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May 13th, 2009, 06:58 GMT · By

Team Fortress 2 Sniper Update Day 1: The Huntsman

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The Sniper has gotten a bow and arrows
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Team Fortress 2 is one of the most popular online first-person shooters in recent years, managing to combine the rock-solid multiplayer of almost any game made by Valve with a wide variety of character classes, each with its own abilities, traits and weaknesses.

The team at Valve has made a habit out of implementing major updates every once in a while, each aimed at a specific class found in the game. We saw the Scout update go live a few months ago, and after the speedy unit the slow Sniper will be the next one to get some new items, weapons and achievements.

This is the first day of the comprehensive update, as Valve will exhibit the items that Sniper will receive when it will go live. Today it seems that the Sniper will get a fairly unusual weapon, in the form of the Huntsman, which consists of a bow and 18 arrows. Yes, that's right, the Sniper will be able to shoot an arrow at his speedy targets, and, if the shot is to the head, it might even kill them, sending the unlucky victims into a nearby wall, for everyone to admire the shooter's handiwork.

If the shot isn't critical however, the victim will continue to walk around with an arrow in his body until he dies, showing that they could dodge the sniper’s arrow. With an 18-arrow load and a one-second charge for full power shots, the Huntsman will certainly be something very interesting for a lot of players who prefer the Sniper class.

Look forward to the following days when the team at Valve will unveil even more new items and achievements for the Sniper, culminating with the release of the comprehensive update, which, as on previous occasions, will be accompanied by a price cut for the game on the Steam online service.

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Comment #1 by: TheJackal on 17 May 2009, 00:13 UTC reply to this comment

This looks like a horribly worthless weapon and a stupid idea. How is this in any way an advantage? It's not hitscan, it doesn't appear to do any more damage, it has less ammo...whopteedoo it's going to pin the ragdoll to the wall IF it kills them. Fat chance you even get any kills with this piece of crap.

You say headshots are crits? Wow, that's such a change from the standard sniper rifle which also gets crit headshots....come on valve, get rid of this turd and give us a REAL weapon that actually gives us some kind of ADVANTAGE.

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