My response to the Helios nerf (also, an alternative to the inevitable Firebug nerf)

[Aya]

The price increase for the Helios feels more like a nerf TBH. Knowing Tripwire's direction with the Firebug, I think it'd be worth mentioning my idea for what i think would be best for Firebug:

Helios

Price reduced to 1500
Ammo reduced to 40+280
Damage increased to 65 (was 40)
Upgrade to Level 1 reinstated

Microwave Gun

Beam impact damage increased to 30 (was 16)
Max ammo decreased to 100+300
Can headshot (Caulk and FT can)

Husk Cannon

Base Damage increased to 120 (was 80)
Max ammo decreased to 20+160
Can spawn ground fires if 2 or more ammo units was consumed (initially required a full charge)
Can Headshot (required for most of Demolitionist's skills)

Flamethrower

Damage increased to 30 (was 18)
Ammo decreased to 100+300

Caulk n' Burn

Damage increased to 18 (was 10)
Ammo decreased to 50+250

[TheBlindReaper]

I was with you till R7 when the back got breached so I said I’ll rotate to help out? We wiped at early 9 and the back was the lower spawn for trash, the single doorway was where most of the spawns converged because to copy you, it had 5/6 entryways, that’s why we even had most of the demo’s facing there. (Lockdown map: Big stairway area has 2 doors, top of that stairs has 1, opposite the doorway we held was another, 2 more on the right). My side was a trickle of zeds and I rotated there to support against Large zeds due to the lower player focus

And obv they died fast since I was using CnB tgt with the demo’s lobbing explosives in but had most of the kills. Do you even know how much MWG deals to most trash? 24 damage reduced to 20% or 4 damage per beam instance, Ground Fire is 14 reduced to 2 due to Resistance even CnB’s 15 damage dealing full 100% from Fire outdoes it, that’s why you don’t use it on anything but the above mentioned because it does negligible damage that you might as well just bash

[Leon]

Top10 anime dramas.

[Frisky]

just went through a 6 man suicidal pub today and with the helios rifle i took 20 big zed kills despite there being a demo who was rather good in the pub
pyromaniac lets you decap a scrake like nobodies business so honestly the nerf was pretty understandable since firebug is supposed to be trash focused first