As promised, Valve have released the latest addition to their series of meet the Team Fortress 2 characters trailers. Meet the Sniper:

In his former life as a tracker of dangerous game in the unforgiving Australian outback, the Sniper would spend months by himself. Prolonged isolation taught him a valuable lesson: You don't have to rely on other people if you never miss.

For an Aussie he seems to have a pretty terrible British accent. Check it out right here on AusGamers.

yeh the accent is terrible

What's this I spy at 1:15 in? New Pyro unlock?
http://www.ausgamers.com/images/features/tf2_mts_pyrogun.jpg

Since the game is largely a parody on various themes, the use of accent here feels like a poke at the frequent miscasting of Australians with British sounding voices. Though, I wonder how many outside Australia and the UK get the joke? ;)

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4190/pyroweaponyv6.png

yeh the accent is terrible

I think it's safe to say that it's intentional.

And who the hell cares, I think it's probably the best one of these videos yet. Every time they release a new 'Meet the' video, I'm reminded even more about how desperately I want to be an animator for Valve.

Haha, that is badass as :)

New Pyro weapon looks sweet... some sort of napalm or flare or something... I'm sure it will be a long (longer) range fire based gun.

Yay.

I think it's safe to say that it's intentional.

Given that at least one of the lead developers of TF2 is Australian, I'd say so. Another awesome video!

Pretty sure that robin walker guy is aussie and would've noticed the accent if it wasn't intentional.

Wonder what that blue handcannon is?

Edit: also the bobblehead figurine looks suspiciously like the VIP character from TFC Hunted.

http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/screenshots/phl/55679100.jpg

last edited by ctd at 10:36:06 18/Jun/08

Lol at the piss jars.

some people are saying the last unlock is a jetpack :/

some people are saying the last unlock is a jetpack

That would be awesome as long as it was controlled. Less flying around the map, more launching right into the middle of a fire fight.

if there is a jetpack it will probably use up flamethrower fuel

jet pack would be pretty left field, i doubt they would do something that changes the gameplay that drastically... all the med unlocks were modified weapons.

so you have the axtinguisher - axe
the flare gun - shotgun
? - flamethrower

I doubt it would be a jet pack. Like Azeroth in wow, if you reach places you weren't meant to go, most maps look pretty messy.

That was hilarious I have to get TF2. There's a QGL clan or something along those lines right?

edit: the jars that slowly fill up with yellow liquid are his piss right?

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was that a new level you see briefly too? or is it just some made up set for the video?

Well, they've used playable maps for all of the other videos, so I reckon it's likely to be a playable map too.

that was the best one yet, great stuff :)

pyro list leaked
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53196

Actually forget that. It just has the icons and the list, not the requirements or weapons

last edited by ctd at 16:25:05 18/Jun/08

hahaha i love these "meet the..." videos so funny. how many more do they have to go still?

Pyro, spy and medic.

spy will b the best imo

Yeah, I reckon spy has the most potential.

Gentlemen.

I'm looking forward to the pryo one. The muffled voice.

i wish they would bring in some hunted vip games like the first tf. they were sweet as. i guess ubering really makes it tough tho.

http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/images/cp_fastlane.jpg
http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/images/ctf_turbine.jpg

edit: the jars that slowly fill up with yellow liquid are his piss right?

most likely.

speaking of weapons in trailers, has anyone noticed that the demo in the teaser trailer and GC trailer had a dynamite cluster weapon? wonder what happened to that.

fastlane
turbine

f***ing.ass.

I'm really surprised they picked those maps as the best of the community offerings.

yeah they look pretty s***

maybe they're the most played player-made maps?

Accent sounds more like "African English" (i.e. Zimbabwe or S. Africa) than Australian to me. Unless they've said specifically that he's meant to be Australian that's what I'd go with.

Meh, it was OK. I found Meet the Engineer to be way better.