The Pipes

This is a wiki page on the new and old pipes. (OLD PIPES) The old pipe is a very thick. Basically the size of the entire arm, a bit bigger. Has a decent stun, and is pretty intuitive to use. It has a wide swing that's damage and stun hitbox stays infront of you for a good half a second (maybe 1/4 of a second). So a common method is swinging and then rushing at a infected. The stun lasts for roughly 6th of a second. And the hit cool down is a second and a 5th of a second. Which made a common strat being to move around the infected. And swing where they were going, effectively cloth lining them. It only worked as long as they didn't dodge or such things. The damage was 35. And the swing speed was relatively slow, but not that slow considering the stun. If you chained two people together, you could completely destroy a infected. Hitting them in chains. It would go ( HIT ) ( STUN ) ( HIT) ( STUN ) Alternating between the people. But be reminded this had to have a good coordination, and any interference breaks the chain. So it wasn't that broken. The combat despite of what it seemed, didn't feel slow. and the old pipe is rested like a bat on your neck. Behind your head.

(NEW PIPES) The new pipe is much thinner and longer, but despite that it does not feel like it has that much range, probably due to the strained swing it does as it keeps the swing low to the body, unlike the old pipe which swung it infront and wide.. It's held in a downward position, like they are doing a wide stance and trying to touch their toes. The stun is not as good as the old pipe. It being roughly 3/10 or 4/10 of a second. And the hit cooldown is much faster. Being what it seems like one second, or longer. And the time that the pipe stayed out with it's damage and stun hitbox is much less. Basically non-existent. The chain attacks are much harder to perform due to the greatly decreased stun. The combat feels much slower. Even though it would seem to be fast with the lower stuns and faster hits. Fast does not = good. And slow does not = bad. The strat of estimating where your opponent was going and swinging infront of them is basically gone due to the lower stone and non-existent hold out swing. (its what im calling the hitbox that stands out). Which makes you have to go in grabbing range. Feel free to remove any opinionated, as I do feel strongly about the pipe update. (not that strongly) but this is mainly based off of fact.