TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station V6 - Year of the Guard Dog SURVEY IN OP - Games

Anyone know of a way of restoring the old round timer while in community servers?

"conservative about making competitive matches" Are there just barely any competitive games on the servers now?

Thank you.

that's funny you mention the command, it doesn't even function properly. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/913542828230450583/EE598627FA5E167D40A7D384A184D0200D625D70/

Also after the update anything using the old source UI (options, server browser) is bugged. With any window that opens another window, you can't access dropdown menus in the second window. Like if you opened options and went to advanced video options, you can't access the dropdowns for the settings.

- John ------------------------------------------------------------ - Updated model/materials for the Starboard Crusader and added a second style - Added AsiaFortress Season 13 medals - Updated the localization files - Fixed Mann vs. Machine matches with open slots not receiving late-joiners - Fixed a server crash related to the Sniper Rifle - Fixed the "View promotional codes" button not showing for those users with promotional codes Notes missed from Competitive Revamp update - The UI version has been bumped to 3. Any UI mods will need to be updated to work with the new UI changes.

Servers will be down for 5 minutes for maintance, hopefully will bring competitive queue fixes

https://i.imgur.com/TgYt1VP.png Lookin' good.

https://puu.sh/zSWtE/95697c6032.png WTF WHY DOES VALVE ALLOW PEOPLE TO PROFIT OFF ARAKI'S IP??? THIS IS RETARDED!!! IM GOING TO CONTACT JOJO'S PUBLISHER RIGHT NOW!!! GOD THESE FUCKING SCUMBAG WORKSHOP CONTRIBURGERS CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY IT!!!

The UI update included a new end-round survey REGARDING THE OPINION ON RANDOM CRITS IN THE GAME! SAUCE: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/87vvj7/tf2_update_for_32818/dwfy0q6/?st=jfemeghl&sh=ef7b5214 So, save the arguing for ten pages with cranks, and GO VOTE!

Okay, can we focus now on gameplay issues and matchmaking since the stupid shitty hat got "fixed" ?

The Samurai sound always gets me.

I know the first new style was already posted, but just in case any of you are curious about how the Starboard Crusader looks now, with both styles: Style 1: Casual Style 2: Professional

Well it took Borealis and I half an hour to find a comp game instead of the hour plus it normally takes, so maybe it's better? Or maybe it was just dumb luck?

someone probably made a mod for the targe's charge using the car horn, wich is probably the most fitting of all those sound effects.

@Punchy for now I recommend going offline on Steam/changing profile to private and using this

Yeah that stat is weird and not even all that useful. Jarate takes 20 seconds to recharge so 1 second less isn't hugely useful (and don't give me that "every second counts in battle" crap please, it barely applies here). Then there's how the rifle clearly has a "No Headshots" stat displayed, but then it also has "minicrits on headshots" which means it CAN headshot... But if you headshot someone, instead of the headshot kill icon you get minicrit sydney sleeper. I mean what the fuck, I clearly headshot him, give me the headshot icon dammit.

I tested again because of the disagree and it's not bugged, weird.

Anyone else experiencing a bug where if you have a tier 2 or higher casual badge is shows up as a tier 1 one on the scoreboard? My friend I queue with has a tier 2 but his shows up as almost level 1.

wasn't the matchmaking update the first Q1 major update we've had had in years?

Here's the graph of refined's quantity back to ~2016 (blue line): https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/157595/912279f2-2e1c-43d1-ab62-389be69177d1/b9kiomaorbxnahedq2k5[1].png And here's the latest data since the idlebots got banned: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/157595/9167ee74-b940-4eea-b525-7c71a8c326f2/xkyjsyxk6gu5r4d27oek[1].png Ignore the scale, it only represents a drop of ~30,000 refined. Still, it's a sustained drop, the first one TF2 has had in years. Keys had their crazy plummet and subsequent recorrection back up, but since then they've been steadily declining in terms of refined value. <ron paul it's happening.gif>

what happened in jan 17 that had such a drastic impact?

regarding the whole 7 day cooldown fiasco with CSGO, the TF2 team has been listening to the community recently (as shown by the revert on the Starboard Crusader, the Random crits survey and the 3/28 update in general) so i doubt they'd look at the shitstorm that CSGO update has created and say "yeah no we should implement this". I probably just jinxed it heh

i would rate this post optimistic if i could

I dont know if they should implement anything regarding rewards for comp. I remember Jeff from Overwatch mentioning it was the team's biggest regret with making their competitive system. bringing in rewards brings in a bunch of begrudging players, thus then increasing toxicity, and thus repelling players. Of course Overwatch is a different game itself, so it's possible TF2 could bring different results.

There are unused strings for a wait estimate for casual mm: quick, moderate, and long.

nothing create more toxic players than having the losing side be salty not just from losing but from not getting an item

The training mode wood class cutouts were updated, VNN found that they now have blu versions. Something might happen to training mode?

Reddit Question: Why is everyone so against random crits? Reddit Answer 1: Random crits: *diminish the importance of skill development and often punishes players who otherwise would have won the engagement *scale higher if you're doing more damage, and even higher if you're using a melee weapon- the better you're doing, the more likely you are to crit. it's more likely to help a good player than a bad one, and the good player probably doesn't need the help. the perception that random crits help bad players triumph against good players is statistically inaccurate. *disproportionately benefit Soldier, Demoman, Scout and Medic- aka the Generalists, who are already the most meta classes in the game. non-Generalists like the Heavy and Pyro benefit to a much lesser degree, with the Spy benefiting the absolute least of any of the classes in the game. *taint the purity of this game's arena shooter DNA, where skill and only skill determined who won the engagement. Reddit Answer 2: Just salty from when they die from them Ah, the duality of man

I just realized that the TF team is probably switching to csgo's update release schedule. I thought it was weird how this update was sort of major but it had no update page or fanfare. Then I realized that that's csgo's model: large feature updates every so often, and less commonly real major updates with an operation and skins. Honestly, this update was really nice. I'd be okay with fewer "major" updates with campaigns and pages if it meant more frequent feature updates.