Meet the Sniper!
Let’s not talk about the accent, okay? Let’s just talk about the fact it’s very, very funny, and does an impeccable job of making one of the classes we so love to hate (CAMPING BASTARDS) endearingly human. Even the most cold-blooded of killers has daddy issues.
Update, after a dozen happy watches of the thing. Things to look out for:
- Keep an eye on the lower left of the screen during the coffee scene
- Does the bobblehead hint that we’ll be seeing the VIP-escorting Hunted map from TFC return? Ooh…
- Is that a new gun the Pyro’s carrying? – See below.
The Mysterious New Pyro Weapon:
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@ Majorb
Like the flare guns in the Timesplitters games, then?
Fantastic vid, which gave exactly what was needed with the other characters – depth. I hope the rest continue in this strain.
Well it is a blunderbus looking thing, so it might just be a wide angle shrapnel launching death machine, but I dunno how much I like the idea of trading out my shotgun with a decent spread for something like that.
Also poor Demo now he has no eyes… and is dead.
@Return: I hope you’re right, and it’s not a ballistic grenade firing gun. If it’s that, I’ll be disappointed as hell.
Haha someone from my community noticed the same gun tidbit.
Definitely looks like a flare gun! Scroll down a few posts to see an actual flare gun pic. I’m guessing/hoping it’s a napalm-ish gun to help control areas and increase the effective distance of the pyro.
http://www.focusedgaming.com/team-fortress-2/1837-pyro-update-pic.html
As for the custom maps to be released with the update, my money’s on Redstone and either Steel or pl_dynamite.
I still liked the Engineer better, but this one was funny.
I am so glad to see them focusing more on the character interview style rather than action. It’s what made everyone sit up and take notice of the original heavy movie.
+1 to whoever it was suggested expanding these segments.
cant believe he doesn’t have a Texan accent. Soldier still > *
Freakin Hilarious!!! best class movie of the lot and my favourite class (yes I’m a camping bastard) :)
Superb, can’t wait for the pyro stuff either.
So how do we rank them then? I think that could be the best so far
Rank?
Soldier
Sniper
Heavy
Scout
Engineer
Demo
But such is the quality, it really isn’t easy to rank them, but i reckon the soldier tops things off for just being the perfect mix of insane and blackly comic.
‘One is a proffession, the other is a mental illness.’
Love it, that line has got all sorts of layers going on.
Heh, sniper drives a campervan. lolol
The “One’s a profession” bit is splendid. Good work, them.
KG
A question for you sharp-eyed folks: in the bit where he’s brushing his teeth with the Polaroids on the wall, who’s in the top picture? It’s a bit dim, and I can’t quite make it out.
I think it’s an Engineer.
Bestthing.
Is this why the Demoman has an eyepatch? Does he have one on before the glass goes in his eye?
@Noc: I agree with Monchberter, top pic is an engy for sure.
Great vid this… also, not sure why Mr. Wolpaw would think that something would be missed in the vid… doesn’t he know that we all watch these things about 10 times and then come to sites like this to discuss them even more? No chance in hell that something would be missed! ;)
Ben Hazell: The ironic thing about the demoman bit is that the glass goes in his GOOD eye, meaning that he’s now blind (well, for about 1 second before blowing himself up)…. poor demoman. :(
Does the bottle in the eye now explain the Demo’s eye-patch?
Edit: Ben Hazell beat me to it :(
Anyone found the webpage detailing the Pyro update? The news article said when the Meet the Sniper video would be released “along with a web site dedicated to the Pyro update.”
I haven’t been able to find this yet. :\
@Kast
The website isn’t being revealed until tomorrow unfortunately, according to Shacknews.
Hmm, unlikely as it is, but if they were to get a proper australian to re-do the voice, Kel from Kath and Kim would be a wonderful choice. There’s even a passing physical resemblance.
Then again, I think the Heavy looks almost exactly life Jason Statham (on vast quantities of steroids) so what do I know?
Ben Hazell: The ironic thing about the demoman bit is that the glass goes in his GOOD eye, meaning that he’s now blind (well, for about 1 second before blowing himself up)…. poor demoman. :(
Ironic? Really?
My new favorite besides the Meet the Engineer trailer.
Love the music!
Just saw this on Digg. 1:20 will be of note to all you music fans.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EHc0jgOGTlE
That was fantastic (watches again).
That was cool. One of the best of the lot. I would dearly love to know where that accent is supposed to be from though.
great vid, can anyone make out what is leaning up against the wall when the sniper is standing respectfully over the fallen spy? dosent look like his primary or secondary weapon
forget it, its just his primary, couldnt see it in in low def
This video is *funny* and makes me a *happy camper.* And when the Pyro update gets released, we can all go have a *spicy games.*
Don’t know why Eric thought we wouldn’t *see* the urine jar joke.
Also, I clicked on Smee’s link. And now I feel *silly.*
(… Goddamn it’s hard keeping that up.)
Dorian: I *get* that reference, and it makes us *happy* *campers*.
The demodonimo effect was great.
Jars with yellow liquid… you can find them twice.
Best one yet, by a long shot. But they should really get a proper Australian to do the voiceover, it’s an insult to anyone who knows what an Australian sounds like (i.e. almost all Brits -because they will no doubt have seen an Australian soap- and all Aussies and Kiwis, and probably a fair few South Africans).
P.S. Am I the only one who wants to have sex to this music? It is epic!
Maybe, as part of his character he pretends to be Australian, to appear cooler when he’s actually from a Wisconsin suburb.
But that would be crazy (or professional).
The accent seems to veer from a rubbish aussie accent, to a crap cockney impression with occasional americanisems thrown in.
Great vid though :)
But they should really get a proper Australian to do the voiceover, it’s an insult to anyone who knows what an Australian sounds like
Bit weird, considering there’s a perfectly good Australian accent in the game already – Robin Cook in the Developer Commentary.
Bits were Ok – the first bit after the title and “I think his mate saw me” weren’t bad. Just when he started talking about “if there are 2 people left in the world…” he turned into Michael Caine.
It’s still better than the attempts at Irish accents in Clive Barker’s Undying. Jesus.
On the subject of accents, did anybody else find Psycho in Crysis to be surprisingly tolerable?
When he first spoke and he was English I was expecting the usual. You know, sentences like: “Bloody chuffing bollocks, mate! This is a load of bloody bollocks!” Pleasingly, he actually sounded like the person who wrote his lines had met a real English human being.
The touch of David Attenborough in the middle is fantastic!
Seen that yet?
http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/?pw=presspreview
Wow, that compressed air push is going to make a big difference to how the game is played I think… and the flare gun sounds particularly fun.
All together now:
[South African] Pie-rho-tech-nik [/South African]
Should be a fun weekend indeed.
Good to see Dick van Dyke is still getting work. Great vid though.
So, since RPS’s Valve-love hasn’t extended to a separate thread for the Pyro unlocks and achievements:
1) The change to the “default” flamethrower just has me thinking of the AirFist from Quake mod fame. God, that was fun… and having it as a Pyro just cements him(?) as my favorite class.
2) The Flare-gun is clearly a “less horrible” version of the Incendiary Rocket from TF/TFC – it seems to require quite high accuracy, so I suspect that it doesn’t do any splash ignition at all. Nicely balanced – I’ll have that, thanks.
3) The Backburner is simply the “other Pyro buff” that everyone seemed to be asking for on the Steam forums. Hurrah!
4) The achievements seem much better this time – 75% of them look unambiguously fun, and the other 25% (hopefully) will take account of previous gains in these attempts. (I’m looking at you, 1 million fire damage counter…)
That said, OMGWTFBBQ is either impossible (since I thought it was impossible to do damage with the Hadoken taunt), or is Cunningly Phrased, so that you just have to do the taunt timed so it looks like the enemy dies from it. Cunning! I like it.
Oh, Glenn Robbins as the Sniper! Beautiful!
Yeah, functional Cockney, but no resemblance to Australian. At any rate, lovely video. Bring us animation’s most bloodthirsty sitcom!
They could have added damage to the Hadoken, too.
Good shot, Sniper: you aimed for Australia, you hit a Cockney amateur theatre production of Crocodile Dundee playing at the Manchester town hall.
I think his accent works, as at least it’s just as silly as the rest of the accents and adds to the tongue-in-cheek style.
Better awful accents that are funny than accurate accents that are serious or flat.