So here I am, trying to level up my Firebug perk. I thought it'd be fun, since you know, I love burning **** and whatnot. Well, I was horribly mistaken. Here's my list of annoyances while playing with others:
1. Sharpshooter w/M14. Since the flamethrower has no range, anything seen by the ss will pretty much instant die. By the time I try to get in range to kill enemies with my flames, they are already dead and then some.
The last game I was in I tried to backup a level 5 ss with my flames, and he told me to go away...
**** you, I hope they meganerf the Sharpshooter class. This is coming from a level 6 Sharpshooter.
Conclusion: If there's an M14 in the game, just don't play as a Firebug.
2. Demolition perk. Since it seems to be a pretty popular perk, there's always one or two in a game, or so it seems to me. I'll be flaming away the easy enemies such Clots, Gorefasts, and Crawlers, only to be surprised by the demoman who thinks it's a great idea to waste a grenade and blow up a single enemy with his grenade launcher. Great, you could be doing useful things such as conserving your ammo for large crowds. Oh woops, I forgot, you have SO MUCH AMMO that you don't know what to do with it! Add on the annoyance of pipe bombs, which every demoman spams the map with them, there's not much to do as a firebug other than to twiddle your thumbs.
Conclusion: If there's a demoman in the game, just don't play as the firebug.
3. Everyone steals your kills. No "ifs buts, or exceptions." A lot of people wait until you've been burning an enemy for good amount of time and then take it out with a single shot. I'm looking at you, Mr. SS w/ the M14.
What's funny is when you play the firebug class, is people then accuse you for stealing their kills, even though they were never shooting at them. And I get votekicked, it's happened to me many times. Wow, sorry I'm stopping a single person from getting 1000 kills. Hell, there shouldn't even be a killcount in this game IMO.
Conclusion: The firebug class is pointless. Sharpshooter and Demoman are way too overpowered for it to be fun (same goes for Bezerker, there's no point). They need to nerf these classes or this game is just a "run to a map by yourself, and kill everything" rather than a cooperative survival horror game.
(My experiences are only played on the normal/hard difficulties with no FF)
/rant
1. Sharpshooter w/M14. Since the flamethrower has no range, anything seen by the ss will pretty much instant die. By the time I try to get in range to kill enemies with my flames, they are already dead and then some.
The last game I was in I tried to backup a level 5 ss with my flames, and he told me to go away...
**** you, I hope they meganerf the Sharpshooter class. This is coming from a level 6 Sharpshooter.
Conclusion: If there's an M14 in the game, just don't play as a Firebug.
2. Demolition perk. Since it seems to be a pretty popular perk, there's always one or two in a game, or so it seems to me. I'll be flaming away the easy enemies such Clots, Gorefasts, and Crawlers, only to be surprised by the demoman who thinks it's a great idea to waste a grenade and blow up a single enemy with his grenade launcher. Great, you could be doing useful things such as conserving your ammo for large crowds. Oh woops, I forgot, you have SO MUCH AMMO that you don't know what to do with it! Add on the annoyance of pipe bombs, which every demoman spams the map with them, there's not much to do as a firebug other than to twiddle your thumbs.
Conclusion: If there's a demoman in the game, just don't play as the firebug.
3. Everyone steals your kills. No "ifs buts, or exceptions." A lot of people wait until you've been burning an enemy for good amount of time and then take it out with a single shot. I'm looking at you, Mr. SS w/ the M14.
What's funny is when you play the firebug class, is people then accuse you for stealing their kills, even though they were never shooting at them. And I get votekicked, it's happened to me many times. Wow, sorry I'm stopping a single person from getting 1000 kills. Hell, there shouldn't even be a killcount in this game IMO.
Conclusion: The firebug class is pointless. Sharpshooter and Demoman are way too overpowered for it to be fun (same goes for Bezerker, there's no point). They need to nerf these classes or this game is just a "run to a map by yourself, and kill everything" rather than a cooperative survival horror game.
(My experiences are only played on the normal/hard difficulties with no FF)
/rant