Though you are playing the Pyro in what is considered a legitimate way, i think people are mad
because of things like that, like, maybe they'd be more okay with it if it was less blindly running forward and more waiting around corners to ambush people, because it's more strategic and less noobish
The basic Pyro strategies on the Wiki even says
- Ambush enemies to catch them in the short range of your Flamethrower. Use corners to your advantage; however, be sure that the nozzle of the Flamethrower isn't visible from around the corner.
- Don't approach enemies head-on; they will notice you and use your short range to their advantage.
- Approaching enemies from the back is usually a much safer and stronger route to attack. This is an especially effective method when employed with the Backburner.
- Your Flamethrower chews up a lot of ammo. Pick up fallen weapons to refill your supply.
- You can often set enemies on fire and retreat, leaving them to die from the afterburn.
Which would give the impression that the Pyro is meant to be played in an ambush and suprirse style, rather than a charge-in-head-first frontal assault style, and yet you only ever see Pyros charge head on into people with their flamethrowers constantly going
The problem with that is that the W+M1 play style is basically the norm at this point and is to be expected in every server you go to, and yet there are people out there who get mad at these players because they're always killed by this 'noob' strategy of W+M1 and they're just sick and tired of seeing the same thing over and over again, or they actually wish that people would just play Pyro 'correctly' and actually switch to the secondary weapon, or even the melee weapon from time to time and try and ambush people
Honestly, i get mad at these kinds of people too, but i don't get mad at them because of how they choose how to play a class, i'm mad at myself for not taking them out before they can kill me
Basically, those people need to get over it and git gud
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