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The Direct Hit is pretty much too strong. As a soldier, I agree. It can take out a team at times way to easily, and just randomly kill medics across the battlefield.

First of all: No Mini Crits. This solves people getting took out from a mile away.

And the damage should be capped at the same damage as the normal Rocketlauncher, however, without any falloff damage. I think this would probably balance the weapon, and do about 90 damage per shot. And we all remember it’s pretty hard to hit scouts with the direct hit, so yeah, I think this is a fair trade.

Condition 1. A player who is airborne due to any form of enemy or friendly damage (stickies, scattergun, rockets, etc.).

I think there needs to be a minimum height here too because you can often be juggled by a tiny amount (even less than the height of a jump).

Condition 2. If a player loses contact with the ground, the player has to go higher or lower than one height of a hitbox from his last point of contact with the ground. This means a players falling briefly from an edge, jumping, dropping from train to ground on badlands mid, etc. will not count as an airshot. However, players falling from, for example, spire will count as an airshot half-way down.

What about a scout double jumping? He is jumping for the purpose of reducing or avoiding splash; does he not deserve to be treated the same as a rocket jumping soldier?
Or a scout who double jumps a large horizontal distance (eg. cliff to spire) but does not meet the vertical criteria; is that not an airshot?

Condition 1. A player who is airborne due to any form of enemy or friendly damage (stickies, scattergun, rockets, etc.).

I think there needs to be a minimum height here too because you can often be juggled by a tiny amount (even less than the height of a jump).

Condition 2. If a player loses contact with the ground, the player has to go higher or lower than one height of a hitbox from his last point of contact with the ground. This means a players falling briefly from an edge, jumping, dropping from train to ground on badlands mid, etc. will not count as an airshot. However, players falling from, for example, spire will count as an airshot half-way down.

What about a scout double jumping? He is jumping for the purpose of reducing or avoiding splash; does he not deserve to be treated the same as a rocket jumping soldier?
Or a scout who double jumps a large horizontal distance (eg. cliff to spire) but does not meet the vertical criteria; is that not an airshot?

A scout doublejumping should not necessarily be counted as an airshot. A mere doublejumping scout is generally put in a fairly predictable arc.

However the latter example I do agree with, but it’s a delicate situation to balance it in if you are to not let every double-jump count as an airshot.

Condition 1. A player who is airborne due to any form of enemy or friendly damage (stickies, scattergun, rockets, etc.).

I think there needs to be a minimum height here too because you can often be juggled by a tiny amount (even less than the height of a jump).

Condition 2. If a player loses contact with the ground, the player has to go higher or lower than one height of a hitbox from his last point of contact with the ground. This means a players falling briefly from an edge, jumping, dropping from train to ground on badlands mid, etc. will not count as an airshot. However, players falling from, for example, spire will count as an airshot half-way down.

What about a scout double jumping? He is jumping for the purpose of reducing or avoiding splash; does he not deserve to be treated the same as a rocket jumping soldier?
Or a scout who double jumps a large horizontal distance (eg. cliff to spire) but does not meet the vertical criteria; is that not an airshot?

I think Bers. meant that both conditions should be met before being granted a mini-crit, therefore a double jumping scout wouldn’t get critted as he didn’t get bounced.

klu, even if valve releases the gloves he will get eaten up by direct hits, headshots and win bombs, (insert every possible weapon)… he needs a way faster spin down to escape.

That’s part of his appeal though, he’s a tank. While the enemy team focuses your heavy the rest of your team should find it easier to fight.

I would like to ask Valve to only pay attention to the suggestions from div1/2 players, since they usually have a better understanding of the game mechanics.

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well is da man

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div 1/2 players obviously have more experience. But disregarding altogether the majority of the league would be unwise. Higher divisions have more credibility in their arguments, but that doesn’t mean you completely discount others. At least consider lower divisions’ suggestions while prioritising higher divisions