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    • Addressing Racism/Anti-LGBTQ Speech on Off-Platform Media

      RGL already has a pretty fluid practice for taking action against players with context being of lesser importance. I don’t think increasing their domain to private channels would be popular or result in any actual good outcome. None of what you are advocating for would lead to anything positive and just lead to some extreme policing against every player at the cost of RGL admins ditching their day job to look at reports all day that could just be solved by not associating with whoever it is being reported.

      Anyways, Some examples of what harassment is NOT:
      Being spammed in private messages - If someone is bothering you, just block them.
      Gossip in private Discords

      posted in General
    • [Forked] Scorch Shot Ban Discussion

      The main argument I’ve seen since my initial response to this thread in defending the scorch shot from being unchanged in the current whitelist is that “you can’t ban a weapon for only being annoying”. But I think the initial concerns with the weapon have been missed.

      While I’m glad we can all agree that it’s one of the most annoying unlocks in the game to face in the current whitelist, I feel like the main issues with the weapon have been overlooked and it can come down to why it’s so annoying and those reasons that warrant a ban.

      Pyro is, and always will be, a specialist class. I feel like this is obvious, but it should be reiterated. What Pyro excels at can’t be matched by almost any other class, but comes at a cost of being more poor to other aspects of the game. A majority of the defending arguments in this thread from the Pyro players come from “Pyro is already weaker at most points in the game, and the scorch shot helps alleviate this weakness”. Although I do want all classes to edge more towards being applicable in more situations, I think the scorch shot brings too much to table, on top of what Pyro already excels at, to stay in competitive play. I do not want the pillar for banning the weapon to be “It’s too low risk for its reward and makes the class look like a low-skill ceiling joke”. Instead, I believe the major concern that should spearhead the ban is the overwhelming effect it has at all points in the game in comparison to its counterparts that see much less limelight in the current meta. These effects include, restated from my original post:

      "spam splash (for full afterburn ticks + initial impact), long-range spy check places a Pyro couldn’t normally (from safe distance), pop-up/stun on direct with extra damage, stop all momentum with directs, flare jump, and clear stickies is such an overpowered secondary where if you’re not using it you’re really just being a detriment to your own team".

      I would also like to couple these advantages brought by the scorch shot with the buffs since Jungle Inferno/MYM to the overall class that include increased afterburn tick damage from all flame sources (including scorch), and the abundant airblast buffs (Pyro’s most important mechanic in competitive play). I know the flamethrower changes have been seen as nerfs, but I consider them to be overall buffs outside of damage ramp-up and I won’t talk about the flamethrower here because of this controversy.

      The scenario that @Alto brings up, arekk would run scorch shot and just spam it at flank and the second he got a hit b4nny and blaze would push off of it, because those 20-30+ hp margins the scorch shot can essentially give you for free is enough for top-level players to take a fight that’s 60-40 or even 50-50 and flip it into an 85-15 or a 90-10 is seen in almost every map in the pool where just putting a Pyro on the flank with scorch shot, or just spamming it from safe distance without even leaving the combo, can turn what would normally be coin flip fights into one-sided guarantees and at no cost to the Pyro to his team. You could also swap out the scorch shot with detonator, or even stock flare, but it’s the insane splash (pointed out here from @Catalyst), momentum-stopping power/damage on direct that the scorch shot brings that the other options do not. You would be hard pressed to give a reason why shooting a detonator to hit behind a corner is more beneficial than hitting the ground with a scorch shot (they have the same blast radius on impact/det at 110 HU).

      I would also like to bring up @Melon’s argument and couple this with @Alto’s

      • the scorch/det are direct downgrades in close range combat to the shotty/flare among others, which is significant when you consider the degreaser already has the lowest dps of any primary weapon and every second matters in trying to protect a combo at range. Not to mention, it one of very few weapons that can contest snipers at range, if anything else but to force them on to darwins.

      • Hitscan classes that are basically aimbotting, a spy with mind control, and projectile classes running 80 different instances of the source engine on a giga-array to calculate the best projectile angles in real-time. On that team, pyro does not need to kill anything. Anything a pyro can do in terms of damage, another class can do better

      The argument that shotgun/stock flare is an upgrade in close-range is mitigated by the fact that pyro is normally close to other classes that outscale his own damage at this range, while these classes being safer to do so. The skillset for pyro in competitive is not this damage-dealing class that rivals scout, sniper, and demoman, and his niche is in afterburn and airblasting. The shotgun/flare may prove useful in a small number of engagements where these other classes are dead/not around and could ultimately save your team, but in the long term of a round or even a whole match they don’t come close to how the scorch shot changes the entire situation for the enemy team.

      In higher levels of play, you’re even more hard pressed to find a reason to run an alternative to the scorch because your teammates generally have higher DM and are more suited to these situations and can stop them before you would need interfere with shotty/flare. Why would you equip an item that may not even see much light of being used or has an even bigger niche to one that is applicable to almost every situation? The fact that the shotgun, the generalist hitscan for most classes, is being outshined by an unlock for being even more generalist and even game-changing should be the biggest red flag. Just running the scorch shot can easily mitigate close-range fights from happening in the first place by hitting enemy flank members, spies, and damaging the enemy combo, all from safe distance, and ties back into how the game changes just from this one weapon.

      So when it comes back into banning the weapon for being annoying, it stems from the overall impact and how much you see the scorch shot and its effects throughout every single game. It’s the overwhelming amount of power on a small-scale that can turn what would be 60-40 or coin toss fights into guaranteed ones and how it can shut down multiple classes in the larger scale. No other pyro secondary, or pyro unlock in general, comes close to the impact the scorch shot has, and not using it in the current whitelist is really just throwing.

      and about banning other unlocks if the scorch gets banned, idc lol

      posted in General
    • BMPD LFT S9

      Hi

      I’ll win Challenger or contest Invite for you on Sniper

      Scout in Invite, but I don’t really want to play that class anymore unless you are nice with it :)

      Spy if you really want

      Private Dancer#8321

      posted in Highlander
    • Headsup for advanced teams

      @LiaRein relax big man

      posted in General
    • BMPD LFT S8

      Hi :) lft Scout or Sniper. Willing to sub.

      Edit: willing to play Sniper in Adv, no scout.

      I think I did fairly well with my debut in invite.

      Past exp:
      S7 Burger Squad - Invite Scout
      S6 Single Drop - Adv Scout 1st
      S5 Lay Civ 5 - Adv Scout 2nd
      S4 gotta blast - Adv i subbed to graduate college
      S3 Bruh Team - Adv 3rd Sniper

      Private Dancer#8321

      posted in Highlander
    • Enforcer Ban Discussion

      I think the main saving grace for the wrangler not being deemed too overpowering is the enforcer and keeping them both goes hand-in-hand. Wrangler is easily the most overpowered weapon in the Engineer’s arsenal, so much so that an entire map was revamped with the idea of nerfing its presence. I don’t see why banning one of the only counters (on one of the weakest classes) to an already very much disputed item would fix anything. It would just lead to less counterplay and more stalemate-y games as teams would struggle harder against wrangled guns.

      In the Scorch Ban thread, people have brought up banning the Darwins on sniper, an item that only sees use against the Scorch Shot. The same thing applies to the Enforcer, an item that only sees use on wrangled leveled guns.

      posted in General
    • Tf2 Log Searcher

      @tua said in Tf2 Log Searcher:

      really cool features, thanks for putting in the time to do these
      however, at least for the stats search, i think you forgot to remove a test print statement or something, because my names always end with cum
      pic

      this is a feature

      posted in General
    • Cursed Loadouts

      alt text

      Here you go

      posted in Off-Topic
    • S8 Invite LFP

      Interesting if true

      posted in Highlander

    Latest posts made by BMPD

    • round robin advanced

      seasonal ‘RGL admin makes a fool of themselves on the forum and is too narrow-sighted to see how’

      bless this thread, good work to all actors involved. DiCaprio has competition.

      Edit: also wize should get his big wig removed lol

      posted in General
    • dlphn lft

      funny lil fella lol

      posted in Highlander
    • YEYE LFP S11

      every reply here is from a paid actor and I just want to say none of you get paid enough for this quality of work

      posted in Highlander
    • lft engineer s12

      There are not many engineers who actively want to be good at the class and discuss how they could improve or adapt to better their own team and that’s why Constantly would make an amazing pick up for anybody. Any time I’m even ringing or just scrimming with him he will message me on how he can do better with me and that’s something I don’t see almost anybody do.

      He can hold his own in dm and isn’t a warm body with a wrangler unlike all you backpacker engies out there.

      Top player

      posted in Highlander
    • BLUE99 lft (HEAVY ONLY)

      @raeger We played in s23 where you were well known to babyrage, scream, and ragequit scrims and matches if anything even slightly went wrong concerning our team’s performance or your own personal performance.

      You single-handedly killed our team that season by leaving voicechat and the server mid-match on cascade week after dropping a single round because you couldn’t get a “perfect season”. This is only after you screamed at everyone on your way out.

      Because this is a forum and not for 2-way conversations, I’m going to end this with a note to anyone looking at this thread in the hopes of finding a Heavy for their team: you are better off with literally any other player of any skill level. You are better off showing up to your scrims and matches and playing with 8.

      I don’t mean for this post to be insulting to this player, but a recommendation and my opinion based on my experiences.

      Best of luck to Blue and those looking at this thread

      posted in Highlander
    • BLUE99 lft (HEAVY ONLY)

      Playing with this guy is in my top 3 biggest regrets and briefly killed my love for the game.

      :)

      posted in Highlander
    • BMPD S11

      massive 12 day bump

      im the best scout AND sniper in the whole entire earth in its entirety

      posted in Highlander
    • BMPD S11

      honorary 10 day bump

      im the best to ever do it, anyone who disagrees is just angy

      posted in Highlander
    • BMPD S11

      Bump :) :)

      posted in Highlander
    • S10 Analysis: Why Swiss shouldn't be used next season

      new season same thread

      posted in General