[TF2] Just What Exactly is Wrong With Sniper? - A Balance Discussion

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Music used:
Deus Ex OST - UNATCO, NYC Streets, VersaLife, DuClare Chateau, OceanLab

Clips used:
M1 Garand Ping
One Punch Man

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:20 Sniper's Role And Function
3:30 Map Design's Effect On Sniper
7:05 Sustainability And Lack Of Punishment
9:30 Potential Solutions
10:57 General Frustrations
13:36 My Outdated Thoughts On Quickscoping
14:30 Conclusion
15:41 Credits
16:04 Bonus Clip


Your boy is back with the spicy takes. I don't think Sniper is that bad, but he's still got problems. A lot of classes have problems, Spy is bad in general, Medic's unlocks are all straight upgrades except the Medigun, it's been almost 4 years and I still can't see through Pyro's flames or tell when it's a friendly or enemy Pyro coming around the corner, but Sniper is the one people want to talk about right now and I've got 400 hours with him, so here's my piece. I think I did an alright job with my suggested balance changes to make Sniper a bit more fair and fun to fight, but I don't know how they'd work in practice, and I think my "universal Machina tracers" suggestion is a bit much, something more like the effect the Classic has would be just as good. People are going to be upset no matter what the deal is because a lot of people just hate Snipers in general in games, I've heard people complain that Sniper's range is too long and he also shouldn't be able to kill people at close range in the same breath and all I hear is "I don't want Sniper to be in the game anymore," which I think is reductive. I feel as though my suggestions let Snipers like me still be aggressive for short bursts, and long range sedentary Snipers are a bit more fair to fight, even on bigger maps. I'd like to see these changes implemented and playtested in some community mod, I think that would be neat to mess around with and see how we can fine-tune this. Who knows, it might even make garbage meme maps like Turbine just a bit more tolerable to play on. Probably not though.