You said that grenades as a whole were given a large damage reduction, but that isn't apparent on Test at all. This leads me to believe that the reason that Maelstrom does way less damage is either it was specifically nerfed manually, or grenades are even more nerfed as a whole on QA where Teague recorded that video. In addition, i'd ideally like to see what Maelstrom looks like on Test
right now because of the fact that we know that nades ONLY have a nerf to explosive and siege, and a buff to Maelstrom. Both of these changes are the only changes made to grenade listed in the patch notes for Test.
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Also im aware that stink pot and fire bomb will be receiving damage reductions in the future as well.
Whenever TLOPO makes a balance change it's either way too overpowered or way to awfully underpowered. Rip JSB and Rip nades