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.

oh no, a new mechanic was found that might change the meta of how teams hold on one of the most annoying non-last points to push in highlander. we cannot allow it! quick! ban it ban it ban it!

The real meta is when the defense on swift 2nd does it too, and then offense is surprised when they trade 10 seconds later

@cayorne said in Team Pictures For All!:

-Might need to have people to moderate pictures

Could maybe have a system where an image needs admin approval before showing publicly, rather than having to have people watch the site all the time.

Let me preface, I think this is a great idea. I’m not trying to argue against it, but I think this was discussed in little detail a long while back, and there were arguments against it from a league standpoint iirc. If I’m wrong, don’t crucify me, I’m going off of memory of a forum post from year(s) ago at this point.

Those arguments against it were that it was meant to be a reward for playing in invite, and it was supposed to stay contained to a small enough group of teams that it’d be easy to moderate the quality of images, so that anyone from the outside seeing them would think they look, at the very least, professional-ish. With those two things in mind, I think it probably seemed natural to leave it only to invite teams.

However, I’m not really sure how much of an incentive it is for teams to play invite – I don’t think anyone wants to play invite specifically so they can have a team image or logo, and the only time they’re even referenced or cared about at all is in casts, so it’s not like lower level teams would ever have to have their team images shown prominently anywhere.

@vibeisveryo Your argument is a hard sell for me for a few reasons, but perhaps the biggest one is that you’re trying to make the case that someone who doesn’t have time to play a few pugs per week DOES have the time to play scrims on Saturday nights, Sunday nights, and Monday nights. You cannot have it both ways. Saying there’s a large amount of people who strictly have 0 time to play video games outside of exactly 6 hours of tf2 per week is ridiculous.

If someone seriously only has 6 hours to play tf2 per week while at a low level, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but there are probably better options for any leader to get on their team than that person… I imagine most people who lead teams are either doing so to 1. play with friends or 2. to create a space where they can improve. And if you don’t have friends on that team and don’t want to put time into improvement, someone else should and will be chosen instead.

I can understand the argument from @JohhnyFromCali saying that the pugs aren’t highlander-related and so shouldn’t be on a highlander page (even if I don’t agree that they should be taken off), but I find it hard to sympathize with any of the other arguments.

I kinda disagree with the opinions here, only because I think it’s better for the long-term health of tf2 to have active pugs that aren’t doodoo. We should be doing everything possible to keep them going and to improve them over time. And whether people like it or not, some kind of status that shows you do well in them is a good advertisement for more players to find them and a good incentive to get more people to play in them.

TF2C used to serve the purpose of being able to pug whenever you wanted and no longer does, so there is nowhere else to reliably practice outside of scrims. These new pugs are the best thing we have now, whether you enjoy highlander more than prolander or not.

I never realized this was a thing, but after reading this post/watching the vid, I watched a pyro obliterate himself in a pub yesterday after reflecting an iron bomber. lol Probably one of those cases of not realizing how often you see it until it’s on your mind.

But yeah I don’t see a reason not to fix it, as long as the plugin actually works and isn’t bugged in some other regard.

I think it’s hard to actually get an opinion out of this survey question because nobody knows what “no major gameplay changes” means. It sounds nice, which is why everyone agrees, but then the steel B window shot is removed as not being a major gameplay change, which iirc was debated pretty heavily on that thread.

That being said, as far as Upward goes, I’m fine with the changes listed. I’m kinda out of the loop now, but even back when I was spending way too much time sniping, I ran into someone actually using the box spot maybe once every two seasons. I don’t think it’s as big of a deal as people have always made it out to be, but I won’t complain about it being removed.

bump, updated sub classes we will need