Implemented TF2 Saxton Hale: Pyro blast = health penalty

As ammo is unlimited on this server, we should have a penalty for the pyro using blasts.

Reasons
- Pyro's can use their blasts infinite
- Blasting a jumping hale is possible
- It's a boring gameplay as we all wait the endless pyro vs. hale rounds

Solutions
- Add a health penalty for blasting. I recommend substracting 25 hp. Huntsmen gets a penalty of 15 hp (12% of health, pyro will be roughly 14%).
- Increase time between blasts to 3 seconds

Thank you for this server. It has good settings and some excellent maps.

 

Thank you. The cooldown is removed? K Maybe people didn't like that because it caused too many deads as players were unaware. But there should be something that limits the pyro asap.

 

I wouldn't mind making you lose hp but making the airblast period longer would ruin puff n sting which is the only fun part about pyro imo.

 

25 hp is too much. It's like the old atomizer but worse as airblasts are a fundamental part of pyro and it would take 7 airblasts to kill you and people usually like to rock flare gun as a sidearm for jumps so with that the number could be 4

 

Same for sniper... Only 8 melee attacks needed on a wall. It makes both roles require to have a health kit source nearby. So in fact there is still a way to camp.


EDIT: Any update on this?

 

Are you planning for the airblast exponential cooldown to last the entire round (e.g if you build up a, say, 16 second cooldown somehow at the start of the round, and then airblast twice 5 mins later with 16 secs in-between those blasts), or will it reset after a certain amount of time? (like 10-20 seconds)

 

Thought you guys don't like the cooldown. Why don't you simply replace the large health kits with smaller ones for the unbalanced maps? This makes endless soldier jumps harder to do as well.

 

I agere on miltary being way too filled with way too Many large health packs.

I don't think that IT would Work to make the period between each airblast take longer, because the new pyro meta would just be burn, airblast and Jump away with flare.
What about just making the airblast Range smaller? This wouldn't 100% prevent being airblasted in the air, but would require a Lot of skill to consistently do it. Also if the airblast Range Was smaller on ground hale could easily bait out the blast making that more balanced aswell...

 

Any ETA on this?