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[TF2] Bad Weapon Academy: Back Scatter

FishStickOnAStick - Gaming

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Have you ever looked at a weapon and wondered "How am I even supposed to use this piece of shit?" You shouldn't for this weapon. It tells you exactly how to use it.

Take a shot every time I say "Flank" or "Any other scattergun/Scout primary."

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Music used: DMC 5 - Devil Trigger
Doom Eternal - The Only Thing They Fear Is You
TF2 OST - Magnum Force
Ratchet and Clank OST - Novalis, Metropolis, Eudora, Umbris
Oahu Beach Stroll - Oahu Beach Stroll - no copyright hawaiian...

Clips used:
Jerma985 - Scout Backstabber Gun
American Psycho

Timestamps:
0:00 Sponsor
1:35 Introduction
2:35 Stats Breakdown
3:19 Just Flank
4:48 "But You Can One Shot Light Classes (Snipers)"
8:17 Lack Of Impact
10:18 The Back Scatter Is Pointless
12:50 Not Terrible, Not Terrific
13:55 What Did You Expect
15:33 MvM
16:00 Potential Fixes And Conclusion
17:28 Credits
18:29 Bonus Clip

20 Comments

@fishstickonastick-gaming Creator 4 years ago Pinned

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@UncleDane 4 years ago

You know a weapon is bad when the hard counter is to just look at the guy using it.

@WingMann-Co 4 years ago

It's kinda comical that the Back Scatter has this big drum mag but can only hold 4 rounds.

@rubiconprime1429 4 years ago (edited)

Scout’s equipping the back-scatter: “I am the spy here!”

@ericlizama8552 4 years ago

Fun fact: a 20% increase in spread radius is equivalent to a 31% decrease in accuracy.

@hexa138 4 years ago

Here's my idea of a rework:

When you get a kill, the gun automatically unequips itself and you are left with stock scattergun for the rest of that life.

@free_playstation_2 4 years ago

back weapon academy

also the Back Scatter just generally suffers from the fact that it has a relatively niche upside with VERY noticeable downsides. You don't always feel that a mini crit saved you or guaranteed a kill, but you always feel the dogshit accuracy and reduced clip size. As much as I like using it to mess around with it and one shot Snipers with god tier aim and braindead awareness, a Scattergun also nearly guarantees the kill if you have the flank.

@snifflysara3065 4 years ago

Back Scatter so far just seems like Spy bringing Scout to work and teaching him how to fight like a Spy. Scout just changes things to do it his way.

@purplehaze2358 4 years ago

“You’re never going to get behind an engineer”
-He says over footage of him getting behind an engineer

@SamuLie 4 years ago (edited)

One thing that always confused me about this gun is it's design. It's stats make it so it has a reduce ammo capacity but visually IT LITERALLY HAS 2 DRUM MAGS CONNECTED TO IT I DON'T UNDERSTAND?! Like if this gun is supposed to encourage a flank play style specifically, why don't you give it the same stats the old Panic Attack had were you could load all your shots and then unload them all. You'd obliterate a single target with incredibly high dps and it encourages it's actual design because it HAS 2 DRUM MAGS CONNECTED TO IT?!

@jackblack3718 4 years ago

How to fix the Backscatter: full crits instead of mini-crits. If your weapon is only going to do one thing, make it exceptional at it.

@TheKyubiisaan 4 years ago

“The narrative going around is that sniper players are robots”
Me, playing on VAC servers: “you mean there are snipers who aren’t?”

@goldeneye168 4 years ago

The moment when FishStickOnAStick recommends The Shortstop over the backscatter is when you realize that the backscatter is redundant

@loveshankme 4 years ago

I'm amazed more people voted for the Back Scatter than the SOAS. That thing is so incredibly situational and terrible that I often forget it's even in the game.

@FeenecksArchives 4 years ago

"I think the only reason people like it, is the mini-crit sound and the slightly bigger numbers give stheir brains that tiniest dopamine rush."
As someone with 2310 kills on my Strange Back Scatter. This is precisely why. It's just pure fun to use for me!

@phantomsoul630 4 years ago (edited)

BFB: here's an entire set you can use that allows you to have a high skill ceiling playstyle and become a nightmare to deal with

Shortstop: This weapon can be used with a variety of builds depending on what role you want to take as scout but encourages a specific playstyle.

Backscatter: flank

@lukemccullough9279 4 years ago

This weapon could be compared to the Backburner, which also deals more damage from behind. Except the Backburner's upside is better while its downside is situational, unlike the Back Scatter, which has a constant downside and a situational upside.

@ieuanhunt552 4 years ago

Tf2s interpretation of what "behind" is so weird that this weapon feels inconsistent.

@Champion919Games 4 years ago

46 years ago? Sounds right to me, Jerma is truly an insane 50 year old man

@Ze_N00B 4 years ago

I still question why they put an MG 34 double drum on an old western-style lever-action repeater, and decided that the stats should make it a stealth weapon.

Having it be a pseudo-machinegun would‘ve been better.

It has 50% better accuracy, but the pellets are fired one at a time with a 0.08 second delay between each.

You could keep your distance but would have to get good at tracking.
Could be useful against sentries when you don‘t have a pistol.

Would also make slightly more sense that it being a 4-shot shotgun.