Oh, that crafty bastard. Team Fortress 2 fans have doubtless been anticipating the update to the game's Sniper class, but it seems that Valve has pulled a rather fitting twist. Today it has been revealed that the Sniper update has been snuck upon by the Spy, launching a surprise attack and suddenly appearing out of nowhere.
The Spy will be getting "The Dead Ringer Watch" and the "Cloak & Dagger Watch" to add to his arsenal of crafty tricks. The former item will allow you to feign death by creating a realistic corpse the moment you receive damage, allowing you to escape or plan a counter-attack. The latter item lets you regenerate your Cloak Device whenever you're standing still.
Don't worry, we're sure the Sniper update is still coming, meaning fans get a surprise two-for-one. A most fitting way to update the Spy indeed.
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10:30 PM on 05.15.2009
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Anyways, I'm really not looking forward to the Dead Ringer. Or Jarate.
This won't break the game - remember, these items will REPLACE the existing ones. For the dead ringer, I come away with the impression that you cannot cloak, until you're hit, at which point you instantly cloak for 8 seconds. The Cloak and Dagger watch will probably replace the original cloak watch - and it probably won't cloak for as long as the old one, and it will still disappear when you stab - which means that unlike the OLD cloak device, you can't cloak AND run away for long - so the new watch will allow you to sneak into bases a lot better, but you're almost guaranteed to die after you stab or sap.
Overall - it looks like it will give a lot more ways to play spy.
Anyways, I usually play the spy class when I can, so this brings me much joy.
Spy is Blu.
Valve never uses Blu team for ANYTHING.
How do you know it's not Red spy disguised as Blu spy?
Why the hell would a red spy be killing red sniper?
Maybe the sniper is a blue spy in disguise?
Pfffthahahahaha. Fucking win.
See that dead Blu spy in the background? That Blu spy back stabbed the Red sniper, causing the Blu spy to undisguise, alerting the Red spy disguised as a Blu spy to the Blu spy's true identity. Then, Red spy disguised as Blu spy killed the real Blu spy and dropped his revolver to make it look like a suicide. Red spy then redisguised himself as the Blu spy and took his place.
/thread
It was a plugin in some servers that allowed you to do that, but at the cost of 30-40% cloak. Now it's an ofiicial feature.
HURRY UP VALVE, I WANT THESE CLASS UPDATES.
They must really love their job to have all of this fun with their fans. And to give us all of this for free! Best company ever.
Rember its all free, FREE.
I was a bit worried about the snipers gettin OP with thir RazorBack, now the balance has been restored.
All bless the Mighty Valve. :P.
period