Why the Sniper auto collects money?

[Video Game Guy]

Seriously, the money dropped from the robots killed by the Sniper is autocollected, but why?

[EyeOculus]

So that the money isn't in weird spots the scout doesn't usually run.

Also, only Headshot and Explosive Headshots kills are collectet.

[I do it for free]

I'm guessing so the sniper can headshot robots in a weird location and not have to worry about the team not finding the money.

[Video Game Guy]

I see, thanks.
At first I thought it was a bug or something lol

[SirP1zza]

For those open maps like big rock,a sniper can happily shoot bots in spawn while the rest of the team are dying in spawn.
Until you get a body shot ofcourse,in that case somebody has to pick the money up.

[itsgalf]

you're right it makes absolutely no sense and should be removed

[GIR]

Originally posted by itsgalf:

you're right it makes absolutely no sense and should be removed

only if they add some kind of money detection mechanism.

[Hacked Exhale]

Originally posted by GIR DRINKING TEA WITH A PIG:

only if they add some kind of money detection mechanism.

It's called the chatbox. What I always did back then and it never became an issue.

[Quenquent the babysitter]

Originally posted by Gianfranco Stercoforti:

I see, thanks.
At first I thought it was a bug or something lol

It's a game feature, it was a buff for Sniper for reasons. I'm sure if there's an other MVM update they will buff Spy.

Originally posted by Hacked Exhale:

Originally posted by GIR DRINKING TEA WITH A PIG:

only if they add some kind of money detection mechanism.

It's called the chatbox. What I always did back then and it never became an issue.

A mic works too

[Orangecraz]

All of the other classes don't have it because they are close to medium range classes, so the money is in easy reach to them all. Sniper doesn't have that advantage, being a long range class, so one way to reward a good sniper is to make the money from bots killed by headshots auto collected.

Originally posted by itsgalf:

you're right it makes absolutely no sense and should be removed

If it isn't harming the game, it doesn't need to be removed.

[sigsegv]

Originally posted by Orangecraz:

Originally posted by itsgalf:

you're right it makes absolutely no sense and should be removed

If it isn't harming the game, it doesn't need to be removed.

I suppose. But it's not exactly as if the sniper class was ever so underpowered in MvM that he actually needed this buff. They just sort of randomly added it in a patch during June or July 2013.

I can only assume that they had stats about which classes people used and they noticed that most people don't play sniper very often in MvM. So they went ahead and gave him a buff that does absolutely nothing to help bad snipers be better snipers. Go figure.

[Hell-met]

heh. old sniper did double eh per shot.

"needs buff"

[TNT]

Chat/mic works, if everyone speaks the same language. As it stands, basically all necessary communication in game can be handled with either voice binds or very simple words/phrases.

Needing to constantly describe where money dropped to someone without a shared language just seems frustrating.

[GIR]

Yeah, what if the person who play sniper is russian? Good luck with understanding him. :D

[EyeOculus]

Old EH was able to critical hit...

[itsgalf]

the communication issue isn't exclusive to snipers. Soldiers create random cash on the map just as often.