They buffed the Gas Passer

[The Blazing Blade]

By making it count as wet when being hit with the Neon Annihilator.
Oh glorious day!
Gas Passer is still bad though.

[Leeloo]

saw 5 pyros run in with the gas passer today. was funny.

[Eighteen-Counts Trevor]

Finally! Solo Pyroshark is now viable* on every map instead of just 2fort and well!

*usable

[UNBREAKABLE]

First balance change in years? Not formally I guess since it was a "fix".

[Eighteen-Counts Trevor]

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

First balance change in years? Not formally I guess since it was a "fix".

Second, the first was the Iron Bomber

[brodc]

Originally posted by The Blazing Blade:

By making it count as wet when being hit with the Neon Annihilator.
Oh glorious day!
Gas Passer is still bad though.

They have a hardon for pyro inflation so they have to keep him broken and unfun to fight oorah

[RedReimu]

Originally posted by Bots Are A Government Conspiracy:

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

First balance change in years? Not formally I guess since it was a "fix".

Second, the first was the Iron Bomber

I forgot the iron bomber had a broken hitbox lol.

[Mcfighter2]

Originally posted by Bots Are A Government Conspiracy:

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

First balance change in years? Not formally I guess since it was a "fix".

Second, the first was the Iron Bomber

True but the gas passer change made it actually worth using and the neon sign less situational. Much more significant than the iron bomber bug fix.

[Shiro]

Funnily, since gas debuff goes away after taking damage (being replaced with ignition), I've kinda assumed this isn't that significant of a change when I read it. You gas the victim, go for a hit... and then some scout from 50 meters away hits them for 3 damage, igniting them and resulting in you doing mere 52 dmg. But honestly, I simply don't 100% know how real this will be... either way, at least gas passer now has ONE usable synergy.

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by Mcfighter2:

Originally posted by Bots Are A Government Conspiracy:

Second, the first was the Iron Bomber

True but the gas passer change made it actually worth using and the neon sign less situational. Much more significant than the iron bomber bug fix.

Did someone steal your account or something? What is going on with your recent posts?

[Mcfighter2]

Originally posted by Rando MacArthur, Crit Horologist:

Originally posted by Mcfighter2:

True but the gas passer change made it actually worth using and the neon sign less situational. Much more significant than the iron bomber bug fix.

Did someone steal your account or something? What is going on with your recent posts?

Yeah someone stole my account, yeah.
I just think it’s neat that the guy behind this patch decided to do this. Maybe we have a different opinion?

[Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC]

Bad buff that doesnt make any sense. Gasoline/petrol is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons
that lacks the free electrons which are necessary for the conduction of electricity.

[CAT_ATACK]

Originally posted by Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC:

Bad buff that doesnt make any sense. Gasoline/petrol is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons
that lacks the free electrons which are necessary for the conduction of electricity.

It makes perfect sense: you turn Pyro into a Human Sparkplug, thats why you can't hit the Crit more than once!

[SharkChew]

It's not much of a buff, more like fixing a jar weapon that wasn't acting like a jar weapon.

[Tacticowl]

Just.... just let us spawn with a full gas passer.... It's already bad enough as is, I'm not sure why it's also the slowest rechargable throwable in the game when it's also by far the worst.

If it was a lot spammier, I can see it being very useful for chokepoints (where pyro usually struggles in defending) Would still be less annoying than scorch shot spam (which, to be fair, is really all a pyro can do in that situation without a medic)

[Eighteen-Counts Trevor]

Originally posted by Mcfighter2:

Originally posted by Bots Are A Government Conspiracy:

Second, the first was the Iron Bomber

True but the gas passer change made it actually worth using and the neon sign less situational. Much more significant than the iron bomber bug fix.

It's hard to say it's worth using when it's still ♥♥♥♥. The only thing they did was give it a niche use, but that's still big when we're talking about the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gas passer.