Despite receiving permission to use a song, I ran into some copyright issues which meant I had to cut the animated intro I wanted to start this video with. It’s a shame because I delayed the video by a couple months to include it but I ultimately wasn’t able to get it in. I’ll upload it separately to the channel in two weeks from now but I hope you enjoy the video nonetheless!
"That guy tried to second scope me but he forgot about the legendary sniper tech of first scoping, where you zoom in, click on his head, and then win because you picked sniper" -Soundsmith tf2
For those unaware, our favorite elite level gamer elmaxo, has unfortunately quit TF2 youtube. You can read his statement on twitter or in his community section. Max, you've always had a magical ability of keeping viewers like me glued to the screen. Not anyone can make me watch a 5 hour long youtube video, but you can. Your excellent script-writing, editing, elite level gaming, and of course, your storytelling- are unprecedented. I think I can safely say on the behalf of all elmaxo fans, you've made one hell of an impact in just 3 years. Your dedication and contributions will *never* be forgotten and I am incredibly excited to seeing your future content that awaits us. Thank you for everything. The original comment, that elmaxo has graciously gifted me a pinned comment for, (that RUclips then deleted because I edited it...) The official amount of "take a look here"s and "take a look at this clip"s. not counting other ways he shows clips, that'd be unfair, and at the end of the day *the real clips we took a look at were the friends we made along the way* section 1 - 4x take a look here's, 3x take a look at this clip's (ATC for short) 1: 18:33 here 2: 20:06 here 3: 23:57 here 4: 26:47 ATC 5: 28:00 ATC 6: 30:56 ATC 7: 35:03 here section 2 - 3x take a look here's, 2x take a look at this clip 1: 50:35 here 2: 51:59 ATC 3: 52:21 here 4: 53:51 here 5: 59:48 ATC section 3: (he not only went beast mode with the heatmaker but went beastmode with "take a loot at this clip") - 5x take a look here's, 5x take a look at this clip's (4 in a row!) 1: 1:14:55 ATC 2: 1:15:21 here 3: 1:15:57 here 4: 1:17:22 ATC 5: 1:19:16 ATC 6: 1:22:42 ATC 7: 1:33:38 ATC 8: 1:35:32 here 9: 1:37:01 here 10: 1:37:16 here section 4: (also beast mode) - 1x take a look at this clip's, 8x take a look here, potentially 7 in a row if you count the last one 1: 1:46:48 here 2: 1:48:08 ATC 3: 1:48:33 here 4: 1:51:12 here 5: 1:53:23 here 6: 1:55:39 here 7: 1:56:07 here 8: 1:56:53 here 9: 2:07:14 "again" here section 5: - 4x take a look at this clip's, 8x take a look here 1: 2:18:04 here 2: 2:19:20 here 3: 2:21:05 ATC 4: 2:22:06 here 5: 2:27:32 ATC 6: 2:28:16 here 7: 2:29:14 ATC 8: 2:30:07 here 9: 2:30:26 here 10: 2:39:12 here 11: 2:43:40 ATC 12: 2:45:43 here section 6: - 1x take a look at this clip's, 6x take a look here's 1: 2:55:06 here 2: 2:58:31 here 3: 3:01:23 here 4: 3:01:58 here 5: 3:12:06 here 6: 3:18:17 ATC 7: 3:19:56 here section 7: - 5x here's but with one atc thrown in the mix 1: 3:27:02 here atc (counting as both) 2: 3:27:21 here 3: 3:28:06 here 4: 3:30:31 here 5: 3:31:15 here section 8: - 1x here, 1x atc 1: 4:00:28 ATC 2: 4:05:24 here Number of times elmaxo says "take a look here": 40 Number of times elmaxo says "take a look at this clip": 18 Total count: 58 Yay Thank you elmaxo.
feel like i can remember SOMEONE told me that elmaxo quit TF2, but I have some suspicion about how true that is, especially since he uploaded this video like 2 weeks ago according to as of now and youtube, can someone give me proof or like a link to a twitter post that confirms he did quit TF2?
AFTER 11 MONTHS IN DEVELOPMENT, HOPEFULLY, IT WILL’VE BEEN WORTH THE WAIT. P. S. NBA Reference Counter should be a recurring thing on elmaxo’s channel like a certain count in a certain CV’s show
@@Totellynetasknwaker-qb6vyif you think medic is stressful in casual, then you're not playing medic correctly. You gotta bait your team harder than a sniper and be passive. It's not like comp where you have to count Uber, milk Uber, and worry about 2 scouts, 2 soldiers, and their demo coordinating a bomb against you.
4:21:39 As a Spy Main, ElMaxo sapped his own fan out of frustration, and as a Sniper main he broke his bottle, like a Jarate bottle. He truly is living like his new mains, a true artist that gets encapsulated in the role, like a true thespian.
Fun fact, the snipe is a bird so well camouflaged that they were believed to be a myth for a while, which is why a "snipe hunt" is the same as a "wild goose chase." Once they were known to just be really hard to see, they called expert marksman snipers, because they were so good they could shoot a snipe.
I've actually heard a different variation. Snipes are birds, but the reason they are hard to hunt is because of their erratic flight patterns making them impossible to hit. Thus, the people who were skilled enough to hit them were called 'snipers' (same as a whaler who hunts whales). I dont think ive ever heard it was because of the camo, but i could be wrong
@@increbidel4685 You're more correct than the other guy. Snipe hunt isn't a pointless task ala "A wild goose chase" it's a hard to impossible task meant to be failed.
@@simonnachreiner8380 While the snipe is very hard to hit because of its erratic flight, the "snipe hunt" is a wild goose chase. New hunters would be sent into the woods with various absurd description of what a "snipe" actually was. The reason the snipe was chosen to be this was because it WAS a bird, but it was a bird that very few would actually know anything about. Exhibit A: ever heard of a movie called Up? Half the plot is LITERALLY a snipe hunt. Except there, the "snipe" is an absurd bird that doesn't exist, because the "snipe" of a snipe hunt is an absurd bird that doesn't exist, not the actual bird.
Next up, a hundred days of medic. Then you’ll actually be sent to an insane asylum. Edit: Damn, I guess 100 of sniper did it for him because he legit just stopped making tf2 vids.
When he talked about the mechanics of the Bazaar Bargain I was waiting for him to reveal that you lose all your heads on a miss since it was my favorite mechanic and why I loved that weapon so much when I played. When he didn't say anything I went and checked if it had been changed, and it turns out they changed the stats.... 9 years ago.
I really don't understand his attitude on second scoping. It's a legit strategy, that as he himself demonstrated does work to very high levels. It just comes across as insecure which is odd because he's clearly a very good Sniper.
Do you know what's the hardest part about running a marathon? It isn't training, or even the marathon itself, it's finding a way to bring it up in every conversation that you've run a marathon.
4:23:59 Can't believe he was doing both his sniper Challege and training for a Marathon at the same time, no wonder his mental health was likely exhausted by day 90 onwards, ontop of dealing with a large influx of bots that reduced his K/D from a +3. Ratio to a 2.4. I can imagine lesser gamers getting extremely vexxed about the K/D ratio alone, not including the bots and training for a Marathon.
2:05:23 “but then i had a very good idea, i pressed right click, see pressing right click gave me 8 seconds of mini crits which allows me to 1 shot light classes which i couldn’t do before”
I know my mom is gonna get back from work asking what I did all day, how do I explain I watched an Australian guy cosplay another "Australian" for 5 hours
if anyone doesn't know, the "raw input" tf2 mouse setting bypasses mouse acceleration entirely so it doesn't matter if you use mouse acceleration on your computer. most shooters have this setting as well.
@@poleve5409the mental effect of THINKING you changed something about your mouse input was probably still painful though, the placebo effect is no joke
I got a flashback to something I said back when I was 11 "Only people who are bad at aiming use the machina" then my brother said "But you use the machina" and I just said "exactly"
The Darwin's Danger Shield has another hidden stat: "Turn every pyro aware of it into a single-minded flank machine hell-bent on taking you down directly"
'Member when the full Croc-O-Style, set you to 150hp and made you impervious to headshot deaths as long as you had 2hp (you were always left on 1), so the only way to one-shot a COS Sniper was full-charge bodyshots or tag-team with a friendly sniper. If the COS Sniper had a pocket medic? Might as well give up on trying to kill them. XD
One thing stoics are often neglect is that ‘will power’ is an abstract construct. People break, bodily systems break, mindsets break. Being near the end, caring for yourself, preparing, testing yourself, and other such things are important. You reaped the benefits of what you have cultivated, had an end in sight, had a considerable incentive for completing this challenge, and faced the consequences of ignoring your body. The mind, and the will, are not closed systems, they are emergent. I think it’s really cool that you decide not to go quite so hard (or at least so long) next time you do one of these challenges. Also RIP elmaxo’s new fan. True LoL player moment!
@@yohanscold2149 regarding my ‘criticism’ or my own position? With respect to the criticism, it’s not a criticism of stoics so much as it is a criticism of some rhetoric that surrounds stoicism in the popular consciousness. I specifically say ‘one thing stoics often neglect’, rather than ‘one thing stoicism fails to consider’, or ‘one things stoics neglect’. Regarding my position, I’m not really a stoic, but am sympathetic to nuanced conceptions of stoicism in light of the fact that an epicurean ideal is extremely difficult to attain in an unjust world. In other words, don’t take what I’m saying to be me giving a stoic position. It’s not my field, it’s far removed from the ethics I’m familiar with, which aligns more around Spinoza, buddhism, and deleuzoguattarianism, the latter of which is the only field I can claim to have some level of expertise on. Edit: Note that I didn’t think there was anything wrong with elmaxo’s view. I was actually more intending to compliment him on the way he engaged with his limits, and express that I’m really happy that he is gonna give them a little respect in the future lol. I tried to imply that he isn’t neglecting things that some self proclaimed stoics seem to want to neglect, or that they often don’t respect, instead focusing predominantly on a cultivation of will power in an abstract sense. Variety, incentive, free time, prior experience, and resolution are all allowed to play a part in the narrative, without reducing the gravity of his achievement. That being said, I’m not saying you’re at fault for misunderstanding, I can’t really claim I got my point off well.
I didn’t know that windows had mouse acceleration on default, i was playing shooters for 9 years and have only now turned it off. Truly, throughout heaven and earth, i alone am the cooked one
I always wondered why my character in game was just spinning faster when i move my mouse more, thought it was like a standard in games because of momentum and shit, just figured out it was mouse acceleration. 5 years of pain :\
guys if u are used to it then turning it off is a bad idea. Im talking from experience, some pros use mouse accel and watching max change his sens so much for this vid kind of killed me inside
@honest4460 you can adjust given just a bit of practice. even if you've been playing with that crutch for years, best to get rid of that disadvantage and begin the adjustment process as soon as possible rather than keep playing with it. of course, if you actually _like_ it, that's a different story and you should play how you want.
as of right now (12:20 am) i finished this entire video in 1 sitting no breaks no moving. i now feel 0.00000000000001% of elmaxos pain in the last hour seconds of the video
Rip elmaxo’s new fan and blue water bottle you took your role as a punching bag with honour and dignity and will be permanently remembered in the 100 day sniper challenge
With the sad hitmaker-wasted-focus section, your custom HUD doesn't have the teams at the top. If you were able to see "Hey, the whole enemy team is waiting to respawn" you'd know not to activate focus on a completely empty battlefield.
@@georgejs3025yes but i would expect elmaxo's pc to be powerful enough for it not to make a noticeable difference. also doubt the drop in framerate would be 5 %, as why would it scale with your framerate??
Fun fact, the reason why extinguishing players with no-scopes with the Sydney Sleeper doesn't work most of the time is cause it is a glitch, you're not supposed to be able to do that
Been watching this video bit by bit for well over a month now and when I finished and finally scrolled to the comments I see you've quit for better pastures... Good luck out there man! Your content has made my and I'm sure many other's days better and brighter. Look forward to seeing you elsewhere
3:28:41 DOVE GIB!!!1!1!!1!11 (For those unaware, there is like a 1% chance to get a dove to fly out of an exploded scout, which is a subtle reference to meet the medics end scene)
The mix of progress analysis and self-reflection will always make for a compelling video. Crazy how energetic and conversational this video felt given it's nearly 5-hour length, tons of longer videos see people dialing it in and reading monotonously from a badly-edited script. The sheer number of appropriate clips plus this commentary is really great, plus the decision to intersperse some of the marathon training. I also really appreciated the openness about the production process, from the mental health struggles to the intentional seeking of narratives. The difference between "I wanted a whole progression for this Bing Soy shot but I got it on my second try, whoops" and the interactions with Seiran made the Seiran payoff much more fun. All in all, for how masochistic and silly this kind of video is, you manage to pull a lot of meaning into it, which makes this kind of video interesting, entertaining, and even a little bit inspiring, while remaining grounded in the realities of mental health and pressure. It's really a huge achievement and I hope you can feel that way upon reflection!
Exactly why this guy is awesome at this stuff, but wow the transphobia and racism his and other tf2 communities were subjected to was shocking and downright sad...
On Suijin, a lot of the map design can be explained by the fact it was originally an arena map that got converted into a koth map. It was never designed with koth in mind, it just got ported to koth because there's no way an arena map is officially making it into modern tf2 outside of halloween
sydney sleeper's extinguish mechanic doesn't have lag compensation for teammate hitboxes regardless of whether you're scoped in or not, so you have to aim ahead to extinguish teammates (does not require a headshot btw). hope this clears t he confusion! i have reported this bug to valve a couple of months back with instructions on how to fix it, so hopefully it's fixed in the summer update? who knows
The sydney sleeper and the Classic being next to each other made me laugh. Spy and sniper both have the skill ceiling like your roof got stolen by a hurricane. This was an experience.
I think bro needs to do a 100 DAYS of medic and that’s something called HELL and this is fricking 5 hours of sniper that is hell if there’s a good sniper on the enemy team too
I can image when doing the 100 days of medic and him going "WHERE IS MY TEA!? AGH!" and "I F-ing hate sniper and spies, why do they exist and need to be removed!".
Second scoping is something you pull out occasionally to throw off your opponent. Punishing someone who does it every time regardless of the situation is pretty easy.
The popularity of the Darwin's Danger Shield makes more sense when you consider that most players sit on 2fort. It's a lot more common for a pyro to dedicate themselves to just spamming the battlements the whole game.
RUclips: "Here is a new ElMaxo Video, we know you pop in for his stuff every now and then. Me: "Neat. Ah, another 100-days-video. The Spy was a bit on the longer side, but not the worst. And Sniper can't be tha-" *notices playtime* "...oh. Well, the goes my entire afternoon!" *presses play*
6:26 RIP Hooxi. Who is Hooxi? For the blind, He is the vision. For the hungry, He is the chef. For the thirsty, He is the water. If Hooxi thinks, I agree. If Hooxi speaks, I’m listening. If Hooxi has one fan, it is me. If Hooxi has no fans, I don’t exist.
2:34:13 To quote my favorite tweet: "If you refer to other players as 'sweaty' for beating you in a game, I regret to inform you that you are also sweaty, you’re just bad."
Not defending anyone here but what i remember that clips was from when zesty was getting streamsniped by bunch of high elo comp players to piss him off
Your description and explaination of second scoping is almost an exact explaination for a fighting game term called footsies, which is the act of using movement and low commital options to fool your opponent into committing to an unsafe option that you can punish, its in pretty much every fighting game and hearing a similar game plan and idea in a shooter be called slimy made me laugh
19:35 As an ex sniper main, I'll always stand by rev'd up heavies being so hard to hit for literally no reason. They just radiate an anti-bullet aura and something about how they just randomly mash keys combined with their slow movement makes them so god damn hard to hit sometimes. Also, a little unknown upside of the heatmaker is while in focus, you can unscope and move IMMEDIATELY after shooting, while the only other rifle that can do that is the classic. You can also jump out of your scope after shooting, making it a great weapon to combat enemy snipers without needing to second scope.
Hey El Maxo!! I wanted to addend something to the Hitmans Heatmaker section! You can jump out of scope while in focus, making the heatmaker incredible for dueling snipers. You can fire shots and immediately jump, or simply jump without firing. This is something no other sniper rifle can do. Great video, listened to it while driving 3 hours today. Really made the drive tolerable!
I think the sheer variety of playstyles for sniper is the reason you were able to push through a lot easier with sniper. Cozy Camper, Jarate, and SMG completely changes your positioning and the way you handle threats. It was awesome seeing you grow as a sniper player, and working on your aim, something that you used to suck at. I love these long-form videos because you're turning into a jack of all trades, focusing on each of your weak points in TF2 as a pseudo-new player.
R.I.P Elmaxo's New Fan, i watched this whole video in a sort of podcast manner in the background while at the office only tabbing in when you "look at this clip" but once again very enjoyable
I had to pause at 1:14:06 and comment because I have been playing a lot of sniper, and a lot of heatmaker, and I NEVER KNEW you didn't need a full bar. There are so many times I let that go to waste because I never bothered to check. Holy moly, thank you for adding this part in.
15:27 "For the love of god you cannot shoot through windows" Uhm actually its glass 🤓☝ *Heres a compilation of every time Elmaxo shot through a window* 16:20 *Shoots through window* 1:06:15 *Shoots through window (even if glitch)* 1:28:58 *Shoots through window* 1:30:00 *Shoots through window*
i was genuinely emotional when i finished watching this video, its like one of those movies where it was so good in its story telling that you just stare at your screen
These have to be my favourite tf2 videos on RUclips right now. Just got done with the first 2 and to have this drop right after really was a blessing! Thanks for the amazing upload
If you have never played TF2 before and just watch content like this, just play the game. It's free, it's recently been bot free and it's a great game (obviously)
![[TF2] A Mann's Guide to the Backburner](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AfLjXdJfb78/mqdefault.jpg)
next video: 100 days of Therapy
laughability? more like, uh, schadenfreude
laughability x elmaxo 100 days of Typical Colors 2
No way the Roblox ytber is here
laughability when will you play tetragon fortress 2 or typical colors 2
typical colors when??
Despite receiving permission to use a song, I ran into some copyright issues which meant I had to cut the animated intro I wanted to start this video with. It’s a shame because I delayed the video by a couple months to include it but I ultimately wasn’t able to get it in. I’ll upload it separately to the channel in two weeks from now but I hope you enjoy the video nonetheless!
@@kubsons0732 who asked?
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It's cool, you made a banger video regardless of the animation or the music.
@@kubsons0732booooo
Wow, they scammed you with that. Thats messed up
"That guy tried to second scope me but he forgot about the legendary sniper tech of first scoping, where you zoom in, click on his head, and then win because you picked sniper"
-Soundsmith tf2
where is this quote from
@@techietimes7754 soundmaker tf2
@@melon4345 yeah what video
@@techietimes7754 mann's guide of huntsman if i remember correctly
@@techietimes7754 2fort tomfoolery at around 11:37 is where the qoute originates from.
For those unaware, our favorite elite level gamer elmaxo, has unfortunately quit TF2 youtube. You can read his statement on twitter or in his community section.
Max, you've always had a magical ability of keeping viewers like me glued to the screen. Not anyone can make me watch a 5 hour long youtube video, but you can. Your excellent script-writing, editing, elite level gaming, and of course, your storytelling- are unprecedented. I think I can safely say on the behalf of all elmaxo fans, you've made one hell of an impact in just 3 years.
Your dedication and contributions will *never* be forgotten and I am incredibly excited to seeing your future content that awaits us. Thank you for everything.
The original comment, that elmaxo has graciously gifted me a pinned comment for, (that RUclips then deleted because I edited it...)
The official amount of "take a look here"s and "take a look at this clip"s.
not counting other ways he shows clips, that'd be unfair,
and at the end of the day *the real clips we took a look at were the friends we made along the way*
section 1 - 4x take a look here's, 3x take a look at this clip's (ATC for short)
1: 18:33 here
2: 20:06 here
3: 23:57 here
4: 26:47 ATC
5: 28:00 ATC
6: 30:56 ATC
7: 35:03 here
section 2 - 3x take a look here's, 2x take a look at this clip
1: 50:35 here
2: 51:59 ATC
3: 52:21 here
4: 53:51 here
5: 59:48 ATC
section 3: (he not only went beast mode with the heatmaker but went beastmode with "take a loot at this clip") - 5x take a look here's, 5x take a look at this clip's (4 in a row!)
1: 1:14:55 ATC
2: 1:15:21 here
3: 1:15:57 here
4: 1:17:22 ATC
5: 1:19:16 ATC
6: 1:22:42 ATC
7: 1:33:38 ATC
8: 1:35:32 here
9: 1:37:01 here
10: 1:37:16 here
section 4: (also beast mode) - 1x take a look at this clip's, 8x take a look here, potentially 7 in a row if you count the last one
1: 1:46:48 here
2: 1:48:08 ATC
3: 1:48:33 here
4: 1:51:12 here
5: 1:53:23 here
6: 1:55:39 here
7: 1:56:07 here
8: 1:56:53 here
9: 2:07:14 "again" here
section 5: - 4x take a look at this clip's, 8x take a look here
1: 2:18:04 here
2: 2:19:20 here
3: 2:21:05 ATC
4: 2:22:06 here
5: 2:27:32 ATC
6: 2:28:16 here
7: 2:29:14 ATC
8: 2:30:07 here
9: 2:30:26 here
10: 2:39:12 here
11: 2:43:40 ATC
12: 2:45:43 here
section 6: - 1x take a look at this clip's, 6x take a look here's
1: 2:55:06 here
2: 2:58:31 here
3: 3:01:23 here
4: 3:01:58 here
5: 3:12:06 here
6: 3:18:17 ATC
7: 3:19:56 here
section 7: - 5x here's but with one atc thrown in the mix
1: 3:27:02 here atc (counting as both)
2: 3:27:21 here
3: 3:28:06 here
4: 3:30:31 here
5: 3:31:15 here
section 8: - 1x here, 1x atc
1: 4:00:28 ATC
2: 4:05:24 here
Number of times elmaxo says "take a look here": 40
Number of times elmaxo says "take a look at this clip": 18
Total count: 58
Yay
Thank you elmaxo.
Wait this is fr?
@@jungle003apparently yes, he quit.
@@jungle003 yup :(
so sad for it
feel like i can remember SOMEONE told me that elmaxo quit TF2, but I have some suspicion about how true that is, especially since he uploaded this video like 2 weeks ago according to as of now and youtube, can someone give me proof or like a link to a twitter post that confirms he did quit TF2?
AFTER 11 MONTHS IN DEVELOPMENT, HOPEFULLY, IT WILL’VE BEEN WORTH THE WAIT.
P. S. NBA Reference Counter should be a recurring thing on elmaxo’s channel like a certain count in a certain CV’s show
I'm gonna say this when I have a son
*theme music plays*
Thanks, and have fun.
Gabe’s dad on November 3rd 1962
this video got more development than i did in the womb
“idk why I chose spy to do 100 days for first I really should do something less stressful” then immediately goes for sniper. actual insanity
At least he didn't choose M E D I C
@@Totellynetasknwaker-qb6vy medic is by far less stressful than those two tbh LOL
@@Rory-EXE sure,
@@Totellynetasknwaker-qb6vyidk what’s so stressful about sitting behind your team, clicking on them and hitting arrows lol
@@Totellynetasknwaker-qb6vyif you think medic is stressful in casual, then you're not playing medic correctly. You gotta bait your team harder than a sniper and be passive. It's not like comp where you have to count Uber, milk Uber, and worry about 2 scouts, 2 soldiers, and their demo coordinating a bomb against you.
naming yourself “cp_gooncave” is really playing with fire, max
HANNNK! DONT ABBREVIATE CONTROL POINT! HAAANKK
I don't get it :(@@schrodingersbraincell5861
@victoriachannel666 that also fits well the 1997 karl malone name
@@easthastings1346 Kinda strange honestly lmao
Gooning > edging
4:21:39 As a Spy Main, ElMaxo sapped his own fan out of frustration, and as a Sniper main he broke his bottle, like a Jarate bottle. He truly is living like his new mains, a true artist that gets encapsulated in the role, like a true thespian.
Fun fact, the snipe is a bird so well camouflaged that they were believed to be a myth for a while, which is why a "snipe hunt" is the same as a "wild goose chase." Once they were known to just be really hard to see, they called expert marksman snipers, because they were so good they could shoot a snipe.
I only knew this because of ror2 lmao
"You know, rails are also a kind of bird too."
"Get out."
I've actually heard a different variation. Snipes are birds, but the reason they are hard to hunt is because of their erratic flight patterns making them impossible to hit. Thus, the people who were skilled enough to hit them were called 'snipers' (same as a whaler who hunts whales). I dont think ive ever heard it was because of the camo, but i could be wrong
@@increbidel4685 It's a mix of both I believe
@@increbidel4685 You're more correct than the other guy. Snipe hunt isn't a pointless task ala "A wild goose chase" it's a hard to impossible task meant to be failed.
@@simonnachreiner8380 While the snipe is very hard to hit because of its erratic flight, the "snipe hunt" is a wild goose chase. New hunters would be sent into the woods with various absurd description of what a "snipe" actually was. The reason the snipe was chosen to be this was because it WAS a bird, but it was a bird that very few would actually know anything about.
Exhibit A: ever heard of a movie called Up? Half the plot is LITERALLY a snipe hunt. Except there, the "snipe" is an absurd bird that doesn't exist, because the "snipe" of a snipe hunt is an absurd bird that doesn't exist, not the actual bird.
Next up, a hundred days of medic. Then you’ll actually be sent to an insane asylum.
Edit: Damn, I guess 100 of sniper did it for him because he legit just stopped making tf2 vids.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE"
-elmaxo after half a year of playing Medic
lazypurple didn't make it back from it elmaxo won't either
i agree
Imagine 100 kills with each syringe gun
TheWhat got 1000 kills on the stock syringe gun on his channel@@Soda27650
me: oh, a new elmaxo video
also me: *stares dumbfounded at the video length*
Like seriously, this is half as long as that video about a dude talking about dustbowl. Edit : Badwater, my bad.
Bro what the fuck, I didn't even see it before I read your comment
HOLY SHIT
I didn’t even know you watched Elmaxo Kro
I looked at the time and went "5 FUCKING HOURS!?" so yea I was slightly surprised too
We'll miss you man...good luck in your future challenges you set for yourself!
After a grueling 100 days as spy, Elmaxo decided to treat himself to 100 days of better spy.
Very brave of him to play the class that was inspired by Ambassador Spy
*ranged* spy
When he talked about the mechanics of the Bazaar Bargain I was waiting for him to reveal that you lose all your heads on a miss since it was my favorite mechanic and why I loved that weapon so much when I played. When he didn't say anything I went and checked if it had been changed, and it turns out they changed the stats.... 9 years ago.
After 9 years hopefully it would have been worth the wait.
Time passes huh…
That would be cool now too
I'm afraid it's been... 9 years.
elmaxo: second scoping is unsporting
also elmaxo: sight-line spawn camping goes brrrrrrr
yeah like dude, you’re playing sniper, there’s only so much sportsmanship to be had lmao
I was literally about to comment this exact thing lol
alls fair in love and war - joe teufort
I really don't understand his attitude on second scoping. It's a legit strategy, that as he himself demonstrated does work to very high levels. It just comes across as insecure which is odd because he's clearly a very good Sniper.
@@innisfreeTF2yeah it’s literally just baiting out a shot to punish it, it’s extremely common in CS and Valorant against awps
The fact that this will be his final TF2 Video makes it feel very diffrent
WHAT????
this was 4 months ago, average twitter user spreading misinformation.
@@n3onYT-valkhe made a post saying this was his last video bruh
Elmaxo should also use his fan as a tax write off.
Do you know what's the hardest part about running a marathon?
It isn't training, or even the marathon itself, it's finding a way to bring it up in every conversation that you've run a marathon.
4:23:59 Can't believe he was doing both his sniper Challege and training for a Marathon at the same time, no wonder his mental health was likely exhausted by day 90 onwards, ontop of dealing with a large influx of bots that reduced his K/D from a +3. Ratio to a 2.4.
I can imagine lesser gamers getting extremely vexxed about the K/D ratio alone, not including the bots and training for a Marathon.
2:05:23 “but then i had a very good idea, i pressed right click, see pressing right click gave me 8 seconds of mini crits which allows me to 1 shot light classes which i couldn’t do before”
lol kenadian
Unexpected kenedian reference
Kenadian as a TFTuber would be insane
Don't forget to use f4. It will allow you to see enemies you couldn't see before.
Ken my boy!!!
At least he gave us one last banger video before leaving ❤
I know my mom is gonna get back from work asking what I did all day, how do I explain I watched an Australian guy cosplay another "Australian" for 5 hours
watching a tutorial how to become Insane by watching a guy losing his own sanity
hmm.. actually sniper is from New Zealand 🤓
@@harsew that's why he put "s around Australian
@@harsewdid you even read it?? why correct someone when there’s (easily noticed) context clues to say it’s sarcasm.
@@harsewi was today years old when I found out the Sniper is from NZ and not aus.
Thank you for giving me this information!
if anyone doesn't know, the "raw input" tf2 mouse setting bypasses mouse acceleration entirely so it doesn't matter if you use mouse acceleration on your computer. most shooters have this setting as well.
so this means elmaxo was in fact not playing with mouse acceleration lol
unless you are a superior human and play roblox shooters 😎
@@poleve5409the mental effect of THINKING you changed something about your mouse input was probably still painful though, the placebo effect is no joke
If whatever class you run the next time has you breaking your fan, it will have officially become a pattern of behavior.
RIP Elmaxo’s new fan.
He quit
@ Yeah, I saw that, thanks.
Honestly what I took most from this video is that Australian casual servers are cosy as hell. Rare benefit of geographic isolation.
I got a flashback to something I said back when I was 11 "Only people who are bad at aiming use the machina" then my brother said "But you use the machina" and I just said "exactly"
But I use the machina for more damage headshots
The Darwin's Danger Shield has another hidden stat: "Turn every pyro aware of it into a single-minded flank machine hell-bent on taking you down directly"
'Member when the full Croc-O-Style, set you to 150hp and made you impervious to headshot deaths as long as you had 2hp (you were always left on 1), so the only way to one-shot a COS Sniper was full-charge bodyshots or tag-team with a friendly sniper.
If the COS Sniper had a pocket medic? Might as well give up on trying to kill them. XD
2:41:09 imagine dropping a “who do you think you are” only to have it turn up in a video from one of the largest TF2 RUclipsrs.
Say it again without the willy in your mouth
garot must be the hidden goat we dont know about
plot twist that was lebron james the goat himself typing those words
God dammit Elmaxo was easily one of freshest and most exciting creators to come out of the tf2 space in recent years I hope he comes back eventually
One thing stoics are often neglect is that ‘will power’ is an abstract construct. People break, bodily systems break, mindsets break. Being near the end, caring for yourself, preparing, testing yourself, and other such things are important. You reaped the benefits of what you have cultivated, had an end in sight, had a considerable incentive for completing this challenge, and faced the consequences of ignoring your body. The mind, and the will, are not closed systems, they are emergent. I think it’s really cool that you decide not to go quite so hard (or at least so long) next time you do one of these challenges. Also RIP elmaxo’s new fan. True LoL player moment!
Nicely put
Elementary level understanding of stoicism.
@@yohanscold2149 regarding my ‘criticism’ or my own position? With respect to the criticism, it’s not a criticism of stoics so much as it is a criticism of some rhetoric that surrounds stoicism in the popular consciousness. I specifically say ‘one thing stoics often neglect’, rather than ‘one thing stoicism fails to consider’, or ‘one things stoics neglect’. Regarding my position, I’m not really a stoic, but am sympathetic to nuanced conceptions of stoicism in light of the fact that an epicurean ideal is extremely difficult to attain in an unjust world. In other words, don’t take what I’m saying to be me giving a stoic position. It’s not my field, it’s far removed from the ethics I’m familiar with, which aligns more around Spinoza, buddhism, and deleuzoguattarianism, the latter of which is the only field I can claim to have some level of expertise on.
Edit: Note that I didn’t think there was anything wrong with elmaxo’s view. I was actually more intending to compliment him on the way he engaged with his limits, and express that I’m really happy that he is gonna give them a little respect in the future lol. I tried to imply that he isn’t neglecting things that some self proclaimed stoics seem to want to neglect, or that they often don’t respect, instead focusing predominantly on a cultivation of will power in an abstract sense. Variety, incentive, free time, prior experience, and resolution are all allowed to play a part in the narrative, without reducing the gravity of his achievement. That being said, I’m not saying you’re at fault for misunderstanding, I can’t really claim I got my point off well.
@@yohanscold2149 did you push up your glasses when you said that
Hearing JBird and FatMagic’s accents after 3 and a half hours after nothing but Australian Lunatic was a strange experience
FatMagic is Canadian though...
@@darkraven8103 sorry, I fixed it
hello beeswarmer
@@vettyyt2995what the hell
I didn’t know that windows had mouse acceleration on default, i was playing shooters for 9 years and have only now turned it off.
Truly, throughout heaven and earth, i alone am the cooked one
I also just found out it was turned on by default and i've been playing FPS games for 4 years with it on
I always wondered why my character in game was just spinning faster when i move my mouse more, thought it was like a standard in games because of momentum and shit, just figured out it was mouse acceleration. 5 years of pain :\
guys if u are used to it then turning it off is a bad idea. Im talking from experience, some pros use mouse accel and watching max change his sens so much for this vid kind of killed me inside
@honest4460 you can adjust given just a bit of practice. even if you've been playing with that crutch for years, best to get rid of that disadvantage and begin the adjustment process as soon as possible rather than keep playing with it.
of course, if you actually _like_ it, that's a different story and you should play how you want.
@@honest4460 default windows mouse accel kinda sucks though
In gonna miss this torture loving Australian man. Godspeed to you, ElMaxo 🫡
I love that one of the medics healing you is consistently “elmaxo hunter”
Haha that was me
Haha that was me
haha that was me
"It could be you, it could be me, it could even be-"
"What? It was me. It was obvious!"
Timestamps
0:00 video starts
4:54:49 video ends
yoooooo mvp
I need that thnks
Thank you. The world needs more heroes like you❤
I cannot even imagine watching the video without this thank you!
I DIDN'T REALISE THAT VIDEO LONGS 5 HOURS HOLY MOLY
Rip Elmaxo's NEW fan and water bottle.
Taken early from us too soon. May the bottle rest in peace and the fan have a speedy recovery
Yay I've looked in the comments to find another person to also say that 👍
What will he break next? His mouse? A pair of sunglasses? His mind? Tune in next time!
@@RazalasTrebla On elmaxo trys different classes for 100 days
One of the best last videos. Good luck to whatever you decide to pursue next.
The irony of someone who's playing demo's first instinct when shot out of the sky is to call his opponent the N-word is kinda funny to me.
Ironic
He is allowed to do it
@@Real_Batman904
It’s more endearing too funnily. It’s an unintended “Nice shot.”
as of right now (12:20 am) i finished this entire video in 1 sitting no breaks no moving. i now feel 0.00000000000001% of elmaxos pain in the last hour seconds of the video
Ditto here haha
Did you piss
@@NotUndulateCrown58 piss sniper reference
@@appalacha7278 sniper tf2 reference
@@Zuamzaka tf2 reference
Rip elmaxo’s new fan and blue water bottle you took your role as a punching bag with honour and dignity and will be permanently remembered in the 100 day sniper challenge
what a way to go out, have a good one elmaxo
"About as useful to your team as a basketball player who can't jump" -spoken like a resident of the home country of Ben Simmons lol
R.I.P elmaxo's new fan, and his water bottle, and his mental state, and his legs, and hos data
With the sad hitmaker-wasted-focus section, your custom HUD doesn't have the teams at the top. If you were able to see "Hey, the whole enemy team is waiting to respawn" you'd know not to activate focus on a completely empty battlefield.
it also would help with knowing when to be wary of spies
idk why huds remove that bar its so useful
Poorly optimized and gives 5 % fps boost
@@georgejs3025yes but i would expect elmaxo's pc to be powerful enough for it not to make a noticeable difference. also doubt the drop in framerate would be 5 %, as why would it scale with your framerate??
@@Jish_Le_Fish just what I read on some guides about fps in tr2 also you can just alt tab and see who’s up no need for it really
Most possibly the longest and most dedicated video any RUclipsr can ever do in their life time
Keep going your content is amazing!
He quit.
“R.I.P elmaxo’s new fan” I’m glad I got to binge watch this entire video in one go, my favorite part was the tribute to Bing Soy!
Fun fact, the reason why extinguishing players with no-scopes with the Sydney Sleeper doesn't work most of the time is cause it is a glitch, you're not supposed to be able to do that
I suspect it generates a piss particle from the jarate and that makes it inconsistent due to how small it could be. Maybe.
"free thinking people" when elmaxo tells them to type "R.I.P elmaxo's new fan"
Been watching this video bit by bit for well over a month now and when I finished and finally scrolled to the comments I see you've quit for better pastures...
Good luck out there man! Your content has made my and I'm sure many other's days better and brighter. Look forward to seeing you elsewhere
2:10:10 bro got dunked on by a dude whos favorite game is adventures of the worm. Abseloute mad lad.
To be fair he had 708 hrs in csgo
@@LunaticWithALicense was searching for someone who would mention it, the guy was not really a noob
He was hacking he snapped straight to his head
3:28:41 DOVE GIB!!!1!1!!1!11
(For those unaware, there is like a 1% chance to get a dove to fly out of an exploded scout, which is a subtle reference to meet the medics end scene)
you mean his hat?
No a dove flies out of his body when he explodes
I think, maybe my mind playing games on me
@@JohnJohn-r4l no there is a very small chance that upon gibbing a scout a dove will fly out from it, can be very hard to see during a regular match
@@WaterBisquitte I said “like 1%” not because it’s is one percent but preposterously low. Idk the numbers, I’m not a smart guy
The mix of progress analysis and self-reflection will always make for a compelling video. Crazy how energetic and conversational this video felt given it's nearly 5-hour length, tons of longer videos see people dialing it in and reading monotonously from a badly-edited script. The sheer number of appropriate clips plus this commentary is really great, plus the decision to intersperse some of the marathon training. I also really appreciated the openness about the production process, from the mental health struggles to the intentional seeking of narratives. The difference between "I wanted a whole progression for this Bing Soy shot but I got it on my second try, whoops" and the interactions with Seiran made the Seiran payoff much more fun.
All in all, for how masochistic and silly this kind of video is, you manage to pull a lot of meaning into it, which makes this kind of video interesting, entertaining, and even a little bit inspiring, while remaining grounded in the realities of mental health and pressure. It's really a huge achievement and I hope you can feel that way upon reflection!
Exactly why this guy is awesome at this stuff, but wow the transphobia and racism his and other tf2 communities were subjected to was shocking and downright sad...
I was really hoping for a SPY HAS A GUN joke when you were talking about the razor back, but unfortunately my hopes have been crushed.
On Suijin, a lot of the map design can be explained by the fact it was originally an arena map that got converted into a koth map.
It was never designed with koth in mind, it just got ported to koth because there's no way an arena map is officially making it into modern tf2 outside of halloween
16:28 “You can’t extinguish teammates”
A jar of piss and it’s piss rifle counterpart:
To be fair, he does go into it, and the piss rifle is pretty jank. It's basically just the Jarate.
sydney sleeper's extinguish mechanic doesn't have lag compensation for teammate hitboxes regardless of whether you're scoped in or not, so you have to aim ahead to extinguish teammates (does not require a headshot btw). hope this clears t he confusion! i have reported this bug to valve a couple of months back with instructions on how to fix it, so hopefully it's fixed in the summer update? who knows
R.I.P Elmaxos new fan lol
"Things constantly change on the journey, and that's a good thing!" - Wise words.
And also: R.I.P elmaxo's new fan
Elmaxo first tortured himself for 100 days then he tortured the opposing team for 100 days. Someone check up on this guy he might not be sane anymore.
Rip to the new fan, the cycle continues once more hopefully for the last time
Thank elmaxo making this episode so easy to understand for the ppl who dont play tf2
Elmaxo 1 week after 100 days as spy:
“I think it like to try it a second time”
After playing 100 days of Spy, Elmaxo has decided to play superior and Australian (not really) Spy
long-ranged not limited to one side to one-shot spy
The sydney sleeper and the Classic being next to each other made me laugh.
Spy and sniper both have the skill ceiling like your roof got stolen by a hurricane. This was an experience.
"I'm not a crazed gunman dad, I'm an assassin! Well, the difference being...one is a job, and the other is mental sickness!"
I think bro needs to do a 100 DAYS of medic and that’s something called HELL and this is fricking 5 hours of sniper that is hell if there’s a good sniper on the enemy team too
Medic is too boring of a class to do something like this.
I can image when doing the 100 days of medic and him going "WHERE IS MY TEA!? AGH!" and "I F-ing hate sniper and spies, why do they exist and need to be removed!".
@@NoName...... it’s for the torture for him to give us constant and Contant = money for him and entertainment for us
@@NoName......Use the Quick Fix or Kritz it's more fun then.
12:12 Elmaxo’s name being Sisyphus is great lmao
Very symbolic
By the end of the day every lobby will be sniper only like the bots never left
Yep lmao, thankfully most of them will be bad hopefully
I loved how much these long videos became just talking about personal growth and being genuinely inspirational. Love you Elmaxo, R.I.P. to your fan.
im fairly sure that lazy purple mentions "guitar hero aim" in how it feels to play sniper
Jerma also mentions it in a tf2 video from like eight years ago.
And so does uncle dane in his engineer stock shotgun video
I don't believe it, you're one of my steam friends lol, I was just scrolling through the comments and found your profile and cheeked lol.
Yeah, it's been called that for a long time.
@@Guywhofelloffachair Oh that's really cool lol
Second scoping is something you pull out occasionally to throw off your opponent. Punishing someone who does it every time regardless of the situation is pretty easy.
The popularity of the Darwin's Danger Shield makes more sense when you consider that most players sit on 2fort. It's a lot more common for a pyro to dedicate themselves to just spamming the battlements the whole game.
this video helped fill a decent chunk of a 9-hour video editing session where hearing audio wasn't as integral so very much thank you for that ;u;
RUclips: "Here is a new ElMaxo Video, we know you pop in for his stuff every now and then.
Me: "Neat. Ah, another 100-days-video. The Spy was a bit on the longer side, but not the worst. And Sniper can't be tha-" *notices playtime*
"...oh. Well, the goes my entire afternoon!" *presses play*
goofy ahh comment ☠☠
It’s longer than hbomberguy’s plagiarism video
6:26 RIP Hooxi. Who is Hooxi? For the blind, He is the vision. For the hungry, He is the chef. For the thirsty, He is the water. If Hooxi thinks, I agree. If Hooxi speaks, I’m listening. If Hooxi has one fan, it is me. If Hooxi has no fans, I don’t exist.
2:34:13 To quote my favorite tweet: "If you refer to other players as 'sweaty' for beating you in a game, I regret to inform you that you are also sweaty, you’re just bad."
i can't seem to remember who that is, the person in the clip not the quote.
@@ALoser-ThisIsTotallyUniquezesty jesus
@@alexanderying1558 ahhh i thought i recognized him
@faitharmstrong3188No, if you play a game where winning is the main objective you are a baby if you get mad about people playing better.
Not defending anyone here but what i remember that clips was from when zesty was getting streamsniped by bunch of high elo comp players to piss him off
dude, the thing with the marathon at the end. you're an absolute legend, m8
Your description and explaination of second scoping is almost an exact explaination for a fighting game term called footsies, which is the act of using movement and low commital options to fool your opponent into committing to an unsafe option that you can punish, its in pretty much every fighting game and hearing a similar game plan and idea in a shooter be called slimy made me laugh
yeah i love elmaxo's content, but that felt like a skill issue lmfao
19:35 As an ex sniper main, I'll always stand by rev'd up heavies being so hard to hit for literally no reason. They just radiate an anti-bullet aura and something about how they just randomly mash keys combined with their slow movement makes them so god damn hard to hit sometimes.
Also, a little unknown upside of the heatmaker is while in focus, you can unscope and move IMMEDIATELY after shooting, while the only other rifle that can do that is the classic. You can also jump out of your scope after shooting, making it a great weapon to combat enemy snipers without needing to second scope.
Hey El Maxo!! I wanted to addend something to the Hitmans Heatmaker section! You can jump out of scope while in focus, making the heatmaker incredible for dueling snipers. You can fire shots and immediately jump, or simply jump without firing. This is something no other sniper rifle can do.
Great video, listened to it while driving 3 hours today. Really made the drive tolerable!
I think the sheer variety of playstyles for sniper is the reason you were able to push through a lot easier with sniper. Cozy Camper, Jarate, and SMG completely changes your positioning and the way you handle threats.
It was awesome seeing you grow as a sniper player, and working on your aim, something that you used to suck at. I love these long-form videos because you're turning into a jack of all trades, focusing on each of your weak points in TF2 as a pseudo-new player.
Elmaxo when he puts “I remember” instead of “Look at this clip”
R.I.P Elmaxo's New Fan, i watched this whole video in a sort of podcast manner in the background while at the office only tabbing in when you "look at this clip" but once again very enjoyable
What a video to end the channel with. Thanks for everything, elmaxo. You've made a permanent impact on the community
I had to pause at 1:14:06 and comment because I have been playing a lot of sniper, and a lot of heatmaker, and I NEVER KNEW you didn't need a full bar. There are so many times I let that go to waste because I never bothered to check. Holy moly, thank you for adding this part in.
If this is going where I think it's going, then 100 days as Medic is the next video, and that will be truly evil pain.
Oh. Oh no. Oh no no no no no
aged like milk
this aged well
*ahem*
Well
15:27 "For the love of god you cannot shoot through windows"
Uhm actually its glass 🤓☝
*Heres a compilation of every time Elmaxo shot through a window*
16:20 *Shoots through window*
1:06:15 *Shoots through window (even if glitch)*
1:28:58 *Shoots through window*
1:30:00 *Shoots through window*
glass. he means glass
putting "uhm actually its glass, nerd emoji" is the most hypocritical thing I have ever seen
@@triplus198 ??
@@thisiskret In this context, most people would put the nerd emoji. I however think the nerd emoji is stupid asf
@@triplus198 congrats you've gotten the joke
"You don't have to watch this whole thing in one go."
Another 5 hour video essay for lunch? Splendid.
This is basically your version of "How it FEELS To Play ___" and I'm all for it.
i was genuinely emotional when i finished watching this video, its like one of those movies where it was so good in its story telling that you just stare at your screen
I love when max said "It's beast mode time" and beast moded all over the place
Best mode in TF2 has always seemed like a strange case to me
@@Aminos_primeahhh, free at last..
You're the one that got me me playing tf2 for the first time in 2024, if only I could've discovered that this game is so good, much, MUCH more sooner
These have to be my favourite tf2 videos on RUclips right now. Just got done with the first 2 and to have this drop right after really was a blessing! Thanks for the amazing upload
You’re lucky, most of us had to thug it out for 9 months 😖
6:30 jokes on you, I thought it was a type of disease
If you have never played TF2 before and just watch content like this, just play the game. It's free, it's recently been bot free and it's a great game (obviously)
dupeee frogggt
tbh the game really isnt that good tbe content is though
@@virtualcommando7098 if it werent that good there wouldnt be 5 hour long videos talking about it 16 years later
@@theorangegolfball2176 No there still would be some people like the game more then others but its definitely not a great gamw
i love it when you mention something and yap and blabber about it for so long i completely forget you were talking about something else before
Almost 5 hours of content to watch while eating. Thank you keep up the good work!
The most australian 5 hours of my life
The fact that Max called The Classic “stupid” should be punishable by crucifixion for blasphemy
it is...
but at the same time it's funny to kill with
It really is though
1:53:38 what a wholesome gamertag.
What a video, amazing all the way through. I did notice that your time in heavy was a little light there. Also R.I.P. Elmaxo’s new fan