Except I am still fulfilling the money-collecting role. I almost always get As. You can't play Damage Scout without collecting money. Money heals you. It is your lifeblood.

The thing I don't do is drop everything to go on an OCD quest for The Missing Five Dollars. Money rank is a rank for the team as a whole. If my teammates can't hold a front and scatter money all over the map, I'm not going going to stop killing robots just to get that extra 100 bucks at the end of the wave

Practical experience trumps theory, anyway. I KNOW from experience that teams with Damage Scouts tend to do better than teams with Meta Scouts. A lot of good players EQUIP Mad Milk, but they use it only as a utility because, at the end of the day, if you're not shooting enemies in a horde defense mode, you're dead weight.

If you think about it, having your Scout not shoot stuff and focus on getting all A+s is like having your Engie not build a Sentry... they still fulfill their "main" role, but the team misses out on a lot of damage.

I started to try damage scout because of this. I learned that he can have a surprising damage output. Good guide as always.

Eh. Pretty rare situation. Maybe? I haven't been playing much Expert lately to begin with, and you know how hard it is to find servers without Medics. I used to do it for Super Scout waves, but I gave up on that after too many times where the Scout got through anyway. I feel like it's a marginal strategy. How often is something like that actually the difference between success or failure on a server when you have such major factors as certain players being basically useless, and the Refund facilitating hard carries by a single player or cheap strategies in general?

And I'm still annoyed by the fact that people complain about Scout not using Mad Milk in ALL situations but are perfectly okay with Air Strike Soldiers and other such nonsense. Regardless of when/how much Milk is better than Cola, Cola is still a straight upgrade to the Pistol in MvM and should be welcomed as such.

I actually wonder, do you still switch to mad milk on certain waves if there is no medic and a good pyro/heavy to take advantage of it?

Some of these comments are very entertaining. They also remind me that I need to use my free name and description tag from the stocking.

Least I could think of:
CAR_: YO GUYS GO PICK UP THE HEALTH I GOT THEM FOR YOU <3
And they die trying.
Would help teammates to stay in the front lines longer...

JESUS THATS BRILLIANT

It IS more challenging on waves with lots of Soldiers, but OMG FREE CANDY.

Are you sure about that? I still think that it gimps hard since explosives and overheal on money pickup. But hey, whatever floats your boat.

Yes. And I'm currently looking for a Collector's Candy Can to name "Fan-o-War."