![]() ![]() The Spy is also armed with the double-barreled shotgun, nail gun, and up to 4 normal grenades. It is best used on faster classes to facilitate a lethal knife strike. Rounding out the Spy's unique arsenal is the tranquilizer pistol, which fires a special dart that does negligible damage, but greatly reduces its target's rate of movement temporarily. In large doses, the Spy' gas grenades can cause severe damage. This relatively harmless effect masks the fairly moderate damage over time the grenade causes while an enemy is in its area of effect. Because a Spy disguised as a member of the enemy team also randomly adopts the name of an enemy team member, it is possible for a player to see a Spy with their own name, thereby blowing the Spy's cover.Īnother potent weapon available only to this class is the gas grenade (sometimes referred to as a "pill" due to its shape and colors), which has a temporary hallucinatory effect, causing enemies to see and hear phantom explosions, shots, flames and tossed grenades for a short period of time. The Spy class lacks the speed, armor, and weaponry to hold in a straight-up shootout against most other classes, and any contact with an opposing team's Scout or Spy will cause him to lose his disguise. However, many servers have friendly fire disabled. It should be noted that in friendly fire-enabled servers that this technique is generally thrown out of the window due to all players bleeding from being shot. Even suspicion of a Spy in the enemy team's midst can create a gaping hole in an organized defense, as defenders waste ammunition shooting each other for "Spy checks" (enemy Spies still visibly bleed if damaged) or are lured out of position. Geared more for offensive support, the Spy is one of the most challenging classes to play effectively, but a skilled Spy can be very disruptive against the enemy team. Team Fortress 2 > Guides > GloomyQuokka's Guides. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. The Spy can also feign death, letting him bide his time as a corpse while he changes disguise or plans his next move. Steam Community :: Guide :: Spy Cosmetic Sets. Attacking with the knife or firing any weapon causes the Spy to lose his disguise, but tossing grenades does not, making Spies the ultimate sentry gun killers. A disguised Spy can also position himself behind an unwary enemy to deliver an instant-kill stab (in the back of the head) with his knife. Enemy sentry guns will not fire on a Spy disguised as a member of that team, making them very capable of penetrating a base's defense. His "special skill" button brings up the disguise menu, letting the player choose what team and what class he would like to appear to be. The stealth assassin of TFC, the Spy has fairly light armor and average speed, but has the unique ability to disguise himself as a member of an opposing team. ![]() Speaking of shooting, you can still get hit while being cloaked so avoid crossfires or projectiles like missiles and grenades from soldiers and demomen respectively.The Spy (new model left, old model right) When cloaked players can still bump into you, so make sure you keep out of their way unless you want them to shoot at you. Backstabs are also quite noisy so make sure to get out of the area if you don’t want to fight after a backstab. Try to uncloak in a different room, behind cover or when it’s noisy to stay hidden. Veteran Team Fortress players know what the sound of an un-cloaking spy is and will try to hunt you down the moment they hear it. This can be great if you want to prolong your sneakiness! Things to Rememberĭe-cloaking to get that backstab is great, but remember that in doing so you’ll make a lot of sound. You recharge this bar by staying uncloaked, but you can also recharge it while in the middle of a cloak by taking ammo boxes around the map. Once you’re cloaked you have a small cloak bar that shows you how much time you have left. BasicsĬloaking is just making yourself invisible. We’ll only be covering the default kit since that’s where all spies start from, and the lessons learned here can be applied once you get other cool items. Spy Guide: How To Cloak | Team Fortress 2įor the purpose of making this guide shorter, we won’t be covering all of the different items that can help you cloak as a spy. In this guide we’ll show you how to effectively use the cloak to your advantage. If your fun is running behind enemies and stabbing them, then you should play the spy. You might have heard that the public lobbies of the game is filled with bots, and you would have heard right, but there are bastions of servers out there holding out and are active in removing these bots so that players can enjoy the fun. ![]() It’s the game that helped future games like Overwatch be successful and despite it’s age it still has a solid player base. Team Fortress 2 is one of those earlier big games that made an impact in the gaming community. ![]()
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