*kills you instantly from a distance with no risk*

*kills you instantly from a distance with no risk*
*kills you instantly at close range with next to no risk*
*only class that can stop it is itself*

how is this balanced?

>close range with next to no risk
spotted the baddie
one scattergun pallet and the scope flinches and he misses

Countered by Spy and Scout, can't cleanly deal with overhealed players.
>*kills you instantly at close range with next to no risk*
Wrong.

TF2 is not a competitive game, it doesn't have to be balanced. It's designed around all the players having very low skill, so who's powerful or useless changes essentially at random.

>implying you'll have the chance to fire a shot before he instantly quickscopes you

>spy

please no competent sniper gets killed by a spy.

No one is countered by Spy.

Snipers are only countered by disadvantageous terrain.

>I'm just going to make up imaginary arguments to any valid response because some guy dominated me as Sniper today.

Why are you trying to argue with an *actions* person? It's always going to end in bullshity like *it was a hologram*? You will never win

>implying you'll have the chance to fire a shot before he instantly quickscopes you
user, obviously the class isn't balanced with people using aimbots in mind. This is a problem with Valve's anti-cheat recognition, not with the Sniper's balance.

maybe get good or something
learn to strafe, jump be less predictable

Valve already said that there wont be a Sniper in TF3. Spy could easily be reworked to fill Sniper's role anyway.

>jump
>be less predictable

Pick one. You don't understand the game very well if you think jumping gets you anything other than easily headshot.

so let's say sniper could land 100% accuracy in a white room against a raging soldier cuck
this white room has no props whatsoever and there are no crits, guess who would win

>ghastly gibus and bronze medal
>exclusively watches chokepoint with piss rifle
>taunts after every kill
>MLP avatar

Spy having the lowest overall power level in a general sense doesn't mean no-one gets countered by him in specific situations.

says the baddie crying about sniper
:^)

Spies

>Not just harassing them with Demo, Pyro or Scout.
Can't aim too well while being burnt, exploded or meatshot can ya?

A sniper has to be extremely good to pose a threat against other, classes at a higher skill level

With the exception of the mlp avatar I do this to annoy people.

Even the implication that Valve ever says anything is a bold claim, you're gonna have to provide a source.

Make sure you spam binds like "noob down" or "kill confirmed"

One of the lead designers said that there would be no sniper in tf3 thanks to the lack of counterplay and prevalence of aimbotting a few years ago.

>Pyro

*blocks your afterburn*

One pill or Stray rocket and you're dead if you wear that piece of trash.

Still hammering some kinks out but here you go you fucking nerds

>TF3
nigga stop lying

That was said a long fucking time ago, before valve stopped making video games and TF2 became a mlp hat simulator with new sjw devs, doesn't make it any less true.

Tf2 sniper was the best I've ever been at a shooter, he's so beast. Even post-cosmetics, characters and their animations are so clear

Yeah as much as I hate the more absurd cosmetics I've still never had any issues identifying a class from their silhouette in that respawn wallhack.

You're delusional if you think Tf2 has new devs let alone boogeymen SJW ones. The team has like 4-5 programmers left.

>TF2 is not a competitive game
that's changing.

That said, OP is a faggot. Sniper is balanced for competitive play.

t. pyro main

no competent spy cant kill a sniper
1 backstab or 2 ambassador crits

who the fuck cares
it's tf2

He's right though. Jumping as anyone without a second jump is suicide against sniper.

Snipers problem is all his unlocks eliminating any counterplay, seriously remove razorback and danger shield and he gets easily fucked.

>walk out spawn
>scout crouching the level 1 teleporter

Its called airstrafing and crouch spam, hell sometimes I do full 360s just to fuck with the hitboxes.

This was my thoughts when I saw this thread. FPS doesn't get much more casual than TF2 (excluding Overwatch).

This user is full of shit, making things up. Do not listen to him.

Source?
Source on that statement user?
>That was said a long fucking time ago
When? Source?

>One pill or Stray rocket and you're dead if you wear that piece of trash
Actually user (not him) the health bonus on the Darwin's Danger Shield completely negates the explosive damage vulnerability. You die in exactly the same amount of shots to pills or rockets as normal.

does ctf_bridgetoofar no longer exist

> *kills you instantly at close range with next to no risk*
What
You mean melee or quickscope? Because it's false for both.