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Welp pyro haters valve broke flare gun for now, now it only mini crits. Now you’ll see shotgun pyros around here until it is fixed. I don’t knw what else valve broke in this update but it seems valve optimized TF2 a bit.

rofl who the fuck cares

Quoted from Ric

Welp pyro haters valve broke flare gun for now, now it only mini crits. Now you’ll see shotgun pyros around here until it is fixed. I don’t knw what else valve broke in this update but it seems valve optimized TF2 a bit.

you mean fixed. they broke it in 2011.

rip feri

Time for pyros to control their mouse with their hands and use the shotgun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWFRF0Y6q3o

If you go on walkway and crit boost yourself with addcond 11 the flare will do the normal 90 damage on non-burning targets but only a minicrit 41 on burning ones, this is 99.9% surely a bug.

I don’t know why there’s immediately people bringing up that flare is a no-skill weapon though. Yeah m2+flare is easy but m2+shotgun is equally easy for similar damage at close range. And you have to admit it’s cool when you hit flare shots at long range without m2 assist.

Besides that shouldn’t even be relevant to the discussion – shotgun was already giving more DPM in most situations if you’re not completely god-awful at it and nerfing the flare just makes it absolutely pointless to use when before it was at least an alternative.

And yeah airblast cone should be revised and m2 shouldn’t act as a stunlock but it’s a completely different discussion to file together with not making reflect rockets shoot back into my face if I’m clipping a teammate or not making reflect pipes self-minicrit so that you kill yourself to save a dying medic from a roller.

Quoted from kKaltUu

but why would you play pyro in the first place