In my never ending crusade to abolish or heavily reduce the time spent in the game rule we have set for reverts, i would like to bring attention to something that is very important to me and i hold dear to my heart.
A few days ago marked the end of the april fools 2026 event, and while most of those changes were silly and deserving of removal, there are a few i genuinely believe have a place in the server as permanent additions, but in this post i want to stick to 2 specific changes: the steak and the sandvich.
I propose we switch the steak to the varient that allows you to stack with the GRU, and allows you to drop it on the ground for 150HP in the spirit of the sandvich revert, i also propose along with this we swap the sandvich back to its original version we used, the pre engineer update version, and here is my reasoning.
THE SANDVICH:
In its current state there is almost 0 reason ever to use the left click on the sandvich, being above 150HP will guarantee you full health, and below 150HP is not even a big deal, 150 health is 150 health, the only time left clicking is usefull is when you are dangerously close to death, say less then 30 health. This is because right clicking is instant, and health packs exists aswell, meaning you can double stack health pickups for full health and even regain your sandvich (allbeit inconsistant due to pack placement, if someone took it etc) should you be at full health or near a resupply. Having a 30 second recharge AND the ability to regain it through picking up health packs makes the dropping feature heavily overshadow the eating taunt. With the original sandvich the instant 150HP was a risk reward mechanic. You could eat your sandvich as many times as you wanted, but it came with a 4 second forced taunt everytime you chose to do so, the drop on the other hand, promised you an instant 150HP at the cost of it being somewhat unreliable. it's difficult and inconsistant to regain your sandvich. You might be thinking this sounds like a nerf. Why would i want it to be worse? Because WE CAN HAVE THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS!
THE STEAK:
As it stands the steak is a gimmick weapon, a fun gimmick for sure but a gimmick regardless. There is zero practical use for it outside of dropping it to team mates which every other lunch item can do and the niche ability to make heavy run faster without having to use GRU (which is hardly viable since you take more damage, cant swap weapons and forgo a secondary AKA sandvich). Reverting the steak to the version i am proposing bumps it from a very fun gimmick to a very fun gimmick AND a genuinely useful/viable tool. First of all it does't remove the melee restriction nor the minicrits allowing for it's iconic fun playstyle, secondly, pairing it with the gru unlocks an insane level of speed for heavy which on paper sounds stupid and unbalanced but i promise you, is not. You also take minicrits, and anyone who seriously plays heavy knows taking minicrits is next to a death sentence for the big guy. This would be useful for getting around and can even act as a psuedo bonk assuming nobody sees you or doesnt bother to chase you. And third: this version also does what the sandvich does right now, it drops instant 150HP packs with a 30 second recharge.
MORE VARIETY, MORE OPTIONS, MORE FUN:
I believe these 2 changes would be very welcome, fun, and balanced changes to heavy, his sandvich will allow him more healing capabilities with the ability to choose when it's the right time to sit back and eat or drop himself health in a pinch, his steak will allow him not just a fun gimmick playstyle, but a useful tool allowing him greater movement with an inconsistant but helpful healing option, and it would make both parties happy. The party of people who dearly miss the old sandvich (me and at least 4 others), and the party of people who think having the sandvich be removed from your character is a bad idea specifically in the case of playing medic (1 guy). Which brings me to the final part:
WHO WOULD COMPLAIN ABOUT THESE CHANGES?
I genuinely believe nobody. In regards to the steak, i have seen nothing but support for it's addition before, during, and after the april fools event. I believe it to be a consistantly requested addition. And in regards to the sandvich, there are a grand total of 2 people i can think of who were against it. Not naming names, One person said the right click would render the eating taunt useless (which isn't true and is a FAR bigger problem with our current version) And the second person was such a persistant, vocal advocate against it that i firmly believe they were the single reason the sandvich was changed. And it just dont sit right with me that were using this sandvich because a medic main was mad they weren't getting constant medium packs from their heavy pocket, a problem solved by said heavy simply equipping the steak.
I absolutely love Heavy and i love all of the changes we have given to him, his many reverts do not go unnoticed or unappreciated by me and other certified Heavy Gods. i understand it has been stated multiple times that we are ending the addition/reworking of new reverts (permanently?) But these are 2 changes i am very passionate about, it would add more variety to heavy, more options, buff him, give the steak a whole new life on the server, and me + freshmen can sleep peacefully knowing our beloved sandvich has returned to us.
EDIT: forgot to mention the banana, i have tried time and time again to justify its use in some way but theres no way around it: the sandvich overshadows it. But you know what nigga? FUCK the banana! Its a boring uninspired straight upgrade to the sandvich meant to insult and belittle heavy for losing a (RIGGED) vote against pyro in the 2nd worst update ever forced onto the game. Fuck that dumbass banana man return to tradition, use the sandvich! (<-----other people in the server agree with this sentiment)
