What's wrong with the Red Tape Recorder?

[Duckilous]

People say it's a bad Sapper but personally I found it useful in some situlations.

I know it's slow to destroy a building but making a building downgrade is what makes it interest me.

[IChugWindex]

Festive sapper or bust.

[Popeyes Chicken]

RTR is my main sapper of choice. Mostly for the trolling effect, but it makes the engineer rage when his despensier is downgraded to one, and his sentry is a lvl 2 when a heavy/soldier comes by.

[Mother of Exiles]

Messaggio originale di Hoovy:

People say it's a bad Sapper but personally I found it useful in some situlations.

I know it's slow to destroy a building but making a building downgrade is what makes it interest me.

I usually use it since I don't exactly like the blandness of stock weapons and have yet to get a strange and or reskin of stock sapper.

[Duckilous]

Messaggio originale di ThatBoyWithoutGlasses:

RTR is my main sapper of choice. Mostly for the trolling effect, but it makes the engineer rage when his despensier is downgraded to one, and his sentry is a lvl 2 when a heavy/soldier comes by.

Exactly so why does people hate it and called it 'useless'?

[Pakaku]

If it's impossible to kill the Engineer (he's built a nest with five other Engineers), then that's really the only situation where the Red-Tape comes in handy.

If you're "1-vs-1" against an Engineer, just stab him and sap his stuff with a regular Sapper.

[Popeyes Chicken]

Messaggio originale di Hoovy:

Messaggio originale di ThatBoyWithoutGlasses:

RTR is my main sapper of choice. Mostly for the trolling effect, but it makes the engineer rage when his despensier is downgraded to one, and his sentry is a lvl 2 when a heavy/soldier comes by.

Exactly so why does people hate it and called it 'useless'?

Statistacally speaking, the stock sapper is better. Which is why people call the RTR "useless"

[iCarus]

cuz it's a skrub wep like degreaser.

lol jk but really when you can just destroy the building, why degrade it?
the only situation I could think of that RTR is actually more efficient is when there's no respawn/short respawn timer and the nest is close enough to the spawn-- in which case a regular sapper without constant revolver shooting cannot bring it down fast enough, and risk staying there might as well get yourself killed

[Regular Player]

I personally see it as a sidegrade.

Sapper is all or nothing, RTR isn't.

[abcmouse.com]

It pisses me off when I play engie because by the time I fix a building kill a spy,the other ones are back to level one,which wastes my metal.so I use rtr for spy because of that

[1337Walrus]

It's definitely a side-grade, it's very situational, and in most situations, the normal Sapper would probably fare better off, by destroying said building faster rather than downgrading it, because sometimes your team just... doesn't come to destroy the weakened buildings.