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[notarctic]

Why, even as a spy, I donīt enjoy trickstabbing and the passive invisibility thing

Why, even as a spy, I donīt enjoy trickstabbing and the passive invisibility thing

I haven't got stabbed in forever because of the bug which shows a balance problem. Only noobs get stabbed since its predictable to see when you're about to get knifed. Also, hush with the "I'm really self righteous and don't like trick stabbing", everyone wants to get kills and everyone wants to look flashy doing it, especially a guy with three gifs of himself rjing/djing in his sig.

Is there a reason you don't enjoy the things that make spy fun and useful? (Passive invisibility thing also used for revolver so basically both your points are rip)

in my 1 year and 6 months of playing gg2 i have only gotten 4 stabs 2 of these are trickstabs and the rest are just plain jump stabs. I dont enjoy mainly because i suck at timing on stabs (not airshots)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5FeDYuFpUY

I just support the broken passive stabbing because it makes sense to have some forewarning when some conksuck idiot is going to oneshot you and there's few options for avoiding it. That's just my opinion.

that sounds good in theory but then you realize how OP certain kinds of defensive behavior are in GG2, and how being forced to spycheck or risk sudden death makes them more balanced

It isn't op and people will spycheck regardless, building the reaction time to be able to read an incoming stab fast enough and the muscle memory to time your stabs well enough are both acquired skills. Being able to get behind someone is not a skill and being able to see an invisible spy behind you is not physically possible without the use of cheats.

below is an example of a spy who has not acquired the skill of timing a stab


and below this is an example of players who have not acquired the skill of avoiding a stab


all gifs and video courtesy of derpduck

[.prime]

nice

[notarctic]

ice

[Dumbledank]

baby

[KnotSoup]

heavy

prime tried to blackmail me in changing my post

[Catman]

If you've ever tried playing Spy in TF2 you'll know that players will shoot at anything that moves, and anything else that doesn't. GG2 just has the infinite ammo to facilitate firing everywhere for no reason. Consider yourself lucky that you can't be bumped into, and have guaranteed kills no matter where you hit rather than being required to be behind the target.

Stabbing someone who doesn't notice you works merely because that person wasn't aware of you. You gotta be fast, and you gotta be out of the way until you attack. If someone expects a spy then they will spam in every direction just to make it that little bit harder for you.

[Perci]

Fixing the bug would be okay I guess, turning around for like 0.1 sec sometimes is not that hard. Also, not all teammates need to face the same direction, so multiple players can spot basically any spy nearby and give out an alert quickly.