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r/TagPro•
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Are casual PUGs on Mumble still a thing?

Hello, r/TagPro. I've been playing this game for a little while but am very much a casual pub scrub nowadays. I'll usually hop in some pubs a couple nights out of the week and I still thoroughly enjoy the game but sadly I don't come across too many familiar balls lately ^^haha. I also don't think I've been on Mumble in about a year or so, so I'm curious as to how poppin' things still are or if people just only hang with their cliques and xLTP teams and whatnot.

Does the community still use Mumble (or has it switched to Discord) and if so are PUGs somewhat still played? Not talking really about ranked PUGs because the last time I played those (like a year and a half or so ago) there were some nerds who were way too serious about things and their rankings or whatever. Don't get me wrong -- I'd be trying to play well and win, but hell I'm not trying to go full MLTP mode and time every pup on the map and shit. Usually I was pretty boozed up and just trying to hang on Mumble and shoot the shit over some games. Sorta how PUGs were in like that early-2014 to late-2015 sweet spot.

Posted Jan 12, 2019, 9:15 AM UTC · edited

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newguytagproNameLEss•

Pretty much everything has switched to discord now. There's the competitive tagpro discord that you'll probably see people and can pug or ranked pug. Tournaments have started running on the competitive tagpro discord as well.

link to join: https://discord.gg/JCyQaZH

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Galvatron45•

uncleeee

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sounds_gooodMusic•

I've also returned to this game around a month ago, but when I last checked a year ago, PUGs were already completely dead.

From what I've seen, all the players who used to play PUGs back in the day either fully switched to playing competitive scrims, or solely playing PUBs.

I remember the good old days when you'd hop on Mumble on any given evening and there'd be more than a couple groups of players kicking it back and playing PUGs while cracking jokes and have some good old-fashioned TagPro fun. I was really shit at the game then and I wish there was something comparable to that now that I'm fairly decent at the game.

Heck, I even miss ranked PUGs on Lej's website. It was amazing while it lasted and I wish I could've gotten a few more games on it before it became underpopulated and obsolete.

Honestly I never liked Discord but I don't mind the switch from Mumble to Discord. I may be slightly biased as Mumble was the home base for all my early tagpro days.

I know a few players in a similar situation, where we cannot fully commit to competitive TagPro but would still love a challenge once in a while. I hope that the implementation of the SWJ and further updates will revive this game in a way where we can see more PUGs.

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A_SightstoneHim<3 | BC, Canada •

There are ranked pugs happening daily. Check the comp discord

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sounds_gooodMusic•

What channel exactly?

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A_SightstoneHim<3 | BC, Canada •

People with usually post rpug link in general chat or sometimes looking for scrim

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sounds_gooodMusic•

Will check it out, thanks! Not sure if it's as reliable as the Golden age of PUGs, but I'm sure there's some fun to be had.

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TackProCapper's Delight // ALL CAPS // O.S.•

I miss those too buddy! West coast servers are dead and I don’t really like playing with horrible ping so I’ve been away a while. But you’re giving me that nostalgic feeling (cries into pillow)

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Ginmeister•

Yeah I miss this too. In the EARLY days we'd sometimes only have 8 people on mumble but we'd all be pugging in the same channel. Maybe if discord had a permanent casual pug channel we could keep it full. Pubs aren't even worth playing in their current state.

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akarinxNS / bromance with OJdude / defending winterfell•

YOOOOO nitro miss you buddy. this is NS. dude that early 2014 to late 2015 PUG situation was a DREAM. lmao we used to do "arts and crafts night" where everyone would spend 15m making a map and then we'd play them all in rotation hahaha dude those were the fucking times. i know this makes me sound like a grandpa but honestly the dirty push + a year was the golden era of this game. miss all those dudes, you included man <3

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