Advanced Ninja Spy Tutorial

by madlep on July 21st 2008

Ubercharged regular OMFGNinja is living up to his name with some more spy antics. This is the definitive reference for playing spy. There’s all sorts of goodies in there – how to handle each and every class, some crazy batman style stealth dropins, and lots of backstabbing goodness. Makes me want to play more spy just watching.

This is OMFGNinjas Advanced Spy Ninja Tutorial. It covers several topics for the spy, including Stalking, Leaping Stabs, Quickstabs, Mind Games, Solocaps, and more. After your done checking out the video, check out my website at OMFGNinja.com

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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madlep on July 21st 2008 in community, how to, spy, tactics, team fortress 2, videos

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31 Responses to “Advanced Ninja Spy Tutorial”

  1. Jon responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 1:12 am #

    It’s a really very well done video. And ya, it does make you wanna play spy after watching.

  2. Philip responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 1:15 am #

    should there be sound?

  3. Wilm responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 1:53 am #

    Video has been removed, Youtube still works.

  4. FILM: Advanced Spy Ninja Tutorial | Onlinegamer - Team Fortress 2 på svenska responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 2:15 am #

    [...] en intressant Spy-guide borta hos Ubercharged.net. Tyvärr verkar Vimeo-versionen vara nere för tillfället, så vi visar de tre Youtube-filmerna [...]

  5. Xi responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 2:15 am #

    the best part is how he can’t spell sentry. or opposite. frequent typos.

    and there’s a clip of a soldier and engineer just staring at him while he’s on top of a dispenser. he acts like it’s some sort of hugely skilled thing that they’re ignoring him.

  6. Murdoc responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 2:20 am #

    Very nice.
    They are some serious skills.
    I will definitely be giving some of those tactics a try.
    I can see some of those moves being accused as Face Stabs too.

  7. Gray responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 2:22 am #

    Sorry,
    Video no longer exists.

    :(

  8. Piklemeup responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 2:52 am #

    I want to try out the quickstab sometime, except I’m a terrible spy.

  9. ZheGoggles responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 3:59 am #

    Meh, the vimeo video is down.

    You can however still watch it here on Youtube
    : D
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87QCn_cafI&eurl=http://omfgninja.com/

  10. madlep responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 7:43 am #

    Yeah, dunno what’s happening on Vimeo. I’ll leave it a couple of hours, and just link to the Youtube one if it doesn’t come back.

  11. OMFGNinja responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 8:23 am #

    Hey Guy. I don’t know why Vimeo is being dumb and not showing the video… I’m trying to get it worked out.
    Thanks for checking it out

  12. Hain responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 10:31 am #

    Be patient, Vimeo works like that, at first it’s ok, then it disappears for a while, sometimes for several days, but then it’s back for good.

  13. madlep responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 12:07 pm #

    Well, it’s back anyway. I guess Vimeo managed to unclog their tubes, or bring some more big trucks in or something. Enjoy.

  14. madlep responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 12:36 pm #

    That last description of mine wasn’t too far off. Apparently Amazon’s S3 service went down – which is what Vimeo uses to store the videos. A whole bunch of sites have been complaining that bits of their functionality is offline because of it.

    http://www.vimeo.com/forums/topic:6758

  15. Wilm responded on 21 Jul 2008 at 12:55 pm #

    Awesome “tutorial”. I even liked that you didn’t put music, can actually hear the original sounds.

  16. supremesonic responded on 22 Jul 2008 at 7:03 am #

    I dunno, it could of done with more music.

    Like CRAWLIIIIIIIIN IN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN.

  17. Ryebread responded on 22 Jul 2008 at 8:36 am #

    Without the music, this really looks like a documentary you might find on the Discovery channel. While a lack of music makes the video a little dry, it certainly demonstrates some devilishly skillful stabs of a man with impeccable timing.

  18. OMFGNinja responded on 22 Jul 2008 at 11:01 am #

    Hey Madlep! thanks for posting this up here man. I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with everyone asking me stuff, I enjoy it tho. Thanks for linking up my videos, I really apperciate it.
    I don’t know what to make of this whole Amazon/Vimeo outage thing… I think they might actually be conspiring against us ;-)

  19. Pinko responded on 22 Jul 2008 at 11:18 am #

    I’ve mentioned it on youtube, and I’ll mention it here. I still think that OMFGNinja is only a mediocre spy, and that most of his videos are only against completely stupid players, almost as though filmed during a free weekend.

    Or drunk people.

    Some okay tips, most of it is stuff that’s really easy to understand and pretty self explanatory.

    REALLY well edited, though, which is what I love about watching videos.

  20. General Balls responded on 22 Jul 2008 at 8:57 pm #

    I’ve only seen the first one, but most of his tips seem to be things you figure out by playing over time. That said, I’m going to have to start to perfect crouch-jumping over people on stairs and backstabbing them. :D

  21. Sanns responded on 23 Jul 2008 at 3:16 am #

    You can think whatever you want about his skill or the skill of his opponents, but I think this is an extremely well-prepared video with some worthy techniques that many players–myself included–could benefit from watching. It reminds me of something Daedulus said in response to critique about using unskilled opponents in his videos; I forget the exact phrasing, but it went something like: “My goal is to make a good how-to video; these same techniques can be used against skilled players, they are just obviously going to be less effective. Plus if I were to use highly skilled players in my videos, I would have had to record a lot more time to get the same content, and also the demonstrations might not be as clear to the viewers.”

  22. BigJugs69 responded on 25 Jul 2008 at 11:24 pm #

    I very well made video, n1.

    btw there’s some very insecure people commenting in this thread :P

  23. TF2 Digital Jedi » Advanced Spy Techniques Howto responded on 29 Jul 2008 at 1:02 am #

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  24. Dave responded on 31 Jul 2008 at 2:37 am #

    17:00 was funny.

  25. Dave responded on 31 Jul 2008 at 2:55 am #

    Also, I totally want a t-shirt with, “Spawn-camping stalking leaping stab” on it.

  26. themessy responded on 03 Aug 2008 at 6:23 am #

    Screw all the haters, I thought this was an excellent video. You have mad spy skills…I have never even thought of leaping over someone on the stairs or jumping down on their heads.

    But then again, my spy played time is ~4 hours, compared to 20+ on all others and 60+ on demo :)

    Great vid, keep it comin!

  27. Kronie responded on 07 Aug 2008 at 7:52 pm #

    Dude! thats insane!

  28. “Cheer up little Timmy, you’ll be a Spy some day…”: oldmeme’s lenghty Spy tips and tricks guide | ubercharged.net responded on 26 Aug 2008 at 8:23 am #

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  29. Spy Tut = 100K Views; and I tore up some Badwater. | OMFGNinja.com responded on 31 Aug 2008 at 8:28 pm #

    [...] being international, I was also linked up to a couple big blogs, including ubercharged: http://www.ubercharged.net/2008/07/21/advanced-ninja-spy-tutorial/ And Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/5027056/get-blood-on-your-suit-with-the-spy And I was even linked up [...]

  30. r3ap3r responded on 30 May 2009 at 10:23 pm #

    VVV Nice
    I will use these tactics myself
    thx alott
    alotof help

  31. TEH UBERMENSCH responded on 07 Oct 2009 at 1:10 pm #

    Man, and I thought I was a good spy…

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