Gamebreaker especially for spies
damn it supply a freaking reason.
since this NoTroop pretty much made the same thread, here's my post in it:
STAR doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, fact. According to him Pomson, spycicle, philly, and every bloody weapon that can kill is OP. It's all about "being the first guy to review a gun" to him, or so it seems. People still quote his videos to make a point. It's kinda sad because he leaves out lots of info.
here's the downside:
- less projectiles per clip
- far less damage against building
- projectiles can be seen and hence can be dodged
- projectiles move slow compared to bullet
- far less damage at point blank range
I play medic a lot and don't see uber drain as a big deal. As a medic, the enemy engineer will almost never have a clear line of sight on me. I've my teammates to do the killing.
As a spy, I've been killed a few times because I was unable to cloak (got drained). But after a bit, you'll get used to it. If you look at the engie, you can see the projectiles coming and often it's very much possible to dodge them.
And like someone else said, engineer barely use this gun. FJ is so much better. Free crits...u can never top that lol
what you say is absolutely true. this weapon is NOT OP in any sort of way.
in fact, i will say that this is actually a good weapon. it gives you a way to handle spies and handle ubers in bad situations.
however, this weapon is outclassed by 1 thing:
teamwork
- A sniper bullet to the head or a knife to the back is a much quicker, and more efficient option than spamming Pomson shots at medics to whittle their ubercharge away. You could've easily said that there was an enemy medic and have a sniper or spy take care of him/her.
- reducing cloak on spies isn't a really an OP buff IMO, but it would be much quicker to have a pyro light a cloaked spy on fire. you can clearly see the spy that way and it greatly lowers the chances that the spy will be able to escape and/or survive.
infinite ammo isn't too much of a big deal considering the type of projectiles that this weapon fires. it just encourages a lot of spam for
free kills.
really, the only OP thing on the Pomson IMO is that it can penetrate enemy players. a medic's patient usually takes the shot for him/her, but the penetration just negates this completely.
*end original post*
as for gamebreaker/gamemaker, neither. I'm assuming gamebreaker/gamemaker implies that they lose/win matches. Pomson is actually pretty easily ignored and doesn't affect gameplay too much IMO. If you're a spy, avoid the shots and get behind him. (which you should do anyway whether or not they do have the Pomson) If you're a medic, -10% ubercharge is not that big of a problem. you can get that back in literally 15-30 seconds depending on if your teammates are injured or not, and you can just hide behind cover instead of your teammate to avoid getting affected by the Pomson's penetration.
