KonceptKylo_renI can agree that the crossbow can be annoying to play against but remember you have a med with the crossbow as well man. It can heal about 75 HP at point blank / short range meaning that well that's about a medium range direct rocket. Not a lot, I mean. Roamer's main job is to kill the med or to take a pic and well bombing into the 300 health pocket or 260 HP demo won't help a lot if you are alone.The healing and uber gain are the problems. If 75 was the max health that you could heal rather than the minimum, it'd be a bit less of an issue. Also the whole arrow building thing makes tracking ubers really difficult unless you know that a team is going to do it every time a stalemate is about to be reached. It's just things are at the point where if you're not running the crossbow you're throwing
Makes the game slower......Hmmm, i disagree. Without the crossbow, HP will be a lot more valuable and therefore engagements, especially on the flank, will be less frequent. COnsequentiallly the game slows down. Imagine a passive playstyle team without the crossbow. They would go like full turtle with engi on the second point.
I think the crossbow is balanced. It's a weapon which rewards skill (or spam in case of damage intended arrows) Gives the medic another weapon which he can use to heal. The uber-building attribute made it that much better.
I can't recall in the past where the crossbow was abused or OP. Harbelu's snakewater play maybe but that was skill not luck.
Oh.....Shade dropping Knox with it across snake mid.......right.
ah well except that it is a perfectly balanced weapon at this stage
Harbleu's double kill at i52 was really a triumphant victory over a situation that couldn't have been set up any more perfectly for him. Both of the remaining members of IM where low enough to the point that an ubersaw swipe and crossbow bolt would kill them both. Not to discredit the fact that that play alone was arguably the single best play to ever happen at a tf2 lan
Also that was TheFragile who dropped KnOxXx during that i55 snakewater match, unless you're counting shade's pick onto KnOxXx at i49 on process :)
Yeah sorry, i was referring to TheFragile. I knew it was one of the two so I picked shade. Think we can count both as spamming xD
Anyways I think the arrow building attribute was an unnecessary add and the weapon was fine on its own. For the rest i think its ok cause landing an across the map crossbow is really hard due to projectile arch and enemy's in between