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TDH is overpowered. 1 hit to kill a scout close-range, particularly with this rocket-speed, will make it too frequent an occurence. I could deal with the rocket-speed if the damage was toned below ordinary RL but the minicrit on airshot remains, as then it’d have some utility and be a weapon for more consistent airshots (due to faster rocket speed you have a higher chance of hitting upon flick-correction once accustomed to the speed).

The Equalizer is overpowered. It should be limited to 100% speed. Why? Because now one (or both, but you’d lose über percentage that way) soldier only has to hurt himself and he’ll have scout speed to run to middle with (and he’ll get max healing rate after ~15 secs, which is the appx. time the demo reaches middle), so he could get full hp + some buff after 3 secs of healing.

The horn is an interesting mechanic that deserves further exploration. Currently the whole game revolves around the übercharge, and this addition will cause further revolution around the “mini-übercharge”. If limited to 1, it could prove somewhat interesting, however I do think it should charge slower, as the rage charges up nigh instantly from what I’ve seen.

The demoman weapons are fine on first glance, however the SR will require some discussion and tests to see if it slows the game sufficiently to hurt competitive in terms of playability, enjoyment and spectator-friendliness.

Literally made every perfect point. Only things to add;

The TDH imo still needs like testing. Although it can be seen as really imba at close range where it’s basically a 1 hit-hitscan weapon, it is literally rubish for spam fights and this is what mid revolves round. It needs more testing imo… The pickaxe though should definately be banned, or well… it needs a fix on it’s speed. The fact is with less than 14hp the soldier can get scout speeds, and this makes solly the fastest class to mid if done right (on granary using the rockets to RJ outside, then when low run to middle with axe out from second). The bugel needs testing, but I think it needs to be limited to 1 and the rage should be harder to build. (It’s based on damage not kills…)

Nah, it’s just that soldier weapons are actually overpowered.

Please define overpowered.

If you mean “they make solly better than before”, then yes, they are overpowered. But solly ALWAYS was just a lame guy who protects the medic and sometimes jump on a spire or smth. All the killing, damaging, etc was done by either scouts or demomen, and now you (everyone except sollys) are afraid of that. ADMIT IT!

I’ve been looking at every unlock there is, and every single one of them if allowed will have a significant impact on competative tf2 both good and most certainly bad.

TDH is from my perspective heaven on earth, its like in 18 again playing QuakeWorld for the first time but within capable hands will shift the way the game is played. Its most likely to overpowered with the minicrits at the moment.

Banner will have an impact on last points such as granary simpely because of the fall off dmg being non exsistent, it might actualy be a wellcomed change but in my opinon it will be something that unballances the game from both a defensive and offensive standpoint.

Pickaxe is tougher to say as i’ve had little to no experiece in pugs with it yet… most likely to OP as the rest of the Unlocks.

Boots are fine and a wellcomed change to offensive minded sollys.

The Demo Unlocks while being fun dosnt bring that much to the table execpt for the new sticky launcher, for defending last points and certain other points its most likely overpowered in its current form, reason being you can detonate stickys though the walls if you just know where about the stickys are placed.

One good example of this would be last point on Badlands, where you could have 4 sets of leathal stickys on the point and have your demoman sit in spawn looking though the windows and detonating them selectively making it allmost impossible to cap the point.

I would love to see some exibition games between a few higher up squads with focus on the new weapons, most of all to spark some debate about the weapons before the seaons starts so we dont end up with another weapon debate mid season.

i think the TDH is great just needs a few minor tweaks, the minicrit in air is arguable and instagibbing 125hp classes shouldnt be possible. So just a little damage reduction and it will be fine because the lack of splash damage is already a huge tradeoff to the normal launcher.
will have to see though if soldiers will get so good at using it that it actually hurts the balance.

soldier weps ir realy overpowered. scout from 1 hit. bullshit

i like the tdh, the airshot minicrits on people walking off of ledges needs to fixed though (didn’t they add a way to tell if someone was sent flying with explosives with the rj trails?)

and maybe the minicrit damage changed to whatever the max pointblank damage is so you get no falloff on longrange airshots but no damage boost on them there easier closerange ones

Seems to many people are replying here without even trying TDH…

At mid-range, a direct hit does about 60damage… OMFGWTFBBQ nerf!

And its far more difficult to hit at that range than with normal rl, thanks to the very big splash damage rl has.