Flamingbaby

Attacking on Dustbowl can be a real pain in the ass if the other team places their sentry guns effectively. With this guide you can be the savior of your team and the bane of bottom-feeding engineers everywhere.

Section 1: Control Point 1

This section of the map is impossible to defend against any team that has at least 2 players with basic motor skills, so I’ve only done an overview of common sentry locations and a picture of how to sniper through the fence during warmup.



Dustbowl has a glitch that allows you to shoot through the doors if you know where to aim. This is easiest in the first section of the map due to the way to ramp up to the door is positioned. In order to snipe through the door you have to shoot through the gray metal surrounding the door. If you zoom in and point at the gray metal your sniper dot should disappear if you are pointing at a spot that you can shoot through. This is because the metal isn’t really there and your dot is actually showing on the wall or person on the other side of the gate. The best way to take advantage of this is to stand and aim through he bottom of the gate where you can see clearly and then once you line up a shot on someone take 1 step back. This will lower your crosshair intot he gray part and allow you to take your shot and really piss of whatever unfortunate medic/engineer/demoman was stupid enough to stand in front of the gate.



Note for snipers:

Your main goal in this first phase of the push is to clear out a few people before round start and then concentrate mostly on countersniping while keeping an eye out for targets of opportunity.