I hope Popcap works on balance issues with each patch. In my opinion the Scientist is way underpowered and the foot soldier zombie is overpowered. The scientist needs a better weapon or upgrade path and better ability on the field it's just frustrating playing him. Yes, I know he's a support character but it's ridiculous how weak his stuff is.
Can you please specify which platform you're on?
Balance issues are different for console vs PC.
The scientist is a powerful hit and run character. He's extremely powerful in close quarters. His grenades are only good for clean up since they only do 50 damage. Use him to warp in, shotgun them to death, warp away.
I believe that the marine biologist does ~22 damage per hit at close range. That would require 5 hits on a sunflower and cactus? 6 hits on the peashooter. 7-8 hits on a chomper. Can't remember what the default scientist does for damage per shot.
Default Scientist's close range hit does 70-80 damage I believe; further away is about 30-40.
Marine Biologist's close range does about 30-50; not sure about further away.
Seeing all those vanquish compilation videos, most of them are with Scientists, although I haven't seen one made for PC yet.
@AWMaxSterling wrote:I believe that the marine biologist does ~22 damage per hit at close range. That would require 5 hits on a sunflower and cactus? 6 hits on the peashooter. 7-8 hits on a chomper. Can't remember what the default scientist does for damage per shot.
I was wrong. It's the astronaut that does 22 damage per hit... 11 per hit at range, but he's got sniper accuracy with his moon rocks.
There is no way that gun does that much damage, lol. It takes 5 hits to drop a chomper.
Also, most of the upgrades I've gotten and gotten all excited about too btw, have been downgrades. So the standard scientist already has the best stuff, yawn. Why not make upgrades that are more useful or that broaden his use or gameplay. He's already limited enough to just healing teammates, there is no way you're going to use him as an offensive character. The Scientist needs more defensive stuff period.
@ooz1sh wrote:There is no way that gun does that much damage, lol. It takes 5 hits to drop a chomper.
Also, most of the upgrades I've gotten and gotten all excited about too btw, have been downgrades. So the standard scientist already has the best stuff, yawn. Why not make upgrades that are more useful or that broaden his use or gameplay. He's already limited enough to just healing teammates, there is no way you're going to use him as an offensive character. The Scientist needs more defensive stuff period.
Are you sure you're hitting directly and getting a crit off?
It's a shotgun, so you are doing crazy damage when up close. He's probably one of the most offesnive in-your-face characters overall.
So how many shots does it take to drop something? In my experience it still takes 3 or more; so the only prayer a Scientist has is to warp in drop someone, maybe 2, then warp out a short distance away and get away? good luck with that. This character needs more work is what I'm saying, it's not balanced compared to the High Damage Output of the Peashooter, cactus etc. Even the sunflower can root and kick ass for a second.
Teleport, with it's delay, isn't sucha great thing. And the upgrades of teleport; such as energy warp; are downgrades; so is every other unlock I've gotten for the medic. Instead of the proximity mines you can get a big healing ball? whoopdedoo. Very limited in use with very little reward and no survivability benefit.
The Scientist Needs a buff.
