chivesontheweb

Had a great time tonight. I bumped up my sensitivity for playing Sniper and that didn't help my Scout aim at all. I'll see if I can't get a separate sensitivity for each class. Or maybe I'll just get used to it. Either way, I didn't do that great but that didn't keep it from being fun. I hope we do more of this in the future.

It looks like you may already be covered, but I might be able to play tonight. Someone just message me on Steam if I'm needed. The only class I'd really be able to play is Scout but...

Finally got around to sending a message to ETG about their automatic disconnecting me whenever I try and access the irc channel. Maybe if it all works out I'll be there pretty often considering how much I have irc open. If it doesn't, however, I'll just be out of luck.

Ah. Well then why were you banned? That was the only thing I could think of. Also, essay this weekend. I might be on later tonight but not for a while. Why Tony Blair, WHY?!

You're the guy who sticky spawn camps, no?

Then maybe I was on #1? I dunno. One of our servers. As I said, I don't really care that much.

Speaking of server #2, I was there and I got kicked at some point. I don't know who did it or why but I don't think I broke any rules or anything. I'm not really upset by it, I just went over to FireSlash's server, but I thought it was a bit odd. Also, reached over 100 rocket deflect kills on our HLStats. Now, I have to go write my horrible essay on Tony Blair. Hopefully I manage to get online this weekend, but that means finishing up the rough draft.

This. Went Sniper just for the occasion. Medic goes in to shack to get health and BOOM! I'm not tired of koth_harvest yet and it's kinda the map for this weekend. I'll want to play other maps too but neglecting it would be silly. Surely no everybody was playing last night and still has hats and achievements still left to earn. Actually, I need the Candy Coroner achievement. As I said before, I played a lot of Sniper last night. Got a lot of kills but those pumpkin tokens were always so far away. :/

A DSi for old people who have trouble seeing on the current system will have a better time with this. It doesn't have to appeal to you specifically because you probably aren't the one who will benefit. So if you're one of those people whining because you bought a DSi, stop it. Bigger screen = bigger pixels as well. That means the images, 3D stuff especially, will look worse.

I'd love you to elaborate, because being anti-alltalk and pro-micspam seems like an odd combination.

If we went up to 32 man games I might have to find another place to play. Here's what attracted me to OCR and what keeps me coming back: no instant or fast respawn bs isn't 32 man, or anything over 24. even 24 is a bit high sometimes, but it generally works well map choices are usually semi-decent unless it's for lols. if we played goldrush less I'd have little to really complain about casual, but not necessarily bad, players alltalk, although team talk from time to time would be nice "notorious silliness" and other entertaining stuff while still being able to have a decent game Once you bring 32 man into the server no amount of notorious silliness will let us have decent games. OCRemix deserves to have a good server and I don't want to see it become another run-of-the-mill 32 person server, because that's exactly what I avoid. In other news, I'm recording for my next big video starting the next time I play. From what I have in mind it won't really be a frag video per say, or at least not a traditional one. Regardless, you have been warned.

Oh hell no. I'm noticing a trend with our current HLstatsX. The stats on the website seem to do an odd reset every Sunday. By the next day it's all fixed and everything is back to normal (nothing appears lost) but for the day stats are dated. I know I had over 600 Pyro shotgun kills yesterday when I checked but today it's 598 kills. It'll go back to the actual number tomorrow; I've seen it happen before. Not that important but I thought I'd mention it. Seems we'll be switching or whatever anyway.

Aww, thanks. I like you too Rambo. I understand that the Pyro has only situational use in comp but that's okay because I won't always be playing him. These scrims will probably be casual enough that I can try Pyro in a 6v6 scrim setting for the first time without single-handedly making my team lose. If I want to have any chance at pulling a Pyro at higher levels I need that experience. And I wouldn't just randomly switch to Pyro without asking my team first. Anyway, I'm done on this topic. I hope we get some good games set up.

Yes. In the couple games I played and in videos/demos I've seen. Also, what ParanoidDrone said. Kritz depends more on map and situation but when used properly can be devastating. You'd always rather have an uber but if you can wipe out the enemy medic before they have an uber you're golden.

Kritz is rarely used? I see it all the time.

http://www.ubercharged.net/2009/09/01/competitive-tf2-part-seven-utilities/ (I expect what is said in that article to be used against me in your response) Pyros have uses. If you're running a full time Pyro that's a bit silly. I won't lie; having two scouts is always helpful. They can backcap during the other teams offensive push. But if a kritz soldier comes rolling into the last point and you have a Pyro who manages to reflect a few of those crit rockets, not even necessarily hitting any enemies with them, he might have just saved the game. Soon as they have the upper hand he can switch back to Scout and help cap the next point. This shouldn't even be a big deal. If we do get scrims put together I'll be running Scout, not Pyro. But the option will always be there just in case we need it.

lol? A major factor about the 5-cp maps is that you are required to take defense and offense into account at the same time. When through great defense you neutralize an offensive push on your control point you gain the upper hand. You are then able to push without much or any interference because they are all dead.

Pyro can be useful in 5-cp comp for defending some control points with airblast, such as the spire in badlands and the final cp in badlands(there are reasons why badlands is my favorite map). He also sees a little use in defending the last cp on granary but that's way more open and more difficult to do. Scouts/snipers could easily get you. That would probably be time for the flare gun... But lol Engineer in 5-cp.

I look forward to the scrimming, then. I have a couple games of experience with Scout in 6v6 scrims so I'll probably do that in ours. I don't think anybody would object to me switching to Pyro when appropriate, right? @Powerlord I would be all for Dustbowl being removed from rotation. I mean, I despise Goldrush more but both are really chokepointy with places that are terribly easy to defend for the red team. When these maps roll, they ROLLLLLLLL. I wouldn't mind rtving to dustbowl occasionally, though. It just depends.

I like the idea I being in casual, yet still organized, scrims. I'm assuming we'd do standard team distribution (2 scouts, 2 soldiers, etc.) and standard 5-cp maps. If that's the case, I'd love to join in.

New TF2 "Vide" up; Fire Axe Max: The Dustroll. You might shy away from it due to the length but trust me, this is good stuff. There are a good number of moments that are just genuinely funny. I highly recommend it. The Coat of Arms flag is pretty nice. We'll see how much money I can scrape up. Maybe I'll get one. Still doesn't seem done but I can't really place my finger on what it is... EDIT: Apparently I got 81 Fire Axe kills on Saturday. That's crazy!

I know I'm still new as far as regulars go but still, I wanted to at least try. Inspired by ParanoidDrone and how he says he gets embarrassed when he gets backstabbed. Similarly, when I get deflect killed I tend to get a bit embarrassed. One of the reasons I don't play Huntsman Sniper as much anymore. I'm ascared to get deflect killed. Also, airblast-to-axtinguisher combos but I put up with those. EDIT: Another I came up with:

I like this idea. I assume a crit on the victim takes priority over Jarate, though so if it's a crit death it's red. Speaking of RED...

So we could add our own original awards? Every day it depresses me that there is no award for reflect kills of any sort, which are the kills I most strive for. If we can add our own I'd love to see either a rocket reflect kill award or a cumulative reflect kill award, with a creative name of course. I dunno what the limits are for adding new daily awards (if it is, in fact, possible) but I'm sure we could add some fun ones.