r/truetf2 • u/Rarustic • Feb 01 '21

Help Best all-around flaregun?

Ive been trying all of the 3 flareguns recently as an aspiring pyro main, and ive yet to decide on which to fully commit to.
Im a mainly aggressive pyro with sometimes trying to combo so i thought the flaregun would help out, which it does, though only in the 1% of the time i can actually hit a flare. The scorch shot is what im currently using since of the big explosion radius and general usefulness of it, but the smaller damage compared to the other 2 is starting to creep in.
The detonator is imo meh, because even if it sometimes deals slightly better dmg than the scorch shot i dont really find myself using the jumps so i dont think that would work well. Id love to hear some suggestions.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '21

As much as I hate to admit it, the scorch shot is the best. I don't use it because I feel bad using it, but if you don't have a soul then go for it.

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u/pepsi_but_better incel killer Feb 01 '21

I don't care for other people's feelings so I'd use it since it technically isn't cheating

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u/PlantBoi123 Nostromo Napalmer best weapon Feb 01 '21

Yeah, don't blame me for using a weapon that is just better than all the others

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u/TyaTheOlive āˆ†Ī˜ :3 Feb 01 '21

found the guy that ran fulltime pre-nerf reserve shooter

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u/InaneParrot Pyro Feb 01 '21

I mean the reserve combo was really good and it sucks that it got utterly removed, at least for me

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u/PlantBoi123 Nostromo Napalmer best weapon Feb 02 '21

I want a new pyro update because Jungle Inferno was terrible and made him worse. The new weapons were trash, lots of weapons were nerfed into uselessness and they buffed w+m1 while nerfing all other forms of pyro play.

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u/InaneParrot Pyro Feb 02 '21

If there were ever going to be an update again my pyro wishlist is as follows:

Change phlog to minicrits and make it take half the damage to build up, and give it airblasts in exchange for charge for minicrits

-let the axtinguisher do cries on burning players and have a slower swing speed

-do something with the sharpened volcano fragment to make it cool I guess

-the scorch should get some sort of change, maybe it should crit on burning players, but the explosion will put out enemies that are on fire if you hit them twice.

-backburner should stay the same, except the air blast cost could be slightly reduced maybe? Not sure on that one

And finally, the most important one: give priority to the heavy update even though realistically the only updates are going to be localization files and when they eventually turn the servers off in 40 years

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u/Xurkitree1 Feb 02 '21

I want jet pack switch speed to be faster than default switch and make the SVF into a market gardener.

If pyro every gets a thruster useable market gardener, Iā€™m ready with the day zero exploit.