[TF2] Soldier's most influential unlock 

It pains me when players get flanked by a scout once during their roll out so they spend the rest of the game playing slow like this. That scout probably isn't even aware of them after that kill.

Thanks I appreciate it! There's a niche in the TF2 RU-vid scene right now that I'm trying to fill, which is sharing comp knowledge to help those who want to be better in Casual or those who are crossing the bridge between Casual to Competitive. And yeah holding chokes is one of Soldier's (and Demo's especially) specialties due to splash damage.

Actually demo would have both if he got the gunboats! Demo got the Chargin' Targe on the first day, so you'd have to choose between demoman, roamer demo, and demoknight. I'm glad that Soldier won in hindsight lol

Haha the thumbnail has always been the same! It's based off of an old MJ poster my friend used to have, I already made a thumbnail for my Mantreads video and it's also another MJ reference. But yeah! the gunboats are definitely the "soldier's most influential unlock" but I think the lack of videos are just because they're not a weapon, and so most of the analysis has to be raw numbers. I think Funke's "shoots vs boots" video was pretty good back in the day.

@@QueeQuey Dang, well I have to give credit where its due, this is hands down the best and most informal gunboats video out there.

@@Nerd_Sauce Thanks! I appreciate it!

I know exactly what you mean, I used a bit of walkway to improve when I was starting to practice rocketjumping as well! Jump academy was a bit more of a boost, then what helped the most was just learning competitive rollouts and bombs since I could use them over and over and them be useful.

Just foot high water is really easy to jump out of, and gives you extra height on your jumps if you didn't know! I don't remember there being shallow water on well, just deep pools.

I just don't upload often enough lol. If I uploaded more I'm sure people would come watch. Currently almost done with a bison video just need to get 2 more clips but they're relatively difficult ones to get.

hi

Yes! I'm actually working on it right now, I'm playing flank-engie for my team and we just finished Week 1 on Gullywash and we won!

@@QueeQuey good luck

Extremely OP. Having less damage from jumps, better control and Goombastomps would be fucking obnoxious.

@@georgeliquor1236 Maybe replace the Goombastomps with reduced or no fall damage and/or you bounce off peoples' heads instead of damaging them. In which case, it could be reduced fall damage on the ground, and zero fall damage if you bounce a head first, or if you really wanna hard-balance it, only reduced fall damage if you bounce a head first.

It would be incredibly good. Probably the best unlock in the game? Right now both the gunboats and mantreads cover a different weakness of soldier while making him more vulnerable due to not having a shotgun. Gunboats add mobility and decrease the health investment allowing soldiers to be much more mobile. Mantreads make it so a Soldier is a lot harder to stuff whether from Sentry guns, pyros etc. I don't think the turn control would matter too awful much given how standardized the 2-rocket bomb is, but I know that if they were combined Soldiers would absolutely change the 2 rocket bomb to try to land on top of players rather than on the high-ground next to them. This isn't even mentioning last pushes etc where the mantreads are already good competitively. Casually it would boost soldier significantly since most players equip the gunboats (even though they probably shouldn't) and it would give even more leeway to the jumper playstyle which is already very good in casual (especially on Payload). Interesting thought experiment but I'm happy with how both of them are now.

@@QueeQuey So the Goombas of the TreadBoats aren't what makes them broken, it's the knockback negation plus all the other stuff? Hmm...