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Quoted from Setlet

I think this has some potential. People can’t “main” a class anymore, because your class can get banned.

The only thing matters is that if it’s fun. But people aren’t forced to play a particular class and medic may not even be needed, so a pub player can easily join it.

I agree, on the wider scale, it can be a good thing. But it doesn’t adapt to the competitive community, the choice of maps and gamemode.

Let’s see where this goes, it can take many directions and it can only be a good thing for competitive TF2, just depends which type of competitive TF2 you want.

Quoted from fraac

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They used the word ‘highlander’ so it might be both.

I hope it is. Looking at it objectively and with no bias what so ever, highlander is imo the most optimal form of competitive tf2 Valve could come up with. Remove all bans, whatever, but isn’t a gamemode with one of each mercs the most fitting? It has also been proven to work. I really think they are screwing up if they don’t do this tbh, it’s very straightforward and easy to understand for newcomers too

Where is the suggestion that it is anything other than Highlander? I might be missing something but as far as I can see, someone jokingly said something about Arena Respawn and everyone took it as fact.

I’m sure it’s me being blind but where was the updated leak re: Arena Respawn?

Haha competitive Highlander? I mean for real? In lans etc? Its hard to get 5 people to a lan sometimes imagine 9.

Its really cool to play online though. It Will never evolve into more than that, and no one would support something so expensive.

if valve actually listens to the idea of “arena respawn” praise the lord

repost from tftv:
played 3 maps using the pick/ban system tonight, everyone seemed to enjoy it. i’d recommend bo3 as a standard way of playing this as it gets some hype going.

the plugin is uploaded to all servers on serveme.tf (thanks arie) and it is automatically enabled on supported maps for those with donator status when you have “Enable plugins” checked for your reservation.

heres a basic list of commands you need to get things started:

tf_arena_use_queue 1 //0 is arena pub mode, 1 is comp
tf_arena_override_cap_enable_time 20 //20secs no point cap at the start of rounds

mp_tournament //cycle between 0 and 1 to select teams and then ready up
mp_tournament_whitelist “” //disables whitelist

and some informative links to spam people who don’t know about the gamemode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf3EZwWghxI
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/arenarespawn
http://teamfortress.tv/thread/20882/arenarespawn-pug#bottom

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it will completely die in 2 weeks

5v5 looks somewhat entertaining, but it just seems a bit repetitive and I am really missing the transitions from point-to-point that we see in 6v6. Also, is momentum dead?