- Upsides only apply on full charge
- Fully charged headshots already kill every class in the game
- (Assuming damage spread off) Fully charged Machina bodyshots don’t kill any class which the Stock doesn’t except for (unconfirmed) Gas Jockey Pyros and Pain Train Demomen
- Penetration kills are down to the movements of the enemy, and so are pretty much unpredictable, extremely situational luck kills
- Tracers immediately make you target #1 from the entire enemy team
- No noscopes severely limits your effectiveness versus Scouts, stop headshot-noscope combo versus 175hp classes
- Penetration shots don’t penetrate buildings
All in all, totally worthless. Use the stock.
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October 16th, 2012 at 19:13
Your effectiveness against scouts is easily countered by using the SMG instead of jarate.
Otherwise everything you said is pretty much correct, the tracer aspect alone means you’ve either got to constantly find new sniping spots or basically resign yourself to a 1.00 k/d ratio.