[TF2] Weapon Stereotypes! Episode 9: The Sniper

[Music] the sniper everyone's least favorite australian outbacker i mean when there's a good sniper on the other team it can be one of the most infuriating things to die from just across the map over and over and over again but on the other hand if you have a couple of bad snipers on your team you're basically down a couple players because they can somehow manage to repeatedly miss the other team standing at point blank range it's it's just a big mess man now of course as with every other class not all snipers are created equal and a lot of what determines a good sniper from a bad one comes with the different weapons that they use now i i i i gotta do the whole disclaimer thing again you you know what you know the drill stereotypes don't mean everyone blah blah blah disclaimer blah blah blah satire blah blah parody you get the idea right okay let's go [Music] this is another one of those stock weapons that is so widely used that it becomes difficult to pin someone down just because they use it but interestingly i have noticed that the stock sniper rifle has the biggest variance in terms of its alternate versions and no i'm not talking about the op i'll get into that one later but i mean like the ones that are still the stock sniper just with stuff added on so for example botkiller sniper rifles seem to attract anger snipers i'm not really sure why they're not overly edgy and while they do look cool there's no reason for it to be as widespread as it is these are the ones that tend to be renamed really overused edgy and immature things like aimbot.exe lenny phase a point-and-click adventure game a racial slur etc australian snipers have a 50 50 chance of being either godlike or complete [ __ ] these are also the ones that tend to be renamed [ __ ] latin words because they want everyone to think they're smart festive snipers the original limited ones not the skin festive ones festive snipers are the ones that you should actually watch out for these guys are almost always really good their rifles aren't usually renamed and if they are it's probably an inside joke with their friends or it's named after their boyfriend or girlfriend despite all of these if you see a stock sniper just be observant you should be able to tell pretty quickly how good they are and how you should approach them this is by far the biggest war pig in this series that i've covered so far and at the same time it seems kind of unfair there's a ton of reasons you might want to use this you might be a cs go player you might think the model looks better you might just think it sounds cool whatever but at the same time it's very rare to encounter an op sniper that doesn't think he's hot [ __ ] this sniper can't actually aim headshots so he just uses this as a crutch and a tool to make people mad weirdly enough i've noticed that this stereotype has kind of fallen off in recent years and there hasn't really been anything to replace it this could just be because of the new pseudo-explosive headshot mechanic giving it more of a support role or because this thing has taken its place as the body shotting machine which we're going to get into later for now though if you see one of these snipers they're probably either running the full set with the danger shield and the crocodile hat or they're just running the full piss loadout either way they're set out to tell you so be aware [Music] these guys are the swagman swatter snipers of the weapon stereotype series nobody thinks much of them until they start demolishing the entire server without mercy and without saying a single word in chat you can't ever peak any sight lines because chances are he's there hiding a sniper dot perfectly and will instantly headshot you the second you show your face he's like an aimbotter if an aimbotter was actually smart and had good game sense and positioning three words fully charged body shots if you count body shot as one word which i do this guy has no qualms with giving up the flashiness of a headshot to secure a kill and will do it regularly to the point where people get more salty about body shots from these than they do with body shots from the sydney sleeper which is the weapon that was made for that you can find these guys on maps with really tight corridors like dust bowl or turbine trying to get those sick collateral kills for their montage i wouldn't necessarily say it's a war pig but if you see a mock in a sniper there's a good chance he thinks he's really good at the game also i'd be hard-pressed to skip over the ever-present body shotting machina danger shield gibbous vision 2 for sniper this guy doesn't even know what game he's playing but is still somehow outsniping you he'd probably taunt but i don't think he knows what button to press this isn't as big of a war pig as the upper hand but it's still pretty significant i mean it makes sense this weapon rewards you for hitting headshots and it punishes you for missing them so if you use this you're probably pretty confident in your ability to hit them now i haven't seen this stereotype myself to the same extent that i've seen others maybe that's just because of my limited experience with the class or maybe that's because everyone who mentioned this in comments or tweets or whatever are all organized and feeding me misinformation to mess with me i don't know most heat maker snipers that i see are just kind of mediocre also worth noting that these guys seem to get tilted very easily market gardening them a few times will almost always cause them to switch off the pyro or something which by the way isn't gonna help you all that much for very long this guy is almost certainly meming i mean you really can't even pull the new player that doesn't know any better card because ninety percent of the time these guys can't even figure out how to fire it and they just switch back to whatever rifle they were using after one life like yeah it's that bad so if you see a classic sniper he's probably just [ __ ] around with his friends trying to get 360 no scope head shot yyy fakie bladder stall kills and other dumb [ __ ] i don't know dude if i had to describe the huntsman with one simple bill wurtz reference it would be wow that worked i mean seriously the huntsman is the poster child for unintentional [ __ ] most of the kills you get with this are going to be the result of either random spam or just corner peaking like lots and lots and lots and lots of corner peaking and i'll be the first to admit there is definitely some skill involved with this weapon plus snipers who use this tend to be way more aggressive than your typical stock snipers which i appreciate considering i really dislike fighting against more passive play styles like the black box koch thing but if we're being honest there's a very good reason that it was nicknamed the luxman ah the smg people who use this are what i like to call the josie zuwapski 2005s commonly seen in payload upward and ctf2fort servers these guys are the snipers have just came off their favorite minecraft roleplaying server and found tf2 in the steam's free-to-play section they instinctively use their nine-year-old call of duty experience and make the assumption that the smg is a super strong gun that will force any player in close to mid-range i hate to break it to you guys this isn't call of duty infinite warfare this is tf2 you can tell these guys apart by a few things firstly you'll notice that they have 2000 and something at the end of their name most commonly 2004 for whatever reason and that is also accompanied by the silver casual badge and the newly a quite boosty gibbous this guy is almost certainly running the bushwacker and there's also a very good chance that he's running the huntsman but the bushwacker is almost a guaranteed it's not a very good weapon in all honesty but it's very effective in one specific situation tank shredding you'd be surprised how well this works with your swing speed maxed anyway outside of mvm the one thing that you can assume for sure about this guy is that at some point he's going to run at you with his melee out and he's probably gonna fail miserably [Music] this is generally seen as the best support secondary for sniper but more often than not snipers that ranjarati will be really selfish with it like there's a pretty good chance that they only equipped it because there's a scorch shot pyro on the other team harassing them and if that isn't the case they're probably using the gerardi bushwacker combo from hell which i'm going to get into later all that said on the rare occasion that you run into a dratty sniper that actually uses it to help his teammates well it's it's a really nice change of pace this guy is sick of spies but can't be bothered to actually use his ears it's considered meta in a lot of competitive leagues or it was at some point but it's not as hard of a counter to spy as some people think it is this is because most razorback snipers think they're completely immune from spies and they just seem to forget that you know spy has a gun he can shoot people with it but of course these guys just ignore that and stay permascoped until they get shot and this opens up a whole bunch of ways to mess with them which is always fun okay stop the video i am snow and i hereby take over this video to talk to you about the darwin's danger shield this is not a joke so listen up using the darwin's danger shield is bad and you simply make a fool out of yourself by showing the world you are a coward and a terrible sniper what's worse it lacks any form of respect for the enemies if you see someone using the darwin's danger shield do not take this lightly kill them quick taunt [ __ ] talk them and call the cops the safety of our people is in your hands thank you and you smitherew of the audio you say one thing good about the darwins you play one game with the darwin's to upload one clip with the darwins i will find you and i will kill you you think this is scripted why don't you go ahead and find out for yourself thank you for watching don't forget to like and subscribe this isn't nearly as good as it used to be but it's still used by those who really like to stay at one end of the map and permascope down a sight line once you get body shot by them once just avoid that one specific sight line for the rest of the game because chances are they'll be there the entire time the flinching immunity only happens when their rifle is fully charged up so they tend to get tunnel vision very easily because they don't want to lose that immunity which again means that it's pretty fun to mess with them there's nothing really special about this weapon honestly you'd be better off looking at what type of reskin they have to get an idea of what you're dealing with that said it would be a crime to move on without talking about this thing's crit rate it's ridiculous that's it [Music] this is pretty commonly run with a razorback simply because these guys can't stand spies and they want a means of tracking them down while still having backstab immunity they also love to tell you how the 33 damage hit in 48 bleed damage adds up to more than 65 so it technically does more damage than stock like seriously if i had a refined metal for every time a tribal man shiv sniper berated me for using stock and then telling me about how theirs does more damage i'd be able to i don't know i'd be able to buy something ridiculous the point is they never shut up about it the shanisha the shanshaha the shanasha the sean shot okay okay cool the sha ansha is one of those weapons that seems like it could be really cool on paper and granted in certain situations it is in fact it can be pretty ridiculous but that said most of the time it isn't like if you get down to that low health and you're within melee range you're probably dead anyway and an 81 damage hit as opposed to a 65 damage hit really isn't gonna change all that much i mean really you still two shot light classes and you have three shot demos in pyro still i guess you two shot medics now and can three shot soldiers so that's okay but if you let either of those classes get that close to you you probably deserve to die that said the people who use this will swear by it much like some medics do with the solemn vow for this reason they'll try to pull it out and use it at every opportunity so that they can prove to themselves that it's good and that usually puts them at a disadvantage hey you yeah yeah you are headshots too hard do you hate the fact that the dedicated long-range class classes weak at close range do you need a get out of jail free card for when someone tries to exploit that weakness well boy howdy do i have a weapon for you i just said boy howdy unironically kill me now seriously though the bushwacker is almost exclusively used with the jaradi or sometimes the carbine if they're memeing but it's generally used by snipers that can't kill someone before they get too close and they also can't hit anything at close range so instead they'll just run this combo and get free crits they'll camp the resupply locker whenever possible so that they can have next to no cooldown on their gerardi and they will always always always use the shouting freud after getting a kill with it everyone who doesn't use it can't stand the people who do use it and everyone who does use it is extremely defensive about using it and will fight tooth and nail trying to justify it so overall it's it's just a big mess man there is one good thing to come out of this combo though once you get jarated the sniper who threw it will relentlessly focus you and get extreme tunnel vision trying to kill you this means that you can bait them very easily leading to some funny situations [Music] and that's it that's that's all the sniper weapons same deal as always we're gonna finish up the series with spy next time so let me know if you have any suggestions and that's it it's it's over you can go now [Music] you

Channel: SoundSmith

Views: 6,164,472

Keywords: TF2, Team Fortress 2, Weapon Stereotypes, Stereotypes, OP, Gimmick, Crutch, Meme, Darwin's Danger Shield, idk, other tags go here I guess

Id: CrQzl2vG2Ow

Length: 13min 10sec (790 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 08 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

0/5 no edgy music

[u/TaintedLion]

Inb4 bad Snipers buy Festive Sniper Rifles to make them look good.

[u/TaintedLion]

Props to /u/SoundSmith323 for this video.

[u/StezzerLolz]

Man, I'm kinda' going to miss these. I've really enjoyed the series.

[u/[deleted]]

Dude seriously called the jarate + bushwaka a crutch. Wtf ?

[u/Ubervisor]

Didn't Snow quit a while back?

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