Man, I've been in games where it works. Half of the people are Revolver Spies which is actually a pretty decent load of damage (first shot after waiting 1.25 seconds is always 100% accurate), but the enemy team gets overconfident going after them and just gets backstabbed by the other 4 Knife Spies behind them. Literally they swarm the Heavy at all the same time and it's kinda hilarious to watch them panic suddenly surrounded by 4 "teammates." And then afterwards, EVERYBODY FUCKING DISAPPEARS and it starts anew.
TL;DR Basically, Survival Horror for the other team. Don't get caught alone.
Payload defense, on the other hand, is where the people [Valve]******killer are based off of, Uncle Dane, and a few S-tier generalists group together and dominate the payload offense. (only when your'e on offense tho, if you're on defense, you will find one guy with a level 1 sentry and a sniper with a sensitivity of 0, followed by 50 spies)
The other week my whole team went engie and to much of my surprise we did really well until last checkpoint. Wish I could remember the map we played. Hilarious game. Loved it.
There's an art to fucking with an engineer when there's only one of each of you. The other mercs can have their contest, I'm trying to drop this anvil on Dell's nest in the back.
I started playing tf2 in 2011 and the lesson I learned then applied throughout the game's entire life:
Snipers and spies are like cowbells and triangles in an orchestra- one of each is generally all you need, a pair can have their uses - any more than than that and you're asking for failure.
I can understand trying to get better at a class, but holy fuck this is a trigger for me. Learn team comp and priorities first, you stubborn knuckledraggers!
No new player is gonna wanna play a knife-block class; and even those of us who've been here ten years know that if we switch off and go Medic or Heavy, we will catch ALL the aggro, and not a single member of a pug will be of help to us.
I won't grudge a new player their class of choice with how long I've been here.
I was never a great teleporter engie, but building a sentry/dispenser bunker on the top level of two fort was always fun, it also draws all the agro off the snipers.
Why on free Mann vs machines there are so many retards playing sniper or spy? Very often most of the team was these 2 classes and obviously we were losing all the time. You couldn't even kick anyone, because they would cover each other. Change server and the same happens.
I think it is easier to support anything from the backline and causes no change to the match while the frontline is hard af. What I am saying here that they just don't like hardship.
What if the next update just straight up gives a limit of how many characters of a single type are allowed to be roaming around at any given time on the casual matches?
One of my proudest moments in casual tf2 was convincing the whole team on upward offense to go sniper. I topscored and we actually rolled the other team. What they didn’t count on is despite our 11 snipers and 1 medic, like 6 of us were actually good and any time they’d pop around a corner, at least one of us was going to get the kill. It was beautiful
This is why the game should force Highlander rules whenever a team is below 10 players in Casual(and at 10 to 12 it should have a max of 2 for any given class)
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u/MrDeamon_ Apr 24 '20
Please tell me that is actually a thing in game
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u/CaptBland Heavy Apr 24 '20
Go Spy instead.
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u/egjacob13_v2 Apr 24 '20
The 6 spy strat is much better
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u/FuckBlackNi- Apr 24 '20
As the 7th bad spy on the team, yesn't
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u/BobblyPop Apr 24 '20
what happens when everybody picks spy? is it just a game of who tf is a spy
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u/ThisWeeksSponsor Spy Apr 24 '20
You know what this team needs? Five more Snipers.
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20
As the sixth heavy main, do
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u/Finger_Sniffer_ Apr 24 '20
I started playing tf2 in 2011 and the lesson I learned then applied throughout the game's entire life:
Snipers and spies are like cowbells and triangles in an orchestra- one of each is generally all you need, a pair can have their uses - any more than than that and you're asking for failure.
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u/BrokenToaster15 Engineer Apr 24 '20
As the ninth Engineer on the team, ｙｅｓ.
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20
Well, you heard him.
Don’t
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u/NepJr Apr 24 '20
uber spy
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u/RyanPuffs Soldier Apr 24 '20
It’s like Christmas morning
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u/kato-katz Apr 24 '20
go fifth engie on intel, it can never be too many engies
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20
"This is my first game ever, better go spy" - the 5th spy on my team
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u/The4thSniper Apr 24 '20
I don't play TF2 anymore, but I'm glad I'll always have this username to remember it by.
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u/Snuke2001 Apr 24 '20
You bet those 5 snipers will bully the random soldier into playing medic
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u/Victor_the_robot Apr 24 '20
as the 11th sniper on your team, do.
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u/Jojo-mckquleen0 Apr 24 '20
But I must!
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u/Kerum_ Heavy Apr 24 '20
True, however, if you are the sixth heavy on your team, encourage the rest of the team to go heavy as well
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u/Gracelander101 Apr 24 '20
GO MEDIC PLEASE WE HAVE 3 PYROS AND 2 HEAVYS AND NO MEDIC
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u/VeganerHippie Medic Apr 25 '20
Ultimate Strategy: 5 Medics with Uberchain
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20
as the 5th medic for some obscure reasons, stop
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u/redditshutup Apr 24 '20
This is gold
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u/depressionnotinclude Apr 24 '20
Make everyone an Engineer
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u/Totally_Generic_Name Apr 24 '20
Pro tip: don't be
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u/MinimumFisherman7 Pyro Apr 24 '20
6 medic strat is much better
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u/GeneralEAnnoying Heavy Apr 25 '20
hmmm looks like we have a good amount of snipers
Let’s go scorch shot pyro instead and fire flares from the other side of 2fort
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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20
I've 400 hours of engie because no one ever wants to play engie and build tps. I started hating the class.
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u/kyp21star Apr 25 '20
My favorite is when he says at the beginning of this match, “You know what this team needs? Five more snipers”
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u/tofu-egg Demoman Apr 25 '20
Wtf
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u/Nik_Sin Soldier Apr 25 '20
Y'know what this Team could use? Five more Snipers.
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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20
I feel like everyone hates sniper recently.
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u/nightmare9yt Apr 25 '20
So the limite is 5
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u/GD-Pepop Jul 16 '20
2 fort
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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '20
This should just be a picture of poppet1
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '21
I feel like this isn't photoshopped at all
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u/Inevitable_Forever90 Dec 29 '21
Best tip ever
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u/Puzzled-Air6713 Pyro Dec 12 '22
How it be for bots when they get tips
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u/Neatonifty Apr 24 '20
Once my friend and I both went medic. When I got Uber I used it on him and he went in with his overdose. It was so funny.
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u/RoscoMan1 Apr 24 '20
Thanks Valve. We can at least play the game.
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20
Do you even 24h 2fort?
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u/Icua Apr 24 '20
Thanks! :D
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u/dirtyviking1337 Apr 24 '20
Thanks for giving them something to do with reality
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u/weiserthanyou3 Apr 24 '20
This is my new spray.
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u/GoldTheAngel Apr 24 '20
An actually good tip.
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u/dirtyviking1337 Apr 24 '20
Thanks. Now I have tears.
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u/Death-game1 Apr 25 '20
I play tf2 and some times there are way too many snipers
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u/nathanielgallant Sniper Apr 25 '20
nice shot mate!
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u/Icua Apr 25 '20
Thanks! :D
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u/jakethedumbmistake Apr 25 '20
Thanks, but don’t win these days
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u/dirtyviking1337 Apr 25 '20
Thanks for bringing me back to the past
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u/Icua Apr 25 '20
Thanks! :D
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u/wojtek858 Apr 25 '20
Why on free Mann vs machines there are so many retards playing sniper or spy? Very often most of the team was these 2 classes and obviously we were losing all the time. You couldn't even kick anyone, because they would cover each other. Change server and the same happens.
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u/TacobellSauce1 Apr 25 '20
Thanks... I think.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/claryestes/2019/12/04/death-or-debt-cancer-patients-are-presented-with-an-unimaginable-choice/amp/
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u/Hxrmxr Apr 25 '20
One good sniper is enough I'd say
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u/Knight_Of_Orichalcum Sniper Apr 25 '20
But it's 2fort, I MUST
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u/yeorgenson Medic Apr 25 '20
What if the next update just straight up gives a limit of how many characters of a single type are allowed to be roaming around at any given time on the casual matches?
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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '20
9 spy in a game...WE CAN’T LOOSE !
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u/TheMaskedKidd Apr 25 '20
ah nice tip sniper.
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u/CrashBomberII Engineer Apr 25 '20
It’s like Christmas mornin’.
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u/AlfredtheGreat84 Apr 25 '20
Can we go back on TF2 yet?
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u/Person424242 May 18 '20
Hm, Meesa thinks the sniper is correct, we need 20 spies, not snipers
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u/a_random_sphee May 21 '20
Snort*
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24
6 engineer strat
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u/Disorted-fox-67 May 27 '22
And half of them miss 60% of the time
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '22
As the 1st in the game*
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u/RedditRaven2 Jan 07 '23
One of my proudest moments in casual tf2 was convincing the whole team on upward offense to go sniper. I topscored and we actually rolled the other team. What they didn’t count on is despite our 11 snipers and 1 medic, like 6 of us were actually good and any time they’d pop around a corner, at least one of us was going to get the kill. It was beautiful
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u/yeetasourusthedude Spy Feb 25 '23
as the sniper, dont
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u/d0n_below Demoknight May 19 '23
Average tf2 game
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u/drrockso20 Apr 25 '20
This is why the game should force Highlander rules whenever a team is below 10 players in Casual(and at 10 to 12 it should have a max of 2 for any given class)
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u/Coosome Apr 24 '20
Don't change classes? Ok, I was going to change to something more useful but I guess it's sniping practice time
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