>Wait, there was sniping in L4D? I played a lot of the first game, back
>in the day, and I don't remember that at all. (Maybe that's an
>indication of how bad it was. :)

There was! If you picked up a certain weapon, anyway (I forget exactly which model it was but it was a single-shot rifle). But it was a two-step process to peer through the sight and the zoom reset every time you dropped out of sniper mode and there wasn't much point in sniping anyway because the director spawns enemies wherever you can't see *at that moment*, even if you took the time to plan a route and cleared it ahead of time, so...

But I feel like those issues would *have* to be addressed if there's an actual sniper class, which that trailer certainly seemed to imply.

--sofaspud
--my hours logged as the Sniper in TF2 is, uh, something like 20x greater than the next closest class; I may be biased a bit :)