Making the Engineer Flamethrower more interesting.
Personally, I love the ideas for 1 and 2, but the rest of the skills are pretty awesome the way they are. Love airblast, love combo field wall, hate that the recharge on the smoke vent is so high, but still usable
I don’t know about the skill tweaks/changes because it may take longer to balance those than it would to balance what we already have. That said I think most engineer kits could use a slight base damage increase, I almost never use the flamethrower because it hardly has any supportive capability and its damage is very poor.
Personally, I love the ideas for 1 and 2, but the rest of the skills are pretty awesome the way they are. Love airblast, love combo field wall, hate that the recharge on the smoke vent is so high, but still usable
Well the combo field wall is pretty useless for engineers by themselves… Unless you wanted to throw it down and switch to your rifle or pistols and shoot through it… But it’s just not as cool or practical of an ability. Smoke vent is kind of lame as well and somewhat useless considering you don’t want to be point blank with the flamethrower anyway… Air blast is great which is why I don’t want them to touch it. I just want to feel powerful when I switch to my flamethrower. But instead I feel like I have a bunch of abilities that don’t fit well together as a kit.
Oh yeah, the wall is pretty useless if you’re solo, I just plant it right in front of me against melee for a little extra damage. But if you are in a team, especially a ranged team, you will see the burning numbers go a lot higher than your puny 1s flamethrower. Smoke vent could definitely be improved though, maybe a shorter cooldown or stealth or something
Oh yeah, the wall is pretty useless if you’re solo, I just plant it right in front of me against melee for a little extra damage. But if you are in a team, especially a ranged team, you will see the burning numbers go a lot higher than your puny 1s flamethrower. Smoke vent could definitely be improved though, maybe a shorter cooldown or stealth or something
The thing is you don’t even need smoke vent because we have air blast… its a completely pointless ability.