and while i always want to encourage customization (and will be working on more themes) i think they're just dumb to include in the first place.

oh, well i think that's mainly because i selectively chose what to include and what not to include. for example i didn't update my main menu because i decided to not implement the dropdown.

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