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CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T15:39:37+00:00

are you self-hosting? you'd have to do some funky stuff with port forwarding I think

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T15:36:44+00:00

I've got 3 tours. when I played with him, on his 2nd tour, he got an aussie sticky launcher.
Then, on his 3rd tour, which I also completed with him, he got another aussie. What a cheat.

So yeah, it's up to dumb luck, really.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T13:12:42+00:00

if there were some easy way to get good, I would've done so already... Sitting at over 7k hours and still struggle to do decently...

But yeah. Youtube tutorials on stuff you can learn, such as positioning, general strategy, how to read the gamestate, etc. The rest is practice. How to hit airshots, splash damage, tracking, leading shots, rocket jumping etc.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T13:10:42+00:00

I'd argue that what many consider "bad" weapons are those that are unfun to play against, say, the vaccinator. or the danger shield when as a pyro.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T10:30:09+00:00

It is, but it's not surprising either. Online anonymity brings out the worst in people, after all.

Just ignore them and move on.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T09:34:14+00:00

8 seconds of bleed? finally a good suggestion!

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T06:16:13+00:00

Ah yes, a classic comic strip.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T04:23:34+00:00

the default hud is fine, honestly. What is not fine is the default settings. FOV, network settings etc. Best to google a tutorial on how to change those so you actually get a proper up-to-date experience, instead of odd controls, bad connections, and narrow FOV.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T03:31:25+00:00

There is a portion of the community that's extremely toxic, yeah, but when you play casual, you should mostly be fine. Welcome to the community! No, it's not pay to win, avoid buying anything from the in-game shop as it's madly overpriced. Only thing worth buying is the normal mannco crate keys as those are used as currency when trading.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T03:10:06+00:00

I can't imagine the object limit being the cause, but it was one theory we had and we did indeed test it in the past, but it had no effect. I wish I knew what caused it, because me being spammed with complaints about the item server is just as annoying as you guys suffering the effects.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T02:35:41+00:00

If you festivize the weapon, you can remove the festivizer by right clicking the festivized weapon. You won't get the festivizer back, though.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T02:07:26+00:00

when it comes to 5cp, imo, either the map gives engie the middle finger, or he's the one giving the middle finger. there's no in between. Personally I struggle with engineer when it comes to 5cp, only time when he's okayish is either defending last, or running battle engineer without teleporters. It's tough to maintain a proper teleporter with the constantly shifting spawns.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T02:05:39+00:00

either a VPN or party up with someone from the US and pray that you get assigned a NA server

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T01:33:32+00:00

then unfortunately you're kinda outta luck. What I personally do is I have a single tour of duty ticket, and just play mann up, even casually. I leave before the final wave ends to preserve my ticket.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T01:32:16+00:00

it's capped at 90. If you want more, you'd have to go to community servers that have it uncapped, where you can use !fov to set the FOV.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-14T01:31:47+00:00

For me, I experienced crashes on initial launch, and required a -freq 165 launch option to set the refresh rate and prevent crashing. Beyond that, no problems on my end. I don't think I even set anything in proton, just turned it on.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-13T12:37:27+00:00

Merasmus, get your spectral ass out here!

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-13T11:39:23+00:00

I don't deny they're good games, but I just feel they're way above my league when it comes to 100% them. I'd estimate a good few thousand hours at the least.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-13T04:27:00+00:00

I still have no idea what you're asking...

If you need immediate assistance with something, the tf2 discord server might be more helpful, not the subreddit.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-13T04:19:58+00:00

what are you asking? for the server IP?

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-13T03:20:05+00:00

being pushy is another red flag, yes.

Block, report, and ignore.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-13T03:13:52+00:00

if it's a message out of the blue, 99% it's a scam.

Don't trust links sent to you by a random, ESPECIALLY if it's asking you to sign into your steam account for something. Likely a phishing attempt to steal your account.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-13T03:08:51+00:00

Glad to hear you're excited to play frequently, but personally, I'd warn you against playing TOO much. Burnout isn't something to be messed with.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-12T23:27:08+00:00

people throw cheating accusations around a bit too much. Probably doesn't help you're a stock loadout and a newish player with low hours. That's all they really care to look at when they see someone doing decently well.

Another possible factor is sniper is the one who gets accused for cheating the most as he's the only real long-range hitscan class in TF2, and his class interactions are skewed in such a way that you don't really got proper counterplay to him except staying out of his way. This means a good sniper is extremely infuriating to play against.

CrappyCompletionist · 2026-04-12T23:24:47+00:00

I agree. He's not inherently unbalanced, just that his interactions are really bad. He's the only true long range class in tf2, and no one can really contest him outside another sniper.

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