I posted a reply to a gentlemens post which i thought could be worked on to make natascha a gun that people can use without making it over powered.

Here is the original quote:

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Originally Posted by Blodia
personally i don't think the trade off is worth choosing natascha over sasha. maybe with some more tweaking it could be more appealing like what was done with the kritzkrieg, i see a lot more medics using the kritzkrieg now.

here are 3 suggestions that may make it a better trade off.

1. give it some more ammo, e.g. around 50 or 100.

2. make it slightly more accurate. using the crosshair as an approximation, reduce the crosshair size by around 25%.

3. increase heavy speed when spinning gun. when you spin sasha your speed is reduced to 1/3 of you maximum i.e. from 240 to 80. for natascha make it around 1/2 i.e. from 240 to 120.
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Here is my Reply:
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1) Giving it more ammo will do little for it as a good heay has ammo management on one of his priority lists. Always picking up dead peoples guns.

2)Making it more accurate will help some for medium/long range where the spread of Sasha means not all bullets get in. You will effectively trade the 25% damage drop with a X% more bullets hitting per second. Not a bad idea though Im not sure it will fix Natasha completely.

3)Increasing the heavy spinning speed will help in the original objective which was to get the heavy less medic dependent, NOT less medpack dependent which is what the gimicky sanvich effectively does (great for arena where there are no medpacks).

Id like to propose a hybrid of your ideas: Tighten up the cone a bit AND make the heavy move faster while spinning ONLY when a medic is not healing him. As soon as that healing beam hits bring him back to normal speed. When the medics takes off the beam give a few seconds of cooldown and then give him back his speed

Problem solved. Natascha weilding heavy does not stack with medic on the front lines while giving him more mobility to avoid the damage a sasha weilder would have mopped up through healing. He looses the close quarters effectiveness as a trade off for medium range effectiveness with slowing thrown in to change the strategic importance of a heavy. Careful! The idea is not to make him a medium range killing machine. He still has 25% damage loss, just that he is going to get an X% tighter cone. This X% is what will decide the balance of the game.

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What do you guys think?