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meh, I’m not going to do their job and explain why / why not, but Ducky is on the right track.

(HINT TO UGC: YOU ARE PARTNERED WITH WHITELIST.TF, FUCKING USE IT)

They should ban hats and miscs too

Quoted from Bloodis

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http://etf2l.org/recruitment/195447/

Apparently!

I didn’t do almost anything and won gold for some reason.

Wanna repeat for the medals))))

Quoted from Collaide

They should ban hats and miscs too

Honestly don’t know why comp leagues don’t ban hats and miscs, no reason not to and it makes comp look like a joke in my opinion. Does etf2l ban them? I think not but I’ve always played with a no hat mod.

Quoted from hr

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Honestly don’t know why comp leagues don’t ban hats and miscs, no reason not to and it makes comp look like a joke in my opinion. Does etf2l ban them? I think not but I’ve always played with a no hat mod.

because there’s no reason to ban them either. most hats and miscs have virtually no impact on the gameplay,the ones that do are banned already (like those cringle shoes,noisemakers etc.)

you could ban them,yes. but since there’s some work involved adding all the hats/miscs into a blacklist and distributing that blacklist to everyone people haven’t done it

it wouldn’t make a difference anyways so why bother

Quoted from hr

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I believe we use a whitelist not a blacklist and it makes no difference to the effort as items are all listed as 1 or 0. As I said the reason would be to make the game look more professional and something tells me etf2l used to ban them all but stopped because I kinda remember watching casts that way but I could be mistaken.

The players can decide whether to wear cosmetics or not. I’m curious how you think it would increase professionalism, so please elaborate.

Quoted from hr

Letting players decide everything isn’t a great idea look at the fov changing plugin situation. Not that I feel strongly about this but I think hats look stupid on a cast/in general and make TF2 look less serious, I feel it would be better to have stock hats and give the viewer a more consistent viewing experience.

I don’t play/know much about MOBAs, but I know you can purchase alternate skins for different characters – are these banned in competitive settings? Or gun skins in CS:GO.

Quoted from ducky

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because there’s no reason to ban them either. most hats and miscs have virtually no impact on the gameplay,the ones that do are banned already (like those cringle shoes,noisemakers etc.)

you could ban them,yes. but since there’s some work involved adding all the hats/miscs into a blacklist and distributing that blacklist to everyone people haven’t done it

it wouldn’t make a difference anyways so why bother

I guess it would give a slight fps boost to users but I’m not sure ?

Quoted from hr

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I believe we use a whitelist not a blacklist and it makes no difference to the effort as items are all listed as 1 or 0. As I said the reason would be to make the game look more professional and something tells me etf2l used to ban them all but stopped because I kinda remember watching casts that way but I could be mistaken.

They are only useful on opposing scouts or sollies because it’s easier to tell others which took damage.