The cleaver is too overcentralizing. It is by far the best available secondary and every scout player who doesn’t use it are gimping themselves. With this weapon, the optimal play style for scout is to spam it off cooldown across the map and we should not encourage that type of degenerate gameplay. Highlander does not need another spam class.

Sure, it gives scout something to do during downtimes but it’s so brainless and too effective for the effort it requires. I think if scout players learned cleaver spots (akin to lining up your crosshair to throw a nade in CSGO) people will learn how truly oppressive it truly is.

Saturation

I take this thread back. After playing again and looking at logs (not one of the top 3 scouts last season used it on a map other than Product/Steel) from last season I can safely say it’s just a crutch for inexperienced players and doesn’t deserve to be banned

All this will do will make people say replacement words everywhere. Everyone knows what “mega” truly means but will RGL ban people for using it? How about the next replacement word following it? HLPugs tried banning the replacement words until people just started typing “n” and the site died as a result

note:
I think using bigoted speech as a punchline to a joke is cringe and unfunny

@darzie said in Addressing Racism/Anti-LGBTQ Speech on Off-Platform Media:

This problem isn’t as simple as “just ask people to stop” because they genuinely won’t.

It’s quite easy, you literally give them an ultimatum: “I won’t play on your team if you keep on using slurs”. Most people who use slurs in TF2 aren’t actual racists, they’re just being edgy, so they will stop 100%.

@darzie said in Addressing Racism/Anti-LGBTQ Speech on Off-Platform Media:

You did not read my full post. If people are that invested in having you on their team that will probably work. However half the time people will tell they don’t actually care about having you in their team/pug group/whatever niche tf2 thing and continue doing whatever it is.

Sometimes asking will work. Sometimes it will not. Pretending asking will always work is a falsehood and doesn’t reflect the reality of what’s going on.

If you’re the best player available for a team, they will stop. I know this for a fact. Most people would rather win than say slurs.

@darzie said in Addressing Racism/Anti-LGBTQ Speech on Off-Platform Media:

Are you telling people who are tired of slurs to git gud so they have enough pull on teams?

Yes. You can be an extremely, openly toxic person and still find a team provided that you’re good enough. The inverse works too.

Pick this man up!!!

I think Galaxy does deserve to be unbanned because it’s pretty obvious that he won’t be a repeat offender. He unironically cares a lot about the game and robbing him a chance to play is pretty messed up. His ban will be almost as long as a cheater’s ban.

Ok, we are finally starting to scrim this week so if anyone who wants to tryout wants to add me and we can discuss further details

We have about 3 soldier tryouts / 6 engi tryouts / 3 med tryouts sofar

I’m the new team leader for Team Oven, the next iteration of team fridge / freezer! We were absolutely DONE with page’s dogshit leading (he would wake up at 8:15 pm consistently on match days). He’s still playing but it’s clear that he can’t take a leadership position.

I want to be Team Oven because it’s the summer season but it’s still subject to change.

We are trying to keep as many players as we can from this season because I disagree with shuffling rosters around until you finally get something that clicks – and the team was clicking at the end of the season. We were quite competitive with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th seeds this season.

We want players who have a drive to improve and are willing to show up to map talks and demo reviews. Invite experience isn’t a must, but if you don’t have invite experience I want you to have had a dominating performance in the division below invite (challenger / old advanced).

Here’s our tentative roster:
scout: wish
soldier:
pyro: Johhny
demo: Joey Lemons
heavy: Adam
engi:
medic:
sniper: noob page
spy: agb

Saturation

Pick this man up!!!

@Brock said in High-ish Level Highlander Pugs:

so is this dead?

NO, PUGS WERE LIT LAST NIGHT

(also updated the Discord invite link)

@kevbad said in High-ish Level Highlander Pugs:

No kids, being disallowed from senate pugs is NOT like 1984.

Might join these pugs as a way to advocate for other players actions in them to be judged by the council tho

I do not know what you are referring to, but these are intended to be serious, high level pugs made to replace Thanos Pugs (which a noob deleted on a whim). They will give everyone a fair chance, provided they are sufficiently good enough at the game. These pug admins are smart enough to not base their judgement on what other people say.

An invite level pug has not occured since January 19th – they want to fix that. There’s demand for it.

https://discord.gg/9ABukKvxVU

Pugs run by Nyxi / triiiple

Features:
Monetary rewards
No toxicity
Intended for high Challenger+ but if nyxi or triiiple recognizes you they will let you in
State of the art pug-bot coded by Thanos (Dimento) himself