Speaking of moronic players.
It's so easy to get mad at people when they go sniper. Too easy.
I was just playing warpath, on a Doorman server, and my team dominated the other one the past two rounds. The first was an all-out roll (complete with Rick Astley), the second was a stalemate at their last point melee SD.
The reason we stalemated at their last point was the same reason all Warpath stalemates happen. Too. Many. Snipers.
We had four snipers on that stalemate, two of which had switched from medic. So we now had one puny medic with four snipers. It's the perfect thing for starting a game of warpath.
No surprise, we get rocked in the battle for the Bridge. We didn't stand a chance with four of our team members standing around with their scopes in their eyes and their thumbs up their asses. Five minutes later, no change in the amount of snipers, we were defeated by a spycap.
My flames of fury had already flared, so I ranted at my team again about the importance of medics to offensive efforts. It's something I do when I (rarely) get truly angry.
Of course, this one person was just telling me to stop whining, as our snipers continued to prove my point.
Eventually, I decided to go with the "fuck this" option and went medic.
The addition of another uber gave us enough push to cap the third point. I left when we got the fourth point.
Heavytank, I agree with you that removing one class would ruin the game, but I disagree in the case of the Sniper.
SNIPER RANT
I don't hate good snipers. When I get dominated by a sniper because they're skilled, I'm alright with that. Good snipers have saved my life and provided valuable support in killing that overhealed heavy rounding the corner.
I hate bad snipers. I hate bad snipers. They're dead weight. The only way I've seen they can kill something is if they band together and attempt to bodyshot a single person to death. If they try to go for the head, they miss, because they're bad.
They don't even help in an offensive, when they should. I've had to take every single person out to take the Warpath bridge (which is an open range for snipers) with the help of team mates. Guess which one didn't help out at all.
I must repeat the situation I'm so pissed about. Four snipers. One medic. I'd like to know just what they were thinking.
However, I already know. Bad snipers aren't worried about their team. They want to win, but they want their team to do it for them while they piss in each others mouth and move up after the next point is captured. Even engineers sit around and still help the team.
I am truly confused about what makes people switch to sniper. Let's look at the list of things a mediocre player could play.
Heavy+Demo+Soldier+Pyro- Even spam does something.
Medic- No need to explain.
Engineer: Even if an uber takes out your stuff, it delays the advance of the opposition.
Spy- Nobody bad at spy plays long enough to drag the team down.
Scout- Annoying to other team, BONK can help even if player has no talent.
Sniper- NOTHING.
Bad snipers are just bait, at best. For enemy snipers. See, bad snipers have this odd theory where they think outnumbering good snipers two to one will somehow let them beat them. It doesn't work that way.
There should NEVER be more snipers than medics. Medics score more points than snipers, and are an immense help to their team. There is nothing funner than ubering somebody and coming out top of the list because of your heal-induced killing spree. Somehow, people constantly forget the necessity and potential of playing medic.
Why from medic to sniper, I don't know. I've seen players switch from medic to any class but sniper and still have good performance.
I've concluded that useless snipers that can't realize that they're ruining other people's chances of winning aren't just inobservant, they're selfish.
Selfish creatures who are trying to get dominations they'll never get, wasting other people's time by catching fire and screaming for a medic. They aren't team players- they want to be independent, but they lean on the rest of the team so much because they really can't do anything.
Next time you go on a server and there are four or more snipers (unless said server is 2fort or sniper oriented map like Orange), refuse to heal the snipers. Maybe the only way the message will get through their skulls is if flames boil their brains out to where they can hear it.
