It's very important that the specific details described in this post are understood by the wider non-technical TF2 playerbase and not just the mapping community members, so thank you for coming forward with this. More people need to understand why this keeps happening over and over every year...

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I've always had an interest in game dev, and this was somewhat eye opening in a handful of ways. I hadn't heard of this podcast before but I'll be sure to watch more episodes

That sounds great! Glad things seem to be on the up and up for ya. I’m hopeful that, especially given the assistance from that other experienced mapper, you guys can come up with something amazing. If done right, it could be the single greatest TF2 map comeback story ever. Thanks for the reply 🙂

Reading this back today, nearly 3 weeks later... Very much needed reminder

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