I don't really get the over all design of the Axetinguisher, to be honest. It's always looked a bit too, I dunno, road warrior to me. It doesn't really match the Merry Melodies/Tom & Jerry look of the rest of the game's designs. That said though it's actual effect and perfect name are pretty cool and hilarious respectively. I'm thinking that some sort of melee ranged oil can squirter thing would have looked better although it would have required a suitably funny name.
The back burner works just like the regular flamethrower it just has an increased critrate on enemies backs and won't have the new compressed gas shot that the regular flamethrower has been granted. Compressed gas shot sounds awesome and will make pyros the undisputed masters of CQC they need to be as well as provide them with a neat trick against many of their long range nemeses. I'm thinking that they are also really good turret defenders now with flame to ignite saboteurs and compressed blasts to foil rocketmen and cyclopes alike.
The Flaregun looks really neat, it's something I would see myself using a lot if it was just an additional weapon to my load out or if I could replace my axe with it. As it stands though, I think I'd rather have what I assume is going to be the superior burst damage of the shotgun since its ability to initiate an attack or keep the damage going when approaching or fleeing an enemy respectively is a big part of playing this class effectively. The Flare gun sounds like more of an annoyance weapon than a real damage dealer as it probably just ignites enemies and does standard burn damage with out much actual shot damage and probably a low rate of fire (bad choice of words). I will obviously use it occasionally to get the achievement if nothing else though.
Basically, I'm probably gonna start playing some TF2 again for the first time in a while just because the Firejack was always my favourite class. The fact that he was way more effective than he ever was in the original TF was one the best aspects of the game to me and it now looks like he will have even more uses in a game and will be a lot more fun to play seeing has he will be all the more frightening in close quarters with his numerous methods of crit assurance.
I'm actually thinking of changing my screen name from
Fake_Kraid to
Red Adair and just playing pyro full-time for a while
