I can guarantee that it'll be something you've never thought of and no one would have ever thought of. Like the FAN, BB, and N.Sasha.

How about a blunderbuss that shoots out rainbow bridges that other classes can use? They can call it the M1 Gheyrand.

If they make any more anti uber shit...its going to piss me off. I hope they dont render it obsolete by having 5 classes that have some uber impeding effect.

The only thing good about the scout update was the sandman. The bonk drink is hardly ever used to intended effect in pub games (although i can see a coordinated clan scrim or league using it reasonably well) and the force of nature is simply a nuisance. So far I would still say the Medic had the best overall update. with Pyro second.

Sorry Saber but I think your perception on the FAN is wrong. I use it all the time to kill heavies and medic combos. It's actually a tactic that works on any class because most people don't watch their flanks. If you stun someone with the sandman, run up with the FAN and pop them. Also, since the sandman gets rid of the double jump, I just use the FAN to bounce all over the place while using the sandman. I use Bonk! to get past sentries or distract them for teammates, so the new weapons are really good for the scout. Anyone who says they are crap just doesn't know how to use them.

The FAN is good if you can do air shots like a soldier where you pop a person up into the air and kill them on the way down. But still its only 2 shots, it's not going to kill a heavy + its even more horrible since sandman only makes it so the stunned person take only 50% the damage. Before the sandman nerf, You can usually kill a heavy at the sametime they lose their stun. If you jump and fire, you get knocked back and slows you down making you an easier target to hit. I prefer a pistol to pick off runners and making snipers miss their shots on me over a bonk in which it'll make me run past a sentry or distract someone only later on to lead towards my death since I'm really slow and even more easy target to hit and kill. Its good if you had teamwork but in pub play the closes thing to teamwork is a heavy medic combo. Anything greater than that is on the line of stacking. No ones going to back you up when you drink a bonk to get the sentry gun fire. Again Sandman is crippled a lot. The ball is just so glitchy now, cause I've hit a lot of people with it but it just wont stun. It bounces right off of them.

I think you may have missed the point, or I didn't communicate it well enough.

Ok..how should I say this...

I think the scout got definate upgrades. The sandman is overpowered from the standpoint that it is a projectile weapon that stuns. I don't use the FAN much because I haven't gotten used to it, but I really think that the FAN is an upgrade from the scatter gun. Reload time is not as much as an issue as I believe Valve thought. What time it takes to reload is more than compensated by the knockback/confusion from the knockback.

Bonk...well Bonk is fail to me. I really don't see much use for it. James points out an obvious use, but to be honest, teams on the Tempests aren't organized enough to follow a scout for that short period of invincibility and take out the sentry, much less a sentry nest.

abridged version...Scout got 2 of 3 overpowered weapons.

The previous classes got not weapon upgrades, but balanced weapons.

My opinion is that the scout got upgrades, while the other classes got side-grades (if that makes sense).