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Yesterday me playing pyro was downright useless. I start burning stuff and they refuse to die. My flamethrower is sitting on a target for a good 2 seconds and it does nothing but get their attention. So they can turn around and shoot me. I even tried ambushing folks like I used to back when I used the backburner, nothing. I can maybe axestinguish one of them to death. Used to be a good ambush could take out 3 or 4 guys, or failing that do significant damage. You should have to be aware when going around corners. Now a pyro in ideal circumstances can't compete with anything.
It doesn't feel like they nerfed the flamer by 25% It feels more like they nerfed the flamer DOWN TO 25%. Successfully circle strafe a heavy for 2 whole revolutions before he finally gets me, flamer on him the whole time, before that was plenty to kill a lone heavy, now it takes them down to about 50% health if that. I'm actually thinking somebody at valve messed something up inputting numbers, that's really does not feel like a 25% nerf.
The pyro has gone from being a decent class that could only effectively get a few kills in close range to a class that MIGHT kill a medic or spy at close range. And even a spy has a good chance of magically warping behind you and backstabbing you unless you have a ping of less than 30.
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It seems like now if you want to accomplish anything with a pyro you are forced to use the damn backburner.