Hey everyone, Lazy here and this is gonna be a more casual video.
I had to play a lot of sniper to get everything
I needed for my last video. So I'm kind of overflowing with good clips here
I thought it would be fun to stuff all of them into one big video and do some kind of directors commentary
Oh and real quick. I'm shooting for 1 million subscribers by September 2020
so if you've been holding off on subscribing I'd really appreciate that you do
now this clip actually almost made it into "how it feels to play sniper"
In fact, here's the rough cut that I had
*Magic*
When you're hitting all your shots at sniper it's like you can't die.
It would take like two Pyro's coming right at me
I deserve this, honestly
And if we rewind even further the transition into that clip was actually a very silly Vsauce reference
But what if you didn't?
Every now-
But what really makes this clip golden,
is that as they chase me, I decide that I'm gonna go out with a bang
*terrifying laugh or crazy laugh*
I'm dead dude
I'm fucking dead
Out the window!
Yes!!
*laugh* Oh my god
But the clip was just too long and also at this point, I realized that the script was just too high-energy, you know
Like he was gonna go from this punch line almost immediately into the megalovania bed
And then right before this was actually the three kills upward montage
and it was just too much at once once I came to this realization
I had to make the tough call to cut out this bit
Replace it with the bit about easy sniper games
and then I had to flip around the order of these so that megalovania happens
Way before this montage and it just needs to be done for the tempo of the video
But it was *ughh* it took me a while to figure it out and waste of time. You know, it happens
Oh and just to be clear
I spent at least four hours just debating whether or not to put this part in the video
like I was asking people left to right center and I even made a Twitter poll for it Oh
Am I glad you guys didn't tear me apart for this one.
Anyway, my last behind-the-scenes video was all about
*How wrangling* source filmmaker was the biggest challenge in making the engineer video
Some of you have asked for a sequel to this
but despite the occasional sfm glitch
The year is 20xx.
The Sun is a strobe light
Life is now a never ending rave
This is the canonical explanation for where all the rave lights are coming from in this scene.
But you already knew that right?
[Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu - Winters White] Despite the occasional glitch
SFM actually behaved more often this time.
The biggest challenge with the Sniper video was actually the script.
In fact, this video went through six script rewrites.
I kept struggling to communicate this concept that Sniper's interaction with other players boils down to
shooting them before they even see you or dying to people because you didn't see them
I was originally gonna get all ironically philosophical about it like
🤔🤔What does it really mean to play Sniper?🤔🤔
but I eventually threw that idea out
Here's my first note of the concept from a document dating November 21st, four months before the video released
[It's loike Christmas mohnin'.]
It would take months of refining the script before I arrived on this combination of SFM scenes about overcoming bad habits
and how isolated Sniper can feel.
This Upward animation actually originally occurred on Badlands
because I was going to turn the camera around and show that
while every other class is having some kind of one-on-one interaction,
Sniper is just all alone.
Trying his best to hit his shots
Eventually, it would zoom out to emphasize how irrelevant he was
and then,
well...
ADMINISTRATOR: We have lost the control point!
This took a couple days to make
but ended up getting completely cut because it's just too confusing
Like what are your eyes, supposed to follow here.
Heavy gets trickstabbed
Then Pyro reflects a rocket
Then Medic chases the spy
then Engi puts down a minisentry
which a Demo and destroys,
et cetera,
It's just too much
Anyway, Sniper may be defined by his lack of interaction
But there are a select few ways that Sniper actually interacts with the other classes
And one of them is when the enemy knows you're shooting at them
This Heavy gets stuffed and proceeds to press every key on his keyboard at once
*Music2beat*
And what do you know?
It works out for him.
here's an example of me trying to interact with the players on my team
I see this Demo's sticky trap and decide to use myself as bait for it
I was gonna do this SFM bit where I gave my Demo the thumbs up and everything.
anyway
I successfully bait the scout but then end up taking care of them myself
The bit was gonna end with us seeing this come fly forward
is the second of silence and then Boom!
the trap goes off way too late,
and the last notable way that you can interact with enemies is by surfing their explosives
Although this is more of a medic thing than a sniper thing
So that's probably where I'll really talk about it.
This soldier really did not enjoy this interaction
[ENTER]
[Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu - Welcome Home] Some people ask if I write first or collect gameplay first
and the answer is always gameplay first
I collect a ton of footage and then keep asking myself
What does this clip demonstrate?
This clip demonstrates that if I have the choice between shooting an AFK, hatless Pyro
or a hatted Pyro who seems to have a functioning keyboard
I'm probably gonna prioritize the hatted Pyro.
Prioritizing targets is a real thing for Sniper
Like of course, I'm gonna shoot the medic before the heavy here,
but it just didn't seem that important to talk about
Y'know what, in the interest of me not having to pretend that the ordering of clips in this video makes any sense
Here's a list of stuff that didn't make it into the final production
Let's attack these one at a time
I think I might have some of the worst tunnel vision ever.
See this Scout?
Of course you do
He's right there, but in the moment, I did not see this guy at all
Even here I did not notice him.
And I know it seems like I'm completely BS-ing you all
Trust me
I didn't see him!
In this clip I knew my team was being pushed back
So I went to this cheeky position thinking I'd be safe
I unscoped and you can already see I'm in trouble, but I did not notice
This time, however, I did notice.
This spot actually goes right into the SFM bits.
I wanted to make fun of how ridiculous it is that you can even be here
I was gonna suggest a secondary item for a Sniper like the Gunboats that would just let him float wherever he wants
And honestly, just talking about it, I regret not doing this bit
Here, I was doing really well flanking as Sniper when this Soldier boy rocket jumps up and scared the hell out of me
So I try to retreat but this door only opens from the other side.
So I was screaming, "Help, Engi, door's stuck"
let me in.
LET ME IIIIIIIIN
But that Engi just leaves me and I realize I'm on my own and as good as dead
That wasn't so hard was it?
This soldier also did not enjoy that interaction.
Another one was gonna be me explaining how Spy's head hitbox doesn't match his disguises
I was gonna be like, don't worry. I see what's really going on here
And then it was just Spy playing Runescape on his phone or something
Oh god this next one though.
This scout forced me
to charge up by shot right on his butt.
He forced me, okay?
There was gonna be a Soldier like
Uhh Sniper
you've been fully charged for 15 seconds
and Sniper was gonna be like
Oh Yeah mate that's good
*laugh*
Let's move on
I have the easiest shot in the world on this Brass Beast Heavy
But he makes the 500 IQ play and aims upwards which puts his hand in front of his face
it was gonna zoom in and you'd be like
Oh,
I outsmart bullet!
This next Brass Beast Heavy will do us the favor of transitioning into all the unused hackusations
He's out in the open. I kill him seems pretty normal to me.
But he disagree
~WhEn YoU TrY YoUr bESt BUt YoU DOnT SUccEEEEEd~
Now people, it's good to be suspicious sometimes and call out hackers
but man some of you call hacks way too soon.
There was this one guy that got super upset because I was out sniping him even though he was trying to second scope me
It's way too long of a clip though. So I'll probably upload it to my secondary channel soon (link in the description)
I am proud to admit though that I was kicked from a server one time for "cheating"
It was actually the first time I used the Bazaar Bargain.
I was just destroying their Heavies which brings us into stomping casual players
I get this demo
Accidentally headshot this spy
and then after getting one shot on this Heavy
He just gives up
it breaks my heart to see this gibus goggles Heavy so demoralized that he just-
he just assumes I'll get the second headshot on him.
Something that's rough about Sniper is that there's really no way to go easy on people
like with Soldier
You can just switch to market gardening if the teams are really unbalanced, but what am I gonna do as sniper?
Intentionally go for body shots? I'm sure people would love that!
I just feel disgusted when I stomp a casual game like this
But I don't know what else to do.
If you want to terrorize casual players as well
Of course, you need the basics of lowering your sensitivity getting a bigger mousepad and disabling mouse acceleration, but just as important
is that you have to push yourself to improve
What I mean by that is forcing yourself to go for headshots all the time like
even if they're gonna die to fall damage or something just go for it
at one point I thought to myself, why melee people when I can just headshot them?
And I was gonna do a bit making fun of this Sniper that goes for his melee weapon in our 1v1
Like he was gonna try and get at me
But my barrel would just be in the way and lastly
I was considering a bit where I would joke that this headshot here was just a
complicated backstab, like who needs to play spy when you can just hit point-blank headshots right behind people
It's practically the same thing
Just to be clear though
This forcing headshots mindset is only for improving.
Like in this clip the enemy sniper was better than me
So I did this disgustingly sneaky fully charged body shot on him
Sometimes you just gotta do them dirty
one of the first things you learn in competitive tf2 is that it's not worth it to challenge the enemy sniper
In one of the first drafts of the script, I was gonna joke about
and how if you challenge a Sniper, sure, there's a universe where he straight up misses you,
but you really don't want to find out that you're in the universe where he doesn't
[za warudo noises] but you really don't want to find out that you're in the universe where he doesn't
but you really don't want to find out that you're in the universe where he doesn't
Anyway, some people didn't get the memo and will insist on shooting flare guns at you across the map
It feels fantastic to punish this disrespectful act of hubris
Medics do it, too
Look how wide this Medic peeks me just for a crossbow hit
Was it worth it, man? Was it worth it?
Oh shit cut to the next clip QUICKQUICKQUICK-
I don't know why they even try I mean no Medic has ever killed me like that.
That would be sooo embarrassing
Now let us pay our respects to everyone I've ever accidentally killed
BLU SPY: What de fUCK!
[literally how]
For some reason it's almost always a Medic
here I was actually going for their Sniper, but got the Medic and then die to the Sniper.
Again, here I'm going for the Sniper and oops got the Medic, died to the sniper
But you'll never guess what happens this time I go for this Sniper and there goes your Medic.
Why does this keep happening?
Am I subconsciously aiming at the Medics or something?
Maybe
Let me ask you something. Have you ever hit a headshot and been like
"ehhhhhh, I don't know about that one chief."
Well, I have some good evidence between several clips that TF2's
has a bad habit of
rewinding hitboxes
[WILL SMITH: yaaaaah.] rewinding hitboxes
Shooting where this Pyro's head used to be results in a headshot.
This theory also explains why some headshots become bodyshots as well.
I take the shot here, but since Soldier's body was there just a second ago, it registers as a bodyshot.
Don't start using this as an excuse, though, because it usually favors the sniper
I mean, to be honest, this one is completely beyond explanation
Rewinding the hitbox doesn't explain a thing
hut the front in back //putting this here to screw with YouTube's autocaption generation
Maybe I'm completely wrong about all of this
I was gonna do a bit where my sniper would be distraught over all these clips and someone would be like, what's up, man?
And I'd be like
What if I've never actually had shot anybody?
What if none of this is real, man?
Now some people complained that I didn't talk about the Huntsman
Look, let me show you the only Huntsman clip you will ever need to see
Stared at his rag doll for so long that he actually came around again
I put another arrow straight in his head, but apparently that's not good enough anymore
How is this not directly in his giant head?
If you ask me, nothing shows off how insanely powerful Sniper is than a good old 180 headshot
In this clip, I was at 22 health so I decided to retreat
But hey, on the way I might as well 180-delete someone
Is there anything more satisfying than 180 deleting someone?
I don't think so
Bonus points if it's in the middle of the conga
And in this last random clip I was on a super duper 14 headshot spray when this crazy duo Übers in just to kill me.
I even got lucky enough to crit melee him
I guess they figured out who I was cuz when I asked about it,
they responded
Oh, okay. It's like that then
Okay. Well, how about you have one of these?
And one of these?
You can imagine how good that felt.
Anyway, I think I've bombarded you all with enough random clips,
but you know what else is random? Oh, I think you know.
[oh hey it's that music JelloApocalypse uses]