What will it take for TF2 to enter another renaissance era again?

the heavy update for FUCKS sake I wish didn't forget about this game it's still got a decent playerbase. Love pub stomping on casual

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Roll back before 2015.

remove comp mode and alter all the medals to read "i'm a faggot"
make sprays function fully through valve servers
make it pay to play again for $5 to make hacking more expensive to continue doing
ban all 2nd and 3rd world IPs and known VPN/proxy service IPs
ban all known tf2 jewtubers and release their credit card info via public broadcast like with the rings
shadowban furry and other retarded "themed" servers via a private blacklist
buff the demo by making him white

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A classic mode playlist that unnerfs 95% of the weapons.

the guard dog

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-re-optimize the source engine to not run like absolute shit no matter what
-remove matchmaking and make community servers the norm again

I see these things as the absolute bare minimum required for tf2 to be playable again, it would still take work on top of that to make it truly great again, but these two things are absolutely required before anything else. The first because there is just no fucking excuse for how the game not only looks worse than it used to, but also manages to run worse at the same time. And the second because matchmaking has and always will be fucking cancer that only limits how you play, rather than expands it.

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prophunt, slender fortress and VSH, great modes, I loved the fort wars, but nobody plays it anymore

>Remove cosmetics from the game
>Remove non-default weapons
>Create new maps
>Remove matchmaking for everything but ranked mode

Done

It's a containment game and it does its job just fine. No Renaissance possible, how about a sequel instead?

Remove the game from everybody's library who didn't pay for it, and then make it cost $50.