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

The new report feature in action: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2312/5210cf7b-5d07-4370-af5d-a585e295bbf4/20180518140950_1.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2312/a5d43f69-3cad-4ead-b26c-d2fa3a09585f/20180518140958_1.jpg

The circumstances where its a 10v12 and the lower-number team is winning are so rare that it's silly to even bring it up. Plus, you were SPECIFICALLY talking about a circumstance where the enemy team was losing, and you get swapped to that losing team. Pretending like you were actually talking about a scenario where the game isn't lopsided is just dishonest. If a team has a lower number of players, they're at an abject disadvantage, especially since the teams are initially balanced using glicko to keep teams from being too lopsided. Once someone leaves, the match is now tipped substantially in favor of the higher-number team. If one team has two fewer players than the other, the game NEEDS a reliable system to fix that. I mean shit, look at what was happening during the period where it was only volunteers, and no autobalance at all. Once one team lost a player, nothing would balance things back out, the losing team would get discouraged, more players would leave, and once the ball got rolling you easily ended up with 2v10 games. Even when there were leaver penalties this was still commonplace.

What was the maintance about?

Routine maintenance?

I wonder why they never added resolution scale to the options menu, it's already in the game (mat_viewportscale), and it's something newer games have for performance.

I tried it when i used to play TF2 on a shit laptop from 2008. I can confirm it doesn't improve performance, not even by little. I guess the only purpose for it is to blur the screen..

Changing viewport/res scale is not going to improve FPS on a shit system.

It might, if the GPU is the bottleneck. If the GPU is the bottleneck. It usually isn't in TF2.

you can improve FPS if the bottleneck is in your pockets.

so after a few years of monitoring the trading scene and wishing for the day that I could claim one for myself I did it: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/932687475274307705/DF3BFC74338A356EAF41CECB4C508644B72FDEF6/ I got rid of a few of my higher-end hats in the long run, but thankfully my favorite effect happens to be relatively low-tier

its been a while since i've seen one of these. how much are they going for nowdays?

About $2,300 on Marketplace.tf

i was genuinely expecting them to go for far less, i guess its due to them still being a extremely rare item?

So someone brought to my attention that Dave Riller no longer has that famous blurb about TF2 in his Valve website profile. Do you think that means anything?

Late on this (haha, late) but i feel like the auto balance could have been kept in the last version if XP actually mattered and made people actually want to change teams for a quick boost. Hell, even now if XP mattered it would most likely hold people from leaving the match. As for the catbots, i seriously wish this was done better so we really shouldn't care about them anymore. They are actually kind of holding me from playing casual right now.

It's the end game item. Everyone and their mother wants a golden pan.

I'm pretty glad that shit like golden pans and unusuals are so expensive. Everyone wants the shiniest, flashiest, ugliest garbage, so most of the worst looking stuff in the game is rarely seen in actual gameplay. Only a tiny percent of people actually have orbiting vomit pink as hell banana hats, or greasy cheese pans, so I rarely have to actually see it. Meanwhile tasteful, actually good-looking stuff like gentleman's collection skins can be nabbed for pennies.

They changed their website, I'm sure a lot of people decided to change their profile. Sadly it appears that the Robin Walker as Bob Ross photoshop is gone.

nope, you still get XP if you leave the match, I think this should be changed to how it was before.

Christ, really? God damn this is a mess.

Joined a game of Upward, stoned guy joins and gets confused, says he needs to smoke more cones, someone else asks him if he means icecream cones. God I love Australian servers.

Ironically enough the github seems to be infested with cheaters

Not everyone lol. I'm still far more interested in the unobtainable ( well, I guess I could try to buy an account, but nah. I don't plan to actually do that ) Golden Wrench over the Golden Pan. Yeah, for the most part I'm glad the stuff I like seems to be less in demand so it makes it easier to acquire them lol.

Never compared them before now, but the class avatars added before MyM are a legit improvement. https://i.redd.it/uoxefpbxaty01.png s

I think the banana hat is best when non-colored, or in realistic banana like colors.

I like the ones on the right I think because they're all facing the same direction and are consistent. I still like the uber ones a bit better, because it's the only time I feel I'll be ubered as a spy or sniper in an actual game lol. I would add engineer to that list too, but widowmaker engie is pretty scary in matches if he's good at landing meatshots with that thing, same if the medic's using kritzkrieg because no he can practically snipe people with that gun.

man if we could only get consistent camera angles with the weapons.

Here's something I've been thinking about that I'd like to get some brief feedback on. Let's be hypothetical - In the next content update, one class is getting a whip unlock. No, not like the 360 degree crit machine that is the Disciplinary action; a loooong whip that can operate with some form of actual ranged capacity, maybe with a secondary function on a cooldown/charge meter (like jarate/milk/gas). Perhaps used for gaining vertical advantage. Perhaps for gaining distance or closing a gap between you and a target. Perhaps for grabbing pickups from afar. Mechanics notwithstanding, which of these fits more thematically for this unlock? Think bullwhip, lasso, bolas, chain whip etc Agree - Engineer Disagree - Sniper Funny - other class Dumb - self explanatory

Getting bombed by lagbots again. Nice.

Apparently they only fixed one case of the voicemenu lagging servers.