Team Fortress 2 - Meet The Sniper Trailer

Post by Dan @ 08:49am 18/06/08 | 34 Comments

As promised, Valve have released the latest addition to their series of meet the Team Fortress 2 characters trailers. Meet the Sniper:

In his former life as a tracker of dangerous game in the unforgiving Australian outback, the Sniper would spend months by himself. Prolonged isolation taught him a valuable lesson: You don't have to rely on other people if you never miss.

For an Aussie he seems to have a pretty terrible British accent. Check it out right here on AusGamers.

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TiT
Posted 08:59am 18/6/08

yeh the accent is terrible

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Dan
Posted 09:09am 18/6/08

What's this I spy at 1:15 in? New Pyro unlock?

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BoneyD
Posted 09:40am 18/6/08

Since the game is largely a parody on various themes, the use of accent here feels like a poke at the frequent miscasting of Australians with British sounding voices. Though, I wonder how many outside Australia and the UK get the joke? ;)

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TiT
Posted 09:41am 18/6/08

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4190/pyroweaponyv6.png

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Midda
Posted 09:56am 18/6/08

yeh the accent is terrible

I think it's safe to say that it's intentional.

And who the hell cares, I think it's probably the best one of these videos yet. Every time they release a new 'Meet the' video, I'm reminded even more about how desperately I want to be an animator for Valve.

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CHUB
Posted 10:21am 18/6/08

Haha, that is badass as :)

New Pyro weapon looks sweet... some sort of napalm or flare or something... I'm sure it will be a long (longer) range fire based gun.

Yay.

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trog
Posted 10:22am 18/6/08

I think it's safe to say that it's intentional.

Given that at least one of the lead developers of TF2 is Australian, I'd say so. Another awesome video!

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ctd
Posted 10:36am 18/6/08

Pretty sure that robin walker guy is aussie and would've noticed the accent if it wasn't intentional.

Wonder what that blue handcannon is?

Edit: also the bobblehead figurine looks suspiciously like the VIP character from TFC Hunted.

last edited by ctd at 10:36:06 18/Jun/08

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Mass
Posted 10:44am 18/6/08

Lol at the piss jars.

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ravn0s
Posted 11:07am 18/6/08

some people are saying the last unlock is a jetpack :/

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ctd
Posted 11:11am 18/6/08

some people are saying the last unlock is a jetpack

That would be awesome as long as it was controlled. Less flying around the map, more launching right into the middle of a fire fight.

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ravn0s
Posted 11:12am 18/6/08

if there is a jetpack it will probably use up flamethrower fuel

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d0mino
Posted 11:19am 18/6/08

jet pack would be pretty left field, i doubt they would do something that changes the gameplay that drastically... all the med unlocks were modified weapons.

so you have the axtinguisher - axe
the flare gun - shotgun
? - flamethrower

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Lynx
Posted 11:28am 18/6/08

I doubt it would be a jet pack. Like Azeroth in wow, if you reach places you weren't meant to go, most maps look pretty messy.

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sif greazy
Posted 12:13pm 18/6/08

That was hilarious I have to get TF2. There's a QGL clan or something along those lines right?

edit: the jars that slowly fill up with yellow liquid are his piss right?

last edited by sif greazy at 12:13:19 18/Jun/08

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WetWired
Posted 11:57am 18/6/08

was that a new level you see briefly too? or is it just some made up set for the video?

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Midda
Posted 12:14pm 18/6/08

Well, they've used playable maps for all of the other videos, so I reckon it's likely to be a playable map too.

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Lunch
Posted 01:32pm 18/6/08

that was the best one yet, great stuff :)

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ctd
Posted 04:25pm 18/6/08

pyro list leaked
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53196

Actually forget that. It just has the icons and the list, not the requirements or weapons

last edited by ctd at 16:25:05 18/Jun/08

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sc00bs
Posted 04:36pm 18/6/08

hahaha i love these "meet the..." videos so funny. how many more do they have to go still?

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Midda
Posted 04:43pm 18/6/08

Pyro, spy and medic.

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sc00bs
Posted 04:45pm 18/6/08

spy will b the best imo

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Midda
Posted 04:57pm 18/6/08

Yeah, I reckon spy has the most potential.

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parabol
Posted 04:59pm 18/6/08

Gentlemen.

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Carson
Posted 05:15pm 18/6/08

I'm looking forward to the pryo one. The muffled voice.

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Jabroney
Posted 05:31pm 18/6/08

i wish they would bring in some hunted vip games like the first tf. they were sweet as. i guess ubering really makes it tough tho.

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ctd
Posted 05:45pm 18/6/08

http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/images/cp_fastlane.jpg
http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/images/ctf_turbine.jpg

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Fish
Posted 05:51pm 18/6/08

edit: the jars that slowly fill up with yellow liquid are his piss right?

most likely.

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SquarkyD
Posted 06:31pm 18/6/08

speaking of weapons in trailers, has anyone noticed that the demo in the teaser trailer and GC trailer had a dynamite cluster weapon? wonder what happened to that.

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qmass
Posted 07:10pm 18/6/08

fastlane
turbine

f*****g.ass.

I'm really surprised they picked those maps as the best of the community offerings.

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WetWired
Posted 07:11pm 18/6/08

yeah they look pretty s***

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sif greazy
Posted 07:28pm 18/6/08

maybe they're the most played player-made maps?

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Denny
Posted 07:44pm 18/6/08

Accent sounds more like "African English" (i.e. Zimbabwe or S. Africa) than Australian to me. Unless they've said specifically that he's meant to be Australian that's what I'd go with.

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Tollaz0r!
Posted 08:32pm 18/6/08

Meh, it was OK. I found Meet the Engineer to be way better.

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