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Hey, I'm a relatively experienced competitive medic (5+ seasons 6v6 450+ hours on the class, 2000+ hours overall). I'll take a look at the demos and probably stream my thoughts here later tonight when I get back. In case you can't see it live I'll send you the VODs.

Edit: Sorry, but I couldn't play the demos. I got a "bad inline model number" error. If you can send a video of your POV I can review it but unfortunately I can't get around this demo error.

I've found trading to be very confusing myself. Here are two links that might help you a little bit but are really just price ranges for some weapons.
Newer- https://docs.google.com/document/d/18MEL0LoYZMuZb0z_NXe5dRXQCPwZkz4Ui6Wnle2QOlQ/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1#

Older (but has more and sometimes updated) - https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AtNiAB1uGacPdDZZVllaelBuaFlRdUE4YUQ3VFFuTXc&hl=en&output=html

Just don't trade a hat for anything less than what is worth 18 weapons.

The TF2 item price spreadsheet says it's worth 4-6 refined (or equivalent hats). This is among people who trade constantly, so it's worth a bit more (like 6-8) if you're trading it to a typical player.

The spreadsheet isn't a perfect market tracker, but it should give you a good idea of the relative value of the different hats.

First of: congratulations on the unbox!

I'd say you can get 5-6 buds or 70-84 keys for it, but don't take my word for it. The chance of unboxing an unusual is about 1%. So I'd say you're better off not using the keys for more unboxes, even if you might get an unusual, it could be one worth only 2 buds.

Play around a bit with this before opening some more crates.

Congrats on the new mouse. I use a Logitech G700S.

I bind buttons for primary, secondary and melee weapons. This helps for really quick directo-to-the-weapon-you-want switching while on the move. As mentioned, elsewhere, you don't need to lift your hand/fingers to switch weapons.The remaining buttons I use for voice commands: "Thanks", "Go", "Yes" and "No".

As far as settings, I use a 3800 DPI setting with the in-game mouse sensitivity of 1.2 (pretty low). I turn "raw input" on to disable any sort of acceleration or things Windows may bring into the game. This makes your mouse movement equal. In other words, the speed in which you move your mouse has no affect on how far it travels. I turn up the polling rate high because this setting tells your mouse is how many times to report its location to your computer. (More on DPI & Polling rates here)

All of the above mentioned is a matter of preference. I have large hands and play with a hybrid of the "palm" and "claw" grips. I don't like to use big sweeping hand movements. I like to plant my forearm and just move my wrist side to side. I adjust my dpi and sensitivity to where I can do a 180 when I move from center to left side of mouse pad or center to right side of mouse pad.

Enjoy your new mouse!!

According to this after looking at the sys requirements in the next link, your graphics card is OK, and according to the system requirements, your CPU is OK (at least for the PC, I don't know why it isn't listed for macs...).....2 G RAM should also be enough...have you tried upgrading graph card drivers?

There are tutorials out there on how to do it if and they link to the tools you need to do it. Also google it.

On OSX it's a little trickier. I got a spray working a long time ago, but can't get new ones to work, forgot what I did...

You can solve this problem by adapting a techinque some pro scouts use, Don't move the mouse, use WASD to move and use reflexes to hit enemies. Playing Quake can help with this.

We did not ban anyone for doing that. Teamwork.tf is also missing half our servers and has a bunch of our old ones.

We also have more top servers than anyone else, we don't spam a bunch of low quality servers with 2-3 people in them each.

https://www.gametracker.com/search/tf2/?searchipp=15

Thanks for the tips. I've been playing pyro lately with the degreaser + axetinguisher and I'm starting to get better, but I still need some work!

I was wondering about the detonator. I've been using the flare gun in place of the shotgun and I like being able to harass enemies from far away; I especially like being able to shoot engineers from out of sentry range. I see other pyros using the detonator though, and I wonder, is there any disadvantage to the detonator over the flare gun at all, or is it just a straight upgrade?

So I was thinking about getting one. It seems like I can make one out of two refined and a flare gun, but according to this guide I should be able to trade for one scrap? So it would be foolish of me to craft one myself?

I would suggest this laptop:

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-VivoBook-R5-3500U-Graphics-F512DA-EB51/dp/B07QQB7552/ref=asc_df_B07QQB7552/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=343224652930&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15805105199318728920&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027746&hvtargid=pla-782775661405&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=71764766791&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=343224652930&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15805105199318728920&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027746&hvtargid=pla-782775661405

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Ryzen 5 CPU, Vega 8 graphics, and 8 gigabytes of RAM should be more than enough to run tf2. It also has an SSD (faster Window's boot time and loading time for applications), and comes with Windows 10 preinstalled.

I can try to log into the machines tomorrow for specifics (thought got they're both stock), but it's an ASUS X205T and this is the new laptop: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0L4D8W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_TROezb0A7X0A9

facepalm

How did I not realize that? I just got this yesterday and I spent way too much time setting up number press + click macros.