SolarLight

I like Demoknight. I play him a lot. There's just one problem. He isn't meta. Video is finally out: youtube.com/watch?v=sCevnE…

@Demoman1960 in this instance I jumped as my team was clearly holding W towards the cart which let me 'checkmate' the enemy team. if the enemies look at my team they get pelted by rockets and die (clip). but if they look up to shoot me they'll get deleted by my team, so no winning

@TF2SolarLight Reminds me how back then I tried plays like this but either I got unlucky enough to get sniped or getting shot from the low ground. Either everyone else is luckier than me or I am truly skill issued.

B.A.S.E.D. and parachutepilled

@LadoftheSpice welcome to casual mode

@TF2SolarLight why did that medic just let you kill them??

@comea62201 honestly with infinite deploys idk why you wouldn't just spam spacebar if you wanted to descend while on fire. but with 1 deploy you'd have to make a choice between falling or not descending

@TF2SolarLight It was pretty bad to be on fire with the parachute, but there were some gimmicks. I'm trying to abuse that upward parachute deploy range trick atm. But my rocket jumping is pedestrian....

@Mag_VII to be fair, classic is the only rifle that lets you check the sky while charging it

@TF2SolarLight im gonna farm the classic achievement off of you if i see you

@GamerGuyGary sometimes you just need 2 well placed explosives to nuke a country

@TF2SolarLight Out of all weapons, that many kills was with the black box…

@Wackymaddoktor the parachute mains call this "base boosting" and I was the one who told him about it. it's also the most common name suggestion so yeah the chute has a hidden stat that is basically "+50% horizontal knockback taken while deployed" and it also applies to your own rocket jumps

@TF2SolarLight Oh, well worth a shot (And apparently your distance if you deploy and un-deploy soon after a rocket jump, from a person called Htwo, which he called it as Base jumper tech, maybe this is something that you can do for future casual with your friends perhaps.)

@comea62201 flame updraft was removed in tough break. tbh I can understand why because noob pyros would be trolling their team by accident by buffing the enemy soldier. that said it was probably more of a grief when it had infinite deploys and scout speed (instead of current engi speed)

@TF2SolarLight People have always bashed the parachute. I used to dodge headshots like mad with that until they nerfed it. Its still great at that, but I miss the old days of being on fire and floating like a leaf

@Wackymaddoktor nah this was mouse and keyboard. my mouse sens is just really high base jumper buffs your strafing while it's deployed

@TF2SolarLight With a controller, am I right ? :] (Because of the movement, strafing, but also the aiming that is not steady) [Since you mentioned about hud, I might wanna give it a try, one that I'm using is having an odd screen problem, not sure if it's the transparent viewmodel or what]

@Wackymaddoktor I've done that before, it'll be in the hud release trailer

@TF2SolarLight One thing that I wanna try when using B.A.S.E and any rocket would be hitting a market after launching them in the air with an rocket. And also a random crits on that position. ( Hi btw, I have seen you around when testing maps o/ )

@OSJtheflesh give me some time for the trailer edit...

@TF2SolarLight my goat S.light where's the hud 🥺

@LazyestBane even in a pub setting there's only like 3 classes out of 9 who can try to shoot me down, and one of them is the bald russian man who can't move so he can just be avoided

@TF2SolarLight But how is the roamer going to airshot this??? I can't believe you're promoting such unbalanced gameplay, I'm going to be sick...

@Soundwave307 yeah I didn't delete the 3d model option

@TF2SolarLight can you change the icon of the player model? i like to look at the useless pixels i payed 100s of $ for

the most ambitious tf2 hud mod (possibly ever?) is nearly done👀 just gotta edit a release trailer... maybe final polish? fonts on linux will be a bit broken though sorry

@Adam63293928 will post a link on twitter

@TF2SolarLight Do you know where I can download it or when it might come out?

@n64onosu ty for reminding me about build/disguise pop-ups because those are the only two _sc menus I forgot should be as functional as stock tf2 once I'm done with those

@TF2SolarLight how well does the building gui, class select, etc work on controller?

@TAP153 decently

@TF2SolarLight Oooo this looks so cool!! How customizeable is it?

@comea62201 pretty sure that's not possible, at least not both dependant on hp while also being per-class

@TF2SolarLight Everybody makes huds, but nobody adds the doom 1 and 2 faces at the bottom for the mercs. I want my soldier looking around with a face full of blood!

@worldprisms scope, number of files changed

@TF2SolarLight how exactly is this ambitious? genuine question it just looks like a normal hud unless you mean its ambitious design wise and not feature wise

@SpinyRat browser. matchmaking modes are on top left. that button is glued to the topbar sadly

@TF2SolarLight does the servers button open the normal casual/comp/mvm menu or does it open straight to the community browser?

@CAMIKAZE78 @TierZoo very well put, reminds me of a tf2 parachute people want buffed because they don't realize that not every individual item in an entire game has to cater to the lower skill group (parachute in this case is a high-skill movement item)

Don’t get me wrong, there are bad, loud actors on my side of the fence too. You’ll never see me deny that. However, the large majority of the skilled community actually want casuals to feel uplifted and welcomed. Some FPS games do this well, by giving lower skilled players a means to upskill themselves with easier to use weapons, that are less potent against their harder to use counterparts. Thus, presenting a healthy skill curve. Every level headed pro will support this approach because it means a healthier onboarding to their favourite game, keeping the community strong. The angle I’m taking speaks to the 2-6 hour a week player who expects to top the scoreboard with minimal effort, and that there should be no depth to mechanics that better players can leverage. Because that is certainly a growing rhetoric in the community, and one that I think needs to be addressed. Depth is what breeds replayability.

“Toxic casuals” in the gaming community who not only reject, but advocate for the removal of skill gaps in games have done more damage to gaming than any “try hard” ever has. Gaming casually is perfectly fine, but losing to those who take the time to learn, embrace, and master the mechanics of a game should be expected and accepted if you do play more casually.