Thread: Pyro update coming Thursday!

BarbeQueQ: Cause a dominated player to leave the server.
Just awesome!
-Apparently, the standard pyro gun can reflect explosives including crit rockets!

ok - back to this deflect-projectile, thing...

If I burst and deflect a crit rocket and it kills a friend, do I get credit for an assist or a TK? I'm looking for ways to score points for the deaths of my friends...

your asking the wrong people on this 1

I think it'll work just like if you knocked aside some stickies with a gun, the demo blows them, and your team mates die.

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

OMGWTFBBQ: Kill an enemy with a taunt.

It is lethal.

I also may have most of these achievements already. Oh boy, flare gun, and guaranteed crits for my torch.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our first pyro whore.

Originally Posted by Consultant

ok - back to this deflect-projectile, thing...

If I burst and deflect a crit rocket and it kills a friend, do I get credit for an assist or a TK? I'm looking for ways to score points for the deaths of my friends...

I would work with my common sense here and say you wont count for either. Its just a deflected projectile kind of like a pipe bomb bouncing off a wall.

Originally Posted by tr_enf

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

OMGWTFBBQ: Kill an enemy with a taunt.

It is lethal.

I also may have most of these achievements already. Oh boy, flare gun, and guaranteed crits for my torch.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our first pyro whore.

Originally Posted by Consultant

ok - back to this deflect-projectile, thing...

If I burst and deflect a crit rocket and it kills a friend, do I get credit for an assist or a TK? I'm looking for ways to score points for the deaths of my friends...

I would work with my common sense here and say you wont count for either. Its just a deflected projectile kind of like a pipe bomb bouncing off a wall.

it was a joke, haha.

Man, reading this thread has made the Grammar Nazi within angry.

If these changes are real, I may just have to start playing TF2 again. I always hated how weak the Pyro was unless you got on someone's ass from a blind corner (and the good players always knew where those blind corners were), and how easy it was for a Soldier or Deeeeemoman to stomp a Pyro, even if he did get the jump. Looks like the air blast mechanic will fix that by bouncing rockets back or kicking Deeemomen out of instant-kill range for those damned crit grenades.

Flaregun's gonna be fun.

Originally Posted by Langrad

The axetinquisher? I dont know... Seems useful but also has some sevier limitations.

I couldn't disagree more. What are "severe limitations?" That it only delivers half the damage when the victim is not alrady on fire? As I've already posted in this thread, there is rarely a reason to not somebody on fire before you axe them anyway. You're going to need to get close to axe them, and when you are just out of axe range (on the way to getting close) it makes sense to light them up, then axe them. IMO this Axetinguisher is not a trade-off at all... it is a pure 100% improvement.

Seriously, how often do you axe somebody who's not on fire anyway?

Originally Posted by Veovis

Seriously, how often do you axe somebody who's not on fire anyway?

Ask Coors. Hes a madman with that damn thing...