Suggestion: Strange Escape Plan at 2–2.33 ref

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/12654384 6 days, seems to have sold a few, but 6 days ago, 2.66 WAS the quicksell price. Also mentions something about a riddle that if you solve he'll lower the price to 2.33, so the sales are a bit irrelevant.

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/12549688 1 week

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/12807930 Unsold at 2.66, lowered price to 2.33

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/12835851 1 day, also has strange part.

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/12729111 4 days

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/11597610 1 month, probably lowered price a few days ago

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/12777187 2 days

Sorry that a few of them are only a bit more than a day old, but hey, when the item's price drops every other day, that's more than you think.

Very nice. I'll Upquack.

this weapon is useless now, it doesn't make sense the "marked to death" thing if you switched for accident to it when hp full you will get no speed boost only the Little skull over your head, even the Gloves of Running urgently makes more sense than this trash. If this ever hit the 0.11 refs mark nobody will complain about it..

I personally think it's gonna stop at the .33 mark, but whatevs.

You know how Valve changed a lot of weapons that involved minicrits to 20% damage vulnerability? They should have done that to the Escape Plan instead of minicrits. Because with minicrits, you can be running away and get hit by a scattergun across the map for massive damage because there's no falloff, but it wouldn't be like that if it was a simple damage vulnerability, so you wouldn't get killed by across-the-map meatshots anymore.

if the equalizer is .11 refs I don't see any reason to see the escape plan above that, also the minicrit status affect you while burning or bleeding, so what's the point of the speed boost when low hp? you only will drain what's left of your hp faster and like you said, even a scatter gun. shotgun or even pistol shot from far away will do massive damage. I don't see why this needed a nerf, I personally just used it for what it's name implies: to escape, not to kill.

It obviously needed a nerf. Maybe not this particular nerf but 90% of soldiers used the escape plan without even considering a different melee.

yeah it's true melee of soldier was all about escape plan or market Gardner for all those rocket jumpers, but if you wanna go melee don't choose soldier in first place, soldier it's so slow, you never gonna hit anything with it, soldier is for rockets and shotgun as a last resort. If we are talking about melee weapons that need a nerf because people only use that, then bushwacka and axtinguisher are the next to be nerfed.

It doesn't matter whether soldier's good for melee or not, Valve's goal in the re-balancing was to nerf overused items so users would consider the alternative weapons. If the new nerf makes you think of the Escape Plan as unusable, that's a good thing, because now you can try out the Market Gardener, Pain Train, Zatoichi, all the other melee weapons.

it's more annoying being insta-killed by axtinguisher or bushwacka than a soldier who ran with escape plan.

This is the kind of debate that belongs in the forums, not a suggestion. Let's both just drop the arguments for now and watch together as this thing comes crashing down.

Sold mine for 2.66 but the price still needs a drop.

upvote this item is clearly not wanted anymore at the current price