Re: Multiplayer Gaming
A Noob's Comments on Pyro changes, after starting to play for the first time in a few months.
And so, due to having free time for once, and not bothering to read updates... I opted to play the Pyro for about a hour on 2fort in TF2.
Loadout 1
Starting Equipment: Flamethrower, Flare Gun, Axe.
Strategies Employed:
1. Getting nice and close, and just holding down the fire button on my flamethrower. Scoring some easy kills like normal...
Results: I got shotgunned to death, gunned down by heavies, and fucking WRENCHED to death by an engineer. Yes, I got killed by a engineer spamming the wrench on me before I could burn him to death with a flamethrower.
2. Setting targets at fire from long range with Flare Gun
Results: Well...I didn't "die", but I sure wasn't much help to the team. Plus it got boring as hell after a while.
3. Axe Crazy
Results: ...Are you kidding me?
So after that initial fail, I asked in public chat why the flamethrower sucked now damage wise, and finding out it was because of a patch...I switched to, yes, the backburner.
Loadout 2: Backburner, Flare gun, Axe
Strategies Employed:
Up Close and Personal Take 2
Results: I got two kills, then after being killed by rockets, grenades, shotguns, etc for many repetitions later ...I started wondering what the **** I was doing using the backburner.
Thus I optted to switch to my backburner back for the flamethrower, and flare gun for the shotgun.
Loadout 3: Flamethrower, Shotgun, Axe
Strategies Employed:
Up Close and Personal Take 3
Results: Well, same as last time. I was getting killed by shotguns and melee before I could kill them, even if they died after I died. So I naturally got sick of it.
Shotgun Spam
Results: Four to five kills, hilariously enough. I found myself more effective spamming shotgun shots than using the flamethrower at close/medium range... dying a lot less, actually killing people without being killed back... Of course, then I realized I could do this with any class that had a shotgun, AND a decent primary weapon.
Final Results: I switched to the Soldier, and all was well.
Conclusion: Fuck pyro now, Demoman/Soldier for the win. At least I can kill things without dying 5324252 times. I say this even if the fail that was incurred may just be my own crappage, failure at using air blast properly, etc.