#tbt

RIP in peace

homecoming?

And ya say Chi city https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqCi9eq_y3I

rip

gl

http://i.imgur.com/8DrYy8m.jpg
sorry

Also everyone should reread these lakeside sigafoo pro strats http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/27dnqm/on_my_cakeday_i_post_again_my_psa_for_koth/

I always have the hardest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time hitting heavy. But yeah if heavy is down it's ez to get in the demo's face and pressure him out

worth a read all - Max AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/27ed1f/im_max_highlander_sniper_and_twotime_platinum/ (im back in action for sunday btw)

some points i thought were surprising/interesting...
- he never takes a sniper v sniper battle on unless he's fully med buffed, lets spy take him
- he shoots at heavy first because its easy, then everything else
- etc.

Everyone should read this, good stuff http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/267ds9/im_heiny_3_season_68_ugc_platinum_champion_medic/

Scrim schedule this week:
Thursday 8:00 and 9:00
Sunday 8:00
Monday 8:30 and 9:30

Just an FYI: UGC whitelist has changed, with the PHLOG and HOLIDAY PUNCH being okay'd, and the BFB being banned.
Hopefully this will let us rest easy knowing that we won't have any more episodes of a BFB scout wiping his butt with us last like in last Thursday's scrim.
http://ugcleague.com/files_tf2h.cfm

A really great AMA from an invite scout. Pertinent to scout and 6s, but the ideas apply more generally. http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/24s8v7/kapowwwwww_ama_drop_by_there_are_complimentary/

Also I'll put in a plug for SOAP DM, very helpful for training gamesense, aim, focus fire, positioning. Even if you don't play scout or solly it changes the way you look at a fight

For people who might be interested, some silver people are trying to jump start mix.nahl. Apparently scheduling recurring games Friday and Saturday at 8pm. Not too hard to figure out, just click the irc link and type !help for the commands

http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/24ksna/tf2mixnahl_starting_friday_8_est_and_saturday_8/

outside of granary in preseason, this is a very, very sniper-friendly rotation. me likey :)

notbad.jpg

UGC S13 Maplist is out guys:

Preseason: Granary
Week 1: Upward
Week 2: Gullywash
Week 3: Lakeside
Week 4: Steel
Week 5: Badwater
Week 6: Viaduct
Week 7: Snakewater
Week 8: Ashville
Playoff Match 1: Steel
Playoff Match 2: Upward
Playoff Match 3: Viaduct

looking forward to hearing your opinions

That said, I think it's a great idea to back out with a high uber percentage. We give up the point, come back in and trade kills, get favorable respawns, and retake with uber. Even more than a DM mismatch on coalplant, I think we failed to exploit koth-specific uber strats

heheh, oh no what have I done?! I understand the logic there, but it wasn't clear to me whether this point was 6s specific or applied also to highlander. In the highlander specific section, she notes that soft-pushes are generally more effective, since there are fewer classes that can coordinate a simultaneous attack on a med, and the med also has a heavy/pyro watching for bombs.

Generally, it seems right. But if their med is in the fight (ie, we're facing a slow push), it seems right to use and not to milk.

"When you own the point and have uber/uber advantage, your medic's goal is to avoid popping uber. The other team may throw a bunch of players at your med to force/drop him, and his job is to refuse to hit m2. Your medic might drop uber, and that's 100% ok if he had a decent chance of living through the suicides. If your medic popped, you guys would have to back up anyway because of your lack of uber advantage - it's unlikely his dropping will significantly affect the outcome of the next fight. On the other hand, having balls of steel and keeping the uber gives your team the ability to set up a forward hold and keep the point even longer."

Guys i've been training every week for this map I will milk for hours and we will win

"You're baiting your team more by staying in a fight and dying than you are by leaving the fight and keeping a 70% uber advantage in many cases."

protect me minions or else I leave you to die

Good post, HL specifics in comments http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/1uhz08/viaduct_indepth/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBlZjEDEzg4

cp_steel match got casted by Kip. Enjoyable cast even if we lost. Rounds were a lot closer than we probably felt when actually playing the match

http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/1zq4kk/questions_about_cp_steel/cfw9qnp

"A is a light hold, B should be strong, C can be strong if you get setup well and control BCE connector, D should be committed to almost as hard as E because holding E for very long after D is capped is next to impossible with spawn disadvantages. Zoning out the other team is more important than frags. If your team is big on calling every little kill and death, get them to stop, because that'll just really clog up comms that need to be filled with team movements and your main caller's directions. Avoid 1v1s like the plague on defense, it's more important to chase people off the point than secure the kill. Have a plan on where everyone is going to by default hold on every point, and how the combo or flank will rotate to deal with an all-in push on the opposite point."

Some really great cp_steel POV/commentary from Huey Lewis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIvIY0hZZ6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8BInm5ZpZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epXlZsiJuZs
(in 3 parts)

Words of wisdom from Lydi on Borneo last: http://www.ugcleague.com/forum/showthread.php?16904-pl_borneo_rc3&p=123774&viewfull=1#post123774

Borneo is great. You know what else is great? This thing:

That's why I put together a comprehensive overview of locations for an innovative and professional defense of the pl_borneo_rc3.

You should take a look. I'm not open to criticism, but maybe you can think about how to situate your own sorry organic behind with respect to the majestic

Here it is: http://imgur.com/a/s8xBH/

In all seriousness though, we should talk about hold locations because they've changed things around a bit, and this is a fine place to start.

New Borneo map (you probably don't have it)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3xftfl355ra3on/pl_borneo_rc3.zip

Make sure you know the names! http://comp.tf/wiki/Process

If you didn't get the STV from Friday's coalplant scrim, message me for the link.

To quote a man named bloodsire.
"hitscan: cl_interp .033
Projectile: cl_interp .0152
Medic: same as Projectile
sniper: .0314159265359"
Yes, use pi if you're a sniper.

apparently lerp of 30.3 is better for scout (not the 15.2 I mentioned earlier)

Most cfgs recommend that you set lerp with cl_interp_ratio, but the UGC config forces this to 1 (ie, lerp of 15.2). If you want 30ms lerp, you can set ratio to 1 and change cl_updaterate to 33 (instead of 66).

To have a different lerp setting for each class, stick what you want as default in autoexec.cfg, and create class cfgs to change the relevant variables (eg, engineer.cfg, heavyweapons.cfg, etc). TF2 runs those configs when you change classes.

Re: lerp discussion. CuriositySphere has a good explanation here http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1g8607/what_is_lerp/cahpk3c .

When UGC config is running it's not a big deal, since it forces lerp to 15.2ms if you haven't tweaked settings at all, which is as low as it can go. It's a good setting for scout/spy/soldier/demo/pyro/medic, since those classes benefit from being as close to the server state as possible (projectiles are not lag compensated, and spy and scout can more reliably backstab or meatshot with low lerp. Medic surfs rockets, has projectile primary, and needs to know true health as close as possible for best healing). Hitscan classes generally benefit from a higher lerp because it smooths out jitters from choke, and hitscan IS lag compensated (ie, what you see is what you hit).

Son, how can you feel like a proud father when i've played the game for 3x as long as you?

"Engies are amazing at getting med picks and drunk driving isn't funny."

Kip was all, 'Grim_ is literally better than pharaoh'. I felt like a proud father

Teapot, way to steal my thunder in that upload, I saw it first... =(
Also, I seem to play decently in all of our games that end up getting casted.

STV from last night's Steel scrim: http://www.mediafire.com/download/r9tm232qg85l872/auto-20140116-1434-cp_steel.dem

Process match casted by Kip

"Man, Spec Deck's rollout is just flawless! :D" I think Grim will be jelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LvbRrNkWXM

Streep Hoops Gravelpit engie on C roof strat (match starts about 3:30, happens in first round):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2Ge7jpm3s

STV from our Coalplant scrim: http://www.mediafire.com/download/8o0mfp5igw27fgi/auto-20140108-1405-koth_coalplant_b6.dem

Solemn Vow is not banned, by the way.

Here's the STV from our Upward scrim vs Goof Troop: http://www.mediafire.com/download/uu2z3qrqymvumcr/auto-20140105-2004-pl_upward.dem

(better) how2viaduct: http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/1uhz08/viaduct_indepth/

http://ugcleague.com/schedule_tf2h.cfm
Maps for the season ya'll. Upward, the dreaded map it is, will be played. Let's win this time around.

So while last scrim wasn't the cleanest ever, we still won 5-0. I know I have some things to work on, so here's to getting better together again this season. Highlights from last match:
- Tsien talking about our inability to hold last, all while fending last from the entirety of Blu while all of us were down, which eventually led to us holding them off and beating them that round
- Tsien taking down that minisentry with his Pretty Boy Pocket Pistol after the whole team wiped (all while narrowly avoiding a backstab)
- Past spreading those heals like butter (I apologize for not waiting for crit heals as often as I should have)
- Grim getting a clutch headshot on the medic
- etc
See you guys on thursday.

As a PSA, here are a couple good sources for TF2 until we start scrimming again:

beta2.tf2center.com - A new tf2lobby. I haven't played here yet, but hopefully there are fewer trolls

http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/1qnl4e/interested_in_hl_pugging_but_have_a_hard_time/ - Explanation on where to go to play Mix.nahl. Game quality is high, IRC web client is easy to use (looked pretty intimidating before I actually tried it, but is actually not bad).

Your process resources for the week:

http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/1q7rrc/resources_for_cp_process_hl/