Current day's update:
http://www.teamfortress.com/sniperupdate/Day one:Huntsman: (Primary replacement) With a charge time of one second and a quivel of 18 arrows, this recurve bow can pin dead/dieing players to the walls. Even if they fail to die or be pinned, it will show an arrow still sticking into the player waiting for them to die. Good news to those headshotters though, it retains it's insta-crit when the arrow lands in one's face.
Day Two:Payload Race: (Game mode/map: Pipeline (Payload race)) As thought to be in the scout update the new game mode is here! Featureing the new map Pipeline. At first you have a nice trip trying to push your cart then you meet the other team. From there it battles and them you have the uphill battles to deal with. You can not stop pushing the cart until you win. Stop for one second and your cart will go flying down and that will give the other team a chance to push. PS: the sniper is the new medic.
Sawmill: (map: Arena) set in a sawmill in a rainy day, this map features the first weather effects in a TF2 map. Below the capture point located on a hill is a hidden base full of computers and other neat electronics. The owners however abandoned the place abruptly and left the saws on. They were even nice enough to pay the electric bills!
Nucleus: (map: Arena) A world ending device has been activated and is located above a chasm which contains a circular base. With the only way to activate the capture point below it being after the countdown. The bridges will show and anyone unlucky enough to fall will sure to meet his doom.
Day Three:Razorback: (Melee replacement): This simple device came from the tribes of the outback. Unfortunatly for them, their shilds did nothing against a simple butter knife so this version is adapted with a car battery that will shock the opponent into not stabbing you. It will inturn break. But before that, leaves the player unable to do such a think as stab you until the cool down on their weapon is done for.
The Day Four is a Spy:Because Valve is a bunch of asses. The above may be false or we are having a double update. The spy has new watches too!
The Dead Ringer: (Cloak special) This simple little watch allows a player to have a fake dead spy around while cloaked. The catch is that you have increased gage drain.
The Cloak and Dagger watch: Well, we all know it suck to be standing there forever trying to keep our cloak while you also try to take the enemy. Now you can do that for even longer. This watch recharges while you are not moving so you can keep cloak longer. The second you move though, you lose charge. But Unfortunatly, this is the only way you can charge it. Fans of the metal charged cloak update will soon discover that those cloaking safe paths will not work because only non-movement is useable.
Day Five:Well, As we could not tell, we have the Meet the Spy Video. Unfortunatly, valve also added one forcefully unlocked Achievement. We are hated for taking the video from them for the three minutes they had it up. So even before we have the update :D
As for the achievements, I think this sumz it up: ACHIEVEMENT FARM MAP TEAM, GO!
Day Six:The Ambassador: (Primary replacement) This new revolver for the spy holds just as much ammo as the regular, but can shoot as accurate as the sniper, even farther so, but has a very long cool down period.
Day Seven:A jar of piss: (secondary replacement) It extinguishes people, uncloaks spies, and washes off with water. YAY PISS. also, 35% dmg increase for a period of time.
The Sniper Achievements: A million times better then a jar of piss.
UNLESS IT'S TODAY:If you play it, they will unlock.
may have to change the layout for the individual days if they continue to make it like they did with the first few updates.
My opinion on Day 1:
All I have to say about the update is "God damn it." We do not need another "stun" type of weapon. Not that it stuns, it just leaves you to die by having you stuck to one spot. That and It is a recurve bow damn it, not long bow. But the negatives aside, it looks to be intresting. It would indeed keep the sniper more of a support then having to rely on him to finish enemies off. He would just chip away at them to keep them easy to kill for the rest of the team. If a sniper chooses the regular, there is more of a chance for the sniper being used a primary defense. That would give the other team more of a chance by just eliminating him with a few lucky shots or a good spy. After his death the team would push forward and the defending team would be down for the count.
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