Played any good servers or had good matches lately?
Casual matchmaking has had a stark upswing since Valve enacted a change to how it works, large parties are now matched up against eachother so you don't get six extremely high-rank competitive cocksuckers going on a fucking pubstomp. It's not any replacement for an ELO, but it's driven up the average match from awful-to-mediocre to mediocre-to-good.
There still lacks any good rotation community servers.
I miss teek already.
I'm going to go through with buying a VPS and owning my own once I get some money here.
6s season starts tomorrow. badlands rollout is suffering
I don't pay attention to 6s at all, myself. What's the appeal of short matches that primarily end up as one of three classes and maybe a Medic? Especially since I see soldier mains have an autistic aversion to any other class and I recall seeing a black/whitelist for weapons in several comp leagues where a restriction was that if a new weapon changes how a class plays in any appreciable way it'll be banned sheerly because it would shake up the meta too badly.
I'd love to see a community server with a map-rotation, though. Gameshock used to have a kind of Quickplay Valve-server replacement going with a bunch of servers going at any given time (apparently endorsed by some Youtuber or other), but then they started actually bringing down kicks and bans on habitual friendlies and the userbase dried up, they're dead whenever I check them out anymore.
6s matches aren't usually short (UGC rules are first to 4 wins or most after 30 minutes on 5cp, takes a long time) and almost never stick to just the 4 standard classes (off-classes on defense or to break a stalemate are very common) and weapon bans aren't that restrictive (only broken weapons being banned, now universal across all leagues see: whitelist.tf/ugc_6v6_s22).
Plus, it's just fun with friends in tf2 in a way more satisfying than pub-stomping.
Aah, I see. I'm paying attention to the entirely wrong set of people when I read about comp then, though there again when my primary source of information on that subject is the forums.steampowered.com page it should prolly be a big enough incentive to expand my horizons anyways.
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I mostly play casual since volvo's comp is notoriously bad that even reddit hates it
Still, good to know that shit won't happen as often as it is now but i still like pwning those faggots if they try playing as scouts, until they give up and just pocket each other then i whip up my vacc and just pocket a heavy
Have you ever played landfall? it's 90% stalemates because of engies camping their nests
2 years later and they STILL haven´t updated their shitty comics.
do public servers still have the problem of being horribly autobalanced?
also, is the game worth redownloading?
Landfall is an exception. It encourages turtling by putting the intel right in front of the goddamn spawn.