What do you guys think about the current state of TF2?

What do you guys think about the current state of TF2?

It's my favorite game ever and I'm sad to see it getting less popular

The only game i still play since 2008. Fuck you, WoW

It's sad how far it's fallen, and while the Jungle Update was pretty pathetic for taking about two years, I'm happy to see that whatever microscopic team is left is still willing to try to improve the game.

I've started playing MvM for the first time on 5 years. bretty fun

Its the best class based shooter on the market, despite being 10 years old.
Its a shame the Valve doesnt give a fuck about it anymore.

I wish it never went F2P. Most of the problems we have now would never have existed. Except for the update weapons and balance in general. That's a problem all its own. I fucking hate everything about the game save for the core gameplay which keeps me coming back year after year.

This. It's still one of the best shooters out there. I don't know if that means TF2 is that good or modern games are that bad.

>muh f2p ruined the game meme
yeah because that worked with overwatch

>muh oberwutch boogyman

As shit as the player are in OW, they're nothing compared to the sheer incompetence of Brazilians/Russians that swarm F2P games.

The playerbase is still extremely dedicated.

I think that
yore
ugleh

epic meme

Engineer? You are nothing but texan with autism.
DISPENSER
*audience laughs*
Yes but spy, thats my sentrys spot, you know the
POORLY CODED MINI-SENTRY
*audience dies from busting a gut from the funniest thign of all time*

Its pretty dead, though its fun once in a while to hop on and single out degenerate weebs with anime avatars.

I'm glad to be playing it again tbqh.
No matter how bad it gets, it will never, EVER be a tenth as bad as Overwatch.

>it's pretty dead
can you please stop killing the meaning og this word?
>everything i don't actively play is dead

Sorry user, gotta face facts someday.

But it's not dead...

That there is just a sad display, boy.

Dead game

How much of that is trade servers though?

release tf3 with a competitive mode from the start. leave tf2 to hat faggots who ruined the game

I am 100% genuine about my own fucks with this:
TF2 over long while from F2P point went stale. The updates have been very scarce and worst is that nothing ever updated it's performance. I had a GTX 760 upgraded from 560 and neither card would run TF2 in high framerates on high settings it was fucking stupid how it felt bloated to hell, other source games I can run at 300fps easily, especially L4D for it's smaller amount of players/bots per map. I have no Idea what the fuck is tanking TF2 performance and it was so big problem with several "new" GPU's and CPU's that I stopped caring.

I got really excited about after testing and finally buying Overwatch. Overwatch is pretty much same team based gameplay and same basics of TF2 with actually exciting changes and it is very actively updated. They are not THE same game, but to me, they are samey enough and one of them is fresher, updated, technically more solid.

Of course I miss some things, I had over 1000 hours in TF2 and well it may not be much but I really do not have over 1k in many games, PSO2 maybe and I quit playing that too.


... The fuck was the late TF2 update about because all I heard was "dead game gets updated"

Face it, Jeff, no one wants to play your awful, horribly balanced, incompetently designed and mechanically braindead excuse for a video game anymore.

jeff?

yeah.
But the day the adding of weapons intensified so much that pyros replace snipers in 2fort somthing happened to whole "class" based shit and this shit is just retarded.

Took a 20mins to launch TF2. on 1060 it at least stays 144+ but then again it is a fucking 1060 and it still sometimes dropped to 130.

the mad mad world of weapons in TF2 is just unfun. It makes the whole thing into pokemon shooter because amount of different classes with different weapons and weapon combos is just so goddamn retarded and you cannot do anything about knowing what your enemy can and cannot do because they have to swap to the weapon before you know. You probably learn up during the game; unless people prominiently playing THAT thing just swap classes and the problem persists.

OW is shit. It's ranked is prime target of "do you want to play a FPS game with 35 year old MMO players?" but at fucking least you see a silhouette, you know all three to four functions that silhouette can unleash on you, like it was in TF2 1.0 and what they tell the character design was about in developer commentary, even though that has been trashed long before most of current Sup Forums was even born.

Jungle Inferno was good.
Now they only have to fix matchmaking (like they promised to do) and it will be all right.

>release tf3 with a competitive mode from the start
How about you hang yourself with your competitive faggotry?
You and your competitive friends are the reason Meet your Match was dogshit, fuck you.

I need an image that is offensive and silly
5 decides

here you go

Trade servers are a shadow of their former selves, I used to see at least 4 with 20-30 players up even on weeknights on AU servers, now it's usually just one. Valve made trading so hard that the average player can't be fucked anymore.

ok

I still love the game, flaws and all.

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They fucking killed community servers.
The game is still fun to play with the new matchmaking, but I hate the fact that I can't spray my anime girl art on the map anymore.

Wait a minute, does that mean that dedicated servers are a thing of the past?

Damn, I'm glad I left before shit hit the fan then.

No, dedicated servers are still a thing, people are just up in arms about the new server browser.

They still exist, but only Idle servers/Trade servers / shit maps like cp_orange and barely anyone plays them. All the actual gameplay is done through matchmaking now

Sadly, trade servers are only focused on Unusuals now.
I recently went to a general trade server I used to frequent a lot and now people only trades with and for unusual items.
I remember when there were trade servers created specifically for unusual tradings but now those are dead and regular trade servers are filled with unusual hunters.

Jungle Inferno was kino
There's still many flaws, but it's the most fun I've had in ages

is hitler still offensive?

TF2 is intelligently built.
everything about a class is different and distinct to the point where Cosmetics barely affect the readability.
you could tell a class, what weapon he's holding, how much shots he has left, and even his weapon loadout just by the sound of his first shot alone.

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see

this is THE perfect image for your objector

>kino

*tips hat*

If it had never gone F2P the game would be completely dead. Why do you faggots pretend otherwise?

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of "argument" I would expect from a competitive faggot.

I've been playing the game for a decade and I still have a lot of fun. I don't really have any problems with current day TF2 since I already played the fuck out of vanilla, hats are nice cosmetics to collect or ignore, new weapons keep the game fresh, f2ptards were needed to bring in more players, etc. I wonder if we'll all still be playing TF2 another 10 years from now. I hope so.

>playing Mann Manor when it first came out
>Look and feel hooked me on the game
>7 years later
>playing mann manor
>stop to take a look around
>all the memories from the past 6 years come flooding back

i want the old brass beast and natasha back

also make matchmaking less cancerous, man mym was such an atrocious update that had this been any other game, it wouldve probably killed it on the spot, it took them months to get it into a semi-working state, and it is still way worse than quickplay, taking longer to find matches which are often way more imbalanced

also remove random crits

those are my only demands, overall the game is in a pretty decent state

How much longer before people stop stacking pyro? They're not even doing their free contracts anymore.

This. My only problem is being unable to use sprays.

>700 hours and I'm still shit

tf2 is cucked beyond belief just as you whitey lol, also this: whitebois LITERALLY cannot compete

I'M NOT EVEN GETTING 30FPS WHAT THE FUCK

>tfw almost 5,000 Hours
>tfw Mediocre at best

I'm hoping Valve will fix the problem eventually and we'll be able to use them again someday. Valve pls

>4k hours in and I'm still shit

I think it says more sbout the state of pc gaming than TF2 that TF2 is the only playable fps on the market

Honestly? Add placement matches, actual elo, never put me in matches with players with less than 500 hours and I'm good with playing TF2 for another 10 years.

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I hope Competitive MM doesn't get populated by only shitters and egotists, when or if MM becomes worth playing.

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Why the fuck would you play this game competitively?

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Me too.
I have ANIMATED anime girl artwork I spent a lot of my teenage hours of producing and valve just killed the fun of those files I made with great effort.

It was not easiest thing to distill screams_externally.gif into about 5 or 6 frames.

why not?

Because I enjoy playing it. I've enjoyed playing pub shit for so long I'd probably love an actual competitive environment.

>have Ghastly Ghots Didgeridrongo
>no set price
>offer started at 100 keys
>2 other people have joined and now started a bidding war
>we're up to 400 keys now

Augh!

Does engineer take skill?

>game starts stuttering and lagging after the updates
>internet is fine
>no problems before the updates
the fuck?

Nope, just set sentry and dispenser in useful locations and shoot literally everyone you see

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New fire particles.

Ah, what's a good way to extinguish fires with the jetpack? I seem to never be around when my teammates finally get burnt.

even when theres no pyros it still lags, same settings as before the few hotfixs after the inferno update, it ran fine until last week

Just let it go, man. The glove isn't worth it.

Yes, but less mechanical but more situational awareness and tactics.

Is there any way to play this without hats and with only default weapons?

Does it lag spike randomly for like 5 seconds for you too?

Get a friend to go Soldier and set himself on fire with the cow mangler.

not that surprising when you consider the fact that a sizeable portion of the players have spent thousand or more hours in the game, and so just quitting outright is not that easy

>casual rank no longer tracks K:D
Bud why

I WANNA
BE YOUR DOG

Probably because people who like playing Medic wound up with shit like 1/22 k/d because it didn't track assists.

there's a mod that gets rid of hats.
Default weapons only, not so much.

It's still fun and it's easy to get into a game.

because that's not relevant if people just want to play casually.