New Sudden Death Melee Poll

Check it out and have your voice heard.  It's on the homepage.

Suggestion: How about instead of making a permanent feature on the servers, just make it a special weekly event like "Melee Mondays"? I think that would satisfy both sides of the argument.

Not a bad idea Regulator!

if Melee wins, perhaps HLStats ought to be disabled. Just a thought

As long as its a heavy affair, you got my perm vote.

I am not a fan of the melee deal, I like playing as normal personally.  I do however like doing it occasionally.

wow i'm shocked to see the voting is in favor of keeping this!  last night on the server people were in an uproar about how much they hated it.

after the third time i was so sick of it that i started using the kill command to suicide in protest.

i would rather see the SD phase skipped entirely rather than be all melee.

imo the correct solution is that a death zone should start at the edge of the maps, and rather than even having a time that ticks down, this death zone should constrict the size of the map over time until players are either forced together into a tiny space where they have to fight, or else they refuse to move forward and the death zone eats away at their health until they die.

it'd be more of a last-man-standing kind of a thing, since capture points and intel would be inside the death zone fairly early in the map, but it'd be better than an engie campfest or one of those totally stupid fight fights.

yes that idea is stolen from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Mine

I love the idea but I am never going near the server its on because you're also screwing with the respawn timers.

naw they've done it for the regular server too now.

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I was definitely one of the Uproaring last night.  IMHO I think it Sux.

After thinking about it, I'm no longer surprised by the positive vote for Melee SD.  Looking at the Poll, most people on TF2F seem to think it's new and fun.

A few of the other servers I frequent have been doing Melee SD (one with Benny Hill Music in the Background) and while it was fun and and different initially, It got Really Old, Really Quickly.

Everyone quickly missed the strategy of real sudden death.