Stickybomb Physics........

Tell me if its just me but since i updated the game today the physics for shooting stickbombs away from you is acting weird. Whenever i shoot them they fly right into my face and then hit the ground at my feet. Just yesterday i was using the same weapon (shotgun) to shoot them away but after the update its happens everytime making it impossible to save my sentry from those pesky demomen. Anyone else notice this?

They changed how the physics affect the stickybombs in the Goldrush patch.  It was to make them easier to push away.

I've noticed that shooting stickies, sometimes they go the normal distance, but other times, they seem to just flop short of the normal distance when fired without charging.  Ever since the update it has been a bit wonky.

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The behavior you describe has been in the game since before the patch. I've had it happen to me a lot as a spy. I think it has to do with the surface upon which the stickies lie. If the surface has a slope or if it has small ridges in it, the stickies behave in unpredictable ways when I shoot them with the spy's revolver. Usually they get pushed away from me. Sometimes they dont move. Rarely they actually come at me in the air. I have seen this behavior less after they released the update a few days ago. They DID make it a LOT easier to push them away (I think they made them lighter or less sticky) but they are still subject to the surface to which they are stuck.


EDIT: also make sure that if you're behind your SG and a sticky lands in front of it, that you are not shooting the hit-box of the SG and are in fact shooting the sticky. And try using your pistol too, I find that equally effective at pushing stickies away from my junk as an engie. You get 12 shots but it does require more precise aim.

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According to the update news, bullets impart a higher force on stickies.

Good. Too bad stickies impart a higher force on everything else.

Tbh, this was one of the most important things for the update as far as I am concerned, it took me all of 5 mins playing before I managed to shoot a demo's stickies all the way to the corner he kept hopping from behind, priceless when he set them off and instead of the expected sentry kill, he ended up fragging himself....inevitably I got accused of hax but meh....

Belial, that's beautiful. That may be the most awesome kill I've heard of so far in TF2.

Lol thats funny..., but its more funnier when Demos are ubered and the engi thinks wrenching his sentry will save it from being destroied