Getting so triggered over random crits that you can't enjoy them yourself and want them removed is a personality flaw. It's indicative of a an obession with predicability and it shows that you take winning and fairness in an inconsequential casual game far way too seriously. If you stop being OCD you'll realize they're only mildly annoying to get hit by compared to how fun they are to randomly get. Take your lumps like a man private twinkletoes.
It sure is fun to get killed more than four times in a row by random crits... said no one It is fun to kill a group of more than 3 ppl with a crit projectile tho ngl
To quote one of the greatest minds of our generation, Jon from Miiverse; You not liking me critically injuring you with a baseball bat is also a personality flaw. You should realize ending up in the hospital is only a mild annoyance.
@@cognitiveAfflatus the fact that you feel the need to compare suffering serious physical assault to dying once or twice to RNG in a video game session kinda proves my point
The Flare Gun has gotta be one of my favorite weapons in the game, it requires you to either set up a debuff at close range with your primary or land 2 shots at a distance. There’s a reason why a lot of people respect it I feel. Unlike most crits a crit flare can be a finisher but it doesn’t kill instantly due to the base damage being 30 and thus the crit damage is 90. It’s good as a finisher but lacks the ability to breach thresholds unless you’re actively in the fight.
It also helps that being set on fire is usually a warning sign on it's own. Aside from the fact that you're passively taking damage you're also vulnerable to a flare or axtinguisher. Staying in or running from a fight while on fire are decisions the player gets to make, both with their own consequences if the player succeeds or fails with their chosen decision.
It also means that fire damage isn't just a boring bit of delayed damage. You're now wounded and 90 damage + a burn refresh suddenly matters a lot. Stack that with the fact that fire can be ended sooner or even extended (Flares deal 7.5 secs of fire, max cap is 10), and you have a more interesting mechanic than it could've been.
Gonna disagree on the Frontier Justice - it does change your mindset by incentivizing you less to protect your gun or to intentionally destroy and rebuild when given the chance, in order load up on crits to defend yourself better with your smaller clip. And even with those crits, you're still just an engineer whose gun was destroyed, so it's not terribly punishing for the enemy to play as they usually do.
Seconding this, i think that letting your sentry die as engineer does count as “weird shit,” that could reward crits, even if its just the boring “do what youre class not suppose to” weird shit.
I am gonna disagree with you on this one. While yes it does incentive different play for those with the confidence to try it. It just as often screws over players who can take a sentry nest down by letting the Engie who should be defenseless dump triple damage into you for your trouble. Spies especially have this bad because of how much they struggle to take down a sentry nest at times only to die even quicker because of the Frontier Justice. It doesn't do anything to punish turtling as always and simply can be used as a "my sentry finally went down lemme just kill whoever did that and start rebuilding"
@@korikitsune4314 Except if you're playing with it while turtling, you're going to want to keep your sentry alive as long as possible and thus you'll just have a worse shotgun for self-defense for longer periods.
@@ShakerSilver Its not a smart choice for a turtling shotgun. I will agree with that. But it is an annoying one for the opponent because once that sentry does go down suddenly the engie has (potentially) 10+ crits to dump into anyone who was involved in taking down said nest. Its a similar feeling to engaging a Medic/Sniper in close range and getting one tapped because a melle crit. Its a situation where the class should be at disadvantage but instead they suddenly delete you.
@@korikitsune4314 yeah it gets kind of ridiculous, especially against a heavy - theyre not expecting the engineer to suddenly want to 1v1 them in a push, and then THEY WIN because *someone else* destroyed a nest
@@ZoofyZoof idk either, off the top of my head I can think of quite a few that are considered great. The Final Fantasy series, Dragon Quest series, Super Mario RPG, the Paper Mario series, the Mario & Luigi series, the Mother (Earthbound) series, Chrono Trigger.... I've just realized the only game I listed, not made by Square, Enix, or Nintendo was Mother/Earthbound lol
Mother/Earthbound are Nintendo games, lol. But if you want to get technical, then Paper Mario and M&L RPG aren't made by Nintendo either. They're just published by them. The same is true for a LOT of games. They're just published by the big name but not actually made by them. I'm really really looking forward to the new Dragon Quest Monsters game :) I love this series, and the last game we got was in 2010, unless you count the Japanese exclusive one that was in 2016 which I kinda don't. @@1mariomaniac
@@ZoofyZoof oh yeah, guess you're right, forgot that M&L is made by AlphaDream. I actually haven't played much of the Dragon Quest series past the first few games on the NES, should really get some more of those games lol.
@@1mariomaniac Dragon Quest games vary wildly netween each game in terms of its characters, story-telling, and rarely game mechanics. Last time I checked, there's always a company swapped out for someone else in their development so things get different. Dragon Quest 5 is amazing, but 6 is just fucking horrible. 7 is very meh, as well as confusing and poorly communicates where to go (I stopped playing because I got lost). 8 was very very well received, but when I played it, I honestly didn't think it was that great. And yet again, I stopped playing it because I couldn't figure out where to go. 9's core gameplay is different compared to every other game, and I don't really like it that much. 10 is Japanese exclusive. Then there's 11, and this one is actually a masterpiece. Personally, I prefer the Monster series tho.
When they happen they're extremely powerful, but the inconsistency of them occuring makes it so that "no random crits" isn't a meaningful downside. These aren't mutually exclusive, and in the video (that you didn't watch) I even stated that the inability to rely on random crits is a contributor to their weak design. Also that doesn't work as red text if people have the option to play on servers without random crits where those weapons become upgrades over stock.
removing the no random crits downside imo only makes weapons OP in specific cases, like when...: 1)the weapon already has a method of getting garanteed crits, which would for instance let a spy two-tap a soldier to death with only some luck 2)the weapon is a sword, as demoknight has really easy methods of getting close to people, melee crit rates are dangerously high and should not be given to a primary/primary type weapon, the swords often have snowball abilities, making the knight even more dangerous, and shields already gives theese melees garanteed crits ( see point 1 ) imo i would gladly give spy knives random crits to accomedate for the fact they get failstabs on the most random of times, but i would stop using the ambassador if it got random crits
Crits are fun and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. This is coming from a spy main who eats shit by them on a regular basis so I'm not even that biased
@@ib6458 You've clearly never rocket jumped to land right next to the cart and shot directly at your feet for a hilarious quad kill, or flat out deleted someone as a medic with the crossbow if you're asking that question
@@Charlieweddle I have. It's very common. And that's why they suck, they reward you for play dumb or just playing, it's not fair or funny when I kill the whole enemy team with a crocket.
@@Charlieweddledog, i have played this game for 1000 hours, its not that funny to begin with, after the 20th time it isnt funny at all. also wow, ignore balance because "GuYs ItS fUnNy, OnLy In OhIO rIgHt???" ur humor is bad
Very good video man. Consistently entertaining! Also, if you're genuinely running out of ideas for TF2, I would recommend branching out sooner than later. Your comedy and style of presentation is extremely good, good enough to carry whatever topic you decide to tackle. The longer a channel stays within a single topic, the harder it is to get OUT of that topic. Good luck man!
i just think random crits are funny as hell honestly. does that mean i think that they're a well executed mechanic? no of course not, i do think it clearly has some big issues, but the big funny is all that really matters to me :)
i will never not laugh when i either get a crit or die to a crit, and i would be sad to see them go, but I can appreciate all of the points you made. I hope to see more of your content soon man!
@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 sometimes you just need to reset. It's funny to people like us to not be able to get massive killstreaks because we're not here to sweat too hard, just enough to get some frags and have a good laugh
I like how TF2 Classic handled random crits. They were made into a mechanic exclusive to melee weapons (with exceptions made to the weapons that guarantee crits one way or another), and in my experience, this change makes fights more chaotic and fun.
I like random crits a lot. It a great equalizer for dickheads like me who can’t stand using good weapons. As someone who’s bought a full prof-killstreak loadout for my knight cosplay scout, without random crits helping out, my three-rune-blade and flying guillotine strategy would go from mega underpowered to almost completely unusable. As lover of weak items please don’t take away one of my very few salvations. You meta using clones will never understand the feeling of getting a tryhard pyro on Hightower to ragequit using nothing but tiny specks of bleed damage and across the map random crit guillotine kills. Random crits can be turned into something that requires actual skill to use, you just have to not be boring and uncreative to find those ways
You ever played D&D before? A game that entirely works around chance, yet people love it. Why? Because it allows you to play as silly characters doing silly things. Your good character died to a nat1? Oh darn, it was pretty funny though, time to make a new one. Your new character is weak as shit? Oh look, a nat20, the shit character is being useful despite being shit! I think people should treat TF2 more like D&D and less like some kind of E-sport
@@Lawlz4Dayzz I think more like they are supposed to balance players a bit. The main thing that not the krit rockets and stickies are unfair. The main thing that when you get more kills your chance to get a krit increases. It was literally the perfect thing to balance less-skiled players with professionals a bitbit but we have this.
@@yo_mom99 I dont think its possible have balanced random krits because new players become skilled players so you would be punishing them for gettting better and playing more. Id rather remove it entirely or at least have a vote system for it in casual like community servers.
I love your sense of humor so much. The way you seamlessly transition between being serious and sneaking in a joke. It always catches me off guard. Your humor reminds me of this one game mechanic. One I can't predict but when it happens, I get small rushes of dopamine. You could call it random. Maybe even critical.
Just by hopping on a no crits server and playing for a while you can see how much more fun tf2 becomes when you don't get 1 shot everytime you try to do something
I so thouroughly despise multiplayer games that use 'inacurate while moving' mechanics. They discourage skills in both dodging and hitting moving targets, which both add new layers of mechanical depth.
hey woah there pal whats with the attack on crits as a mechanic in general tho, crits are epic and loud and colorful and shake whatever my comp pocket bf has told me to put up my ass obviously. if nothing else in the game is more rewarding and fun how is it not the best mechanic in the game. and jokes aside they are alot less telegraphy than these other "moments" brought up
@@toesnt what's the need to get so hasty they could genuinely prefer the extra offensive power that the kritzkrieg provides compared to the stock medigun or maybe they play mvm that's probably more likely
I honestly never can muster much for or against crits. I think they're dumb, but they're dumb in a way that augments the goofy chaos of casual games at least. From a perspective at all caring about game integrity, though, they're ruinous. I just roll with the punches, whether or not the server I'm on has them.
To be honest ultimates in overwathc also feel like a steaming heap of bullshit half the time. As a concept, yeah I guess, but in practice it's jsut 1 press of a button to delete the enemy team, or to do absolute fuck-all, with all the enemy recieves being a voiceline in a completely different language to tell them they are either going to all be evaporated atom by atom, headshotted in a streak or watch a monkey jump in and die. Banners are jsut better then what Overwatch got for ultimates. They are strong and can influence the game, but they aren't "press this to wipe whole enemy team" kind of good.
Personally I enjoy the risk-reward of pulling out a melee weapon as a “last resort” with a 1/3rd chance to kill or badly injure the opponent with the trade off of next to no range. Meaning you either have to sneak up on them, ambush them, or rely on them being an idiot and charging at you. (Like say a cocky scout chasing you down before you smack them around the corner with an Uber-saw crit.) Excluding the Scotsman skullcutter since demo has a charge that mostly nullifies the downsides while having increased range. The occasional crossbow crit I don’t mind either. But killing like half the enemy team *only* because I got lucky and not because I took a risk or displayed some great marksmanship leaves me feeling empty inside.
The real strategy is not getting in a position where a scout can be in melee range, ubersaw crits aint a problem for scout but for spy they absolutely are a problem and a crutch
Idk why, but it still has me shook whenever I hear someone else bring up Hunt: Showdown, I never heard of it until a few months ago, but since then I keep hearing about it more and more.
its good, i got it on sale a few weeks ago and if it goes on sale again I highly recommend it. 40$ is too much, imo, unless you have a lot of income to spare.
Tf2 video idea: tf2 has the best stun mechanics I would say tf2 has the best implementation of a stun mechanic Especially heavy since I think he single handily has the best stun mechanic in any game
I liked how Vindictus did it. When you got a crit in that game you would then have access to some moves that were different to your usual kit, once. This means getting a good dice roll can expand the POSSIBILITIES of gameplay instead of just enhancing what's there. And you can make the choice to not use it if that would be a bad decision.
Also, for the Ambassador, The Phlogistinator, and the Diamondback, what about FishStickOnAStick's videos on them? He said that Spy's is a pick class, contrary to popular belief airblasting is essential to Pyro (which is why I believe that the Phlog should get the reverse Equalizer treatment and get a much smaller radius and without the gas cloud Gas Passer as a replacement for Airblasting while still keeping its Oomph meter), and that Jarate should be nerfed because it gives an incredibly high reward for little effort.
Yes, positive feedback loops for doing good are important. But equally important are pity perks. To give bad players (or those who do bad in a match) a way for a comeback.
I think that if there was a Crit badge item that allowed you to use random crits (with weapons that already get them) when equipped would be fine if random crits were disabled otherwise would be ok. It would be a big shiny badge visible on the players and would take up a weapon slot. So you could only use it with weapons specified meaning it would be useless with weapons that can't get random crits. I think that could balance the issue because then you would have to rely on luck, which would be a huge gamble and you give up a weapon as well.
All the "remove random crits" videos are all the evidence we need to keep random crits. They keep away tryhards from casual. Sure it's not perfect but it still works. Anti random crit ppl are SO obsessed with funny shiny rockets they go specifically to no random crit servers like Uncletopia, keeping casual servers still casual.
100% agree! You know something that past, dead FPS game have in common? No crits! Oooh beat that HATERS! Random crits is what made TF2 truly and distinctively unique!
All the remove random crits are evidence that Valve is not doing shit about them, so they can cry and cope all they want about it and we keep to enjoy our game. They can go isolate themselves in their Baby's First Comp match if they want
Alright, but what about crits on melee?(with the exception of spy knives and demoknight, and maybe a slight reduction in the damage multiplier or something)
I really appreciate these type of critiques that basically say "A for effort, D for execution", for two reasons. For one, they're more entertaining to listen to than just pure whining / complaining. And more importantly, they actually get me thinking and teach stuff about game design.
A way to make them still a bit funny and yet still requiring skill is by Having g button that as base you have no chance for random crits. But you can turn it off and as you do damage or get kills you can store them. When it's used the percentage gets reset. Its still not garunteed and numbers will need to be messed with but I think thats a solution.
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Getting so triggered over random crits that you can't enjoy them yourself and want them removed is a personality flaw. It's indicative of a an obession with predicability and it shows that you take winning and fairness in an inconsequential casual game far way too seriously. If you stop being OCD you'll realize they're only mildly annoying to get hit by compared to how fun they are to randomly get. Take your lumps like a man private twinkletoes.
oh? you dont like something i like? that means you have a personality flaw
@@SupaThePotato and you're also being OCD
It sure is fun to get killed more than four times in a row by random crits... said no one
It is fun to kill a group of more than 3 ppl with a crit projectile tho ngl
To quote one of the greatest minds of our generation, Jon from Miiverse;
You not liking me critically injuring you with a baseball bat is also a personality flaw. You should realize ending up in the hospital is only a mild annoyance.
@@cognitiveAfflatus the fact that you feel the need to compare suffering serious physical assault to dying once or twice to RNG in a video game session kinda proves my point
A machine that kicked you in the balls for every time you got a kill would be a great elmaxo challenge
What
omg this!
Who? 🤨
"TF2: Getting 100 kills but a Robot Kicks my balls on Every Kill"
he should just get a machine that does that anyway every few seconds
you know the video is good when you laugh the whole way through it
Unlike the kritz. Kritz bad.
@@happyraintfunless you're the one getting it
Or the pan
PANNNNNNNINI @@RandomFurry07
that minicrit large pizza joke made me laugh waaay more than it should have
“This isn’t even FRESH gameplay I’ve had this stored in my fridge for MONTHS” This is the peak commentary I needed
If there was a machine that stomped my balls everytime I got a kill, I'd be on a godlike killstreak every single match
The abrupt kill myself line followed with the even more abrubt sniper's jump is hands down the funniest thing ive seen all year. Thank you.
no, ty
it made me chortle so damn hard.
I think the flare gun is a good example of a well balanced and fun crit mechanic
ok, I'm like a minute in, and I just wanna say I love your schizophrenic ramblings.
5:45
that was literally a villain's ending my god lmao
You nailed the 'Seriousness vs. Sarcasm' with this video. Enough jokes to be entertaining without slowing the pace down and becoming frustrating.
The Flare Gun has gotta be one of my favorite weapons in the game, it requires you to either set up a debuff at close range with your primary or land 2 shots at a distance.
There’s a reason why a lot of people respect it I feel. Unlike most crits a crit flare can be a finisher but it doesn’t kill instantly due to the base damage being 30 and thus the crit damage is 90. It’s good as a finisher but lacks the ability to breach thresholds unless you’re actively in the fight.
It also helps that being set on fire is usually a warning sign on it's own. Aside from the fact that you're passively taking damage you're also vulnerable to a flare or axtinguisher.
Staying in or running from a fight while on fire are decisions the player gets to make, both with their own consequences if the player succeeds or fails with their chosen decision.
It also means that fire damage isn't just a boring bit of delayed damage. You're now wounded and 90 damage + a burn refresh suddenly matters a lot. Stack that with the fact that fire can be ended sooner or even extended (Flares deal 7.5 secs of fire, max cap is 10), and you have a more interesting mechanic than it could've been.
Gonna disagree on the Frontier Justice - it does change your mindset by incentivizing you less to protect your gun or to intentionally destroy and rebuild when given the chance, in order load up on crits to defend yourself better with your smaller clip. And even with those crits, you're still just an engineer whose gun was destroyed, so it's not terribly punishing for the enemy to play as they usually do.
Seconding this, i think that letting your sentry die as engineer does count as “weird shit,” that could reward crits, even if its just the boring “do what youre class not suppose to” weird shit.
I am gonna disagree with you on this one. While yes it does incentive different play for those with the confidence to try it. It just as often screws over players who can take a sentry nest down by letting the Engie who should be defenseless dump triple damage into you for your trouble.
Spies especially have this bad because of how much they struggle to take down a sentry nest at times only to die even quicker because of the Frontier Justice. It doesn't do anything to punish turtling as always and simply can be used as a "my sentry finally went down lemme just kill whoever did that and start rebuilding"
@@korikitsune4314 Except if you're playing with it while turtling, you're going to want to keep your sentry alive as long as possible and thus you'll just have a worse shotgun for self-defense for longer periods.
@@ShakerSilver Its not a smart choice for a turtling shotgun. I will agree with that. But it is an annoying one for the opponent because once that sentry does go down suddenly the engie has (potentially) 10+ crits to dump into anyone who was involved in taking down said nest.
Its a similar feeling to engaging a Medic/Sniper in close range and getting one tapped because a melle crit. Its a situation where the class should be at disadvantage but instead they suddenly delete you.
@@korikitsune4314 yeah it gets kind of ridiculous, especially against a heavy - theyre not expecting the engineer to suddenly want to 1v1 them in a push, and then THEY WIN because *someone else* destroyed a nest
"This isn't a JRPG, it's actually fun." _Ouch._
I don't understand why people think JRPGs aren't fun
@@ZoofyZoof idk either, off the top of my head I can think of quite a few that are considered great. The Final Fantasy series, Dragon Quest series, Super Mario RPG, the Paper Mario series, the Mario & Luigi series, the Mother (Earthbound) series, Chrono Trigger.... I've just realized the only game I listed, not made by Square, Enix, or Nintendo was Mother/Earthbound lol
Mother/Earthbound are Nintendo games, lol.
But if you want to get technical, then Paper Mario and M&L RPG aren't made by Nintendo either.
They're just published by them.
The same is true for a LOT of games. They're just published by the big name but not actually made by them.
I'm really really looking forward to the new Dragon Quest Monsters game :) I love this series, and the last game we got was in 2010, unless you count the Japanese exclusive one that was in 2016 which I kinda don't.
@@1mariomaniac
@@ZoofyZoof oh yeah, guess you're right, forgot that M&L is made by AlphaDream. I actually haven't played much of the Dragon Quest series past the first few games on the NES, should really get some more of those games lol.
@@1mariomaniac Dragon Quest games vary wildly netween each game in terms of its characters, story-telling, and rarely game mechanics.
Last time I checked, there's always a company swapped out for someone else in their development so things get different.
Dragon Quest 5 is amazing, but 6 is just fucking horrible. 7 is very meh, as well as confusing and poorly communicates where to go (I stopped playing because I got lost). 8 was very very well received, but when I played it, I honestly didn't think it was that great. And yet again, I stopped playing it because I couldn't figure out where to go. 9's core gameplay is different compared to every other game, and I don't really like it that much. 10 is Japanese exclusive.
Then there's 11, and this one is actually a masterpiece.
Personally, I prefer the Monster series tho.
TF2 players can't decide if random crits are a gamebreaking mechanic or if "no random crits" is a negligable downside
When they happen they're extremely powerful, but the inconsistency of them occuring makes it so that "no random crits" isn't a meaningful downside. These aren't mutually exclusive, and in the video (that you didn't watch) I even stated that the inability to rely on random crits is a contributor to their weak design.
Also that doesn't work as red text if people have the option to play on servers without random crits where those weapons become upgrades over stock.
removing the no random crits downside imo only makes weapons OP in specific cases, like when...:
1)the weapon already has a method of getting garanteed crits, which would for instance let a spy two-tap a soldier to death with only some luck
2)the weapon is a sword, as demoknight has really easy methods of getting close to people, melee crit rates are dangerously high and should not be given to a primary/primary type weapon, the swords often have snowball abilities, making the knight even more dangerous, and shields already gives theese melees garanteed crits ( see point 1 )
imo i would gladly give spy knives random crits to accomedate for the fact they get failstabs on the most random of times, but i would stop using the ambassador if it got random crits
The entire thing feels like a shitpost while you're also able to make your point. I'm honestly impressed.
Live by the krit, die by the krit. 'Liking' never comes into it. It's just a way of life.
6:59 The best analogy.
As a CASUAL player who plays CASUALLY I find getting crocketed is funny
i also play casually yet dying to a crocket for the 20th time makes it unfunny(it wasnt funny the first time)
liar
you laugh at the same joke 100 times over?
@@Weldedhodag ong they are lying so hard
@@Weldedhodag yes
Crits are fun and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. This is coming from a spy main who eats shit by them on a regular basis so I'm not even that biased
how are they fun?????????????????????????????????
@@ib6458 You've clearly never rocket jumped to land right next to the cart and shot directly at your feet for a hilarious quad kill, or flat out deleted someone as a medic with the crossbow if you're asking that question
@@Charlieweddle I have. It's very common. And that's why they suck, they reward you for play dumb or just playing, it's not fair or funny when I kill the whole enemy team with a crocket.
@@ib6458 Then you need to get your sense of humor checked because it's hilarious seeing a whole team instantly deleted by a Loose Canon shot
@@Charlieweddledog, i have played this game for 1000 hours, its not that funny to begin with, after the 20th time it isnt funny at all. also wow, ignore balance because "GuYs ItS fUnNy, OnLy In OhIO rIgHt???"
ur humor is bad
“Nearly infinite UA-cam coin (7$)” never heard a more true statement
Very good video man. Consistently entertaining! Also, if you're genuinely running out of ideas for TF2, I would recommend branching out sooner than later. Your comedy and style of presentation is extremely good, good enough to carry whatever topic you decide to tackle. The longer a channel stays within a single topic, the harder it is to get OUT of that topic. Good luck man!
Yeah the plan is to take a short break from tf2 while I try to come up with good ideas
At first I thought you were talking about the Kritzkrieg, and I was about to throw hands.
i just think random crits are funny as hell honestly. does that mean i think that they're a well executed mechanic? no of course not, i do think it clearly has some big issues, but the big funny is all that really matters to me :)
you think theyre funny because you were told they were funny
you literally got indoctrinated into liking a game mechanic
this...this is a very well written, well paced, and beautifully edited video that is flying under the radar
Ty I appreciate it
This video is like finding a 5 star michelin dinner in the back alleyway of a chicago crack den
Who the hell spells crits "kritz" other than referring to the kritzkrieg? I thought the video was going to be about that.
5:07 Bro, you almost snapped my neck! I was tilting my head trying to watch that gameplay clip.
i will never not laugh when i either get a crit or die to a crit, and i would be sad to see them go, but I can appreciate all of the points you made. I hope to see more of your content soon man!
i dont get how anyone finds that funny
@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 sometimes you just need to reset. It's funny to people like us to not be able to get massive killstreaks because we're not here to sweat too hard, just enough to get some frags and have a good laugh
I like how TF2 Classic handled random crits. They were made into a mechanic exclusive to melee weapons (with exceptions made to the weapons that guarantee crits one way or another), and in my experience, this change makes fights more chaotic and fun.
I like random crits a lot. It a great equalizer for dickheads like me who can’t stand using good weapons. As someone who’s bought a full prof-killstreak loadout for my knight cosplay scout, without random crits helping out, my three-rune-blade and flying guillotine strategy would go from mega underpowered to almost completely unusable. As lover of weak items please don’t take away one of my very few salvations. You meta using clones will never understand the feeling of getting a tryhard pyro on Hightower to ragequit using nothing but tiny specks of bleed damage and across the map random crit guillotine kills. Random crits can be turned into something that requires actual skill to use, you just have to not be boring and uncreative to find those ways
You ever played D&D before? A game that entirely works around chance, yet people love it. Why? Because it allows you to play as silly characters doing silly things. Your good character died to a nat1? Oh darn, it was pretty funny though, time to make a new one. Your new character is weak as shit? Oh look, a nat20, the shit character is being useful despite being shit! I think people should treat TF2 more like D&D and less like some kind of E-sport
@@wackaduckyhow about i treat it like quake instead. because its quake
just got recommended this video, it was actually really funny and i love the editing and sarcasm the whole way through
I think random critz are not that bad, they just need to be reworked and balanced.
Yeah the problem is that explosives are unfair, a crit rocket or a crit sticky can kill entire teams by chance
Not possible to do that but im interested in how u think it could be done
@@Lawlz4Dayzz I think more like they are supposed to balance players a bit. The main thing that not the krit rockets and stickies are unfair. The main thing that when you get more kills your chance to get a krit increases. It was literally the perfect thing to balance less-skiled players with professionals a bitbit but we have this.
@@yo_mom99 I dont think its possible have balanced random krits because new players become skilled players so you would be punishing them for gettting better and playing more. Id rather remove it entirely or at least have a vote system for it in casual like community servers.
Random crits are fair and balanced.
I didn't expect an acab joke in a tf2 video, but I'm so here for it
great breakdown of these game mechanics
Holy shit this video feels like something that would come out of a channel with 10x your subscriber count. Great job!
I love your sense of humor so much. The way you seamlessly transition between being serious and sneaking in a joke. It always catches me off guard. Your humor reminds me of this one game mechanic. One I can't predict but when it happens, I get small rushes of dopamine. You could call it random. Maybe even critical.
you spelt it wrong. kritz is short for kritzkrieg. the game mechanic is spelt crits.
Don't care
@@kalukagamingfellaguyi do
@@kalukagamingfellaguy okay.
@@sillypinkmothL furry
@@CursedSFMSyou're in TF2 ffs
Just by hopping on a no crits server and playing for a while you can see how much more fun tf2 becomes when you don't get 1 shot everytime you try to do something
exactly
until a good sniper joins the server
Cons: i get critted
Pros: I get to do crits too
So overall very fun, unironically I love them
Good thing there are "No crit" servers for anyone who wants to take a break from the frustration of them.
This was super entertaining and informative lol, great vid
ty!
Isn't it "Crits"?
"Kritz" is only part of the medigun "Kritzkrieg", which is a pun on Blitzkrieg + Crits (spelled more german)
Anyway, good video !
I like unironically random crits because they’re funny
I missed these completely unhinged rants of yours
2:44 Ah yes the talk of intellectuals
Counter Arguement: It's funny
just found this video and your now my favorite person to miss sleep to
Minor nitpick, but I feel like sentry destruction is inevitable with a competent enemy team.
The phlog is balanced-famous last words
Never seen one of your videos, and I have to say I'm surprised by your funny personality and editing. Nice video
Ty!
I fluctuate in and out of the game every 6-8 months or so and EVERY time the thing that makes me go "fuck this dogshit hoe-ass game" is a random crit
Hey I'm not a thigh-high wearing hillbilly, I'm wearing Kneehigh's thank you.
I so thouroughly despise multiplayer games that use 'inacurate while moving' mechanics. They discourage skills in both dodging and hitting moving targets, which both add new layers of mechanical depth.
cs players explaining how cs has the best movement in any game despite it being a dumbed down basic quake movement
Epic video!
All the things TF2 players talk about Popping and they overlook the most important one: Their cherry.
you baited me w the title, im a kritzkreig main. but wasnt mad long ur jokes are for real bangers.
hey woah there pal whats with the attack on crits as a mechanic in general tho, crits are epic and loud and colorful and shake whatever my comp pocket bf has told me to put up my ass obviously. if nothing else in the game is more rewarding and fun how is it not the best mechanic in the game. and jokes aside they are alot less telegraphy than these other "moments" brought up
@@toesnt what's the need to get so hasty
they could genuinely prefer the extra offensive power that the kritzkrieg provides compared to the stock medigun
or maybe they play mvm that's probably more likely
uncle dane style of humour executed perfectly, bravo
that was amazing, thanks
no, thank you fr
Random Crits should be like this:
Random minicrits.
Questions?
4:24 Do you drink just to feel your bladder full again? Isn't because you feel thirsty?
Everyone could just be me, and only have random crits when you miss your shot and never kill someone with them? Boom, problem solved.
lol
5:06 JESUS
I already watch on a side monitor which breaks my neck.
Then you used that effect and it made me say WOW
I honestly never can muster much for or against crits. I think they're dumb, but they're dumb in a way that augments the goofy chaos of casual games at least. From a perspective at all caring about game integrity, though, they're ruinous. I just roll with the punches, whether or not the server I'm on has them.
Some guy in the comments proposed leaving random crits to melee weapons. Seems reasonable.
To be honest ultimates in overwathc also feel like a steaming heap of bullshit half the time.
As a concept, yeah I guess, but in practice it's jsut 1 press of a button to delete the enemy team, or to do absolute fuck-all, with all the enemy recieves being a voiceline in a completely different language to tell them they are either going to all be evaporated atom by atom, headshotted in a streak or watch a monkey jump in and die.
Banners are jsut better then what Overwatch got for ultimates. They are strong and can influence the game, but they aren't "press this to wipe whole enemy team" kind of good.
Personally I enjoy the risk-reward of pulling out a melee weapon as a “last resort” with a 1/3rd chance to kill or badly injure the opponent with the trade off of next to no range. Meaning you either have to sneak up on them, ambush them, or rely on them being an idiot and charging at you. (Like say a cocky scout chasing you down before you smack them around the corner with an Uber-saw crit.) Excluding the Scotsman skullcutter since demo has a charge that mostly nullifies the downsides while having increased range.
The occasional crossbow crit I don’t mind either.
But killing like half the enemy team *only* because I got lucky and not because I took a risk or displayed some great marksmanship leaves me feeling empty inside.
The real strategy is not getting in a position where a scout can be in melee range, ubersaw crits aint a problem for scout but for spy they absolutely are a problem and a crutch
Idk why, but it still has me shook whenever I hear someone else bring up Hunt: Showdown, I never heard of it until a few months ago, but since then I keep hearing about it more and more.
its good, i got it on sale a few weeks ago and if it goes on sale again I highly recommend it. 40$ is too much, imo, unless you have a lot of income to spare.
Random Crits are Funny and Entertaining
Sounds like a luck issue to me.
That comment regarding Hunt is way too damn true, jeez. Great video!
the cat deserved it tbh
If they made it much rarer to get one to like 1% it would be better.
its suicide prevention month
don't jump off a building kids you heard it here first
'this isnt a jrpg- its actually fun'
Tf2 video idea: tf2 has the best stun mechanics
I would say tf2 has the best implementation of a stun mechanic
Especially heavy since I think he single handily has the best stun mechanic in any game
Not a bad idea ngl
I liked how Vindictus did it.
When you got a crit in that game you would then have access to some moves that were different to your usual kit, once. This means getting a good dice roll can expand the POSSIBILITIES of gameplay instead of just enhancing what's there. And you can make the choice to not use it if that would be a bad decision.
im still waiting on the borderlands slots machine tier list
all forms of gambling are s
underrated
Also, for the Ambassador, The Phlogistinator, and the Diamondback, what about FishStickOnAStick's videos on them? He said that Spy's is a pick class, contrary to popular belief airblasting is essential to Pyro (which is why I believe that the Phlog should get the reverse Equalizer treatment and get a much smaller radius and without the gas cloud Gas Passer as a replacement for Airblasting while still keeping its Oomph meter), and that Jarate should be nerfed because it gives an incredibly high reward for little effort.
short answer: when get crit YAY
when get critted: NOOOO):
Good and funny video. Keep it up, boy.
Thank you, I will
6:22 this is amazing
Yes, positive feedback loops for doing good are important.
But equally important are pity perks. To give bad players (or those who do bad in a match) a way for a comeback.
I think that if there was a Crit badge item that allowed you to use random crits (with weapons that already get them) when equipped would be fine if random crits were disabled otherwise would be ok. It would be a big shiny badge visible on the players and would take up a weapon slot. So you could only use it with weapons specified meaning it would be useless with weapons that can't get random crits. I think that could balance the issue because then you would have to rely on luck, which would be a huge gamble and you give up a weapon as well.
thats a terrible idea
@@leonardo9259 thanks
ill take you up on that hunt showdown XD
Not me thinking that you were going to talk about kritzkrieg
NUH UH!!
yuh huh
NOAH UH!!
I'll play Hunt with you Kaluka, I need someone else to be bad with me.
COUNTERPOINT: funny projectile go boom
fair
I believe in the melee inly but also medic- kritz uber
All the "remove random crits" videos are all the evidence we need to keep random crits.
They keep away tryhards from casual. Sure it's not perfect but it still works.
Anti random crit ppl are SO obsessed with funny shiny rockets they go specifically to no random crit servers like Uncletopia, keeping casual servers still casual.
100% agree! You know something that past, dead FPS game have in common? No crits! Oooh beat that HATERS! Random crits is what made TF2 truly and distinctively unique!
All the remove random crits are evidence that Valve is not doing shit about them, so they can cry and cope all they want about it and we keep to enjoy our game. They can go isolate themselves in their Baby's First Comp match if they want
Literally nothing about your response makes sense in respect to the comment but sure lmao @@Labyrinth6000
lmao tryhards get the most crits and the soldier main with his medic gf will always curbstomp you lil bro...
@@leonardo9259>they can cry a- ACK!
Alright, but what about crits on melee?(with the exception of spy knives and demoknight, and maybe a slight reduction in the damage multiplier or something)
Sniper
@@vyor8837i think he need a different melee, not just 65 and random crits
i love crit hacks that the average player cant detect
I really appreciate these type of critiques that basically say "A for effort, D for execution", for two reasons. For one, they're more entertaining to listen to than just pure whining / complaining. And more importantly, they actually get me thinking and teach stuff about game design.
Have crits. TF good. Died from crits - delete TF! TF gone. Think about TF. Regret...
Its just fun when that engineer pistol shot kills a sniper
A good idea for a video I would say is something focusing on tf2 strongest asset it's community.
A way to make them still a bit funny and yet still requiring skill is by
Having g button that as base you have no chance for random crits. But you can turn it off and as you do damage or get kills you can store them. When it's used the percentage gets reset. Its still not garunteed and numbers will need to be messed with but I think thats a solution.
What do you mean, they're so hilarious.
Random mini crits would be chill