If you are going to post, please don’t post stuff that you don’t actually mean or is not relevant towards these kinds of threads. I don’t appreciate it nor does anyone else.

This goes to everyone. Thanks.

One of the goals of Engineer.tf is to be able to provide adequate resources for aspiring engineer mains to improve. To assist in that function we have created a page on the website that allows you to view, search for, and download STV demos from official Invite RGL Highlander matches. This is a valuable resource that allows mentees to watch and learn how the best play at the highest level of Highlander. Because these are STV demos, anyone can benefit from this resource, even if you don’t play engineer.

you can view our STV Archive on our website at https://engineer.tf/demos.php

@dlphn @Constantly

I don’t have an argument against either of the things you have brought up. Thus, I am enabling the downvote system for everyone as of now. there are some requirements and limits to the downvotes to help prevent abuse, which overall I think will solve any other issues I may have.

@starcatfish kk. cus truth be told, you guys are not suppose to have access to that yet. whoops

I am just going to state my opinion, although I do understand wanting to experience maps you haven’t played before.

bad maps are no longer played for good reasons. I would rather us not waste time and resources re-learning lessons we have already learned years ago.

new cascade should be tested because its new and has an active developer willing to work with us. we can find new issues and fix them, and add it into the rotation this season.

None of the other maps will be added back in. because you guys will play them, re-experience the same things as its the same map, and we will repeat this process again in a year.

No, 5cp and HL isnt fun and will never be fun due to the gamemode’s innate issues with the format. 6’s works with 5cp because 6’s was designed around that gamemode. Vanguard was made with HL in mind iirc and we played it a total of 3 times in UGC(?)

ramjam is too big of a map for koth and while yes, we haven’t played it since UGC, the issues that were presented to the map developer were ignored and was not fixed. Also don’t use UGC as an example for anything good.

borneo is a very long map. When your best pick as spy defending last is to sap the teleporter, its a bad map. when your engineer on offence runs full time EE for ez teles, its a bad map. Its the anthesis of vigil with cap times of 10 minutes not being bad.

Millstone.

Anyone remember badwater_pro? I think we are on version 20 of that map.

anyone remember barnblitz_pro???

Again, I understand you guys wanting to experience those maps that you haven’t before, but do them in your in-house pug groups instead.

LFP Advanced - Engineer/Solly

Hi this is Mothership. Team “In Da Hoop” (Team name is a work in progress) is looking for skilled and dedicated players for HL season 9!

We are trying to make a mature team with a good atmosphere. We do team map reviews, demo reviews, and of course scrims every week. In addition we will be having an optional non-tf2 related game night every week to take off the edge. Don’t let the fun aspects fool you though, as we are competitive tryhards in nature and will try our best to constantly seek personal improvement. Our hope is to not be a monkey brained team.

Our current focus for classes are subs
The roster is currently as follows:

Mains

Scout - Matches_
Soldier - Dubthink
Pyro - Despy
Demoman - Mothership
Heavy - Patches
Engineer - Rekabet
Medic - Ben
Sniper - Jimsgims
Spy - Godo

Subs

Scout -
Soldier -
Pyro -
Demoman -
Heavy -
Engineer -
Medic -
Sniper - Powerpuker
Spy -

Thanks for reading! Please ask to tryout if you enjoy a fun, non-toxic, environment!

Contacts for tryouts via discord:
Despy#8460
Mothership#9517

Has finally learned how to overclock their CPU and has more than 60 frames.

Reminder that there is a difference from Free Speech and Consequence Free Speech.

Free speech means the government cant do anything about your saying slurs.

That does not mean that there are not political, social, or cultural repercussions to your actions.

We have pushed an update to the Engineer.tf STV archive. You are now able to sort/organize the demos via the types using the arrows at the top of the categories. Additionally, we have started including the link to the Logs.tf page for that match. We have also added pages to the demos archive, so you no longer have infinite scroll. Lastly, we are now also including the 6’s demos into our archive. Since we are geared towards engineers, we have split the archive into two pages. One has only Highlander STVs, while the other will contain both 6s and HL STVs.

and as an added bonus, here is round one. Showing all the initial votes.

@Pain-Seer

you guys are all having this huge debate over pugs and time playing TF2 when the only real issue I see you guys bringing up is that people might confuse the Faceit ranking as an indicator of skill level, when it does not directly indicate anything.

As long as the Faceit ranking is proplerly marked as such, there should be no issue whatsoever what your Face-it ranking is. You can already view people’s relative skill rankings though other means already available on RGL profiles. Want to see how well a player does? Check their RGL history, UGC, ESEA, ETF2L. You can view thier logs.tf profiles and check how well they did in those matches, Damange, kills, etc.

This faceit thing is hugely overblown. Just move the rank from next to the username, to below the user information or sidebar.

Done.

I will add as a side note, its very easy to verify how much time someone spends playing games just by checking their steam profiles. And I highly doubt there are more than a handful of users that are limited to 6 hours and do not play tf2 or other video games at all. IMO its more of an issue with commitment which everyone should know TF2 players, or more specifically HL players, do not have.

Reminder to please fill out the poll as I have only gotten 35 responses thus far.

Knows how to aim. Good engineer. smells like tangerines.

hopefully we will not repeat the 14 team issue from last season again.

I honestly would prefer to keep Advanced RR and just move the extra teams to main. That is the obvious consequence of removing challenger in the first place. You cant have heavy competition and also be lax at the same time. At least this issue will be minimized next season if the regular season is expanded.

@Roofon Agreed.

Main should be the ‘Main’ division, with the most amount of teams and players. Players should be pushing up from the lower divs easily, while having a difficult time escaping it.

Its off-season again, and I am once again doing my regularly scheduled Favorite Map Poll.

The way this works is simple, you will rank, in order from favorite to least favorite, all the maps available to play currently for highlander. I will be leaving this poll up for one (1) Week.

After the one week is up, I will release the results of the poll along with a comparison to the previous polls we did to show changes in opinion over time.

https://rankit.vote/vote/Cgx9qMBFkRejPCrNVS27

longer seasons mean bigger RR divisions, so less higher skilled teams in lower divs, and hopefully more competitive divs overall (in Adv., Main, & Invite) but only time will tell.

With the summer season starting at the beginning of June, that is the season to really look forward to the most in regards to growth and improvement. Just to list all the changes coming to HL based off this and previous surveys for Season 12:

• Longer Seasons

  • More maps. Which is a mixed bag with Borneo and Lakeside/Cascade being the most viable options to be added for those additional weeks.
    • Theoretically we could add cp_rapids, but that would require a ton of testing from the HL community and @theatreTECHIE putting in a ton of work so it could be ready within the next 5 months.

• Possible paid divs with prizepools below Invite

  • IM prizepools and more legitimacy as a format is always welcome.

• Break between regular season and playoffs.

  • this is actually really important for planning and coordination, and can help bring hype to the playoff matches

• Refresh maps becoming more mainstream.

  • Who needs valve, when we can just do it ourselves? [insert thanos meme here]

I am very happy to see a lot of these results and optimism towards the HL team if they can properly push this format forward.