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{{Quotation|'''L'escampette''' [https://tf2classic.com/fight_or_flight/day1 promotional blurb]|Using L'escampette to her fullest potential requires two things: 1) flawlessly executing a game plan and 2) not wasting time making a game plan at all. Cloaking with L'escampette kicks you up to 130% of your default running speed, but the cloak drains twice as fast, and getting hurt while cloaked will drain it even faster}}

{{Quotation|'''L'escampette''' [https://tf2classic.com/fight_or_flight/day1 promotional blurb]|Using L'escampette to her fullest potential requires two things: 1) flawlessly executing a game plan and 2) not wasting time making a game plan at all. Cloaking with L'escampette kicks you up to 130% of your default running speed, but the cloak drains almost twice as fast, and getting hurt while cloaked will drain it even faster.}}

'''L'escampette''' is a [[:Category:Watch weapons|watch]] for the [[Spy]]. It is a stopwatch without a chain, with a glowing blue circular cloak indicator divided into eight segments. The indicator appears blue regardless of which team the user is on.

Compared to the [[Invis Watch]], L'escampette ~~gives a~~ 30% ~~speed bonus~~ while cloaked at the cost of ~~a faster~~ cloak ~~drain rate~~, ~~draining~~ in 5 seconds instead of 10. Like the Invis Watch, picking up ammo crates while cloaked will refill the meter~~, and the recharge rate is the same at 30 seconds~~. This speed boost means that the user can jump immediately after cloaking, and then decloak, to preserve the momentum while draining less meter. As a downside, ~~the watch drains its meter twice as fast, and~~ any damage received while ~~active~~ will drain 15% of its cloak while emitting a loud electrical sound and particle effects. This means that rapidly receiving damage will drain the cloak instantly.

Compared to the [[Invis Watch]], L'escampette increases the user's movement speed by 30% while cloaked (107% to 139.1%), at the cost of 40% cloak capacity. This means it drains in 6 seconds instead of 10, and recharges in 18 seconds instead of 30. Like the Invis Watch, picking up ammo crates while cloaked will refill the meter. This speed boost means that the user can jump immediately after cloaking, and then decloak, to preserve the momentum while draining less meter. As an additional downside, any damage received while cloaked will drain 10% of its cloak meter, while emitting a loud electrical sound and particle effects. This means that rapidly receiving damage will drain the cloak instantly.

== Properties ==

{{Weapon properties

| function-times-column = true

| consumption-time = 5 s

| consumption-time = 6 s

| cloak-fade = 1.0 s

| uncloak-fade = 1.8 s

| charge-fill-speed = 3.33% / s

| charge-fill-speed = 5.55% / s

| charge-fill-time = 30 s

| charge-fill-time = 18 s

|}}

== Related ~~Achievements~~ ==

== Related achievements ==

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== Update history ==

{{Update history|

'''[[2.1.0]]~~'''~~

* ~~Added L'escampette~~

* Added L'escampette

* Added +100% [[cloak]] regeneration rate (hidden stat)

* Simplified "+100% cloak consumption rate" and "+100% cloak regeneration rate" to "-50% cloak capacity"

* Fixed missing phongwarp texture

* The Spy now has a +20% damage resistance and reduced debuff duration while cloaked

* [[Spy|Spies]] now gain double the amount of [[Invis Watch|cloak]] from [[Buildings|building]] gibs

* [[Invis Watch|Cloaked]] [[Spy|Spies]] now correctly take 20% less damage even from [[Critical hit|crits]]

* Reduced cloak penalty when damaged while cloaked to -10% (from -15%)

* Reduced cloak capacity penalty to -40% (from -50%)

}}

== Trivia ==

* The word "escampette" comes from the old fashioned French idiom "prendre la poudre d'escampette" ("to take the powder of 'escampette'"), which means "to escape". The word itself isn't really used in any other context in the language, and can be roughly translated to "little escape" or "little getaway".

* The word "escampette" comes from the old fashioned French idiom "prendre la poudre d'escampette" ("to take the powder of 'escampette'"), which means "to escape". The word itself isn't really used in any other context in the language, and can be roughly translated to "little escape" or "little getaway" due to the "-ette" suffix meaning "small" in words like "cigarette" meaning a "small cigar"

* The arm the Spy uses to hold L'escampette will still appear even when the "invisible arms" [[setting]], <code>tf2c_invisible_arms = 1~~</code>, is enabled.~~

* The arm the Spy uses to hold L'escampette will still appear even when the "invisible arms" setting is enabled, {{code|tf2c_invisible_arms 1}}

* Reloading while cloaking will make the Spy appear to have three arms - one holding the gun, the second holding L'escampette, and the third reloading the chamber.

* In the promotional art for L'escampette, there is a texturing error on the metal square next to the pipes on the left side. A default Source engine texture is visible where a metal texture should be. This error is not visible on the Flight or Fight update page, as the image has been cropped. In addition, there is a [[Brick]] kill icon on the hazardous barrels on the right side, teasing the weapon three days before its official reveal. This is, in fact, visible on the update page.

== Gallery ==

[[File:Fight or flight spy.png~~|left|thumb~~|Promotional art for L'escampette. Notice the [[Brick]] kill icon on the barrels and the texturing error next to the pipes.]]

File:Fight or flight spy.png|Promotional art for L'escampette. Notice the [[Brick]] kill icon on the barrels and the texturing error next to the pipes.

File:Concept_lescampette.png|Concept art

File:Concept_lescampette_2.png|Concept art

</gallery>

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