Huntsman Montage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCb29qHiIg&fmt=22

I also made a steam forums thread giving my final impressions after using it for the weekend:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10075054#post10075054

So what do you think could be reasonably added to it to make it in (your opinion) a viable alternative?

Faster projectile speeds. The less I have to lead, the more likely I am to hit, and the current amount of travel time for medium range is ridiculous. At the same time it shouldn't be undodgable either.

So more the speed of like say, a pipe?

I think that the pipe and arrow speeds are basically the same, if not the arrow being slightly faster. For a weapon that is supposed to be used accurately, it'd have to be faster than the pipe. Because the pipes can be spammed and people can be hit with explosive damage, or if you do direct hits, you can hit any part of their body and do full damage. The huntsman on the other hand needs to be a headshot to kill most of the time, but the arrows can be dodged pretty much as easily as rockets and pipes can be from meduim range. At short range there's a weird delay, and it doesn't seem to go to where the crosshair is.

It's already faster then a Sandman ball at full charge, any faster and it'd be near indistinguishable from hit-scan. It's fun, though. I blind-fired it over the wall by the left-side health and ammo during the mid rush at Fastlane and wrecked Mun in the face.

Would really like to watch it, but the computer I'm on currently is having trouble loading it for some reason. And to answer squiggles question it already moves as fast as a pipe basically or faster I'm not to sure. I was thinking only slightly lower then hitscan speed would make it a viable alternative. Using the huntsman effectively requires alot of prediction skills more so then actual aiming with hitscan. It's a fun weapon for screwing around in pubs or pugs but I wouldn't use it in a 6's match.

I gotta say it was much easier to headshot than I thought.

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Turn off HD.

If it can't hit good players except for blind luck it's not very practical to use.

fuckinghell.
nice.