Comments on: I’m Not A Crazed Gunman, Dad – I’m An Assassin

By: Edgar the Peaceful

Edgar the Peaceful — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:45:21 +0000

Haven’t read all the comments, but has anyone else noticed the top-notch quality of the music this time? Particularly nice drumming

By: Pocket

Pocket — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:45:35 +0000

That ‘mystery gun’ is a flare gun, which is the unlockable secondry weapon for the Pyro. It sets enemies on fire at a range, but takes a lot of skill to use effectively.

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:22:06 +0000

I think part of making the Sniper likeable is no shots whatsoever of him and that bloody machine gun.

By: graham

graham — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:32:52 +0000

Superb, truely a work of genius.
Top marks to the guys and gals at Valve.
I never felt any connection to the sniper before now, however his human side just makes the character.
Brill

By: Aftershock

Aftershock — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:39:13 +0000

just so you know, they HAVE added damage to the Hadoken.
It’ll be easiest against snipers, if you can get up behind them.

I promise not to grind this time.

By: Malagate

Malagate — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:56:09 +0000

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.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:48:12 +0000

Good shot, Sniper: you aimed for Australia, you hit a Cockney amateur theatre production of Crocodile Dundee playing at the Manchester town hall.

By: Andy Simpson

Andy Simpson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:07:58 +0000

They could have added damage to the Hadoken, too.

By: James T

James T — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:53:52 +0000

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.

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!

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:44:40 +0000

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.

By: ghostlyDog

ghostlyDog — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:35:17 +0000

Good to see Dick van Dyke is still getting work. Great vid though.

By: Rosti

Rosti — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:07:51 +0000

All together now:
[South African] Pie-rho-tech-nik [/South African]

Should be a fun weekend indeed.