Friday, June 20, 2008

The Pyro's Compressed Air Shot

As you know by now, TF2 has a new trio of weapons to add to it's Pyro class, The Backburner, Flare Gun, and The Axetinguisher. But in my opinion the most useful update to the Pyro's arsenal is the ability to fire a shot of compressed air from the standard Flamethrower, an upgrade given to all players without the need to fufill any achievements. Along with now being able to send Demomen and Soldiers' grenades, sticky-bombs, and rockets back at them; the compressed air gives the Pyro a chance to seperate medics from their partners as well as set enemies ablaze and quickly blast them away to avoid close-range damage. This, of course, is possible only with the sacrifice of 25 ammunition points and is therefore limited to only eight uses before the need to seek metal, and combined with the standard use of the Flamethrower, it can quickly render the weapon dry.

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