Originally Posted by Ferris Bueller

I played on an arena server that wasnt laggy like ours was earlier and i noticed the same things.

But I do have an answer for your "pyros arent as effective" thing yoshi:

since the pyro update pyros have been all run straight and mouse1. no ambush tactics, no hit and run. with arena, that is exactly what you have to do. if you have a medic healing a heavy and theyre around a corner, you cant just charge straight in and fire away. you have to circlestrafe corners, light the medic on fire and disappear, rinse and repeat. it might seem tedious, but after two or so passes, the medic is dead and the heavy is hurt. then you can finish off the heavy at will. also, the backburner is supremely effective for ambushing and mowing down and heavy/medic combo from behind in less than 2 seconds.

Well I didn't say it was a problem with the pyro class, I said it was more of a problem with the people I saw playing it. I can only account for once where I actually burned to death (I was playing medic). The worst pyros did to my team was they would set half of them to fire then die just to have me put them out 5 seconds later, and since this was arena, we didn't have to worry about him respawning and doing the same thing. Great gamemode.

That's not to say that there aren't good pyros out there. Today I actually saw one using airblast and totally airblasted an uber back into their spawn. That was pretty cool. Another one managed to airblast a medic away, unubering a heavy, giving me a headshot on the heavy.

I was actually playing a lot of kritz medic last night. It was a lot of fun, me and atra had a blast.