Completed [FF2] scout pistol nerf (1 Viewer)

[EKJMNY45]

i suggest a potential nerf to scouts pistol, the issue being the crits

the pistol does far too much damage and gives scout a consistent mid to long range spam weapon, engie is far easier to deal with (and has other things he has to manage) whereas scout is too mobile and can almost exclusively rely on spamming it, not to mention the knockback from the pistol. given you arent complete shit at aiming, just running around between ammo packs (or dispensers) and shooting the boss should yield in 1-2k consistent damage per round (if not more). abusing taunt crits atleast puts you in some risk and crit downtime whereas the pistol just gives you a reliable 45 damage raygun

if thats not bad enough, you can use the BFB and gain even more speed while using the pistol.


potential changes:

return minicrits (as it was before)



reduce ammo on pickup (30-50% less ammo on pickup + maybe no ammo from dispenser while weapon is out? idk)

 

[Manvid]

I'd say that the issue transfers to the engineer as well. He even has a widely increased reserve ammo pool to boot. So I'd think we either keep it for both, or nerf it for both, since essentially they can both chip damage away without issue.

 

[Th!u]

I agree with Manvid, engi already have a reliable way of dealing a lot of damage with his sentry

 

[Aerial]

Ngl, I Never thought of that as an issue? But I guess it is troublesome for Few Bosses who lack some mobility, As for that, could be nerfed for both crits and ammo(But idk how good is that really)

But the Ammo isn't the same between scout(90) and engie(200)

And these two are far from similar as playstyle


What I would suggest maybe.. Keep crits, Keep ammo size, but Instead, Maybe Decrease the fire rate or Decrease the clip size making it both to 5


But even so I don't think these are the best ideas at all either, Probably to mini crits is the safest change

 

[Th!u]

I wanted to give a sugestion that when using a pistol for scout you can't use primary, but I guess that won't work cuz pistol is a stock weapon and it would cause confusion for new players