Baby Faces Blaster? Fair or not?

[Petalmeat299]

I have been using it and have noticed that the damage to get boost is WAAAY lower then it is when it is taken away.
I could shoot a person with my pistol for 1 shot and get a smudge of boost.
But they shoot me? It takes away almost half my meter.
Is it fair? Should the gain and removal be balanced?

 

[Sargent¥]

I have been using it and have noticed that the damage to get boost is WAAAY lower then it is when it is taken away.
I could shoot a person with my pistol for 1 shot and get a smudge of boost.
But they shoot me? It takes away almost half my meter.
Is it fair? Should the gain and removal be balanced?

Used to be decent, now it's awful. You can take a bison shot from across the map and lose your boost.

 

[ULTRAMAXIMUM SALT]

In the past, it was insane. Smash some people a few times, and close the distance. Get right into their guts and kill them.

Nowadays you can play it as a joke weapon. Something to do when Scattergunning is tired.

 

[|LABS| Minty Coffee]

The old version of it was fair, and balanced just fine. Yeah, you outran the hitbox, but that's the problem of the hitbox, not the weapon. Valve should stop being lazy and fix the game's wonky hitboxes. You traded the scout's main survival technique - double jumps - for a different playstyle, hyper-aggressive flanking. Taking damage to lose that boost is just horrible, especially since it only takes 25 damage to lose what took you 100 damage to get. Losing boost on an air jump was just fine.