[TF2] The Grand Summer 2023 Tour!

Well, that was certainly an update.
Now that I have a chance to write in retrospect, here's my combined take on the individual features.
The cosmetics are all-around good. I talked a lot of crap on those two demo cosmetics, but their paint regions make up for them and (while half the cosmetics are mediocre) I don't think any of them are bad. As far as cosmetics go, this update's crate was well-done in upper B-tier.
The war paints are great. None of them (except for the Dragon one which is WAY cooler in-game than I made it out to be in the video) are too fancy, but they're all solid skins to have on the roster that don't look like ugly pieces of neon trash.
The VSH maps are all pretty good, and it's a fun gamemode to have on the casual list. At least, it would be if it was on the casual rotation, which (as of 7/19/2023) it still isn't. How Valve managed to screw up copy/pasting something that works fine on community servers is beyond me, but it's still a cooler gamemode than I had previously thought and I do genuinely enjoy playing these maps. If you're interested, all four are on my Stupid Server's map rotation for the time being.
And finally, the normal maps. Love Sulfur and Phoenix, hate Venice and Pelican Peak, and the rest are alright. Decent spread overall; Valve could've done better, but they could've done worse.
But as I mentioned in the ending screen to this video, this is still just a copy/paste. No community bugfixes, bots are EVERYWHERE after dark, and the balance of the game hasn't changed a bit. If ‪@Valve‬/‪@teamfortress‬ was listening, I'd formally request something. What I want out of an update isn't a host of slightly different (and technically "new") experiences for the existing TF2; what I want is a shift in the TF2 experience at large. Adding VSH as a gamemode was a good thing in terms of that, but at the end of the day 2Fort and Dustbowl are unchanged because the classes and their weapons are unchanged. I want to learn how to play in new ways, and that requires new weapons. That requires a bit of balancing and maintenance, which is why it's not going to happen, but this is just that 10% of me that isn't completely pessimistic still feeling up to the task of making a request, whether it's heard or not.

Ah, well. Still, we did certainly get that Holiday-Sized Update. Thanks for watching, and enjoy your summer. :)

#TF2 #Update

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