Spy

Spy
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Basic Information
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Type	Support
Health	125 (185 with overheal)
Speed	107%

Thank you for being such a dear friend.

The Spy after taking out his local mercenary

The Spy is a support class from France, with years of experience in espionage, deception, and sabotage. He is a specialist support class armed with a variety of tools to infiltrate and eliminate enemies, as well as a smug, sarcastic attitude.

Specializing in deception and assassination, the Spy has an array of specialized tools dedicated to infiltrating the enemy team, most notably his Disguise Kit and Invis Watch, which allows him to appear as a friendly teammate to enemies and go invisible respectively. To eliminate his enemies, he has a powerful Revolver and a delicate butterfly Knife, allowing him to gun down weak enemies or instantly kill them from behind with a backstab. In addition, he has a Sapper, which allows him to disable buildings and drain them of health, allowing him or his team to swoop in and destroy them with ease, though the Sapper can be removed with the Engineers Wrench.

The Spy's gameplay loop often consists of the Spy using his Invis Watch to move behind the enemy team, where he then uses his Disguise Kit to blend in with the enemy team before decloaking. After decloaking, he then moves within the enemy teams territory to find a suitable target, often a Sniper, Heavy, or Medic. He then uses his Knife to instantly kill the enemy from behind, losing his cloak in to process and cloaking away to repeat the process. In the event that the Spy is caught by an enemy, or he sees an enemy on low health at a distance, he can use his Revolver to defend himself or pick the enemy off from a long range. When approaching Engineer nests, the Spy will either sap the buildings first before attempting to gun down or backstab the Engineer, or backstab the Engineer before sapping his buildings, effectively destroying the nest if another Engineer does not step in to unsap the buildings with his Wrench.

The Spy has an ability called Spy-Walk. Usually the Spy matches his disguise victim's speed for their class. For example, a Spy disguised as Heavy would move at the same speed as a Heavy to blend in amongst the enemy team. However, when using Spy-Walk (Default Key: Shift), the Spy will ignore his disguise class's speed and move as fast as he does whilst undisguised. This can be helpful for catching up to enemies who run faster than the Spy's disguise class. Although, this puts you at risk of getting caught due to the Spy running faster his disguise victim. This can inverted in the Advanced Settings so the Spy always runs at his undisguised speed and only slows down to his disguise victim's speed whilst holding down the Spy-Walk button.

The Spy is voiced by Dennis Bateman.

Bio

Country of Origin: France
Job: Uncloak & Dagger
Motto: "..."
Contraptions: Disguise Kit / Cloaking Watch
A master of disguise, misdirection, and the byzantine details of who really runs things, the Spy is a double reverse quadruple agent whose reflexive suspicion is entirely justified.

Weapons

Primary

Weapon	Kill icon
Revolver
Tranquilizer Gun

Sapper

Weapon	Kill icon
Sapper

Melee

Weapon	Kill icon
Knife

PDA

Weapon
Disguise Kit

Watch

Weapon
Invis Watch
L'escampette

Tips

Main article: Basic Spy Strategy

As a Spy…

• …disguise yourself as an enemy with your disguise kit. Beware, attacking will remove your disguise.
• …call for enemy Medics by hitting E while disguised.
• …try to act like an enemy while disguised. Observe where enemy team members are, and disguise as one of them.
• …press Shift to run at normal speed while disguised as slower classes.
• …your revolver is a very useful tool for when a stealth operation doesn't go your way.
• …place your electro sappers on enemy buildings to disable and destroy them. Disguises aren't lost when placing sappers.
• …your electro sappers disable sentry guns before destroying them. Sap a sentrygun before attacking the engineer.
• …use your knife to backstab enemies from behind, killing them instantly.
• …hit MOUSE2 to cloak and become fully invisible for a short period of time.
• …use your cloak to get behind enemy lines, and your disguise to move around amongst them.
• …your tranquilizer gun slows down your target and decreases their ranged gun damage. This helps create an opening for an escape.
• …the darts from your tranquilizer gun cause your target to take guaranteed critical hits from melee damage. Let your teammates gang up on them.
• …the L'escampette allows you to move quickly to or from the enemy base. Make quick escapes, or quick infiltrations!
• …you lose cloak taking damage with the L'escampette equipped. Stay out of the line of fire.

Related achievements

Achievement		Description
	Deep Sleep	As a Spy, kill 10 tranquilized players with your melee weapon.

VIP achievements

Achievement		Description
	Fraudulent Transaction	As a Spy, kill the Civilian using the boost given by him.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Шпионин	Spy
Spanish	Spy	-
English	Spy	-
French	Spy	-
German	Spy	-
Hungarian	Kém	Spy
Italian	Spia	Spy
Polish	Szpieg	Spy
Brazilian Portuguese	Spy	-
Romanian	Spy	-
Russian	Шпион	Spy
Turkish	Spy	-
Ukrainian	Шпигун	Spy
Simplified Chinese	间谍	Spy

Update history

2.0.0 (Death & Taxes Update)

• Updated the Spy's Cigarette “shell” to be slightly higher poly.
• Added Spywalk for Spies. (Bound to Shift by default)
• Added a glow to the Spy's cigarette.
• Updated the Spy’s mask textures to be consistent with the 10 classes.
• Being touched as a Spy now also affects the viewmodel.

2.0.2

• Updated tf2c_spy_gun_mettle to include updated Sapper damage modifier
• Fixed Spywalk not being applied clientside

2.0.4

• The move speed increase from tf2c_gun_mettle_spy now only affects Spy, rather than all classes

2.1.0 (Fight or Flight Update)

• Updated the Spy:
  • Increased the Spy's movement speed to 107% (from 100%)
  • Set by tf2c_spy_gun_mettle 2, the new default setting for tf2c_spy_gun_mettle; can be changed by server operators
• Heal points are now given for Shock Therapy healing, Medic passive regen, Kritzkrieg self healing, being healed by an enemy Shock Therapy as a Spy, and stealing enemy Sandviches
• Added the tf2c_spywalk_inverted convar, which sets Spywalk (moving at Spy's regular speed while disguised as slower classes) as the default behavior, with +SPEED (Spywalk bind) imitating your disguise's speed

2.1.2

• The Spy now has a +20% damage resistance and reduced debuff duration while cloaked
• Added a Spywalk indicator on the Disguise HUD (enabled via tf2c_spywalk_hud, enabled by default)

2.1.3

• Spies now gain double the amount of cloak from building gibs
• Cloaked Spies now correctly take 20% less damage even from crits

Trivia

• The Spy used to have 100% movement speed in both Team Fortress 2 and Team Fortress 2 Classified, but both iterations were eventually changed to 107%.
• In Team Fortress 2 Classified, Spy gets another line for his "Thanks!" voice command where he says "Prego" ("Translation: "You're welcome"). This was lifted from the prerelease versions of Team Fortress 2.
• The RED and YLW Spy smoke white cigarettes, while the BLU and GRN Spy smoke brown cigarettes.
• For the French dub of the game, the Spy was given a British accent and several of his responses have been altered to use british words. Nationality changes being a common occurance when adapting French characters over to France in order to better fit local sensibilities the Spy was altered to become British.