Imagine a world where demo won the gunboats
It was rigged
Imagine a world with no demo
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>>731029385>But wait! Against all the rules of contest creation, there is STILL MORE! Because even if you don’t win ANY of the prizes listed above, Gabe Newell might take a liking to your poster and AWARD SOME POINTS to the side of your choice in the Soldier/Demo War. Is this fair? No! Does Gabe care? Not even slightly!
>>731029314sticky spam but worse
>>731029510That's a world without Sniper, a world without Demo would be much more boring
>>731029421it's easy if you tryno stickies below usbehind us, only spy
>>731030267That's good anon
>>731029314I wonder what balance changes we would have seen across the two classes afterwards?Maybe the liberty launcher would be a better weapon. or maybe the sticky spammer+plus gunboats would be the new movement meta.
>>731029314You don’t have to imagine much, you just have to play Team Fortress Classic/Classified.
>>731029385It kind of was. The guy who made the winning poster literally made one for both teams of nearly identical quality.
>>731029385This.I don't buy for a second valve ever intended demo to have gunboats. Everything about the design makes more sense with soldier. Valve already showed with the demoknight that they wanted to encourage the use of the nade launcher more. Making a sticky-only demo does the opposite of that. That and giving gunboats to the soldier works far better as it introduces soldiers who can't use shotty for dealing with pyros which adds more depth to soldier/pyro interactions and rewards learning airblast more.We've known for some while the valve had the means to rig things via the propaganda contest >>731029625 >>731030638. I'm just glad I'm not the only anon saying this anymore.
>>731030267cheeky fuck
>>731029314If demo had gunboats I would sticky jump to the enemy spawn and sticky camp it every single game
>>731030781Sticky camping at least takes prep time. I respect it more than I respect Soldiers always winning 1 on 1 because of his superior aim-not-needed kit and health.
>>731029385yep
>>731029421TF2 without Demo and Soldier just boils down to TF2 but the game is playable and fun for the other 7 classes who are otherwise reduced to killstreak fodder for the 20k hour faggots who couldn't aim hitscan if their lives depended on it.
>>731029314It'd be really boring.Sticky Launcher is the most braindead destructive weapon in the game. It was even more deadly back the with random dmg spread and no arm time nerf.Demo already has the best mobility in the game with the sticky launcher and he gets to keep the grenade launcher which does 400 dmg on direct hits without reloading.
>>731029314>sticky spamming demso being able to fly around at mach shit killing you and stealing packs every 10 secsnow thats terror
>>731029314Barely anything changes at the casual/intermediate levels as the gunboats are overrated. You’d rather use any other secondary in 99% of scenarios including the Mantreads.The only thing that changes is what loadout compfags use on Soldiers since the Gunboats are only useful in a setting that is drastically different from regular gameplay.5cp, 6v6, bunch of weapons getting banned, and class limits. It’s like compfags designed their format around making the gunboats actually usable.
>>731031643>Gunboats are only useful in a setting that is drastically different from regular gameplay.Gunboats are extremely map dependent. There's that one payload map with a tower in the center and like two health packs on the whole map. Gunboats lets you get to places faster with more health for 1v1's. They are obviously bad on like second map first point dustbowl offense where you would rather run a shotgun or banner for pushes
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