[TF2] Bad Weapon Academy: Sydney Sleeper

Have you ever looked at a weapon and wondered, "How am I even supposed to use this piece of shit?" Don't worry. I'm here now.
This weapon puts me to sleep. Then I wake up in Sydney with no money, a tattoo, and a missing finger. It happens more often than you'd think.
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Music used:
TF2 OST - Magnum Force
Donkey Kong Country OST

[@grfrjiglstan]

I think it’s funny how many weapons there are that provide a more balanced version of Jarate, while Jarate itself has never been nerfed once.

[@PeacefulRises]

I’m so glad that the rebalance servers exist, because now Fish’s rebalance concepts can actually be tested in-game.

[@Austinuztantine]

This weapon is a psychological weapon, not just because you're being injected with p1$$! But because the second someone gets hit by it and sees the yellow filter, they tend to panic and retreat

[@TigerKirby215]

The Sydney Sleeper is a sane man in a mad world. Applying 5 seconds of Jarate at range is useful... but the actual Jarate weapon applies it for 10 seconds in a massive AoE with good range to boot. Being unable to quickscope is more "fair" but when every other sniper can quickscope to one-shot most classes who cares about "fairness?" The Sydney Sleeper is that one anime protagonist who's holding back for "chivalry" or whatever, only you aren't so vastly overpowered to make your refusal to fight at full strength a noble act.

[@patg1094]

The Sydney Sleeper's best stat is a hidden one. "Tilts the enemy sniper on kill"

[@R4ND0MCR4P123R4ND0MN3SS]

Hot take: The Sydney Sleeper is Sniper's most balanced primary.

[@alynross5052]

You forgot to talk about the hidden stat that every Strange Killstreak version of this weapon is automatically renamed to some kind of piss-related joke.

[@AzureWoof]

I remember when it used to create a jarate explosion on headshot, but that got removed because they thought it was overpowered for some reason. So now it just feels kind of awkward to use without that stat.

[@sonicusr]

You fail to understand that some sniper players are just pure hard scopers who very rarely get headshots. They rely on the full charge for meaningful bodyshots. They do still go for headshots, it just rarely connects or they realize there's no way they can get the one they're attempting and simply give up and go for the body. The Sydney Sleeper is definitely the best sniper for these types of players as the full charge happens much faster for that consistent 150 body shots. Because these players are hardscopers and lack quick scope skills, that +25% charge also benefits with hardscope headshots. They take a little longer to line up their shots, yet are rewarded with more than 150 damage a quick scoper would deal. That +25% charge speed max charge headshot IS some people's quickscope. Stock's charge is too long, but quick scoping is also too short for them. Sydney feels just right for them to line up their shot and still do good damage.

[@DoctorTheo]

I feel like you should have mentioned that the Sydney Sleeper used to have explosive headshots in regular gamemodes, but instead of damage, it spread jarate. So you basically had a rapid fire jar of jarate, and valve changed it to mini crit headshots because they thought it was too overpowered. Personally I wanna see it return, it fixes a lot of problems while making the 5 second effect somewhat understandable, because you're just pumping these shots out.

[@jacktrader2405]

Say what you want about Sydney Sleeper, but it's really good at what it is meant to do: making people pissed.

[@StickMaster500]

The perfect weapon to piss off and piss on your enemies

[@svenkrisenberg6684]

"with jarate, you don't need to put yourself in a risky position"

[@bloodakoos]

10:00

[@dimsthedimwit600]

I'm surprised that Fish didn't mention the fact that having Jarate with the slowing upgrade in MVM makes Sydney sleeper slow giants as well. Helps with robot scouts

[@Sypitz]

The only sniper i really use. I just find it more interesting than other normal snipers (plus, strange specialized Sydney sleeper)

[@Taldaris]

This is the true "support" Sniper weapon, and not "Death incarnate" that every other rifle is- well I guess The Classic is just a classic, after all.

[@frank8273]

15:17

[@Fastollis]

Ah. My favorite Sniper primary… Mostly cause I have a Strange one and I’ve always sucked at sniping

[@trainershade1937]

The Sydney Sleeper is also one of the best looking Sniper primaries imo. Though admittedly, it'd be quickly beaten by the Bazaar Bargain if it had a similar scope.