[TF2] Bad Weapon Academy: Red Tape Recorder

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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.

In which we listen to what the Red Tape Recorder has to say for itself.

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Music used:
Kirby Super Star Ultra - King Dedede Battle
TF2 OST - Magnum Force
Sly 2 - Paris Rooftops
Sly 3 - Venice Theme
Sly 2 - Nightclub/Dmitri's Theme

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:38 The Sapper's Function
3:20 Stats Breakdown
4:40 Battle Engie
6:56 Frontier Justice
7:57 Widowmaker
8:37 The Long Ranger
9:47 Thesis
10:40 Potential Rebalances and Conclusion
12:30 Bonus Clip



This episode was kind of hell to make. I lost a solid amount of really good footage that meant I had to go back and re-record what was now a staggering 7 hours of footage, the vast majority being unusable because people either weren't playing Engineer at all, or they weren't using the loadouts I was talking about. I was close to just staging certain encounters but I didn't want to bug anyone I knew just so they could hop in an empty server with me for a YouTube video. So yeah, long story short, a lot of the clips I use aren't exactly relevant to what I'm talking about and not that many were even that funny, so it's a bit of a dry episode. Still, I feel the writing was good at least, I got the point across of what makes this weapon work and what doesn't. On top of everything, Sony Vegas was lagging like crazy while I was editing the video together, the preview was borderline unwatchable. No fixes worked here, I even reinstalled it completely which usually does something at least. This made getting relevant clips even harder as I had to watch them in single digit frames per second on the lowest quality possible. Any subtleties present in the footage I probably missed entirely.

Regardless of all that pain, I hope you enjoy. If we hit 20k subs I'll probably do a Q and A video to celebrate, and I'll try to have a video out for Halloween on both channels. Thanks for watching.