This season was rough but I did end up having some good moments with the team, and even though we didn’t do well I did learn a lot and improve a bunch. I would like to continue playing, and am willing to try pretty much any class/role out.
I’m best at demo>soldier>scout>other combo classes, but would feel pretty comfortable on any of them in challenger. I have good mechanics and I comm a lot 
@Teapot I didn’t really make this clear in the post, but what I intended to describe was that the attackers in pl maps both get a respawn advantage, meaning any trades they get are beneficial for the next push, AND get the advantage of not having anything to lose, besides maybe positioning at some points. This means the worst that can happen if you attack is nothing, just lost time. In 5cp, however, if you attack you can potentially lose your last point and the round.
It is true that the respawn advantages are present in some 5cp maps, though not to the same degree. They are often: 1. only present at last (meaning if you decide to park the bus at any other point, respawn times are dead even) and 2. usually much less than the pl/steel respawn advantages.
This is done for good reason- the main issue being giving “attackers” a sizeable respawn advantage is counterproductive when the “attackers” can simply decide to defend- in 5cp, if a team is up in round points, they may forfeit the opportunity to cap last and instead use their 2 second respawn advantage to defend much easier instead. This is related to the fundamental issue with 5cp in highlander- 5cp is designed to be fast paced, with both teams constantly switching between attacking and defending with very fluid gameplay, while highlander has multiple classes that slow down the game and encourage a static playstyle, making this fluid gameplay extremely difficult.
Successful payload defense can only be considered a stalemate if you consider the term to mean when neither team can successfully “push”, or when the objective doesn’t move. However, the term stalemate more accurately describes a situation in which neither team can accomplish their objective, but in the case of payload the objective of the defenders is to prevent the cart from being capped. Thus a true stalemate is impossible in stopwatch because one team is always succeeding, the cart is being capped or is not.
The advantage of payload in making this static sort of gameplay still somewhat interesting is in giving the attackers a massive advantage in spawn wave timing, allowing them room to take risks. The same feature does not exist in 5cp, the attacking team is always putting themselves at a disadvantage, because unlike in payload they do have something to lose by taking risks: their last point.
This change is effectively the same as decreasing the 10 minute in game cap timer, as both simply create more reset opportunities in case of stalemates. A lowered in game cap timer has also been discussed in 6s, mainly in the context of the euro config/playstyle, but I don’t remember where that ended up going.
At the end of the day I don’t think reducing the time maps are played would make the gameplay any better beyond potentially creating more “oh shit we are down points we need to make something happen” moments, but the possibility of 3 potentially never ending golden caps as opposed to one could actually be far worse for the gametype.
s7 team is looking like its dying, so im looking to sub/possibly main depending on what happens with my 6s team. Would love to play for a team focused on improving and with a good attitude. A bit disappointed with me and my team’s performance this season, but still had a great time and feel ready to play again and improve even more
soldier = demo > scout > engie/heavy/learning any other class
hl exp:
s2 im soldier
s7 main demo for ralph
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very knowledgeable player, and definitely a great resource for anyone trying to improve
fun to play with, knowledgeable, and has good mechanics. what more can an engie offer…
bump, also I lost access to my discord so if anybody messaged me in the past ~2 weeks and I have not responded that is why, add me on steam instead.
nice players who are fun to play with and very experienced. def will be a very very good advanced team
fun to play with, knowledgeable, and has good mechanics. what more can an engie offer…
This season was rough but I did end up having some good moments with the team, and even though we didn’t do well I did learn a lot and improve a bunch. I would like to continue playing, and am willing to try pretty much any class/role out.
I’m best at demo>soldier>scout>other combo classes, but would feel pretty comfortable on any of them in challenger. I have good mechanics and I comm a lot