GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
I prefer playing TF2 with people that I know in these forums. It has that Cheers' feeling where everyone knows your name.
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I prefer playing TF2 with people that I know in these forums. It has that Cheers' feeling where everyone knows your name.
That's cos you don't know how to play with the backburner, or don't want to put in the effort to ambush people from behind.(I am leery of making all-purpose panacea statements, really, and think that each has its appropriate uses.) Backburners are killer, especially if you're on D and maneuver behind a gaggle of attacking players...instant death. Playing pyro+backburner is like playing spy, really, except you don't get the benefit of cloaking and disguising.
Of course they're killer in certain situations. It's not that hard to use.
The point is, the versatility of the flamethrower in my opinion outweighs the specialized advantage the backburner has. Soldiers and demos, while still pretty much your worst enemies ever, are less scary with the compression air blast.
This is a testament to Valve's skill at these sidegrades though. Some people like one, some people like another.
I used to prefer the backburner too, until I decided to put some time in learning how to time the airblast.
Most of the time pyros can't get behind the enemy and they aren't meant to. Using pyro for nothing but ambushes is like playing a crappy version of spy. Against a single target you should just light him up and finish him with the Axtinguisher, that way you don't have to deal with crappy hit detection
Compression Blast is only useful against ubers
Compression Blast is only useful against ubers
philippe
FYI, I chase trains.
compression blast one of the most effective weapons vs an uber indeed.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
The aiblast can be useful against ubers, yes, but it is quite useful for blowing away stickies, rockets and knocking people off high areas.
Again, it seems the stickies barely roll 2-3 feet off for what uses like 25 flamethrower ammo with the blast. Jeez, the stickies should fly really farther than that.
Bigfoot3814
Deity
They go farther if you hit them with a bullet. Of course, if you're using the flare gun, then you can't do much as a pyro.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
You're doing it wrong.
So, you mean, you gotta step on them and do the thing quickly hoping the demoman isn't just there camping his stickies like they usually do 90% of the time?
Bigfoot3814
Deity
I can't seem to find you... what current name are you using?Hi,
I would like to join, my steam ID is billeb75.
Thanks for making the group!
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Wut? I meant the airblast.
In steps;
1) I said the airblast didn't knock the stickies far enough
2) You said I was doing the airblast wrong
3) I wondered if doing it right meant to actually walk up to them, basically right on top of them, where a camping demo has a good go at blowing you to bits
4) Profit?
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
You need to get close yes but you don't have to step on them. You have to be fast and maybe a little sneaky.
azzaman333
meh
I'd rather just be a spy, sneak up behind the demo and stab him in the back than trying to get rid of the stickies.
In related news, I hope Valve makes a cloaked spy on your team more visible. Sure, it's cool to be all invisible to your teammates while you're cloaked, but it's annoying as hell when you want to go places and your teammates get in your way.
For example, you're running to the roof in Badwater as a BLU spy hoping to sap sap sap all the sentries up there for your teammates to come in and summarily destroy. Someone, however, apparently didn't get the memo and decides to run up with you as you're cloaking, which means that as the man's shooting for your teammate, you get hit as well, and there goes your disguise.
I also want the cloak timer thing fixed. It's just dumb to have to look to the bottom-left corner of the screen to see if you're fully cloaked. It's totally counter-intuitive.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Thats the annoying thing with friendly spies when they are cloaked. There should be some sort of way to see a friendly spy while they are cloaked. I would agree with LF on this.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
It is quite easy to see a friendly spy when they are cloaked... they have a red or blue sheen around them. I just generally ignore them.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
I guess I am too busy paying attention being a shock trooper and storming the opponent's checkpoints to notice
.Are you sure? I just see a vague silhouette when they are really close, like if I was looking through a curved glass or something like that. They're quite obvious when they go in and out of cloak, there's like a puff of smoke. But after that they're pretty much as invisible as the enemy's spies to me.
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