bloodmachine(This issue is more so focused on lower division pugs as invite/advanced players have historically used captains pugs and those have been running quite frequently.)
This surprised me. NC-AM PUGs run pretty frequently, at more diverse times than IM and up. They also have Friday Newbie Mixes and Newbie Cups. Aren't you a main player? The last time I saw you in TF2CC was nearly a year ago.
A lot of people don't even know that TF2CC has PUG categories up to above main. So I assumed you were referring to higher divisional problems. It's odd to see you mention lower divisions.
BethniczAs an open player in the tf2 scene, it can be a little intermediating to say the least to add up (unless I'm with my friends on fireside) because, what if pugs are shit? What if I do bad for the team and get yelled at? What if I have to leave randomly during the match or during the queue and wastes everyone's time? There is so many little factors as to why I don't add up as easily as I do. but I just have to buck up and click join queue or else I'm never playing 6s or HL.
Doesn't this apply to playing a PUG anywhere? What alleviates your anxieties? Especially when many servers including the ones you mentioned have rules against excessive toxicity?
Seinfeldthe fact TF2CC doesnt have this implemented since yesterday is nuts
It's a new feature that is going to be polled. If people hypothetically didn't want it, it wouldn't make sense to unnecessarily make the "workflow" of runners more complicated. Personally though I enjoy adding up even with friends and talking to new people or having conversations with friends where other people can join in. It feels a little dissonant when you tell high level players to pick new players they don't know when you don't even want to add up to orally interact with people you aren't familiar with. Even then a big chunk of people deafen before PUGs start so it's not that big of an issue in the first place.