There wasn't much TF2 footage in this one so I will describe some TF2 gameplay for you: Demoman from TF2 does sticky jumo into mid of Harvest and gets and airshot onto an enemy Soldier who is rocket jumping past. Demoman from TF2 lands on Harvest shack and sees a Heavy on point and lands 3 crisp direct hits onto him with his Iron Bomber. Demoman from TF2 drops down onto the point and whips out his pan to kill a Scout who is charging him but is already low. Demoman from TF2 frantically reloads his grenade launcher and places some traps at each door just in time for the next wave of enemies. He sees a Pyro and Medic heading his way but his Spyder senses are tingling and he turns around just in time to see a Spy, arm in the air ready to strike. Demoman from TF2 hits him with the one two, a grenade and pan around the face and the intuitively right clicks to detonate his trap right as the Pyro is over it. Demoman from TF2 is low on health now so makes a hasty escape to a near by health pack. He sees more team mates arriving at the front line and so decided so push up ahead. With his health topped up, Demoman from TF2 does a sticky jump. onto the enemies roof and sees a bundle of enemies leaving spawn and so starts to rain down hell onto them. Demoman from TF2 suppressing half the enemy team but notices in the corner of his eye an enemy sentry gun inside their building. Demoman from TF2 takes a few steps back and starts to reload ready for his next attack when suddenly an Trolldier lands next to him. He feels it's appropriate to taunt and so he holds out his hand and the Soldier clasps it and they bang heads. It was a wonderful moment amidst the chaos. As the Soldier jumped away again, Demoman from TF2 spun back around and shot 4 grenades towards the Sentry nest, perfectly angled into the sky to rain back down on the buildings. Demoman from TF2 charged in shooting stickies at the floor to finish any stragglers. The engineer was hidden in a corner with his feet up sipping a drink. Demoman from TF2 paused. Hey lay the 5 last stickies he had at his feet and slowly walked up besides him. An enemy Heavy walked around the corner and was confronted by the strange scene. The Heavy looked down, then up again. Demoman from TF2 right clicked.
i started playing valorant with some of my college classmates last year and one of them created a new account and deleted his old one to play with us. he tried self imposing some restrictions to make it fairer for the other team, but he was way to good. he once did an ace just with the starting pistol. to this day he keeps avoiding getting into higher ranks to play with us
I think it is probably more likely with team-based games, simply because the skill of your allies is so impactful. I mainly play support in DOTA, and that role is a force multiplier. If I have a string of games where people don't know how to take advantage of my support (I swear that half of the camps I stack go to the other team), then it can feel incredibly frustrating.
As long as you are winning more than 50% of your games the MMR is doing it's job. That's assuming you are being honest and you are as good as you say you are. And yes it's frustrating when you lose 6 games in a row. But you were probably ignoring last week when you were on a hotstreak and won 8in a row. And maybe 2 of those wins you were carried. And I speak from experience because i played League of Legends for a few years as a Support/Jungle main. Peaked at high Platinum. Bad allies are frustrating. But Rolling over Bad opponents is equally if not more satisfying.
Speak for yourself I *love* that shit. Hell yes make this specific topic feel like it goes straight to the root. Also isn't the conclusion of this video that the journey is more important despite it in the beginning skipping straight to the point?
Smurfs can have trouble just finding the ability to play the game in the first place, since some matchmaking systems won't place high ranks into even just a bracket or two below their rank, meaning they can't even get a match sometimes, or if they do it ends up being in a server miles out of their region and their ping skyrockets.
I remember watching a video essay about why Saudi Arabia is fucked and the first thing he did was insist on going back to the first time the Spanish interacted with the kingdom of the Kongo in the 1500. Admittedly that was a fucking good video though
I'm not surprised that the first booster you talk to immediately says "oh I only boost because everyone else is doing it! I had no choice!!!" That is the most basic and, as the kids would say, "copium filled" excuse that all boosters, smurphs, cheaters, and unsportsmanlike players say with all games. It's trying to pass the blame to someone else in an attempt to not take responsibility for their actions so they don't have to think about what they're doing beyond "I get what I want, therefore my actions are correct".
2:48 Also you could get banned for violating the ToS but you'd have to screw up pretty hard for the admins to have reasonable cause for banning you because of how hilariously difficult it is to enforce these rules.
I think I only boosted once before. I was a kid. Og cod mw2. I wanted the fall camo, but it was like 250 headshots. I found some mates and we just traded headshots for free and we all got it. My favorite color is orange and wanted my gun to be orange.
Genshin Impact is a bit of an interesting case in terms of boosting, as it has a feature that allows for doing it completely legally. No sharing the account, just use the Co-Op system. The only limitation is that the person that wants to join needs the have the same world level (basically difficulty of the game linked to an experience system) as the host... or higher. And of course a level 80 character would decimate enemies at level 30 in the world of the boosted player. Though, Genshin is a single player/co-op PVE, so boosting can't hurt the enjoyment of the other players. And unfortunately, it might be sometimes even necessary, as it is possible to lock yourself at a higher difficulty than your party can deal with. (speaking from experience) ...And farming domains or bosses can honestly be annoying anyway (screw the Geo Hypostasis!)
7:00 I'm pretty sure that's still called "carrying" in the MMO scene, a high level character runs you through a low-level dungeon. IDK, I just remember in WoW either BC or Wrath I knew it was called that back then, before there were loot (or was it exp? exp isn't really the point of dungeons, it's the the rare loot) penalties for that sort of thing. Also before level syncing was a thing. Some MMOs sync you down in instanced content with a level range lower than your level these days.
honestly i feel smurfing is way way worse. at least with a boosted account it can seem like the player is just having an off day, we all have those moments where our skill just flies out the window for no reason. with a smurf account it's just constant stomps, it's arguably just as unbalanced, but it feels way better to kill a weak player than it does dying to a stronger one, especially when it's clear they shouldn't be at that rank. though i'll admit my bias also stems from those stupid "noob to diamond rank" videos which just causes an influx of bored tryhards ruining casual games.
I personally have smurfed and thereby curbstomped lower level players before in Overwatch (1) and Valorant. Though, now that I am older and look back on it, I feel quite bad about it. I really ruined some people's games there.
Would have loved to get an insight into Clash Of Clans boosting. There's a lot of boosting going on, it's very easy to buy accounts, but you don't really ruin the game for others, just for yourself. Minimaxing also used to be a fun little hobby in Clash Of Clans, in stead of straight up boosting.
I was genuanily going to rage comment "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU EXPLAINING WHAT VIDEO GAMES ARE IN A VIDEO TITLED ELO BOOSTING" but oh god you were joking thank God.
@@thenumber24 I think they all boost each other and the best players who don’t boost are able to keep getting ELO from the worse players, but idk for sure
I do not understand why someone would want boosting in overwatch (especially nowadays) when it is pretty much babys first fps in terms of skill compared to the really difficult ones.
If someone thinks they are not at the right rank, make a new account. I did it in CS before and managed to rank SMFC on a fresh account after being stuck at DMG on my main one for awhile. Never managed to hit global, but I was satisfied. Boosting is so boring for everyone involved and interacted with while doing it lol.
What I hate about this is the use of Min-Maxing. It feels like it is done this way to trick people who know traditional meanings. Proper Min-Maxing is, for example, lets say you can get a max health of 100 and enemies can do a max damage of 24. You only need 97 health to survive an additional hit, so you can put those 3 health points into something else.
So the TF2 population is so low that now every game has 2-3 cheaters (not bots), imagine water and sand in a glass. Water is TF2 general pop legit players, sand is cheaters. Lots of water = you don't notice the sand as much. Maybe 1-2 cheaters out of 7 servers. Now in Nov 2023 there seems to be little "water", and now you notice the "sand" ALOT more. Make a vid on it. "Lmaobox cheater que" feature is what's causing a lot of this. It allows cheaters to join other matches that lmaobox users are in, like joining a match from your friends list. But it's strangers who also are using lmaobox, they stop votes kicks for each other and troll and lie in chat to cover for each other. Even Uncletopia usually has 1-3 cheaters per server, no one seems to care because most are sus anyways. Why would you kick one of your own kind? Someone on youtube made a video "LMAObox review" and it talks more about the feature and other things about the cheat. With Smissmass on the way it's going to be fucking awful between the incoming smissmass bots and the mass amount of cheaters now.
Boosting can be an issue with PvE games where the booster pays or cheats to skip the grind, and then have everything unlocked. They have the great idea of jumping into high(est) difficulty games without learning how things work, and end up being dead weight for the team or even a detriment since most PvE games get harder when there are more players.
Well, this is a coincidence, just yesturday I had a message from someone wanting to buy my account for $1500. hope you and the famalam are doing well. o/
Very good video! From script to execution. Really like that you strayed away from TF2 only content and took a chance at something different, looking forward for more!
Recently the mobile game brawl stars became popular, and i picked it up again after 3 years of not touching and i’ve got to say that i do get why people choose to boost Basically i have 700-800 trophies on characters i like playing But since the elo is counted per character that means i have to constantly play low elo characters to progress BUT at thoose levels the teammates are horrible And i do mean HORRIBLE they usually throw the entire game or stall it unreasonably so most of my games on lower trophies are WAY harder than at the insanely high ranges. And i only have so much time till i need to get off the bus so theese factors make lower rank gameplay unenjoyable
Apparently in Valorant, there are EU players getting payed around 10kusd a month to trio queue and boost NA accounts to immortal. It seems like there is so much depth to this boosting "community" its becoming its own eco sysyem.
I wouldn’t really consider gta modded accounts boosting. Most people just buy them cause they want to get into pvp. All the stuff you need to compete would require hours of boring missions otherwise
Not going to lie, at the start I was like 'oh this is neat' and then you said 'fudge' and then all of a sudden I got fully invested since I have NOT heard a single person on youtube say 'fudge' in their video whatsoever all in all, (besides me being weird), it was a really good video that you did some plentiful research on and about!
Another type of boosting not mentioned in this video is ones for gacha games (Genshin Impact, Fate Grand Order, etc.) so you can buy character without having to gamble for them, not miss out on time limited event items/characters or not having to grind the game to level up characters
There wasn't much TF2 footage in this one so I will describe some TF2 gameplay for you:
Demoman from TF2 does sticky jumo into mid of Harvest and gets and airshot onto an enemy Soldier who is rocket jumping past. Demoman from TF2 lands on Harvest shack and sees a Heavy on point and lands 3 crisp direct hits onto him with his Iron Bomber. Demoman from TF2 drops down onto the point and whips out his pan to kill a Scout who is charging him but is already low. Demoman from TF2 frantically reloads his grenade launcher and places some traps at each door just in time for the next wave of enemies. He sees a Pyro and Medic heading his way but his Spyder senses are tingling and he turns around just in time to see a Spy, arm in the air ready to strike. Demoman from TF2 hits him with the one two, a grenade and pan around the face and the intuitively right clicks to detonate his trap right as the Pyro is over it. Demoman from TF2 is low on health now so makes a hasty escape to a near by health pack. He sees more team mates arriving at the front line and so decided so push up ahead. With his health topped up, Demoman from TF2 does a sticky jump. onto the enemies roof and sees a bundle of enemies leaving spawn and so starts to rain down hell onto them. Demoman from TF2 suppressing half the enemy team but notices in the corner of his eye an enemy sentry gun inside their building. Demoman from TF2 takes a few steps back and starts to reload ready for his next attack when suddenly an Trolldier lands next to him. He feels it's appropriate to taunt and so he holds out his hand and the Soldier clasps it and they bang heads. It was a wonderful moment amidst the chaos. As the Soldier jumped away again, Demoman from TF2 spun back around and shot 4 grenades towards the Sentry nest, perfectly angled into the sky to rain back down on the buildings. Demoman from TF2 charged in shooting stickies at the floor to finish any stragglers. The engineer was hidden in a corner with his feet up sipping a drink. Demoman from TF2 paused. Hey lay the 5 last stickies he had at his feet and slowly walked up besides him. An enemy Heavy walked around the corner and was confronted by the strange scene. The Heavy looked down, then up again. Demoman from TF2 right clicked.
Thanks
brought me to tears
peak content there toofty
that was the greatest bedtime story I ever heard
Lmao i love this
I get the feeling that you do these types of videos and research because you want to, which makes me enjoy it a lot more. Keep it up!
Thanks, that's exactly it I was just curious about this topic, glad you enjojyed!
i started playing valorant with some of my college classmates last year and one of them created a new account and deleted his old one to play with us. he tried self imposing some restrictions to make it fairer for the other team, but he was way to good. he once did an ace just with the starting pistol. to this day he keeps avoiding getting into higher ranks to play with us
I guess he is kind of boosting his friends but not really intentionally. This is more of a smurf account
@@TooftyThis is very common in wargaming titles where it's referred to as "seal clubbing"
I think it is probably more likely with team-based games, simply because the skill of your allies is so impactful. I mainly play support in DOTA, and that role is a force multiplier. If I have a string of games where people don't know how to take advantage of my support (I swear that half of the camps I stack go to the other team), then it can feel incredibly frustrating.
As long as you are winning more than 50% of your games the MMR is doing it's job. That's assuming you are being honest and you are as good as you say you are.
And yes it's frustrating when you lose 6 games in a row. But you were probably ignoring last week when you were on a hotstreak and won 8in a row. And maybe 2 of those wins you were carried.
And I speak from experience because i played League of Legends for a few years as a Support/Jungle main. Peaked at high Platinum. Bad allies are frustrating. But Rolling over Bad opponents is equally if not more satisfying.
Babe wake up, Toofy just uploded
Thanks sweetie
You ain’t got no babe
Yeah indeed
man shut yo goofy ass up @@sunlooper
toofty is an absolute giga chad for only spending 15 seconds on an ad
In the span of less than 45 seconds, he goes from calling out min-maxers to UA-camrs who pad out their runtime with too much background info.
My hero.
Speak for yourself I *love* that shit. Hell yes make this specific topic feel like it goes straight to the root. Also isn't the conclusion of this video that the journey is more important despite it in the beginning skipping straight to the point?
Smurfs can have trouble just finding the ability to play the game in the first place, since some matchmaking systems won't place high ranks into even just a bracket or two below their rank, meaning they can't even get a match sometimes, or if they do it ends up being in a server miles out of their region and their ping skyrockets.
Minute in and already love the video, video essays do tend to over explain stuff for no reason 😅
I remember watching a video essay about why Saudi Arabia is fucked and the first thing he did was insist on going back to the first time the Spanish interacted with the kingdom of the Kongo in the 1500.
Admittedly that was a fucking good video though
OUR YEARLY VIDEO HAS BLESSED OUR FEED 🙏🙏🙏🙏
0:25 this is so real, and I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks this
I'm not surprised that the first booster you talk to immediately says "oh I only boost because everyone else is doing it! I had no choice!!!" That is the most basic and, as the kids would say, "copium filled" excuse that all boosters, smurphs, cheaters, and unsportsmanlike players say with all games. It's trying to pass the blame to someone else in an attempt to not take responsibility for their actions so they don't have to think about what they're doing beyond "I get what I want, therefore my actions are correct".
2:48 Also you could get banned for violating the ToS but you'd have to screw up pretty hard for the admins to have reasonable cause for banning you because of how hilariously difficult it is to enforce these rules.
I love when he remembers his yt password!!
I think I only boosted once before. I was a kid. Og cod mw2. I wanted the fall camo, but it was like 250 headshots. I found some mates and we just traded headshots for free and we all got it. My favorite color is orange and wanted my gun to be orange.
Genshin Impact is a bit of an interesting case in terms of boosting, as it has a feature that allows for doing it completely legally. No sharing the account, just use the Co-Op system. The only limitation is that the person that wants to join needs the have the same world level (basically difficulty of the game linked to an experience system) as the host... or higher. And of course a level 80 character would decimate enemies at level 30 in the world of the boosted player.
Though, Genshin is a single player/co-op PVE, so boosting can't hurt the enjoyment of the other players. And unfortunately, it might be sometimes even necessary, as it is possible to lock yourself at a higher difficulty than your party can deal with. (speaking from experience) ...And farming domains or bosses can honestly be annoying anyway (screw the Geo Hypostasis!)
Back in MW2 (the OG), used to spend my hours running around lobbies focusing on killing boosters.
7:00 I'm pretty sure that's still called "carrying" in the MMO scene, a high level character runs you through a low-level dungeon. IDK, I just remember in WoW either BC or Wrath I knew it was called that back then, before there were loot (or was it exp? exp isn't really the point of dungeons, it's the the rare loot) penalties for that sort of thing. Also before level syncing was a thing. Some MMOs sync you down in instanced content with a level range lower than your level these days.
Touched myself to this🥰
Bro?
Self-care matters a lot more than people give it credit for. Keep it up. The self-care, that is.
same
really enjoyed watching this one!
I like your delivery of jokes
I just found this video, thanks for showing youre alive
this video is underrated, i haven't watched one of your vids in a while but i regret it.
Amazing video. Severely underrated as it stands now, but I'm glad I foubd it.
In summary:skill issue+patients issues
honestly i feel smurfing is way way worse.
at least with a boosted account it can seem like the player is just having an off day, we all have those moments where our skill just flies out the window for no reason.
with a smurf account it's just constant stomps, it's arguably just as unbalanced, but it feels way better to kill a weak player than it does dying to a stronger one, especially when it's clear they shouldn't be at that rank.
though i'll admit my bias also stems from those stupid "noob to diamond rank" videos which just causes an influx of bored tryhards ruining casual games.
I personally have smurfed and thereby curbstomped lower level players before in Overwatch (1) and Valorant. Though, now that I am older and look back on it, I feel quite bad about it. I really ruined some people's games there.
Would have loved to get an insight into Clash Of Clans boosting. There's a lot of boosting going on, it's very easy to buy accounts, but you don't really ruin the game for others, just for yourself. Minimaxing also used to be a fun little hobby in Clash Of Clans, in stead of straight up boosting.
I was genuanily going to rage comment "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU EXPLAINING WHAT VIDEO GAMES ARE IN A VIDEO TITLED ELO BOOSTING" but oh god you were joking thank God.
I recognize the music at the very beginning
Hey, can you make what is the best loadout for sniper? I'm having trouble finding a loadout that's good
Totally agree with the end
Was temporarily worried about the overwatch gameplay
Tootfy the biggest update since de last 6 year has come on tf2 the 64 bit port wich there is no bot anymore i think and people get a 25% fps boost
Bros doing well in life lmao
Deepwoken has a horrible elo boosting problem I think like 90% of top 100 are boosted if I'm not mistaken.
how the f does that even happen my guy
do the top 10 boost like 80 people or what
@@thenumber24 I think they all boost each other and the best players who don’t boost are able to keep getting ELO from the worse players, but idk for sure
I do not understand why someone would want boosting in overwatch (especially nowadays) when it is pretty much babys first fps in terms of skill compared to the really difficult ones.
If someone thinks they are not at the right rank, make a new account. I did it in CS before and managed to rank SMFC on a fresh account after being stuck at DMG on my main one for awhile. Never managed to hit global, but I was satisfied.
Boosting is so boring for everyone involved and interacted with while doing it lol.
I dont play alot of OW, but I respect the Wreckingball.
,,but also, get good"
toof man ulpodaed!!!
cool video
Almost as fascinating as the slang term "try hard" is to me
Game really gets into people head sadly , reality wasn't strivable to them nearly as much
What I hate about this is the use of Min-Maxing.
It feels like it is done this way to trick people who know traditional meanings.
Proper Min-Maxing is, for example, lets say you can get a max health of 100 and enemies can do a max damage of 24. You only need 97 health to survive an additional hit, so you can put those 3 health points into something else.
nice
Y'know biscuits are both cheap and can be a nice snack
Just saying
Mge brother
i got my friend to boost my clash Royle
What was your reason out of curiosity?
@@Toofty Cuz i suck
shrimply a krill issue
I VIDEO A ACTUAL TF2 VIDEO
Notice how tf2bers are falling out of relevancy
For league, you genuinely get to date NEET girls if you have a high rank lol
Why would you want to date a NEET girl they're insufferable
Oh wait never mind|:
So the TF2 population is so low that now every game has 2-3 cheaters (not bots), imagine water and sand in a glass. Water is TF2 general pop legit players, sand is cheaters. Lots of water = you don't notice the sand as much. Maybe 1-2 cheaters out of 7 servers. Now in Nov 2023 there seems to be little "water", and now you notice the "sand" ALOT more. Make a vid on it. "Lmaobox cheater que" feature is what's causing a lot of this. It allows cheaters to join other matches that lmaobox users are in, like joining a match from your friends list. But it's strangers who also are using lmaobox, they stop votes kicks for each other and troll and lie in chat to cover for each other. Even Uncletopia usually has 1-3 cheaters per server, no one seems to care because most are sus anyways. Why would you kick one of your own kind? Someone on youtube made a video "LMAObox review" and it talks more about the feature and other things about the cheat. With Smissmass on the way it's going to be fucking awful between the incoming smissmass bots and the mass amount of cheaters now.
people who boost for money are smart. people who pay to get their accounts boosted are idiots. simple as that.
It prided me to say that I made the 100th comment in this video
I edge to your content
I edge to your comment
@@Toofty 😨
What
What?
@@Toofty i see
I don't care about boosting because the person paying doesn't learn the skills and I like fighting better opponents so win win
I still don’t understand what this video has to do with Electric Light Orchestra…
Boosting can be an issue with PvE games where the booster pays or cheats to skip the grind, and then have everything unlocked. They have the great idea of jumping into high(est) difficulty games without learning how things work, and end up being dead weight for the team or even a detriment since most PvE games get harder when there are more players.
Well, this is a coincidence, just yesturday I had a message from someone wanting to buy my account for $1500. hope you and the famalam are doing well. o/
1500 bucks can get you 1/3 of a golden pan.
Damn, its been like 4 years since the bot crisis and Valve has done nothing.
Toofty turned to the dark side... Overwatch 💀
Boosting is literally pay to loose XD
Very good video! From script to execution. Really like that you strayed away from TF2 only content and took a chance at something different, looking forward for more!
Zigger digger
Recently the mobile game brawl stars became popular, and i picked it up again after 3 years of not touching and i’ve got to say that i do get why people choose to boost
Basically i have 700-800 trophies on characters i like playing
But since the elo is counted per character that means i have to constantly play low elo characters to progress BUT at thoose levels the teammates are horrible
And i do mean HORRIBLE they usually throw the entire game or stall it unreasonably so most of my games on lower trophies are WAY harder than at the insanely high ranges. And i only have so much time till i need to get off the bus so theese factors make lower rank gameplay unenjoyable
i had a friend that would boost their account so he wouldnt fall after a seson so for him it was spending money so a number wouldnt go down
Apparently in Valorant, there are EU players getting payed around 10kusd a month to trio queue and boost NA accounts to immortal. It seems like there is so much depth to this boosting "community" its becoming its own eco sysyem.
I wouldn’t really consider gta modded accounts boosting. Most people just buy them cause they want to get into pvp. All the stuff you need to compete would require hours of boring missions otherwise
thanks for keeping the videos short
Can you make mei from ovw vs pyro from tf2
Plz upload tf2 vids, demo main daddy
pootis
You would get boosted if your name starts with a Poki and finishes wirh a mane
Not going to lie, at the start I was like 'oh this is neat' and then you said 'fudge' and then all of a sudden I got fully invested since I have NOT heard a single person on youtube say 'fudge' in their video whatsoever
all in all, (besides me being weird), it was a really good video that you did some plentiful research on and about!
Another type of boosting not mentioned in this video is ones for gacha games (Genshin Impact, Fate Grand Order, etc.) so you can buy character without having to gamble for them, not miss out on time limited event items/characters or not having to grind the game to level up characters
"and also git gud"
-Toofty
Truer words have never been spoken before
whar
splendid
So just say competitive multiplayer games for where boosting found
Get your early pass here
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Good vid... tf2 content soon?
See 2:16 for TF2 content