The next class update for Team Fortress 2 is almost here, and as you may have guessed it's the Sniper's turn to get a new arsenal.
First out is The Huntsman.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 22 2009, 7:24 pm by Zycorax.

When I get my new PC I look forward to playing this again. Especially coz of this update.

Pinned ya to a wall, wanker!

This is awesome.

Ooh, the new map look an awful lot like the one FlyingHat showed us in the Scout Update thread.

Both the arena maps - which is what I'm most interested in, look like they will be horrible.

Other than that, they made us a nice new gimmick. "You will shoot them and they will stick to a wall and they will die"

What's really special about it is that it's in a NIGHT setting.

w00t? http://www.teamfortress.com/spyupdate/

I'm slightly confused

Probably a sick joke, IIRC today is Day 3 ;D

Also, that fucking shield should seriously go die. I love my sniper massacres.

So far I must say that the update has been mostly annoying.

If you are referring to servers where everybody is either one class or another, that's pretty typical since the first update, the medic. That will wear off in a few weeks after free weekend is over.

Yes, but at least during the past updates (perhaps with the exception of Scout) the class have been useful of some sort. Neither Spy or Sniper do usually go for the objectives, they just kill stuff.
Also, crosshair on the sniper is lame ._.

If a spy does not go to their (or taking their) objective, then that's a sign of a bad spy.

Crosshair for the Sniper? The Sniper Rifle was there since the game's launch. Unless you are referring to "The Sniper" and his new Huntsman.

Sniper Achievements are pretty easy, got 5 in less than 12 minutes.

*Crosshair when you're not scoping with the sniper rifle.

Alright, update released, time to hide on Left4Dead for a week or so.

This update bugs the crap outta me, everyone is being spies, so you can't be an engineer effectively, although it is fun to kill snipers now, since they all replace their machine gun with the bow so they have no way of defending themselves at close range

Actually...

• They didn't replace the Submachine gun with the Huntsman.
• As one carries either Huntsman or Sniper Rifle, they can still carry one of these:
  • Submachine gun
  • Jarate
  • Razorback
  for defending themselves at close range.
• Will always carry the Kukri.
  

I've gotten 3 sanviches! I hate this new system.

I have the death faking watch, it's fun killing a whole pack of people who think i died ;D

Unfortunately The Huntsman is ridiculous, it's so effective for corner camping that it instakills almost anyone who gets hit by a fully charged shot.