This is a support weapon designed to replace the Jarate and the Solemn Vow in functionality, while also acting as a nod to the Viewfinder's mechanics. At the sacrifice of your secondary weapon's damage, this weapon is meant to ease headshots for inexperienced Snipers.
I use the old game menu because I like it. Everything would be fine if they hadn't messed things up here. I can't open the scoreboard, change my class, or do ANYTHING. There weren't issues like this even before the game launched on Steam. I hope they fix it.
I'll preface this by saying that I'd be happy with the mod not getting more weapons going forward, its very enjoyable as is, especially after the latest patch. There is merit in wanting no more weapons added to avoid bloat, however I'll point out that this dev team is very diligent in ensuring no weapon is stronger or weaker than any other, making the mass shitty weapon chum of livetf2 a non issue. that being said I respect wanting the game slimmer.
now on to my reasonings for my tiers
Engineer: There is a lot of untapped potential here. The bounce pad is a fantastic leap in the right direction, but he has more utility and flexibility he can offer yet thru maybe other wrenches or pdas, as well as an untapped Texan arsenal he could have in his primary. Right now he's just engineer, when we know he could be so much more.
Spy: While he's actually in a really good place right now, its hard to ignore the potential of what the sheer competence of the tf2 classified devs can come up with for the sapper slot having learned from the mistakes of the past involving the red tape recorder. Its also interesting to think how Spy could be shaked up and given new life with entirely knew kinds of backstabs. Theres a lot that can be done here.
Scout: He's just incredibly simple as is. Picking between rapid fire or burst fire for either slot is all he has going for him. additional mobility utility from his melee that sacrifices lethality, like the atomizer vertically or the baby faces speed would do a lot for him. even if you didnt want to give him another melee, theres a lot of untapped ground here. the bricks funny and the nailgun has its beloved use case, but thats all the depth to them.
Medic: That primary slot is hard to ignore. The shadow of the crossbow looms over this mod sometimes, and the Rejuvinator barely quenches peoples thirst for ranged first healing. But if a primary was to be added it would have to be as week as the syringe gun, meaning people would probably be underwhelmed by the execution. not only that, there's also the argument that his wide variety of melees and mediguns should have him lower on this list.
Civilan: one more option for melee and hes good forever.
Sniper: sniper is in a real decent spot, with each primary holding their niches rather well, but its hard to not mourn jarate sometimes. its gross and a little insanely strong, but its hard to imagine a secondary even half as inventive as that was. Its the golden (ew) standard for sniper secondaries with strategic applications, and all the other back bling options are fucking horrible passive safety blankets for bad snipers. but he doesnt reeeeaaallly need it. it would still be nice tho
Pyro: besides engineer and medic, who have more important roles than their primaries, pyro is the only class with no alternative primary damage dealing weapon. While it feels really egregious to not have a flamethrower like the dragons fury that rewards persicion, his wide selection of secondaries kind of makes him feel whole. theres something for mid range, long range, mobility and survivability. Another flamethrower is just more fire. fun, but not that new.
Demo: He has a really large variety of combos he can work with right now, but it has to be asked. why the hell give him the gunboats if he wasn't going to get a goddamn market gardener? as is, all thats good for is spawncamping with stickies.
Heavy: He's got a very nice and new gun, he's got a sandvich that doesnt overshadow the shotgun, and hes got a really engaging melee. He's fine.
Soldier: He's in a really good place. hes not missing a whole lot from the base game that wouldnt be a little too strong for the mod. the rpg is a blast to use if you dont wanna rocket jump, the anchor is fucking fantastic if you do. he's fine.
I've narrowed it down to these 4. You'll notice flickering the disguise is the main idea going for all of them, but a variety of stealth utility and drawbacks that I can't fucking pick between. Which would fit best in the mod?
i need suggestions for the whole fit, i found some of the objects on etsy.
Big fan of 4ctf more or less going back to "you have to cap once from other team to win, so you can't just speed run the weakest teams intel.
As a pyro main, I think it's reasonable to bring over the accuracy incentives like in livetf2. If I aim, this nerf means nothing. If not, I'm punished. Fair.
On that same note, the harvester nerf makes me sad, but I always knew my favorite weapon was too good to last. It still gets the job, but now it feels like the crit part of the weapon will do more heavy lifting. Oh yeah, did they intentionally get rid of the meter, or is that a bug? Maybe they already fixed it, whatever.
The cyclops adjustments are nice. Now its got more utility in short circuting projectiles and less power in the crutch department. Every grenade launcher using demo I come across aims like they're actually half blind, cuz everyone good at demo is using the cyclops for its consistency. It gets to a point you're using the detonation control as a crutch. Not nearly in the same zip code as crutching with the dead ringer, but it gets obnoxious being completely unable to dodge your Bluetooth grenade. Just ease up, maybe try the dynamite with the grenade launcher now that it gives more shots.
Speaking of, the dynamite packs ok. It needed something going for it, but I think what it really needs is the stickybomb launchers clip size getting fucking halved. Whatever, at least now I have this going for me when I'm refusing to unequip it for a clearly superior alternative out of my need to be a hipster.
The Rejuvenator is fucking my ears missionary. Its like having diet double donks on medic. Maybe I forgot how it sounded, and they didnt change much, but it's so crisp to me now. And being able to fire grenades thru people to whoever needs it is a nice touch. Gives me some flexibility.
Shock Therapy whatever
Fucking finally. ITS ABOUT FUCKING TIME THEY GOT RID OF THAT NEEDLESS HEALTH BOOST. THANK YOU SO MUCH I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE REST OF THE UPDATE, THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. Its not even thst the hunting revolver was op, it was about the principle of the thing. Reduced zoom is not a downside thst warrants additional complete nonsense buff stats. Theres a reason the 1.5 DOMINATED siege for its whole existence. Being mid range is a brutally powerful thing when you arent held back by projectile jank. Youre so much more flexible, and thats all the gun needs going for it. I know most of you loudmouths are bothered by this things ability to shred in the hands of a good sniper in a similar way that im sometimes bothered by the cyclops forgiving projectile control, but first off, I'm not allowed to get upset about cyclops crutching now that its nerfed, and second off, the alternative to a good sniper with the hunting revolver shredding is a good sniper fucking instkiilling. At least you stand a chance to survive against the hunting revolver. Learn to respect a sightline. I don't think the hunting revolver needs any more changes. Just get rid of the red text on it, its not a real downside. Like the huntsman, it doesnt need stats.
9/10 update, please give dizzy and bubbly particle effects to the demo when he gets drunk off the bottle taunt so that people can tell they got killed by someone struggling to shoot straight.
It doesn't have to be like tf2's.
I'm picturing it being majority maps and maybe a couple weapon mods + client side mods that can give other classes hats.
footage from tf2 classified custom weapons server,server qnz.
I’ve tried to play custom weapon servers 4 separate times today and each one has been a bust. First it has to redownload everything despite the fact that I’d played on the servers a week ago (one of them did have an update but still) and that takes forever, so I ended up abandoning some servers because of the absurd wait time.
Then I get into the server and I can’t select custom weapons at all. They don’t even appear in the Loadout menu
Lastly, one of the servers I tried to play on downloaded the map rumford event, then said it’s missing (see above)
I’ve tried verifying the integrity of the game files after closing the game twice, and both times, 1 file has been missing
In the most recent update, the hunting revolver has been nerfed to remove the 25 health bonus. This was a weapon perk that a lot of people complained about, however I think removing it, instead of different nerfs, is a step in the wrong direction.
The hunting revolver had 2 different playstyles. The first was essentially the same as the normal sniper rifle. The second was being a midrange duelist, in the same way that the scout is a close range duelist. I would argue that the second playstyle should be more encouraged. This is because this allows for a more diverse set of playstyles, since you can just use stock to be a normal sniper, and it fills the niche of a midrange hitscan duelist.
The 25 health bonus encouraged being a midrange duelist, as it allowed the sniper to survive a bit longer against splash damage and a bit of pyro fire. Removing this only encourages players to play like a normal sniper. From what I understand, this is against the intended goal of each weapon bring very unique.
In my opinion, the hunting revolver's normal sniper playstyle should be nerfed, rather than nerfing the midrange duelist playstyle. This would mean either giving the 25 hp back or swapping it with a slight speed increase (maybe around Medic speed), then nerfing the long range effectiveness. This can be done by applying damage falloff on headshots. Maybe we could even have non-zoomed headshots do mini-crits (with damage falloff applied) in order to further encourage midrange dueling.
Look my game automatically updated to 3.0.11 and now my game won't show custom weapons while other players have custom weapons can someone please help me! Im not crazy!
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