The sniper update is on its way! http://www.teamfortress.com/sniperupdate/
First up, the Huntsman!
THE HUNTSMAN
You will shoot them and they will stick to the wall and they will die
Any experienced sniper will tell you how irritating it is when your targets keep moving around. The question is how to stop these cheaters from wind-sprinting around like they own the place. And the answer is to pin them to a wall. How? With arrows!
"Now, hold on," you might be thinking. "I'm strong, but no one could throw an arrow that hard." Introducing the Huntsman longbow, which solves that age-old throwing problem.
"Now, hold on," you keep saying. "Aren't bows and arrows primitive and harmless?" Why don't you ask the dinosaurs? Except you can't, because the cavemen bow and arrowed them to death. One headshot from the Huntsman can mean an instant crit, in addition to a bolt-riddled corpse hanging from a wall that's gruesome and funny.
And even if you don't kill them, they'll carry around a certain arrow-shaped something as a living testament to your awesome archery skills and their frankly unawesome dodging skills. Comes with 18 arrows and a one-second charge for full power shots.
Day 2
Payload Race - Gladiatorial Cart Combat
Also, two new arena maps.
Sawmill - Set in a stormy mountain sawmill, this arena map has its cap point in a large structure atop a hill in the center of the map; beneath which lies a hidden underground spytech base; and above which, pouring down on everything we just mentioned, is rain—the first weather effect to appear in a TF map. If that previous sentence wasn’t long enough for you, replace the period with a comma and add this next part: players must ALSO watch out for the two deadly saw blades near the cap, which were left on when the previous occupants abandoned it for a less deadly, hilly, rain-swamped sawmill not built on a spybase.
Nucleus - A diabolical doomsday device is the foundation of this circular arena map, which features long sightlines and a bottomless radioactive pit underneath most of the game area. The cap, located in the center of the arena, is only accessible by catwalks suspended over a chasm, which open after the timer has run down.
Day 3 - The Razerback
The Razorback is a beautiful hand-carved tribal shield, built using indigenous techniques passed from father to son since before recorded time. Sometimes the old ways really are the best ways. And after using the Razorback in the field, we quickly discovered this was not one of those times.
All the tribal craftsmanship in the world, it turns out, cannot stop a modern butter knife. So we taped a car battery to it. Sure, the added weight of the redesigned Razorback’ll slow you down a little. But any poor sap dumb enough to backstab you while you’re sporting one is getting a surprise to the tune of 10,000 volts. Plus, if they want to stab you again, they’ll have to wait until their knife cools down. Which is lucky for you, since the Razorback collapses into a million finely crafted pieces after a single stab.
Day 4 - Sniper update!
The "Dead Ringer" Spy Watch
You've made all the right moves - conducted weeks of reconnaissance, stolen the blueprints to the safe, scaled the sheer mountain wall and penetrated deep into the heart of your enemy's fortress in disguise. Then some mouth-breathing guard shoots you in the leg and beats you to death with your own ski mask.
No more! The moment you receive a non-lethal hit, the Dead Ringer cloaks the REAL you for up to EIGHT SECONDS while creating a realistic simulacrum of your grisly death and limp corpse. By the time your adversary races toward your "body" to frisk you for cash and pulol gold fillings out of your mouth, you'll already be behind him, poised for the killing blow.
The "Cloak and Dagger" Spy Watch
All historians agree that George Washington's greatest regret was not being PERMANENTLY INBISIBLE. Now you can succeed where the man who invented America failed. Be invisible forever with the Cloak and Dagger Spy Watch!
"Liar!" owners of our classic Cloak Device may be yelling. "When I'm invisible my power is constantly draining!" Not witht he Cloak and Dagger. So long as you stand still, your cloak will REGENERATE INDEFINITELY. Only movement drains its power. But attention, fans of picking up metal objects: The Cloak and Dagger is ONLY powered by standing still.
Day 6 - The Ambassador
Put two wheels on this thing and it's a cannon.
There are two sorts of men in this world: the sort with blood pouring out of a hole in their heads, and the sort holding the Ambassador. It has the ammo count of a revolver and the pinpoint accuracy of a sniper rifle, even at long range. (But remember, a gun that packs this much heat needs to cool off between shots, so make every shot count.)
With its rosewood grip and likeness of your enemy’s mother (please send photo) engraved on the barrel, the Ambassador is eight motherloving pounds of steel your enemies won’t want to negotiate with.
Day 7 - Jarate
Jarate is a thrown jar that splashes upon impact. When splashed on enemies, they take 35% more damage for a period of time. Jumping in water will wash off Jarate. Jarate is also able to short out Spies’ cloaking devices. When used on teammates, Jarate will extinguish any fire effects.
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