Multi-Class

Thoughts On Current Weapon

TF2's pistols are worse than they really should be. Your first shot since the last 1.25 seconds is guaranteed to be 100% accurate, but any other shot is entirely under the full whims of random spread and makes using them at their intended mid-range a little unreliable at best and a complete waste of your time at worst. It's also worth mentioning that both Scout and Engineer recover from firing and reload their Pistol faster than 1.25 seconds, which means you don't even get that accurate shot if you hold down the fire key after a reload. What a rip-off of a system!

Reasons For Changes

These changes alleviate a lot of the issues I laid out in the Thoughts About Current Weapon section. Reducing the cooldown timer to 1 second makes reloading on both Scout and Engineer refresh the full cooldown during the reload, the max spread being reduced directly makes longer range more reliable, and borrowing a similar system as used on the Ambassador which increases accuracy linearly as the weapon is not fired makes for an overall more reliable option without directly buffing its damage.

Thoughts On Current Weapon

32 is not divisible by 6. This sucks on ice!

Reasons For Changes

24 on the other hand IS divisible by 6, in addition to being divisible by 8 for the Family Business, 4 for the Reserve Shooter, and even 3 for the Frontier Justice. Hurray for math! ...Being serious though, even though this is technically a nerf, running out of shotgun ammo is incredibly rare since it's either a secondary weapon or on Engineer who has access to their own dispenser, and should realistically not affect the game any. Besides, shotguns already got the innate buff of having more sensible bullet spread so they'll be fine.

Thoughts On Current Weapon

Though it is extremely strong in competitive sixes due to near exclusive use of projectiles, the B.A.S.E. Jumper is a prime example of competitive sixes balance not working in the slightest in regular 12v12 gameplay. With it halving your air control while deployed and not even allowing you to reopen it after deploying it once, it ends up being nearly completely useless when considering that most of your attacks are going to be suffering from damage fall-off. Oh, and it's also a multi-class item for Demoman for some reason? Uh...

Reasons For Changes

Besides removing it from Demo who gets basically no use out of replacing his primary for this weapon, this change list undoes the single-use limit until landing change that was made for competitive 6s, as the air control stat already does a sizable amount when it comes to preventing Soldiers from doing unreactable jukes with the parachute, and the fact that the B.A.S.E. Jumper just isn't a weapon designed for a format where Scout is the only realistic bullet-based class that can shoot them down. I also brought back the updraft mechanic for Cow Mangler + Market Gardener users to have their fun. Lastly, I made both you and enemies have reduced fall-off to help even out the playing field, allowing Soldiers to still have reasonable damage output while high in the sky at the cost of having the same effect apply to them.

Thoughts On Current Weapon

To be honest, I have no clue why this weapon is multi-class. It's clearly a sword that's meant to go along with the rest of Demoman's collection, yet Soldier gets to have it for the insane few who want to give up the clearly superior melee choices. That changes when you consider the changes I made to the stock shovel, where suddenly this weapon is almost top of the bunch, and needs seperate addressing.

Reasons For Changes

The two buffs made help justify its use more on more standard forms of Demoman (and Soldier to an extent) since it does lag a little behind other options in that regard, and the lack of being able to deploy it during rocket jumps prevents it from dominating Soldier's melee choice due to the stock shovel change while not affecting Demoman. As for removing the one-hit feature... well, do I have a surprise waiting for you!

Thoughts On Current Weapon

The Pain Train is... probably one of the least interesting weapons in the entire game. No, scratch that. It IS the least interesting weapon in the game! The one and only thing it does is allow you to very slightly capture control points faster and lower the number of people required to push the payload cart faster. Not only are those objectives not a part of every gamemode, but they only apply to the offense part - defending these objectives yields no advantage whatsoever. Besides, do you even really want to do that task a tiny bit faster when you are now constantly taking extra damage from the most common damage source in the game by far? Sure, it's only 10%, but why not have more effective health so you can stay on the objective for longer and have a remarkably similar outcome? For the sake of fun rather than balance this time, I'll be reworking this one.

Reasons For Changes

The Pain Train is the absolute perfect weapon for this mechanic that the Half-Zatoichi started. Not only is it close to TF2's weapon aesthetic and can be reasonably be a part of any mercenary's toolkit, but its current stat makeup is duller than the flat side of the nail pierced through it. This new version essentially serves as a counterpart to the stock melee for any class with the gentleman's agreement to brutally murder each other should you both have it deployed. Now that sounds like fun, and is no longer exclusive to Soldier and Demo!

Thoughts On Current Weapon

The Panic Attack currently stands above the stock shotgun most of the time due to it being the only shotgun that fires a fixed shot pattern, but now that random spread is far more tame (see General page), it's time to tackle its other outlying problem - how boring it is. It has a little more close range damage and a fast deploy at the cost of far worse mid-range damage. For most classes, that's just not a good shotgun for a majority of maps and even when it is, it's just basically a stock upgrade that doesn't feel different to use, so let's get to work.

Reasons For Changes

This accurate-to-the-name Panic Attack is sort of a middle ground between the current version and the old Beggar's Bazooka-like version. It fires faster and deploys faster, but once you start firing, you can't stop and forces you to fully load it before firing again and has 4 shots in the clip. This allows for some leniency if you swap weapons to either stop firing or loading and save it for later, but regardless you'll need to load it to full to fire it again. Good for emergency situations or blasting a lot of shots quickly at someone, but lacks the full manual control of stock.

Thoughts On Current Weapon

Above any other multi-class weapon, I just cannot understand why the Reserve Shooter was given to Pyro. It's so very clearly a shotgun meant to be a combo tool for blasting those who you've lauched into the air with Soldier rockets, yet the moment they added it to Pyro it had to be hard nerfed on them multiple times to the point where the main upside is no longer something in Pyro's control, and yet the nerfs were all kept on Soldier's end into being a very lukewarm option. Let's undo those wrongs and make it the shotgun it was meant to be!

Reasons For Changes

Now it works much more like it was intended, with it being a combo tool on the Soldier. The accuracy bonus makes it easier to make that high damage shot to those who you knocked high up in the air and the health gives a direct reward for doing so, being that Soldier could've just fired another rocket to combo off of instead, while having sizable penalties that actually matter.