>>719098903
>The class is strong but it's nowhere near where the retards that get their opinions from their ecelebds think it is
Fag that played highlander plat for more than a few seasons: there are more than a handful of maps where he is so oppressive that he's arguably on the same pick priority as demoman and sometimes on the same pick priority as medic. It's really telling when a game on like Viaduct is decided almost entirely by which sniper wins the duel, because after yours is dead the game can sometimes come to a total fucking halt where your team is ducked off behind cover trying to beat back divers and you have to either hope your sniper will get theirs next spawn, or your spy can do some kinda play because their sniper positioned like a retard/the spy manages to dm him effectivity (because they're almost always razorback in highlander and I'll always seethe like a nigger that secondary exists). Sniper is arguably more fair the more players there are of varying skill levels, but the smaller you get on teams and the higher skill the teams become, the more of a pain in the fucking dick he is. There's a reason why you'll sometimes see him on defense plays in 6s instead of a second soldier or scout, and that's because at his max potential on certain maps he can do everything the autistic YouTube talking heads say. Not every player and not every map, but the difference between him and the baguette as support classes is staggering, and worst part is, I have no idea how to fix Sniper without making him dogshit or buff Spy without making the new player experience against them even more hell on earth. They're both relics of respective times in tf2's history in a way to me
