can someone tell me if beating snipers on a token launch will work via alchemy websockets for pending blocks and submitting a order with tons of max gas? or is it more complicated than this?

Technically speaking it should come down to gas war bidding provided you are inside of the same block but on L2s you are at the mercy of the sequencer to order the tx's.

Im the guy that posted all those factory memes once

With block times at two seconds it's very doable. Hardest part is minimizing gas costs because there exists an optimal between max gas, fun fact there is a max you can bid, and the actual cost of first place.

You also need to keep in mind that snipers do all kinds of precalc work to get into the first place slot and win the snipe.

ahhhh that makes sense, yeah i’m pretty confident i can get in the same block with my current pipeline