feast for crows was the worst one 3:

too busy choking in my first match ^__^

...for some reason i thought BlackOut only casted in Russian.

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...is it? When's the last time an ESEA match was decided by the map timer?

I couldn't cast for a whole 60 seconds so I can't comment on the latter part, but I know that I can watch an hour of TF2 without getting bored, and I'm not sure casts are supposed to cater towards the watchers that get bored easily.

If the clock is a factor, then parking the bus will always an issue.

I think it's better than ETF2L rules though.

maybe i'm missing the point here but how are people who don't play pyro supposed to talk about the pyro

I agree that Wrangler + wrenches are the only way to go when defending, but I'm not so sure about the first part. While Wrangled Mini-Sentries are bullshit, the cart's path for most PL maps is at least 80% on the low ground where sightlines are limited, so it's not AS good, I feel like you have to go somewhere else to build an ideal Wrangling Mini-Sentry and often stay there to see targets, which diverts your attention, where you can just drop them in front of the cart and SC away with the infinite cart metal.

EIther way, I think the Short Circuit doesn't need a buff, it's a situational unlock, but it definitely has use, if the extent of its worth is debatable. Buff Engie Pistol.

and honestly do you really want the engineer constantly deleting stickies to be a thing

short circuit is legit for pushing the cart, that's what dave+ did on ts and it worked really well, also fucks kritz stickies on koth maps

sounds a good deal like bullshit

flamethrower damage is a cone, which means it does much less at the tip (which is under 400 HU)

and beyond that, you have nothing but reflects (which rely on people feeding you projectiles) and 30 damage flare guns (splashless projectiles) + afterburn

ignoring demo and sniper, scouts heavies and mini-sentries all wreck you hard before you can get into range and even the spy can pistol you down quite a bit before you can get to him, ignoring spycicle and dr and ambassador (also i heard ugc just unbanned enforcer?)

it is true that pyros can deny jumpers from high ground

until you kill the pyro because he can do jack shit from range

also it seems like you're talking about hypothetical god-pyros that can sight-reflect everything and not many of those play highlander

The Concheror is garbage but the Backup and Banner are pretty legit.

Some maps are really awful for jumping but great for spamming and you can get a banner fairly easily, like, uh, Barnblitz.

If you pocket your Medic you can get a backup and then milk the shit out of an uber with damage resistance and headshot (+ kritz) immunity.

don't buff pyro, buff the other unlocks so they're equally as useful as deg+axe or jockey

because they can't shoot the rockets and pipes unlike soldiers and demos

pyros don't have resistance to their own reflects, but you can't take mini-crit damage from yourself

on a related note pyros are lighter than soldiers and demos and will take a larger amount of knockback

BY THE WAY i used to main pyro but i don't anymore

even though it's still my most played class

i swear

The problem with Demoman is that his unlocks are really annoying.

If Scottish Resistance was a sidegrade to the Stock, that means it would concentrate all of the stock's awesome power into creating stalemates.

That's scary. And that isn't fun.

Meanwhile the shields turn him into a pick class. And pick classes are just inherently not as good when there are Pyros with the combo and when you can just kill people with traps. And also with airbursting.

Sticky Jumper is fine. It's not equal to the stock, but it's a great situational picking tool that is better than the Sticky Launcher in certain situations because of Caber oneshotting and the hugest mobility in the game short of maybe the Bazooka, which is a stupid weapon.

Speaking of the Caber though, Demoman having a one-time oneshot melee is kind of bullshit. His weakness is CQC and forcing a trade like that isn't very fair. Maybe equipping Sticky Jumper makes your melee weapons explode like the Caber, and make the Caber a lot weaker or something. Or just make the Caber the Demoman Market Gardener?

A. buff flamethrower range + particle speed [+ damage?]

B. as it stands, you must wait the full .75 seconds after airblasting to fire your flamethrower, halve this to .375 seconds but keep the time between airblasts at .75

C. move jockey set bonus to powerjack

the key to balancing the stock flamethrower is to make it good enough that it can stand on its own

degreaser would still be powerful for burst damage + range + freedom to quickswitch back to airblast

i haven't heard any idea how to fix the backburner though, an interesting idea was to use a taunt to cloak and uncloak, cnd-style (no pyro yelling), but you can't move until you uncloak, not enough on its own but might maybe work with those up there changes (maybe minus B) plus 135 backcrit angle (currently it's 90, vs the spy's 180, and it's kinda hard to get good hit detection) and maybe 40 ammo airblasts idk, the problem is that ambushing as a pyro is really gimmicky compared to the consistency of playing defensively around your team, which the backburner isn't very good at because it has so few airblasts, the backburner, to be useful, needs adequate, but inferior defensive power, plus it needs to be significantly better at ambushing than it is

fair point about overdose but

i am PRETTY sure stockthrower pyros are a lot worse at killing things than the degreaser, range and quickswitch to reflects is really, really good

the extra damage on the flamethrower is useful for w+m1ing into clumped-up groups that don't include other pyros with airblast, a situation that is a lot rarer than just finding a guy and trying to kill him, which the degreaser is a lot better at, and even when you fight combo vs combo they rarely stay close enough and collinear enough that you can use the penetration to hit multiple targets

i'd say buff the syringe gun by making it +1 hp on hit and give the blutsauger +1 regen, and maybe take an extra damage or two per needle off the overdose because it really isn't that noticeable right now at all

overdose +speed -damage normal regen
stock has no speed but minimal combat healing and normal regen
blutsauger has no speed and worse regen but is good for clutching

that way they all have utility, but it's reliable utility vs clutching utility with the stock as a middle ground

inb4 Relic Rations™

yeah the degreaser outclasses the hell out of the other flamethrowers (except maybe phlog?)

but...it's not overpowered

stock and backburner are just way inferior, buff them

stock shouldn't always be the template for balance, see melee weapons and overdose

speaking of that, buff stock syringe and blutsauger too? in the same vein as the degreaser, the overdose is a great unlock and an upgrad, and nobody uses any other syringe gun