One shot: the Dynamic Tension of Team Fortress 2's Sniper update
Valve channel vintage Charles Atlas for the latest in the continuing struggle between the Sniper and the Spy leading up to TF2's latest update. See the official page for an explanation of what's going on here, though it does honest to god boil down to new jar-of-pee weaponry, ala the team's April Fool's gag [via Valve].
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seanjjordan
#1 – 9:53 PM May 20, 2009
I appreciate their effort, but I read this thing thinking that I was the victim of some huge inside joke here. As it turns out, the joke isn't even all that funny to begin with.
Ah well. 2 points for creativity, at least.
Ghede
#2 – 2:19 AM May 21, 2009
Actually, there is an inside joke here. In the "Meet the Sniper" video, they show a time-lapse of him waiting for a target, and there is a slowly filling jar of pee in the video. Then on april fools they did a sniper update "preview" featuring the Jar-o-Pee weapon Jarate. People thought they were joking. After april fools they revealed they really were doing the sniper update. People thought they were joking about the Jarate. Now it turns out they weren't joking about that either. It was a triple fools.
seanjjordan
#3 – 5:45 AM May 21, 2009
Thanks, Ghede. I haven't felt this bewildered by entertainment since the first time I saw The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.
Clay
#4 – 10:23 AM May 21, 2009
Team Fortress 2 is culturally going the way of World of Warcraft.
What began as an accessable world is slowly growing into a system of self-reference; the community has developed its own lingo and dialect, and its own grassroots points of reference are now being reinforced by the management, feeding into a closed loop.
Still an incredibly fun game, though.
Crashproof
#5 – 8:03 AM May 22, 2009
BECAUSE IT'S A FARM!
Oh, I see what you mean. ;)