I can respect the dedication

I admittedly only read some of this thread because you fuckers type a lot (and I can’t believe I’m saying this for the 2nd time in my life), but I agree with spu. If you ban scorch, I’m never wearing darwins again anyways, even if pyros go fulltime det. I think most snipers would follow suit, though idk, I could be wrong. I’m just saying there’s no real reason to ban darwins at that point if you want to keep the whitelist as full as possible. If you don’t care about the whitelist being as full as possible, then by all means.

tl;dr: The only way banning darwins will have a large effect on the game for snipers is if scorch isn’t banned, not that I’d advocate for that.

On the (likely) chance that my friend team is dead next season, I would like to join a team that is try-harding and either:

• Snipe in invite
• Snipe in advanced (if allowed)
• Continue getting experience on spy or engineer in advanced
• Get experience on pyro or med on a team I know will perform at least decently in advanced

Sniper > Spy > Engineer > Pyro > Medic

Let it be known that I no longer have anywhere near the time I was putting into this game before S6, and I don’t expect to find a team in invite that I’d want to join. But hey, it’s possible. Also, I don’t want to be on a team with a bunch of egos, I’d rather play with people who aren’t up their own asses and are trying to improve.

Most recent relevant stuff:

• S4 - Advanced - marker and e-boy - 1st (sniper)
• S5 - Invite - Turtle Beach Audio - 4th (sniper)
• S6 - Invite - Impostors - 4th (sub sniper)

This season I’m playing spy in main, and I’d like to think I’m doing well. I’ve also messed around with engineer and pyro in advanced before this season, but ultimately haven’t played a season on either of them before. Add me on steam if you are looking for tryouts.

Is there a complaint department for this one too?

Less people would be crouch peeking right now if this thread didn’t exist. Not a condemnation of the thread or discussion per se, but just a bit of irony.

I found places to experiment with crouch peeking on ashville and have already decided that almost all of them are doodoo in almost all situations. Though if a sniper is consistently and predictably slow peeking shutter on mids…

I can see the mass complaints already, but honestly you’re not wrong. The experimental cups usually have the feel of “Who cares? It’s just the exp cup”.

Hope it delivers well for all game modes. It’s kind of required to have somewhere reliable to practice if the scene is going to grow.

Personally super excited for something like this for highlander, where it (hopefully) won’t be immediately monopolized by people aiming to kill the game they’ve already sunk thousands of hours into…

Last would need to be reworked, since it’s sniper heaven. Also for some reason, if you shoot the wrap assassin anywhere on the map it breaks in your face, so that’s a fun bug.

I think the reason most people liked it (if they did) was because it was generally a quick payload map, which you don’t see too much of aside from vigil.

Unfortunately the map maker doesn’t want to change anything for millstone to make it a staple map in highlander, so we’ll probably never have it played again.

Edit: I have no idea if it’s acceptable for someone to make a new version derivative of valve’s since someone already did. If someone was willing to do that, I’m fairly certain it’d be tested out and given feedback by the community. Or at least I’d be interested in getting it in rotation.

Always my first choice on egg if I’m leading a team. Next level brain. Honestly, he has worked way harder than I have at making our team successful this season, and he was amazing when we played on PYP together as well – also just a great personality to have around the team. Friendly, open-minded, always innovating or improving play somehow. For someone who plays a class that generally doesn’t have impact, he definitely has made a big impact every season we’ve played together.

I think it’s good to have continuous improvement in things if we’re trying to grow the scene. These forums look a lot more clean than the other forums imo.

I find myself wanting to play the video game but not wanting to give up Saturdays. I will play for you if you are ok with someone missing most (but not all) Saturdays. Otherwise, I’m down to sub sniper for good teams in challenger or teams in invite.

Spy > Engie > Medic

If you really want me on something else, feel free to ask. But it’s probably not likely.

• I have a lot of experience on sniper and made invite playoffs in s5.
• Played one season of main spy.
• Played one season of main engie. (Ongoing)
• Played one season of main medic. (Got 3rd)

I will support this idea if and only if we allow the machina to stay unbanned

we should make a team of 9 sniper mains :^)

I can see the mass complaints already, but honestly you’re not wrong. The experimental cups usually have the feel of “Who cares? It’s just the exp cup”.

bump I only have one tryout this weekend, and I find it very hard to believe that nobody else needs someone with thumbs in advanced or challenger.

bumping, team dead haha :^D

This has been a pretty big debate in the past. I can only speak for HL, not 6s, but the argument from the side of not doing this (as far as I know) is that we should want the league to grow as much as possible, and the idea is that the league will be more accessible to people if the rules are as close to what they’re familiar with as possible. As in, If someone likes pubs and wants to try competitive, then they get here and it’s significantly different (moreso than it has to be) from the stock rules of the game, it could turn some people away.

If we have a modded season, we wouldn’t be able to have a normal season during the same time period, because that is too much TF2 for most people to not want to die, so it could essentially turn away people who would’ve joined the community otherwise.

I think there’s a strong argument for both sides. Modding weapons would make for actual fun balance changes between seasons and could keep things fresh, but with TF2 not being a major esport, I think it’s more important to grow numbers, which RGL has been doing pretty consistently every season afaik (Not sure how much COVID helped with more people being around).

If someone did make a mod, I imagine there might be some epic pugs tho.

If enough people really wanted to test maps in the community, you’d have to individually get 18 people or two actual teams (or more) to agree to test maps regularly at a scheduled time each week. Most HL players already give up their Saturday nights for TF2, so I’m sure that wouldn’t be a big issue. It has to be a commitment, not an afterthought like it’s always been to most people.

Specifically you’d need:

• People to know they don’t have a chance of being fat kidded and will actually get to play the game instead of completely wasting their time.
• People to know who they will be playing with, so they know for a fact someone they hate won’t be there (or at least they’ll know beforehand)
• 18 people at a high-ish level to mainclass (or as many as possible to mainclass) while dividing themselves into 2 relatively equal teams in skill.
• Everyone to take it seriously (good luck)

I don’t care as long as we never play 5CP again.

@dlphn This would create a challenge for the other spy to keep it as low as possible in every division except invite.