I miss the ability to change teams. It used to be so easy to go spectator and catch aimbotters.

The biggest offense Valve made in the casual mode system is that clicking the level badge can only hold my attention for ~3 minutes.

1 year later "We added 8 tiers boiiis, good luck having 150 levels 8 times !"

The class limit should be resolved by highlighting the classes that currently aren't played, and you get extra points for playing those classes who aren't played.

I think the player backfill issue with the game coordinator is being caused by servers running every game mode instead of being restricted to one game mode. For example - When the game ends with a full server on a payload map. You get the option to either vote for the same map, or you get to vote on two other maps for two other game modes. One of the other game modes gets voted people who don't like that game mode or map leave. Then they don't get replaced because no one is queuing up for the current game mode or map. When servers are constantly changing game modes it's harder to get servers filled for specific game modes. Even harder still to get people to replace leavers, AFKers, and rage quitters. Everything else you brought up sounds good even class limits. Honestly I think a limit of two per class is completely reasonable. I wouldn't mind playing other classes if our team actually had class diversity. Lately I've been in lots of games where teams stack 4-5 of various classes, for example. Soldier - usually 3-5 rockets flying in your direction at any given moment Demoman - rollers everywhere while getting airbursted by stickies Heavy - the our defense got rolled into the ground and we're totally not raging class pick Engineer - we're getting rolled everyone turtle on last Spy - they have two good engineers and two pybros so we need five spies even though we can't get near the nest without being instantly spotted and killed Sniper - they have one good sniper so all of our F2Ps went sniper to counter him Pyro - the enemy team has one good spy and three shitty ones and they're all using the dead ringer Scout - because if one isn't enough against two lvl3 sentries we need three more At this point it's just annoying to deal with. Don't tell me to go play competitive either I have 0% interest in it.

They need to add an australium medal stage after the red stage. Maybe give a misc that displays the current badge you have?

i had this stupid moments when ur already winning and carrying the team and suddenly the game auto-balanced you to the other losing team

The biggest shame about the Meet your Match update was the slaughter of community servers in Australia. Once the browser was full of communities full of regulars and new players alike. I formed some of my most closest friendships through community servers and now all you see on the list are idle servers and the ever present HITLER'S JEWFORT. It was just a shame to see them perish behind the queue system.

I really want them to fix that bullet spread thing I feel you on the 18 damage crit with frontier when you right up in their face XD

The things I want for TF2: 1. Removal of random crits. It isn't enjoyable (for me) to one shot someone that was clearly winning the fight, and it's genuinely infuriating to BE one shot. So, fuck random crits. (salt) 2. Removal of random bullet spread. 3. Change the names of the class categories(Offense, Defense, Support) to Power, Pick, and Support, and switch up the classes into their respective categories. (Pick - Scout, Sniper, Spy | Power - Soldier, Heavy, Demo | Support - Pyro, Medic, Engi). 4. Add something similar to Overwatch's team comp tips. When in Class selection, it'll inform you of what your team is lacking, what your team has none of(cough cough, medics), what your team has TOO much of(fuckin' snipers mate), and how stacked your team is into the three categories("Too much Pick, not enough Power/Support", or "Too much Power/Support, no Pick"(PFF as if that'd happen)), and aspects your team has and doesn't have. "Low crowd control", "Low sustainability", "Low team fight potential", "Low damage". 5. Pyro and Heavy updates and rebalances(They're coming, but I'm putting them here anyways). 6. Overall rebalance on items. In my opinion, every item should have it's own niche. It's own style of play. Default should be the best for general use, but items should be better(and worse) based on the situation. The possibility of this is low, though.

"farming strange weapons" What, am I the only one who hasn't finished all the contracts yet?

I just realized that I'm watching this 4 years later.

How do I construct shooting machine as mechanic?

I'm still constantly getting thrown into Australian servers, and EU servers when joining Casual. I live in California.

dont know why, but im in EU and i join a casual server almost instantly

2:27 SIT DOWN BOY

ankle dan = casual confirm xd ^I'll leave it before others do, have fun

found a server thats constantly full ~ tf_bot_add 19 expert mp_waiting_for_players 0

13:53 heart stops for a moment

10:43 what you're describing is the heart and soul of TF2

I have 150 as well, I love casual myself, but I think removing random crits and increasing max party size would do it a lot of good

I just want tf2 to have a pyro training mode. So many new players don't know how to m2.

I just want to be able to join a empty server and goof around with my friends like it was before meet your match

14:15 Scout teleports in only to get sniped

Uhh... you mentioned removal of random weapon spread but didn't mention removal of random crits...

They should at least let you view the menu while queueing and look at your backpack because ITS SO BORING WAITING!

>be someone >see this video from 2017 >be in 2019 >oh.wav

3:15 that reminds me of that one time i was playing in hightower and i went to build a telleporter in a stupid place and then turned around and saw a demoknight and just turned back around to build my teleporter he then congad and i joined in and then led a line of people off a cliff

I like Casual, and Competitive is alright, but has one major flaw: You get too little exp for winning and lose too much for losing, making ranking up a complete grind.

Holy Crap! Rank 150 is maximum of Rank?! Nice.

Max ping doesn't work right, and god damn autobalance doesn't exist, don't pretend that it does! AUTObalance and optional balance are very different things!

Videos like this are part of why I subbed in the first place, keep it up my man.

For some reason there's a stigma in the TF2 community that wanting to try your best and win is bad. I think that casual, despite it's rocky start, has been the best thing to happen to the game. People actually try, people will change classes to fit the teams needs. As a medic main, this has improved my experience drastically as people now are more motivated to win. This is what "TEAM" Fortress should be about, teamwork. It shouldn't be about selfish class picks and uncaring teammates.

I really expected you to say that casual needs higher level cap.

This is great stuff your thinking about... Keep it up!

I think they should add a probability to get more items at the end of any game if your team wins, and that the probability increases the more points you got on the game. Btw, i know that feel of people not switching their classes. Its so annoying watching a teleport being sapped in front of your spawn while 3 teammates are just standing there watching it being destroyed. Like, you can switch to engie for 5 second, remove the sapper and done. But nooooooooo, lets watch it burn...

Unbalanced Teams Empty Servers Waiting Times Poll With Rdm Game Modes Useless Levels and XP Lag and bad performance

>"casual mode is too competitive" >"bring this mechanic back cus its in competitive therefore its cool" Every MYM video ever...

Brilliant content as always mr.!

14:14 that poor scout that teleported lol

I still think they should add highlander

The reason you can't have more than 6 in a queue lobby is to prevent team stacking, imagine if people lobbied up in groups of 12 lv. 150's and just rolled every match they entered.

The Problem with class limits on casual is that it isn't meant to be competitive. What if you want to practice playing a class but already have the limit? The problem is that they don't have the old goof off servers anymore. There needs to be a mode between casual and competitive, a semi-competitive mode where people can play competitively but don't have to be extremely skilled. I don't want this to turn into MvM where if you aren't good or want to try something NOT in the meta you get kicked

nice dude 1 video a month! love it just love it...

The Ping Limit option is shit. The objectively better solution is to allow us to choose in which servers we want to play.

Thx uncle dane, rule the 4th reich with me pls

If there was a class limit, you couldn't get a bunch of people together to all play Spy and do nothing but crawl around in a box while the enemy team wonders what's going on!

Me: i just hit 150th rank Valve: jungle inferno out tomorrow Me: yay another 150 ranks

What is your server ip Dane? :)

They should have rewards like weapons or hats every 5 or 10 ranks

Ankle Jane the angry train

These are some great ideas Dane.

I don't main any particular class over others, sure I'm way better at medic or demo over spy for example, but i always try to pick a class that no one is currently playing. I check back on the class select menu to check team comp occasionally, its much quicker at a glance to see numbers over 9 spots than to discern class emblems on tab.

Yes, I did comment on a Uncle Dane video. Do I win a reward.

Class limitations? Okay, MAYBE for competetive but if I and my four friends want to take Heavies and run to the enemy spawn, we should have the option. Adding class limitations makes the game less fun for people who want to play a certain class. Yeah, 5 snipers are not helping at any point but I think that Casual is just casual. It is not about winning, it is not about even about giving 100%, it's about having fun. If I have fun playing as a Heavy, I will play as a Heavy. I shouldn't be restricted from that because there is a Heavy AFK, one sitting on the Engineers dispenser doing jack shit and one dancing. Okay, how about the compromise where the game just says: "Hey stupid, don't take Sniper. There's like four of them already. How about Medic or Heavy? We don't have any of those...". Well... yeah. Okay. Maybe. Depends on how it is done. I mean, the selection screen has alot of open space for text. Plus nobody ever reads the class introduction texts anyway so I think that that is a good idea. As long as it isn't too flashy. You know? As long as it isn't full of red warning signs and skulls. Just my opinion though. It may not be the most educated answer and it may not be the greatest way to say these things but atleast I am honest. That counts, right?

the ace clips were hilarious

Happy 100th video and 150th rank, Uncle Dane

"Every one of these has been fixed?" Woah woah. When did they make it so your rank actually determines/effects who you are paired with on a server? Because last time I checked that still wasn't a thing.

I feel like most of these issues have been fixed (or at least worked on) in the Blue Moon update, and it's really great

personally i think the backfill issues is caused by them ripping the game coordinator out of mvm, so it tries to completely fill a server in one swoop instead of slowly filling it up, which just causes the situation to get worse

thats it making that "you sadistic FUCK" my crit recieve sound

map vote should be of the same type as the current map, so i can play cp only or pl or attack / defence only.

I had this experience where I was playing on casual with 3 other players and just having some fun when a wave of bots just flooded the server and no one could speak in chat. It was actually pretty funny and the other 3 guys I was playing started laughing. It was a pretty weird yet funny event that made my day.

"Maybe the game should alert the player that they're picking a class that already has four other players" iS tHis OvErWaTcH???/?/1??!!!/!!!

I really think the death counter shouldn't be there. I would love to see it replaced by a damage taken/received counter. When you're playing casually I feel you shouldn't care about deaths, it just makes everything slightly more frustrating (ESPECIALLY when playing medic).

In terms of class limits, it should have a system in place like Overwatch does where it warns the player that the class they pick may not be optimal, but Valve shouldn't just limit classes. That would stop full teams of soldiers and snipers.

I only have 300-400 hours, its a living hell. I struggle so fucking bad getting any kills or atleast being able to survive for more than 5 minutes. Its mostly because there are so many good people in tf2 that I stand no chance against. Sometimes I consider giving up on TF2.

I srsly envy you on that problem with the lobby limit, I wish I had this amount of friends ;-;

Me in a nutshell: Playing soldier, wondering why the payload isn't moving for around 2 minutes, sees a good team failing to get ONE sentry gun. I go spy. Stab, sap, sap done. Does that happen to anyone else >.

I met a hacker in a Casual match. Valve anti-cheat is crap...

Hmm its been 523 days of casuals release, and uncle dane , its been 1 whole year aftter your post. Love it

Great videos , awesome points. gg

I'm really glad you made this video, it covers a lot of criticism people have with the mode without either being too against everything or too forgiving with what's been done. Too often do I see people criticise casual as if its still the same thing it was when it first came out which is really annoying because they did fix a lot of the major problems the mode had on release, but people still only focus on the negatives, even if those negatives are barely existent anymore. Thanks for making this and giving a more positive outlook on casual.

what i want is a countdown clock on CTF. being locked in spawn aint fun

when you said "this is probably more easier said than done for all I know because I dont know how it works" i got so much respect for you

They should have a counter for every time you clicked the little medal thing and also how many times it’s done a full spin, I think that would be the change we all need

i watch your videos and i hardly even play tf2 so that's something

Uncle Dane, I appreciate that you took the time to share your thoughts with us. I too agree that players like us are in the minority when it comes to trying to improve the game through changing game mechanics. Many people, like you said, could care less about bullet spread and stopwatch. However, I believe the changes you suggested would improve the game greatly, and I hope that one day Valve will understand our concern. Again, thank you for openly sharing your thoughts. I wish that more players would appreciate these ideas!

Dane ALL of your points are completely right. I'm an avid competitive player, and casual needs to be fixed. I know this post is old, but it still has so many great points and ideas. When casual mode was first introduced I all together ONLY played competitive or 9 times out of 10 I played community servers because I didn't want to deal with all the new crap and the regular crap that TF2 as a whole, needs to fix. I get that Sniper and Spy are interesting, they have that 1-shot-kill factor, I'll admit, I'm a sniper main, however in competitive I main engie like you, if my team needs it, I might switch to sniper. But besides my own admirations, a TON of stuff you talked about still needs to be dealt with or considered. Again I know this is an old post and you or many many others will probably not care to see my post, most likely skim over it, but this is what needs to happen as a Community, if Valve needs to fix things that they plainly can't see because their too busy working on other games or frankly don't care about a slightly dying game, we need to get their attention, we need to bring up old topics, old options, old ideas, because all of our old ideas and thoughts that got lost in the wind with updates, (since gunmettle) they need to breathe the scent of fresh air and freedom from the dark cave that valve puts stuff into when they want to ignore it. I hope you keep making TF2 content until TF2s perpetual end, I love your videos, you inspired me to main engineer and play competitive, you've inspired so many other people, including me. Keep doing it, for your sake, for our sake. For Team Fortress 2's sake. ~Thanks for reading, Peace.

I've clocked around 1,275 hours on tf2 and I think that most of what he's saying is pretty true awesome to find a KZfaq that that loves tf2 as much as I do.

13:15 Please can we have team composition, I am so sick of nearly all the teams I come across having so many fucking snipers and spies.

To tell the truth, I never really thought about the whole "class suggested" thing. That'd be a great thing for Valve to add into the game. I mean, I wouldn't go so far as to say "class restrictions" on pubs/casual, but having it 'suggest' classes to play could help out newer players who have no concept of class balance or class stacking.

13:52 Dane noped out of there when the crit rocket came.

I think a solution which could fix the gap between competitive and casual would be to add an unranked sixes mode. It would encourage trying out the format and keep the silliness of casual at the same time! I for example never tried comp because I didn't want to bring my team's hard earned points down for not knowing what I'm even doing, but I'd be happy to try it out in an unranked version of the same thing, since it seems really interesting!

I was in lvl 25 and i got in a server with 3 people over lvl 100.. match making my ass

0:40 rearrange the score and you've got some dank memes

ive stopped playing TF2 after the "Meet your match" update,but after ur review ive been playing a little and ive actually enjoyed it a little,so thx

14:18 *Now that's some cursed shit*

Can someone explain the stopwatch thing Dane mentions to me? The wiki and the first few pages I found on searching didn't reveal anything.

W A I T T I M E S

2:15 actual representation of me in casual with my friends on dust bowl.

3:58 Rocket Jump Waltz was a beautiful score choice

1:39 "Encourages Team Play"Just look at the Pyro and Soldier On the roof Making some Great "Team Play"

Watching during the superbowl because you are better than it.

Digging the intro music

the ad hoc on friends list only is a very good idea. i hope it gets put in

I would like Quickplay (if it didn't always put me in one bar servers after 15 minutes of waiting)

a a medic main i hate being put on team and having a team with to many snipers and spys im sure everone hates it but, medics only as good as his team, and a poor team composition is a real nightmare, im a decent pybro but when i switch everyone just accuses me of the regular W M1. EVEN THO i flared them after igniting them or melted there booty off with the back burner. also is W M1ing an actual insult or is that somthing salty soldiers and spys just call you when they can believe you found them invis in a corner and when a soldier cant hit the broadside of a barn say when you EZ BAKE THEM TO DEATH. cuz ive only really been called a W M1 after dominating someone for the 3 time in a match.

currently 2022 and most of these problems are gone! I'm used to no-adhoc, and it's common enough in other games that I don't mind it at all. I also noticed that game coordinator now fills the player pool really quick now! This also means that most servers have at least one bot now cuz they spread them out more though it does make it easier to kick them