Yea, he's still annoying for me to take down. If he knows what he's doing, no amount of carefully placed explosives will take down his fortress in time, and trying to take him down as a spy is still a gamble unless you're lucky enough to backstab and sap before you get shred into ribbons.
I guess Bonk is a nice help for the Scout, but that's about it.
Oh, and Sam:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
My three year old laptop runs it just fine. Not at max settings, but good enough.