At least for BLU team. From my experience, BLUs never use the Jumper weapons for chasing a RED without damaging themselves or anything actually useful. Instead, BLU members that use the Jumpers tend to be the kind that delay rounds by jumping all over the place and fleeing from REDs, even if it is Last Guard, which is even more annoying when REDs don't have a Sniper or someone with really good aim, or if there is an LR active that makes it so REDs cannot get ammo or have a harder time trying to shoot the BLU. These Jumper weapon users are also the kind that wander off to play minigames and screw around instead of helping the Warden.
Even if you get a player that actually wants to do their job properly, the Jumper weapons are basically worthless. I have not seen or heard of a single case in which having any Jumper weapons helped with killing Rebellers and keeping REDs in order. The closest thing I've seen is the occasional successful Market Garden, but that's fairly rare in comparison to the number of failed Market Gardens and cases where a Rocket Launcher's high damage would be useful, but the BLU has the Jumper so they either die or have a much harder time trying to fight. And Demoman? There's not a single time I've seen the Sticky Jumper actually used for anything other than jumping all over the map as said before.
I think that disallowing it would lower the amount of BLUs wasting time during Last Guard and being useless to the team, as they would have to be concerned about self-damage if they try to just jump around and flee from the REDs. Plus, Guards might be motivated to try just shooting rebellers rather than going for Market Gardens or running away at the slightest sign of resistance from the RED team, since they have an actual damaging primary and not a utility.
Even if you get a player that actually wants to do their job properly, the Jumper weapons are basically worthless. I have not seen or heard of a single case in which having any Jumper weapons helped with killing Rebellers and keeping REDs in order. The closest thing I've seen is the occasional successful Market Garden, but that's fairly rare in comparison to the number of failed Market Gardens and cases where a Rocket Launcher's high damage would be useful, but the BLU has the Jumper so they either die or have a much harder time trying to fight. And Demoman? There's not a single time I've seen the Sticky Jumper actually used for anything other than jumping all over the map as said before.
I think that disallowing it would lower the amount of BLUs wasting time during Last Guard and being useless to the team, as they would have to be concerned about self-damage if they try to just jump around and flee from the REDs. Plus, Guards might be motivated to try just shooting rebellers rather than going for Market Gardens or running away at the slightest sign of resistance from the RED team, since they have an actual damaging primary and not a utility.
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