But rockets deal splash damage and arrows don't deal splash healing... I don't really see your point unless your team plays off your bomb really slow so the med gets a couple seconds to arrow people

To me, it seems like bows help deep players stay deep and keep aggressing/help flank players get quick heals fast so they are safe until their next kit pickup (allowing them to position more aggressively) moreso than they help a closed in, retreating team

Really? I was under the impression it was stalematey before the crossbow was ever added but I wouldn't know, wasn't into comp then.

Do you feel this way because it circumvents critheals?

Speaking as a (scrubby) med main, the crossbow is literally half of why medic is fun to play for me. If it got banned I'd seriously reconsider ever playing medic in pugs / comp just out of personal enjoyment. Not saying I know what's best for the meta or whatever, just saying that playing "w+m1 your team and don't ever die" isn't terribly engaging with such a minimal execution element.

Also, it seems to me that the bow opens up more opportunities for dynamic, aggressive, stalemate breaking play. Am I correct in this assessment? If so, it is a positive influence on the game IMO. TF2 gets stalematey kind of fast, most anything that breaks stalemates should probably be viewed positively

I don't really know the community here, but generally, unless the site upvotes/likes/whatevers your comment for you, it's seen as poor taste to upvote one's own posts

Nice try lmao wrong thread

Coordinated shitposting indeed

Maybe it only works if you only post in this one? Or it got fixed quick? Strange

Didn't duplicate my posts, idk

P sure this is just coordinated shitposting

What the shit is this? I need to try it to be sure

I've posted on tftv like 5 times and im already a copypasta lul

my life is a joke

This sort of shit irritates me heavily in competitive gaming. Not just this specific thing, but general lack of respect for your opponent.

Back in older, more 1v1 focused games, just having recorded practice reps against someone really amazing (with a decent ping too) was a rare privilege to be thankful for. Back then, you didn't rage at people who fucked you up, lest they get sick of your shit and find someone more interesting to fight. Instead, you did this revolutionary old school technique where you just said "nice shot" in chat and kept playing.

It was an opportunity to seize, especially when they were willing to slow down, teach you, and give you advice, And when (not if, when) they got bored of destroying you, you threw down a GG, picked up the shattered pieces of your ego and watched the tapes. If anything, you THANKED them for being willing to body you, then headed back to the lab, and learned every lesson their superior play could teach you.

Where's the respect nowadays? Got people whining in the chat because they got bodyshot, calling their opponent bad because they got outplayed, and wasting other people's time with disorganized BS. All I see are salt, excuses, and immature ego ridden smurfers... I hope it's mostly just a problem at the skill level I currently occupy, and someday I'll git gud and get out of the proverbial ELO hell lmao

Remove dunks? But why??

Was LAN pyro like night and day compared to 110 ping online matches? I haven't ever found much LAN pyro gameplay to compare to, and my internet connections have been unremarkable even to nearby servers

The (perhaps) saddest part is, from raw numbers, they didn't double his potential DPS. If the number I've found is right (166 DPS) it technically got nerfed. It presumably only feels like double DPS because of how little you have to aim it, yet in the hands of a highly skilled player it still has less potential than Pre JI

Pyro's skill indexing now is just so... bad... You can literally just flail your mouse at people and get kills in pubs. The 100 hour pubbers were the reason they killed the axtinguisher, weren't they? Weren't those old nerfs done to appease the "I installed 2 weeks ago and pyro is op" crowd? Because this update positively enraged that crowd if SCUD is any indication. How could you get through playtesting this without realizing the gun is aiming itself? Are the devs just incomprehensible casuals? How did this take a year and a half to make?

How did we start with a few people angry about how pyro doesn't have to aim, head through a pyro rework, and come out with more people angry about how pyro doesn't have to aim

tf2 team pls

b4nny cheats (even at lan) -Uncle Dane, 2017

Wut

Reducing rate of fire and REDUCING SPREAD (making it MORE accurate) is what I'm talking about. Not reducing rate of fire and increasing spread, that would be dumb. This would bring his initial damage way down while making heavy drastically more mobile so I'm not sure why you don't like it. The Minigun may not ever be your favorite weapon in the game to play against but that's no reason to just whine about it instead of having a fun little theoretical discussion at how it could be more fun to play against