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Well spotted to [FB]Jonni <3

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Natasha is getting a damage buff as well as a massively increased slowdown effect. Could this be what teams need to bring back the heavy? If natasha works more effectively could this be the end of scout assassinations? Could we see rocket jumping soldiers stopped before they go anywhere?

Perhaps the developers gave natasha this buff because of the upcoming scout update, figuring players would need a more realiable method to deal with the onslaught of the scatter gun replacement,

Read this quote, this is from Valve employees, the ones who know nothing of our 6v6 play ;)

“Balancing his replacement weapon has been very tricky due to large threat difference of the Scout between skilled and non-skilled hands. More on that soon.”

Yikes, even they see the potential of cunning scouts, perhaps more emphasis that the natasha buff is there to be an effective counter? We shall see soon!

What a fucking mess. I can only assume that a “massively increasd slowdown effect” means that it will basically stop things dead, it already slows enough, only the damage needs a tweak.

No, from that quote you can read that they can not give a buff for scout to make pubbers happy because that would be devastating in a hands of a good scout player.

Closer to highlander every update :P

I’m looking forward to it, I miss heavy – though what will they do about Sasha, since Sasha should always win in heavy vs heavy.

Tomorrow’s update will fix that, and also includes a slight boost to the amount of slowdown she delivers.

not supermuch, just a little :P

“Could we see rocket jumping soldiers stopped before they go anywhere?”

I already do that!

Highlander 7v7 rocks !