I mean, it was action packed, and had some jokes.

“NOW HE IS COMING TO FUCK US!”

It kinda captures the feeling of how a good spy can dominate a team, but a bad spy is easy to kill, on the part where the spy basically says he’s invincible.

And it makes him look like a total hard ass. Raping the Sniper at close range, somehow instantly killing a SG, then pulling out his magnum and headshotting the engie, then taking out the medic with his BARE HANDS somehow.

Sure, it wasn’t exactly a canon version, but I loved it. My favorite one so far.

I think the idea, though, is that he’s a man of the world with a mish-mash of accents and dialects.

I should comment, though, that the Meet the Spy video might not be the next in line. The pyro pack held the Sniper video.

Off topic: Do you have any idea about who I should contact about a small idea for Empires total war. If you don’t I might look into modding it myself when it comes out.

Basically, the flags look too clean, even in the end stages of the battle. I was thinking as the platoon took more damage the flag appears more damaged, say, a bit tattered. Points would be fairly arbitrary, like 25%,50% strength, etc.

You could probably do moral on it as well, perhaps it gets a bit more muddy or moves a bit lower down the pole. Nothing too strong, I would still want to see which side is which.

The idea is that you that you have a quick glance at the battlefield and see what units are half-dead and close to breaking and where is still holding strong.

Also you don’t get 3 men holding a pristine flag while being knee deep in cannon shot and the dead.

Any thoughts or tips on where to look for a email address would be greatly appreciated.

Jesus fucking christ
shut the fuck up you little douche

Excellent stuff, had me laughing the whole time.

Talk about detail.

I must commend their efforts.

Also, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?

Get laid. Holy crap. Get laid.

As for the Medic’s scene, I don’t have any problem with the content as it stands, but given the scale of his presence, is a “Meet the Spy” video an appropriate place to be defining the personality of another class? It would seem to undermine any prospective “Meet the Medic” video.

I think complaints that some scenes are a little too self-consciously “gameplay” do have some traction. As I’ve said, they’re funny in and of themselves and I’m not complaining about the specific content, but in the context of a “Meet the…” video they’re not suitable. We’re not playing a game – we’re seeing the characters in ‘reality’, with them treating their relentless war with the Blue Team as part of their working lives, the 9-to-5 grind like ourselves, plus guns’n’glory – that’s where their endearing charm comes from. Too obviously emphasising the gameplay aspects in these videos destroys that, and makes witty characters more caricature puppets.

P.S. Excellent Futurama references slotted in there.

Also I don’t like the bit where the doctor can’t inform the spy that there’s another spy, it implies that the doctor has difficulty communicationg when that doesn’t appear to be the case, also when he turns round and the red spy hides somewhere, how will that work? If he stops to hide the medic will catch up and kill him, if he doesn’t stop the spy will see him.

Anyway. Class script, Tom.

My favorite part is where the spy sits on the chair and talks, that’s really fun :p

‘Impotent patch request’ resulting from hypotheticals I constructed during the above consideration: Script should include a. execution – or failure, both are funny – of an elaborate secret handshake by a disguised Spy, and/or b. a birthday party scenario.

Length: I officially no longer need to be told that it’s too long for a Meet The Team video. If I hadn’t said it myself twice already, the nine people pointing it out would be enough. I do care if you think a particular scene drags or is weak, though, so please keep those thoughts coming.

I may even come back to it fresh in a week or so and think about cutting it to a realistic size, I just need to a) know what people like, b) work out how long the current script is in real-time – Wolf, your three minute figure sounds likely, and c) leave it alone for a bit.

Chijts – I wanted to avoid too many things that directly contradict the game’s mechanics. The main difference between my treatment and Valve’s, apart from the vast quality chasm, is that theirs focus on out-of-game character whereas mine is grounded more in what the game is like to play.

Of course, on occasion you can instakill someone with a facestab in TF2, but I think it’d need to be a more obvious nod to that glitch to work in that sense.

Hopefully some skilled movie maker reads your script and makes an awesome 3 minute video.

I also think it would be cool if the Spy’s encounter with the Demoman was changed so that he couldn’t actually find a way round his drunken body and the timer ran out on his watch.
[Side view] The spy decloaks infront of him completely indifferent about it, looking more annoyed that he couldn’t get by him, whilst the drunken scotsman is aghast, and spurts his whiskey in shock onto [Close up of Spy’s face] the Spy’s face.
The Spy slowly whipes down his face. [Side View] There’s a pause for a moment, then in one swift movement the spy raises his arm high and rams his knife into the Demoman’s face. His body falls to the floor out of shot, [Front-right worm’s eye view] the Spy walks off in the direction he was trying to go.

The whiskey part would fit in with your bloody spy section; it’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it!

beats the meet the demo vid at any rate.

Spy All Along: possibly I didn’t explain this well. The Blu Spy never sees the Red Spy disguised – he’s behind him. The Red Spy only disguises to confuse onlookers, and it doesn’t work. I’ll go back and see if I can clarify that.

Though it still sounds to me like you’re saying no-one is allowed to be fooled by any disguise at any point, because from their perspective that would be a gotcha. It’s certainly possible to exclude disguises entirely, but you’d be missing the essence of the Spy somewhat.

I only object to it when it’s being done to the audience, because it’s cheap to exploit one’s control over their perception.

Tim, your acronym is itself too long: it should be tl;dr.

I can’t wait to see what Valve does with it.

On the Spy Vs. Spy front, I think you might be reading as a chain what I mean as individual objections. Of course none of it really matters since you don’t disagree with my thesis, but:
Uniqueness: But we see clone-on-clone violence as seldom as possible, especially WRT the star of the clip. There’s no counterSniper in the Sniper vid. The charging team in the Demo’s vid is sans Demo. The Scout doesn’t meet an enemy Scout, he meets a Heavy. So far, within a class’s Meet The, he’s the only one in the world.

Stupidity: No, no, much simpler – I’m talking about the Medic’s inability to say something like ‘The Spy behind you is enemy!’ It doesn’t seem like his Teutonic accent is enough to force that, so it feels like the gag’s stepping on character toes. It’s the kind of exchange I’d expect of a Heavy, or possibly a sufficiently drunk Demo. Or, the thought occurs, a Pyro struggling to make himself understood! Unfortunately for the humour, a Pyro is the one person who could instantly and unambiguously resolve the confusion…

Spy All Along: The misunderstanding comes down on the Blu Spy and he has the punchline, so I mentally look at it from his point of view. From the Blu Spy’s POV, instead of Ha Ha He was a Spy all along, this segment has Ha Ha He was a Spy all along dressed as a friendly spy like you. Yes, there’s an additional layer there but it’s preeeeetty thin.

The constant use of impalas in analogys is hilarious, to a point at which I was reading this script in my best Spy voice just to laugh harder.