this tells me what?

im quitting this stupid game

.

......why!? its so good now

valve just breaking everything

Full Notes:

Updated the Crusader's Crossbow
- Fixed an exploit related to switching weapons
- Reduced damage from 75 to 50
- Lower reload time from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds

they reduced the damage but halved the reload time.

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eventually it'll just be needles that heal teammates

If the burst heal is still anything like it used to be it's still the shit.

if anything this made it more powerful. What would you rather do. Shoot 3 arrows at a scout and hit 1 for 75 damage or shoot 6 arrows and hit 2 for 50 damage each?

Burst heal should be reduced too I think.

The healing has not changed

The Crusader's Crossbow actually already had a reload speed of ~1.4s before this patch. You can see this in the official wiki's edit history, or you will probably remember from experience. It does not seem to fire/reload any faster than it did yesterday.

EDIT: The reload speed has, in fact, been changed from ~1.4s to a given 1.5s.

This is also false. Previously, the max heal was 150. The current max heal is 100. The hurt/heal amount have both been lowered by 1/3.

Yep. And I want the old projectile trail back, too.

welp it does ~25 damage to close range targets. back to needles. I don't understand this at all

game

is

dead

if you're firing crossbow arrows at the enemy, you're probably not going to live for very long, therefore burst damage would be favorable over more damage per second

unless the scout's just bad

It's a bit weaker. Shame. Getting kills across the diagonal of Process mid was cool.

Overdose is pretty much an upgrade at this point.

so in the past few days the crossbow has gone from sidegrade to upgrade with glitch, to worst than before

man i was destroying pubbers on harvest with the reload glitch now they fixed and nerfed it

rip pub medic fun

It's like they have monkies balancing weapons.

You might lose that one fight where there's a 60hp scout in your face after mid, but you would probably die to him nine times of ten with the old crossbow anyway. IMO the real beauty of the new crossbow is the passive reload. The ability to quickly pop out multiple arrows during a single extended fight without significantly starving your team of heals could/should be pretty massive.

i agree with this change. imagine medics pulling out their crossbow for a sec and shooting an arrow EVERY time they arrive at mid and having it do full damage and not needing to reload.

this change will probably also make the crossbow less significant as an offensive weapon. when used offensively, your target is most likely fleeing from a fight and will run behind corners meaning you'll probably only get one shot (now with reduced damage, of course).

good way to keep passive reload without making it too op. great decision by valve imo.

The strength of the crossbow is burst healing anyways. This is actually a huge buff to the item. Too bad no one heals properly.

Now imagine them healing

it's literally worse in every way if you look at what it's old reload time actually was

well shit