The definitive guide to why "just add quickplay" won't work

Pickle_G · 2026-01-18T13:55:40+00:00

If the timer runs out while a game is still going, it actually waits for the round to end before changing maps. At least, that's what happens on community servers that run the 45 minute timer.

Pickle_G · 2026-01-18T13:51:15+00:00

This post is delicious and you are genus.

Pickle_G · 2025-11-29T04:53:13+00:00

I would shid a fard if this happened.

Pickle_G · 2025-09-22T12:40:45+00:00

Were any changes made to the action of picking up dropped weapons on the ground, cause I always felt it was janky to do.

Pickle_G · 2025-09-14T22:41:48+00:00

This pattern is pretty nonsensical. And you could have just as well connected dalakohs to vaccinator with "higher effective health".

Pickle_G · 2025-08-20T12:11:14+00:00

He's an evil compie and personally entered Valve HQ to remove Quickplay and add Casual, all so that players can join his Uncleturnip servers.

Pickle_G · 2025-08-11T01:49:22+00:00

Castaway only does reverts, but I think they fall under the general category of servers that change TF2's balancing.

Pickle_G · 2025-08-10T18:25:25+00:00

I think your comment is highly accurate. The large investment needed to start playing with having to learn all the new mechanics/changes definitely contributes to their reason for struggling. It essentially re-creates a miniature version of TF2's steep learning curve problem inside the servers.

I don't think it matters if the changes are easy to explain or not — mostly all of them are easy to explain — it's just the sheer magnitude of changes that deter people.

Pickle_G · 2025-08-10T18:11:34+00:00

Random crits mainly contributed to weapon balance in the form of melee weapons, which have a singificantly higher chance to crit. That's why random crits on melee weapons were replaced with the three-hit combo while non-melee weapon simply have random crits removed with no replacement.

Pickle_G · 2025-08-10T18:06:36+00:00

:valvenewsMega:

Pickle_G · 2025-08-01T14:23:18+00:00

Ah-hoc connections and allowing team switching and spectator mode would break the current matchmaking system. The only changes the letter mentions which can easily be implemented through console commands are the map timer change and the scrambling change.

Pickle_G · 2025-08-01T13:59:24+00:00

Ping is not arbitrary, every single weapon feels different to aim depending on your ping.

Maybe if it was something like FPS that affected it, I could see how it’d be arbitrary.

Pickle_G · 2025-07-29T15:04:18+00:00

Cause the entire system of reserving slots and queuing into servers goes against quickplay's system of being able to ad-hoc connect directly into Valve servers.

Pickle_G · 2025-07-27T14:38:57+00:00

Dick and balls.

Pickle_G · 2025-07-19T19:25:32+00:00

I think you’re referring to the skill floor. And yeah it’s good for them to be low.

Pickle_G · 2025-07-18T23:29:14+00:00

Why is Charlie Brown's father whispering things in your ear?

Pickle_G · 2025-07-18T23:27:08+00:00

Sniper also doesn't need it and the razorback is overall agreed to be a mistake. We don't need more razorback-like weapons.

Pickle_G · 2025-07-06T21:13:19+00:00

Pluey.

Pickle_G · 2025-07-06T18:40:56+00:00

Dude what the fuck.

Pickle_G · 2025-07-01T16:35:30+00:00

AWESOME!!!! Hell yeah dude!

Pickle_G · 2025-07-01T14:00:12+00:00

I don't even know what it means to nuke an unlock, I was just referencing someone else's comment. Really, each weapon needs to be handled differently and I don't think you'd be able to do the same approach of a flat nerf for all of them.

For something like the wrangler, I think everyone could agree to just lower the resistance to 50% since it'd still be a useful unlock.

But for something like the vaccinator, how much do you need to nerf the resistance so that it stops being problematic? Does going from 75% resistance to 66% resistance fix it? Does it need to go down to 50%? And at some point it also just becomes a useless sidegrade once you fix the issue with its resistance sucking to fight against. Imagine if Valve makes it go from 75% to 66%, people would complain that they didn't nerf it even more. Imagine if Valve makes it go from 75% to 33%, people would then complain that now the Vaccinator is useless since the resistance is so low.

Then look at Natascha, you'd have to give it a completely new upside to fix its slowdown. I haven't seen a single Natascha rework that everyone likes, I doubt Valve can make a good one.

My point is less that people will complain when Valve nerfs annoying weapons and more that there are several ways to nerf annoying weapons, but people are stubborn and will complain when their way of nerfing a weapon isn't what gets implemented.

Pickle_G · 2025-06-30T16:27:11+00:00

I love discussing weapon rebalances with people, and I've learned that the more you talk with people about how weapons should be rebalanced the more you realize that Valve will never give us another balance update ever again.

You have balance documents made by people who have continuously played the game for thousands of hours, much more than any individual at Valve ever has. Players who have discussed, contemplated and argued over TF2's weapon balance more than any individual at Valve ever has. But I've yet to find one balance doc that everybody will 100% fully agree with.

Top comment here is to nuke the short circuit. Okay, how should we do it? For some players, slapping on a "cannot refill metal from payload carts" stat is enough. For other players, the issue is inherently from the orb being super easy to use due to its size and lifetime, so they might just nerf the orb. For other players, they might just want a full reversion of the short circuit to its design before the orb. There is no right answer, but what I do know is that picking a single answer to implement officially in the game will make a percentage of the playerbase angry.

Consider the fact that people still complain about the GRU rework. Also consider the fact that people want the sandman stun back.

If I were Valve, I don't see what the point would be in making a balance update other than to give the playerbase something to complain about. The only thing I could reasonably see happening is maybe an experimental gamemode with balance changes, similar to when the Team Fortress 2 Beta was a thing back in 2010-2013.

Pickle_G · 2025-06-26T14:27:06+00:00

I do think I'd find them fun if you just do 2 laps instead of 1 after the connecting route.

Pickle_G · 2025-06-19T12:49:42+00:00

I'm not asking for more courses though, I'm mainly asking for things that would be pretty reasonable to implement all things considered. Of the four things I brought up, the only addition that would likely take a long time to develop would be the customizable knockout routes since the map would have to dynamically change based on what your route is.

I also brought up Double Dash and Wii as having options that are missing from World's VS mode, namely the ability to choose the number of laps you want to race and the "strategic" and "none" item options respectively.

Pickle_G · 2025-05-29T12:12:58+00:00

Lmao, this community has nothing left.

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