Balance Conversion

There's not a lot here but it's some pretty significant stuff. Also, I might have broken heavy. But, that's okay. He was already pretty stupid, right?

Heavy is no longer the slow moving immobile sentry that he was. He's dropped down to 350 hp and recieves 50% less healing from medics (was 25%). He's found his running shoes and is now just a vicious killing machine. His surviveability might still be a little too high, but we'll see how this works. This will certainly encourage heavies to not stand around on the intel and defend it--and they won't have to! Scout bat, once again, no longer gives absurd air control. It was originally added to put scouts up in the air more and give more opprotunities for airshots or cool plays...but the whole air control thing went a little too far. Despite them being up in the air, they were unhittable, and most of us know the game entirely revolved around flying like a super hero.


Even if a pesky scout does run away with the intel now, not all hope is lost. The intel can be instantly returned to the base by touching it, Quake/Tribes style. All of this greatly reduces the scout's potential, I realize. We'll be looking at what he needs to help him continue being an effective capper. Dust off your wingers, they're still really good.

I'm still not entirely sure what to do with sniper, but if I did know...It might also help counter the heavy who may be super powerful now. Keep in mind, the heavy can NOT pick up the intel so he can't do everything by himself. (let me know if he does, those are called bugs).

Another major consideration right now is changing heavy to be unlocked for a team on flag caps, rather than a 2 minute timer. This would encourage objective play, but potentially snowball a team for a quicker victory. It would be interesting to see everyone pull back for defense knowing they could have a heavy after a cap until he's dealt with. Who knows?


List of Changes:
Demoman sticky launcher fires faster
3 Ammo for grenade launcher, up from 1
New Heavy Minigun (again)
Heavy shotgun is now destroyed on backstab (not minigun)
Scout bat air control removed
Scout bat speed buffs allies
Syringe damage lowered
CTF flags can now be instantly returned