https://testing.potato.tf/tf/scripts/population/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge.pop

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge-1646594622.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 1/3

Team Lineup:

• A+Drew (Scout)
  
• LASER ACE (Soldier)
  
• MIKObscura (Demoman)
  
• Yuugi Hoshiguma (Heavy)
  
• Hell-met (Engineer)
  
• Curious Tommy (Medic)

• Overall the mission had some weird pacing and difficulty problems, feeling more like an intermediate mission with the classes we were playing with and the bot choice for some of the waves. To boot, a lot of bots came in large groups, and they all died quickly, leaving a lot of time where nothing was really happening.
  
• The mission was also quite short in comparison to other missions (18 minutes long) because of the reasons mentioned above.
  
• The VIP (dedicated bomb carrier) speed buff is quite insane and overkill. Sometimes the VIP got stuck on certain geometry or slipped off ledges due to the high speed. Consider reducing it.
  
• Since this team featured a medic (who running kritz) and heavy, all the giants on every wave were melted very quickly. I'd recommend waiting for the next judging run before changing the giant robots.

• This wave in general was very easy, and there wasn't a whole lot to do. Even as an introductory wave, it was quite slow.

• Good wave, no issue with this one.

• The red engibots which appeared later in the wave felt very pointless since they never had the time to build and spent most of their time wandering helplessly until they get shot and killed.

• Alright waves, not much to say about these 2.

• Started out strong, but the bots ended up getting steamrolled towards the end of the wave.

• Nothing to add about this wave either.

Demo:https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge-1646857715

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 2/3

Team Lineup:

• Skin King (Scout)
  
• Yuugi (Pyro)
  
• Myself (Heavy)
  
• Seelpit (Engineer)
  
• Keiki (Medic)
  
• Mudun (Sniper)

• Agent Bohm might be a little too fast at the end
  
• Overall pretty easy for an adv mission.
  
• BLU players take very high knockback at times according to Yuugi, not sure if this is a mission issue or what though.

• Pretty easy and short for advanced
  
• Add giants to the pyro/med subwave on W3

• Similar problem to the previous waves, nothing really threatening on these waves.

• One of the walls waits for a subwave of bat scouts to completely be killed before progressing, and also holds up another subwave. I would make this waitforallspawned instead

• Big difficulty spike compared to the previous waves, buffing the previous waves however would probably alleviate this.

Note: This run had a med+heavy and EH sniper, definitely take that into consideration when buffing the earlier waves.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge-1646882543.zip
No Strike

Run 3/3
Team Lineup:

• Engineer - Braindawg
  
• Heavy- Dr. Cactus
  
• Demo - washy
  
• Soldier - Skin King
  
• Pyro/Medic/Spy on last wave - Fedora McFedorason
  
• Scout - Quantum Apple

Ending subwave should be spawning faster, Giant Demos and Brass heavies sit in spawn and don't do much, more time was spent waiting for them to exit spawn protection. Eventually the bomb bot capped anyways.

The pacing for the rest of the mission is good

Money dropped behind the barriers is unpickupable, add trigger_hurts behind them

Add a disclaimer that ubering Bomb bot will make him walk backwards to the beginning of the mission

Add a noticeable hat to make him stand out more, at your discretion

No Strike

Will need some more changes compared to the intermediate mission to be passed, with many sections of the mission being too easy. That being said, this mission could definitely pass in the next set of judging runs.

https://testing.potato.tf/tf/scripts/population/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge.pop
-Added RemoveBlueVelocityLimit
-Enabled blu player reanimators
-Enabled blu medi gun shield damage
-Prevented players from spawning on the bottom spawn
-Added an additional upgrade station

-Added an additional Giant Rapid Fire Soldier, and made them spawn faster
-Pyros now have AlwaysCrit

-Bowmen can no longer headshot

posting on Cactus' behalf, I was not present

Demo Link: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge-1647743999.zip

Pass!

Run 1/3
Team Lineup:

• Medic - DaNmo
  
• Soldier- Dr. Cactus
  
• Scout - Consulcast
  
• Pyro - Hell-met
  
• Demo/Pyro/Scout on last wave - Quill
  
• Engineer - Tragic Fool Bus

• Waves are well-paced, albeit on the easy side.
  
• Consider adding "voice pitch scale" 0 to all red giants, as to stop them from constantly using human pain grunts.

• Consider changing the Crit Brass Beast bots to use normal AI, or randomchoice between Easy - Expert.
  
• The barrage of unstoppable ultra lasers x12 is otherwise kinda silly, but acceptable since it's the final wave, and not much else is going on.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge-1647878662.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass

Run 2/3

Team Lineup:

• MIKObscura(Scout)
  
• Yuugi (Soldier)
  
• RomanPlayer22 (Pyro/Soldier)
  
• Quill until w3, Sntr w3 onward (Demo/Pyro, then Medic)
  
• Myself (Sniper)
  
• Mudun (Spy/Engi)

• There are many BLU icons that should use red variants instead, such as kgb and shotgun heavies.

• While our team did consist of less experienced players, the crit phlogs vs agent bohm are pretty brutal for people that are less experienced. Maybe add 2 or 3 more carriers

Demo:
https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge-1648101973.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass With Changes

Run 3/3

Team Lineup:

• Pyro (Lemonee)
  
• Heavy (herus)
  
• Demo (DrCactus)
  
• Engi (UltimentM)
  
• Medic (DaMno) (left midway)
  
• Spy (consulcast)

• Add trigger_hurt behind the barriers so cash doesn't burn up where the team can't reach.

• The Crit Brass Beast Heavies still shredded teams and will likely stump randoms. Reduce the potency of this subwave.

https://testing.potato.tf/tf/scripts/population/mvm_steep_rc3a_adv_sentinel_searing_judge.pop
-Added automatic money collection for cash piles dropped behind barriers

-Pyros no longer have AlwaysCrit

it did seem very strange that phloggers activate their charge, but they were already critted

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