The cleaver is too overcentralizing. It is by far the best available secondary and every scout player who doesn’t use it are gimping themselves. With this weapon, the optimal play style for scout is to spam it off cooldown across the map and we should not encourage that type of degenerate gameplay. Highlander does not need another spam class.

Sure, it gives scout something to do during downtimes but it’s so brainless and too effective for the effort it requires. I think if scout players learned cleaver spots (akin to lining up your crosshair to throw a nade in CSGO) people will learn how truly oppressive it truly is.

I’m currently on 4 RGL teams, one for:

Prolander
Highlander
6s
The Highlander Map Cup

I am a leader for 3/4 of these and it is really annoying (taking multiple clicks) to view the team page/info for each one

I suggest this:

Change the blue “Don’t Press Tab” into a “My Teams” dropdown menu that shows all the teams that you’re currently on

Please don’t normalize making retirement threads on the forums

Saturation

I take this thread back. After playing again and looking at logs (not one of the top 3 scouts last season used it on a map other than Product/Steel) from last season I can safely say it’s just a crutch for inexperienced players and doesn’t deserve to be banned

All this will do will make people say replacement words everywhere. Everyone knows what “mega” truly means but will RGL ban people for using it? How about the next replacement word following it? HLPugs tried banning the replacement words until people just started typing “n” and the site died as a result

note:
I think using bigoted speech as a punchline to a joke is cringe and unfunny

@darzie said in Addressing Racism/Anti-LGBTQ Speech on Off-Platform Media:

This problem isn’t as simple as “just ask people to stop” because they genuinely won’t.

It’s quite easy, you literally give them an ultimatum: “I won’t play on your team if you keep on using slurs”. Most people who use slurs in TF2 aren’t actual racists, they’re just being edgy, so they will stop 100%.

@darzie said in Addressing Racism/Anti-LGBTQ Speech on Off-Platform Media:

You did not read my full post. If people are that invested in having you on their team that will probably work. However half the time people will tell they don’t actually care about having you in their team/pug group/whatever niche tf2 thing and continue doing whatever it is.

Sometimes asking will work. Sometimes it will not. Pretending asking will always work is a falsehood and doesn’t reflect the reality of what’s going on.

If you’re the best player available for a team, they will stop. I know this for a fact. Most people would rather win than say slurs.

@darzie said in Addressing Racism/Anti-LGBTQ Speech on Off-Platform Media:

Are you telling people who are tired of slurs to git gud so they have enough pull on teams?

Yes. You can be an extremely, openly toxic person and still find a team provided that you’re good enough. The inverse works too.

I think even playing sniper is fine if your ping is high. Getting shot around the wall will happen regardless. The best sniper in RGL has 100 ping and nobody complains when lag compensation favors them. As long as they aren’t teleporting, let them play. There are some NA players who are more annoying to play against because their connections aren’t stable.

If someone is masochistic enough to play projectile from a different continent, let them. Just don’t force people away from Chicago servers lol

Johhny has limited availability so we need an invite pyro sub. Add me. Guaranteed play time. Etc.

The best high ping spy (Shido) lives in Hawaii and he doesn’t lag this bad despite getting 130 scoreboard ping

He also is good enough to not rely on gimmick lag stabs, but in this case, what do you expect from a player that makes trickstab videos on youtube /shrug

I would like to see the interp of the spy in the 2nd clip, it seems like interp abuse to me

I agree with the banning of the Scorch Shot and Phlogistinator and Backscratcher and the unbanning of the Short Circuit. However, we think we should also ban the Kunai for it is extremely overpowered in a 12v12 setting.

We should play test maps in the official season because people only give feedback if there’s actual stakes on the line. Using my data, only 1% of competitive players play test maps and give feedback so if we just force test maps

Sniper is too strong on Ramjam

I think v2 has a lot of promise. Sniper’s more fun to play against (calling sniper right / left bats is really annoying but I guess it can be solved with more refined callouts) because there’s less spots for him to be.

During the map cup we decided that playing on point was the best hold .

Now my criticisms:
The area between the point and house is way too tiny.

Fighting a soldier who decided jump into your tunnel isn’t fun. The only way to deal with him isn’t fun is by spamming rockets or stickies until he dies. You can’t walk at him as scout or engineer because he has height advantage in a tunnel.

Original cascade you could push from concrete and the other side of the map depending on where the other team’s sniper was sitting. In the new cascade, I think the only valid spot to push from is concrete mostly due to how the one of the only sightlines is bats.

https://demos.tf/639528
https://demos.tf/639549

^ Our match demos