FYI, I am a... sniper? - by june gloom
Fafhrd on 30/5/2009 at 08:12
Yeah, they activated once I killed somebody.
Dresden on 31/5/2009 at 07:04
Quote Posted by Phatose
Valve fucking sucks.
Now we've got an utterly pointless item drop system, and every server is spammed to high holy hell and back with spies and snipers.
WTFG guys!
Unless they get rid of achievements altogether, that's going to happen after the class updates no matter what. I think that's one thing they wanted to avoid with the item drops, but people are just achievement whores.
CCCToad on 1/6/2009 at 00:48
Quote Posted by Phatose
Valve fucking sucks.
Now we've got an utterly pointless item drop system, and every server is spammed to high holy hell and back with spies and snipers.
WTFG guys!
Its a good time to be a pyro lover.
Phatose on 1/6/2009 at 13:55
Depends on the map. Wish the damned huntsman wasn't bugged so I could airblast the arrows back in the snipers faces, since there still seems to be a requirement of 4 snipers on every team.
Just wish the timing had been better - I expect one weekend where it's really bad, but this one was bad, then got re-extended when they went back to achievements.
Toxicfluff on 1/6/2009 at 22:55
Quote Posted by CCCToad
Its a good time to be a pyro lover.
Fuck yeah. You can rack 'em up on the 2Fort battlements something nasty.
And if you get bored of that (and it's hard to, especially once you start to get a few moans), you can light up one tunnel viewer after another from afar with the flare gun. See? You did prefer group immolation
once every 3 minutes after all, so shut up.
Despite my love for the class, in many maps I'm starting to feel that Pyro is a tiny bit overpowered.
june gloom on 2/6/2009 at 00:11
As a general rule I keep the microphone and voicechat firmly off. But last night watching this incompetent demoman try repeatedly to launch himself across the 2fort moat and fail every time inspired me to set up my microphone just so he could hear me yell PULL! every time he detonated, right before I'd shoot him out of the sky.
After 5 times of this plus a domination, he screams YOU AIMBOT USER and switches to sniper. 5 kills later and he leaves in a huff. That guy plus 2 other random fuckos meant I had 12 kills in one life. Why a spy or pyro didn't try to take me out is beyond me.
Matthew on 2/6/2009 at 10:17
Quote Posted by dethtoll
he could hear me yell PULL! every time he detonated, right before I'd shoot him out of the sky.
Kudos.
Shakey-Lo on 2/6/2009 at 11:53
i am loving the cloak and dagger... makes the spy very stealthy as opposed to the more action-oriented approach of the regular cloak. has a somewhat thiefy feel to it, crouch-walking about the place to conserve cloak, picking a target and lunging for it, then slinking back into hiding :cheeky:
the dead ringer, on the other hand, is a worthless load of junk.
Dresden on 2/6/2009 at 13:08
Yeah the C&D is great for defense. I use it for killing teleporters over and over and then backstabbing people walking to the front lines. If it's a map like Gravel Pit, I just sit as close to their spawn as possible and stab people who're too focused on capping a point. It's great.
I haven't used DR as much but I don't think it's as bad as people say. You just have to uncloak further away and wait for the paranoia to wear off. I'd probably only use it for getting past choke points that are being spammed by heavy miniguns or whatnot.
Phatose on 2/6/2009 at 22:24
The problem with the DR is that all the pyros know about it, and so keep flaming after you 'die' just to make sure they set your ghost on fire too.
