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SleepDepJoel β TF2: Learning To Spy pt1
Published: 2008-09-29 06:41:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 38179; Favourites: 465; Downloads: 395
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Now open for commissions: [link]This comic pretty much represents my first hour as a Spy. I have newfound respect for my old foe.
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sap n stab works only with lv1 sentires,lv 2 and lv3 rotate and fire too fast.
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I think I've seen folks do it on youtube.
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alot of bull.
probably because of beta or before the patch that fixed it.
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Then I don't feel quite so failful.
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I think i have had some of my worst and best TF2 moments as spy.
Like when a sniper gets you while you're cloaked.... or you find a maniacal pyro raining fire everywhere who stumbles on you by chance....
On the other hand, you can take revenge on everything an everyone...
FYI.... while you were reading this comment i sapped your sentry! MWHAHAH!
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HyrAyl's sappin' mah sentry!
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Eh. I do sap then stab. basically just stay uncloaked and usually the engineer is stupid enough to try to fix the sentry before dealing with the spy.
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It's like, so true it's not even funny.
WHAT IS THE POINT OF UNCLOAKING TO ATTACK? It so hard to do.
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Lol, I love Demoman frame and the one where you're struggling with stabbing the engineer, those are hilarious. OH and the last frame is awesome too. Overall this is awesome, very funny.
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I'sm stupendously awful at da Spoih, so I can really appreciate this'n.
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Instead of sap and stab, the better technique is to stab, then sap.
If the sg is facing away from you, you have enough time to stab, switch to sapper, sap. ( then engy doesn't know you're there, and you take no damage )
And use the pistol, it does massive damage.
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Man, I need to learn how to play Spy better on actual servers, I suck at being secretive. I am best as Medic.
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Reminds me of an idea I've just had for whatever weapon they have for the Spy update [whenever that is... 
Howzabout for the Knife upgrade, a 'slitting' knife that can still do backstabs, but also can 'slit' the enemie's throats when used form the front- causing a damage-over-time effect like how the Pyro's flames work. And can of course be healed by medics. The catch? Mabie having it have a slightly slower draining effect on health, or mabie slower stabs?
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Building on that, maybe have it so there are backslashes instead of stabs to where a backslash will do damage over time and slow them down (spinal slice!) and from the front will slash their throat do a lot more damage over time and prevent them from calling any voice commands out.
Would take some more fleshing out, to be sure. :0
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I always change my last weapon to the butterfly knife when I spawn. Actually, I usually hold it out and have the gun or sapper as my last weapon... Anyway, changing it in spawn and going out to the field helps a lot. ;D
I don't see a panel about getting stuck in hallways with enemy spies. O:
I like that last panel btw.
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Ahh man I hate good Spies, good thing that they are rare to find.
Say whats that book that Demo is reading?
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Hehe, never hurts to know how the opposites spend their life.
About the sap and stab - Why don't you try stab and sap? That way the engie won't even know you were there and with some practice, the sentry won't even scratch you. If you sap and stab, the engie will immideatly turn his face to you, thus denying backstabs.
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I tried the stabβnβsap. Same results. Iβve taken to just sapping while dancing around the Engies.
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Who needs to sap'n'stab? Hide behind the dispenser, reveal yourself, and let the Sentry kill its own Engineer. Sap and move on. It's all here in this YouTube video I found the other day.
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Horrible, nightmarish truthβ¦
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I use to be a Sniper...now...I spy CURSE YOU VALVE!
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I know exactly how you feel. I main the Spy and it's extremely annoying how i have to uncloak to stab- and i still suck at the sap and stab, i always get mowed down by the sentry.
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Don't worry, I suck as the Spy, too. It's much easier to just burn people instead of stabbing them...
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I remember playing Spy.
That was yesterday.
Oh yeah, that's right, Spy is my main class ohlawls.
Yes, Spy is insanely tricky. He's one of the least confrontational classes out there. The instant you bump into the enemy or get caught, you're pretty much going to die or be hunted from there on out.
Fighting Heavies, Soldiers, Demos, Pyros, Scouts, and Medics (Or good battle medics rather) all up front will kill you in a heartbeat.
Engineers are usually near their buildings so if you take off your disguise, boom sentry, boom dead.
Fighting against other spies tends to end up in a ridiculous fight of swinging knives that constantly miss.
Fighting snipers up close seems to be one of the few things Spy can pull off. Snipers are usually isolated from the rest of the team, so they usually don't get assisted in helping them fight off the spy, and three revolver bullets to the chest is enough to kill them, whereas all they can do is try to melee you or use that submachine gun, which is also tricky.
words words words.
I LIKE THE EXPRESSIONS AND ALSO YOUR EXPLOSIONS. The explosions look really glowy and cool. And also your way of expressing actions. Like panel 3 how you have all the "pulling out sapper and stabbing" movements overlayed with one another rather than giving them seperate panels
IT IS COOL.
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Ahhhh⦠the tribulations of learning to be a sneaky bastard.
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This remember my first day in TF2 as a Spy.
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I swear Spy is the most tricky class to play, so I do hold respect for those crazy spy players out there hehe!
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That's the same thing with me c:
It's like you have to be born to play as Spy.
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That demoman panel pretty much describes my whole demoman playing time :3
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I can't play Demo anymore. I always feel dirty afterwards.
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yep I share the sale stuff as you have with the spy exept for sapper stab
again a comic of epic proportions!
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i had a great laugh, the sapper, the demoman spamming, the engi. it's all true XD
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I have found using the Spy as equally tricky. I'd only use him as a last resort if a sentry was in the way of our point capturing. And maybe if there was a particularly annoying Sniper that's keeping us from pushing the cart.
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Smoking is bad for you.
So is getting blown up.
So is getting crit-wrenched.
Good job! I want to see an expansion on this, since you DID say this was part one.
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The cloak's thing where you can't attack drove me crazy the first few times I tried playing spy, ether way I am no where as nearly annoying as a few players I have ragulared on a server with.
But recently I have been playing the heavy, and got my sanvich.
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I find it interesting that you haven't said anything about Snipers; especially considering that a good spy is a sniper's worst enemy.
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No worries: part 2 is next week.
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Yes yes... The spy can take some time to getting used to. I have yet to try this class myself properly. The only instance where I played as one was when my boyfriend snagged the intelligence and then threw the controller at me and yelled "Oh no!! Quick do something!!" and then took off. I panicked, naturally, and didn't get very far. I ran around the intelligence room for a while trying to shake an engineer off my tail, and got my head bashed in by a scout on the stairs. I don't know how he does it so easily....
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