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If you want to solve spam, just change 8 to 4 stickies in the stickylauncher

This actually sounds intresting (atleast to me, a non-demo player). But how about changing only the number of stickies that are laid, i.e. a demoman could only have 4 stieckies out at any given moment, but still have 8 in fully loaded weapon?
What do demomen playing guys/gals think?

For the record. I am a demoman. Most of the kills of demoman are when the enemy runs out of ammo, the demoman still have those extra 2/4 stickies. Reducing the stickytraps will further speed up the game. A stickytrap of 4 stickies is most of the time not enough to kill a fully buffed soldier. So the tedious stickytrap checking around each corner is easier or not even needed.

TDH is not a reason to reduce the damage of the shotgun and nades

Yes. But you can’t simply lower the TDH damage.

You can reduce the fall off and ramp up damage of TDH and remove minicrits on low heights.

why should there even be a minicrit?

airshots with that thing are easy as piss, why reward something so easy?

Pipes max. 93
Stickies max. 108
Slightly reducing the spam influence

just cant agree with this

why would stickies do more damage than grenades, when:
– grenades are harder to hit = more skill needed
– 8 stickies = 800+ damage of spam

edit: I said this in other thread

stickies should have an ammount bonus, for example:
1 sticky 50damage
2 stickies 125damage (instead of 2×50=100)
3 stickies 200damage (instead of 3×50=150) etc..

so, when u chased someone with sticky+det would only do like 50 damage, that would make the stickies work more as a trap than actually spam

aren’t some of you guys involved in the beta?
does anyone there take in consideration the ideas posted here?
and i mean good overall ideas like the one in OP, not the shitty “derp reduce this 50% and remove this” statements by people without a clue about numbers nor gameplay

I mean, reducing the peak damage of some weapons would be really good for the gameplay… wondering why it wasnt considered before

it would just make the game more defensive and slower cause nobody would jump straight forward just to make the kill.

That’s just speculation. It’s evident that everyone survives more damage, but you still need just two goodplaced rockets to kill a medic. That’s one exampe to show you that this easy assumption about game flow is at least flawed and only tests will prove the real effect on gameplay.

This is not the thread to show the uselessness of chain quotes. Minicrits weren’t up for discussion here, ever.

One target (amongst others) of this thread is to balance the TDH. If it’s balanced on ground, I don’t see a reason to give any bonus airborne, as it’s fairly the same difficulty.