Demo: https://sgp.potato.tf/demos/mvm_dockyard_rc7_rev_disassembly_judge-1651891656.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 2/3

Team Lineup:

• Bazooks (Demoman -> Heavy -> Demoman)
  
• colonelbarrage (Engineer)
  
• watermelon (Medic)
  
• Skin King (Sniper)
  
• Quantum Apple (Pyro)
  
• A+Drew (Scout)

Custom weapons approved:

• Stock Grenade Launcher

• Ban list is incredibly strict. If a weapon stands out as too powerful, either buff everything else or nerf said weapon. The former is preferred since players generally hate seeing nerfs and overreact to them.
  
• Banning stock results in players who don't have unlocks to be unarmed for that weapon slot.
  
• Reskins shouldn't be banned, there are ways to apply balance changes to them if that is the issue.
  
• Defending the capture point is felt more like a labor an unfortunate player has to bear. Capping typically only happens as backcaps via bots flanking through the front upgrade station. Maybe consider not having bots flank through there, or just don't have defending the capture point as an additional objective.
  
• Upgrades feel very abysmal and are only there for the sake of being there; remember that you can use big numbers if bots keep up fine
  
• Maybe gatebot hats could be used to distinguish bots that are attacking or defending?
  
• A text for when the players lose because bots captured the point would be nice to prevent confusion from less aware players.
  
• Invisible walls in spawns need to be made visible or have something in its place, such as fence props or the likes of it.

• The Pyros at hatch stand still and don't even try to move up to nearby players.

• Blimps could use just a little bit of health reduction, perhaps.
  
• The king powerup the Medics drop are pickable by players.

• Very uninteresting boss. Whatever fancy gizmos it may have, as giants in practice you just stick up to it and keep firing with little regards to what it's actually doing. Try to make a boss that forces players to pay attention to its actions and react accordingly; this way the boss wont feel like a glorified 120k hp wall.
  
• Defeating the boss results in a wave defeat rather than victory.

• There is no reason to use any other wrench than the Jag. Its firing speed trumps out other wrenches even in repairing and metal inefficiency is a non issue with unlimited ammo. Gunslinger doesn't hold up with only minisentries, even if three of them, and attacking bots with wrench directly isn't the brightest idea.
  
• Scout is in a bad position with how much the fighting happens in tight spaces after the front. His severely lower max health and pathetic weapons make him very sad to play.
  
• Huntsman is also in a bad position compared to other primaries for multiple reasons. For one, arrow mastery really isn't very helpful and projectile deviation on it makes it agonizing to use.
  
• Skullcutter is ludicrously powerful. As is it has higher DPS than the Brass Beast and you get to keep all the other things Giant Demomen already have, like Grenade Launcher and shield charges.
  
• Zatoichi's health on kill is also at similar levels of ludicrous. Both this and the Skullcutter outshines other weapons very hard.

Demo: https://sgp.potato.tf/demos/mvm_sequoia_rc4_rev_exp_woodland_pollution_judge-1651894626.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 2/3

Team Lineup:

• Bazooks (Soldier)
  
• colonelbarrage (Demoman)
  
• Quantum Apple (Pyro)
  
• A+Drew (Scout)
  
• Skin King (Engineer)
  
• watermelon (Medic)

• Spawns are still nastily placed, frequently spawning bots right next to players if not behind them. It's not as severe as last time, but still a pretty big issue.
  
• Barriers can be bypassed via teleporters.
  
• "You can now advance to the hatch area!" can show up despite the gate barrier still being up.
  
• Annotations could probably be reworded to "You can now advance to the next area!" or even just "You can now advance!"

• Persian Demoknights are named "Demoman"

• Direct Hit Soldiers with buff banners are named "Extended Conch Direct Hit"

• Finishing wave 4, initializing wave 5, or a combination of both, results in kicking some players out via buffer overflow.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_underworld_rc2_rev_bones_and_blood_judge-1651792671.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 2/3

Team Lineup:

• DaMno (Soldier)
  
• Bazooks (Scout)
  
• 49belowzero (Pyro)
  
• Skin King (Demoman)
  
• Permanganato (Engineer)
  
• Cutea™ (Heavy)

• On multiple waves there were times where it felt like we were waiting for bots to spawn, playing hide & seek with bots to get the barrier down or both. The biggest offenders were the middle section of wave 1 and wave 2. Consider making bots spawn faster, or make barriers not wait for small bots to finish spawning and instead move their spawn after key targets are dead. Whatever other solutions you come up with, as long as it fixes this problem, is also good. If you're not convinced of how severe this is, watch the demo.

• Considering how Marauders are ubered for a good chunk of the time, there should be support alongside them so players don't run out of things to do when they are crushing a bit too hard. Do keep in mind that moving this wave's current infinite support to the Marauder section will be too much as is.
  
• This is the ultimatum to fix Wave 5 kicking players out via buffer overflow. This will not be an easy task, but we can't have a mission that regularly buffer overflows players out be in a campaign. Buffer overflows are usually caused by too many things at once, instead of rarely, although still possibly, a few culprits. Most of the time it's too many cosmetics or robot or that you asked the mission to load a gizmo too special. Do remember that it could also be Wave 4 ending that is actually causing this, or a combination of both Wave 4 ending and Wave 5 initializing. If this is too much for you to solve alone, remember that we're here to help!

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_swirl_rc1_rev_int_scorching_snow_judge-1651790228.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 1/3

Team Lineup:

• DaMno (Soldier)
  
• Bazooks (Demoman)
  
• crotch (Scout) -> 49belowzero (Pyro) Substituted on w3
  
• Permanganato (Medic)
  
• Skin King (Heavy)
  
• Cutea™ (Spy)

• Disable the ammo capacity upgrade instead of making it $30001
  
• Hatch blocker is invisible though maybe this won't be an issue if the following bigger issue is dealt with:
  
• The requirements to open up the hatch is extremely arbitrary; Sometimes it opens up long after there's not much in the wave left and some other times it opens up while powerful enemies are still alive and healthy. There should be a consistent requirement to opening up the hatch, or just use no hatch blockers at all. You don't want to leave players scratching their heads as to why the bomb isn't deployable yet.

• Giant Medic pairs significantly lagged behind other wavespawns, likely because of it dying later and having maxactive 1. Watch demo for a visual illustration.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_rottenburg_rev_judge_int_breaking_walls-1651439930.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No strike

Run 3/3

Team Lineup:

• washy (Demoman)
  
• Bazooks (Medic)
  
• MIKObscura (Scout)
  
• Glumbus (Heavy)
  
• Hell-met (Engineer)
  
• watermelon (Soldier)

• Generally solid all around, but...

• We really don't think this boss deserve its own wave. It goes down too quickly and doesn't offer very interesting mechanics. It can either be moved to the previous wave or have more bots added to its wave.

Demo: https://eu.potato.tf/demos/mvm_coaltown_rev_computer_crash_judge-1650880345.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass with changes

Run 2/3

Team Lineup:

• washy (Engineer)
  
• Bazooks (Sniper)
  
• Dr. Cactus (Medic)
  
• Sntr (Scout)
  
• PDA Expert (Soldier)
  
• CEO Fortknight (Pyro)

• Consider duplicating the holograms and rotating them 180 degrees to cover their exposed backside.
  
• Middle building holograms also seemed to be quite rushed, perhaps you could revert back to using fences for middle building since red bots don't ambush players through there often?

• Medic really shouldn't have -7s uber duration as it makes half of his medi guns virtually unusable. If cheesing with stock uber is a problem, consider making it so that ubered players can't deploy the bomb.
  
• Uber canteens as well for the problem described above. They currently cost $3k while crit canteens remain at $100.

• Shotgun heavies this wave use the blu shotgun icon while the other waves use a red one.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_rottenburg_rev_int_spanner_switchup-1649820334.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 2/3

Team Lineup:

• Dr. Cactus (Demoman)
  
• Bazooks (Engineer)
  
• Lemonee (Soldier)
  
• Skin King (Pyro)
  
• Hell-met (Demoman)
  
• DISAbleD_Archer01™ (Scout)

• Consider putting multiple bombs to lessen the chance of a player keeping the bomb without dropping it to let other bots deploy.
  
• Considering the caliber of the bots used, the mission length is probably fine as is.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_coaltown_rev_computer_crash_judge-1649822934.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 2/3

Team Lineup:

• Dr. Cactus (Demoman)
  
• Bazooks (Heavy)
  
• Better Dead Than Red (Sniper)
  
• Skin King (Scout)
  
• Hell-met (Engineer)
  
• DISAbleD_Archer01™ (Soldier)

• The sentries at the front and the middle building are very overwhelming. The front is hard enough to push without them and most of the middle building is already sealed off and sentries just make it even more inaccessible.
  
• Medkits are usually placed near walls or where players will retreat to for cover, not in the middle of the field.
  
• Consider making the blocked path alternate - playing only on one path makes it feel more repetitive

Demo: https://sgp.potato.tf/demos/mvm_coaltown_rev_computer_crash_judge-1648273289.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Run 1/3

Team Lineup:

• Braindawg (Soldier)
  
• Bazooks (Pyro)
  
• totalnoob (Soldier)
  
• Marblemyth (Sniper)
  
• StardustSpy (Demoman)
  
• watermelon (Heavy)

Balance changes approved:

• Liberty Launcher

• Rapid Mangler's faster fire rate does not appear to make up for its downsides.

• Avoid putting invisible walls on areas normally not blocked off by one. If you want to keep the wall, make the wall visible or add something that lets players know a wall exists there. (major)
  
  
• The lack of medpacks at the front area makes recovering health difficult, compared to the middle area where there are plenty.
  
  
• Sentries are placed in a way that makes them unapproachable by close-ranged classes and as consequence makes them very unpleasant to play. Remember, sentries can be used to halt player progression without making flank classes suffer; try putting them on corners or places where they don't cover as much space as they are right now.
  
  
• As per the previous point sentries protecting each other (most notably the two on the middle building and the one on the bridge between the middle building the top right red prespective building become exponentially harder to take out.
  
  
• Avoid putting sentries in dark spots as they become harder to spot. The most notable one here is the one next to the side pit.

https://testing.potato.tf/tf/scripts/population/mvm_steep_rc3a_int_seismic_shakeout_judge.pop
-Added automatic money collection for cash piles dropped behind barriers

-Fixed small Soldiers being able to random crit