So I've managed to play one competitive match and then spent 10 minutes waiting to find a second game. I finally found that second game and then right when it was about to start several people disconnected, so the game didn't start, so it was back to the searching screen for several more minutes. At that point I gave up. Hopefully things get better, but I was not impressed with my first foray into competitive mode.
RIP Pubs. I fired up the game last night hoping to pop into a server and check out the changes, maybe score some points for heavy, and found that pubs have been replaced with casual matchmaking. I think community servers might be making a comeback if this doesn't get rolled back or kill the game completely.
RahnalH102the Green Devout, Veteran Monster Hunter, Creature EnthusiastNew MexicoIcrontian
I think for now (a couple weeks) I'll just help out with practice and stuff like that if needed, but I won't go into the ranked matches. I'm pretty much a ball of stress right now and taking teamwork, and coordination VERY SERIOUSLY is just gonna make me explode. Those of you who raided with me know something similar.
Once things have calmed down for me I'll be game for "climbing down the tree to get the ripest bananas".
Fired up the game hoping to play a casual match. Chose CTF and KOTH game modes. Couldn't pick what maps I wanted to play. Waited probably a half hour before I was matched into a landfall server. Neither team performed well but the other team sucked slightly less. Game was over in less than 5 minutes at which point my search began again.
Holy hell they either need to fix this or roll it back. (Or maybe we should pimp the icrontic server more since people will be on the hunt for community servers again)
Edit: forgot to mention that 2 people on my team dropped like a minute in, and were not replaced by anyone. That certainly didn't help either.
Edit2: Round 2 was only a 10 minute or so wait. We won in a complete stomp because blu couldn't kick their AFKs as the vote kick feature has been removed. Though it isn't as though the people they kick would be replaced...
If the casual match making queue doesn't get patched to be quicker or the community server list doesn't fill up this update might have killed TF2 for me.
Q: HOW DO I GET ACCESS TO COMPETITIVE MODE?
A: To gain access to Competitive Mode, you must have a Premium TF2 Account and a qualifying telephone number on Steam. Examples of a telephone number that does not qualify would be a Voice Over IP number (e.g. Skype) or a number linked to a VAC-banned account. (For more information about qualifying phone numbers, please visit the Steam FAQ.)
Our first foray into competitive play was super fun. There are some bugs in the mode still (servers went down, some people didn't get XP), but having a coordinated team really works.
We did alright in Casual mode but in Competitive we ... didn't do so well. We lost five in a row, but that was with four of us playing and two pubs every time. We need to have a team of 6, with roles, strategy, and organization to make this work in Competitive mode.
I'm definitely committed. I'm pretty sure @_K and @Massalinie are too. Let's get a few more "for sures" that want to practice once a week and play every wednesday and we can have a really good time.
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I'm down for this. I can play any night but Wednesday since that's already Mitey Worriers Game Night.
So I've managed to play one competitive match and then spent 10 minutes waiting to find a second game. I finally found that second game and then right when it was about to start several people disconnected, so the game didn't start, so it was back to the searching screen for several more minutes. At that point I gave up. Hopefully things get better, but I was not impressed with my first foray into competitive mode.
Oh man that's a HUGE patch
RIP Pubs. I fired up the game last night hoping to pop into a server and check out the changes, maybe score some points for heavy, and found that pubs have been replaced with casual matchmaking. I think community servers might be making a comeback if this doesn't get rolled back or kill the game completely.
My medi-gun could be in, depending on scheduling.
I think for now (a couple weeks) I'll just help out with practice and stuff like that if needed, but I won't go into the ranked matches. I'm pretty much a ball of stress right now and taking teamwork, and coordination VERY SERIOUSLY is just gonna make me explode. Those of you who raided with me know something similar.
Once things have calmed down for me I'll be game for "climbing down the tree to get the ripest bananas".
I'm super rusty but I'll give it my best
That's what she said.
Fired up the game hoping to play a casual match. Chose CTF and KOTH game modes. Couldn't pick what maps I wanted to play. Waited probably a half hour before I was matched into a landfall server. Neither team performed well but the other team sucked slightly less. Game was over in less than 5 minutes at which point my search began again.
Holy hell they either need to fix this or roll it back. (Or maybe we should pimp the icrontic server more since people will be on the hunt for community servers again)
Edit: forgot to mention that 2 people on my team dropped like a minute in, and were not replaced by anyone. That certainly didn't help either.
Edit2: Round 2 was only a 10 minute or so wait. We won in a complete stomp because blu couldn't kick their AFKs as the vote kick feature has been removed. Though it isn't as though the people they kick would be replaced...
Is "Community Servers" not the same as before? There don't seem to be as many valve servers up right now though
If the casual match making queue doesn't get patched to be quicker or the community server list doesn't fill up this update might have killed TF2 for me.
10/10 Uncle Dane
Wait this shit costs money to do?
Only if you don't tie a phone number to your account
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I'm honestly not sure what that pass is for then or is it only useful for f2ps?
Are we doing this tomorrow? My body is ready.
Yeah let's do it! 9pm tomorrow!
This is a good time to remind people that we have an Icrontic calendar
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=kj39pp8knoabgk7not2jq2ioac@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
Our first foray into competitive play was super fun. There are some bugs in the mode still (servers went down, some people didn't get XP), but having a coordinated team really works.
We did alright in Casual mode but in Competitive we ... didn't do so well. We lost five in a row, but that was with four of us playing and two pubs every time. We need to have a team of 6, with roles, strategy, and organization to make this work in Competitive mode.
I'm definitely committed. I'm pretty sure @_K and @Massalinie are too. Let's get a few more "for sures" that want to practice once a week and play every wednesday and we can have a really good time.
Big ups to @Karma @_K @Massalinie @FettBacon @Pirateninja for trying this out. Let's do this!
Also: Dicks
Friendly spirit before the match:
I am definitely in, will be a good opportunity for me to get good at some other classes besides pyro :-P
Inside the scout and "Karma's Taco Hole"
I got stuck in weird spectate
The borked team screen. Also used the "you poopin'" phrase on my cat............yeah.
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You do have a "leave party" button though, I think karma didn't have one, different bug maybe
pub stomping in casual is still a thing. So many quit. After a full round of heavy I switched to sniper; Treetwo made up a lot of ground on me.
I thought we were meeting sat for strategy planning and practice! Only @_k and @FettBacon showed up :-P Meeting again Wed?
I thought we were meeting sat for strategy planning and practice! Only @_k and @FettBacon showed up :-P Meeting again Wed?
I couldn't make it, sorry. Had to go to a birthday party for Nicole's friend
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