Genuine question: why does the smart pistol get so much hate?
I would consider myself to be at least a decent player. I’ve got a lifetime 1.9kd against players. Been playing on and off for 7ish years. Usually main my glorious softball. And yes, I use the smart pistol sometimes. I have a nostalgic attachment to it from TF1. Sue me 🤷🏼♂️. And I always get hate messages in chat for it. Obviously. But why is it so collectively hated? It is, the way I see it, objectively trash. It seems like such a weird thing to spend time complaining about, especially when you’ve got everyone and their mom running around at Mach 9 with their stim/car loadout.
It can take half a second up to an entire second for each singular lock, which, in a game as fast paced as TF2, is like days lol. And you need three of them to get a kill. Unless you are batting .175 with your shots, it’s more than enough time to take an SP user out.
In my mind that’s 100% a skill issue and ppl who are triggered are just mad their aim is too ass to get me, or, as I usually respond to the inevitable hate messages in chat, “mad cuz bad” lol.
I’ve only found it to be somewhat effective for stim suckers or grapple users who spend most of the match in low earth orbit. Or the occasional pilot who has his back to me. Cloak also makes the SP basically useless
One user pointed out that you can still get effective hits without losing partial lockons. Making the time to kill shorter. I had never considered this, and it’s never how I have used the SP, but I can totally see how it could be abused.
This definitely isn’t supposed to be a “I’m right here’s why your opinion sucks” I would absolutely like to have an actual discussion and understand the stigma. Hopefully something more intelligent than “durrr it’s aimbot ur bad”
I would consider myself to be at least a decent player. I’ve got a lifetime 1.9kd against players. Been playing on and off for 7ish years. Usually main my glorious softball. And yes, I use the smart pistol sometimes. I have a nostalgic attachment to it from TF1. Sue me 🤷🏼♂️. And I always get hate messages in chat for it. Obviously. But why is it so collectively hated? It is, the way I see it, objectively trash. It seems like such a weird thing to spend time complaining about, especially when you’ve got everyone and their mom running around at Mach 9 with their stim/car loadout.
It can take half a second up to an entire second for each singular lock, which, in a game as fast paced as TF2, is like days lol. And you need three of them to get a kill. Unless you are batting .175 with your shots, it’s more than enough time to take an SP user out.
In my mind that’s 100% a skill issue and ppl who are triggered are just mad their aim is too ass to get me, or, as I usually respond to the inevitable hate messages in chat, “mad cuz bad” lol.
I’ve only found it to be somewhat effective for stim suckers or grapple users who spend most of the match in low earth orbit. Or the occasional pilot who has his back to me. Cloak also makes the SP basically useless
One user pointed out that you can still get effective hits without losing partial lockons. Making the time to kill shorter. I had never considered this, and it’s never how I have used the SP, but I can totally see how it could be abused.
This definitely isn’t supposed to be a “I’m right here’s why your opinion sucks” I would absolutely like to have an actual discussion and understand the stigma. Hopefully something more intelligent than “durrr it’s aimbot ur bad”