Combat Spy

Try playing spy without the use of disguises. Hilarity insues shortly thereafter.

It's funny because it's absolutely retarded and yet it can be hilariously effective sometimes. People are so used to looking for disguised spies that sometimes in the thick of it they don't bother to shoot you to go kill someone more dangerous and you get to go stabby mcstab on everyone around.

Pistol kills are pretty satisfying too, that spy is one classy son of a bitch.

Pro Tip of the Day: Sap Sentry, then shoot with gun

One of the last patches made it so that your pistol does less damage to turrets that you've sapped. I don't know if it's enough to stop you from blowing it up still.

If you are unmolested you can still take it down in perhaps 5-10 seconds, but having that much alone time seldom happens. It's starting to force me to improve my Sap & Stab coordination, but I'm still pretty bad at that.

yeah same here .. i'll sap the sentry and move slightly to get behind the shit head engineer.. feels like i wildly throw my stab because i always seem to miss and then he turns around and smashes me once with his wrench and takes me out

That's why you uber a spy, have him sap the sentry, then hit it with your bonesaw.. works like a charm!

Right Ekos?

right-o

UBERBAT!

UBERBAT!

Yeah, I don't think they liked that. I think they thought we were just 'rubbing it in' or something.

mmm zap then hit/shoot...good to know

It's pretty fun to play a defense spy. Pick a random disguise and then just run around the points stabbing whoever fails to notice you. It's pretty effective on Gravel Pit where you can just run circles around the points and usually end up in the back of a medic train (or on C you can just run around the top floors and then jump down on the walkways below and backstab everyone).

By the way, what key is it to switch your disguise's team?

minus

BaNsHee;12627773']mmm zap then hit/shoot...good to know

after the recent patch, sapping then taking out the sentry w/ the spy's gun is impossible vs any engi that's not afk or fsking stoopid, and even when the engi isnt around there's enough time for his non-afk or fsking stoOpID teamm8s to keel the skinny french bastard

when i play spy, which isnt very often, i stab the engi in the back then immediately sap the sentry, or cloak and disguise if i wont be able to reach the gun b4 it pushes all 100 pounds of me back 2 my death

minus

yea, minus, riiiiiiiiiight :rolleyes:

f10 is for same-team diguises

uh, no, he's right. Minus key toggles between teams. It's actually not a bad idea to use it when trying to get out of your own backfield.

It's actually not a bad idea to use it when trying to get out of your own backfield.

I have improved thanks to this tip when I read it in another thread early on in my spying career. I would say b-stabbing a train of 3-5 people in a medic/heavy/soldier train is the singular most satisfying event I have when playing. The problem is, once I get one of those on a map I get over confident and get sloppy.

uh, no, he's right. Minus key toggles between teams. It's actually not a bad idea to use it when trying to get out of your own backfield.

no, pushing "-" will make u exit the game

... or is it " = " I can't remember

It is -

And it doesn't exit the game by default.