hello to all dagger users. come join the Burrow

tonight!

Tomorrow (Monday) at 7:30 EST we will have our November community custom games! Join us for prop hunt, a moment of silence for the medium class, and other fun silly shenanigans with friends. There will also be a VERY cool announcement!

🟪MommaGerbil
🟪EmpressJunie

Is AI making life better? NO. Is it making things cheaper? Quite the opposite. Is it improving the internet? It’s drowning it in slop. Is it giving us more time to be creative? It’s stealing that too. Surely it’s making us smarter, though? Ohhhh, you won’t believe this…

"Al is just a tool, the people who use it use it for bad, don't blame the tool" - congratulations you have successfully defended the trillion dollar corporations that trained their models on non-consensual taking of information, in order to blame the individual.

Petition to delete ladders from the game OR have a button to press if you want to actually climb on them @reachthefinals

ultimately, if this game makes it to 2027 for a competitive format there is going to be noone left from TOs, Orgs, Players, Coaches etc cause there is basically ZERO good faith left to give when we're still making the same mistakes 3 years deep into the game

amazing opportunity below!!

12.1: my days of avoiding deadlock are coming to a close i fear

Season 11 started to give me hope that balancing had potential. After we got through the KS slop, I started to see the vision. However, with season 12, if the balancing trend keeps up with nerfing medium, I genuinely lose all hope in Embark and will have to look elsewhere.

Hold on guys, I think Sweeny cooking here. Valve has absolutely held gaming back for years.

Valve has held gaming back from being one of the most ad-infested, customer screwing, review hiding, no player count having hobbies ever.

Truly, Valve are the real villains here. Tim Sweeny, the guy who fired 1000 people this year, has a much better platform that we should ALL admire.

This game used to be about expressing how you want to play, and coming up on 3+ years since being released, Embark's philosophy for balance is making me very concerned.

Embark, let us actually have input in some of these changes before they're pushed to live, please. We went est meta in the game in a LONG time in Season 10, with every comp team running different compositions, weapons, etc, and showing a ton of variety.. to KS slop in S11.. and to whatever the hell even is S12. The Respec Order changes, to me, have been detrimental to the core DNA of THE FINALS, and since they were implemented, it truly feels like the game has suffered.

Lights are now even stronger, heavies are weaker, and mediums are constantly being brought out behind the barn and shot in the back of the head. Make it make sense.

From the outside looking in, because from what I've been told from various professional teams and players, there's been no attempt from Embark to gather input from outside sources in terms of testing. Every patch feels like we're just looking at numbers on a spreadsheet instead of actually looking at the health of the game.

If something has a low pick rate, actually delve into WHY. Not everything has to be viable, some things are great as a niche pocket pick and should probably stay there. The fact we haven't had a full auto on medium in the greater meta for a considerable amount of time hasn't gone unnoticed, and the amount of people asking for it surely hasn't either.

In terms of what Embark wants, they've made it clear they want teams to play closer together. So if that's the case, why did we give light a (now) 50 meter solo teleport that's now banned from TGM 26 because it's too strong?

S12 was fun for the first few days, but it quickly turned into a headache. We've expressed time and time again how players, across all skill ranges, should be giving input into changes before they go live instead of how it currently is. We just want a conversation, Embark. This game means the world to so many people, and how balance is currently being handled needs a massive overhaul.

Alright ill get off my soapbox.

mid afternoon stream! twitch.tv/mommagerbil

state of medium is fuckin depressing

their automatics also just suck, here’s how to actually fix them and make the class not unbearably miserable to play unless you play revolver.

also just buff in air accuracy across the board man, it’s not rocket science.

Repeater not 2 tapping lights makes it impossible to use against a good light. You’ll get out ratted by invis and blown up before you can even think about shooting a second shot, let alone a third. Full autos still take 1-2 more bullets to kill. I understand we want gold lights to “have fun” but the glass cannon class should STAY GLASS. I thought respec was going to help with weapon changes not just buff light. There’s a reason why their own statistics claim that the more the player plays the game, the less the respect changes were liked. We’re balancing for casuals without even talking to the people that get paid to play their game.

ok, time for a rant about the finals. IDEC if this shit gets me banned at this point.

I'm happy to announce that on the 28th Of November at The Major @DreamHackSE

I will be hosting a THE FINALS talkshow at TGM with @ImYungMan , @SamTheFella , @sugifps_ and @TetraCasts + (??)

What topics (or maybe extra guests 👀) do you guys want to see brought up?

we already had a trans locator in THE FINALS, her name is mommagerbil @TheBurrowTF

GRIMTAGE !!!! This is my first att at a montage, lmk what yall think <3

S12 is excellent so far. I would have liked to see some broader changes to the Heavy though. He can already throw down a dome shield, but why not give him a huge space jump on a short cooldown, maybe a short range tesla gun, & the ability to turn primal and wreck house, also fur?