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 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 Galaxy does deserve to be unbanned because it’s pretty obvious that he won’t be a repeat offender. He unironically cares a lot about the game and robbing him a chance to play is pretty messed up. His ban will be almost as long as a cheater’s ban.

pushing without a sniper in highlander is unfun

Hi,

In an environment where winning/losing doesn’t matter, you should not be using the Stopwatch config because both teams should practice all points of the map on Attack/Defense.

Thanks,
wish

Even though I vastly prefer metal names to the current division names they aren’t confusing at all. The only thing I dislike is having to refer to the old ESEA IM division as ESEA IM

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

@wish The problem here is a culture problem. There are simply not enough options of teams such that everyone who wants reasonable teammates who don’t spew racist or queer phobic bs will be the best possible options for all of those teams. this leads to people being unwelcome in the scene as a whole, especially at higher levels, since there are too many teams that refuse to not say racist things.

Higher level tf2 is unwelcoming, I agree. But I don’t think it has anything to do with bigoted speech…

@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.

@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:

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%.

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

Only reason why I haven’t played sniper yet is that I absolutely hate spies and the optimal way of playing SvS is playing as lame as possible

No one likes NR 6s and I think that they won’t be running it again

Even though I vastly prefer metal names to the current division names they aren’t confusing at all. The only thing I dislike is having to refer to the old ESEA IM division as ESEA IM

@Alto said in What Anime will you be watching this Season?:

jaku-chara tomozaki-kun (heard it compared to ned’s declassified and now i have to watch it).

yeah I read the light novels for this and it’s basically teaching a TF2 player (the protagonist is basically the #1 ranked smash player in Japan) how to be a functional member of society

I call Caution Dogbread and haven’t had a problem