I WANT A CARBINE!!!!

I think as a replacement for the sniper rifle there could be a semi-auto carbine with a crosshair(or laser dot), no scope. Long range, medium rate of fire, damage of an un-charged sniper rifle, 15 round clip. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.

Secondary, a blowgun, with sleeping or poison darts!

Melee, a bear trap or snare, how cool would it be to be able to cover you back with a snare that whenever triped the enemy is held there for 5 seconds and you are alerted of his presence by a "bell" on the snare. Placement would be key, and you would have 5 seconds of "play time" with him.

creative, but youy must realize the sniper is a SNIPER, he needs a long range weapon maybe that carbine could be his new secondary weapon

I agree.  A long-range semi-automatic carbine would be an appropriate substitute.  But with the history of the weapon updates, I think we will see a more traditional sniper rifle with some new feature.

yeah he would be a sniper, it would just sacrifice damage/a little accuracy for greater speed.

when did tf2 turn into CoD4?

and nothing is ever going to be introduced that directly takes control away from a player (although valve nearly have gone here with the air blast)

Why would you want a piddly rifle that does 30-50 damage when you can have scoped headshots with the normal one?

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I've got some movement secrets/tactics to eliminate the brunt of the airblast push.

Pay me or sleep with me and you'll find them out.

because I could fire three or four rounds in the time you fire one.

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I have to wonder, Buick, if these are the same tactics you tried to get a heavy to employ to avoid being shoved to the skybox by a sentry

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