John Caveson

We had to put our dog down last night. In the past week she just went on a sudden down-swing, stopped eating her food, would only eat eggs or rice, and then stopped eating at all. She started throwing up... But she made it through Christmas. We put her in a wagon and pushed her out front of us on our walk, and she stood up straight and tall looking at out everything, just like on all the car and boat rides she loved so much. Then in the following days she just shut down, she could hardly stand and started having seizures, just seemed out of it. We didn't want her to suffer any longer; the vet said it was probably cancer and renal failure. She's alright now.

You know what would be really poggers, fam? If you yeeted yourself off a fucking cliff.

Ah yes, another example of the Halloween version of the map being superior design-wise, like Helltower.
 
*sigh*

Pretty much.

Just lock the old people, immunocompromised, and anyone who doesn't wanna risk it in like gay baby jail or something for two years while the rest of us fight through it while living life normally. FUCK it's so easy why the hell doesn't the government listen to me.

I'll have you know it's called "Sorry!"

Honestly if it wasnt for the bots I'd be completely fine with TF2 staying in the state it's currently in forever. I seriously think it's the most balanced it has ever been. The only weapon in TF2 that I still think is truly overpowered and would have liked to see changed is the Vaccinator. It charges way too quick and crit immunity is not ok
 
Two nitpicks are the state of Spy now being turned from stealth class to 200 HP annoying fly feeding off new players thanks to Kunai and DR, but that isn't really overpowered, just kind of a lame end point for a cool class. The other one is a single Gunslinger on KotH just kind of shutting down Pyro and Scout entirely but Pyro and Scout are also very good on KotH so it sort of balances out.

Huh, I never noticed the FoS was buggy. Probably because I don't use them. That's interesting. I wonder how Valve would fix that coding-wise.
 
A fair point. Don't forget it has the longest melee range in the game as well.
 
Yeah, but part of me fears Valve will over do the buffs and we'd be stuck with some new OP combo for another 1000 days. So if this is it for balancing, then I'll take the meme loadouts any day.
 
As a Spy main, I never really thought the nerf was that bad balance-wise. I just thought it was the wrong kind of nerf. The long range 102s gave it great utility for picking off Engineers and Snipers from a distance. Taking that away has just made it more or less a boring +/- stat weapon to the Revolver. The real problem was the DR abuse in combination with the Amby to make a non-stealthy Gun-Spy subclass. They were embarrassments to Spies everywhere.
 
I would have gone with thesentryisaspy's (an old, old time Spy main) suggestion of making it more of a hand cannon as the original description on the Sniper vs. Spy update page.
 
+crits do 120 damage instead of 102
- 50% clip size
- slightly longer HS cooldown
 
Something along those lines. That way it's main purpose be for its long-range utility. And if you just want good ol' reliable damage, stick to stock.
 
At the end of the day though, I do understand Valve's logic behind the nerf. I think, personally it's stupid, but I can't argue that it made the weapon more in line what the Spy was supposed to be in not being a mini-Sniper.
хоро́шим komrade.
 
That honestly summarizes my list actually.
 
Hmm, I never had trouble with the Vacc, though admittedly, that's just lack of experience fighting against or with. Not many people really know how to abuse it, so not enough people are complaining about it. I find there are a lot of weapons that do that; either a greater evil had to be slain at the time (in Amby's case, the Enforcer), or a notable pro player starts using it all the time, then word spreads and more people start to use it and realize how good it is, then the complaints come in.
 
For example, remember when everyone thought that the Razorback was useless trash? Then some notable high-level Snipers started using it, word spreads, people figure out it's potential, then boom, Sniper is suddenly the most important class in HL. The weapon was untouched since it was released, then before you know it: poof nerfed.
 
Now that I think about it, the Amby was the same way. Though, funnily enough, a major reason the Razorback was thought to be trash was specifically because the Ambassador sort of countered it. So after all of the complaints, both weapons were nerfed at the same time. A price I'm willing to pay for it I suppose (along with the Danger Shield nerf).
 
Ironic how what was supposed to be a Sandvich-lite consolation prize for Heavy being voted second, turned out to be the more used weapon over all of the Pyro weapons. I mean what did Pyro get? A broken, buggy mess of a flamethrower, a meme melee, and a near useless gas can secondary. The Thermal Thruster was the only one that really added something to the table, but even then, it's a bit unwieldy compared to the other secondaries.

I would say there's definitely more underpowered weapons that overpowered these days. Or just weapons which aren't necessarily bad, but are just not as useful or relevant compared to other options, like the Eviction Notice for instance which is just GRU lite with the niche bonus of hitting people to go fast. The Crossbow is a great example: the occasions in which you have to pull out your needles as Medic are so rare, why not use this weapon that appeals to a more frequent use of the slot through its ability to heal allies?
 
Basically the trend is: if a class has a weapon slot that is underused, any weapon which lets them get more frequent use out of that slot is probably better. Sandvich, Escape Plan, Pain Train, the list goes on.
 
I think the only weapons I would say are remotely OP are the Wrangler and maybe the Vaccinator. But the Wrangler is not nearly as bad as it used to be; I have no idea how I or anyone lived like that for so long.
 
Let me also just say that I think the Second Banana is one of the greatest things to happen to the game in years. I've sworn off the Sandvich ever since that thing was added. The Second Banana lets Heavy be the most Medic-independent that he has ever been, it's really so much fun.

I've always been a firm believer in using the disciplinary action over the escape plan. Being able to whip a teammate and then go into a fight with a few seconds of speed can give you the opening edge in a fight.
 
I agree with you that there aren't really any weapons that scream out "I'm overpowered!" whenever I play. Though I'm still sad about some of the weapons that are underpowered.
 
The Dragon's Fury  got over-nerfed for sure in the Blue Moon Update. I heard it best from someone else that requiring hitscan-level-accuracy on a projectile-based weapon (you have to hit center of mass to get the extra pressure cooldown) is just extremely annoying. As it stands now you're better off using the Phlog if you want high damage with weak/no airblast.
 
The Fists of Steel are also kind of annoying because they way they implemented it's nerf is actually broken, and the reduced healing gained only applies if a medi-beam is attached to you while you have the fists out, so if a medic starts healing you when you have your minigun out and you later swap to the fists of steel, then the nerf doesn't even exist as long as the medic doesn't break the beam. In the same vein, if a medic starts healing you when you have the FoS out, then you'll be stuck at 390 overheal (if you swap to the minigun in this state, the medic gains max Uber rate as long as he doesn't break the beam, so heavy is the best Uber builder).
The second part of the FoS nerf was the slower holster speed, but that doesn't matter because you can just swap from FoS to sandvich to minigun and only add like 0.01 extra seconds to your switching time. The one exception is when your sandvich is on cooldown.
 
Also apparently a hot take is that the ambassador nerf isn't even that bad. It removed some fun from the weapon but where it really shined was 102 burst damage which can kill any light class if you hit the headshot and butterknife them. People compares its DPS too much to the stock revolver even though it should be a discussion about burst damage.
 
Regardless of my qualms, I still think the game is fine weapon wise. I am an Iron Curtain purist (die tomislav heavies).

The Steam Controller is the greatest controller I'll never learn to use because my muscle memory is still tied to a 360 controller

Don't forget the simple, black background. Really easy on the eyes. (SPUFDark gang rise up) All of those useful sticky threads in (almost) all of the class subforums. (God bless that high fps config, and Stabby's spy scripts). God I still remember the constant threads about class and weapon balance arguments, and wickedplayer's update threads.
 
Makes me wish I picked up TF2 (and PC gaming in general) pre-Uber update, so I could experience the excitement of all the class updates live.
iirc, wasn't that like, his whole shtick? To be an obnoxious wall of texter?
 
Oh yeah, it's dumb. Game forums, (at least the good ones) always had effort and detail put into them, along with proper organization with their subforums, and subforums for sub-forums. Now everything is streamlined like everyone is using mobile, thinking everyone has ADHD and can't keep a conversation going if the last reply was more than a day ago. Like Reddit or something.
 
Fuck I feel old complaining about it.

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What's your guys' lists?

been thinking about you guys, i know it must be hard for everyone here to have to remain in their houses all day and limit their social contact

stay safe nerds

I don't like changing profile pictures; I appreciate being able to recognize people at a glance before you commit their usernames to memory. Plus I like this one, it's pretty good, why would I ever wanna change it? I'm the same way with hairstyles.

Nintendo unaffected

CAN'T BUY YOUR WAY OUTTA THIS ONE, MERCHANTS
 

Almost exactly a year later.