[TF2] The Loose Cannon: The Most Fun Weapon
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2024
- I don't use the word "dopamine" even once.
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Pretty much all of Demoman's unlockable kit falls into the category of, "All right, stock Demo is the strongest class in the game. How about you trade in some of that kit for a little more fun?"
With the exception of the iron bomber
@@chordalharmony and the scotsmann's skill critter.
@@cubanwargaming4879 I dunno man random crits are pretty fun
well, having fun is the ONE reason I play this game, so you can probably tell what I'm gonna choose
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You might not have used the word "dopamine" once, but you never played the sound once either. How dare you edge us in such a way.
He also never got into Pyro fights with the Loose Cannon. This weapon is the best grenade launcher, for dealing with Mr. M2. The adjustably-short range makes it so that, even _if_ the Pyro airblasts your attack, he can still wind up getting donked backwards. Plus, even if you're going against someone who can airblast your attacks with inhumanly perfect precision, you can just Cannon Jump out of their range before they even get close, without risking the sanctity of any of your stickies.
I know! I feel transgressed and violated!
Me edging my x2 double donk!
it fells better to hit a double donk than a random crit
I don't know how others feel but getting a random crit feels unsatisfactory. You basically got get a free kill without any of the effort which made a kill satisfying
Yeah because you actually earned it
Things that feel undeserved just don’t seem fun like a random crit or a body shot on sniper or sniper as a whole
I mean hitting a market garden/back stab feels both more satisfying to do and fair to receive. Then just randomly doing 3 times the damage.
I actually just feel bad for getting random crits especially if it's a Crocket/crit grenade it feels cheap and undeserved. In my opinion anyways
@bakrelkhorchef3191 agreed. I hate the feeling of trying hard to get a kill and then killing someone with a misclick. It's like, why bother trying? All i really have to do is spam until the game decides i kill someone
Donking an ubered medic and launching him halfway across the map while his pocket is waist-deep in a sentry nest is straight dopamine.
Or off a ledge 😂
Sadly doesnt work for mannthreads
Fun fact:
The Loose cannon has a hidden stat, when hitting an opponent with a Double-Donk, the sound will give you the same amount of euphoria as damage dealt by the Double-Donk
2:42 It's just wrong man. He was like a damn brother to me.
I saw that too lmao
Im gonna say what no one else is willing to say, New Mexico has a fucking mercenary problem
And I'm going to say what nobody else is willing to say, TF2 has a [BLEEP] Bot crisis. Ooooh, oooh, OOOOOOOooooohhhhh......
*Ooh ooh ooohoohoohoo…* 😭
"I *HATE* this red thang, I spit on you"
-Blu Demoman, probably
Virgin "M1 Garand Ping"
Vs
Chad "Double Donk SFX"
Gwimbly watching 2:43:
"It's just wrong, man... Mr. Millipede was like a damn brother to me. And I'm gonna say what no one else is willing to say; America has a f*****g demospam crisis."
7:10 “Even if you *somehow* manage to transcend the realm of “Pipe Jesus” and become “Can(n)on God” goes SO fucking hard
SO FRIGGIN HARD DOOD!!!!
Some more insight from an experienced cannon hybrid-knight player:
-You can still jump on cannonballs to grenade jump like with any other primary. This lets you overload jump in mid-air to achieve crazy mobility. ...Provided you have a good medic.
-Shield resistances do not reduce self-damage. Charge n' Targe is not necessarily the only pick, as a result
-If you time your overload right, you can charge an enemy, deal charge damage, and then blast off into outer space dealing additional area damage and carrying you to safety.
-If you REALLY time your charge right, you can shield bash someone INTO a double-donk, at close enough range that you can still explosive jump away from the encounter. Paired with the splendid screen, this is Demoman's highest burst damage outside of a full sticky trap. (You can get extra shield damage with the Eyelander, but this playstyle is self-endangering enough as-is.)
-My loadout of choice is Cannon/Turner/Claidheamhmor, but I do swap around quite often. Half-Zatoichi with this is kinda busted.
Chargin targin makes you a stand and deliver hybrid demoknight
Persian a push forward one
TT for just funs / memes
Just like Lazy said, "This thing is a dopamine factory"
There’s so many SOUNDS and COLORS
Cue him replaying the double donk sound 69,420 times
Lazy is mid ngl
@@thechosenjuan8776 this post right here, officer
When using it, I don't think about everything, it's more of a feeling. Like "I know not the numbers, but this should work."
Calculating numbers is for nerds, if you want to get good and have fun at the same time you just learn the vibes.
Loose cannon is basically a Scorch shot that actually takes skill to use and is fun.
Learning to jump with this thing is the most unexpected thing for the enemy. Quite literally a loose cannon in all ways of the word.
I wouldn't count knockback as movement inhibition. Big difference between "I got pushed at a high speed away from the enemy, but I can still strafe or charge or even explosion jump with good timing" and "My movement keys are decorative for the next 3 seconds"
You're completely right about how the knockback works with the loose cannon and why it seems like it stuns on headshots! When I was programming the loose cannon into minecraft the cannonball had to look towards the players feet when calculating the knockback trajectory in order to replicate the effect. I'm sorry its just so nice to see all the weird stuff I know about this silly weapon being shown!
4:28 the virgin uber phlog pyro vs the chad cannon demo
The loose cannon is pretty fun.
Loose Cannon playtime: 18502
Hey! Purple crayons are the tastiest crayons with red as a close second!
imo, my favourite mechanic of the loose cannon is that instead of shooting your projectile up, you can shoot the floor and the granade will bounce up, often being a more simple strategy
8:48 I love nightcrawlers too, they're just little guys.
"And even then, it can seriously struggle in close range since enemies getting in your face will have you really struggling to not blow yourself up in one way or another."
Doesn't this apply to demoman in general?
Demoman in general at least does 100 damage to the people in your face instead of 50.
I would also like to point out that Loose Cannon kills from point-blank can avoid self-damage because the cannonball will gib the enemy and then continue moving away from you. When I used to use the Loose Cannon regularly, this aspect saved me several times. At the very least it will still knock the enemy away, and good players can use that to their advantage, either by doing what Fish said by having a prepared sticky trap, or by following up with another shot from the cannon.
Fish: there is no other game that let's you run around with a cannon!
Fallout 4 players: Well, there is another option.
but does the canon do the funny haha?
@@FrogInShorts It does not. Instead, it trades humorous abilities for raw power.
@@dragonguy556 well that just sounds like the grenade launcher
@@FrogInShorts the broadsider is more like the loch an' load if it still has a small blast radius upon shattering.
"You got my like a loose cannon! I'm about to do damage!" - Set it Off and what my loose cannon is named
Did you mean "me"?
Welcome back to another episode of "Fish shamelessly plugs the Quickiebomb Launcher"
2:42 Wait a minute… It was you! You killed Mr. Millipede! You bastard!
8:34 - Been watching Wendigoon?
Also probably the best loose cannon video I’ve seen… kinda surreal watching this after Schizo MvM though
12:34 this clip gives me inner peace
6:06 well actually 🤓 its just knockback vector calculated from center of bounding box to hit point so hitting low results in vector directed upwards and vice versa
Waiting for the cloak and dagger episode part13
Ah, the Loose Cannon. I was so happy to unlock it, immediately played with it, got kills, loved it -- felt like such a breath of fresh air compared to pills. I was shocked when I went to check builds for it and everyone was like "yo, this weapon trash" and I'm all like "?!?"
Sometimes, you just gotta form your own opinion.
Fish I cannot play TF2 at this point in my life due to a lack of a PC and your videos are like a little hit of that TF2 dopamine that keeps an old addict going!
Do a cart wheel
This is the only reason I play demoman (cannonknight?)
I remember being cornered on Swiftwater offense last by 2 soldiers and 2 medics. I cannonjumped above them, they watched me from the floor as I flew magestically, unloading my cannon on the process. I didn't kill anybody and died immediately after but it still was epic
Honestly, i think this is your funniest video yet, 2:38 4:44 5:22 are(perchance) your best bits.
Also good video!
The loose cannon is like the beggar. It so different and weird to use a lot of time and can be difficult to use, but God damn, it is so fun and be funny with it.
Also despite being first advivste for mvm with the vaccintor and rescue ranger, it probably the worse launcher due to the knock back screwing over your sniper and very rare time spy trying to giant slay. Also you can screw yourself for the sticky traps
8:47 wonderful design that won’t get fish’s name trending on twitter
I estimate that I’ve spent a few hundred hours on playing on Hightower using the Loose Cannon + Tide Turner + Scotsman’s Skullcutter.
so we do know the vid from 7:30 so we also do know that the loose cannon ball is the slowest pipe the demo has and is not moving "slightly faster " then stock
COCONUT GUN 🥥
It fires in spurts
If he shoots ya
Buff the Loose Cannon.
+ Building damage (not enough to make it better than stock or god forbid loch-n'-load; only enough to make it less if a pain in the ass to deal with.)
+2 clip size (total of six)
+Projectile speed (now the listed projectile speed bonus actually MEANS something)
-maybe make the increased projectile speed dependent on your fuse charge time? (Would have to test it to see how it works)
0:19 “DD! DOUBLE DONK!”
5:22
Always love airshots
Next to the parachute LC stickies are always fun.
Running ScoRes is insurance. If the fall doesn't kill em the stickies will 😂
I’m glad you mentioned the synergy and range. It seems to be something quite a few folks gloss over.
Can't wait for fish to finally review the interesting weapons so we can finally get the first ever tf2 weapon review on the stock fire axe.
12:03 Unknown from dead by daylight: hold....my beer
2:37 dang, he must really hate that cloak and dagger spy.
I was half expecting you to play MF Doom in this video, i think the brain rot got to me.
The fact that the cannonballs BYPASS UBER (even some quickfix / vaccinator with huge knockback)
This
This weapon earns top spot
With scottish resistance + melee it makes it THE PERFECT DEFENSE SETUP.
Itll stop enemies in their tracks or push back. It makes the enemy team rethink strategies.
Seriously lack of range means nothing when the enemy is literally pushed back.
Choose a spot
Sticky trap
LC enemies back or in the sticky range
Melee anything that comes closer.
Boy, you did not Just put this great weapon in your channel 💀
that joke at 8.57 was great dude
I feel that LazyPurple's Demoman Extras video summed it up pretty well - Hard to use, extremely satisfying, and short range means it pairs great with the Quicky Launcher
"Can you do a weapon review of the Loose Cannon? I don't see too many of those videos on it and its one of my favorite grenade launchers. I'd like to see what you say about it, I love how you analyze weapons and examine synergy between other weapons."
I asked a month ago, and my wish came true! You probably didn't see the comment, it's likely just a coincidence, but yay. I got what I wanted out of this, thank you!
Ah yes, the Booze Cannon
10:58: fish caught misspelling high, may face life sentence in grammar prison
The Double Donk of the loose cannon feels great, second only to the pure euphoria of blessing those uninitiated in the ways of the Mighty Righteous Bison.
And perhaps also the feeling of charging in with the Ullapool Caber and actually blasting half the enemy team to pieces!
I need fish to start talking about cryptids now
His coconut gun can fire in spurts. If he shoots ya, it's gonna hurt!
nice to see fish purely happy lol
Using the stock is like making an orange juice in a juice press. Using the LC is like making slightly more orange juice using your hands and forehead while tightrope walking and on fire.
There’s definitely a sweet spot, right at its 1 second detonation timer.
All demo primaries have one, but this one’s sweet spot is the best not just for fun, but for damage too.
Usually you have to charge a shot to get double donk, but if you just tap fire it then it has the same fire rate as the other launchers.
Haven't watched the video yet but if this isnt 14 minutes of explaining why the double donk sound is orgasmic i will be disappointed
same
are you disappointed?
@@Sevn911 devastated
2:43 I'll say what no one else will, America has a fucking Fenanyl crisis
A primary you can use to pseudo-sticky jump automatically makes it good. I get to wear a shield and keep the vertical mobility.
I main the loose cannon because it's easier for me to land hits with it than it is to land pipe shots
I like these videos because it helps me understand a weapon in its absolute fullest capacity
I’m not even kidding, things like BWA and this kind of series used to help me get better with the classes and weapons
I remember getting a kill with the loose cannon by banking a cannon shot off a wall, with me below a ledge by accident and I feel that that was a really cool moment for me.
I used to demo main a long time ago, loose cannon was my primary, it's a banger. Not too long after loose cannon came out it got nerfed. If you weren't aware, the knock back feature of this weapon used to be WAY stronger. I remember pushing a whole crowd of players off of the second to last point on upward, at the spiral wooden structure. The reactions were always just as funny as the kills.
well when i played tf2 and did not use medic i used demo, i was mostly playing loch n' load and the bat straight outta hell, but the loose cannon was one of favorite weapons to use, and this video explains it well! Also i loved knocking enemys off edges lmao cuz the knockback was so huge, good times..goofy ol' times
FISH FINALLY MADE IT
kendrick, kanye AND A FISH POST IN ONE DAY???
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Currently in physical therapy waiting 15 minutes for my doctor I feel like this is made for me
I'm here to see MF DONK
I'm a certified psychopath and pair the Loose Cannon with the sticky jumper and the caber.
12:03 Ultrakill comes pretty close with the S.R.S. Cannon!
The grounded state hypothesis seems kinda odd when you consider how pyro's airblast knocks people into the air by mirroring the airblast when grounded. Idk we all know this game has a lot of spaghetti sauce.
As always great video fish! :)
loose cannon is truly tf2 as hell everytime i think about it i just wonder "how the fuck someone even think this up" its just something youd only see from tf2 and its amazing
God i love FSOAS
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I like the cannonballs the most becuase of the modicum of control DEMOMAN gets when they engage Pyro's with that fuse time. Won't work all times, but it will for once keep the pyro on their toes.
I remember I got on the steam marketplace right when someone was selling a strange pro ks loose cannon for like 3 bucks and I scooped it. I suck with it
The best way to describe the loose cannon is-it might not be the most practical but it makes our brains go “yes”
11:40 that "Who gives a shit!" was so real
You forgot to talk about one thing that Lazy also mentioned. While charging the weapon, you can't spend time reloading, which reduces the overall shots per minute you can throw out.
I think ''user hostile'' is accurate and probably the best definition
honestly if the loose cannon didnt exist, demo wouldnt be one of my most played classes
its just so different than the other options and so SO much fun to use, i adore this thing to the point that just taking it with the sticky jumper is some of the most fun gameplay i can have in TF2 even if it means i forego one of the strongest weapons in TF2
To answer your question of "what other game would..." ultrakill would, I'm not aure if they have yet, but it wouldn't surprise me. I saw something simmilar on a rocket launcher alternate. But yeah, point taken, there is a reason I love hoth games.
2:43 smiling friends reference, because mr millipede died of fentanyl in season 2 episode 1 hahahahahaa
my favorite loadout is the Loose Cannon, Sticky Jumper and Scottish Handshake.
2Fort and Hightower snipers will literally switch to engineer and pyro JUST to slow my killstreaks down, and then i just switch the cannon for the iron bomber and ruin their plans a second time, and im really bad at normal pipes, but somehow decent at iron bomber/cannonballs.
We've all heard of the demoknight...but are you ready for the CANNONKNIGHT?
I almost exclusively play hybrid knight, and loose cannon, tide turner, and ham shank/pan is one of the funnest play styles in my opinion
This and the backscatter are my go to, these are more fun than stock weapons
Loose Cannon + Sticky Jumper is the most beautiful and stupid synergy of interstellar travel and blinding speeds, you should try it!
How is it, after multiple years of TF2, the LITERAL DAY I end up using the Loose Cannon I end up getting a video about it.
2:44 Nice Smiling Friends reference
The most important distinction with the Cannon's knockback is that at no point is air mobility restricted. It isn't a movement restriction mechanic. It's what airblast is supposed to be.
I still miss the 173 damage 2 second cannon.
I'll say this, the loose cannon works very well with the quicky launcher because if you are in a pinch with a scout, or you run out of ammo, you can use the faster charge time to catch them. I really think this combo is very underrated.
The LC is just like TF2. Unpredictable, Fun, gets lucky, works the best whenever it feels like it.