so, scientist... why undiscussed?
havn't seen any posts about him yet. I say give him +1 damage. More attack speed. i want him to be the Get in, Get the * out gameplay character. He's too much heal based for me . I used to enjoy s...
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Honestly, I think he’s fine the way he is. Even a slight damage reduction would be feasible. His damage input at the moment is massive for what is meant to be a supportive character and I’ve already seen too many scientist players in TT just warping to my plant teammates, wiping them out then running for it, and so it repeats. I play Scientist in most ops modes and did the PvE missions using him and I will say that it is ridiculous how easy it is to complete them using this character.
As many have mentioned already, it’s his healing capabilities that are his downsides as a supportive role. Scientist easily outclasses Sunflower when it comes to damage, but Sunflower is superior to him with healing. My loadout and playstyle for Scientist is purely supportive, however I don’t know about you but I find playing him as a healer extremely... exhausting? It’s just due to the constant sprinting after teammates to heal them which is never very well seeing as his healing hose doesn’t have much range( even with the power wash upgrade) nor is it reliable as you’ve got to constantly mimic the movements of your jumping teammates just to keep them from dying. He does have the advantage of healing multiple zombies at once but the hose is just increasingly difficult to use, especially with max sensitivity being so low. As well as this, he can’t shoot and heal at the same time which makes you have to either alternate between healing and defending yourself or risking your life in order to protect your team and keep them alive.
Overall, it hurts to say that he’s not fitting his role too well. They’ve kept this ‘lone wolf’ sort of characteristic for him for all of the games and it’s still being utilised. Yes, a supportive character should be able to handle them self in a 1v1 but rely on their team if outnumbered, but scientist has the ability to completely demolish opponents when in a 1v2-3 etc, and that’s something that shouldn’t be happening.
I feel like,
At the moment he's n'either support n'or assassin. He really misses 1 damage on his primary to be an assassin (you hit certain characters 4 times , and they get away with like 1 - 10 health), not just that. But he also misses a secondary damage skill to be an assassin.
I used to play him assassin , warp in behind plants, stickybomb,primary, get 5 kills, warp away , put healing station and back. It's not possible to do this anymore. You warp in , hope you get 4-5 hits to kill 1 plant, you warp out or you die. the healing gun skill is just useless when playing as assassin. So you get 2 skills and your primary.
But maybe you guys are right , and i haven't played him enough yet. We'll see.
As a healer. His healing really sucks. it's a lot slower than sunflowers' healing. And just boring for me personally. i hate having to run after teammates to heal them, hoping they would stand still. It takes awareness from them which they often don't have.
I SAY : REMOVE HEALER ROLE and make him full assassin. :D
- @IWinWithPewPew As soon as a scientist starts his warp, he is invulnerable. This alone makes him an assassin, his ability to quickly disengage from any fight while being targeted by any attack. A well timed warp can’t even be goatified, warp nullifies any and all incoming effects and damage. Giving him his trash sticky heal chewed bubblegum looking thing gives him a necessary heal option to be the complete solo character.
