Demo: https://sgp.potato.tf/demos/mvm_decay_rc1_exp_deathwish_judge-1662187277.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Bazooks (Soldier)
  
• royal (Scout)
  
• Mudun (Engineer)
  
• UltimentM (Pyro)
  
• totalnoob (Heavy)
  
• watermelon (Medic)

• The addition of Colonel Barrages made this wave far stronger than it should be, and also caused some bots to become stragglers.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_spacepost_rc1_adv_lunar_madness_juj-1662094386.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Lemonée (Soldier)
  
• Bazooks (Demoman)
  
• Profit (Engineer)
  
• royal (Scout)
  
• A+Drew (Pyro)
  
• Averagegamer (Heavy)

• Consider not going overboard with Sniper mission support.
  
• Bots don't seem to keep up with the money as the wave progresses - when you send two Giant Heavies with Uber Medics on wave 1 with $950, the later waves will have a high bar to meet. It doesn't feel right to be facing such strong giants early on and then face weaker ones when we have more cash, e.g. the Giant DF Pyros on wave 4.
  
• Remember that whenever you send two wavespawns at once, each with a different timing and a maxactive that is lower than it's spawncount, they're bound to desync at some point and cause stragglers. There are a couple of ways to circumvent this:
  
  -Make it so that the longer wavespawn is not completely reliant on the other to do something, so that the longer wavespawns straggling isn't as much of an issue.
  e.g. When you send 20 Bonk Scouts and 3 Giant Rapid Fire Soldiers, the Bonk Scouts are going to be helpless when the Giant Rapid Fire Soldiers run out. However, if the Bonk Scouts run out first, the Giant Rapid Fire Soldiers aren't going to be as helpless.
  
  -Make it so the next subwaves only wait for one of the wavespawns to finish up before spawning

• The use of Giant Backup Soldiers is very questionable here - they're not exactly good at doing a lot by themselves and just end up being tedious unless combined with something that gets really nasty when it has the backup effect, and even then it's easy to go overboard with it.

• The Crit Heavies here end up doing a majority of the work. It doesn't feel nice to have a boss wave and not have the boss be the main threat.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_nightsky_rc4d_exp_condemned_conflict_judge-1661918282.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Lemonée (Demoman)
  
• Bazooks (Soldier)
  
• Skin King (Heavy)
  
• watermelon (Medic)
  
• Retrowave (Pyro -> Scout)
  
• xXSuperProGaemr.2011Xx (Engineer)

• Psychopath's Seeker

• Mission itself is in a good spot, with not many changes required for now. We just need to test out all of the custom weapons and upgrades.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_madhattan_b25d_exp_diamonds_in_the_rough_judge-1661916175.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Lemonée (Engineer)
  
• Bazooks (Heavy)
  
• Skin King (Soldier)
  
• xXSuperProGaemr.2011Xx (Demoman)
  
• watermelon (Sniper)
  
• A+drew (Scout)

• Bomb reset announcements are still synchronized and very loud when there are multiple bombs. Please address this issue.
  
• Consider making the commons that spawn alongside the chief robots end when the chief dies - can be achieved through multiple ways. As of now the commons having a set number of spawns tends to result in them straggling for teams that are killing chiefs quickly.
  
• Perhaps consider using more Giant Medic types than just flashers - they get old pretty quickly and the Pomson performs terribly against them while there's not much reason to make that weapon even worse than it is.

• Leadstorm for stock Minigun, Tomislav and Huo-long Heater seems rather pointless - why buy Leadstorm on them when you can just use Brass Beast which is practically a direct upgrade with it?
  
• Leadstorm for Brass Beast on the other hand feels like it has very little impact with its small numbers, maybe consider categorizing it as balanced?

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_lostvalley_b5_int_spine_thief_judge-1661920755.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Lemonée (Pyro)
  
• Bazooks (Sniper)
  
• Skin King (Scout)
  
• watermelon (Soldier)

• Offensive Specialism for Sniper

• The way "Offensive Specialism" or "Defensive Specialism" implies that the specialism itself is offensive or defensive, rather than a specialism in offense or defense. Consider rewording them to "Offense Specialist" and "Defense Specialist" respectively.
  
• There's very little reason to buy the Defensive Specialism over Offensive Specialism on Demoman(knight not considered), Soldier, Engineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy as of now. Damage is just a lot better on those classes since they are more than capable of avoiding robot attacks and value killing them as fast as possible much more than attrition.
  
• Defensive Specialism on Engineer reduces your sentry damage by -35% for a +25% increase in building health; not only is the sentry damage hidden, but it also doesn't make sense to buy this when it makes your buildings worse at attrition overall, i.e. how much damage it can do before going down against robots when it's forced to take damage.
  
• Similarly for Medic, -25% damage taken just isn't worth -50% heal rate penalty. The downsides far outweigh the upsides.

• Spine Thief still has an appearance that does not much its hitbox, causing its head hitbox to be in its torso.

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Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_decay_rc1_exp_deathwish_judge-1661656548.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Dr. Cactus (Pyro)
  
• Bazooks (Demoman)
  
• washy (Engineer)
  
• royal (Scout)
  
• Skin King (Soldier)
  
• A+Drew (Spy)

• Mission is likely fine as of now. We may have more thoughts later on but for now:
  
• Do remember that sniperbots are very powerful on this map - it's easy to go overboard with them and turn them into the main threat of the wave despite being a mission support. Wave 4 most notably went too far with the sniper support, and some other waves could perhaps have them toned down just a little.

• Perhaps consider toning the monoculus demos down a little? Them being combined with shortstops when having such a huge blast radius makes the wave feel a bit unfair.

• Reaper tank could perhaps have its scythes be more visible in a way.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_nightsky_rc4d_exp_condemned_conflict_judge-1661662262.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Dr. Cactus (Engineer)
  
• Bazooks (Sniper/Medic)
  
• Washy (Demoman)
  
• Skin King (Soldier)
  
• Tindall Berry (Scout)
  
• Gian (Heavy)

• Engineer - Building Teleport Module

• The most common recurring complaint with this mission was how deaths often felt out of the player's control - it feels like you are going to die willy nilly and not because you played badly or made a mistake. This was largely in part due to the combination of high skill deadly bots and nightsky being an incredibly open map, but now it's also mostly due to the paratrooper bots. These paratrooper bots have an incredibly massive line of sight due to how the map is designed and them being soldiers mean their rockets can be very difficult to dodge as the main wave is already very attention demanding and asking players to keep an eye on seven more soldiers in the sky isn't helping. As a product of this players are often willy nilly evicted from the first half of the map rather quickly whenever these soldiers show up unless red has a medic. As much as it is expert difficulty, bots shouldn't feel unfair to fight against. Try to make it so that players can still humanly pay attention to everything that spawns and from where they are shooting, and don't have such a high concentration of high skill deadly bots.

Demo: https://sgp.potato.tf/demos/mvm_madhattan_b25d_exp_diamonds_in_the_rough_judge-1661600215.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• royal (Pyro)
  
• Bazooks (Spy)
  
• DISAbleD_Archer01™ (Heavy)
  
• PDA Expert (Soldier)
  
• my hat funny effect (Sniper)
  
• feldo (Scout)

• Spy - Direct Deposit

• The final tank has too much health.
  
• Some gatebots appear to lack gatebot cosmetics.
  
• Multiple bombs simultaneously resetting at once makes the announcer very loud.
  
• Could use a different way to inform players of a gate tank than an explanation text.
  
• Don't make a wavespawn support and a mission support share the same icon, as it breaks the wavebar.
  
• Try to avoid using giant scouts in a 1-wave mission as they can very quickly end the wave.

• Magnum Chamber's description is incomplete and its downside hardly matters when it makes the revolver better at everything it does.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_decompose_rc5a_adv_ghoulish_genesis-1661495326.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass

Team Lineup:

• Lemonée (Scout)
  
• Dr. Cactus (Pyro)
  
• Washy (Demoman)
  
• Diamondmaid (Heavy)
  
• A+Drew (Engineer)
  
• Bazooks (Sniper)