Implemented VSH Reduce the cooldown of airblast by 0.25 secs (I think it is at 1 1/2-2 seconds cooldown atm)

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Reduce it?

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  1. Spartan

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    Suggestion:
    Reduce the cooldown of airblast by 0.25 secs (I think it is at 1 1/2-2 seconds cooldown atm)

    What happened?
    A while back Bluekr and Enrimeus decided that pyros needed a nerf as there are many who would just spam M2 and make a massive pain for the Hale's as they couldnt get into large groups and kill them.

    Why reduce it?

    There are some pyro players who play offensively and do combos to maximise damage, I am one of them and it was more common when I used to play, I did have these issues and mentioned them to blue before we agreed that it was bad how it was before but I still think by slightly reducing the cooldown it will make these offensive pyros have a slightly better quality of gameplay.

    What do I mean by this:

    Right now the combo is airblast, melee, flare shot, into hale. What this does is knocks him back quite a distance and does a bit of damage, the issue is that there are many reasons why this might fail and need a second airblast;
    Spies standing behind hale
    Demos behind hale
    Knockback from other players
    Hales ping being ruuude
    Pyro messes up

    Right now if this happens, the pyro has no real chance to get back, it is just slightly too long to have another go and survive, this style of pyro is a lot of fun and I would love to be able to play it again.
     
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    As long as pyros still cannot completely spam the hale I agree with this
     
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    The current delays are as follows:
    Backburner - 3.5 seconds, 30% dmg bonus
    Degreaser - 2.5 seconds, 20% dmg bonus
    All other FTs - 3.0 seconds, 25% dmg bonus

    I think reducing by .25 won't do that much of a difference for the BB, maybe would do a .5 for all.
     
  4. Spartan

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    I see, I didnt think it was that long, 0.5 may be a good amount to take off then and see how it fares.
     
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    Reduced cooldown by .5 seconds, deployed on the server.
     
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