main answer: you don't really gain that much from playing MGE as pyro since it's a class more based in positioning and prediction than mechanical skill. That said, some MGE servers allow all classes and the two pyro matchups you'll see (very few) people practising are\n\n* Pyro v Soldier - for pyros it can help with reflect practice and predicting soldiers, but most people will tell you that soldiers in MGE will play very differently from what they do in actual games, so it's questionable how much it really helps. For HL soldiers I would say this is somewhat helpful to learn how to shoot through pyros without getting reflected (conceptually easy, you just have to abuse splash damage hard and bait airblasts when possible - but it's incredible how many high level soldier mains refuse to learn this and feed pyros in matches). Truth is unless you convince a friend to come you probably won't find a soldier main willing to play this with you though.\n\n* Pyro v Pyro - as dumb as it sounds, some people do this. The goal is usually to practice flamethrower tracking, movement and flarepunching and there's actually some merit to this since with how borked the flamethrower is as a weapon in general, you want to learn how to make the most of it (short guide - you want to lead the targets instead of aiming directly at them, but how much you need to lead depends on your ping, which often means you need to change your aim on the fly). You won't really get what I mean until you get 20-0'd by one of those few pyros who MGE regularly, it's happened to me. Either way it's something you do a couple of times to see how it works and then ditch it. It's not something that is going to make you particularly better in a HL setup since despite there being some subtleties to it, flamethrower is still pretty easy.\n\nYou could also play shotgun only MGE if you want to work on shotgun aim but that can be worked on by playing soldier or scout MGE and you'll have a much easier time finding partners for those.","952"],["It's a funny idea but the thing with spy disguising is that items like this that reduce the ways in which you can tell a spy will only make people even more paranoid, spychecking every teammate around them regardless of whether they're acting suspicious, firing a weapon or not. It would confuse people in the beginning but then they would get used to it.\n\nNot to mention that giving away the spy's revolver entirely to play like this is a massive downside.","791"],["Tips from a pyro main who likes spy a lot:\n\n* I'm guessing most pyros at your level are obsessed with spychecking and never leave the medic's butt. Best strategy is to get picks away from the pyro. This can mean annoy the flank classes or go for the sniper over and over if he isn't playing on the combo as well. However since a lot of pyros will be somewhat behind the rest of the combo as a push happens, even if the med pick is impossible, you can often get the demo or heavy by decloaking from height or a blind spot instead of strictly behind, where the pyro is more likely to be looking. So basically don't feel like you always need the med pick, and go for whatever you can get if you feel like you can get out alive or stuff their push (demo or heavy pick is almost as good as medic in that regard)\n\n* while the amby is really strong, so is the stock revolver if you can single out people with low health. I'd recommend work more on cloak management so you don't have to use l'étranger and being a decent revolver spy is pretty easy with some practice - you can go on pubs with DR and just shoot as many people as you can, or get good at scout, since the essentials are basically the same. At least for me, aiming for meatshots comes much more naturally than headshots.\n\n* if you're having a bad game in terms of frags it's never a bad idea to go cloak and dagger and focus on calls, and when a pick is needed ask someone in your team for a distraction that might net you a stab. Here in Europe the abundance of \"DM spies\" that prioritize their logs over anything made people forget about the intelligence aspect of spy but if you can give your team information that they wouldn't have otherwise, it's already a good thing.","835"],["this is not good because if one player has a strong game but the rest of his team lags behind and inevitably loses then the entire team is punished and said strong player is stopped from advancing until he gets lucky with the matchup. I think win/loss should be a part of MMR but individual stats should have an impact too.\n\nThis is especially true for classes like medic where even if you play to the best of your abilities, if you're on a team with wildly worse DM than the other you can't really do much to save them.","273"],["I was thinking of making my own video on this but it would be just cluttering the boards at this point.\n\nThe main thing for pyro balance is that his main weapon, the flamethrower, is the easiest to use primary of any class. No matter how much you talk about mojo and tracking you can't deny walking at someone and setting them on fire takes almost zero skill. A low-skilled mechanic needs to have a low reward (aka relatively low damage) to it, otherwise there would be no point in practising higher-skilled classes or weapons. Why be a scout and work on your aim if you can walk at people, not aim and do the same or better? That's why the flamethrower has weak damage. Of course this means once you master more skilled and powerful classes you'll destroy pyros, but that's pretty much how things work. To compensate for how dumb the flamethrower is valve added airblast and unlocks like degreaser/axe etc to change the way pyro is played from w+m1 basic but ineffective to playing around combos, reflects and your secondary, things that take a little more skill and make the reward for playing pyro a bit higher. And here's where <PERSON> and others start complaining about airblast, because unlike the flamethrower itself, it's an easy to use mechanic (reflects may be acceptably hard but pushing ubered players back is something even a guy who installed the game 20 minutes ago can do) that has a really high reward when you can deny an uber or a bomb. It is broken in that aspect, but it is compensated by how weak the damage output and mediocre the mobility is in the class.\n\nMy point here is if you consider skill vs reward trade-off then Pyro is balanced. Making him worse by nerfing degreaser or airblast itself would make him beyond useless and buffing other things would make him incredibly frustrating, at least at lower levels of play. If you think the class design is stupid, well I agree with you since it's a class with an ill-defined role, braindead and buggy mechanics and becomes almost irrelevant at high levels of play, but you can't really say it's broken. It's balanced in its own stupid, improvised way.\n\nIn my opinion if you want to change pyro little tweaks in numbers aren't enough, you have to change EVERYTHING about it. Starting with the flamethrower. Walking at people is too easy? Make it work like a Quake LG so you have to track people correctly and the range is fixed instead of being the network-dependent bullshit it is. Once you have an at least somewhat skill-based mechanic to work on you can work on the rewards. Maybe damage can rampup over time provided you track perfectly, and resets if you miss. Maybe the flamethrower damage bonus over degreaser can actually mean something so LG fanatics would take the flamethrower while combo and shotgun fans stick with degreaser. Maybe you can nerf airblast (stunlock should go regardless of other changes) or make it work differently on different flamethrowers. Maybe normal right clicking can work on projectiles but you have to charge it up to be able to push people like some people said. There are so many things you can do if you work on this skill vs reward trade-off.\n\nBut if Valve isn't willing to go all out on something like this, I prefer they leave pyro as it is. It's still a fun class that can do pretty flashy stuff when the stars align and trying to buff or nerf it based on a fundamentally bad design is to me a bad idea.","604"],["I don't hear people saying \"<PERSON> please buff pyro I can't kill anyone in my steel scrims\", I hear people talking about the current balance of pyro and how it could be improved both for playing as him or against him. I don't think having that discussion is robbing us pyro players of valuable time we could be spending getting better at pyro or changing mains to something else.\n\nIf anything I see a lot of pyro mains getting butthurt about how no one takes them seriously as players in the same way they take scout/soldier/demo/sniper mains seriously because of what the class is. Well I own up to it. I'm a bad player who plays a bad class. You still need one of us in your HL team though.","165"],["Couldn't we just switch bullet and explosive around so the DDS would have +25 health, +20% explosive resistance but +20% bullet vulnerability? That would leave you able to tank a lot of explosive spam and with a better chance of surviving bombs but you still get screwed by scouts and amby spies and doesn't really change much on sniper v sniper.","280"],["You can't flarepunch a pyro in normal conditions. You might be able to do it jumping off a high place like people used to do for axe crits before but not on the ground.\n\nIt's going to be a bit harder to pull off the usual degreaser flare combos but I think they'll be viable still, it's just that shotgun is so damn strong already. Degreaser/shotgun was already the meta in EU and now I think it is so even more, but maybe stock/shotgun is just as good now. Maybe even stock/detonator if you like long range spam. Who knows.\n\nThe axtinguisher is laughably bad, though, it legit feels like it takes a billion years to switch to it.\n\nedit - after <PERSON>'s reply I went on walkway a bit more and with 50-60 ping it seems to be possible, you just have to abuse the particle travel time to the limit. It's definitely harder though.","858"],["I would love this update if it were paired with a lightning gun-ish flamethrower (extremely reduced cone of flames, faster particle travel and fix your damn netcode so the mojo bullshit doesn't happen) that actually took some minimal amount of tracking to use well. Then it makes more sense to buff flamer damage, nerf degreaser combos while still keeping them okayish, and remove airblast stunlock.\n\nLike this I think it's just making w+m1 too easy and that's a playstyle that will never be fun for a pyro player, and for people going against the pyro it's either you mince him quickly from range or you're melted yourself which can't be too fun. The buff on stock damage is pretty crazy but the phlog is absolutely insane now.","484"],["It's kinda stupid because you shouldn't be penalized for catching an enemy off guard, and said enemy shouldn't be penalized for turning around and catching you. Not to mention encouraging w+m1 into the enemy's faces.\n\nNo, the only thing the phlog needs is the tough break changes to be reverted. Note that it *still ends up buffed* in that scenario, because of the lower flame damage falloff applying to all flamethrowers and the faster weapon switch which enables things like phlog/shotgun (a loadout which I like, or used to like anyway) to be a little more competitive even in HL scenarios.","128"],["it's 120 damage max. I agree with the comment though. I'm not sure whether the reserve shooter makes pyro too strong in a HL setting - it probably doesn't - but at this point it's clearly better than the shotgun, which is IMO a good measure to say it needs nerfing, since the shotgun is very strong itself and one of the most balanced weapons in the whole game.","280"],["The problem is more that \"carry snipers\" will often stay near the combo and be buffed to 185 on most key moments where a sniper pick is needed. That means you need two headshots to kill the sniper (at least, because he could still survive with continuous heals) and usually as soon as you get the first one you'll get attention from the enemy team and it will be really hard to finish him off before dying. Ideally as a spy you want to die for a combo class / engie nest, not *maybe* a sniper pick so with those combo snipers spies just kind of end up not going for it\n\n... unless they are literally amby gods and can effortlessly outdm a sniper from long range.","596"],["I think the real downfall of the vaccinator is inconsistency. There are situations where it can be really good but it's a hard weapon to use and so easy to counter when misused. Popped a bad uber? It's still an uber, enemy has to kite it at the very least. Popped a bad kritz? They still have to be careful that they don't get hit from across the map. But popping the wrong vacc resistance at the wrong time is the same thing as not having it at all, you just get minced.","266"],["I think a little bit like overwatch is doing, you'll have to forget about the concept of \"maining\" one class. There aren't going to be class-specific ranks, just global ones, and it's likely you have to change classes within a game. So while you might get away with playing only medic all the time because not a lot of people are going to want to play him, you're encouraged to get at least decent at every class.","960"],["Yeah, the switch speed from stock to reserve shooter is basically the same as degreaser to shotgun. The switch back is slower, though, which might make a difference towards weapon heckling soldiers and stuff like that. Still an almost straight upgrade in a lot of circumstances, but the reserve shooter won't get unbanned until a further nerf (well, in UGC anyway. I wouldn't be so sure about ETF2L because they've been pushing hard towards allowing almost everything). Bring back the clip of 3? idk \n\nAs far as stock flamethrower on its own, I'm gonna go ahead and say stock/shotgun is *decent*. Worse than degreaser in aggressive play but not by a lot, and it can help you out if you're the kind of guy that will try to peek in for quick damage and back out, as stock afterburn is pretty decent in discouraging a push without medic or health kit. \n\nIf you're a degreaser flare player this doesn't make a difference as if you hit a crit flare you'll have stock afterburn anyway, but I think flare mains have their days numbered. Shotgun was already way better DPS-wise before the update and now it's even more noticeable with flare combos made just that little smidge easier to dodge.","280"],["If you're in dm or mge your brain is entirely focused on aiming and mechanics, whereas in scrims you are actively thinking about the current game situation, your team's calls, plans for the next play to make, etc so all of that can be a little overwhelming. I think it's normal to be a little worse in the actual game than in training modes, so account for that and don't rely on your DM to get you out of bad situations just because you could do it on the dm server. Although, you shouldn't be doing that anyway.\n\nAlso it can be stress-related. Do you feel yourself getting nervous in games?","539"],["I liked cp_powerhouse for being a map that somehow wills people on to tryhard and actually care for the objective, something few maps achieve in pubs. Also the 3CP map has some much more dynamic and interesting tug-of-war mechanics than 5CP (again, for pubs. competitive is a different story although I'd love to see this map tested in sixes), where rounds seem to go into either absolute rolls or one team endlessly stuck in their own last with several sentries. You actually see a lot of powerhouse rounds going from one team's last to the other and then back, and every time someone starts a cap it's a tense moment.\n\nI also oddly liked mannpower. I don't play it super often and I think people are right in not taking it seriously as a gamemode but it's crazy, wacky, fun, and gives certain classes opportunities that they won't have in the real game, divebombing with a minigun as heavy, all sorts of airstab shenanigans on spy, the true powerhouse that is vampire pyro.","551"],["Some EU prem players were discussing it in twitch chat yesterday and the spies' opinions came down to \"we have the amby, we don't need to stab them\". Probably a little bit of ego talking, but we're talking about spies that regularly get more headshots than the snipers in logs and will have no issue getting a double headshot on a sniper and DR out, so maybe that's the answer?\n\nPersonally I dislike that answer because it puts stock revolver users at a big disadvantage, but what do I know, I play pyro and by definition that means I can't aim.","280"],["I'm a pyro main and I voted pyro. Essentially, this is the class that would change the game the least if it were removed right now, as it doesn't have a defined role beyond denying other classes' abilities and incorporating weaker versions of said abilities through unlocks. What would tf2 be without pyros?\n\n* pubs: probably the beginner players who w+m1 around would default to heavy, medic or engineer. Would spy be a problem? No more than now. Pub pyros rarely commit themselves to spychecking, either they're too brainless to do it or don't care for it because getting kills is more fun. If anything people might learn to actually look for spies themselves instead of relying on another class to do that and only that.\n\n* 6s pyro is barely even a thing, it helps defending last on a couple of maps but the guy who would normally go pyro in those circumstances is probably fine taking heavy, engineer if there's enough time for it, or just not offclassing at all. If anything the game would be faster.\n\n* In highlander, apart from the fact that it's 8v8 now, I don't think that much changes. Pyro is a low frag, low damage class except in very exceptional circumstances (or you are a god with the shotgun, in which case you would be better off playing scout). A lot of pushes are made easier because denying ubers is harder, possibly some demos equip loose cannon to try and replicate it in some points (badwater 1st cliff hold for example). Scouts and soldiers rotate to the combo more often because there's extra heals available to them and they participate in ubers more. Bad teams are ravaged by spies but good teams adapt quickly and their flank classes and heavy become more responsible for spychecking - milk becomes a must for scouts. While spy is definitely better off, he's not left overpowered by any means except against teams with really bad awareness. Gun spies are not countered by pyros as it is, and knife spies are countered by team awareness, although a pyro makes it easier.\n\nNot that much of a difference. Plus everyone hates pyro. Even pyros hate pyro - it's the most glitchy and inconsistent class in the game and that makes it just as unfun to play as it is to play against. It's just everything that could go wrong in game design, gone wrong.","952"],["Removing engie would make payload and attack/defence into almost irrelevant gamemodes. You would just have blu team's flanks constantly suiciding in until they have a force or a couple of picks and that would almost entirely guarantee a successful push, thanks to faster spawns and no sentry to destroy. It also makes uber less of an issue because once again with number advantage you should be able to win a push without waiting for uber, while if there's a sentry and the engie can keep it safe from long range spam, blu team pretty much has to wait for uber.\n\nEngie is definitely unfun to go against in pubs but he's a key part of defending and the game needs him.","128"],["Yeah, it would be completely different from what it is now, but unless there were other changes designed to fill in for the lack of a medic, it would be a much worse game. Medic is one of the few things that truly enforce teamwork in tf2 as you need to protect him and push together with ubercharge. Without him, the game becomes incredibly more DM-based and players are less aggressive because of no overheals and no easy way to get health back if you're hurt. Also some engineer holds would become almost unbreakable (although removing the wrangler could probably fix this).\n\nI could see tf2 without a medic class but there would have to be items added to other classes that incorporated his role in some ways. The sniper could be given the crossbow as a secondary so he can heal people from his normal spots, soldier could have a banner that heals people around him when popped, and of course items like the mad milk, sandvich and the dispenser would play a massive role, maybe with some changes to them. (maybe the sandvich regens quicker or heavy can throw more than one to his team) Hell, maybe you could apply MvM uber and kritz canteens on the normal game, subject to cooldowns instead of buying them? I feel we're getting too much into Overwatch realm though.","533"],["The thing that I would like to see on sniper is quickscopes nerfed. The game needs a long range class to break certain stalemates with key picks and police sightlines, but quickscoping helps them put out some crazy damage and makes them unnecessarily strong in medium to short range. Valve created the charge shot mechanic to discourage quickscoping in favour of holding sightlines and yeah, \"camping\", but they didn't realize how much damage 150 is.\n\nRight now there's a 0.2 second delay between your pressing m2 and actually being able to get a headshot, increase that to 0.5 and suddenly a sniper who isn't already scoped becomes much less scary. If you get killed by a sniper hardscoping it's your own damn fault, but he shouldn't be able to jump out of a corner and OHK your medic before anyone can reasonably kill him.\n\nAlso sniper v sniper would be less of a second-scoping shitfest and more about outpositioning the other sniper.","280"],["Depends on what valve changes between now and MM going actually live. While I heavily doubt they'll introduce any weapon bans since part of their goal is using MM data to balance weapons, there are other things like the map pool and class limits that are far from being decided.\n\nYou can debate about what unlocks are good/op assuming things stay as they are, but when people start running crit-a-cola all the time on scout or the danger shield on sniper they will surely ponder nerfing these items.\n\nI don't think MM will have a strict \"meta\" though. The skill level will be pretty low except maybe at the very highest ranks, and you'll have people basically doing what they want, with varying results. There will be pyro/spy/engie/heavy/sniper mains trying their hardest to rank up as those classes, groups of friends queuing up and playing with whatever goofy strats they want, and probably a good amount of rock/paper/scissors class changes depending on what the good players are on each team.","533"],["Meta is the same as always, nothing too dramatic was changed apart from the small DR buff which makes it about as good as it was before the gun mettle nerf IMO.\n\nDR is good at complimenting a gun-heavy harassment playstyle, especially with the amby, IW is good at roaming and taking the picks you can get, CnD is good at looking for key picks on stalemates.","1023"],["I made my first team with the same friend that introduced me to tf2, him as heavy and me as medic. He brought most of the people in because at the time I had almost no connections in the community but he did, and we fumbled around to 4-4 in Euro Steel back when Iron didn't exist. Unfortunately we didn't get along as well in-game as we did IRL and <PERSON> was really bad so the team ended after that season (along with some people leaving tf2 for Dota).\n\nStupid fact: my username is that team's tag together with the alias I went by back then... don't pick usernames like that, guys, especially when you can't change them.","915"],["The main tip I can give from the 4s I've played is people must play together. With only 4 players, if one of them decides to run around behind enemy lines you're left with 2v3 in fighting classes if the enemy decides to push together on you. While someone (usually scout or gunboats solly) should watch the flank when holding the point, he should stay within LOS of the medic and get healed as often as possible since the maps are small enough to do that.\n\nAlso quick-fix and vaccinator are both banned so you're stuck with either kritz or uber, kritz is great if you can use advantages effectively but uber is the safest option in general, especially for holding.","464"],["Yeah, you can pickup mediguns with full uber which is really stupid, but this is banned or disabled from every comp league so you shouldn't have to worry about it.\n\ntf2center is alive and well although there are people developing an alternative site called tf2stadium hoping to provide a better service. that's still in construction though. If you're higher level there's tf2pickup in europe and tf2pug.me in NA.\n\nLoose cannon is definitely not as good but it's still usable. The reduced knockback does make it hard to deny ubers but at the same time it makes it slightly easier to time doubledonks, since it's less likely the target will be pushed away from the explosion. From what I've seen in streams and stuff people seem to be experimenting with the wee booties because of the 10% speed boost they give along with extra health. Quickiebombs are also seeing use but they're more questionable I guess.\n\nAlso seeing people using vaccinator in 6s but I can't really tell if it's useful or just a gimmick play.","104"],["yeah, as a guy who doesn't play much demo I love the quickiebombs because I'm shit at actual stickies lol. But in general it feels a lot easier to both sticky snipe in long range with the faster charge, and fight people at really close range because you can shoot at their feet and nearly insta-det. Medium range is going to be better with stickies though. I think.","280"],["Nice vid, you should show this to EU prem medics 8).\n\nOne thing that also helps in terms of predicting spy moments is knowing what your pyro is doing. While over-relying on pyro for spychecking is bad, spies will try to avoid him when going for plays if at all possible. The most obvious example is making a play when the pyro dies, but also when they push with uber, you don't have it yet and the pyro is committed to airblasting them? spy's almost 100% sure to attack if he's in position. I've lost so many medics to that shit.","835"],["I had a soft spot for the kunai before but since its gun mettle buff, together with the cloak and dagger buff, I think kunai/cnd/l'étranger is the best loadout for most pubs. There's always someone to stab, and l'étranger's cloak buff and the ability to refill it with ammo packs means there's no disadvantage in running CnD compared to IW. Plus it makes escaping super easy. Health buff, ability to hide forever, and you get cloak on kill by picking up the person's ammo box as well.","389"],["I would put it differently - when the show came out and it was about these cooky characters going through life as nerdy scientists with poor social skills I thought it was pretty good. <PERSON> is a great character and <PERSON> is a great actor. <PERSON> can be adorable when he's not a total dick for no reason. <PERSON> is pretty gross but he's alright to laugh at. And <PERSON> while not being the most interesting of the lot, he's super easy to identify with because deep down you know he's just a normal guy living a very unusual life.\n\nShow went to shit when they started getting everyone paired up and it became like 99% of sitcoms, a show about relationships with the same jokes about relationships that every other damn sitcom uses. There is one sitcom that pulled that shit off and it was Friends, stop trying to shoehorn it into every fucking show you write.","297"],["I wouldn't say that giving the pyro (arguably the least impactful class in hl in almost every scenario) +20 health while taking more than that from each enemy you tag is a bad trade in any way.\n\nNot to mention that if the pyro is full or buffed he's not going to get any extra health, and he shouldn't be going aggressive without a buff, so at most you're saving the enemy medic a couple of seconds of pyro heals here and there. But you can ruin everyone's crit heals, harrass snipers, and make people in the flank retreat to their medics and pyros... can work in a very very stalematey game or passive playstyle - aka if you're just using your det spam on the breaks from spychecking.\n\nOf course for any sort of head-to-head combat you'll want shotgun or flare.\n\nOr if you want to play like TMP but just read his comment below if that's the case.","559"],["The axtinguisher has the eternal problem of being a very annoying weapon to be killed by when it works, but at the same time being very rarely useful against good players. On the other hand, the powerjack's upside of speed bonus is so incredibly good for a class that desperately thirsts for mobility that it's hard to give it up for anything.\n\nI would personally rebalance most of the pyro melee weapons. As follows:\n\n* Axtinguisher: the current design has the right idea but the weapon switch penalty is overkill. change it from 75% from 25% while keeping everything else and you have a fairly effective emergency weapon to kill anything up to medics (and other classes with enough m1) when you're out of ammo on your shotgun or you whiff the flareshot.\n\n* Powerjack: I want the Gas Jockey design to come back. +10% speed at all times but +10% bullet damage vulnerability at all times. I felt this design actually gave some counterplay to the item, whereas with the current one you can avoid the downside entirely by not having the weapon out when you're at risk of getting shot - which is trivial with the degreaser. This way you have to equate whether it's worth it to be even squishier to hitscan classes (for example getting 3-shot by a revolver spy) to gain the extra speed, which in this model can give you bigger reflect jumps (look at professor gentleman's videos) and still make you faster than a medic.\n\n* Back Scratcher: I feel this one could be balanced by changing the -75% health from healers to something like 35%. The upside is super useful for roaming but in any HL situation it's pointless because a pyro who can't be healed is a very dead pyro, and you can't even get a buff to go roam. A number like 35% discourages tanking the pyro in head-on attacks but encourages him to get a buff, go on the flank, retreat if he takes too much damage and wait for crit heals to get another buff. Oh and remove the damage bonus, it's kind of pointless.\n\n* Homewrecker: Sapper removal is nice and all but let's face it, it's very rarely useful against people who understand the concept of spamming a sentry while it's being sapped. Anyone who's played HL knows the concept of the coordinated sap. I'd give it a small incentive to be run offensively against buildings: -50% knockback from sentries while active. It could make for some interesting pyro ubers.\n\n* Third Degree: fun concept but mostly useless so I'm going to throw a crazy idea: on hit, instead of damaging people connected by medibeams, it damages everyone you've set on fire at a given time. It would be a nice weapon to run into a cluster of people and try to finish one or two (or more?) with melee once they've caught on to you. Downsides I'm going to say 20% slower swing rate and no random crits (since a crit on this thing would be absolutely ridiculous... something to try with the kritzkrieg for fun, but not random).","280"],["* Neon: make it 2x damage against sappers (but not other buildings) so it can be used as sapper remover with no disadvantage, while maintaining the little niche of crits on wet players.\n\n* Volcano Fragment: there needs to be an advantage to this weapon over just using the flamethrower to set someone on fire, and since it's crafted out of bloody *lava*, why would a simple hazmat suit stop the burn? New stat, can inflict afterburn on pyros. For the die-hard flare pyro that is getting killed by shotgun users and wants a way of getting back at them. axe into flare for the kill. A *good* shotgun pyro will still airblast you out of melee range but if you can get a flank on you can work it out. [edit - it could be a general stat of ignoring fire resistances such as the demo shields or even the vaccinator]","276"],["Scorch shot can put out some serious damage at range if you can get to a high ground and start shooting the ground, not to mention the potential for 50 damage double hits on directs. In ashville it's fun to jump on one of the rooftops and start spamming. Then there's the knockback which isn't always useful but in places like steel it can work pretty well (although it's kind of redundant since loose cannon exists).\n\nDetonator is consistently better at flare spamming if you don't have height advantage, though. It also has a better jump which you can use offensively sometimes.\n\nStill... shotgun exists so all of this is irrelevant","596"],["SIN's channel used to be pretty good when it was competitive highlights and frags way back when, and I think he's trying to redeem himself a little by letting people host competitive segments (such as \"backcap\" or \"on the point\") on his channel, since it brings a lot of visibility that they wouldn't normally get, but the guy figured out where the money was and turned it into a marketable shitfest.\n\nSo well. Treat it for what it is. I stay subscribed because every now and then he publicizes fun youtubers like <PERSON> and TooManyMoths among others and then you can just go and subscribe to them. It's not all bad.\n\n(also if you want to watch backcap follow /user/Shounic on youtube, the segments go there before SIN)","317"],["A lot of people here are talking about their shotgun aim and whatnot but I thought gunboats pocket was more or less *the meta* now? Or is it only so in the higher tiers?\n\nFor me the few times I've tried pocket in mixes I always have that doubt because my shotgun is decent (I play more hitscan classes than anything... pyro these days is basically a shotgun class) but my jumps are so awful that I end up taking gunboats so I can afford to fuck them up and not be left at half health in the middle of nowhere.","280"],["The most unsettling thing to me when I started playing 6s is how much harder you're punished for overextending even a little. In highlander you have two classes that can chase a scout down if he gets too far off his team, in 6's you have 4 and they WILL jump you down to get a player advantage. You'll have to train yourself to back away from fights a couple seconds earlier than you're used to. Also, always take a buff before fighting (although you should have been doing that in HL too) and don't fight alone if you can avoid it.","464"],["I think it's balanced, I don't personally like it though. The movement thing seems more like a crutch than anything, if your tracking is good you ought to kill those bombers and scouts with any minigun. And you lose so much damage...\n\nCompare to the tomislav, which reduces two of the heavy's biggest downsides, spin-up time and accuracy at medium range, and the minigun which has a massive damage output in close range situations without sacrificing too much for it.\n\nHell, even the brass beast is more attractive to me because of how much raw unbridled damage you can put out in specific situations","280"],["It depends - maybe some parents would prefer to give the sex talk themselves, which is understandable. The problem is that I imagine a lot of the parents wanting to remove their children from sex ed simply don't want their kids to learn about it at all, or want them to know only the heavily altered and abridged version their religion or belief system allows them to.\n\nIt's a question to be looked into, how much say should the parents have? Because some of them might have reasonable qualms about the curriculum of the class and so on, and some might feel their kids will feel more comfortable discussing those things with them rather than people at school?\n\nEither way I don't like <PERSON> but I don't think he should be crucified because of this particular decision.","782"],["Matchmaking is being implemented because regardless of how many people may think ill of it, that it's a joke, useless etc, competitive tf2 *exists*, and it's become a big enough part of the game's community that Valve is willing to invest a little bit in it. The goal is not to change the philosophy of tf2 as a whole, it's just to raise awareness of the comp community and help it grow a little. The mode itself probably won't be much more than a ranked pub but it's the marketing of leagues and their players that comes with it - hopefully attracting more players to join ESEA, ETF2L, UGC etc.\n\nOf course you make good points about the various glitches, bugs, balance and performance issues in TF2 but we have been promised that Valve will work on those along with the gradual introduction and improvement of MM, and MM is partly a way of assessing what needs to be changed, mostly in terms of balance but also performance.","383"],["I'm pretty sure TF2 as a pub game doesn't care about Overwatch, it's just another game which is way, way different from TF2 even if you can attach the words \"class-based shooter\" onto it. The competitive scene is suffering a bit with a lot of the best players being interested and/or already committed to OW, but Valve's matchmaking isn't them being scared about their game losing popularity, it's throwing a bone to their dedicated competitive community, I think.","702"],["Well if you're finding yourself alone in a lot of situations it might be worth it to use the escape plan, but there's something wrong with your flank's cohesion if that happens. Ideally if you have at least one teammate near you whipping should be almost always better. Whip jumps are also pretty great, you can whack your heavy once when getting buffed and do a massive bomb.","835"],["To me it always felt like the main gripe against w+m1 pyro is that it takes more skill and gamesense to counter him than to play him. Sure, a skilled player is way more powerful than anything w+m1 can do but with the few times you will get killed by it in a pub (it's pretty much an inevitability because pubs are random and unpredictable so eventually you'll get PYRO OUT OF NOWHERE) you'll be mad because it took no effort from him to get that kill, but it takes effort and at least a minimal amount of aim from you to kill him.","266"],["As a spy you should find a good angle and go for the headshots. It might be hard to kill him if he's getting buffed but you may at least distract him and make the job easier for your sniper. Make sure you tell your team you're pressuring the sniper so yours might take the opening to finish him off.\n\nIf you can get him off of 185 health for long enough that your sniper can peek with his own buff and get a bodyshot kill, he doesn't have to be very good to do that.","917"],["I'm still waiting for a beast shortstop scout to arise because it could theoretically be really good as a pocket scout with amazing tracking... but usually in tf2 burst damage is better than damage over time and the scattergun has a much better burst if you work on your movement to get close.\n\nThat said it's so scary that one time you run into a shortstop scout as a soldier and he just nails all 4 shots and kills you instantly without even being point blank.","280"],["I'm gonna go against the grain and say you shouldn't play in tf2center the same way you'd play in an actual comp game. Teams are disorganized, there are little comms, and a lot of the players really aren't that good. You'll learn a lot more from trying to take as many fights and grab as many kills as possible while understanding your limits and keeping yourself alive than just hugging your medic and spychecking the whole time (obviously if their spy is doing a lot of work don't let him get away with it though).\n\nYou'd be surprised at how much you can accomplish. It's not impossible to be on the top 3 of frags in your team pretty much every game when you get to a certain level of DM. It's tf2center, it's chaotic, and pyros benefit from that. To adjust your play to actual highlander with proper teams, play scrims, but you can learn a lot from lobbies if you know what to focus on.","332"],["Well... when I first got tf2 I clocked several hours offline with bots because I had no experience in shooters at all and was worried about all of those things you say. Then I mained medic for like a year because it was the one class that could be almost immediately useful in a pub without people noticing my lack of mechanical skill. I did get quite a bit of shit from certain people here and then, get really frustrated, leave servers where I was getting bitched at, but since those were isolated incidents they didn't deter me overall. And yeah, I ended up joining comp and playing with a lot of great people and some idiots.\n\nI think the best thing you can do to improve the community is try to be a positive part of it yourself. You can't convince the toxic players to change their attitudes, they have to realize that themselves, but you can be a friendly player and hopefully tip the balance a bit in that direction. If I was running into nothing but idiots back in 2012 I'd have quit tf2 for sure, but there were good people who helped me out and motivated me to stay. Not everyone will have that luck, and maybe it's worse now than back then, I don't know. But if you are that friendly person to a couple of newbies it might make a difference.\n\nAs far as your friends and family I think there isn't much to it besides just playing with them and showing them the ropes. I actually think playing a couple of games vs bots before jumping into a random pub is a good idea if they have absolutely zero idea about this kind of games. Just don't get stuck in there for weeks like I was :7 My best friend taught me all the basics of tf2 and was my pocket heavy for a long time. Funnily enough he doesn't play anymore but I do...\n\nAlso I still find comp stressful after over 3 years in it. Different people handle situations differently and if you're susceptible to nerves and tilting IRL you will be in game as well. Doesn't mean it can't be fun. idk if that helps.","454"],["It doesn't need a buff. It has been shown to be insanely powerful in coordinated situations, having been banned in 6s after a few games of use because you could immediately call the peed player and have your team chase him for an easy frag. The only reason why it's not powerful in highlander as well is because the sydney sniper is hard-countered by any competent stock sniper.\n\nAs far as pubs the same logic applies. You can pretty easily wreak havoc with this gun (even without that much coordination, as a peed player usually will have to retreat) if there isn't a good sniper on the other team hitting headshots on you. If there is, you're fucked, but that's why you can switch to a different unlock or class.","128"],["Still don't think this should be banned. So you get a worse version of airblast for <PERSON> that allows him to be a little more aggressive when using minis while denying spam? Might as well ban the entire pyro class, then.\n\nBesides I guess you might have been checking how much you could push it just by deleting rockets, but when he jumped you and you deleted that first rocket you could have just taken the shotgun and murdered him. The rest may make the SC look like a broken piece of shit but it was really just an insult-to-injury situation.\n\nI don't know, I think it's adding something to a class that doesn't have much going for it in a lot of situations.","280"],["I imagine some people will use this video to support that \"skill-equalizer\" argument in favour of random crits (even if it's just a fun animation). Is the game more fun as a new player if you can get a random crit and kill the way more experienced player that demolished you the past 5 times you saw him? Probably. But I think even as a new player you understand that you didn't really deserve that kill, it was luck. At least as soon as you understand what random crits are. I wouldn't be surprised if some folks would associate them with headshots on weapons that actually don't have them, for example.","604"],["As a Portuguese, that's basically what we are. Despite the amount of Portuguese people being successful in life, they usually do so abroad because of the lack of support to do so here. We have low investment from the government in a lot of areas but it's particularly bad in STEM, and it's hard to get innovation and entrepreneurship supported. More and more people have college degrees but the percentage of those graduates who run into unemployment is depressingly high. Unemployment in itself is one of the biggest problems the country has - with how difficult it is to create and maintain a business, we end up with a lack of job placements to give people who need them.\n\nCombined with that, the population is aging dramatically, faster than most countries in Europe, the workforce is diminishing, living wage for most is disproportionally low in comparison to cost of living, so it becomes too expensive for people to invest in culture, art, and entertainment beyond the bare basics. It's a country where paradoxically we have some of the highest working hours in Europe but lowest productivity.\n\nI feel like there is still a nationally imprinted nostalgia of the Renaissance era, when Portugal was in fact an empire, combined with a certain defeatism that we are a small, mediocre country, destined to do nothing but mediocre things. We complain about our politicians, but don't identify ourselves with the few people who step in to shake up the two-party system we have around here. \n\nI think in the end the Portuguese citizen has a certain stoicism that ends up being hurtful. We complain a lot about things to each other (it's one of the easiest ways of bonding with random folks around here) but at the same time we end up accepting them because \"tem de ser\". It has to be. It's a mentality that is extremely hard to escape while being here. So the people who have the drive and the means end up leaving. Those who stay end up getting sucked in.","685"],["It's weird because the portuguese have a history of insurgence against authority and being a really hard people to keep down. We've been invaded by pretty much everyone you can imagine from the Arabs to <PERSON> and fought them all back (except for a period of 60 years under Spanish rule) and more recently the people revolted against a fascist regime of nearly 50 years. But I think right now it's not clear who the enemy is, which is the big difference. No outside invader, no authoritarian regime, just a half-dead democracy with widespread corruption and a general apathy over the state of things. But I guess that's just the 21st century for you.","685"],["Stock was completely irrelevant before, now it's just like 90% irrelevant. It's certainly better than it was before since there was an overall switch speed buff to every weapon, and the damage falloff buff also helps it a bit more than the degreaser since using stock tends to imply that you use a lot of your m1 for damage. Thing is, degreaser has that exact same damage with better switch speed so it's better in most circumstances.\n\nNow stock can be better at two things: \n\n* running into several people holding m1 and hoping afterburn actually does something. How many times have you seen this work in HL? Yeah. Still, it could be something to think of for desperation pushes when people are clustered on a point or cart.\n\n* hardcore spamming of m2. People suggest it for sixes because that's basically the only thing a pyro is ever useful for in sixes. But in HL you should just manage your ammo so you don't need that many airblasts.","484"],["The problem isn't people \"playing all classes\", it's people who main some of those utility classes (like me, sadly) and either don't enjoy or haven't taken the time to get decent at the generalist classes. I think MM teaches a valuable lesson to all newcomers - you can't get away with playing just one class all the time. You have to be versatile and switch when necessary. And while you might be able to get away with playing scout/soldier/demo/medic most of the time, you won't really want 4 scouts or 4 medics so at some point you will have to switch. And pyro/heavy/engie/spy/sniper are situational and not something you want to \"main\" *ever*, or you'll be stuck only being able to play highlander, as that class. I realized that too late. \n\nBut I think MM will help people understand that. Good at TF2 means good at every class and being able to play it all in a pinch.","952"],["I actually did get two games in before the GC crashed, but it seems I was pretty lucky. The only problem was FPS with the perf config being blocked, went from a comfortable 100+ FPS in the normal game to sometimes less than 30 in fights and being almost unable to play scout.\n\nFingers crossed for big time performance update, boys and girls.","672"],["Do you have some steam friends you play with regularly? Maybe it's time for you to make a team, and get people who you trust to stick around and feel comfortable playing with. \n\nWhat a lot of leaders do, which is trying to pick up the highest skilled players they can find without regard to their synergy or commitment, usually doesn't work. What tends to happen is that these higher skilled players expect very good results immediately and if this doesn't happen they'll leave, because they don't have any particular interest in playing with you, they just joined because they hoped to get wins. (or they will convince the leaders to cut players that they don't feel are performing, which feels bad to everyone involved and leads to instability in the team.)\n\nBottom line surround yourself with people who will want to play with you regardless of wins or losses, make a team with them, and you shouldn't have this problem.","539"],["Your point about disguises doesn't make that much sense because a lot of people don't use cosmetics, especially in comp. For that sniper example people will figure you're a spy not because of cosmetics, but because you will be walking around and not scoping in. If you don't want to be called as a spy, just make sure you're cloaked before they can see you, people rarely expect the spy in 6s anyway.\n\nPlayer outlines: agreed, I wish they hadn't been added in the first place, but they definitely shouldn't show for spies.\n\nEnforcer: meh, this gun went from blatantly overpowered to mostly useless. It would be nice to come up with new stats that made it interesting, but not necessarily a priority.\n\nThe DR last hit bug has in fact been fixed, but it would be nice if they fixed inconsistencies with hitsounds playing on DR triggers. You'll notice that most of the times a DR trigger doesn't play a hitsound, but I've had legit kills without hitsounds and DR \"kills\" with hitsounds... I think the spy being in the middle of disguising causes some weird shit to happen there. A hitsound should play regardless of whether it's a DR or not.","791"],["It's basically a meme that he's happy to be a part of because he's a nice guy and loves the community.\n\nFact is he likes to do weird gimmicky shit in mixes and scrims when it doesn't really matter, and tends to throw and otherwise be silly when that happens, but in officials when it really matters he's usually good. Not *the best*, but good. <PERSON> wouldn't be where they are if he was as much of a trashcan as people tend to say.\n\ntl;dr just a meme bro","778"],["I would believe that if highlander does happen, it will be with classlimit 1, as it's not their main project and more of an afterthought dedicated to HL players. Valve wants to create their own meta of 6v6 because they don't feel like the current gamemode played by leagues translates well to the \"transition from pubs\" they're looking for in matchmaking (even if it's arguably the best competitive mode - CS matchmaking is different from CS league play, although they're both 5v5).\n\nIn comparison while HL isn't viable as a prospective e-sport, it transitions nicely from pubs, is barely affected by a lack of whitelist and offers people opportunities to play every class. So when they get around to dealing with the technical issues behind 9v9 MM, I'm pretty convinced it will be with classlimit 1 because, why change it?","383"],["I would say probably. 6s MM is purposefully not imposing the restrictions of normal 6s because it's the *main* gamemode and the one with e-sport potential, Valve wants to use it to advertise competitive to pubbers, and therefore it needs to be easily accessible to them. Normal 6s doesn't necessarily achieve that (in Valve's eyes).\n\n9v9 will most likely be an afterthought directed to HL enthusiasts, so I imagine Valve won't be so interested in changing things. One of each class is something any player can understand.","880"],["IMO medic is fun when you get to be in the thick of maincalling and orchestrating your team's pushes and whatnot, because you really feel in control of what's happening with your team in a way that no other class really can. If you're just a mobile dispenser following what your pocket says and trying not to die (which is what I basically did back when I played it) it gets pretty boring and rage-inducing. I'm not that good at calling so I just stopped playing med.","194"],["The few times it was run in 6s showed that the sydney is still incredibly powerful even without headshots. The only reason it's not run in highlander is that it's hard-countered by a stock sniper.\n\nI do agree with you (and a lot of people) that sniper's influence in HL is too high in a way that makes the game less fun to everyone. Unfortunately I don't think banning unlocks really changes anything. UGC tried banning the Machina but the stock is plenty powerful on its own, and ETF2L had a cup with the razorback banned, which in theory is pretty good to return the role of hard counter to the spy, but spies were already pretty capable of gunning down a sniper when he's not in the combo, and stabbing them isn't exactly a piece of cake if he is there with people checking their backs and a pyro furiously flaming near him.\n\nI'm thinking that the only way this sniper meta would change is a Valve nerf on the stock rifle's mechanics, but that would be risky. How do you do that and not ruin the class entirely, especially when it's one of the highest skill ceiling classes and it balances perfectly in 6v6 which is the primary gamemode for comp?\n\nMost people will say that sniper's dominance in HL is a problem of HL and not the class, anyway.","280"],["It's not just that ESEA lan, it was also legal in UGC 6's for at least one season before even they had to ban it. \n\nPlus you can also take evidence from matchmaking. What is everyone running atm? I see some stock meds here and there but the vast majority is quick-fix and sometimes you see the double vaccinator because you can actually run two meds there and vacc's downsides are pretty much negated if you can have two.","599"],["The quick fix runs into some troubles in highlander because it's considerably easier to focus fire the charged combo when you have 9 players in a team, and two of them are spy and sniper, and there might be a sentry if you're on offence. It's still good in koth though, at least in EU viaduct teams like to bring it out a lot.\n\nQuick-fix is better the less players are on a team, which is why it's banned in all sixes leagues and even 4v4. You can't deny how powerful it is on a midfight situation when you can get to mid faster as med and put out 33% more heals than the uber med.","104"],["I kind of like the PD concept more than RD. It ends up being mostly team deathmatch but it's a simple and effective gamemode that tf2 doesn't have.\n\nThe existing PD map, watergate, isn't the greatest from a comp perspective because there's too much height to be abused by jumping classes and the sightlines are enormous on the center area, but you could do a good PD map by having a sort of koth layout, having players get points from kills and then use the control point to drop those points off, so it's basically TDM with a koth element. I think that could be good.","551"],["For me it mostly comes down to\n\n* in chaotic situations where people are skirmishing all over the map and more likely to be distracted or hurt, gunspy is really really good. This includes stuff like koth maps, 5cp mids, or messy last holds in payload where everyone is rushing the cart. Not only you can pick off hurt targets very easily with little risk, you're more likely to get stabs if you take distractions, even using the DR.\n\n* but when it comes to stalemate situations like a good hold in payload or a 5cp last, you almost always want to go for either a combo pick or sentry sap, and gunspy won't do the trick because even if you get a headshot, the person in question will probably get healed up. Better to go invis/cnd and pick your spot. Even if you do nothing but sap the sentry it's a big favour to your team.","964"],["You should ask <PERSON>, he's the only spy I know that uses it regularly. I think the mindset is that it makes it a bit easier to clean up on hurt players - if you're even at medium range and they're around 100 health you'll get a 2 shot kill. This also includes the unbuffed razorback sniper because sure, you can kill him in 3 shots with default but most snipers turn around and start dodging (or hit a rage-inducing quickscope) at the second shot so you might want to have that 2 shot kill. Even the most heal-happy of snipers won't be always buffed.\n\nBut I think most people would consider the default revolver more reliable because of the faster fire rate, and the amby opens possibilities that no other gun has.","280"],["koth_king is pretty underrated, I think its only major issues are lighting and overabundance of props.\n\nHarvest would need its spawn areas heavily changed, as spawncamping with demo/soldier when you gain control of the enemy roof is a piece of cake. I do think it would have potential, though.\n\nBarnblitz should be updated to the barnblitz_pro we use in ETF2L highlander, even though I don't really like that map.\n\nHighpass doesn't seem bad, I'd be down with it. If the only criticism is it not doing anything particularly better than lakeside or product maybe it could be brought in just for the sake of map variety.\n\nMaybe Vanguard? The current official version solved some of the problems it had in UGC, I think. I enjoy it atm.\n\nAlso I actually really like ctf_landfall apart from the fact that it's CTF. I think a KOTH version of it would be perfectly viable.","533"],["http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/not-all-practice-makes-perfect\n\nBasically not all practice is good practice. Even if you spend hundreds or thousands of hours in something, if you're always doing the same things mechanically without analysing your mistakes and challenging your methods, you're not going to improve beyond a certain level.\n\nMore than grinding hours, the important thing is to understand why you're dying and what you did wrong, and work on fixing specifically those mistakes. What everyone else said about fixing short term goals is also true. Take each bad habit you identify and work it away, one by one. Hard time dodging rockets? Go MGE with a soldier friend and don't even shoot him, just try to survive as he shoots you. Aim with keyboard too much instead of the mouse? Play a slower class like engie with the shotgun and force yourself to move the mouse. Flick too much? Go on tr_walkway and practice holding the crosshair on a target as you move. Overextend too much? Make a point of not taking any fight without teammates and/or a buff until you get a good sense of when you can risk it. Baby steps, as they say.\n\nThere's also some gain to be had on better hardware (mouse, keyboard, monitor, pc that gives you good framerate) but don't expect miracles past the very basics of a setup.\n\nAnd of course, it's a game, different people have different skills, and not everyone can be the best. I've spent more time in TF2 than any sane person would but I acknowledge I'm pretty shit*. Don't give up, but keep some perspective.\n\n* in fact a lot of the reason why I'm shit, I think, has to do with spending too much time playing pyro instead of using other classes to challenge and improve my DM.","464"],["I don't expect or want matchmaking to have the same ruleset as 6v6, but right now they need to adjust it to make it less of a shitfest. This means rebalancing the overpowered or fun-ruining weapons and most likely introduce class limits, since stacking certain classes makes the game really unfun (heavies, demos, engies, medics most notoriously). It should be either 2 of each or 2 of each but only 1 medic. I'm still unsure whether 2 medics is invariably superior to just one, because you're only fielding 4 damaging classes instead of 5, but it's certainly an annoyance to play against.\n\nThey also need to do some adjustments to the matchmaking itself but I trust <PERSON> to be able to do those. They have successful experience with Dota 2 and CS:GO at least.\n\nAlso performance issues in TF2 are getting worse with every passing day, we desperately need an optimization update.\n\nI don't know. I only played a few games of MM but I never expected to spend too much time in it because I'm already experienced in comp and I'll have more fun with comp. This gamemode is for new players and pubbers to experience a lighter version of comp that might spark interest in joining the scene. But it has to be fun and well-polished, or it won't do much. I think the scene will grow, it has already grown a little bit, but they run the risk of this growth being negligible in long-term if they don't get certain things right.","383"],["The problem with the widowmaker engie is he has to get reasonably close to deal damage fast enough whereas demo and even heavy to an extent can kritz from long range pretty well. Combine that with engie being kinda squishy and in most situations he'll die before getting much done.\n\nThe most common kritz in HL is the demo but it's great to flash your heavy if either the demo dies or there is someone jumping you (often a scout/soldier/pyro will rush your kritz to try and upset the demo and flashing the heavy lets him kill the attacker very easily).\n\nBTW kritzing pyro is good in very specific situations. If you can blindside a cluster of enemies you can burn them all in a second. Tight maps like barnblitz or steel can sometimes work.","839"],["Winston and Symmetra's primary fire. Aimlock just makes it so uninteresting to play, and frustrating to play against because missing a shot means certain death if they're committing to you. They could have made them into a LG sort of deal like Zarya's left click and it would be way better.\n\nAnd I wish we could have damage numbers on the HUD, I understand why it might not be possible, but it would help me analyze what I'm doing with my shots and how I can aim them properly (especially shotguns like Roadhog, Reaper etc).","266"],["I am very relieved. I've never found a game I liked as much as TF2, but TF2 was getting very frustrating because of how long I've played it for, especially because I played some competitive and have always wanted to be good. After 5k hours in TF I was getting progressively angrier at myself whenever I didn't do well, and at that point you just need a different game, really. Overwatch had me very hyped because it was a new game with a cool artstyle and a lot of the basic features I love about TF2 while being more than different enough to stand out.\n\nAnd yeah, playing OW now, it's good. it's fun. And it's fresh. And I don't mind being god-awful at it right now, because I should be. I'm new. Say what you will but it's great to be a noob in a game again and slowly discover how to make things work without having the pressure to perform.","254"],["Well a lot of the people you are playing against were in the closed beta so they have a considerable playtime advantage over you. Don't sweat it.\n\nPersonally it took me thousands of hours to be decent at tf2, so I was expecting to be terrible at OW to begin with. I'm having trouble getting adjusted to aiming in a different game but overall I think it's going okay - getting stomped a lot but also having good moments here and there.","500"],["To answer your question - prize pool might help, but I think with the comp scene being so strapped for cash, most of it will end up in 6's because that is the priority. HL is just an alternative gamemode that some people enjoy, but either you like it or you don't. The way to make it better is entirely on the players' end IMO. If people care about playing HL *well* it will be more enjoyable to play and watch, but I think in the current scene very few people care. LOL <PERSON>, you know.\n\nThat is evident even with casting. For example <PERSON> used to cast HL but stopped because he came to really dislike the gamemode. It's just better when people who enjoy the game in question cast it, regardless of what the game is.\n\nPersonally I've informally casted two games of the last HL Nations Cup and actually really enjoyed myself doing that, I would do it again if I have the time or the opportunity. I like watching it too, although it's probably because I have played it for so long that I know what to look for. But either you like it or you don't. There's no point in trying to force it, because HL will always be secondary to 6s in terms of comp tf2.","117"],["Zen's healing is pretty low, though. Harmony orb heals slower than <PERSON>'s heal and can only be used on one person at a time, so both Lúcio and Mercy will usually put out way more heals than Zen. He is meant to be a hybrid between support and DPS, but right now his health is too low to make the DPS part worth it, unless the enemy team has no snipers and a lot of tanks (Zen counters stuff like Roadhog so well because of discord)","559"],["The most annoying thing about widow is I don't really get to practise her because every single pub team has 1 or 2 of them already. I've hit some decent shots, but I'd be hitting a lot more if I got to sit for a couple hours playing widow only.\n\nPart of the reason why I hope there's some sort of DM practice gamemode in the game release, although it will most certainly not happen.","383"],["They can afford to be lazy with Symmetra because English is technically one of the official languages in India and most people speak it. And only 40% of Indians even speak Hindi because there are so many different ethnicities and languages there.\n\nI have no idea what <PERSON>'s accent is. It doesn't sound scottish, swedish, or really anything besides AARDVARK. Honestly it sounds like someone who has never heard a Swede speak in their lives trying to pretend he is one.","471"],["Eh, I think DR gunspy is basically a flank class, it works similarly to a scout with less damage and speed but higher tankiness - it's quite effective at both breaking up the enemy flank in an attempt to kill you while you spam DR, and picking off lone stragglers as they retreat. Normal kind of spy is somewhat of a \"pick-flank hybrid\" but you can do the things I mentioned without having a DR if you're smart about it. Holding your flank by breaking up theirs is a valid strategy.\n\nBut in general I don't like the term \"pick class\" that much. A pick class is anyone who gets the opportunity to go for it. The term is used for sniper but under the current meta isn't he basically a combo player too? Not to mention him being one of the highest DPM classes in HL.","952"],["abuse splash damage to hit the ground right in the edge of airblast range, time shots awkwardly if you're close, gain height advantage or spam the floor around corners, or wait for him to airblast either predicting a rocket or trying to set up his flareshot. Rockets are easy to reflect on midrange but in close range the pyro has to predict, and you can do many things to throw him off.","596"],["I'll tell you the sad story of the birth of a pyro main.\n\nTF2 was my first shooter. I had never used a mouse to aim, and when I started I was running about 30 fps at most in my old laptop, not knowing about FPS configs. After playing around with bots and training, I jumped into the dustbowl pub my real life friend played on, and played several classes but I couldn't hit shit with anything, so I went medic, started healing, and found that I could be useful to the pub team without much effort. Main medic it was.\n\nWell I actually mained medic for about a year and a half, and was keen enough to make a highlander team with that same real life friend to play in UGC steel (there was no iron in EU back then). He was the heavy. But I eventually started getting bored of medic. Especially in HL it felt like I couldn't really make an impact on my own and was just a mobile dispenser, and I *wanted to kill*. I was playing spy and pyro in pubs for a while back then, so I started thinking about playing one of those classes. But I wanted to continue playing HL, so that affected my decision.\n\nThing is, for one, there were so many spy mains already, and I saw people with 300 and more spy hours still playing steel, so I had very little hope of getting on a team as that. Also when I learned about the degreaser, old axtinguisher, reflects and combos, partly from my real life friend and partly from youtubers like <PERSON>, <PERSON>, prof. gentleman, carpet etc., pyro started to look incredibly fun and yes, skilled. This was 2013, guys. Back then people still had some respect for a good pyro.\n\nAnyway I had joined a silver team as sub medic but they let me sub a bit as pyro too, and next season I managed to get recruited as main pyro for a different silver team. Season went pretty well and I ended up getting sucked in the living hell that is maining the worst class.","26"],["The axtinguisher is garbage now but every pyro with a bit of a brain runs powerjack. None of the other options match 15% speed boost on demand.\n\nEh, I don't know. I will like this pyro balance if they change flamethrower mechanics to be less stupid/unskilled/buggy, because the changes really favour using m1 a lot. I'll give you the example of flanking a heavy and trying to kill him. Back in the day I would go for either two axes or axe+flare and hope he doesn't spin up fast enough, but nowadays if I see an unrevved heavy I'll just go m1 him, and most of the times it works (it helps that heavy is nerfed to shit)\n\nSo yeah I'm in two minds about it because it's true that combos were annoying to play against but they were also a lot more fun to do than m1. You can still do degreaser flare pretty well but that's about it, and honestly the shotgun is better at pretty much everything so your top tier pyro loadout is degreaser/shotgun/powerjack and everything else is a downgrade.","280"],["It can make you win some soldier 1v1s that you wouldn't normally win. Basically if you are fighting pretty close range and you both hit 2 rockets for ~100 health on each other, the enemy soldier will be dead and you will still be at 40 health and win the fight. So if people are getting on those situations and losing they may feel it's a bit crutchy.\n\nHowever, having a clip of 3 is very unforgiving - if you miss one rocket in most fights you'll be in a lot of trouble, especially if you used one rocket to jump someone already. Black box requires you to be a lot more accurate to be effective, so I don't think it's a crutch overall.","596"],["Since you come from CS:GO you're probably aware of this already but having a good framerate helps immensely. I started tf2 playing at 30 fps on a shitty laptop and when you improve that situation it's like you can see everything better. The game is poorly optimized so you might need a \"fps config\" (google it, I use Comanglia's personally) to get at least a constant 60 FPS.\n\nBTW, as far as \"crosshair placement\", unlike CS the only weapons that require you to headshot are the sniper rifles and the ambassador for spy. For other bullet weapons like scatterguns, shotguns and pistols you should be aiming at their center of mass (stomach, basically) to negate the bullet spread as much as possible and do more damage. \n\nExplosive weapons like rockets and grenades have splash damage so either aim at their feet or walls and props near them to guarantee some damage. If you get a good rocket on their feet you can also knock them up in the air and screw up their movement, so try that.","596"],["Best - <PERSON>, since can be used both defensively, to shield a ton of damage from say a Reaper ult, or offensively to push into turrets and destroy them. There's a reason he's a top tier character.\n\nWorst - I have a hard time using Pharah's well. Standing completely still in the air is very crippling, and a lot of characters can tank it for long enough to kill you. You know how it goes, JUSTICE RAINS FROM-AUUHFHFHHHGH\n\nMost fun - I like Genji's a lot. If you pick your timing right it's very satisfying to slice through everyone while dashing and reflecting.","403"],["I don't think the girl has that much significance besides representing how <PERSON> almost forgets who he's fighting *for*, with the thirst to chase his targets. He has to stop himself to save her, where <PERSON> wouldn't have second guessed it. It highlights how different <PERSON> is from what he was as Overwatch captain.\n\nThing is maybe the girl grows up to be someone of relevance, but the video's events happen in the \"present\" time where the game exists, so time-wise it doesn't make much sense.","368"],["I was starting a postgrad degree when I picked up TF2 and I'm about to finish it now. That basically meant I made my own working schedule so I could make it to fit tf2 and whatever else was happening. And since I wasn't living with family, no one gives a damn if I stay up late at night.\n\nThat said, you don't need that much time to play tf2 comp if you manage your game time towards improving. This means no pubs or MVM unless there's more free time than usual. Play your scrims and matches, and if there is none that day, go DM and MGE. Doesn't matter if you main a HL class, do it anyway and improve your mechanics because no matter how much gamesense you have, no engie reaches top plat without shotgun aim. You don't need to do it for that long though, honestly if you do half an hour a day it should be quite enough.","332"],["I'm just surprised it has lasted this long. It takes time and resources to DDoS a site and clearly these guys have both.\n\nAs for reasoning, who really knows. I doubt \"protesting against admins or league management\" makes much sense because that would imply the perpetrators care about UGC and want it to be good. This is probably just low-level \"trolling\", some fucks wanting to feel powerful by disrupting the entertainment of a bunch of tf2 players.","880"],["Well there's the whole bit about him and 76 fighting at the Swiss headquarters, him ~~almost~~ dying and getting \"saved\" only to become... whatever the fuck he is now, doomed to a sub-human existence of what I can imagine is constant pain. Dude's a big ball of angst and hatred and while he was certainly not a good person to begin with, he only became the edgelord murderer that is in the game after those events.","368"],["tf2 pubbing will be alive for years to come, it has a ton of gamemodes, maps and content and a playerbase of tens of thousands that won't just go away that quickly. \n\nCompetitive though... I think the MM beta has been a bit of a letdown, Valve hasn't communicated properly with the comp community (inviting one player to their HQ a couple times isn't proper communication) and overall it's all feeling a bit underwhelming. \n\nThey can solve it if the summer \"big\" update b4nny keeps talking about matches the expectations. That means MM release with serious reworks, weapon rebalancing, performance optimization. \n\nIf those things don't happen... I don't know. Overwatch serves as a bit of salt in the wound for more experienced comp players as their skill in TF2 is relevant to OW and the scene they're building now is waving many juicy dollar bills at them. A lot of TF2 high level players dream of being truly \"pro gamers\", and OW is a chance of making it come true.","254"],["Yeah, the TF2 comp scene has a mix of people who do it strictly as a hobby and those who aspire to be professional gamers. The second group is the most likely to jump ship. The first one is the one I was on - it doesn't make a difference to me whether comp TF is an \"e-sport\" or not, but it does make a difference to the game in general. If things go the way they're currently going the player base will drop both in numbers and skill.","996"],["I think a lot of it comes down to how much trust you put on your flamethrower. Running flare gun implies that you can ignite targets consistently enough, but generally people will say a good team shuts down a pyro that gets so close. It depends on your network conditions as well, because some players have higher flame range than others (blah blah mojo) and tough break made flame damage pretty damn high, so a 20 ping pyro charging at people can catch even top players off-guard. On the other hand, if you have high ping or bad mojo for whatever reason it can be really hard to burn anything at all, and then shotgun becomes the obvious choice because hitscan isn't affected by ping.\n\nNot only that, the shotgun is a much safer choice because despite it being a close range weapon, it does significant damage in mid-range and it actually makes it very easy for you to clean up on hurt enemies and focus-fire in team fights. If your heavy is engaging theirs, for example, you can often do 150-200 damage to him with your clip without leaving the combo.\n\nI would say get good at both. Flare because it's not hard at all and in the right circumstances it's devastating, and shotgun because it's more reliable and you'll get good at hitscan aim in general, which is huge in TF2. 7 out of 9 classes have at least one hitscan weapon.","280"],["380 dpm as <PERSON> is crazy, good lord. But yeah you'll see that he did 61% of his damage with the degreaser, so he's being really consistent at getting burn damage on people and can use the flare as a finisher. That's basically the point, the flare is the best finisher but the shotgun has way more sustained damage.\n\n\"Player\" kills are when someone killbinds. Could be a trapped medic or a caught spy.","839"],["If you think your god's laws supersede the laws of the country you live in, you have no place in that country. This should be an undeniable fact, but people in Europe are afraid to address it because they know some will take it too far and we have a tragic history of taking it too far in the past... but right now they're being *way* too lenient. \n\nAny foreign citizen who commits a violent crime should be deported. Starting with these two \"men\".\n\n(edit - of course they could be French citizens, but in that case local justice needs to make sure they are actually arrested and trialled, or there's something really wrong going on.)","866"],["I'm worried that it's much harder to make friendships like these in modern-day tf2 than it used to be a couple of years ago, when community servers were more abundant and, well, alive.\n\nI remember back in the day you'd go to that one dustbowl 24/7 server (or anything else) and you'd see some randoms every day but also those people that always came back to the server, and you'd banter in voice chat and you made friends like that. Now, at least for me in EU, I see skial, ugc gaming, gimmick mod servers like saxton hale and whatnot, and... valve. But you're not going to recognize the people coming back to those valve servers. And no one even talks, and when they do it's something asinine.\n\nI started playing competitive and made more friends there, but I still pub and it's nothing like it used to be.\n\ngreat story mate, tf2 is more than trashtalk and binds\n\nand hope you stay on track with your life and recovery","674"],["In 6s these guys will tell you better than me how they're useful. In highlander I'm not a big fan, though. Thing is there's a lot of HL situations where pipe spam is easy to do and nets you tons of damage, and since you're a primary heal target, do you really need the extra health? That's a personal opinion, though. I've seen booties used in NA plat at various points. Almost never in EU, though.","559"],["There's a number of things we're hoping for, but the most important ones would be matchmaking coming out of beta with major improvements, weapon rebalancing to fix some of the more broken items, and optimization/performance fixes since TF2 is running really poorly in a lot of computers.\n\nIt will probably be more than that, though. Wouldn't be surprised to see another wave of contracts, maybe a couple of community maps going official, more cosmetics (obviously), and b4nny said something about the update also focusing on the \"community aspect of the game\", not just competitive, after meeting with Valve devs. No idea what that might mean.","533"],["Yeah it's a pretty common strategy in teams that have good scouts. The reasoning being that if you expect your enemy to try and kite/retreat he can chase down kills better than anyone. In this kind of uber usually you'll flash the scout in first to make sure he gets in meatshot range unharmed and make sure your demo is getting in as well to do most of the damage.","835"],["Well, you want to go prem eventually. That tells me you care about winning. There's a couple scenarios to consider\n\n* if the high team looks strong and you can beat other high teams in scrims regularly, just go for it. It will give you more immediate visibility, since prem teams don't give even half of a shit about mid results but they do care if you're in high and do well.\n\n* if the high team doesn't look so strong, but your mid team is beating other mid teams regularly, they might be worth taking because you guys get along well and that means better chance of the team staying together for a longer time. But the whole team has to be prepared to try hard and do well, because in my experience a team that starts losing a lot is 90% of the time a dead team. Especially in HL where teams are notoriously hard to keep together.\n\nHonestly just don't do the same as me, because I spent years in this game choosing friends and team leading (which I'm shit at) over some good team offers, lost almost every game I've played in etf2l and never really got to improve to where I wanted to be, partly because of that. I also ended up losing a lot of said friends because no matter how good your attitude is, it's hard to have fun in a competitive game if all you do is lose. So you gotta be a bit pragmatic and go for the side that gives you more chances of winning.","630"],["Eh, I don't really agree. TF2 has more skill in DM and execution but Overwatch seems to have a more intricate strategy game, or at least it looks like it because the game makes it almost impossible to win by simply out-aiming our out-moving your opponents.\n\nThere are a lot of players in TF2 that get by with just being DM donkeys that randomly walk in and kill 3 people on their own (at mid/high levels anyway. In prem/invite that doesn't work) but in Overwatch that doesn't exist because DM-intensive plays are countered with little effort. You can have the god widowmaker but she'll have nothing to shoot if the enemy team uses shields well, you can have the pharah hitting all the directs in the world but she can't dodge all that well so she'll be shot out of the air by anyone with a functioning mouse, etc.\n\nWhile DM is important in both games (there are some incredibly skilled players in OW) coordinated play actually matters a lot more in OW, because solo DM is very easily denied.","254"],["It tends to be very stalematey. If you've watched 6s in 5cp you know that pushing a point relies on getting either uber advantage via a force, or numbers advantage. Pushing with even numbers and even ubers favours the defending team because they can usually pop later and get a better uber.\n\nThing is to get that force or picks you will either do a bomb with a soldier (or scout or rarely demo) or run a sniper and hope he hits something, or more rarely run a spy. All these things are much harder to succeed with in highlander. Bombs are easily denied by the heavy and pyro. Scouts are denied by the engie. Both teams have a sniper who is probably getting buffed to 185 and the snipers have to fight each other before getting a more meaningful pick. And it's much harder to get a spy play because of the pyro, less space to move around because of the number of people in play, and everyone knowing you're on spy.\n\nBecause of this HL 5cp games tend to be very slow and stalematey with few rounds won, especially if teams are evenly matched.","279"],["While the game needs a good matchmaking system to sustain and help grow the comp scene, what I'll be most hyped for is bugfixes, rebalances and optimization. Some new maps would be nice too.\n\nI don't think there is much space for new weapons in this game anymore - pretty much everything you could do is already done. I won't complain if there are a couple, though.","533"],["Well that kind of players just can't be helped. There's literally nothing any game can do about them besides imposing class limits, which neither TF2 or OW would (should) do.\n\nAs for <PERSON> he is hard to deal with for console players because he has sentries in a platform where everyone's aim and movement are impaired. His sentry damage was actually nerfed by 30% recently to compensate for it. Balance issue rather than what was actually discussed in the OP.","374"],["Yeah, that whole thread made me a bit sad because it started as a simple announcement of the upcoming highlander open, and it should never have been a HL vs 6s thread. Most importantly, an admin of TFTV and hugely respected member of the community shouldn't come in *on that thread* and talk about how HL never should have existed. There are other places to have that discussion.\n\nThat said he does have a bit of a point. The thing is HL was pushed as the noob-friendly gamemode and bridge from pub to 6s because \n\n1. such a bridge is needed, 6s has a steep learning curve and the average pubber has a hard time understanding it\n\n2. in the ideal world something like matchmaking would have been launched at least 5 years ago and served as that bridge, but since it didn't, people at the time decided to come up with something different.\n\nI'm a long time highlander player, and as I said in that thread there is a specific niche of people, me included, for whom HL is a more fun game. I fully endorse pushing 6s as an e-sport, but I have no ambitions of being a \"pro\", I just want to have some fun and semi-organized gameplay. I main pyro, do you expect me to be a good player?","584"],["Imagine trying to push a point with 2 level 3 sentries on opposite sides, 2 demos with sticky traps, couple heavies and medics and one sniper for good measure.\n\nHow do you even do that? I'm not sure what's the best offensive configuration besides coordinating 2+ ubers but it's so easy to create a defensive stack almost impossible to push. This mode would be a stalemate beyond your worst nightmares.","835"],["I actually think the gunslinger is closer to how engineer should have been designed than stock. The gunslinger <PERSON> uses primarily his shotgun and uses buildings to support himself and the team, instead of the opposite. You can play like that with stock, but the way it's designed it encourages players, especially new ones, to sit in a corner whacking their building, which isn't fun for anyone.","596"],["Overwatch is okay. Open beta and release combined I have 60 hours or so and I find it pretty fun as a casual game. It doesn't make me want to tryhard and really get good like TF2 did, which is the main difference personally. Which ends up making me want to play it less because the game is entirely objective-based and if you mess around you'll often have 5 very angry teammates breathing down your neck.\n\nAt least in TF2 you have places to mess around and places to be competitive, so it's easier to stay in the game as a casual while not compromising the tryhard aspect (well, up to the point where competitive play itself is under-supported by the devs. But that's another story)","702"],["Literally the only thing wrong with tf2center is the questionable PR and decision-making of certain admins. It's understandable why people would want to remove their support of the site by playing somewhere else, but it's also understandable why they would just not care about it and keep playing because whatever, it's a pugging system in a video game which is well-designed for its purposes. For the latter, the only real reason to play stadium would be if they offered a notoriously better service in terms of the site itself, but that doesn't seem to be the case.","289"],["These balance changes are power creep at its \"finest\". \n\n* buff mediguns to match quick-fix while not nerfing quick-fix in a meaningful way\n\n* give a huge buff to spy because he's not considered full-time viable\n\n* the only pyro change they did was to encourage dumb w+m1 even more\n\n* demo's relative weakness to an ever more powerful scout to be compensated by the new quickiebomb launcher, a weapon that seems designed to murder scouts?","1023"],["This is basically an anti-scout weapon. With this charge time and damage you'll have a very easy time dropping a couple of these on a scout's feet to kill him. But the clip of 4 means that beefier targets like buffed soldiers or heavies will be somewhat hard to take down without reloading or hitting pipes.\n\nIn 6s it's certainly broken as hell because the targets are generally lower health and the more support spam role the demo takes. In HL maybe not so much because the constant reloading will make you lose out on some damage potential in a class that's meant to be constantly spamming.\n\nI think it will be immediately banned in 6s and maybe tried for a season in HL.\n\nEDIT - btw you can do up to approx. 153 damage with one sticky point-blank and it's not that hard to one-shot a scout who is close enough to you (assuming no buff). So yeah.","128"],["Yeah, but do you feel accomplished when you kill a class by holding the button down? I don't. I feel that the class I killed was either distracted by others or completely failed at shooting down a relatively easy target. It would be fine if the flamethrower had a decent skill ceiling, but it doesn't - which makes pyro unfun on both ends IMO.\n\nI'm really just arguing about fun factor of a class that I used to love. It used to feel more rewarding to play pyro successfully, or maybe it was because I actually thought combos were hard 2 years ago? Meh, idk.","266"],["Heavy has a pretty solid design and balance but lacks on the fun factor and could use some tweaks on that regard.\n\nPyro is fun to play but almost everything about him *screams* bad design. IMO he needs a full overhaul of his core mechanics to truly fit in on this game. I have serious doubts that valve would be willing to go all the way, though.","732"],["In an ideal world we'd get the LG flamethrower, or \"hitscan-thrower\" and an airblast with reduced cone of effect and stunlock entirely removed and those things alone would increase the skill floor and ceiling on the class entirely. Once you do that, you can adjust his damage and/or mobility to fine-tune balance and it would be ok to make him more powerful since his primary weapon isn't just a braindead \"vaguely look at people and do damage\" deal.\n\nBut yeah, I know Valve won't do that. They would never make such drastic changes on the core mechanics of a class. Which is really unfortunate, because Pyro is something that I used to have tons of fun with and be proud of maining, but as I learned more about the game I realized how stupid and poorly designed the class really is. I don't want it to be buffed, I just want it to be less stupid.\n\nAssuming I have to balance pyro based on the flamethrower he currently has, I'd just:\n\n* fix its various bugs, documented in [<PERSON>'s video](https://youtu.be/Bv6d3Ny0IK8)\n\n* remove stunlock on airblast because it's not fun for anyone. Force pyros to aim their flare guns (or use shotgun and aim that because it's better anyway) instead of shooting in a predictable pattern, and give good enemy players a chance of dodging said flares or just escape the pyro entirely with airstrafing.\n\n* Remove the reserve shooter from pyro or change the weapon's upside to something that isn't minicrits. My idea was increased knockback on hit, but whatever, anything that isn't 120 damage shots on a shotgun.\n\n* Give pyro the widowmaker (and heavy too, why not) because it would be super fun and it has a skill-based balance around your shotgun aim.\n\n* *Possibly* give the degreaser its pre-tough break switch speeds back but with a significant damage nerf that makes people actually think twice about using it. Reduced afterburn is not significant because afterburn is useless, and the slightly increased airblast cost only matters if you don't know how to manage your ammo or needlessly spam airblast.\n\n* probably get back the pre-tough break axtinguisher as well. The one that \"backstabbed\" people. It was pretty fun.\n\nApart from that, I wouldn't change much. Pyro is honestly pretty good for a dumb w+m1 + sometimes m2 class. And m1 damage has been buffed so much that I actually feel guilty when I get in a good position and mow a guy down, it really does a lot of damage, and fixing stuff related to mojo etc will make it very consistent damage. You don't really need more than that for a class that will always be pretty shit in 6s and not very important in HL.","276"],["Most of the community considers the loch n load pretty OP because it does the same damage as stock but it's much easier to aim and much harder to dodge, as well as having a longer range to hit directs. This means you should be doing more damage than with stock just because you're hitting more shots.\n\nIf you're playing matchmaking just use it and abuse it, it's fair game until Valve nerfs it (or not... :P).","964"],["It's funny how the scout himself hasn't been changed in any core way during TF2's entire existence but he's been indirectly buffed by changes to other classes. This medic buff, the demoman sticky nerf that made them much less able to spam scouts holding W, and the gunboats allowing soldiers to stay mobile without sucking up as many heals, freeing more happy medigun time for the scout, all contributed. \n\nBottom line is a scout that is being tanked at 185 health is a very scary thing, and the class wasn't designed with constant heals in mind. In TF2's original concept he is a flank class and more meant to play behind enemies than anywhere near his own medic.\n\nBut I can't really see how you'd go about nerfing him without screwing things up. I'd rather see subtle buffs to soldier and demo than subtle nerfs to scout. Maybe bring back old stickies and slightly increase rocket launcher's reload speed? Demo feels kinda weaker than he should be (in 6s) ever since the sticky nerf, and one of the soldier's biggest problems in fighting scouts is that the scout can reload a couple shots way faster than the soldier if he runs empty.","1023"],["Eh, it's not so bad. Most dead ringer users are overconfident and easily trackable. For those who aren't, if you just keep forcing them to cloak and/or melt their knives, it's a few seconds where they can't do anything. Meanwhile, you frag.\n\nAlso beware of airblasting as it helps them escape (unless you put them in a corner). The safest way to kill them quickly is w+m1. Don't get fancy if you don't need to.\n\nThe really scary spies are the amby gods, though. Treat those like a sniper. Don't engage unless you can get in flame range or are very confident in your shotgun. If you're still having trouble, might be time to go scout...","869"],["There may have been a time where this kind of posture was appropriate, but that time certainly isn't when working on updates to a 9 year old game with the main purpose of making it a better experience for its community and specifically support a certain part of it (the comp scene).\n\nIt's like in a relationship. When you've just started dating you want to keep certain things to yourself to make it more interesting and make yourself more attractive, I get that. But TF2 is a marriage of many years between the fans and Valve, that can only be sustained with proper communication. The time for secrets is long gone.","163"],["<PERSON> did really well for PremTech and Stacked running flare (last time I played against him he owned me with a post-toughbreak flarepunch I won't forget. <PERSON>.)\n\nIf you play support style and have good ping it has some advantages over shotgun. It's less likely you'll beef important kills, gives you very fast kills on low health targets and you can use the crit knockback to push away heavy classes while doing damage. Shotgun is better for aggressive play though, and for anything that has more health than a scout.","964"],["Yeah but there's a difference between little fun mechanics you find on your own and stuff that is core to the class you're playing. Rocket jumping is probably the most useful skill in soldier, and it's so intricate that you can have a short tutorial to teach you to crouch+jump+shoot and it'd still take you a thousand hours to master jumps in general.\n\nYou can give some information without giving everything away.","464"],["There are many problems with the update but casual isn't one of them. The idea is good and it fills a niche that TF2 didn't have until now. If you want to pub normally, open the server browser and look for a server - when I started playing TF there was no quickplay of any kind and the only way to play was to look for a pub in the browser! I don't understand why it's suddenly too complicated to do this.\n\nIt's true that we don't have a lot of good community pubs atm, but the only thing needed for this to change is you guys to go fill the existing ones. The couple of times I've played since the update I've already seen more active pubs than ever since the old quickplay was introduced.","674"],["While I'm trying to switch to 6s atm, I'll always have a soft spot for HL for a number of reasons.\n\n* shitty pyro main, but in general I find it fun to find ways of making the hl classes work in ways they weren't intended to. It's exciting to me when a pyro or an engie make big plays because it's so unlikely for it to happen.\n\n* HL is much more likely to try weird and new things in terms of maps and gamemodes, and I like that. The 6s experience is a number of 5cp maps and viaduct. During your average HL season you'll see payload, attack/defence, 5cp and koth and sometimes the off-chance of even less common maps. Although a lot of people end up disliking the experimental maps, I enjoy figuring out how to play in each of them.\n\n* I've played HL for so long that I know a lot of people in the EU community and enjoy playing with/against them (not a gamemode argument, just my personal experience). My tf2 friends either don't play 6s or play it at a high level while I have to start from open.","702"],["I was this guy, some of us just have very demanding parents that *will* yell at you for anything under an A. Not complaining about my parents, though. They knew I could get B's and C's without ever studying, but if they let me do that, I'd never develop any sort of work ethic and would struggle later in life - so they were harsh with me to ensure that I actually put in some work. Think it worked out okay.\n\nWish I could apologize to my old classmates for the scenes I made, but don't have contact with any of them. No wonder why. LOL","621"],["Let's see, what can I say that hasn't been said yet?\n\n* Pyro update will come in September. Mojo will be fixed (only thanks to sigsegv's work and barely any input from Valve), degreaser and airblast will be nerfed, w+m1 will be buffed again in some way, and pyro playstyles amount to either w+m1 or using shotgun as primary for players with better aim. Pyro becomes somehow even more obnoxious in pubs, while being weak in comp. Reserve shooter will be changed in some way that doesn't really matter, much to everyone's disappointment. A new flare gun is added but it has boring stats and no one cares.\n\n* Heavy update will coincide with Smissmas but will not change anything dramatic about the class. GRU and whip will be nerfed to accommodate complaints about heavy mains in matchmaking, and the damage rampup nerf will be removed to compensate. A secondary is added that is fun to use, but not viable in comp.\n\n* Pub tf2 is alive and well as people got used to Casual and more community pubs become regularly populated. Playerbase is more or less the same as now.\n\n* Matchmaking will receive more updates but will still be regarded as somewhat lackluster. People play it for the sake of grinding ranks, but most good players don't bother and the skill level is quite low.\n\n* Highlander is pretty much dead, which 6s players are happy about, while offclass mains either move to 6s or back to pubs (or quit entirely). ETF2L season 13 is coming up with only two divisions, Open and Prem, with Prem being filled of long time HL mains that don't scrim and only play for nostalgia. UGC no longer runs in EU and the NA HL league has 2 or 3 divisions as well.\n\n* 6s is still alive, but smaller than it is now as the matchmaking hype dies off and is replaced by frustration. i61 is coming up but the only non-European participant is froyotech, who will be defending their i58 title. In NA, with Ronin dead, froyo has no real opponents in invite. In EU Full Tilt and Crowns are still the main contenders but they've switched name and sponsor several times.\n\n* There will be a few players rising from Open and doing very well in Prem over the next seasons. Retired players will use this as evidence that the skill level in 6s has gone to shit and the game is dead. Some newer players will believe them.\n\n* The pyro and heavy update weapons are the only new ones added over the year. At least one weapon will become so obnoxiously OP with a failed rebalance that the community will have to rage hard at Valve for them to fix that mistake.\n\nOn a personal note, I hope Aug 2017 me has a job and very little time to play games... but still open tf2 every now and then.\n\n!RemindMe! 1 Year","405"],["Short opinion\n\n* afterburn is not a fun mechanic in any way and I wouldn't want it to be encouraged. It's *okay* as it is.\n\n* I'd like to see either flames changed in a way that makes them require skill to aim, or the combo-based playstyle to be encouraged instead of more buffs to pyrocar-m1. Sadly I don't think either of those will happen.\n\n* airblast jump doesn't make sense to me. If you're looking at mobility buffs I'd rather just nerf the powerjack in favour of giving <PERSON> the same speed buff that spy just got, and buff the detonator in some smart way (maybe a reduced reload time or self-damage). Or completely skip mobility in favour of other attributes.","729"],["You're probably missing knowledge on strategy and flow of the game. Comp is very, very different from pubs in this aspect. Even if you can out-aim people, experienced players will use positional advantage, help from teammates and other things to outplay you.\n\nThis is all the more true with <PERSON> because he's a powerhouse on mid-range, but extremely dependent on teammates in close range. A lone demo is almost always a dead demo.\n\nIf your team is still alive keep it up with them, try to get as many scrims as possible, and analyze your gameplay to see why you are dying. Watching POVs from high level games can help too.","279"],["Thing is I can't imagine the airblast jump being anything but a low-skill, low-utility version of the rocket jump, i.e. trying to shoehorn a shitty version of an ability that is pretty much the definition of the soldier class into pyro. Yeah, the detonator is exactly that as well, but I think it's more forgivable as an unlock that gives you that option with a certain trade-off than as a core feature of your class.\n\nI think 320 is quite effective. Playing as and against spy since the update, you can tell they're much more versatile in both escaping and outplaying people - and playing pyro aggressively isn't that different from spy.","858"],["There are so many different ways of playing spy that there's no short answer for this question. I'd say that a good spy is either getting a lot of kills or high value picks at the right times. I don't mind if my spy's not getting med picks if he's destroying the flank and sniper and letting our scout and soldier in for free.\n\nAlso do us all a favour and be ready to sap the goddamn sentry when your team's about to push, you wouldn't believe how many otherwise fantastic spies fail on this","279"],["If we're talking pubs, stock is the most useful and the easiest to get something out of.\n\n* quick-fix is pretty good on defence if you're just looking to turtle, it's hard to get aggressive with it on 12v12 but perfect to keep people alive against pushes with the high heal rate.\n\n* kritz can be a lot of fun but I'd only recommend using it if you have a demo/soldier (or *maybe* a heavy) in your team reliable enough to use them well. And never if you're going against sentries.\n\n* vaccinator is difficult but fun to use. It's more useful to pocket one person than to distribute heals all around - a heavy with this thing on him is almost unkillable when done right.","389"],["Establish priorities for your tf2 time. Scrims and/or mixes shouldn't take you more than 1-2 hours of a given day, and they probably won't happen every single day, so unless you have a lot of extracurricular activities going on it should be fairly easy to fit that time into your schedule.\n\nWhat I often see is people who play hours and hours of pubs complaining about lack of time to play comp. If that's your case just stop playing pubs, man - or leave them for when there's no real life *or* comp going on.","170"],["Bleh, solo queue support is hard to consistently win matches, sometimes your team is just worse.\n\nPlaced at 52, went up to 53 but then went on a massive losing streak including leavers, my computer crashing (I have GPU issues with overwatch for a while now) and random fuckery like the guy that goes widow on offence and then spikes his ping up to 300. Finished season at 48 >_>\n\nbring on season 2 tbh. Anyone knows if we'll get to play placements again? My dream is to get placed in the 60's and stay there.","982"],["I'm a revolver fan and like its playstyle a lot more, but if you have the time and talent to get really *really* good aim, the ambassador becomes disgustingly good and basically the only gun worth using.\n\nThat said, most people never reach that sort of skill level, so it becomes a bit more situational. I'd use amby if you're told to focus a razorback sniper or if you're playing a harassment style with DR at mid to long range. If you're going very aggressive on their combo use revolver - it can net you the pick you need if you missed a stab (a medic dies in 3 shots close range) and it's way more reliable than getting close range headshots.\n\nAnd I like l'étranger with the cloak and dagger, but I only use that loadout if I'm going for a med pick and nothing else. It's not needed with other watches because you should be able to cover the distances you need without extra cloak. Especially with how fast spy moves these days.","862"],["* froyo dominates up to the grand finals and look unbeatable\n\n* crowns and full tilt look pretty even but crowns has a bit of a psychological edge and win the lower bracket finals\n\n* jasmine tea looks good and majorly scares the EU teams but ends up in 4th\n\n* grand finals start with crowns very motivated and taking one or even two maps, but froyo claws back and wins\n\nI hope I'm wrong, though, will be rooting for EU to take it home","345"],["I feel like <PERSON>'s line \"where's <PERSON> when you need her\" is evidence that they're aligned in some way and she's a villain too. Maybe she works with the omnics or maybe she's not aligned with anyone and is taking them over for her own purposes.\n\n~~Or the Gibraltar message has something to do with the fight between <PERSON> and 76 that nearly killed them both. Maybe she believes <PERSON> was to blame for it.~~ Nevermind, this fight happened in their swiss HQ. My bad","679"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"Yeah, I've made a [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/2y9yny/what_changes_would_you_make_to_the_stock/cp8227t) about it a while ago but I agree that the best solution would be to make switch speed +65% bonus intrinsic to the pyro class, with appropriate tweaks to the four flamethrowers to balance it out.\\n\\nBasically, the fun and slightly more skilled way to balance pyro is to make sure the secondaries are just as or more useful as the primaries, because those actually need to be aimed. If you force people into playing with the flamer out most of the time and do most damage with it, you're basically promoting w+m1 with the occasional airblast. That's not fun, and it's heavily underpowered unless you'd actually buff the flamethrowers in some way, which would make pyro incredibly unfun to play against. Imagine getting walked at by a pyro with more damage or range on his flamethrower. Not fun.\\n\\nThe only way to make sure heavy use of secondaries is promoted is fast weapon switch, really.\\n\\nTo be honest I'd prefer a massive rework of how the flamethrower works over this, but this is actually feasible and my ideas are not.\",\n \"917\"\n ],\n [\n \"Seems like a bit of an overreaction to me. The air strike until further testing *maybe* makes sense.. but the sydney sleeper will get demolished by any rifle that can headshot, as it always has, and distributing some more piss won't change that. as for the chocolate bar, besides promoting more roaming heavy action with 400 hp I really don't see what's the big deal. If anything it's an alternative for the normal sandvich. Overpowered? Nah.\",\n \"858\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you are using a non-default flare gun like the scorch shot or detonator (did someone say manmelter? I've never heard of an item named that. Are you sure you didn't just make it up?), this can be pretty good as the finisher weapon you otherwise don't really have. Especially if you're using the extra mobility to get behind people. Otherwise, if you're looking for the *best* option, powerjack for sure. The recent silent nerf is annoying to me because I found counting damage to secure powerjack kills and get clutch health back really fun... but it doesn't affect the main selling point, speed. Speed is why you run this weapon over any other, and many pyros were beginning to do that even in the short period between the powerjack buff and axe nerf.\",\n \"708\"\n ],\n [\n \"To add to everyone's good advice, I'll say this: keep doing damage. Don't be that pyro that just sits there shuffling left and right waiting for a rocket. Either get close and burn and flare or if you use shotgun put some shots on the guy. But if you're that close to a soldier or demo he should be *at the very least* on fire. A soldier that's damaged will get pressured to do something before he inevitably dies so he'll have to shoot. After that you'll get a feel of their reaction times. It's more complicated because different players have different reaction times - there have been times I've been fooled by valve server soldiers because they were so slow to shoot compared to a comp player.\",\n \"464\"\n ],\n [\n \"There are quite a few NA plat pyros who stream more or less regularly, <PERSON> and <PERSON> are the most recognized ones but <PERSON> (bfl_satan) has streamed a few times, <PERSON> (<PERSON>) has a quite regular one for a while (he's in gold this season but he's had many seasons in plat and is one of the most experienced pyros in the game), <PERSON> (<PERSON>) played in plat with Chill Penguins for a few seasons and has a semiregular stream with varied content, <PERSON> (spyrotf2) not only streams some dK scrims as he sometimes hosts pyro roundtables to discuss the meta and so on, etc.\\n\\nAs for euro pyros I know the twitch channels of a few but not really of people who stream regularly. <PERSON> (ascendary_) does it sometimes but he's semi-retired from tf2 so idk what he'll do now, or you can go message <PERSON> (stevepander) and pester him to do it. *don't actually do that* \\n\\nOr for a dedicated pyro from high tier you can go to strno8 (patrezak)\",\n \"382\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, I was more referencing people who aren't dumb or lazy and try to get an edge by cheating because... idk. It's happened. And so far it takes a lot of work from the anti-cheat staff of the various leagues to track these guys down. TBH your average joe who hacks on a pub is very easy to spot but some guys have tried really hard to ruin competitive at high levels by cheating in it and there's always a question mark over whether it was really a cheat.\",\n \"996\"\n ],\n [\n \"TBH the ubersaw is a little overrated because of how fun it is to use and grab that extra uber if you're brave enough to go for a hit. The solemn vow letting you see enemy health is surprisingly useful if you know when to look and when not to, and the amputator's extra regen if you have it out can help you greatly with afterburn, bleed, and just generally escaping from danger. \\n\\nAnd of course, from a competitive point of view the vita-saw is so good it was banned from every single league, because uber building matters much more in comp and being guaranteed 20% advantage just by wearing it is huge.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"As pyro I hate playing against this thing even more because I can't see the projectile coming at me properly to reflect it and it doesn't make any sound when you throw it, like most projectile weapons do. Sometimes I can get it if I see the scout throwing it, but most times I just get the awful bleed screen thinking what the hell just happened... oh right, *that*.\",\n \"266\"\n ],\n [\n \"This theory doesn't work because if you look at <PERSON>'s zombie form introduced with wave 666, he clearly has a human-like skull. Alien? Maybe, although one quite similar to humans. But robot? Nah\\n\\nTBH my personal canon for <PERSON> is that as a little boy (or girl idc. I'm a guy so I'm used to calling him a he) himself and his entire family got burned down in a fire in their house in the middle of nowhere, and no one came to save him. By some miracle he was the only survivor, but with severe burn scars and left alone in the woods for months, maybe even years, he developed serious mental trauma. All he sees is fire, all he smells is fire, all he can think about is fire. With time this obsession turns into what we now know as pyrovision. He finally ventures into the world and lays a fiery trail of chaos and destruction everywhere he goes as a vicious masked arsonist... until the administrator, or Miss <PERSON>, or the Engineer, who knows, learns of this formidable creature of death, finds him, and brings him to the TF team under the promise of a gun to do all the pretty rainbows he can think of and make the enemy team as happy as possible, and a lot of money to boot.\\n\\nI'm sure this idea is not original but it's what I go with for myself.\",\n \"679\"\n ],\n [\n \"back scratcher giving +25 health instead of +20% damage or whatever it is wouldn't be too far-fetched I think. The extra base health and even more benefit from health packs would balance the fact that pocketing or even buffing the backscratcher pyro isn't very viable. And you might *just* get by with using it in competitive, especially if you play a more passive style and try not to suck up heals from your medic that much. (which even if you're not passive you should do, since your demo, heavy and even scout can use heals more effectively)\",\n \"559\"\n ],\n [\n \"GL guys, if the general attitude towards the public stays as it is now it's already a big step up from tf2center.\\n\\nThe only technical thing that lobby sites are missing for me is a way to balance teams and avoid stacks. While whatever balancing system will never be perfect maybe you can talk to people from tf2pickup because they have an ELO-based balancing system, I think it's based on <PERSON> playerrankings thing? Would be cool to have something like that in place.\",\n \"716\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you're a skilled rocket jumper you'll get a much better use of gunboats than the base jumper. You'll get much more ability to rocket jump (and do some crazy 2-rocket pogos and so on...) without losing a lot of health and not be a sittting duck while in the air. This is like beggar's bazooka bombing except you can actually aim the rockets - jump and wail on them while they're still reacting to your presence.\",\n \"858\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's the kind of logic that comic book villains follow and to be honest I would expect more of <PERSON>.Just snap the toddler's neck. It's so easy. Just do it. \\n\\nI'm just going to assume that the magic that protected <PERSON> due to their parents' sacrifice also prevented ol' <PERSON> from touching him in any other way. After all, in Sorcerer's Stone he basically manages to defeat him while he's possessing poor <PERSON> by simply laying his hands on him. The touching burned him up, killing <PERSON> and forcing <PERSON>'s severed soul to find another container for itself.\",\n \"696\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well in terms of mechanics plain and simple, HL will be easier since you're less important overall and more free to go for plays (unless you're on cart duty) and classes like pyro, engie, sniper, spy and even heavy in some circumstances are classes that you can kill fairly easily even if you're not an amazing scout, simply because you have movement advantage and a lot of close range burst damage. Basically you look for people overextending, people low on health, people trying to flank and you finish them. If you play the class right in highlander you don't have to be extremely good at aiming, just know which frags to go for and when.\\n\\n6v6 is a whole different game. It will probably be more fun for a scout because there are no sentries, overhealed heavies revved up around corners, or the need to push a cart while basically doing nothing. But it's harder, both in DM because if you get destroyed 1v1 by other scouts you'll have a hard time, and in gamesense because your life actually matters a lot and if you throw it around like in highlander your team will suffer big time. The motto of knowing which frags to take and when maintains itself, but having better aim and movement increases your chances of getting frags by so much more than in highlander.\",\n \"952\"\n ],\n [\n \"* I hope that valve deletes random crits from the game altogether as we get closer to matchmaking and turning towards a more competitive game. If you mention the air strike crits you have to mention the beggar's bazooka, weapons that have random crits and benefits on kill at the same time (most notably the half-zatoichi) and just melee weapons in general because most of them have very high crit chances and getting randomly instakilled by one melee shot is one of the least fun things in the entire game. The axtinguisher nerf happened because of what I just said, but if it happens randomly with another weapon it's fine?\\n\\n* They had the right idea with buffing the air strike but the numbers were wrong. instead of going from 25% reduction in both damage and explosion radius to such small penalties on both, they should have removed one of them. 4 rockets on the initial clip, 25% less damage and normal explosion radius seems balanced to me.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"That happens anyway. You don't solve team imbalance with random crits, either you team scramble or someone switches to the losing team to help them. A player who does a lot of damage in a short time gets increased crit chance so if you're going on a rampage you start rolling crits like crazy and increasing the stomping further.\",\n \"1002\"\n ],\n [\n \"I main pyro because it's the only class I both enjoy and can play at a decent level in highlander. I don't like sixes that much, I'm an ok medic but don't like the class enough, shit like heavy and engie just bores me, there are too many spy mains, I loathe sniper in every shape and form, and the one class I'd switch mains to is demoman... if it didn't imply starting over from the low divs after having played highlander since 2012.\\n\\nI'm kinda stuck on pyro now. Only in HL though. In pubs or lobbies I play anything. Except sniper. Fuck that.\",\n \"952\"\n ],\n [\n \"I hate demoknights more than normal demos. I like gunfights, not being randomly instakilled by a guy charging from literally anywhere (thanks <PERSON>) because I was engaging a different person, or having to waste ages taking down a 235 hp targe/eyelander guy because he has massive fire resistance.\\n\\nSure, degreaser/shotgun takes care of demoknights almost every time, but it's still not a fight I have fun with. And I like the flare gun.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"Eh, I mean, the targe is balanced. You have to give up either stickies which are of course the most powerful weapon demo has, the tide turner and the ridiculous mobility and ambush ability it gives, or the splendid screen which has guaranteed high damage on shield bash.\\n\\nIt's the most irritating weapon for pyros, but you know what's really irritating for demos? Hitscan. No shield protects them from bullets, so kill him with your shotgun.\",\n \"839\"\n ],\n [\n \"But degreaser *is* stock.\\n\\nAll jokes aside there isn't much argument here. I'd say degreaser/shotgun is the best choice for being a pocket pyro and dealing more consistent damage, and also countering an enemy pyro if they have one. You can pepper people from midrange with the shotgun, quickswitch to your primary to reflect anything, and go in with flame/shotgun combo or just flame if they come too close.\\n\\nFlare is fine if they have no pyro. But if you get really good at shotgun it ends up being better on the long run, much like in highlander.\\n\\n*edit* - I'm expecting the usual retort \\\"but you can flarepunch pyros\\\". Yes you can, but it's not something you should rely on IMO. A good pyro will see it coming and either airblast you away or try to reflect the flare. If the good pyro has a shotgun you have almost 0% chance of hitting it.\",\n \"862\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think pyro needs to stay as it is, to be honest. He is weak, but it's such a mechanically easy class that making him straight up stronger by increasing range or damage of the flamethrower would have players up in arms about having to play against him. Everyone hates playing against pyro even as he is...\\n\\nBasically the flamethrower is a stupidly designed weapon. It's relatively weak compared to other close range primaries, limited to a range that varies wildly depending on the user's network conditions, it requires almost no skill to use and it's annoying and frustrating both for the pyro and the people playing against him. Airblast is another story (it's fairly glitchy and the short stunlock is a bit unfair, but it's still the saving grace of the pyro class, as I doubt anyone would play it beyond F2Ps if airblast didn't exist) but the flamethrower in itself is horrible weapon design at its horrible best.\\n\\nIf I could revamp pyro from the ground up I would make a flamethrower inspired in the lightning gun from quake or the link gun from UT4, that required at least some tracking to use and was more consistent in its range and damage, but that's never gonna happen on this stage of the game.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"The targe is situationally viable in highlander. You haven't seen what some people can do on viaduct with the loose cannon and targe. In more open maps it's more important to have the area denial of stickies but it's actually really viable to deny the point in viaduct with the donk spam, while being way harder to kill than the sticky demo thanks to explosive and fire resistance.\\n\\nNow if you're talking about the viability of actually charging in and taking heads, I think that whole mechanic is kinda stupid to begin with (and the tide turner takes it to new levels of stupid) and while it should almost never work against coordinated teams, it would *maybe* have its niche... if stickies weren't so good. You're basically talking about converting a power class to a pick class, but then you need someone else to take the damage-dealing role, and no class is quite as effective at just spamming out the enemy as the demo.\",\n \"675\"\n ],\n [\n \"Loch n load should be allowed, a lot of people think it's not but I consider it balanced. You give up roller spam and a 4th pipe for fast pills and bonus vs buildings, and it's kind of nice that demo gets a long range sentry destroyer. loch n load is really useful against some sentry spots like badwater 3rd and upward 1st, but I wouldn't call it better than default.\\n\\nEnforcer only requires a simple disguising script to give you +20% damage all the time, so it should stay banned.\\n\\nBaby Face's Blaster is just... bad. People here that complain the weapon is unbalanced in principle forget that even the slight sliver of damage to the scout removes most of the boost, all you have to do is get touched by a heavy or minisentry and you're done. Unban it. People won't even use it.\",\n \"484\"\n ],\n [\n \"* Medic says \\\"I knew zis day vould come\\\" and injects himself with lethal poison\\n\\n* <PERSON> carefully lays <PERSON> on the ground, whispers a goodbye before killing himself with the shotgun like the soldier does\\n\\n* <PERSON> says \\\"well... I guess that's that\\\", pushes a button on his PDA and falls over\\n\\n* <PERSON> turns to the enemy and solemnly says \\\"well, the best man won, mate\\\" before slitting his throat with the kukri... actually that might be too brutal.\\n\\n* <PERSON> does a pseudo-heroic \\\"You'll never take me alive!\\\" before pistoling himself in the head\\n\\n* <PERSON> starts looking at the flamethrower, tilts his head and looks at the pretty rainbows for one last time, with correct pyrovision animations if the player is using it\\n\\nOkay writing these was a mistake. *curls up in the corner*\",\n \"701\"\n ],\n [\n \"The quickie launcher is not nearly as reliable DPM-wise as stock. You get a -15% damage attached to it, and while you can offset this by charging your sticky, in most mid-range situations you're going to charge the sticky just enough to reach your target so you can fire more stickies, instead of taking the time to fully charge one sticky to do more damage. Plus, you have only 6 stickies in a clip instead if 8, and add this to the fact you can't lay sticky traps and you get a very situational launcher. I'd only imagine it being useful for very long range spam, preferably with kritzkrieg, and a little bit for self-defence since it's easier to blow up people near you by shooting quick stickies in front of you.\\n\\nStock launcher remains the most consistent and overall best launcher of the three. You can do traps, you have 8 stickies with pretty fast arm time and no damage penalty.\\n\\nScottish Resistance is a very passive weapon that basically only works to completely lock down an area with traps. It encourages turtling on the last point but it's very hard to push out with, so most people don't bother with it.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, possibly. Have the enforcer be the spy's degreaser but with -15% damage or something like that. You can start shooting faster if you whiff a stab, or you can quickswitch to the knife to get a trickstab after baiting your enemy into thinking you're just shooting. It could be interesting. Also buffing stab and sap combinations because you can switch to the sapper faster.\",\n \"276\"\n ],\n [\n \"it's interesting. if you can decloak behind a sniper you can two shot him instead of three with the default, without bothering to headshot with the amby, and it might help with cleaning up lit targets in some situations. The revolver will be more all-around consistent though, with the faster fire speed.\\n\\nUnban it imo. I can't imagine too many people bothering with it though.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"Maybe instead of their \\\"promised land\\\" there would actually be an \\\"Axis Protectorate of Israel\\\" somewhere in Siberia or the north of Canada... it would have avoided a lot of issues in the Middle East later on but Jews would have to live in the cold.\\n\\nThen again, I can't imagine there would have been many Jews left at all if the Nazis had their way with the world. Probably the survivors would convert (or pretend to convert) to Christianity as it happened in many countries in the Middle Ages.\",\n \"335\"\n ],\n [\n \"A lot of European countries were neutral in the war and quite a few of them had regimes who were sympathetic to <PERSON>'s. Obviously Italy to begin with, but also Portugal and Spain. Switzerland remained neutral but they received so much Nazi gold in their banks that they would probably have no qualms with them either way. Austria would be easily assimilated into Germany, probably same with Poland and Checoslovakia although some more resistance would be expected there. And so on.\\n\\nGermany wouldn't really have to conquer European countries one by one, just conquer the resistant ones (France, UK) and keep the others as satellites ruled by autonomous governments who answer to the Fuhrer in everything related to external policy. Probably something akin to an European Union would be formed, where Germany held primary power in union-wide decisions.\\n\\nOh wait...\",\n \"416\"\n ],\n [\n \"To be fair, with how good <PERSON> is at sniper, he's still just a sniper, and froyo has the right idea as far as countering him. Instead of trying to play their game and countersnipe they simply aggress together and take him out. Even if he gets one shot in, he goes down before doing irreparable damage.\\n\\nRelying on sniper too much is a mistake, regardless of how good your sniper is.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"All the sniper rifles that can headshot. I'm sorry sniper mains, I'm not going to petition for nerfs or anything, but every time I get headshot it's a one-way ticket to salt city.\\n\\nException being the huntsman, I actually respect the huntsman because it's a projectile and not simply a point and click gun. Plus it gives me a chance to reflect it if I'm on pyro.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not denying it takes skill, but it doesn't feel like a fight. Most of the tf2 action is close range and it feels like a fight, you out-DM them or you outsmart them to win. Spy has an instakill but ultimately when I get stabbed it feels like my fault for not paying attention. Getting sniped is \\\"oh. he saw me and got the click. rip.\\\"\\n\\nYou can always say \\\"don't go into sightlines then\\\" but then the sniper wins just by being there because he's doing area denial. \\\"Move more unpredictably\\\" helps against bad to average snipers, against good snipers it really doesn't matter. If he's on a good day he WILL hit you.\\n\\nIt all combines towards a feeling of \\\"there's nothing I could have done\\\" that is not fun. Even if it's balanced and skill-based.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"If I'm the one doing badly, <PERSON>. It's my main after all.\\n\\nIf my team is terrible then either soldier or heavy because they're probably the best classes to turn tides with. Demo as well but it can be hard to use him without good support.\\n\\nIf things are balanced but they have a lot of sentries and we have no medics I might take <PERSON>, or <PERSON> if I'm confident I can take the sentries without uber (direct hit soldier if it's a bad sentry that can be spammed from the other side of the map and no one else has figured it out yet)\",\n \"403\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah I get it. pyros get the same thing with the shotgun versus the various flares. at least here in EU if you're a pr0 pyro you have to use the shotgun because it \\\"actually requires aim to use\\\". and then you have gems like \\\"people who can't aim shotgun without airblasting first smh\\\" when I kill a guy with m2+meatshot.\\n\\nin NA flare is still popular because a lot of the popular pyros use it but in EU the best pyro by far uses shotgun and it started influencing the others.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"Black box is ok but it implies a certain playstyle from your part. If you're going to be more passive, spamming the flank routes to block ambushes and stuff like that it helps you survive while requiring less heals from your med. The recent nerf means it's way worse at bombing because you don't get more health from hitting multiple people, but it's still good in 1v1s if you're hitting your rockets. So you can use it to zone out the enemy scout and soldier who are your most frequent enemies on the flank.\\n\\nIf you're planning on being very aggressive and jumping their medic all the time then it's better to use the normal rocket launcher because you have one more rocket and the health on hit is much less useful on that situation.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"loose cannon + targe can be good on viaduct. Targe for survivability and the loose cannon because it's simply ridiculous on that map, so easy to get double donks just by shooting across the point. You can get so much damage that way it actually compensates for lack of stickies.\\n\\nOtherwise no, pretty much everywhere else you're going to need your stickies as they're the primary damage source.\",\n \"858\"\n ],\n [\n \"The Pyro contract where the advanced condition is getting reflect kills is bugged. As far as I know only reflects from the default rocket launcher count towards the bonus, which is really irritating when the first two reflects you get on the bonus stage are huntsman arrows and they don't count...\\n\\nAlso melee kills in the demoman contract. Not that it's hard but I hate demoknighting by principle.\",\n \"484\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah, <PERSON> and <PERSON> are viable (the chocolate bar only really applies if you don't expect to be healed *ever* by your medic, which would be kinda dumb in HL) but they don't really have a unique playstyle to them. You spin up and shoot things. There are some subtleties to it but nothing that makes for super interesting videos.\\n\\nEngineer is a different story because playing with a wrench vs the gunslinger, or rescue ranger vs the other shotguns, or pistol vs wrangler, is a massive difference in playstyle.\",\n \"1014\"\n ],\n [\n \"* backburner doesn't ruin airblast at all. It just forces you to be very careful about ammo management, and in almost any fight you shouldn't need more than two airblasts. If you need three, you're probably either overcommitting or messed up at some point. I like the backburner better than stock because if you manage your ammo well it does the same things as stock while giving you easy kills on whoever turns their back on you.\\n\\n* phlog is not a good choice in comp because of no airblast but you can easily destroy servers with it. It's just a matter of playing passive until you have mmph (which you gain very easily with scorch shot, detonator, or just burning a couple of spies), and then finding the right angle to jump in and wreak havoc. phlog is basically the 2007 ambush pyro valve wanted, buffed to be somewhat viable in the modern tf world.\\n\\n* TBH the one flamethrower I don't like at all is stock because it's essentially the degreaser but worse. The damage bonus is really small and the weapon switch bonus is way too good to give up.\",\n \"858\"\n ],\n [\n \"It does make coordinate sapping way easier though. Watching good teams play they usually have a dh soldier or loch demo in position as soon as the sapper goes in and smash the sentry in two hits before it can even unsap. If you make it take three hits this becomes much easier. Then again, it would probably be way more frustrating to stab and sap, get chased down by some pyro, and have that pyro come back and unsap the sentry because your team wasn't in position (or worse, the engie respawning...)\\n\\nThis would also be the bane of minisentries since you can no longer let it go down and build another one, you can't build at all unless you go unsap it or someone else takes it down.\\n\\nhmmm yeah I think it sounds good. Although as pyro main I'm not sure if I approve of things that make me run homewrecker >_>\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"Borneo has been in UGC several times, I played it way back in season 11.\\n\\nWarmtic was played last season in ETF2L and was ... eh. Not as much of a sniper heaven as lakeside but almost, very very open map with only a couple of covered flanks, effectively the team that spams and snipes most effectively wins. Pyro is very limited in this map unless you eat tons of heals - essentially you spycheck, control the tunnel flank, watch the sky for bombers and that's it.\\n\\nBadwater pro still seems unnecessary to me, it doesn't really add anything to the original badwater besides making the 3rd point push slightly easier (which I think only really needed removing the dispenser spot for spies to be able to get in). \\n\\nNever heard of this vanguard, but eh, guess there's always the token new map to experiment even if most likely people won't like it and it will be scrapped like glassworks/ramjam/haunt/etc were.\",\n \"551\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah if you say \\\"she totally friendzoned me\\\" I get what you mean. I guess it's the active vs passive understanding of the word. Active is laying the blame on the person you're attracted to which is pretty shitty of you. Passive, \\\"I like X a lot but I'm stuck in the friend zone\\\" might set off a red light in some but it's basically \\\"she doesn't like me that way but still wants to be friends, and I'm going along with the friend situation because as much as it hurts me that I can't date her I still want to be able to talk to her and see her\\\". Which is not morally wrong, it's just sad and self-destructive, and there are the two obvious better options - being able to accept internally that it's not gonna happen and search for love elsewhere while keeping the friendship (very hard), or stopping contact with the person altogether (also hard but not as much once the clean break is done)\",\n \"970\"\n ],\n [\n \"Competitive seemed like the only way to actually play \\\"team fortress 2\\\" instead of \\\"chaotic objective-disregarding single player pub fortress adventures\\\".\\n\\nSome of you guys had your first hundreds of hours in community servers where people actually used mics and played the objective, but mine were either a Polish 24/7 Dustbowl server where I pocketed my best friend or the Skial 24/7 Harvest server. I didn't know some community servers were actually good until I watched certain youtube videos.\",\n \"674\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's a bit like the force-a-nature, if you put your time on it and really learn the weapon I think it can be quite good, but the scattergun is more reliable, easier to learn and more forgiving, while still having higher DPS potential in most situations.\\n\\nJust to put it in perspective, you can miss 4 shots with the scattergun and then throw 2 meatshots for 100+ damage and kill a soldier, but the shortstop has a clip of 4 and needs you to hit at least 3, probably 4 good shots if you're not standing on his face to kill the same soldier. (and you want to be kinda mid-range to use the shortstop)\\n\\nto conclude, give it a shot by all means, but if you're playing competitive you should practice the scattergun as well so you have something tried and tested to fall back to.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"I suggest opening a local server and studying the sixes maps with the winger to see what sort of jumps you can do that a) you couldn't do with stock b) can be useful in the actual game, and base your decision off of that. Winger is definitely a good sidegrade but it depends on whether you find those useful jumps and how much you use the pistol to shoot people. (Personally I only whip the pistol if I know someone is extremely lit and needs 1-3 pistol shots to kill, so the winger is fine, maybe even beneficial there as it has that damage bonus)\",\n \"964\"\n ],\n [\n \"I want to say pyro doesn't require almost any talking but there have been times where yelling \\\"spy\\\" even if you're already burning the guy is the difference between your teammate turning around and getting stabbed. But apart from spy calls you don't talk much if you're the \\\"classic\\\" passive pyro. Pyros who take heals and ubers or play very aggro on the flank will need to talk more but I've gone through many games barely uttering a word.\",\n \"928\"\n ],\n [\n \"I like the scorch shot a lot despite only pulling it out occasionally in scrims. I almost always use it in my first life on payload offence to defuse sticky traps and long-distance spam trying to harass the sniper. Also it's really good on ashville because the small jump is enough to get you on either of the roofs to the sides of the point, giving you a height advantage spot to spam flares at people, or an opportunity to surprise their sniper if he's sitting alone on battlements.\\n\\nThe detonator is also fine for these purposes but it doesn't have the knockback which is another great feature of the scorch, incredibly annoying for heavies in particular (if you pick your spots right you can even stuff an uber from a safe distance). Not to mention that if you get a direct with the scorch shot and the flare bounces back into your target, you can do 50+ damage off one shot. the detonator can't do that.\\n\\nBut overall, besides the situations I mentioned, I'd only recommend the scorch/detonator full time if you want to be very passive and not engage enemies head-on, focusing on spychecking, pushing bombers and flankers away and long-range spam. The flare gun is great for playing a combo/flank mixed playstyle because it gives you easy kills on light classes, and the shotgun is unbeatable in aggressive combo play because it gives you by far the highest DPM of any pyro secondary if you're playing close enough to use it.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think the buff banner was used occasionally (in HL) before the conch got buffed but now the conch is way better for team pushes. The main difference is the speed boost - while an aware team can easily get out of the way of a buff banner push, the conch push can effectively chase them down as they retreat.\",\n \"104\"\n ],\n [\n \"tr_pyro_compression is a pretty good map if you want to practice against bots, but the real challenge in reflecting is when fighting against people who intentionally time their shots awkwardly to throw you off, especially close range - reflecting long range should be trivial but close range you have to rely on prediction mostly. There's no better practice for those than playing against real people, be it pubs or MGE.\\n\\nAs for aiming reflects, this shouldn't be your primary concern as reflecting's main goal is to keep damage away from you and your team, but the best way to learn this would be to play some soldier and demo, learn to aim rockets and pipes that way, and the skill is transferrable to pyro.\",\n \"835\"\n ],\n [\n \"You have to examine whether you are properly focused when playing. I've been through stints myself where I'd play for hours and just get worse and worse because I was tired, unfocused, in a bad mood etc. If you're feeling like that you're better off not playing and wait until you're in better conditions to practice. Half an hour of mindful, attentive practice is better than 5 hours of braindead gaming where your mind has gone on autopilot.\",\n \"539\"\n ],\n [\n \"The existence of the gun mettle campaign pass for contracts and now the invasion pass seem to point towards there being a competitive matchmaking pass around the same price when it comes out.\\n\\nI think it's okay to have it because it should reduce the number of trolls or people with 0 hours joining in completely clueless, at least you need the conscious act of spending those few dollars on the pass to play. Not so sure about hackers though. I've heard that stuff like lmaobox costs $20 so adding an extra $5 to that hardly makes a difference. Valve better be working hard on breaking the hacks that still work.\",\n \"448\"\n ],\n [\n \"they did make spy better when they nerfed the DR though. The IW and CnD got buffed with 20% damage resist while cloaked, CnD got on top of that the ability to refill cloak with ammo as long as you're uncloaked which massively increases mobility (especially since you get cloak from stabs), the kunai is actually viable now, same with the big earner, and l'étranger synergizes greatly with the new changes. DR may be worse but spy as a whole is arguably better.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"but pub pyro is great! that's where you forget the support role of HL pyro and just do your best to kill everyone on the enemy team and make them ragequit because someone right clicked on them. Seriously just walk forward, overextend, take fights you shouldn't take and try to win them. Then go play your scrims and don't do any of those things lol... but your dm will improve and you'll be more confident of what fights you CAN take.\\n\\nAlternatively play other classes in pubs, pyro isn't something that you need to constantly be practising to be good at.\",\n \"332\"\n ],\n [\n \"Scorch Shot is situationally really good already. Some points where I know I won't be close enough to enemies to aggress on them, points where it's easy to spam the sniper and deny him, denying E on steel.\\n\\nFor everything else the shotgun was already pretty much the meta and if this isn't reverted it will be pretty much the only option.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"My theory on what happened for the flare gun to get minicrits with this bug is that as people from that time will remember, flare gun upon release didn't have any crit mechanism, then they added minicrits on burning targets, and eventually amped that up to full crits (there was some shit about only being able to crit on long range for a while and then it went away)\\n\\nI imagine that when they added the full crits they didn't bother to remove the code for minicrits because crits are set to override minicrits at all time, so it was fine anyway... unless that override mechanism gets bugged out. Oh well, glad it's fixed.\",\n \"260\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, TF2 had a price tag and was cross-platform on release back in 2007... things could change for overwatch in the future (although I doubt blizzard is that interested in making it f2p later on)\\n\\nRegardless I think I'll shell out the cash, game looks super interesting and very diverse from TF2 in that DM, while very important on certain characters, does not necessarily win or lose a game, and the balance of tanks, supports and ultimates means teamwork is much more necessary to win.\\n\\nIn the same way that TF2 is a step away from arena shooters (quake/UT/reflex etc) to include support and defensive classes and more influence of teamwork and coordination in a match's outcome, I see Overwatch as taking a few steps further in that direction.\",\n \"702\"\n ],\n [\n \"DOTA has way more heroes than that and it's a successful e-sport. Sure not everything will be balanced, but the competitive scene can mold around it. In the same way that 6v6 in TF2 almost requires scouts, soldiers, demo and medic, it's possible that stuff like Mercy/Widow/McCree will be almost obligatory in Overwatch and other characters like Symmetra are played only situationally (and in the case of Torbjorn not at all?).\",\n \"117\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't think I can list 9, but\\n\\n* sniper rifle\\n\\n* machina\\n\\n* bazaar bargain\\n\\n* hitman's heatmaker\\n\\n* ambassador\\n\\nI just hate headshots, nothing makes me madder than getting killed from across the map and not being able to shoot back and do more than 3 damage. Exception is the huntsman because at least you can dodge it or reflect it as pyro.\\n\\nHonorable mention to demoknights, not because they're hard to deal with, but the odd time I get killed by one it's just so embarrassing.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well what you find in TF2 playing 5CP is that there's a huge emphasis on mobility to be able to push points efficiently. What I guess this means in Overwatch is most tanks and defence units like Torbjorn/Bastion would be extremely hard to use except when holding last, a Lúcio on your team for speed boost would be insanely important and Tracer would be kinda OP. I guess that's what they mean with roles going away, they want every type of character to be relevant at all times - which obviously doesn't happen in TF2 competitive.\\n\\nI still hope KOTH gets played in overwatch because it's my favourite gamemode in tf2.\",\n \"104\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think you're underestimating <PERSON> a bit. Sure, his primary isn't as reliable as widow's but the scatter arrow on chokepoints is ridiculous and he can get wallhacks more often than widow even if they're just on a AoE. While widow is undeniably stronger in very open points I think <PERSON> is just as good on the chokier, tighter areas. Plus he has a better chance of hitting close range shots when pressured than widow.\",\n \"1014\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am one of those people. 26 and never voted. When you live in a country where the two big parties are essentially one and the same thing and the smaller ones are either literal communists (I'm not talking social-democracy, I'm talking \\\"USSR was a good thing\\\") or fringe parties that only fight for one particular cause, it's really hard to see the point of taking it to the urn. I have a bunch of friends my age who are passionate about politics and chastise me for being like this, but until there is a party I actually want to vote *for* in my country, I doubt I'll change my view.\",\n \"827\"\n ],\n [\n \"You have to evaluate the positioning of your team relative to theirs. I'd say the only situation where you should suicide to push the uber back is if your team is caught completely out of position with no uber of their own and does not have time to retreat. Otherwise you're just giving them a free pick. That said there are differences in how you airblast.\\n\\n* If they uber far away from you and your team has space to retreat don't do anything, simply pull back as well. Instead check for flanks and spies because usually they'll use the uber as a distraction.\\n\\n* If they're trying to push around a corner you can often do fine with just a couple of puffs and running away. Remember you ONLY need to push them for long enough that your team can escape, sometimes just 1 or 2 seconds accomplishes that. But if you position yourself well in the corner you can sometimes stuff the entire uber while still staying alive.\\n\\n* If your team has uber as well, it depends on whether it's offence or defence. In offence if they push aggressively into you it's more important to guarantee that they don't force you in a bad spot, and it's usually worth suiciding to guarantee that, because you have fast spawns and can repush with them. On defence however you should try really hard to stay alive, it's better to have the medic pop on you to push them back and reset ubers than have you die and possibly other people while blu pushes in with their own fast spawns. It's a more or less general rule that deaths on offence matter much less than defence.\\n\\nI think a lot of pyros don't value their lives enough because of the class's status in the game, but one more body in the field can make all the difference sometimes. Post-uber teamfights tend to be one of the pyro's best opportunities to kill people as things become chaotic and your enemy tries desperately to retreat or get people on the point/cart.\",\n \"279\"\n ],\n [\n \"EU Gold - our official went to golden cap with long pauses and lasted almost two hours because of that >_> I didn't get to play the golden cap because I had other commitments and we lost. I think that out of 5 losses 3 were golden cap for our team... but we were playing just for fun and only did a warmup scrim on mondays every week. I think the team is dead now because the leader is leaving TF2 and I'm probably sticking to ETF2L from now on, it's too much work playing in two leagues and ETF2L is \\\"the big one\\\" around here.\\n\\nI actually thought the map wasn't bad but they need to address the lobby area on last. Because of having only two entrances into last who are both pretty chokey it's incredibly hard to push out of last, and the spawn times are strangely fast for the defending team which makes pushing into last also really hard. Apart from that I played detonator almost the whole game and it worked pretty well, even managed to det jump into a medic kill\",\n \"982\"\n ],\n [\n \"The only place where I've seen running a shield being somewhat effective is KOTH maps with the targe + loose cannon or loch n load combo. Now both are banned in UGC (ETF2L allows them) and I don't think this works that well with normal pipes but the thought behind is NOT to charge at people, but having the targe on for damage resistance and less need for heals, and the loose cannon because you get free double donks from spamming across the point in most maps (better ones being warmtic and viaduct). \\n\\nDoing this I've seen some demos achieving higher DPM than with stickies, but it only works if you're European and can use shitty unlocks or you have the pipes of a god.\\n\\nOtherwise, keep your shields out of my lobbies pls.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"or that, but this is basically not the reserve shooter any more. As I said I think having a shotgun unlock for pyro and soldier is good, it's just that the current one is OP.\\n\\nPeople would call the current RS broken on soldier too if it had ever been allowed in sixes, but there's basically no use for a shotgun on soldier unless you're playing pocket and even minicrits won't change that, which is why no one complained about it in HL where you're just using gunboats or conch all the time.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Not only does it do less damage and removes switch speed\\n\\nnot true, it wouldn't cancel the degreaser's switch speed and it has the same damage as the default shotgun.\\n\\n> This weapon just shouldn't be allowed to deny jumpers\\n\\nIt wouldn't be an extraordinary thing if it does. Any hitscan weapon does knockback, which is why you can deny jumpers as heavy by holding them in the air and as scout with a good shot. The effect on this shotgun would be increased from that, but smaller than something like force-a-nature/loose cannon, and I think it's fitting with pyro's support role.\\n\\nAlso it wouldn't do knockback on enemies that aren't in the air, so if the goal is to kill you're better off either not airblasting and shooting them in the ground or pushing them into a corner or wall like you'd do with other guns. Of course you have to be a little bit smart and not pop people into the air and push them away when you have an easy kill available.\\n\\nAs for soldier, no one really uses any shotgun unless it's on sixes pocket. The current RS would never be allowed in sixes but this version might, and it would be useful if you can stop a chain jumping soldier or demo bomb on its tracks. Getting the airshot rocket is awesome but unreliable, so you can just shoot them with this and deny most of the bomb or if you're ballsy get the airshot and then quickswitch and shoot them completely clear of your med and hopefully into a crater.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you read their last [blog post](http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=18409) that mentioned matchmaking correctly you already know this pretty much. Notice how it talks about the major update that's coming in the end of the year, presumably Smissmas, *and only then* mentions that they're also working on the other stuff which includes matchmaking, implying that those things would come after the update and therefore 2016.\\n\\nWhile a couple of very small performance improvement updates and Mannpower came out early, I wouldn't be surprised if they just shipped mannpower early because they figured out no one gave a shit about it anyway, and I would be very disappointed if there weren't more significant performance-related updates coming out later.\",\n \"405\"\n ],\n [\n \"General answer: see other comments\\n\\n<PERSON> main answer: you don't really gain that much from playing MGE as pyro since it's a class more based in positioning and prediction than mechanical skill. That said, some MGE servers allow all classes and the two pyro matchups you'll see (very few) people practising are\\n\\n* Pyro v Soldier - for pyros it can help with reflect practice and predicting soldiers, but most people will tell you that soldiers in MGE will play very differently from what they do in actual games, so it's questionable how much it really helps. For HL soldiers I would say this is somewhat helpful to learn how to shoot through pyros without getting reflected (conceptually easy, you just have to abuse splash damage hard and bait airblasts when possible - but it's incredible how many high level soldier mains refuse to learn this and feed pyros in matches). Truth is unless you convince a friend to come you probably won't find a soldier main willing to play this with you though.\\n\\n* Pyro v Pyro - as dumb as it sounds, some people do this. The goal is usually to practice flamethrower tracking, movement and flarepunching and there's actually some merit to this since with how borked the flamethrower is as a weapon in general, you want to learn how to make the most of it (short guide - you want to lead the targets instead of aiming directly at them, but how much you need to lead depends on your ping, which often means you need to change your aim on the fly). You won't really get what I mean until you get 20-0'd by one of those few pyros who MGE regularly, it's happened to me. Either way it's something you do a couple of times to see how it works and then ditch it. It's not something that is going to make you particularly better in a HL setup since despite there being some subtleties to it, flamethrower is still pretty easy.\\n\\nYou could also play shotgun only MGE if you want to work on shotgun aim but that can be worked on by playing soldier or scout MGE and you'll have a much easier time finding partners for those.\",\n \"952\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's a funny idea but the thing with spy disguising is that items like this that reduce the ways in which you can tell a spy will only make people even more paranoid, spychecking every teammate around them regardless of whether they're acting suspicious, firing a weapon or not. It would confuse people in the beginning but then they would get used to it.\\n\\nNot to mention that giving away the spy's revolver entirely to play like this is a massive downside.\",\n \"791\"\n ],\n [\n \"Tips from a pyro main who likes spy a lot:\\n\\n* I'm guessing most pyros at your level are obsessed with spychecking and never leave the medic's butt. Best strategy is to get picks away from the pyro. This can mean annoy the flank classes or go for the sniper over and over if he isn't playing on the combo as well. However since a lot of pyros will be somewhat behind the rest of the combo as a push happens, even if the med pick is impossible, you can often get the demo or heavy by decloaking from height or a blind spot instead of strictly behind, where the pyro is more likely to be looking. So basically don't feel like you always need the med pick, and go for whatever you can get if you feel like you can get out alive or stuff their push (demo or heavy pick is almost as good as medic in that regard)\\n\\n* while the amby is really strong, so is the stock revolver if you can single out people with low health. I'd recommend work more on cloak management so you don't have to use l'étranger and being a decent revolver spy is pretty easy with some practice - you can go on pubs with DR and just shoot as many people as you can, or get good at scout, since the essentials are basically the same. At least for me, aiming for meatshots comes much more naturally than headshots.\\n\\n* if you're having a bad game in terms of frags it's never a bad idea to go cloak and dagger and focus on calls, and when a pick is needed ask someone in your team for a distraction that might net you a stab. Here in Europe the abundance of \\\"DM spies\\\" that prioritize their logs over anything made people forget about the intelligence aspect of spy but if you can give your team information that they wouldn't have otherwise, it's already a good thing.\",\n \"835\"\n ],\n [\n \"this is not good because if one player has a strong game but the rest of his team lags behind and inevitably loses then the entire team is punished and said strong player is stopped from advancing until he gets lucky with the matchup. I think win/loss should be a part of MMR but individual stats should have an impact too.\\n\\nThis is especially true for classes like medic where even if you play to the best of your abilities, if you're on a team with wildly worse DM than the other you can't really do much to save them.\",\n \"273\"\n ],\n [\n \"I was thinking of making my own video on this but it would be just cluttering the boards at this point.\\n\\nThe main thing for pyro balance is that his main weapon, the flamethrower, is the easiest to use primary of any class. No matter how much you talk about mojo and tracking you can't deny walking at someone and setting them on fire takes almost zero skill. A low-skilled mechanic needs to have a low reward (aka relatively low damage) to it, otherwise there would be no point in practising higher-skilled classes or weapons. Why be a scout and work on your aim if you can walk at people, not aim and do the same or better? That's why the flamethrower has weak damage. Of course this means once you master more skilled and powerful classes you'll destroy pyros, but that's pretty much how things work. To compensate for how dumb the flamethrower is valve added airblast and unlocks like degreaser/axe etc to change the way pyro is played from w+m1 basic but ineffective to playing around combos, reflects and your secondary, things that take a little more skill and make the reward for playing pyro a bit higher. And here's where <PERSON> and others start complaining about airblast, because unlike the flamethrower itself, it's an easy to use mechanic (reflects may be acceptably hard but pushing ubered players back is something even a guy who installed the game 20 minutes ago can do) that has a really high reward when you can deny an uber or a bomb. It is broken in that aspect, but it is compensated by how weak the damage output and mediocre the mobility is in the class.\\n\\nMy point here is if you consider skill vs reward trade-off then Pyro is balanced. Making him worse by nerfing degreaser or airblast itself would make him beyond useless and buffing other things would make him incredibly frustrating, at least at lower levels of play. If you think the class design is stupid, well I agree with you since it's a class with an ill-defined role, braindead and buggy mechanics and becomes almost irrelevant at high levels of play, but you can't really say it's broken. It's balanced in its own stupid, improvised way.\\n\\nIn my opinion if you want to change pyro little tweaks in numbers aren't enough, you have to change EVERYTHING about it. Starting with the flamethrower. Walking at people is too easy? Make it work like a Quake LG so you have to track people correctly and the range is fixed instead of being the network-dependent bullshit it is. Once you have an at least somewhat skill-based mechanic to work on you can work on the rewards. Maybe damage can rampup over time provided you track perfectly, and resets if you miss. Maybe the flamethrower damage bonus over degreaser can actually mean something so LG fanatics would take the flamethrower while combo and shotgun fans stick with degreaser. Maybe you can nerf airblast (stunlock should go regardless of other changes) or make it work differently on different flamethrowers. Maybe normal right clicking can work on projectiles but you have to charge it up to be able to push people like some people said. There are so many things you can do if you work on this skill vs reward trade-off.\\n\\nBut if Valve isn't willing to go all out on something like this, I prefer they leave pyro as it is. It's still a fun class that can do pretty flashy stuff when the stars align and trying to buff or nerf it based on a fundamentally bad design is to me a bad idea.\",\n \"604\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't hear people saying \\\"<PERSON> please buff pyro I can't kill anyone in my steel scrims\\\", I hear people talking about the current balance of pyro and how it could be improved both for playing as him or against him. I don't think having that discussion is robbing us pyro players of valuable time we could be spending getting better at pyro or changing mains to something else.\\n\\nIf anything I see a lot of pyro mains getting butthurt about how no one takes them seriously as players in the same way they take scout/soldier/demo/sniper mains seriously because of what the class is. Well I own up to it. I'm a bad player who plays a bad class. You still need one of us in your HL team though.\",\n \"165\"\n ],\n [\n \"Couldn't we just switch bullet and explosive around so the DDS would have +25 health, +20% explosive resistance but +20% bullet vulnerability? That would leave you able to tank a lot of explosive spam and with a better chance of surviving bombs but you still get screwed by scouts and amby spies and doesn't really change much on sniper v sniper.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"You can't flarepunch a pyro in normal conditions. You might be able to do it jumping off a high place like people used to do for axe crits before but not on the ground.\\n\\nIt's going to be a bit harder to pull off the usual degreaser flare combos but I think they'll be viable still, it's just that shotgun is so damn strong already. Degreaser/shotgun was already the meta in EU and now I think it is so even more, but maybe stock/shotgun is just as good now. Maybe even stock/detonator if you like long range spam. Who knows.\\n\\nThe axtinguisher is laughably bad, though, it legit feels like it takes a billion years to switch to it.\\n\\nedit - after <PERSON>'s reply I went on walkway a bit more and with 50-60 ping it seems to be possible, you just have to abuse the particle travel time to the limit. It's definitely harder though.\",\n \"858\"\n ],\n [\n \"I would love this update if it were paired with a lightning gun-ish flamethrower (extremely reduced cone of flames, faster particle travel and fix your damn netcode so the mojo bullshit doesn't happen) that actually took some minimal amount of tracking to use well. Then it makes more sense to buff flamer damage, nerf degreaser combos while still keeping them okayish, and remove airblast stunlock.\\n\\nLike this I think it's just making w+m1 too easy and that's a playstyle that will never be fun for a pyro player, and for people going against the pyro it's either you mince him quickly from range or you're melted yourself which can't be too fun. The buff on stock damage is pretty crazy but the phlog is absolutely insane now.\",\n \"484\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's kinda stupid because you shouldn't be penalized for catching an enemy off guard, and said enemy shouldn't be penalized for turning around and catching you. Not to mention encouraging w+m1 into the enemy's faces.\\n\\nNo, the only thing the phlog needs is the tough break changes to be reverted. Note that it *still ends up buffed* in that scenario, because of the lower flame damage falloff applying to all flamethrowers and the faster weapon switch which enables things like phlog/shotgun (a loadout which I like, or used to like anyway) to be a little more competitive even in HL scenarios.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"it's 120 damage max. I agree with the comment though. I'm not sure whether the reserve shooter makes pyro too strong in a HL setting - it probably doesn't - but at this point it's clearly better than the shotgun, which is IMO a good measure to say it needs nerfing, since the shotgun is very strong itself and one of the most balanced weapons in the whole game.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"The problem is more that \\\"carry snipers\\\" will often stay near the combo and be buffed to 185 on most key moments where a sniper pick is needed. That means you need two headshots to kill the sniper (at least, because he could still survive with continuous heals) and usually as soon as you get the first one you'll get attention from the enemy team and it will be really hard to finish him off before dying. Ideally as a spy you want to die for a combo class / engie nest, not *maybe* a sniper pick so with those combo snipers spies just kind of end up not going for it\\n\\n... unless they are literally amby gods and can effortlessly outdm a sniper from long range.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think the real downfall of the vaccinator is inconsistency. There are situations where it can be really good but it's a hard weapon to use and so easy to counter when misused. Popped a bad uber? It's still an uber, enemy has to kite it at the very least. Popped a bad kritz? They still have to be careful that they don't get hit from across the map. But popping the wrong vacc resistance at the wrong time is the same thing as not having it at all, you just get minced.\",\n \"266\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think a little bit like overwatch is doing, you'll have to forget about the concept of \\\"maining\\\" one class. There aren't going to be class-specific ranks, just global ones, and it's likely you have to change classes within a game. So while you might get away with playing only medic all the time because not a lot of people are going to want to play him, you're encouraged to get at least decent at every class.\",\n \"960\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, the switch speed from stock to reserve shooter is basically the same as degreaser to shotgun. The switch back is slower, though, which might make a difference towards weapon heckling soldiers and stuff like that. Still an almost straight upgrade in a lot of circumstances, but the reserve shooter won't get unbanned until a further nerf (well, in UGC anyway. I wouldn't be so sure about ETF2L because they've been pushing hard towards allowing almost everything). Bring back the clip of 3? idk \\n\\nAs far as stock flamethrower on its own, I'm gonna go ahead and say stock/shotgun is *decent*. Worse than degreaser in aggressive play but not by a lot, and it can help you out if you're the kind of guy that will try to peek in for quick damage and back out, as stock afterburn is pretty decent in discouraging a push without medic or health kit. \\n\\nIf you're a degreaser flare player this doesn't make a difference as if you hit a crit flare you'll have stock afterburn anyway, but I think flare mains have their days numbered. Shotgun was already way better DPS-wise before the update and now it's even more noticeable with flare combos made just that little smidge easier to dodge.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you're in dm or mge your brain is entirely focused on aiming and mechanics, whereas in scrims you are actively thinking about the current game situation, your team's calls, plans for the next play to make, etc so all of that can be a little overwhelming. I think it's normal to be a little worse in the actual game than in training modes, so account for that and don't rely on your DM to get you out of bad situations just because you could do it on the dm server. Although, you shouldn't be doing that anyway.\\n\\nAlso it can be stress-related. Do you feel yourself getting nervous in games?\",\n \"539\"\n ],\n [\n \"I liked cp_powerhouse for being a map that somehow wills people on to tryhard and actually care for the objective, something few maps achieve in pubs. Also the 3CP map has some much more dynamic and interesting tug-of-war mechanics than 5CP (again, for pubs. competitive is a different story although I'd love to see this map tested in sixes), where rounds seem to go into either absolute rolls or one team endlessly stuck in their own last with several sentries. You actually see a lot of powerhouse rounds going from one team's last to the other and then back, and every time someone starts a cap it's a tense moment.\\n\\nI also oddly liked mannpower. I don't play it super often and I think people are right in not taking it seriously as a gamemode but it's crazy, wacky, fun, and gives certain classes opportunities that they won't have in the real game, divebombing with a minigun as heavy, all sorts of airstab shenanigans on spy, the true powerhouse that is vampire pyro.\",\n \"551\"\n ],\n [\n \"Some EU prem players were discussing it in twitch chat yesterday and the spies' opinions came down to \\\"we have the amby, we don't need to stab them\\\". Probably a little bit of ego talking, but we're talking about spies that regularly get more headshots than the snipers in logs and will have no issue getting a double headshot on a sniper and DR out, so maybe that's the answer?\\n\\nPersonally I dislike that answer because it puts stock revolver users at a big disadvantage, but what do I know, I play pyro and by definition that means I can't aim.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm a pyro main and I voted pyro. Essentially, this is the class that would change the game the least if it were removed right now, as it doesn't have a defined role beyond denying other classes' abilities and incorporating weaker versions of said abilities through unlocks. What would tf2 be without pyros?\\n\\n* pubs: probably the beginner players who w+m1 around would default to heavy, medic or engineer. Would spy be a problem? No more than now. Pub pyros rarely commit themselves to spychecking, either they're too brainless to do it or don't care for it because getting kills is more fun. If anything people might learn to actually look for spies themselves instead of relying on another class to do that and only that.\\n\\n* 6s pyro is barely even a thing, it helps defending last on a couple of maps but the guy who would normally go pyro in those circumstances is probably fine taking heavy, engineer if there's enough time for it, or just not offclassing at all. If anything the game would be faster.\\n\\n* In highlander, apart from the fact that it's 8v8 now, I don't think that much changes. Pyro is a low frag, low damage class except in very exceptional circumstances (or you are a god with the shotgun, in which case you would be better off playing scout). A lot of pushes are made easier because denying ubers is harder, possibly some demos equip loose cannon to try and replicate it in some points (badwater 1st cliff hold for example). Scouts and soldiers rotate to the combo more often because there's extra heals available to them and they participate in ubers more. Bad teams are ravaged by spies but good teams adapt quickly and their flank classes and heavy become more responsible for spychecking - milk becomes a must for scouts. While spy is definitely better off, he's not left overpowered by any means except against teams with really bad awareness. Gun spies are not countered by pyros as it is, and knife spies are countered by team awareness, although a pyro makes it easier.\\n\\nNot that much of a difference. Plus everyone hates pyro. Even pyros hate pyro - it's the most glitchy and inconsistent class in the game and that makes it just as unfun to play as it is to play against. It's just everything that could go wrong in game design, gone wrong.\",\n \"952\"\n ],\n [\n \"Removing engie would make payload and attack/defence into almost irrelevant gamemodes. You would just have blu team's flanks constantly suiciding in until they have a force or a couple of picks and that would almost entirely guarantee a successful push, thanks to faster spawns and no sentry to destroy. It also makes uber less of an issue because once again with number advantage you should be able to win a push without waiting for uber, while if there's a sentry and the engie can keep it safe from long range spam, blu team pretty much has to wait for uber.\\n\\nEngie is definitely unfun to go against in pubs but he's a key part of defending and the game needs him.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, it would be completely different from what it is now, but unless there were other changes designed to fill in for the lack of a medic, it would be a much worse game. Medic is one of the few things that truly enforce teamwork in tf2 as you need to protect him and push together with ubercharge. Without him, the game becomes incredibly more DM-based and players are less aggressive because of no overheals and no easy way to get health back if you're hurt. Also some engineer holds would become almost unbreakable (although removing the wrangler could probably fix this).\\n\\nI could see tf2 without a medic class but there would have to be items added to other classes that incorporated his role in some ways. The sniper could be given the crossbow as a secondary so he can heal people from his normal spots, soldier could have a banner that heals people around him when popped, and of course items like the mad milk, sandvich and the dispenser would play a massive role, maybe with some changes to them. (maybe the sandvich regens quicker or heavy can throw more than one to his team) Hell, maybe you could apply MvM uber and kritz canteens on the normal game, subject to cooldowns instead of buying them? I feel we're getting too much into Overwatch realm though.\",\n \"533\"\n ],\n [\n \"The thing that I would like to see on sniper is quickscopes nerfed. The game needs a long range class to break certain stalemates with key picks and police sightlines, but quickscoping helps them put out some crazy damage and makes them unnecessarily strong in medium to short range. Valve created the charge shot mechanic to discourage quickscoping in favour of holding sightlines and yeah, \\\"camping\\\", but they didn't realize how much damage 150 is.\\n\\nRight now there's a 0.2 second delay between your pressing m2 and actually being able to get a headshot, increase that to 0.5 and suddenly a sniper who isn't already scoped becomes much less scary. If you get killed by a sniper hardscoping it's your own damn fault, but he shouldn't be able to jump out of a corner and OHK your medic before anyone can reasonably kill him.\\n\\nAlso sniper v sniper would be less of a second-scoping shitfest and more about outpositioning the other sniper.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"Depends on what valve changes between now and MM going actually live. While I heavily doubt they'll introduce any weapon bans since part of their goal is using MM data to balance weapons, there are other things like the map pool and class limits that are far from being decided.\\n\\nYou can debate about what unlocks are good/op assuming things stay as they are, but when people start running crit-a-cola all the time on scout or the danger shield on sniper they will surely ponder nerfing these items.\\n\\nI don't think MM will have a strict \\\"meta\\\" though. The skill level will be pretty low except maybe at the very highest ranks, and you'll have people basically doing what they want, with varying results. There will be pyro/spy/engie/heavy/sniper mains trying their hardest to rank up as those classes, groups of friends queuing up and playing with whatever goofy strats they want, and probably a good amount of rock/paper/scissors class changes depending on what the good players are on each team.\",\n \"533\"\n ],\n [\n \"Meta is the same as always, nothing too dramatic was changed apart from the small DR buff which makes it about as good as it was before the gun mettle nerf IMO.\\n\\nDR is good at complimenting a gun-heavy harassment playstyle, especially with the amby, IW is good at roaming and taking the picks you can get, CnD is good at looking for key picks on stalemates.\",\n \"1023\"\n ],\n [\n \"I made my first team with the same friend that introduced me to tf2, him as heavy and me as medic. He brought most of the people in because at the time I had almost no connections in the community but he did, and we fumbled around to 4-4 in Euro Steel back when Iron didn't exist. Unfortunately we didn't get along as well in-game as we did IRL and <PERSON> was really bad so the team ended after that season (along with some people leaving tf2 for Dota).\\n\\nStupid fact: my username is that team's tag together with the alias I went by back then... don't pick usernames like that, guys, especially when you can't change them.\",\n \"915\"\n ],\n [\n \"The main tip I can give from the 4s I've played is people must play together. With only 4 players, if one of them decides to run around behind enemy lines you're left with 2v3 in fighting classes if the enemy decides to push together on you. While someone (usually scout or gunboats solly) should watch the flank when holding the point, he should stay within LOS of the medic and get healed as often as possible since the maps are small enough to do that.\\n\\nAlso quick-fix and vaccinator are both banned so you're stuck with either kritz or uber, kritz is great if you can use advantages effectively but uber is the safest option in general, especially for holding.\",\n \"464\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, you can pickup mediguns with full uber which is really stupid, but this is banned or disabled from every comp league so you shouldn't have to worry about it.\\n\\ntf2center is alive and well although there are people developing an alternative site called tf2stadium hoping to provide a better service. that's still in construction though. If you're higher level there's tf2pickup in europe and tf2pug.me in NA.\\n\\nLoose cannon is definitely not as good but it's still usable. The reduced knockback does make it hard to deny ubers but at the same time it makes it slightly easier to time doubledonks, since it's less likely the target will be pushed away from the explosion. From what I've seen in streams and stuff people seem to be experimenting with the wee booties because of the 10% speed boost they give along with extra health. Quickiebombs are also seeing use but they're more questionable I guess.\\n\\nAlso seeing people using vaccinator in 6s but I can't really tell if it's useful or just a gimmick play.\",\n \"104\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah, as a guy who doesn't play much demo I love the quickiebombs because I'm shit at actual stickies lol. But in general it feels a lot easier to both sticky snipe in long range with the faster charge, and fight people at really close range because you can shoot at their feet and nearly insta-det. Medium range is going to be better with stickies though. I think.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"Nice vid, you should show this to EU prem medics 8).\\n\\nOne thing that also helps in terms of predicting spy moments is knowing what your pyro is doing. While over-relying on pyro for spychecking is bad, spies will try to avoid him when going for plays if at all possible. The most obvious example is making a play when the pyro dies, but also when they push with uber, you don't have it yet and the pyro is committed to airblasting them? spy's almost 100% sure to attack if he's in position. I've lost so many medics to that shit.\",\n \"835\"\n ],\n [\n \"I had a soft spot for the kunai before but since its gun mettle buff, together with the cloak and dagger buff, I think kunai/cnd/l'étranger is the best loadout for most pubs. There's always someone to stab, and l'étranger's cloak buff and the ability to refill it with ammo packs means there's no disadvantage in running CnD compared to IW. Plus it makes escaping super easy. Health buff, ability to hide forever, and you get cloak on kill by picking up the person's ammo box as well.\",\n \"389\"\n ],\n [\n \"I would put it differently - when the show came out and it was about these cooky characters going through life as nerdy scientists with poor social skills I thought it was pretty good. <PERSON> is a great character and <PERSON> is a great actor. <PERSON> can be adorable when he's not a total dick for no reason. <PERSON> is pretty gross but he's alright to laugh at. And <PERSON> while not being the most interesting of the lot, he's super easy to identify with because deep down you know he's just a normal guy living a very unusual life.\\n\\nShow went to shit when they started getting everyone paired up and it became like 99% of sitcoms, a show about relationships with the same jokes about relationships that every other damn sitcom uses. There is one sitcom that pulled that shit off and it was Friends, stop trying to shoehorn it into every fucking show you write.\",\n \"297\"\n ],\n [\n \"I wouldn't say that giving the pyro (arguably the least impactful class in hl in almost every scenario) +20 health while taking more than that from each enemy you tag is a bad trade in any way.\\n\\nNot to mention that if the pyro is full or buffed he's not going to get any extra health, and he shouldn't be going aggressive without a buff, so at most you're saving the enemy medic a couple of seconds of pyro heals here and there. But you can ruin everyone's crit heals, harrass snipers, and make people in the flank retreat to their medics and pyros... can work in a very very stalematey game or passive playstyle - aka if you're just using your det spam on the breaks from spychecking.\\n\\nOf course for any sort of head-to-head combat you'll want shotgun or flare.\\n\\nOr if you want to play like TMP but just read his comment below if that's the case.\",\n \"559\"\n ],\n [\n \"The axtinguisher has the eternal problem of being a very annoying weapon to be killed by when it works, but at the same time being very rarely useful against good players. On the other hand, the powerjack's upside of speed bonus is so incredibly good for a class that desperately thirsts for mobility that it's hard to give it up for anything.\\n\\nI would personally rebalance most of the pyro melee weapons. As follows:\\n\\n* Axtinguisher: the current design has the right idea but the weapon switch penalty is overkill. change it from 75% from 25% while keeping everything else and you have a fairly effective emergency weapon to kill anything up to medics (and other classes with enough m1) when you're out of ammo on your shotgun or you whiff the flareshot.\\n\\n* Powerjack: I want the Gas Jockey design to come back. +10% speed at all times but +10% bullet damage vulnerability at all times. I felt this design actually gave some counterplay to the item, whereas with the current one you can avoid the downside entirely by not having the weapon out when you're at risk of getting shot - which is trivial with the degreaser. This way you have to equate whether it's worth it to be even squishier to hitscan classes (for example getting 3-shot by a revolver spy) to gain the extra speed, which in this model can give you bigger reflect jumps (look at professor gentleman's videos) and still make you faster than a medic.\\n\\n* Back Scratcher: I feel this one could be balanced by changing the -75% health from healers to something like 35%. The upside is super useful for roaming but in any HL situation it's pointless because a pyro who can't be healed is a very dead pyro, and you can't even get a buff to go roam. A number like 35% discourages tanking the pyro in head-on attacks but encourages him to get a buff, go on the flank, retreat if he takes too much damage and wait for crit heals to get another buff. Oh and remove the damage bonus, it's kind of pointless.\\n\\n* Homewrecker: Sapper removal is nice and all but let's face it, it's very rarely useful against people who understand the concept of spamming a sentry while it's being sapped. Anyone who's played HL knows the concept of the coordinated sap. I'd give it a small incentive to be run offensively against buildings: -50% knockback from sentries while active. It could make for some interesting pyro ubers.\\n\\n* Third Degree: fun concept but mostly useless so I'm going to throw a crazy idea: on hit, instead of damaging people connected by medibeams, it damages everyone you've set on fire at a given time. It would be a nice weapon to run into a cluster of people and try to finish one or two (or more?) with melee once they've caught on to you. Downsides I'm going to say 20% slower swing rate and no random crits (since a crit on this thing would be absolutely ridiculous... something to try with the kritzkrieg for fun, but not random).\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"* Neon: make it 2x damage against sappers (but not other buildings) so it can be used as sapper remover with no disadvantage, while maintaining the little niche of crits on wet players.\\n\\n* Volcano Fragment: there needs to be an advantage to this weapon over just using the flamethrower to set someone on fire, and since it's crafted out of bloody *lava*, why would a simple hazmat suit stop the burn? New stat, can inflict afterburn on pyros. For the die-hard flare pyro that is getting killed by shotgun users and wants a way of getting back at them. axe into flare for the kill. A *good* shotgun pyro will still airblast you out of melee range but if you can get a flank on you can work it out. [edit - it could be a general stat of ignoring fire resistances such as the demo shields or even the vaccinator]\",\n \"276\"\n ],\n [\n \"Scorch shot can put out some serious damage at range if you can get to a high ground and start shooting the ground, not to mention the potential for 50 damage double hits on directs. In ashville it's fun to jump on one of the rooftops and start spamming. Then there's the knockback which isn't always useful but in places like steel it can work pretty well (although it's kind of redundant since loose cannon exists).\\n\\nDetonator is consistently better at flare spamming if you don't have height advantage, though. It also has a better jump which you can use offensively sometimes.\\n\\nStill... shotgun exists so all of this is irrelevant\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"SIN's channel used to be pretty good when it was competitive highlights and frags way back when, and I think he's trying to redeem himself a little by letting people host competitive segments (such as \\\"backcap\\\" or \\\"on the point\\\") on his channel, since it brings a lot of visibility that they wouldn't normally get, but the guy figured out where the money was and turned it into a marketable shitfest.\\n\\nSo well. Treat it for what it is. I stay subscribed because every now and then he publicizes fun youtubers like <PERSON> and TooManyMoths among others and then you can just go and subscribe to them. It's not all bad.\\n\\n(also if you want to watch backcap follow /user/Shounic on youtube, the segments go there before SIN)\",\n \"317\"\n ],\n [\n \"A lot of people here are talking about their shotgun aim and whatnot but I thought gunboats pocket was more or less *the meta* now? Or is it only so in the higher tiers?\\n\\nFor me the few times I've tried pocket in mixes I always have that doubt because my shotgun is decent (I play more hitscan classes than anything... pyro these days is basically a shotgun class) but my jumps are so awful that I end up taking gunboats so I can afford to fuck them up and not be left at half health in the middle of nowhere.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"The most unsettling thing to me when I started playing 6s is how much harder you're punished for overextending even a little. In highlander you have two classes that can chase a scout down if he gets too far off his team, in 6's you have 4 and they WILL jump you down to get a player advantage. You'll have to train yourself to back away from fights a couple seconds earlier than you're used to. Also, always take a buff before fighting (although you should have been doing that in HL too) and don't fight alone if you can avoid it.\",\n \"464\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think it's balanced, I don't personally like it though. The movement thing seems more like a crutch than anything, if your tracking is good you ought to kill those bombers and scouts with any minigun. And you lose so much damage...\\n\\nCompare to the tomislav, which reduces two of the heavy's biggest downsides, spin-up time and accuracy at medium range, and the minigun which has a massive damage output in close range situations without sacrificing too much for it.\\n\\nHell, even the brass beast is more attractive to me because of how much raw unbridled damage you can put out in specific situations\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"It depends - maybe some parents would prefer to give the sex talk themselves, which is understandable. The problem is that I imagine a lot of the parents wanting to remove their children from sex ed simply don't want their kids to learn about it at all, or want them to know only the heavily altered and abridged version their religion or belief system allows them to.\\n\\nIt's a question to be looked into, how much say should the parents have? Because some of them might have reasonable qualms about the curriculum of the class and so on, and some might feel their kids will feel more comfortable discussing those things with them rather than people at school?\\n\\nEither way I don't like <PERSON> but I don't think he should be crucified because of this particular decision.\",\n \"782\"\n ],\n [\n \"Matchmaking is being implemented because regardless of how many people may think ill of it, that it's a joke, useless etc, competitive tf2 *exists*, and it's become a big enough part of the game's community that Valve is willing to invest a little bit in it. The goal is not to change the philosophy of tf2 as a whole, it's just to raise awareness of the comp community and help it grow a little. The mode itself probably won't be much more than a ranked pub but it's the marketing of leagues and their players that comes with it - hopefully attracting more players to join ESEA, ETF2L, UGC etc.\\n\\nOf course you make good points about the various glitches, bugs, balance and performance issues in TF2 but we have been promised that Valve will work on those along with the gradual introduction and improvement of MM, and MM is partly a way of assessing what needs to be changed, mostly in terms of balance but also performance.\",\n \"383\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm pretty sure TF2 as a pub game doesn't care about Overwatch, it's just another game which is way, way different from TF2 even if you can attach the words \\\"class-based shooter\\\" onto it. The competitive scene is suffering a bit with a lot of the best players being interested and/or already committed to OW, but Valve's matchmaking isn't them being scared about their game losing popularity, it's throwing a bone to their dedicated competitive community, I think.\",\n \"702\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well if you're finding yourself alone in a lot of situations it might be worth it to use the escape plan, but there's something wrong with your flank's cohesion if that happens. Ideally if you have at least one teammate near you whipping should be almost always better. Whip jumps are also pretty great, you can whack your heavy once when getting buffed and do a massive bomb.\",\n \"835\"\n ],\n [\n \"To me it always felt like the main gripe against w+m1 pyro is that it takes more skill and gamesense to counter him than to play him. Sure, a skilled player is way more powerful than anything w+m1 can do but with the few times you will get killed by it in a pub (it's pretty much an inevitability because pubs are random and unpredictable so eventually you'll get PYRO OUT OF NOWHERE) you'll be mad because it took no effort from him to get that kill, but it takes effort and at least a minimal amount of aim from you to kill him.\",\n \"266\"\n ],\n [\n \"As a spy you should find a good angle and go for the headshots. It might be hard to kill him if he's getting buffed but you may at least distract him and make the job easier for your sniper. Make sure you tell your team you're pressuring the sniper so yours might take the opening to finish him off.\\n\\nIf you can get him off of 185 health for long enough that your sniper can peek with his own buff and get a bodyshot kill, he doesn't have to be very good to do that.\",\n \"917\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm still waiting for a beast shortstop scout to arise because it could theoretically be really good as a pocket scout with amazing tracking... but usually in tf2 burst damage is better than damage over time and the scattergun has a much better burst if you work on your movement to get close.\\n\\nThat said it's so scary that one time you run into a shortstop scout as a soldier and he just nails all 4 shots and kills you instantly without even being point blank.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm gonna go against the grain and say you shouldn't play in tf2center the same way you'd play in an actual comp game. Teams are disorganized, there are little comms, and a lot of the players really aren't that good. You'll learn a lot more from trying to take as many fights and grab as many kills as possible while understanding your limits and keeping yourself alive than just hugging your medic and spychecking the whole time (obviously if their spy is doing a lot of work don't let him get away with it though).\\n\\nYou'd be surprised at how much you can accomplish. It's not impossible to be on the top 3 of frags in your team pretty much every game when you get to a certain level of DM. It's tf2center, it's chaotic, and pyros benefit from that. To adjust your play to actual highlander with proper teams, play scrims, but you can learn a lot from lobbies if you know what to focus on.\",\n \"332\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well... when I first got tf2 I clocked several hours offline with bots because I had no experience in shooters at all and was worried about all of those things you say. Then I mained medic for like a year because it was the one class that could be almost immediately useful in a pub without people noticing my lack of mechanical skill. I did get quite a bit of shit from certain people here and then, get really frustrated, leave servers where I was getting bitched at, but since those were isolated incidents they didn't deter me overall. And yeah, I ended up joining comp and playing with a lot of great people and some idiots.\\n\\nI think the best thing you can do to improve the community is try to be a positive part of it yourself. You can't convince the toxic players to change their attitudes, they have to realize that themselves, but you can be a friendly player and hopefully tip the balance a bit in that direction. If I was running into nothing but idiots back in 2012 I'd have quit tf2 for sure, but there were good people who helped me out and motivated me to stay. Not everyone will have that luck, and maybe it's worse now than back then, I don't know. But if you are that friendly person to a couple of newbies it might make a difference.\\n\\nAs far as your friends and family I think there isn't much to it besides just playing with them and showing them the ropes. I actually think playing a couple of games vs bots before jumping into a random pub is a good idea if they have absolutely zero idea about this kind of games. Just don't get stuck in there for weeks like I was :7 My best friend taught me all the basics of tf2 and was my pocket heavy for a long time. Funnily enough he doesn't play anymore but I do...\\n\\nAlso I still find comp stressful after over 3 years in it. Different people handle situations differently and if you're susceptible to nerves and tilting IRL you will be in game as well. Doesn't mean it can't be fun. idk if that helps.\",\n \"454\"\n ],\n [\n \"It doesn't need a buff. It has been shown to be insanely powerful in coordinated situations, having been banned in 6s after a few games of use because you could immediately call the peed player and have your team chase him for an easy frag. The only reason why it's not powerful in highlander as well is because the sydney sniper is hard-countered by any competent stock sniper.\\n\\nAs far as pubs the same logic applies. You can pretty easily wreak havoc with this gun (even without that much coordination, as a peed player usually will have to retreat) if there isn't a good sniper on the other team hitting headshots on you. If there is, you're fucked, but that's why you can switch to a different unlock or class.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"Still don't think this should be banned. So you get a worse version of airblast for <PERSON> that allows him to be a little more aggressive when using minis while denying spam? Might as well ban the entire pyro class, then.\\n\\nBesides I guess you might have been checking how much you could push it just by deleting rockets, but when he jumped you and you deleted that first rocket you could have just taken the shotgun and murdered him. The rest may make the SC look like a broken piece of shit but it was really just an insult-to-injury situation.\\n\\nI don't know, I think it's adding something to a class that doesn't have much going for it in a lot of situations.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"I imagine some people will use this video to support that \\\"skill-equalizer\\\" argument in favour of random crits (even if it's just a fun animation). Is the game more fun as a new player if you can get a random crit and kill the way more experienced player that demolished you the past 5 times you saw him? Probably. But I think even as a new player you understand that you didn't really deserve that kill, it was luck. At least as soon as you understand what random crits are. I wouldn't be surprised if some folks would associate them with headshots on weapons that actually don't have them, for example.\",\n \"604\"\n ],\n [\n \"As a Portuguese, that's basically what we are. Despite the amount of Portuguese people being successful in life, they usually do so abroad because of the lack of support to do so here. We have low investment from the government in a lot of areas but it's particularly bad in STEM, and it's hard to get innovation and entrepreneurship supported. More and more people have college degrees but the percentage of those graduates who run into unemployment is depressingly high. Unemployment in itself is one of the biggest problems the country has - with how difficult it is to create and maintain a business, we end up with a lack of job placements to give people who need them.\\n\\nCombined with that, the population is aging dramatically, faster than most countries in Europe, the workforce is diminishing, living wage for most is disproportionally low in comparison to cost of living, so it becomes too expensive for people to invest in culture, art, and entertainment beyond the bare basics. It's a country where paradoxically we have some of the highest working hours in Europe but lowest productivity.\\n\\nI feel like there is still a nationally imprinted nostalgia of the Renaissance era, when Portugal was in fact an empire, combined with a certain defeatism that we are a small, mediocre country, destined to do nothing but mediocre things. We complain about our politicians, but don't identify ourselves with the few people who step in to shake up the two-party system we have around here. \\n\\nI think in the end the Portuguese citizen has a certain stoicism that ends up being hurtful. We complain a lot about things to each other (it's one of the easiest ways of bonding with random folks around here) but at the same time we end up accepting them because \\\"tem de ser\\\". It has to be. It's a mentality that is extremely hard to escape while being here. So the people who have the drive and the means end up leaving. Those who stay end up getting sucked in.\",\n \"685\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's weird because the portuguese have a history of insurgence against authority and being a really hard people to keep down. We've been invaded by pretty much everyone you can imagine from the Arabs to <PERSON> and fought them all back (except for a period of 60 years under Spanish rule) and more recently the people revolted against a fascist regime of nearly 50 years. But I think right now it's not clear who the enemy is, which is the big difference. No outside invader, no authoritarian regime, just a half-dead democracy with widespread corruption and a general apathy over the state of things. But I guess that's just the 21st century for you.\",\n \"685\"\n ],\n [\n \"Stock was completely irrelevant before, now it's just like 90% irrelevant. It's certainly better than it was before since there was an overall switch speed buff to every weapon, and the damage falloff buff also helps it a bit more than the degreaser since using stock tends to imply that you use a lot of your m1 for damage. Thing is, degreaser has that exact same damage with better switch speed so it's better in most circumstances.\\n\\nNow stock can be better at two things: \\n\\n* running into several people holding m1 and hoping afterburn actually does something. How many times have you seen this work in HL? Yeah. Still, it could be something to think of for desperation pushes when people are clustered on a point or cart.\\n\\n* hardcore spamming of m2. People suggest it for sixes because that's basically the only thing a pyro is ever useful for in sixes. But in HL you should just manage your ammo so you don't need that many airblasts.\",\n \"484\"\n ],\n [\n \"The problem isn't people \\\"playing all classes\\\", it's people who main some of those utility classes (like me, sadly) and either don't enjoy or haven't taken the time to get decent at the generalist classes. I think MM teaches a valuable lesson to all newcomers - you can't get away with playing just one class all the time. You have to be versatile and switch when necessary. And while you might be able to get away with playing scout/soldier/demo/medic most of the time, you won't really want 4 scouts or 4 medics so at some point you will have to switch. And pyro/heavy/engie/spy/sniper are situational and not something you want to \\\"main\\\" *ever*, or you'll be stuck only being able to play highlander, as that class. I realized that too late. \\n\\nBut I think MM will help people understand that. Good at TF2 means good at every class and being able to play it all in a pinch.\",\n \"952\"\n ],\n [\n \"I actually did get two games in before the GC crashed, but it seems I was pretty lucky. The only problem was FPS with the perf config being blocked, went from a comfortable 100+ FPS in the normal game to sometimes less than 30 in fights and being almost unable to play scout.\\n\\nFingers crossed for big time performance update, boys and girls.\",\n \"672\"\n ],\n [\n \"Do you have some steam friends you play with regularly? Maybe it's time for you to make a team, and get people who you trust to stick around and feel comfortable playing with. \\n\\nWhat a lot of leaders do, which is trying to pick up the highest skilled players they can find without regard to their synergy or commitment, usually doesn't work. What tends to happen is that these higher skilled players expect very good results immediately and if this doesn't happen they'll leave, because they don't have any particular interest in playing with you, they just joined because they hoped to get wins. (or they will convince the leaders to cut players that they don't feel are performing, which feels bad to everyone involved and leads to instability in the team.)\\n\\nBottom line surround yourself with people who will want to play with you regardless of wins or losses, make a team with them, and you shouldn't have this problem.\",\n \"539\"\n ],\n [\n \"Your point about disguises doesn't make that much sense because a lot of people don't use cosmetics, especially in comp. For that sniper example people will figure you're a spy not because of cosmetics, but because you will be walking around and not scoping in. If you don't want to be called as a spy, just make sure you're cloaked before they can see you, people rarely expect the spy in 6s anyway.\\n\\nPlayer outlines: agreed, I wish they hadn't been added in the first place, but they definitely shouldn't show for spies.\\n\\nEnforcer: meh, this gun went from blatantly overpowered to mostly useless. It would be nice to come up with new stats that made it interesting, but not necessarily a priority.\\n\\nThe DR last hit bug has in fact been fixed, but it would be nice if they fixed inconsistencies with hitsounds playing on DR triggers. You'll notice that most of the times a DR trigger doesn't play a hitsound, but I've had legit kills without hitsounds and DR \\\"kills\\\" with hitsounds... I think the spy being in the middle of disguising causes some weird shit to happen there. A hitsound should play regardless of whether it's a DR or not.\",\n \"791\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's basically a meme that he's happy to be a part of because he's a nice guy and loves the community.\\n\\nFact is he likes to do weird gimmicky shit in mixes and scrims when it doesn't really matter, and tends to throw and otherwise be silly when that happens, but in officials when it really matters he's usually good. Not *the best*, but good. <PERSON> wouldn't be where they are if he was as much of a trashcan as people tend to say.\\n\\ntl;dr just a meme bro\",\n \"778\"\n ],\n [\n \"I would believe that if highlander does happen, it will be with classlimit 1, as it's not their main project and more of an afterthought dedicated to HL players. Valve wants to create their own meta of 6v6 because they don't feel like the current gamemode played by leagues translates well to the \\\"transition from pubs\\\" they're looking for in matchmaking (even if it's arguably the best competitive mode - CS matchmaking is different from CS league play, although they're both 5v5).\\n\\nIn comparison while HL isn't viable as a prospective e-sport, it transitions nicely from pubs, is barely affected by a lack of whitelist and offers people opportunities to play every class. So when they get around to dealing with the technical issues behind 9v9 MM, I'm pretty convinced it will be with classlimit 1 because, why change it?\",\n \"383\"\n ],\n [\n \"I would say probably. 6s MM is purposefully not imposing the restrictions of normal 6s because it's the *main* gamemode and the one with e-sport potential, Valve wants to use it to advertise competitive to pubbers, and therefore it needs to be easily accessible to them. Normal 6s doesn't necessarily achieve that (in Valve's eyes).\\n\\n9v9 will most likely be an afterthought directed to HL enthusiasts, so I imagine Valve won't be so interested in changing things. One of each class is something any player can understand.\",\n \"880\"\n ],\n [\n \"IMO medic is fun when you get to be in the thick of maincalling and orchestrating your team's pushes and whatnot, because you really feel in control of what's happening with your team in a way that no other class really can. If you're just a mobile dispenser following what your pocket says and trying not to die (which is what I basically did back when I played it) it gets pretty boring and rage-inducing. I'm not that good at calling so I just stopped playing med.\",\n \"194\"\n ],\n [\n \"The few times it was run in 6s showed that the sydney is still incredibly powerful even without headshots. The only reason it's not run in highlander is that it's hard-countered by a stock sniper.\\n\\nI do agree with you (and a lot of people) that sniper's influence in HL is too high in a way that makes the game less fun to everyone. Unfortunately I don't think banning unlocks really changes anything. UGC tried banning the Machina but the stock is plenty powerful on its own, and ETF2L had a cup with the razorback banned, which in theory is pretty good to return the role of hard counter to the spy, but spies were already pretty capable of gunning down a sniper when he's not in the combo, and stabbing them isn't exactly a piece of cake if he is there with people checking their backs and a pyro furiously flaming near him.\\n\\nI'm thinking that the only way this sniper meta would change is a Valve nerf on the stock rifle's mechanics, but that would be risky. How do you do that and not ruin the class entirely, especially when it's one of the highest skill ceiling classes and it balances perfectly in 6v6 which is the primary gamemode for comp?\\n\\nMost people will say that sniper's dominance in HL is a problem of HL and not the class, anyway.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's not just that ESEA lan, it was also legal in UGC 6's for at least one season before even they had to ban it. \\n\\nPlus you can also take evidence from matchmaking. What is everyone running atm? I see some stock meds here and there but the vast majority is quick-fix and sometimes you see the double vaccinator because you can actually run two meds there and vacc's downsides are pretty much negated if you can have two.\",\n \"599\"\n ],\n [\n \"The quick fix runs into some troubles in highlander because it's considerably easier to focus fire the charged combo when you have 9 players in a team, and two of them are spy and sniper, and there might be a sentry if you're on offence. It's still good in koth though, at least in EU viaduct teams like to bring it out a lot.\\n\\nQuick-fix is better the less players are on a team, which is why it's banned in all sixes leagues and even 4v4. You can't deny how powerful it is on a midfight situation when you can get to mid faster as med and put out 33% more heals than the uber med.\",\n \"104\"\n ],\n [\n \"I kind of like the PD concept more than RD. It ends up being mostly team deathmatch but it's a simple and effective gamemode that tf2 doesn't have.\\n\\nThe existing PD map, watergate, isn't the greatest from a comp perspective because there's too much height to be abused by jumping classes and the sightlines are enormous on the center area, but you could do a good PD map by having a sort of koth layout, having players get points from kills and then use the control point to drop those points off, so it's basically TDM with a koth element. I think that could be good.\",\n \"551\"\n ],\n [\n \"For me it mostly comes down to\\n\\n* in chaotic situations where people are skirmishing all over the map and more likely to be distracted or hurt, gunspy is really really good. This includes stuff like koth maps, 5cp mids, or messy last holds in payload where everyone is rushing the cart. Not only you can pick off hurt targets very easily with little risk, you're more likely to get stabs if you take distractions, even using the DR.\\n\\n* but when it comes to stalemate situations like a good hold in payload or a 5cp last, you almost always want to go for either a combo pick or sentry sap, and gunspy won't do the trick because even if you get a headshot, the person in question will probably get healed up. Better to go invis/cnd and pick your spot. Even if you do nothing but sap the sentry it's a big favour to your team.\",\n \"964\"\n ],\n [\n \"You should ask <PERSON>, he's the only spy I know that uses it regularly. I think the mindset is that it makes it a bit easier to clean up on hurt players - if you're even at medium range and they're around 100 health you'll get a 2 shot kill. This also includes the unbuffed razorback sniper because sure, you can kill him in 3 shots with default but most snipers turn around and start dodging (or hit a rage-inducing quickscope) at the second shot so you might want to have that 2 shot kill. Even the most heal-happy of snipers won't be always buffed.\\n\\nBut I think most people would consider the default revolver more reliable because of the faster fire rate, and the amby opens possibilities that no other gun has.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"koth_king is pretty underrated, I think its only major issues are lighting and overabundance of props.\\n\\nHarvest would need its spawn areas heavily changed, as spawncamping with demo/soldier when you gain control of the enemy roof is a piece of cake. I do think it would have potential, though.\\n\\nBarnblitz should be updated to the barnblitz_pro we use in ETF2L highlander, even though I don't really like that map.\\n\\nHighpass doesn't seem bad, I'd be down with it. If the only criticism is it not doing anything particularly better than lakeside or product maybe it could be brought in just for the sake of map variety.\\n\\nMaybe Vanguard? The current official version solved some of the problems it had in UGC, I think. I enjoy it atm.\\n\\nAlso I actually really like ctf_landfall apart from the fact that it's CTF. I think a KOTH version of it would be perfectly viable.\",\n \"533\"\n ],\n [\n \"http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/not-all-practice-makes-perfect\\n\\nBasically not all practice is good practice. Even if you spend hundreds or thousands of hours in something, if you're always doing the same things mechanically without analysing your mistakes and challenging your methods, you're not going to improve beyond a certain level.\\n\\nMore than grinding hours, the important thing is to understand why you're dying and what you did wrong, and work on fixing specifically those mistakes. What everyone else said about fixing short term goals is also true. Take each bad habit you identify and work it away, one by one. Hard time dodging rockets? Go MGE with a soldier friend and don't even shoot him, just try to survive as he shoots you. Aim with keyboard too much instead of the mouse? Play a slower class like engie with the shotgun and force yourself to move the mouse. Flick too much? Go on tr_walkway and practice holding the crosshair on a target as you move. Overextend too much? Make a point of not taking any fight without teammates and/or a buff until you get a good sense of when you can risk it. Baby steps, as they say.\\n\\nThere's also some gain to be had on better hardware (mouse, keyboard, monitor, pc that gives you good framerate) but don't expect miracles past the very basics of a setup.\\n\\nAnd of course, it's a game, different people have different skills, and not everyone can be the best. I've spent more time in TF2 than any sane person would but I acknowledge I'm pretty shit*. Don't give up, but keep some perspective.\\n\\n* in fact a lot of the reason why I'm shit, I think, has to do with spending too much time playing pyro instead of using other classes to challenge and improve my DM.\",\n \"464\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't expect or want matchmaking to have the same ruleset as 6v6, but right now they need to adjust it to make it less of a shitfest. This means rebalancing the overpowered or fun-ruining weapons and most likely introduce class limits, since stacking certain classes makes the game really unfun (heavies, demos, engies, medics most notoriously). It should be either 2 of each or 2 of each but only 1 medic. I'm still unsure whether 2 medics is invariably superior to just one, because you're only fielding 4 damaging classes instead of 5, but it's certainly an annoyance to play against.\\n\\nThey also need to do some adjustments to the matchmaking itself but I trust <PERSON> to be able to do those. They have successful experience with Dota 2 and CS:GO at least.\\n\\nAlso performance issues in TF2 are getting worse with every passing day, we desperately need an optimization update.\\n\\nI don't know. I only played a few games of MM but I never expected to spend too much time in it because I'm already experienced in comp and I'll have more fun with comp. This gamemode is for new players and pubbers to experience a lighter version of comp that might spark interest in joining the scene. But it has to be fun and well-polished, or it won't do much. I think the scene will grow, it has already grown a little bit, but they run the risk of this growth being negligible in long-term if they don't get certain things right.\",\n \"383\"\n ],\n [\n \"The problem with the widowmaker engie is he has to get reasonably close to deal damage fast enough whereas demo and even heavy to an extent can kritz from long range pretty well. Combine that with engie being kinda squishy and in most situations he'll die before getting much done.\\n\\nThe most common kritz in HL is the demo but it's great to flash your heavy if either the demo dies or there is someone jumping you (often a scout/soldier/pyro will rush your kritz to try and upset the demo and flashing the heavy lets him kill the attacker very easily).\\n\\nBTW kritzing pyro is good in very specific situations. If you can blindside a cluster of enemies you can burn them all in a second. Tight maps like barnblitz or steel can sometimes work.\",\n \"839\"\n ],\n [\n \"Winston and Symmetra's primary fire. Aimlock just makes it so uninteresting to play, and frustrating to play against because missing a shot means certain death if they're committing to you. They could have made them into a LG sort of deal like Zarya's left click and it would be way better.\\n\\nAnd I wish we could have damage numbers on the HUD, I understand why it might not be possible, but it would help me analyze what I'm doing with my shots and how I can aim them properly (especially shotguns like Roadhog, Reaper etc).\",\n \"266\"\n ],\n [\n \"I am very relieved. I've never found a game I liked as much as TF2, but TF2 was getting very frustrating because of how long I've played it for, especially because I played some competitive and have always wanted to be good. After 5k hours in TF I was getting progressively angrier at myself whenever I didn't do well, and at that point you just need a different game, really. Overwatch had me very hyped because it was a new game with a cool artstyle and a lot of the basic features I love about TF2 while being more than different enough to stand out.\\n\\nAnd yeah, playing OW now, it's good. it's fun. And it's fresh. And I don't mind being god-awful at it right now, because I should be. I'm new. Say what you will but it's great to be a noob in a game again and slowly discover how to make things work without having the pressure to perform.\",\n \"254\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well a lot of the people you are playing against were in the closed beta so they have a considerable playtime advantage over you. Don't sweat it.\\n\\nPersonally it took me thousands of hours to be decent at tf2, so I was expecting to be terrible at OW to begin with. I'm having trouble getting adjusted to aiming in a different game but overall I think it's going okay - getting stomped a lot but also having good moments here and there.\",\n \"500\"\n ],\n [\n \"To answer your question - prize pool might help, but I think with the comp scene being so strapped for cash, most of it will end up in 6's because that is the priority. HL is just an alternative gamemode that some people enjoy, but either you like it or you don't. The way to make it better is entirely on the players' end IMO. If people care about playing HL *well* it will be more enjoyable to play and watch, but I think in the current scene very few people care. LOL <PERSON>, you know.\\n\\nThat is evident even with casting. For example <PERSON> used to cast HL but stopped because he came to really dislike the gamemode. It's just better when people who enjoy the game in question cast it, regardless of what the game is.\\n\\nPersonally I've informally casted two games of the last HL Nations Cup and actually really enjoyed myself doing that, I would do it again if I have the time or the opportunity. I like watching it too, although it's probably because I have played it for so long that I know what to look for. But either you like it or you don't. There's no point in trying to force it, because HL will always be secondary to 6s in terms of comp tf2.\",\n \"117\"\n ],\n [\n \"Zen's healing is pretty low, though. Harmony orb heals slower than <PERSON>'s heal and can only be used on one person at a time, so both Lúcio and Mercy will usually put out way more heals than Zen. He is meant to be a hybrid between support and DPS, but right now his health is too low to make the DPS part worth it, unless the enemy team has no snipers and a lot of tanks (Zen counters stuff like Roadhog so well because of discord)\",\n \"559\"\n ],\n [\n \"The most annoying thing about widow is I don't really get to practise her because every single pub team has 1 or 2 of them already. I've hit some decent shots, but I'd be hitting a lot more if I got to sit for a couple hours playing widow only.\\n\\nPart of the reason why I hope there's some sort of DM practice gamemode in the game release, although it will most certainly not happen.\",\n \"383\"\n ],\n [\n \"They can afford to be lazy with Symmetra because English is technically one of the official languages in India and most people speak it. And only 40% of Indians even speak Hindi because there are so many different ethnicities and languages there.\\n\\nI have no idea what <PERSON>'s accent is. It doesn't sound scottish, swedish, or really anything besides AARDVARK. Honestly it sounds like someone who has never heard a Swede speak in their lives trying to pretend he is one.\",\n \"471\"\n ],\n [\n \"Eh, I think DR gunspy is basically a flank class, it works similarly to a scout with less damage and speed but higher tankiness - it's quite effective at both breaking up the enemy flank in an attempt to kill you while you spam DR, and picking off lone stragglers as they retreat. Normal kind of spy is somewhat of a \\\"pick-flank hybrid\\\" but you can do the things I mentioned without having a DR if you're smart about it. Holding your flank by breaking up theirs is a valid strategy.\\n\\nBut in general I don't like the term \\\"pick class\\\" that much. A pick class is anyone who gets the opportunity to go for it. The term is used for sniper but under the current meta isn't he basically a combo player too? Not to mention him being one of the highest DPM classes in HL.\",\n \"952\"\n ],\n [\n \"abuse splash damage to hit the ground right in the edge of airblast range, time shots awkwardly if you're close, gain height advantage or spam the floor around corners, or wait for him to airblast either predicting a rocket or trying to set up his flareshot. Rockets are easy to reflect on midrange but in close range the pyro has to predict, and you can do many things to throw him off.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'll tell you the sad story of the birth of a pyro main.\\n\\nTF2 was my first shooter. I had never used a mouse to aim, and when I started I was running about 30 fps at most in my old laptop, not knowing about FPS configs. After playing around with bots and training, I jumped into the dustbowl pub my real life friend played on, and played several classes but I couldn't hit shit with anything, so I went medic, started healing, and found that I could be useful to the pub team without much effort. Main medic it was.\\n\\nWell I actually mained medic for about a year and a half, and was keen enough to make a highlander team with that same real life friend to play in UGC steel (there was no iron in EU back then). He was the heavy. But I eventually started getting bored of medic. Especially in HL it felt like I couldn't really make an impact on my own and was just a mobile dispenser, and I *wanted to kill*. I was playing spy and pyro in pubs for a while back then, so I started thinking about playing one of those classes. But I wanted to continue playing HL, so that affected my decision.\\n\\nThing is, for one, there were so many spy mains already, and I saw people with 300 and more spy hours still playing steel, so I had very little hope of getting on a team as that. Also when I learned about the degreaser, old axtinguisher, reflects and combos, partly from my real life friend and partly from youtubers like <PERSON>, <PERSON>, prof. gentleman, carpet etc., pyro started to look incredibly fun and yes, skilled. This was 2013, guys. Back then people still had some respect for a good pyro.\\n\\nAnyway I had joined a silver team as sub medic but they let me sub a bit as pyro too, and next season I managed to get recruited as main pyro for a different silver team. Season went pretty well and I ended up getting sucked in the living hell that is maining the worst class.\",\n \"26\"\n ],\n [\n \"The axtinguisher is garbage now but every pyro with a bit of a brain runs powerjack. None of the other options match 15% speed boost on demand.\\n\\nEh, I don't know. I will like this pyro balance if they change flamethrower mechanics to be less stupid/unskilled/buggy, because the changes really favour using m1 a lot. I'll give you the example of flanking a heavy and trying to kill him. Back in the day I would go for either two axes or axe+flare and hope he doesn't spin up fast enough, but nowadays if I see an unrevved heavy I'll just go m1 him, and most of the times it works (it helps that heavy is nerfed to shit)\\n\\nSo yeah I'm in two minds about it because it's true that combos were annoying to play against but they were also a lot more fun to do than m1. You can still do degreaser flare pretty well but that's about it, and honestly the shotgun is better at pretty much everything so your top tier pyro loadout is degreaser/shotgun/powerjack and everything else is a downgrade.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"It can make you win some soldier 1v1s that you wouldn't normally win. Basically if you are fighting pretty close range and you both hit 2 rockets for ~100 health on each other, the enemy soldier will be dead and you will still be at 40 health and win the fight. So if people are getting on those situations and losing they may feel it's a bit crutchy.\\n\\nHowever, having a clip of 3 is very unforgiving - if you miss one rocket in most fights you'll be in a lot of trouble, especially if you used one rocket to jump someone already. Black box requires you to be a lot more accurate to be effective, so I don't think it's a crutch overall.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"Since you come from CS:GO you're probably aware of this already but having a good framerate helps immensely. I started tf2 playing at 30 fps on a shitty laptop and when you improve that situation it's like you can see everything better. The game is poorly optimized so you might need a \\\"fps config\\\" (google it, I use Comanglia's personally) to get at least a constant 60 FPS.\\n\\nBTW, as far as \\\"crosshair placement\\\", unlike CS the only weapons that require you to headshot are the sniper rifles and the ambassador for spy. For other bullet weapons like scatterguns, shotguns and pistols you should be aiming at their center of mass (stomach, basically) to negate the bullet spread as much as possible and do more damage. \\n\\nExplosive weapons like rockets and grenades have splash damage so either aim at their feet or walls and props near them to guarantee some damage. If you get a good rocket on their feet you can also knock them up in the air and screw up their movement, so try that.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"Best - <PERSON>, since can be used both defensively, to shield a ton of damage from say a Reaper ult, or offensively to push into turrets and destroy them. There's a reason he's a top tier character.\\n\\nWorst - I have a hard time using Pharah's well. Standing completely still in the air is very crippling, and a lot of characters can tank it for long enough to kill you. You know how it goes, JUSTICE RAINS FROM-AUUHFHFHHHGH\\n\\nMost fun - I like Genji's a lot. If you pick your timing right it's very satisfying to slice through everyone while dashing and reflecting.\",\n \"403\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't think the girl has that much significance besides representing how <PERSON> almost forgets who he's fighting *for*, with the thirst to chase his targets. He has to stop himself to save her, where <PERSON> wouldn't have second guessed it. It highlights how different <PERSON> is from what he was as Overwatch captain.\\n\\nThing is maybe the girl grows up to be someone of relevance, but the video's events happen in the \\\"present\\\" time where the game exists, so time-wise it doesn't make much sense.\",\n \"368\"\n ],\n [\n \"I was starting a postgrad degree when I picked up TF2 and I'm about to finish it now. That basically meant I made my own working schedule so I could make it to fit tf2 and whatever else was happening. And since I wasn't living with family, no one gives a damn if I stay up late at night.\\n\\nThat said, you don't need that much time to play tf2 comp if you manage your game time towards improving. This means no pubs or MVM unless there's more free time than usual. Play your scrims and matches, and if there is none that day, go DM and MGE. Doesn't matter if you main a HL class, do it anyway and improve your mechanics because no matter how much gamesense you have, no engie reaches top plat without shotgun aim. You don't need to do it for that long though, honestly if you do half an hour a day it should be quite enough.\",\n \"332\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm just surprised it has lasted this long. It takes time and resources to DDoS a site and clearly these guys have both.\\n\\nAs for reasoning, who really knows. I doubt \\\"protesting against admins or league management\\\" makes much sense because that would imply the perpetrators care about UGC and want it to be good. This is probably just low-level \\\"trolling\\\", some fucks wanting to feel powerful by disrupting the entertainment of a bunch of tf2 players.\",\n \"880\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well there's the whole bit about him and 76 fighting at the Swiss headquarters, him ~~almost~~ dying and getting \\\"saved\\\" only to become... whatever the fuck he is now, doomed to a sub-human existence of what I can imagine is constant pain. Dude's a big ball of angst and hatred and while he was certainly not a good person to begin with, he only became the edgelord murderer that is in the game after those events.\",\n \"368\"\n ],\n [\n \"tf2 pubbing will be alive for years to come, it has a ton of gamemodes, maps and content and a playerbase of tens of thousands that won't just go away that quickly. \\n\\nCompetitive though... I think the MM beta has been a bit of a letdown, Valve hasn't communicated properly with the comp community (inviting one player to their HQ a couple times isn't proper communication) and overall it's all feeling a bit underwhelming. \\n\\nThey can solve it if the summer \\\"big\\\" update b4nny keeps talking about matches the expectations. That means MM release with serious reworks, weapon rebalancing, performance optimization. \\n\\nIf those things don't happen... I don't know. Overwatch serves as a bit of salt in the wound for more experienced comp players as their skill in TF2 is relevant to OW and the scene they're building now is waving many juicy dollar bills at them. A lot of TF2 high level players dream of being truly \\\"pro gamers\\\", and OW is a chance of making it come true.\",\n \"254\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, the TF2 comp scene has a mix of people who do it strictly as a hobby and those who aspire to be professional gamers. The second group is the most likely to jump ship. The first one is the one I was on - it doesn't make a difference to me whether comp TF is an \\\"e-sport\\\" or not, but it does make a difference to the game in general. If things go the way they're currently going the player base will drop both in numbers and skill.\",\n \"996\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think a lot of it comes down to how much trust you put on your flamethrower. Running flare gun implies that you can ignite targets consistently enough, but generally people will say a good team shuts down a pyro that gets so close. It depends on your network conditions as well, because some players have higher flame range than others (blah blah mojo) and tough break made flame damage pretty damn high, so a 20 ping pyro charging at people can catch even top players off-guard. On the other hand, if you have high ping or bad mojo for whatever reason it can be really hard to burn anything at all, and then shotgun becomes the obvious choice because hitscan isn't affected by ping.\\n\\nNot only that, the shotgun is a much safer choice because despite it being a close range weapon, it does significant damage in mid-range and it actually makes it very easy for you to clean up on hurt enemies and focus-fire in team fights. If your heavy is engaging theirs, for example, you can often do 150-200 damage to him with your clip without leaving the combo.\\n\\nI would say get good at both. Flare because it's not hard at all and in the right circumstances it's devastating, and shotgun because it's more reliable and you'll get good at hitscan aim in general, which is huge in TF2. 7 out of 9 classes have at least one hitscan weapon.\",\n \"280\"\n ],\n [\n \"380 dpm as <PERSON> is crazy, good lord. But yeah you'll see that he did 61% of his damage with the degreaser, so he's being really consistent at getting burn damage on people and can use the flare as a finisher. That's basically the point, the flare is the best finisher but the shotgun has way more sustained damage.\\n\\n\\\"Player\\\" kills are when someone killbinds. Could be a trapped medic or a caught spy.\",\n \"839\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you think your god's laws supersede the laws of the country you live in, you have no place in that country. This should be an undeniable fact, but people in Europe are afraid to address it because they know some will take it too far and we have a tragic history of taking it too far in the past... but right now they're being *way* too lenient. \\n\\nAny foreign citizen who commits a violent crime should be deported. Starting with these two \\\"men\\\".\\n\\n(edit - of course they could be French citizens, but in that case local justice needs to make sure they are actually arrested and trialled, or there's something really wrong going on.)\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm worried that it's much harder to make friendships like these in modern-day tf2 than it used to be a couple of years ago, when community servers were more abundant and, well, alive.\\n\\nI remember back in the day you'd go to that one dustbowl 24/7 server (or anything else) and you'd see some randoms every day but also those people that always came back to the server, and you'd banter in voice chat and you made friends like that. Now, at least for me in EU, I see skial, ugc gaming, gimmick mod servers like saxton hale and whatnot, and... valve. But you're not going to recognize the people coming back to those valve servers. And no one even talks, and when they do it's something asinine.\\n\\nI started playing competitive and made more friends there, but I still pub and it's nothing like it used to be.\\n\\ngreat story mate, tf2 is more than trashtalk and binds\\n\\nand hope you stay on track with your life and recovery\",\n \"674\"\n ],\n [\n \"In 6s these guys will tell you better than me how they're useful. In highlander I'm not a big fan, though. Thing is there's a lot of HL situations where pipe spam is easy to do and nets you tons of damage, and since you're a primary heal target, do you really need the extra health? That's a personal opinion, though. I've seen booties used in NA plat at various points. Almost never in EU, though.\",\n \"559\"\n ],\n [\n \"There's a number of things we're hoping for, but the most important ones would be matchmaking coming out of beta with major improvements, weapon rebalancing to fix some of the more broken items, and optimization/performance fixes since TF2 is running really poorly in a lot of computers.\\n\\nIt will probably be more than that, though. Wouldn't be surprised to see another wave of contracts, maybe a couple of community maps going official, more cosmetics (obviously), and b4nny said something about the update also focusing on the \\\"community aspect of the game\\\", not just competitive, after meeting with Valve devs. No idea what that might mean.\",\n \"533\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah it's a pretty common strategy in teams that have good scouts. The reasoning being that if you expect your enemy to try and kite/retreat he can chase down kills better than anyone. In this kind of uber usually you'll flash the scout in first to make sure he gets in meatshot range unharmed and make sure your demo is getting in as well to do most of the damage.\",\n \"835\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well, you want to go prem eventually. That tells me you care about winning. There's a couple scenarios to consider\\n\\n* if the high team looks strong and you can beat other high teams in scrims regularly, just go for it. It will give you more immediate visibility, since prem teams don't give even half of a shit about mid results but they do care if you're in high and do well.\\n\\n* if the high team doesn't look so strong, but your mid team is beating other mid teams regularly, they might be worth taking because you guys get along well and that means better chance of the team staying together for a longer time. But the whole team has to be prepared to try hard and do well, because in my experience a team that starts losing a lot is 90% of the time a dead team. Especially in HL where teams are notoriously hard to keep together.\\n\\nHonestly just don't do the same as me, because I spent years in this game choosing friends and team leading (which I'm shit at) over some good team offers, lost almost every game I've played in etf2l and never really got to improve to where I wanted to be, partly because of that. I also ended up losing a lot of said friends because no matter how good your attitude is, it's hard to have fun in a competitive game if all you do is lose. So you gotta be a bit pragmatic and go for the side that gives you more chances of winning.\",\n \"630\"\n ],\n [\n \"Eh, I don't really agree. TF2 has more skill in DM and execution but Overwatch seems to have a more intricate strategy game, or at least it looks like it because the game makes it almost impossible to win by simply out-aiming our out-moving your opponents.\\n\\nThere are a lot of players in TF2 that get by with just being DM donkeys that randomly walk in and kill 3 people on their own (at mid/high levels anyway. In prem/invite that doesn't work) but in Overwatch that doesn't exist because DM-intensive plays are countered with little effort. You can have the god widowmaker but she'll have nothing to shoot if the enemy team uses shields well, you can have the pharah hitting all the directs in the world but she can't dodge all that well so she'll be shot out of the air by anyone with a functioning mouse, etc.\\n\\nWhile DM is important in both games (there are some incredibly skilled players in OW) coordinated play actually matters a lot more in OW, because solo DM is very easily denied.\",\n \"254\"\n ],\n [\n \"It tends to be very stalematey. If you've watched 6s in 5cp you know that pushing a point relies on getting either uber advantage via a force, or numbers advantage. Pushing with even numbers and even ubers favours the defending team because they can usually pop later and get a better uber.\\n\\nThing is to get that force or picks you will either do a bomb with a soldier (or scout or rarely demo) or run a sniper and hope he hits something, or more rarely run a spy. All these things are much harder to succeed with in highlander. Bombs are easily denied by the heavy and pyro. Scouts are denied by the engie. Both teams have a sniper who is probably getting buffed to 185 and the snipers have to fight each other before getting a more meaningful pick. And it's much harder to get a spy play because of the pyro, less space to move around because of the number of people in play, and everyone knowing you're on spy.\\n\\nBecause of this HL 5cp games tend to be very slow and stalematey with few rounds won, especially if teams are evenly matched.\",\n \"279\"\n ],\n [\n \"While the game needs a good matchmaking system to sustain and help grow the comp scene, what I'll be most hyped for is bugfixes, rebalances and optimization. Some new maps would be nice too.\\n\\nI don't think there is much space for new weapons in this game anymore - pretty much everything you could do is already done. I won't complain if there are a couple, though.\",\n \"533\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well that kind of players just can't be helped. There's literally nothing any game can do about them besides imposing class limits, which neither TF2 or OW would (should) do.\\n\\nAs for <PERSON> he is hard to deal with for console players because he has sentries in a platform where everyone's aim and movement are impaired. His sentry damage was actually nerfed by 30% recently to compensate for it. Balance issue rather than what was actually discussed in the OP.\",\n \"374\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, that whole thread made me a bit sad because it started as a simple announcement of the upcoming highlander open, and it should never have been a HL vs 6s thread. Most importantly, an admin of TFTV and hugely respected member of the community shouldn't come in *on that thread* and talk about how HL never should have existed. There are other places to have that discussion.\\n\\nThat said he does have a bit of a point. The thing is HL was pushed as the noob-friendly gamemode and bridge from pub to 6s because \\n\\n1. such a bridge is needed, 6s has a steep learning curve and the average pubber has a hard time understanding it\\n\\n2. in the ideal world something like matchmaking would have been launched at least 5 years ago and served as that bridge, but since it didn't, people at the time decided to come up with something different.\\n\\nI'm a long time highlander player, and as I said in that thread there is a specific niche of people, me included, for whom HL is a more fun game. I fully endorse pushing 6s as an e-sport, but I have no ambitions of being a \\\"pro\\\", I just want to have some fun and semi-organized gameplay. I main pyro, do you expect me to be a good player?\",\n \"584\"\n ],\n [\n \"Imagine trying to push a point with 2 level 3 sentries on opposite sides, 2 demos with sticky traps, couple heavies and medics and one sniper for good measure.\\n\\nHow do you even do that? I'm not sure what's the best offensive configuration besides coordinating 2+ ubers but it's so easy to create a defensive stack almost impossible to push. This mode would be a stalemate beyond your worst nightmares.\",\n \"835\"\n ],\n [\n \"I actually think the gunslinger is closer to how engineer should have been designed than stock. The gunslinger <PERSON> uses primarily his shotgun and uses buildings to support himself and the team, instead of the opposite. You can play like that with stock, but the way it's designed it encourages players, especially new ones, to sit in a corner whacking their building, which isn't fun for anyone.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"Overwatch is okay. Open beta and release combined I have 60 hours or so and I find it pretty fun as a casual game. It doesn't make me want to tryhard and really get good like TF2 did, which is the main difference personally. Which ends up making me want to play it less because the game is entirely objective-based and if you mess around you'll often have 5 very angry teammates breathing down your neck.\\n\\nAt least in TF2 you have places to mess around and places to be competitive, so it's easier to stay in the game as a casual while not compromising the tryhard aspect (well, up to the point where competitive play itself is under-supported by the devs. But that's another story)\",\n \"702\"\n ],\n [\n \"Literally the only thing wrong with tf2center is the questionable PR and decision-making of certain admins. It's understandable why people would want to remove their support of the site by playing somewhere else, but it's also understandable why they would just not care about it and keep playing because whatever, it's a pugging system in a video game which is well-designed for its purposes. For the latter, the only real reason to play stadium would be if they offered a notoriously better service in terms of the site itself, but that doesn't seem to be the case.\",\n \"289\"\n ],\n [\n \"These balance changes are power creep at its \\\"finest\\\". \\n\\n* buff mediguns to match quick-fix while not nerfing quick-fix in a meaningful way\\n\\n* give a huge buff to spy because he's not considered full-time viable\\n\\n* the only pyro change they did was to encourage dumb w+m1 even more\\n\\n* demo's relative weakness to an ever more powerful scout to be compensated by the new quickiebomb launcher, a weapon that seems designed to murder scouts?\",\n \"1023\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is basically an anti-scout weapon. With this charge time and damage you'll have a very easy time dropping a couple of these on a scout's feet to kill him. But the clip of 4 means that beefier targets like buffed soldiers or heavies will be somewhat hard to take down without reloading or hitting pipes.\\n\\nIn 6s it's certainly broken as hell because the targets are generally lower health and the more support spam role the demo takes. In HL maybe not so much because the constant reloading will make you lose out on some damage potential in a class that's meant to be constantly spamming.\\n\\nI think it will be immediately banned in 6s and maybe tried for a season in HL.\\n\\nEDIT - btw you can do up to approx. 153 damage with one sticky point-blank and it's not that hard to one-shot a scout who is close enough to you (assuming no buff). So yeah.\",\n \"128\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, but do you feel accomplished when you kill a class by holding the button down? I don't. I feel that the class I killed was either distracted by others or completely failed at shooting down a relatively easy target. It would be fine if the flamethrower had a decent skill ceiling, but it doesn't - which makes pyro unfun on both ends IMO.\\n\\nI'm really just arguing about fun factor of a class that I used to love. It used to feel more rewarding to play pyro successfully, or maybe it was because I actually thought combos were hard 2 years ago? Meh, idk.\",\n \"266\"\n ],\n [\n \"Heavy has a pretty solid design and balance but lacks on the fun factor and could use some tweaks on that regard.\\n\\nPyro is fun to play but almost everything about him *screams* bad design. IMO he needs a full overhaul of his core mechanics to truly fit in on this game. I have serious doubts that valve would be willing to go all the way, though.\",\n \"732\"\n ],\n [\n \"In an ideal world we'd get the LG flamethrower, or \\\"hitscan-thrower\\\" and an airblast with reduced cone of effect and stunlock entirely removed and those things alone would increase the skill floor and ceiling on the class entirely. Once you do that, you can adjust his damage and/or mobility to fine-tune balance and it would be ok to make him more powerful since his primary weapon isn't just a braindead \\\"vaguely look at people and do damage\\\" deal.\\n\\nBut yeah, I know Valve won't do that. They would never make such drastic changes on the core mechanics of a class. Which is really unfortunate, because Pyro is something that I used to have tons of fun with and be proud of maining, but as I learned more about the game I realized how stupid and poorly designed the class really is. I don't want it to be buffed, I just want it to be less stupid.\\n\\nAssuming I have to balance pyro based on the flamethrower he currently has, I'd just:\\n\\n* fix its various bugs, documented in [<PERSON>'s video](https://youtu.be/Bv6d3Ny0IK8)\\n\\n* remove stunlock on airblast because it's not fun for anyone. Force pyros to aim their flare guns (or use shotgun and aim that because it's better anyway) instead of shooting in a predictable pattern, and give good enemy players a chance of dodging said flares or just escape the pyro entirely with airstrafing.\\n\\n* Remove the reserve shooter from pyro or change the weapon's upside to something that isn't minicrits. My idea was increased knockback on hit, but whatever, anything that isn't 120 damage shots on a shotgun.\\n\\n* Give pyro the widowmaker (and heavy too, why not) because it would be super fun and it has a skill-based balance around your shotgun aim.\\n\\n* *Possibly* give the degreaser its pre-tough break switch speeds back but with a significant damage nerf that makes people actually think twice about using it. Reduced afterburn is not significant because afterburn is useless, and the slightly increased airblast cost only matters if you don't know how to manage your ammo or needlessly spam airblast.\\n\\n* probably get back the pre-tough break axtinguisher as well. The one that \\\"backstabbed\\\" people. It was pretty fun.\\n\\nApart from that, I wouldn't change much. Pyro is honestly pretty good for a dumb w+m1 + sometimes m2 class. And m1 damage has been buffed so much that I actually feel guilty when I get in a good position and mow a guy down, it really does a lot of damage, and fixing stuff related to mojo etc will make it very consistent damage. You don't really need more than that for a class that will always be pretty shit in 6s and not very important in HL.\",\n \"276\"\n ],\n [\n \"Most of the community considers the loch n load pretty OP because it does the same damage as stock but it's much easier to aim and much harder to dodge, as well as having a longer range to hit directs. This means you should be doing more damage than with stock just because you're hitting more shots.\\n\\nIf you're playing matchmaking just use it and abuse it, it's fair game until Valve nerfs it (or not... :P).\",\n \"964\"\n ],\n [\n \"It's funny how the scout himself hasn't been changed in any core way during TF2's entire existence but he's been indirectly buffed by changes to other classes. This medic buff, the demoman sticky nerf that made them much less able to spam scouts holding W, and the gunboats allowing soldiers to stay mobile without sucking up as many heals, freeing more happy medigun time for the scout, all contributed. \\n\\nBottom line is a scout that is being tanked at 185 health is a very scary thing, and the class wasn't designed with constant heals in mind. In TF2's original concept he is a flank class and more meant to play behind enemies than anywhere near his own medic.\\n\\nBut I can't really see how you'd go about nerfing him without screwing things up. 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---s-t-e-v-e--- | [
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"Ok. Obviously FibreOP is faster. No denying that. But it cost a little more. Why pay for extra you don't use? There are a lot of people talking up FibreOP in here so I thought I'd add a bit about Eastlink. \n\nI am on the \"High-speed Edge\" package at Eastlink which was recently doubled to 40/4. I have been... | 333 | [
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--Butts-- | [
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--Edog-- | [
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--Flare-- | [
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--StoepHoer-- | [
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--Trauma-- | [
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--Void-- | [
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"Basically it's just casual conversations. How has your day been etc. Expanding into whatever. Lots of conversations about how much they hate their boss. \n\nI had a friend who did this in Shanghai for a few years, I sat in on a few of his \"Lessons\" when i visited. They basically just pay you to hold a basi... | 202 | [
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--_--_-_--_-_--_-_- | [
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"> Where the issue arises is when a drug company finds that an already mass produced and no longer under-patent drug is found to be effective in another area. In the US, if you find that say... a blood pressure drug also treats erectile dysfunction, you can RE-PATENT that drug, which prevents other compani... | 319 | [
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--_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- | [
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"Nah, boxing ain't dead. \n\nJul 9th? That's stadium material in the UK, and the fight as far as boxing is concerned is most Defitinely stadium material. It's in Manchester, which means they'll probably fill Old Trafford (80,000+ seats) out no problem.\n\nFrampton/Quiq sold out 20,000 in 15 minutes in the UK,... | 242 | [
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--focus-- | [
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"On the opposite side, my friends put zero effort into being friendly/getting to know a girl that I dated for 4 years who was really sweet but shy. They didn't care at all. It still pisses me off. And one of them recently got a gf and I was nothing but approachable and kind to her so that she felt like she fi... | 60 | [
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--frymaster-- | [
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"well... you can always come over to /r/homebrewing, ask around, and start your own in-kitchen picobrewery. \n\na $400 (or less if you shop around) investment can get you the gear you need to turn $40 of grain and hops and yeast into 6 u.s. gallons of beer. way cheaper than any bottle-o special, *and* you ha... | 457 | [
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--orb | [
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--yy | [
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-10ZiN- | [
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-1800- | [
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"But when would you ever need to against police? One video of so called \"Police Brutality\" and everybody loses their shit. Police Brutality is very rare, Reddit's just a bunch of shit head cop haters. I saw a video on facebook a while ago of a cop grabbing some guy and yelling at him to stop resisting, and ... | 67 | [
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-4-8-15-16-23-42- | [
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-Adon- | [
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-Agathia- | [
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-Agonarch | [
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-Alec- | [
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-Antiheld- | [
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-Archduke- | [
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-Arkennon | [
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-Ashley_Williams- | [
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-Baconella- | [
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-Blarga | [
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-BloodFart- | [
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-Bungle- | [
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-CrestiaBell | [
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-Degaussed- | [
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-Dragin- | [
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-Durandal- | [
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-Dys- | [
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-Ellie- | [
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-Evilfurz | [
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-Exumer | [
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-FSociety | [
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-Fantoche- | [
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-Fighters | [
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"Thank you for this write up. The only way this movie was enjoyable was to go into mentally handicap mode and ignore the tremendous amount of story flaws. I'm surprised that a movie such as this still received a lukewarm reception. It goes to show that people buy into popcorn flicks, which is why movies like ... | 68 | [
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-Freiheit- | [
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-Gabe | [
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-Graff- | [
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-Hahutzy- | [
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-Hicks- | [
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-JMJ- | [
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-Juke- | [
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-Kaleefa- | [
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-Kitten_Mittens- | [
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-Knockabout | [
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-Knul- | [
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-La_Geass- | [
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-Lugubrious- | [
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-MONOL1TH | [
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-MVP | [
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-MY- | [
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-MagicHands- | [
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"You're incorrect on both. \n\n1. D is entry level Partner\n\n2. It is indeed very possible to make it big in the big blue if you stick it out and do a good job in EVERY band. The catch is, you won't just climb by sticking around. You have to actually be good at your job (and better than the other people in y... | 128 | [
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-Mahn | [
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-MajorPain- | [
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-Miyata | [
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-NailedIt- | [
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-Neph- | [
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-No-One | [
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-Norb | [
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-Ophidian- | [
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-Paraprax- | [
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-Pharetra- | [
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-Posthuman- | [
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-Promethium | [
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-Psychonautics- | [
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-QW- | [
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-R47- | [
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-Radiance- | [
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-RamblinWreck- | [
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-Ravenzfire- | [
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-Rednal- | [
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-Resist- | [
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-RiparianPetrichor- | [
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-SeedofChaos- | [
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-Shieldsie- | [
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-Synergy- | [
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