What do you think is the best new weapon thus far?

What is the best new weapon?

  • The BackBurner

    Points: 22 34.9%

  • The Flare Gun

    Points: 5 7.9%

  • The Axtingisher

    Points: 3 4.8%

  • The Blutsauger

    Points: 5 7.9%

  • The Kritzkreig

    Points: 3 4.8%

  • The Ubersaw

    Points: 11 17.5%

  • They all Suck

    Points: 4 6.3%

  • They all Rock

    Points: 3 4.8%

  • I haven't gotten enough to know yet

    Points: 7 11.1%
  • Total voters
    63
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Dreadmaker

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As above. Discuss.

Personally, my favorite has to be the backburner. I never use compressions anyhow (I started playing again after they added it, and I never really liked it), and it gives pyros more health and a good chance of critting.

I would probably prefer the ubersaw, but I haven't got it yet (2 more achievements to go!!)
 
I'm still quite partial to the blutsauger. It's still the only gun that lets you heal yourself, and that's pretty freakin' cool.
 
I would have to agree with Dreadmaker for all the same reasons :)



Its also nice because it doesnt take away from normal crits too
 
The backburner is horribly overpowered, ive seen that thing crit facing a heavy to his face, all you need is someone the flame hits as a back hit and the thing starts critting like mad for 5 seconds refreshing each back hit, its the back hit that turns it to auto-critting, not mattering the facing.
 
I am probably goning to be one of 10 people saying this, but the Kritz is the best new thing. The only problem with it is when you get a bad kritz buddy (that stays behind) instead of a good kritz buddy(that runs forwards assuming that it was a normal uber).
 
See, I'm scared of the kritz. people haven't really figured out how to use it yet. as a medic, I see people all the time run in and try to kamikaze turrets with the kritz, even though I have told them I'm using the kritz, not uber.

I think the common misconception is that it gives you invincibility AND critical.
 
UBERSAW. Not only is it humiliating to be melee killed by a medic, but the victem also knows that they helped build an Uber.
OKTOBERFEST!
 
i like the backburner... looks cool and its also really awesome to hear the continuos crit sound
 
I must say the backburner. It is one mean weapon that makes pyro classes more effective and makes almost impossible to survive if you made a mistake as a light class.
 
the pyro to me seemed to be hastily upgraded, maybe valve is proud of their pyro class, but im a proud spy, sitting on 97+ hours of that class, now i cant even leave my base with a bunch of trigger happy pyros jumping up and down spraying fire everywhere, im caught every time and they didnt know i was there, the backburner is an ultimate pwning machine, the pyro class is suppose to be 100% ambush, if they see u coming youre a dead man, so if u learn to ambush well you are looking at 0 deaths with the occasion crackshot from the snipe while u retreat your average score will be 45/2 so this is why i believe the backburner was a huge mistake, 100% crits all the time is too much for my tastes
 
I don't know. a lot of people have issues with the backburner. My only beef is that lately, I find it hard to be on a team with less than about 4-7 pyros. It's madness, and frankly, it's annoying!

The flare gun does it's job. I am a sniper at heart, and when I start burning from a distance, two things happen : 1, the pyro is insta-dead. second, I am forced to move, because I can't snipe while I'm burning, and I obviously left myself open in that spot. That was well designed by valve.

the backburner can be called overpowered. Critting that much is ridiculous. they probably should have had maybe a 50-75% chance, not 100. Lack of compression would be good balance for that, but adding another 50 health makes it somewhat overpowered. I don't know if they realized at the time that they turned the pyro into a secondary heavy, but they did.

Axtinguisher... not bad. it encourages flare/flamethrower use in melee range, but in reality, it's kind of hard to make that bonus work. So I call it a choice, not an upgrade.
 
kritzkrieg by far, i consider it much better than uber, and ive dominated the other team when i get good patients. Personally my favorite to kritz is demo manor soldier
but after kritz my favorite would prob be flare gun, but the best would be backburner
 
ubersaw. The utility use of it is amazing. Blutsaugher comes in a close second (healing is nice, albeit slow.)

though for pyros, backburner is really nice, but compression can be decimating if you can us it right.
 
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