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

When I was newer I always played on american servers since friends I met only played on there. Ping was like 130-150, and I am pretty sure around 500 hours of my tf2 experience were on that ping. You babies complaining about 60. You haven't been molded by Ping-Mojo like the big boys.

detonating the detonator flare at 150 ping is a torture

ever tried the 150 ping dodgeball

Oh wow, that's baby talk, ever tried to play 6's playoffs with 170 ping? I had to play the game with my mobile internet being hotspot shared since my internet was out and we didn't find a last minute sub.

Do you have any obscure promo items? Like the Grandmaster, Audiophile, or Boiling Point

Don't forget some of the rejected Double Fine promos: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/205174/653d76f7-2940-44b9-b8b4-56bf701b0adb/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/205174/cb753d94-e3cf-4b7b-ac5f-5f4ce15c9d60/image.png

Well, just ran into a "lagger bot", a bot that never joined a team and simply lagged the game, whilst saying random things in the chat. I really hope for everyone's sake this is not going to become another thing that will constantly ruin games for people.

Yeah, ran into one as well. It was completely horrifying to click on "Start Search" and get thrown into a new game 30 seconds later.

~120 average ping here, 5600+ Hours in and counting... "Babies".

What's a good network config for casual play? Currently using this: rate 60000 cl_cmdrate 67 cl_interp_ratio 1 cl_interp .033 cl_lagcompensation 1 cl_pred_optimize 2 cl_smooth 0 cl_smoothtime 0.01 cl_updaterate 67 My average ping is 75-90 but i've seen plenty of players with ping <35 warping around with choppy animation.

Try cl_interp 0 and cl_interp_ratio 2. cl_interp_ratio 2 will compensate for 1 dropped packet, mitigating jittering, and generally it's much better for hitscan classes, but if you're playing as a projectile class, you might want to set cl_interp_ratio to 1 to prevent any delays.

random tidbit, but the other day I had to make a whole-ass fucking config for a friend of mine getting into tf2 just so I could ensure they wouldn't have a fuckawful experience this has been emphasized a million times over, but there are so many problems with default options and so many things that need to be more accessible for those interested, this is what I ended up compiling for them: https://puu.sh/AamY3/e787fd6b93.cfg

Something annoying with fast weapon switch is that if you switch to a weapon that you can't use (e.g. recharging Jarate) it will bring up the weapon selection part of the hud.

Just had a pure ragequit moment in TF2. Shot a crit sticky at the crowd of 5 people on the cart Hit an invisible spy infront of me Sticky bounces back into me I detonated ( this all happened in like 1 second ) it and died.

Alliance of Valiant Arms is being shut down on June 29, and new accounts can't be created right now. Another unobtainable promo item like the Bolt-Action Blitzer.

Isnt that hat tied to a TF2 achievement anyway? you'll get it anyway if you use SAM.

You can manually bring up that part of the hud, interestingly, by pressing 7.

Weird bug, when switching weapons as Soldier right after firing, the firing sound gets cut off. Every other class is fine.

this is intended why are you bringing up all this old stuff

I'm going through all the bugs listed on the TF wiki to see if any could be reported on github or emailed, the Sleeper animation I just saw on reddit and didn't know about it (started playing around smissmas '14)

speaking of bugs, coaching aint working at the moment. I got accpeted to be a coach for someone, only to find it wont let me go over to coach them Happy to see people are still requesting ones tho

Ya' know? Talking in voice chat has improven my games ten-fold. Calling spies or snipers and seeing my team actively hunting them/avoiding sightlines is pretty awesome. Then you have some players just chillin' and we start having a casual conversation about classes, competitive and so on. Plus, it helps me to get rid off my social anxiety. If you can, try talking, it feels pretty nice.

ditto; Not to mention just talking and instructing totally can turn a game around. Last week i was too lazy to grab my headset, and every match i was in, i knew i coulda had us win, had someone just jumped on and start taking lead. It's such a fun social game, and im glad u said this.

It ain't a community server if you can micspam stuff.

I totally forgot about voice chat HAHA! I set my voice_enable 0 and totally forgot to set it back! I only recently realized "hey it's been a while since I heard anyone talk". It's been months OH WOW

i don't think i've had voice_enable 1 set for months. too many people say horrible things. haven't needed it anyway since i don't play matchmaking

Okay after a bunch of tests im pretty much confirmed it. Sandman's totally glitched. Not only does it not seem to slow at all, there is now BONK icon, or dizzyness over the players head. I even hit someone from max distance which should completely halt them, but from what i saw, they went no slower than maybe 5%. Not sure how to test more, but it's def not worthwhile using ATM

Switching to the Diamondback from any other revolver without respawning will automatically give it all the crits it would have gotten for backstabs and saps had you used it previously in the current life.

Probably the same slow glitch they fixed in Blue Moon for Natasha but reverted when they realized how OP it made slowdown.

on demand crit enforcer? oh no. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132767/9d5fa493-6baf-4966-8212-a6c02f3faf2d/image.png