Snipers: Not Just Each Other's Problem Anymore

**Menoske** · 02-24-09, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

[sarcasm]My favorite, and I mean favorite thing as a sniper is when my teammates just run in front of me blocking my view or when a douche bag pyro has his flame constantly going on me so the flames block anything I might see. Oh, or maybe when you're trying to edge around the corner to take out an engy and his turret, then McDouche, the idiot heavy, walks right up, makes the turret fire the missiles, his fat ass somehow dodges them, and I, the sniper, eat rockets for dinner.[/sarcasm]

I know your pain bro. Non-teamplay antics like that contributed greatly to a Sudden Death loss. There was a soldier, myself(sniper, and 2 engies on our team vs a heavy, sniper, medic and engy on theirs. I had the perfect bead on the heavy and just as I was about to pull the trigger our soldier stands on top of me and starts firing rockets, alerting them to our position, blocking my view, and forcing them to run away.

I then got countersniped as I was lining up a shot on the medic...but man was I pissed at that soldier.

Why on gods earth would any friendly stand on top of a sniper?

**Alundil** · 02-24-09, 08:23 AM

TF2 is not the only game in which people seem to have trouble recognizing the benefits that a good tactical sniper can have.

**masterPAINb** · 02-24-09, 11:02 AM

Kind of being sarcastic - I can hit a slow heavy but apart from not much else

Need to put in some more practice time with sniper.

Originally Posted by Tick

Originally Posted by masterPAINb

As sniper I can't hit a heavy who has his minigun in use while undisturbed. Therefore my objective in TF2 is to make other snipers lives more miserable.

Seriously? Those are a sniper's bread and butter targets. The only trick is not to let them get a bead on you before you put a round through their skull.

I don't consider myself that good of a sniper, but heavies make up most of my easy kills whenever I do end up sniping.

**heyf00L** · 02-24-09, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Langrad

I would like to point out that I call out enemy snipers all the time (and medics and everything else) and some random jackass bitches at me.

SJA's always been nice to me.

**kyle700** · 02-24-09, 03:03 PM

As of late, I find it hard to hit a Heavy. I can hit everything else, but it seems like the heavy is the hardest to kill.
:1

**Panic** · 02-24-09, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by masterPAINb

A bit off topic, but speaking of restrictions, why do the TF2 servers usually cap off at 22/24 :?

reserve slots

**Birdinator** · 02-24-09, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by heyf00L

Originally Posted by Langrad

I would like to point out that I call out enemy snipers all the time (and medics and everything else) and some random jackass bitches at me.

SJA's always been nice to me.

haha well played, sir

Originally Posted by CheeseLikeSubstance

Hunh. I disagree with class restrictions in general, but it might well help the problem....

well I mean like... I've been to servers where I've switched to sniper when people have asked for someone to kill the enemy sniper and its said something like "class limit reached: maximum of 3 snipers"

I feel like there's no real reason to need to have restrictions though, as long as people realize that on a server where your team, at its largest, will have 11 people, that more than 2 (but most of the time, 1) sniper or spy is just useless

**Sawemoff** · 02-24-09, 07:36 PM

unless pimp snipes.. then you need two.. one to distract him and one to shoot him...

**zaf** · 02-26-09, 08:23 AM

Nothing brings attention to an enemy sniper like lightning him up with a flare gun

**Oradi** · 02-26-09, 10:25 AM

I can't agree with you more. When i snipe (coming from the offensive position) and im getting a few shots around me it can be the most distracting thing and its hard to kill anyone. People doing that while im on defence cant greatly alter the game, yesterday I was doing really well on goldrush by killing the medics and heavys and a few demos in there. Teamwork is essential, only wish I had a working mic.