[SFM] The Curse of Team Auto-Balance

[@fengningTian]

I always got balanced to the other team when my team almost wins!

[@Niosus]

Yeah same... I managed to get switched 4 times in 10 minutes a few days ago on a 5 point control point map. Push it to their last base, make them ragequit... get switched. Push it back, people quit again... switch again... The last time I died in the big push for the last CP and got switched right before the cap. FUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@fengningTian]

Yea the feeling

[@fancyglassesgamer]

yes true man

[@Mentalpatient87]

I always get balanced after fuckmurdering the entire other team. It'll be stuck in a deadlock for five minutes, then I manage to wreck a sentry nest and singlehandedly clear the way and -OH! Suddenly on the other team watching as they charge right through the hole I just made.

[@exoticfkingbutters3377]

404_ ryzer me too. auto-balance is a total glitch.

[@fred24097]

My problem with autobalance is that you can go with a team thats winning, when suddenly.... AUTO BALANCE You go to the other team and lose, trust me, It happened to me a bunch of times.

[@m.tammekivi]

Especially wheb you are the most creditable on yer' team.

[@fred24097]

Jake Milliken i cri everytim

[@malikakbar6417]

And when you're already on the losing team, the game keeps you there. Just as an extra kick in the balls.

[@threemad8456]

+nfsfan693 I Know the fellz man i hate AUTOBALANCE like one time i joined BLU and when i died i joined RED FRIKEN AUTOBALANCE

[@exoticfkingbutters3377]

Spinglebab Yeah. It happened to me too.

[@francesthemute4947]

This should've been a saxxy.

[@52nerfguy]

the true curse of auto balance is that you change team in the final round when your team is about to win

[@grimlock047]

I guess this is something we all can relate to :( but I've had it worst a few times: When I join the losing team and we start capping/scoring and eventually turn the game over, and then.... "you are now on 'x' team"

[@fireblast133]

oh god those are the worst. you become the backbone of your team, get them riled up, all switching off the fifteen sniper/spies, then as you're about to win, having come from the brink, autobalanced and you lose.

[@noahgreen1929]

Auto balance needs to be done between games not in the middle of them

[@Epicat999]

I think it's a good thing if you are switched to the same team as the person dominating you, because they have the skill to dominate someone, and now you have that skilled person as an ally

[@ww2sniper555]

NO!! that ruins the challenge of revange kills. if that was the case it would be hard to get revange. and everyone love's a good ol fashin revange.

[@alfarelsihotang1249]

@@ww2sniper555 You don't need to get the revenge , it would just reset its Domination From the guy who Dominated you if you leave or get autobalance

[@MissTomi]

- Le playing spy - Le gigantic ass sentry nest at enemy briefcase - Le 0-0 for a looong time - Le going for the briefcase - Le killen all engies and sentries - Le briefcase is obtainable now - Tries to obtain briefcase - Gets killed by rogue rocket - You have been autobalanced. You are on BLU now! - MFW when red win - MFW when its because of me they win - Uninstall TF2

[@yousorooo]

_True Story_

[@stickymaggot]

this sniper obviously has aimbot

[@Barely_Edited]

This was pretty awesome for a first SFM! Better than a lot I have seen but with a few errors (eg/ when the pyro was sniped he slid around a bit).

[@Barely_Edited]

Gabriel Hujjat Well there ya go ;)

[@clipcl0p40]

I feel bad about the spy turning blu

[@alejandrobasombrio3803]

ClipCl0p BLU is better than RED

[@lightweaponsguy5952]

@@alejandrobasombrio3803 in meet the series blu team is loser

[@FSSmash]

All too real still to this day

[@MasterSnakeTamer]

Team scramble can be annoying too, especially if you main Medic like me. Do you have any idea how awkward it is to suddenly be healing the same two guys who dominated you last round?

[@PieALaMode]

I'm really spiteful, so.. I find someone else to pocket and completely and deliberately ignore them. Or switch classes.

[@thepyrosharks5485]

I know right I mean I was being dominated by someone and I hated him and then I ended up healing him -_-

[@TheParadoxian2000]

I'm also spiteful, so if I get auto balanced and am really pissed off that we lost last round, I rage quit. The thought that I have to work with the people that beat me annoys me to no end.

[@strawberrycake3474]

i don't really care

[@henrytownshend8862]

Become battle medic and throw game

[@Nickolov707]

Do you guys hate it how you are a spy, destroyed the entire enemy defense (sentries and engies) and when you got the job done, you get killed by a rage pyro and then team auto balance hits you. Destroyed your new team's defense and lost the round? XD

[@sans6138]

***** do you main sniper or engi?

[@SWDude2710]

Anyone else gonna talk about how OP Blu Sniper was in this video? Especially considering his gameplay of basically one shotting enemies with most of his rifles, and this is coming from someone who's not even played the game.

[@crazinventorirl]

Thats what literally half the fandom talks about all the time.

[@chromaticHermit]

I share his pain. :'(

[@BaronNedTheFirst]

5 seconds left in the match on the winning tea- *YOU ARE NOW ON BLU* *YOU FAIL* ...every time (no literally, this has happened before -_-)

[@ghost-mactavish4730]

this is actually a true story, when I was little, my brother had this on Xbox, and this happened to me. I was the scout who was trying to run on the roof of the bridge and was shot by a sniper, and yes, all of this actually happened on the server I played on. TRUE STORY

[@ditzydoo7501]

not that i meant his epic face

[@Chuntachennel]

That's not how auto-balance works.. It's the first few to die that gets auto- balanced. Not some random alive person..

[@grimmchild3694]

Figuresfigs figsfig actually, your wrong. it happens to me all the time, alive or not

[@asger888]

Joshua Faria No it literally can NOT happen. Some servers kill you but you can't change team and stay alive-

[@grimmchild3694]

no, it can. although it might have been a bug or something, because it only happened to me once

[@SpyBlu]

And that gentlemen is why i work for BLU.

[@Frozensniper0]

***** G'day mate (looks through scope).

[@Dilbert1999]

***** *beats your freakin' head in before your dead ringer can recharge* Hehey look! Ya shapeshifted into a dead guy!

[@Dilbert1999]

***** *decloaks revealing that I stole that deadringer and used it against you, breaks it, and takes any other deadringers you're carrying, shoved them up your ass, and beats you to death, waits for you to decloak, shoves the bat up your ass, and breaks every deadringer on the face of the earth, locks you in a torture chamber, and beats you repeatedly*

[@ditzydoo7501]

***** not in ever dimension mister quick to speak

[@Bikeru]

Spy!

[@renhana8866]

It's funny, I'll be on a team doing good that I can support with a sniper or assault and pick off enemies as a scout, then get auto balanced (Not notice too) and get dominated, have to do objectives since save for like one other person I'm the only one attacking and defending at all, and can't do good. I think it has to do with standings since I'm in the top 5 as far as score is concerned usually. A single good player doesn't help a broken, uncoordinated team.

[@matmayers94]

I love the way you managed to capture their expressions. Very nice :-)

[@woodyTM]

mp_autoteambalance 0

[@mastermindepsilon9517]

Does 75 % of the work for the team.1 minute left.Almost won.Someone from the other team leaves.Gets auto balanced. Me:FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@arctisCircle]

2:07 That expression on the Spy is just priceless. It has the cigarette falling and everything. XD

[@samsonrules855]

The best part of the new system now, is that team auto-balancing is gone. so when half the other team ragequits. It becomes a 4v8 until more new players join the horribly losing team then quit because of the team they were added to. Man I miss the old tf2 system.

[@brokolistriker8896]

Auto Balances. Who hate them not? You are in the winning team and 1 minute before ending you have too change. HATE!!!

[@WatchTheQ]

good work on the animation man some of the best i have sean in a long time like at some points i thought it was filmed ingame

[@MrKirby121]

This should of won a Saxxy. :)

[@RickyTisms]

just spectate then wait for a space, works everytime

[@nazariel5765]

***** Now you can go to spec only if your team has one more player than the other, so you can't resist the autobalance. Fuck you Valve è_é

[@michaelthewither]

+Nazariel rly? whenever my team is bigger than the other, I CAN'T spectate (insert sad confused face here)

[@Jackwald001]

I do that too

[@Jackwald001]

I mean I spectate and wait for a space too

[@DegmoGrandfather]

Looked through my liked videos playlist. This was one of those in the bottom. Havent seem since release and still remembers quite a bbit about this. Memory sure is weird.

[@ЭДЭ]

Sniper kill heavy with one shoot, when medic heal heavy WHAT?!

[@yacabo111]

Low health?

[@youtubeaccount9636]

It was a headshot, it does 450 damage which is the exact amount a medic can heal a heavy up to.

[@ЭДЭ]

Jebediah Kerman Sniper even charge not accumulated

[@YoshiiElAttar]

a good head shot can deal 500 damage

[@ЭДЭ]

***** With out full charge?

[@DaVideoGameBeastr]

All of these people new to TF2 complaining about the Sniper killed the Heavy will he was being healed by a Medic with one shot, you can't do that! A fully charged Sniper head shot does 450 damage in total which is the max over heal amount for a Heavy, it's not hard to figure it out!

[@siretrickshot]

***** or if you can pull off 2 before the soldier stops staring into space

[@mino-9685]

I actually loved this, nice work boy.

[@codenamezq8027]

That sniper has aimbot on.

[@fiendlordmagus9330]

This has happened to us all

[@silvermist2212]

I love your TF2 animations, this one was awesome, i wish you had some more long ones like this… not that it matters, i hope you keep up the great work Marwan ^^

[@arch2739]

>"Coolfurrylover" >"CancerousFuckboiLover"

[@silvermist2212]

Arch "Arch"? Are you supposed to be some cruel person with nothing better to do than knock on people who are happy? Boy do i pity you to be so bored and sad that you'd stoop as low as to go somewhere just to be cruel to others, very sad really :P

[@GuitarCanine]

A F2P should not be getting this many kills as a sniper

[@lewisgray1902]

why did he ragequit? now hes on the winning team and who gives a f*ck about revenge killing him he wasnt even in nemesis mode as there was no symbol

[@Rakashin7]

It says "new nemesis" @ 0:48

[@lewisgray1902]

but when he approached from behind there was no symbol

[@alexpaterson7608]

lewis gray cause he was on the snipers team

[@sharktoothjem]

Alex Paterson in the first person bit the spies arm is red

[@081908009999]

who gives a f*ck about revenge? Not until you're the one dominated.

[@LogsterTime]

This has gotta be one of the best tf2 animations i've seen!

[@Cydk531]

True history

[@MediumsFeelingWell]

If he was autobalanced, how did he kill that blue engie and sap his stuff?

[@shockinwave]

He was auto-balanced almost the instant he was going to backstab the sniper. You see him turn Red again like 10 seconds before he stabs the sniper

[@MediumsFeelingWell]

That doesn't happen, though. When you're autobalanced it's after you die, or if it's a voted autobalance, it sends everyone to spawn for a new game.

[@Keltfire88]

DaMarco13113 This is SFM, not the real game.

[@MediumsFeelingWell]

Keltfire88 IT'S MORE THAN JUST A GAME.

[@Zekrom249]

Because he killed the engineer BEFORE the auto balance had happened

[@whimsyy1648]

Whenever you're doing well is when you get autobalanced, either that or when playing alongside friends. Without fail.

[@SwerveStarEx]

Every. Single. Time. TT_TT

[@petert6884]

ugg I HATE auto balance like1 time it was on the 3... 2.... (AUTO BALANCE YOU ARE NOW ON BLUE)... 1... YOU LOSE!!!!

[@ZeFluffyKnight]

That sniper is me

[@vitormartins3498]

And me. I dominated all players of blu team with sniper in red team. Blu team was 8 players

[@dellconagher487]

wow! :O

[@bewertungsbot3506]

Fluffy Knight vitor martins Snip Fortress 2

[@dellconagher487]

with aimbot :D

[@luiz123henrique456]

only with hacks

[@spool122]

Whenever I play TF2 -joins the game -Score is BLU 56 and RED 12 -On the BLU team (right about to capture the intelligence and win the game) -Person on RED team leaves -Team auto balance enabled -wins the game -Is switched to the RED team -ragequits -joins another game -repeat steps 1-9

[@flankthicksauce7374]

they always balance the teams in tf2 in the worst times

[@Alatreon774]

Sniper: One shots any class (excluding overhealed heavy), doesn't take much skill to use, and counters any class. Valve nerf plooz

[@MrLamp-ik4sh]

Except everyone targets you. And, also, you can one shot an over-healed heavy with a fully charged headshot.

[@Sealguin]

***** Only on headshot, which is exceptionally hard to pull off when everyone runs around like their ass is on fire.

[@Sealguin]

***** I used to be okay as a sniper, I mostly played Scout, though. Don't play TF2 anymore, though.

[@blusniper9482]

No skill? It takes more aim then any other class, and we can't hold back an enemy group greater then two. Unlike the Heavy, Pyro, and Engineer, us assassins have to focus to kill people. (No disrespect to those guys, though)

[@Alatreon774]

Blu Sniper Believe me, they can 1v10.

[@brandtlucasbrandt]

This was the very first fan made SFM I watched when SFM first was given to the public.

[@killmudmasipangris6880]

I hate auto balance One time i made us win, the last 3 sec i change team by auto balance

[@jankonieczek4264]

i really loved it, hope your vids get really famous!!!!

[@SorcererOfSoup]

This is amazing for a first animation.

[@malikakbar6417]

Auto-balance has been a curse since the beginning of Mann.

[@JesusistheSaviour3]

this animation is amazing (atleast compared to others). keep up the good work!

[@rayoflight1920]

My worst nightmare in payload maps

[@Marispider]

THIS was your first SFM? You're good. I actually thought you were a pro! :D

[@tylercox5654]

Great video! SFM is awesome but tedious and tricky to figure out.

[@Silver_Paladin]

Well done on the animations and sounds!

[@Monkey_Mann_]

I was introduced to tf2 when I got the orange box for my ps3,then I moved onto PC,now I have logged in 500 hours and I love the hell outta this game.

[@FranciscoRodriguez-ue2qx]

The song that was parodying "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet" was a nice touch. :)

[@henrytownshend8862]

0:52 first time I see someone use this in sfm, congrats

[@KelvinShadewing]

That was funny! Great job animating, too!

[@MarwanMohdZahari]

Thanks! XD Although, I couldn't look at this video anymore without feeling embarrassed. ^_^;; It is, after all my first SFM video I've posted, and not quite the video that I'm most proud with.

[@MonikaMarieG]

on the bright side he's not dominating you anymore.

[@cstrine666]

Very true. P.S. love the OC

[@MonikaMarieG]

Christian Strine Thanks. :3

[@johnlimzhiyue]

Your idea is actually quite good. But, it prevents those miracle-scenarios from happening. Once, the enemy pushed the cart 90% of the way already, my team were like in terrible moral (rage quitting and such). BUT my brother and I managed to have a medic-heavy team going, and we managed to survive a whole 7 minutes and won the round. So we can't really say that at 90%, the cart pushers will definitely win. ARGH SO COMPLICATED!!!! We can't seem to find a perfect solution yet D:

[@MrLaz0rz]

The horror felt when you just manage to take down a sentry nest (as a non-spy), only to auto-balance to the other team seconds before defeat. WHAT HAVE I DONE.

[@StickMaster500]

To be honest, I think that Valve should change the auto-balance system at bit, where you can be noted that you are going to be auto-balanced and then you can chose if you want to be put onto the other team or not, rather than forcing you too after dying, during a middle of a match when alive or on rare occasions when capping a final point or have a few seconds before your team's about to win, making all of your hard work and helping your team, pointless by giving you the middle finger and sometimes you can go back onto the team you were just on, just to be auto-balance the instant you go back on your team giving your two middle fingers (-_- yes, this has happened to me once). Also, this has happen to me 9/10 on every single server I've played every. fucking. time.

[@Marmaduke-i6e]

Your animations are really good

[@bajay4189]

This deserves a lot more likes

[@MilkyWay-fd7fz]

You should make more animations, it's so simple and nice!

[@ChaosPhantasm2000]

Auto Balance, good for balancing teams, a troll when it switches you in the middle of getting back at your nemesis.

[@hydreigonpokemon578]

Sometimes, non auto balance is a curse... someone dominates you by luck and then repeatedly dies as you try revenge

[@hackerzdienow]

best machinima animation ever good job.

[@jordanlerner8150]

1:12 awesome shot good work

[@StalemateZ]

On Badwater, pushing a cart. When the cart almost gets to the place, some random crits killed me and auto balanced me.

[@ElektrikPichuZ]

It's a blessing if you aren't dominated but your team is losing. It's a curse if you're dominated but your team is winning.

[@meestersoupcan]

That moment when a neon scout dominates you but then you get autobalanced to his team and he trashtalks you over the mic the whole time.

[@Kindrick]

Worst is when it auto-balances the guy you just killed and it counts it as a Team Kill and thus making you LOSE 25 points.

[@hoker-519]

This happens to me when I am on the winning team because people go to spectate, and you know the rest...

[@Cheeto]

Every time that happens to me I yell DAMN YOU GABE NEWELL!!!!!

[@Vanlens]

AIMBOT!!! The sniper CANNOT be that good without having some fancy hat!

[@MyZombiekillerz]

Acually, i found mixing both the motion AND grapth editors makes animating both realistic AND easy. When i do use the grapth editor, i set a keyframe for moving a part of the model about 3-4 frames per key.

[@aeriality]

I was once killed by a Blu engineer, and at the exact moment I was auto balanced to Blu,the kill box said the Blu engineer team killed me.

[@HyperGolem]

I don't mind the teams being balanced after the round has ended but it's just ridiculous when it happens in the middle of the match, just when you've made yourself comfortable in your team and made some progress.

[@ThetrueRedSpectre]

I like how you added the accordion

[@Sergio23373]

Best SFM I have seen.

[@spoonman6256]

I liked that shot with the dead blu engineer.

[@AngusArtEntertainment]

0:47 - Pretty much my reaction with Snipers.

[@Longknife]

I have no problem working with a nemesis. What I have a problem with is playing scout, capping 4 out of 5 capture points, dying once and being autobalanced to the team I JUST dug the grave for.

[@tonyloaf5482]

The BLU sniper is hacking, his gun recharges for a one hit kill directly after every shot

[@lostskull7467]

It's even worse in servers that balance you while you're still alive

[@Glitch5222]

Those feels when you go demo and break 4 sentry nests only to get switched as your team pushes the cart to final cap...

[@exoticfkingbutters3377]

Auto-Balance is the baddest thing alive in this game. Like for example,when I am in the winning team,they place me to the losing team!

[@spool122]

--> joins game --> captures 2 intelligence -->guy on my team is about to bring intelligence to base -->I die -->auto balanced -->loses -->ragequits -->finds a different game -->repeats cycle

[@Marmaduke-i6e]

You sir gained a subscriber

[@roosterbooster9008]

To make matters worse: The Nemesis mark usually wont go away! o_0

[@PsychoticFox0120]

This guy is right I always have to quit servers because auto balance. Almost impossible to get on the red team.

[@gigapuddi]

One of the worst situations is where you're on offence as a demo or soldier, you head to the cart and there's a sentry, you take it and the engie out while your team is doing a final push. Then someone decides to kill you, bam auto balance and you just destroyed the only thing stopping the now enemy team from winning. It happens way too often to me.

[@franklydondor3448]

That spy should be glad he doesn't have a domination any more and he is on a team with a hacker

[@youtubeaccount9636]

The struggle is frighteningly real.

[@christopherlira5700]

My favorite thing to do as Spy is disguising as the enemy Spy, that way I can fool new players so they don't suspect...

[@Dr_Martex]

i can just imagine a water drinking bird toy in valve HQ pressing the "auto balance" butten every 2 seconds