TF2: EVERYTHING You Need to Know About The Sniper Rifle 

sniper rifle kill powerful gamer shiggy "shigston" newjerseyshig.... must be good item...

the part where he kills you?

@@anonymouscheesepie3768 *Chapter title appears* "The Part Where He Kills You"

@@ocaradasmaoladobokunohero "Oh no, this is the part where he kills us"

@@ocaradasmaoladobokunohero LOL

I think just really bad algorithm

Did you use an in game script with wait commands? I definitely ran into issues with client FPS trying to work with them (I wanted to make a quickscope practice script for this video but it didn't work cause of FPS variation, that double click website saved me lol). I'm glad you enjoyed, very much appreciated :)

Server tick rate in tf2 has always been a strange case to me

yes I believe that was the point of the joke

I’ve been around :) I only work on videos when I’m actually driven to do so, which keeps me from getting burnt out, but also solidifies my annual RU-vidr status. Maybe I’ll do slightly less involved content in the future or just buckle down on more longform stuff since the editing process is not as much of an uphill battle as I sometimes feel like it is. At any rate, I’m glad this was worth the wait, thank you :)

Glad you enjoyed :) And yeah I considered putting in my two cents about sniper balance but at the end of the day, drama sucks and I can’t stand it haha. Ignoring that anything I said would immediately be thrown away because I main the class and am biased, I also don’t have any concrete balance ideas for the issues he has and don’t want to present as an authority on the matter. Hardscoping is ridiculously strong, and reducing his ability to shut down areas by making the rifle discharge or aim shake over time is the best solution IMO. Laser would help but can be hidden like the dot, ammo nerf or reload would only create small windows of opportunity that goes out the window if there’s more than one sniper, and quickscoping/dying up close will make people upset whether the delay is 0.2 seconds or 1.2 seconds. I’m not a game designer so it’s up to valve to figure out if they feel it’s worth it I suppose. But yeah, not putting out a video about it and stirring the comment section debates didn’t hurt me any lol

Glad you enjoyed :) My goal with this vid was definitely to try and compile as much info as I could into one spot. Save for the rifle formula I’m pretty sure everything else has been covered elsewhere, but wanted to make something polished and thorough :)

Heyyy but no random crits riiight? PLEASE DON’T NERF PLEASE DON’T NERF GOD I JUST WANT MY FUNNY LONG RANGED AUSSY

Thanks a lot, I’m glad you enjoyed :) I’m aware of the dot trick for finding spies but I don’t think I’ve ever got anything with it unfortunately. Since I run smg most of the time it’s a bit easier to check with that if I think a spy is going to be approaching soon, especially somewhere predictable like Hightower lower spawn. But it’s still can be a powerful piece of game knowledge if you can react fast enough for a shot.

Any video I make where the takeaway has to do with the heatmaker is a successful video in my books

i forget what i used to make it lol, some web tool. That whole intro bit I made in 2019 when I was first gonna do this vid (i've rendered it out with different unusuals 3 times as they've changed lol)

Only had 650ish subs when the video went up, so the fact it got any sort of traction at all is positive for me :) Glad you enjoyed!

I do plan, and have work done on, more videos about sniper’s other items. I probably won’t be able to get as in-depth with items like the SMG, but I’ll focus more on the strategy of why and when you’d want to use a specific item. Might branch into other class items in the future as well. Time will tell :)

I play with it off as well, but I’m probably going to bind a key to toggle it at some point since it’s really good in those low ceiling spots like in the upward clip. Turn it on for that, then leave it off for the rest of the game haha

Never been fond of “tf2tuber” but I will wear tfgoober as a badge of honor

I'll see you in 2024 for my next annual upload

On paper it’s better to have auto rezoom on to get the benefit of being able to enter scope early. However, it doesn’t always feel great to play on, especially if you’re switching over to it. I don’t keep it on personally and would probably sooner use a key to toggle it on when it would be useful. If you’re willing to buckle down and learn how to play with it on, it doesn’t cause any notable downsides and gives you the upsides I went through in the video, at the cost of the time investment of relearning your fundamentals.

It would be news to me, I haven’t watched an el maxo video let alone talked about a collab with him haha Glad you enjoyed :)

@@NontheNinja Oh, I just saw your sniper skin in one of the SFM's, and I was like: "Bro that skin looks familiar!,,

I use a very, very modified comfig medium-low. General idea was to keep models and textures high but lower everything else, so things like lighting, shadows, character quality, and ragdolls/gibs are all reduced/disabled. I have a 2080 super so I can get away with antialiasing and other gpu-specific enhancements, but I'm CPU bottlenecked so it has been a struggle to keep frames high haha. Glad you enjoyed :)

“I Guide Others to a Treasure I Cannot Possess”

I did a full video on it two years ago now :) it’s my favorite item in the game.

The worst of the sniper rifles, but when you consider how strong the rifles can be, I hesitate to say it's a "bad item" when compared to items on other classes. It'll get its own video at some point since its script is the furthest along, and I want to cover *all* of sniper's items over time.

@@NontheNinja thanks for the input! I was asking because I bought a strange Classic for the memes and been using it a bit and it’s been a drag to use. But it’s kinda funny getting actual kills with it though

@@LonesomeKrow Oh it's definitely a ton of fun, I use it a lot for that reason. I think it will translate to a more fun video too, rather than my normal info-dump stuff haha

Just locks you out of dealing critical damage yeah. It does cause a weird interaction with items that have bodyshot damage penalties (heatmaker and classic); if you shoot the head before you can deal a critical headshot (0.2 seconds on heatmaker, full charge on classic), you deal a non-critical headshot that does more damage than if you bodyshot them. You can use this on the classic to deal more damage than a fully charged bodyshot, 135 on body vs 149 on a last second, non-critical headshot. Not practical knowledge by any means, but interesting if not a bit funny nonetheless.

Backwoods boomstick > woodsy widowmaker free

subbed!! ..

I love y2k aesthetic stuff but don’t have the art talent to pull it off LOL. Tried a bit in my machina vid and reused the outro here but alas. I love old breakbeats and they’re usually pretty “textural” which makes it pretty easy to narrate over, especially with the ones in this vid since they’re game OST’s

At least the typo distracts people from the render error premiere lovingly added in that messed up the opacity of those icons! The worst part is that I absolutely wrote it right the first time but I must’ve borked it when I went back to add the vertical line. Don’t edit past 3 AM y’all. At least the time is correct, as a pleasant surprise if you charge that long you’ll do 100 more damage than I said you would.

Tr_walkway_rc2. There’s lots of guides floating around for downloading it and setting it up!

@@NontheNinja 🍪

I grossly underestimated how long I had left haha. Last few sections required far less editing than the ones that came before.

I recall both sunsethud and zonahud showing up, those are definitely the two most recent ones I used. Mostly sunsethud though.

​@@NontheNinja thx i love u❤

“Aliloftheoloethfolila” -van dweller outback hunter class

Engineer meta is crumbling before our very eyes

The sniper hate wave really started after a video came out claiming 0.2s was too fast and that sniper was too powerful up close, when in reality people would be upset regardless if the time delay was 1s or .01s. People don’t like dying to sniper up close, even though it’s a way worse situation for the sniper to take than for the aggressor. The real issue sniper has is his area control, which has way more to do with hardscopes than a headshot delay. While I don’t think we’ll see a significant balance change to sniper (or any weapons for that matter, tf2 income doesn’t justify the dev time), the way you’d tackle it would be to reduce his influence on holding chokes and other areas. The only ideas I’ve personally had were gradual charge decrementing or aim shake as they’d limit this without making the class feel sluggish like a reload time change would.

Pretty sure this video features sunsethud (light theme) and zonahud (with slight color mods) Glad you enjoyed :)

Forgot to edit those out, now people are gonna know this whole channel is a fraud :(( Thank you and glad you enjoyed :)