Apr 15, 2009, 12:37 PM
You should come play early morning arena with me... I've yet to meet a sniper that can lock down watchtower. (keyword yet, I'm sure it's coming)
Hell, just this morning I was doing my pipe jump to flank (the medic who didn't learn the first four times) behind the other team in plain view of what I would consider a decent sniper and never once came close to being tagged. Now it may have been him scoped in somewhere else but you'd think someone would say, "Hey! Someone get that scout who keeps raping our medic."
I don't think it's the snipers ruining the map, I think it all stems from a lack of communication. Engineers, yes, they are just about useless on watchtower unless you have heavy suppressing fire on the mid point so he can build. Heavies become sitting ducks with a decent sniper. Snipers are sitting ducks if they stick around spawn for more than 30 seconds because here comes the sneaky scout. Most scouts are countered by the soldier/pyro that may be hanging back... etc etc
I think the only bad thing about watchtower is the 3 rounds before team scramble. I find it takes about that long for a team to get its head out of its ass and switch up the classes to adapt. Maybe 4 rounds before scramble and you should see a drastic change in class selection.
Hell, just this morning I was doing my pipe jump to flank (the medic who didn't learn the first four times) behind the other team in plain view of what I would consider a decent sniper and never once came close to being tagged. Now it may have been him scoped in somewhere else but you'd think someone would say, "Hey! Someone get that scout who keeps raping our medic."
I don't think it's the snipers ruining the map, I think it all stems from a lack of communication. Engineers, yes, they are just about useless on watchtower unless you have heavy suppressing fire on the mid point so he can build. Heavies become sitting ducks with a decent sniper. Snipers are sitting ducks if they stick around spawn for more than 30 seconds because here comes the sneaky scout. Most scouts are countered by the soldier/pyro that may be hanging back... etc etc
I think the only bad thing about watchtower is the 3 rounds before team scramble. I find it takes about that long for a team to get its head out of its ass and switch up the classes to adapt. Maybe 4 rounds before scramble and you should see a drastic change in class selection.