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My problem with 5cp is that since both teams are attacking and defending at the same time there isn't enough coordination and people kind of split off and do whatever, it's why I don't like conquest in battlefield. I love attack/defend but I think most people don't given how often those maps don't get picked
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Badlands used to be super campy because the last point capped so fast, a whole bunch of pubbers never felt comfortable moving off it after repelling a push. So you'd basically need to solo-cap second and hold it long enough for them to realize and push forwards. Now that you can actually get back to last if someone goes for a backcap, it's actually better. Even if I do miss ninja-capping it with the targe + pain train.
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Boy there sure are a lot more people who extremely care about winning the funny halloween harry potter gamemodes than I remember
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Ditocoaf posted:I swear Badlands and Granary and a few other of the oldest 5cp maps don't have that camping problem, so I've always thought it was a level design issue. But I'm not sure anymore, at this point it's just a memory of an opinion. It's been ages since I played a lot of 5cp since it's so unpopular. Badlands is a little harder to turtle in with the different routes of entry how spire can be defended while capping it and how quick last used to cap, and granary's last is wide the gently caress open.
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Sunshine and Process are typically the best of the new 5CP. Their last has high ceilings compared to Badlands for bombing the other team and a lot of mixed levels of high ground. Unfortunately, like a lot of maps they break down when you have a 24 man match. Both are relatively good for 8v8 and below and excel in 6s (I know no one cares)
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Fojar38 posted:Boy there sure are a lot more people who extremely care about winning the funny halloween harry potter gamemodes than I remember You get hats for it now
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I personally much prefer 5 cp but it's dependant on having players that are slightly more experienced. I think the other game modes are much better at herding cats because it forces people to particular areas to fight. When matchmaking first came out I would have really bad games but now mostly everyone I play with knows that you have to just push/attack. You occasionally get games like people mention where your team is all engies and snipers setting up on last from the start but it's rarer now.
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Otacon posted:It was in a limited Salvaged Crate that had a super rare drop rate. I remember being excited to trade off my soldier medal for a pair of ear buds and change because they could be equipped on all classes.
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If you're tired of a 5cp map taking too long, just requeue.* Stalemating a round by only extending time on the first cap isn't going to make maps end any sooner, they'll more often that not extend maps because the team failing to push out of last is likely going to lose the midfight again, anyway. *Alternatively, go medic and build Uber/overheal your teammates. Girbot fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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Victory Position posted:I remember being excited to trade off my soldier medal for a pair of ear buds and change because they could be equipped on all classes. medals are 4 keys and earbuds are 3.5 so you didn't lose out that badly tbh
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lollin that the votekick system sucks so hard that it can be evaded with a console command
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If you didn't already have enough reason to hate gamers, apparently Creators.tf has been going through turmoil because some former members are mad that transphobia is taken seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhWF8FdsAd8
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I had heard that creators fell apart because one of the main guys was grooming people
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i dont think this has ever happened to me before in my nearly 3k hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imEnH5bPsys e: oh also heres some market garden plays. im not the greatest rocket jumper but i think i managed some cool hits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AqrFC95Ujw ArfJason fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Nov 5, 2020 |
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Never seen someone glitch to the enemy team spawn. I was watching a stream the other day where someone glitch into a wall due to lag.
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ArfJason posted:i dont think this has ever happened to me before in my nearly 3k hours At first I thought you got team-switched right as the round ended!
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I've actually seen that happen, but only on Upward. I think it's a product of how the second blu spawn is the first red spawn, and the final blu spawn is red's second spawn. It moves the spawn points up to enemy spawns and I think after last is captured blu's new spawn is the final red spawn.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Upward [. . .] the second blu spawn is the first red spawn, and the final blu spawn is red's second spawn. The third BLU spawn is RED's first spawn. RED's second spawn is at last.
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Sorry, meant Frontier. Frontier is the only map I've seen that happen.
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I've been playing mostly non-Halloween maps for the past few days and have noticed an insane uptick in bots. Like, 70% of matches seem to be decided by which team needs to waste the most time kicking bots (for whatever that's worth considering the bots just use the console to dodge the kick and rejoin 5 minutes later) Is this because Halloween is messing with the bot-to-player ratio in normal TF2? Because I know TF2's bot problem has ballooned in recent months but I heard that it was improving On the plus side, I am impressed at how efficient the playerbase has become at spotting and kicking bots.
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Fojar38 posted:Like, 70% of matches seem to be decided by which team needs to waste the most time kicking bots (for whatever that's worth considering the bots just use the console to dodge the kick and rejoin 5 minutes later) I'm pretty sure they fixed that, are you sure it's the same bot and not just yet another bot joining? Fojar38 posted:Is this because Halloween is messing with the bot-to-player ratio in normal TF2? Probably yes.
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Cross-posting from the online content creator thread:CodfishCartographer posted:So, like 10 years ago, there was a series of TF2 vids about how to play the spy really well, by a youtuber named OMFGNinja. The rest of the videos on his channel were almost all TF2 related, mostly just spy clips or guides.
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Thanks for this. Thank you. ArfJason posted:i got balanced a microsecond before the game ended which i found funny $5 says the people who’ve worked on that corner of the crunch written in 2007 c++ code have hosed off to a gold plated mansion somewhere and the rest of them are “if it ain’t all that broke, don’t touch it” Coffee Jones fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Nov 9, 2020 |
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Fair play to that dude's comment section, they're really trying to patiently flag up to him that that video is utterly insane and he needs to take a few (billion) steps back.
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CodfishCartographer posted:Cross-posting from the online content creator thread: In 2020 I’m going to be whatever this new kind of guy is.
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Yeah so Halloween doesn't seem to have been the problem because casual matchmaking is still swarming with bots. Like shitloads of them and most matches are still mostly spent kicking bots than actually playing the game.
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What strange times we live in with a new Team Service Announcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT7NcPSRtys
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Unhappy Meal posted:What strange times we live in with a new Team Service Announcement. So relatable it hurts
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Unhappy Meal posted:What strange times we live in with a new Team Service Announcement. I get it, but I swear the older ones were a lot better produced than this, and the joke is pretty much the same as the pocket medics one.
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Dabir posted:I get it, but I swear the older ones were a lot better produced than this, and the joke has already been done in the superior Door Monster skit
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I'm guessing that people just kept haranguing the guy for years to make more of the popular series, and he eventually decided he might as well make a trivial episode.
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I like the Heavy being there the whole time
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I guess that the message was "Heavies don't make for great push ubers most of the time" but on the other hand the video, and the blurb, make the case that Pyro or Scout should take priority over a Heavy for Ubers when ehhhhhhhhh I dunno if that's good advice. Especially since Heavies have enough health to tank the damage required to get into position before getting ubered. It's possible to get some stupidly funny killing sprees by ubering a Pyro and letting them W+M1 into an enemy camp but Scout ubers are the sort of thing you're really only going to find in competitive scenarios and even then it seems like it'd be pretty situational.
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Pyro has incredible close range dps while still being relatively fast and not being restricted to a clip size, the only problem is that getting that close usually kills you but invulnerability solves that problem completely
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Pyro uber falls apart if there's a sentry you can't corner though.
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and they also added that thing where targets being hit by pyro flames reduces significantly their heal rate. that said they upped heavies dps against sentries so maybe theres a case there cause the pushback on a pyro could mean not closing the distance. still id rather uber a pyro cause it often means an insane amount of total damage dealt to a cluster of enemies
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Pyro ubers take a lot of ground and in a pub setting, are pretty good as long as you're not facing a built-up sentry. They're a great resource for red team when you need to get space for everyone else to set up a good defense. Scout ubers only work if the scout is good. If you have that, and you're not needing to push into a sentry, they can charge in and kill the key players on the enemy team and then get out. Again, they're more useful on red team for their ability to disrupt the enemy push and prevent them from ubering into you. (In theory that can be countered by the medic playing much further back and players rotating back when they need heals - that will never happen in a pub.) Soldier Uber is kind of medium against a sentry nest - you can't jump in and don't actually have much ammo to shoot with. The times you're good are the times where a heavy is also not too bad. The big upside to a soldier is that after the gun goes down and the enemy team scatters, you actually get to chase and secure kills to keep the pressure on. Always uber the demoman.
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RE: Uber Pyro Sentry chat If the Medic runs in alongside the Pyro and takes Sentry aggro, the Sentry ignores the Pyro and dies. Hope this helps
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