this be kramer, he died 2 years ago on the 15th : (

@Markers said in The Music preferences of RGL players:

https://youtu.be/IluRBvnYMoY

great album overall, i can say though my favorite song from it is instant crush

ill give some shoutouts too, here we go

Rikuus: probably my oldest comp friend, got me into the scene
Darzie: actually one of the nicest people ive met, period. i dont think ive med a kinder soul before or since.
Rachel Quinn: another OG friend, always great to have around : )
Salad Snek: mans at chilis
Clio: dudes actually the homie, always around when i need life advice, great friend
Bliztank: dudes always been the homie, always an interesting character to have around
Jas: ive known this man forever, i always enjoy shitposting with him
Brick HugHouse: the OG mentor, one of my oldest tf2 friends, cannot respect enough the fact that he sticks his neck out for me, and got me into some ok i guess tv shows

@darzie big sad

paggies is a great pyro, friend, cannot reccomend him enough, pick him up!

constantly is a great mentor and a good friend, helped me in playoffs last season and i felt a lot better going in

heres 2 more pictures of kramer that i pulled off an old phone i have

pills is one of my favorite people to play and have around, always a fantastic person to have around on the teams ive been on, although ive never had him as a main before, he was one of the most reliable subs on UTD, playing spy pyro and engi at a solid main level

in HL i definitely prefer payload maps to koth, but i think thats a by product of the teams ive been on more than the maps being bad. i can say i strongly dislike lakeside and cascade though, ive never really enjoyed either .

some of my favorite non competitive maps are ;
Cornfarm, GoD Run, Mandrillmaze, simple_grey, and beerbowl

all i remember about borneo was when luigi denied me from ringing somebody and i was very upset about it and said id pay for him to go to rgb to fight me in the parking lot

@scaredy-bat you can never truly quit tf2 you should know that by now

@scaredy-bat right now, id take a bad map over playing the same 4 payload maps for the next 15 seasons

i told brick to pick him up multiple times bc i DO NOT want to play against puker, pick this guy up!

i actually enjoyed all 3 maps in the map cup, and i vote putting borneo back in the map pool, but not every season, as you said, variety is fantastic and healthy for the pool

i quite liked ramjam, i thought it was a refreshing change from the current KOTH maps

@firepow every point on borneo is holdable : )

this, except for instead of badwater and gully, we put borneo and ratJAM in the pool : )

i personally think ratJAM is a great map and i love killing pugs by picking it.

@QueeQuey said in Weapon Bans: Which confuse you? What would you ban/unban if you could and why?:

@Ryuk
For 6s I’d unban:

Soda Popper
Sure it gives you the jumps, but you have to build up damage to get there, starting you out at a disadvantage every time you spawn. Scout’s scattergun already does a good amount of damage up-close and scout 1v1s can be pretty quick, with only 3 shots exchanged, which in that case the soda popper would lose due to the reload being necessary. Sure it’s annoying to fight as soldier or demo, but if you let the scout get to that point it’s kinda your fault. In the same way that you let a soldier build up banner, or a demo get kills with the eyelander etc.

Bonk!
If you use this, you’re probably baiting your team. Using it to go behind the enemy puts your team at a potential 6v5 fight where they should lose. If you’re spotted while using bonk! You’re a pretty easy kill since you’re slow. Soldiers or scouts can just decimate you.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Crit-a-cola
The only time when it’s useful is during ubers. People forget that mini-crits don’t have damage falloff, so if you don’t have a buff and get piped from ANYWHERE you die instantly (If you take a rocket you’re left with 3 health, or die instantly if you’re in ramp-up range). The majority of the time you’re left with the downside of not having a pistol. It can totally be used to push a stalemate or uber add if your pocket scout died in the last fight, but that’s pretty much it, doesn’t exactly warrant a ban anymore.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Flying Guillotine
The times when it would be useful is during stalemates, which when that happens healthpacks are normally nearby. Not exactly a powerful weapon, just an annoying one like the Wrap Assassin. It doesn’t need to be banned in my opinion.

Pretty Boy’s
This DESERVED the ban before, when it got the upside of health. But it’s been nerfed since then, since you don’t get 7hp per shot at any range anymore. The faster firing speed is good and bad since it can make you miss more, but it’s just a sidegrade to the pistol. Doesn’t need a ban.
Speaking from experience in nr6s.

Cow Mangler
While the slower first reload was a significant downside before, I’d say that it still has one with the rising presence of engineers. Engineer isn’t a generalist yet by any means, but he’s definitely a rising force to be reckoned with. Sentry guns are a staple in the last hold defense of 6s now, and are making their way onto koth with maps like clearcut. With the buffs to the Jag (and engineer in general) the cow mangler has a notable downside, sure you CAN disable sentries, but it’s not nearly as good as just finding an angle and killing them (and in that situation you’re going to get pushed since you have to reload 4 times before being able to fire again, a great way to die after firing off 1 shot, putting your team at a player disadvantage).
Speaking from experience in nr6s

B.A.S.E. Jumper
It got nerfed a while ago and kills your momentum while jumping, there isn’t much of a reason to keep it banned.

Disciplinary Action
We’re not ETF2L, we don’t have to have mods that slow down the game. The primary argument to keep this banned is “OH wElL YoU cAn TaKe A hEaVy To MiD” ok yeah sure, but now what? Get bombed in choke because your team was too slow to actually make it to the mid fight? Or bait your demo and roamer (plus scout and medic possibly) because you’re still rolling out? You’re giving up positional advantage if you’re using the whip to get a heavy to mid, the actual argument here is that you can get your combo to mid faster, but you’re giving up crit heals on your pocket to do so. It sounds scary, but really shouldn’t be.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Buffalo Steak
See the argument for the Disciplinary Action. Also giving up the potential of the sandvich or banana would be really dumb, especially if the whip gets unbanned.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Quick Fix
You still can die to stickytraps, snipers, bombing soldiers, scouts etc when using the quick fix. Focus fire (Which is common in 6s) can out-damage the uber as well. It’s a good option, especially for mid, but that’s about it. If you want to take the potential advantage on mid, to potentially have a disadvantage when pushing second and so on, that’s a choice that I think is interesting and we shouldn’t remove from the game.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Diamondback
The main issue that I personally have with the diamondback is that you get crits for destroying Engineer buildings, since you can get a potential 5 crits for killing 1 player. That being said, in 6s you’re not going for the engineer. You’re going for the Demo or Medic. If you get that stab, you typically die instantly, so even if you do get 1 102 shot off, you’re not killing anyone else. You’d be better off using the L’Etranger to have the cloak bonuses to get that initial stab. It doesn’t deserve a 6s ban.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Agreements
Reserve Shooter
I don’t think I really need to explain myself here, but it’s a really strong defensive weapon, if it’s unbanned you should probably have your pocket run it to deny sacs from soldiers. It punishes using advanced movement which isn’t fun to play against. This is a shame since I love the reserve shooter in casual, so I thought of a potential tweak: if it’s possible having the reserve shooter only mini-crit when you or a teammate knocked someone in the air it would keep the original intention of the weapon intact without punishing Soldiers, Demos, and Pyros for choosing advanced movement.

Mad Milk
If it gave 35% heals like the concheror instead of 60% I think it could be unbanned. It’s really strong for team fights, especially in gamemodes with points or payloads.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Natascha
Mechanically broken unfortunately. I do think the mod that speeds up the heavy instead of slowing targets is an interesting take, but would make it trash in 6s.

Rescue Ranger / Short Circuit
This is more of a problem with map design than the weapons themselves, if maps had an extra room before the resup like on granary that way the engineer can’t spam bolts or short circuit balls when defending last they could be fine.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Wrangler
I don’t think I really need to explain myself here, in casual and Highlander it’s not as great since the engineer has to fight spies (which barely exist in 6s), and a total of 8-11 damage sources (assuming the casual team has a medic) while in 6s he has to deal with 5…. It’s a lot easier to tank damage. It’s too strong at the moment.
Speaking from experience in nr6s

Vaccinator
I see that it’s not that great in high level play, but I feel that a team with 1 medic that’s competent with it could completely carry a team from Newcomer through Intermediate to be absolutely honest. Personally I’d be interested to see it reworked to deploy the shield from MvM, which makes medic more interactive (and you can do damage as a medic here) while also risking a player walking through the shield or behind it to drop you. A simple nerf at the moment would be to remove the passive bubble, but I’m more interested in the former.

Machina
Sniper stronk + no real downsides + drops medics easier

Sydney Sleeper
Sniper typically builds up a bodyshot to kill meds anyway, this doesn’t have a huge downside. A 10% or even 5% damage penalty would put it in the realm of “not being able to 1 shot a medic” and would drop the viability.

Eh

Jarate
Jarate is really really strong. But with the increasing speed of soldier and demos with the increased speed of medic…. I don’t know why you would EVER want to get close enough to POTENTIALLY jarate someone. If you miss you’re throwing, but if you hit them, you team might be able to push? Idk, it’d need to be tested more to get an opinion from me.

Soda popper does almost the same dps as the normal scattergun if you hit your shots, and gives you a shit ton more mobility, thats really broken in 6s…

bonk gives you the ability to tank traps and spam and have ur team be able to rush, along with back cap potential, its really not great

crit a cola: im just gonna say this ; anything that gives you free crits or mini crits is going to be bad for game balance, good scouts can just get tanked and not have to worry about it

Guillotine; the biggest reason its banned IMO is more spam is bad in 6s, especially 90 damage hitscan to a scout on an insane short cooldown

pretty boys is banned bc in higher divs intense scout vs scout fights, getting 3 hp back per hit and having increased firing speed means its almost a direct upgrade on stock pistol

mangler just means soldiers dont have to grab ammo, and charge shots are dumb, makes soldier significantly stronger of a spam class, they have infinite rockets

base jumper means soldiers can stay airborne for a longer time, and leads to thinks like air strike nukes, its just bad for the momentum of the game

whip makes it so you can get heavy to mid faster, which means if u play a slow mid, they cant bomb ur med, and scouts get wrecked if they try to get close, its really really strong

steak sandwich makes heavy faster, thats always something ur not going to want in 6s.

quick fix has faster healing, and significantly faster ubers, and also you can jump with your soldier , which means if ur med gets bombed, u can just bomb away with ur soldier. the healing too, u can just play 6 person combo and keep everybody tanked bc of the heal rate.

Diamondback is more free crits, which will always be unhealthy for the game

he WILL spawncamp it is inevtiable