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Just allow the FaN already, it’s not annoying or overpowered anymore.

Quoted from Matt

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Wrong on both counts.

Piece of shit weapon.

Nah, what I said was correct. It’s no longer overpowered AT ALL, and it sure as shit ain’t annoying now that u dont get stunned.

It’s always going to be annoying to people if they are killed by it. Once a player has it embedded into their mentality that their death by the gun is annoying; it always will be, reguardless how Valve balance the gun (it was _never_ overpowered, only annoying to people who can’t take getting beaten, and then annoying to people who jumped on the bandwagon in order to have an excuse for their death in game, and then annoying to people who developed the ‘FaN is annoying’ mentality mentioned above).

There are tonnes of annoying guns in the game, people just don’t complain about the default ones because they have accepted them as what they are. Stickies are annoying. It’s a hell of a lot easier to be effective with stickybombs than with the FaN. There also isn’t much you can do against a left click – right click demoman coming at you. You just have to wait for the reload.

Knife and Sniper rifle are exceptionally annoying. Being able to be instantly killed is more annoying than getting 2 shot. The sniper can 1 hit you from any range as long as you are visible. If the sniper was added to the game 6 months after TF2 was released, it would be banned in leagues… for sure.

I’ve pretty much given up the ‘save the FaN’ fight. Had the most fun in TF2 using that gun, still use it in the leagues that allow it. Love the movement, love the play style. I’m no better or worse with the FaN over the scattergun, I’m quite bad in general, but I much prefer playing with FaN… the game style suits me. Good luck with your quest, but once the decision to ban the FaN was made, it isn’t going to be reversed until I am head admin of ETF2L; a job I will never get, and would never want.

The FaN lowers the skill ceiling for aiming drastically.
This fucks up the lower divisions and is exactly why it should be banned.

Quoted from unitunitunit

Unlucky, my favourite (and quite useful) setup for Soldier is Rocket Jumper, Gunboots and “That New Pan Weapon”.

I’m genuinely uncertain as to whether this is bait or not. :x

Quoted from Vali

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It hasn’t been that way for a long long time.

I’m div6 and shit, but even for me, it’s easy to hit a second shot after hitting one with the FaN…

Quoted from alfa

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Funny, because you were defending it’s rights 2 seasons ago. Atleast it’s useless now, so I understand why you dont bother anymore.

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