Comments on: The art of fooling your enemy

By: Substance...

Substance... — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:23:15 +0000

Yes, and thats why i always take the corners on the outside as scout, usually to find a weakened pyro crouching on the inside of the corner on the otherside.

Easy kill

By: orange!GAMER

orange!GAMER — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:15:00 +0000

“I Like where this threadis going”

@Sandman: Never thougth of that, good idea.

@ComissarCain: You, sir, are an astonishing-ly superb spy, I shall follow your advice in my next gentlemen-ish scoundrel run.

By: Jrhather

Jrhather — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:36:24 +0000

Y’know what’d be awesome? A 3rd team. I say Purple.

By: lols

lols — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:42:46 +0000

New update? Solly and Demo unlocks it seems!

By: scattergunner

scattergunner — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:13:02 +0000

OMG NEW UPDATE IS COMING! NEW UPDATE IS COMING!!!!! AAAAGH!! ..ok, i just needed that

By: TempoPanda

TempoPanda — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:44:21 +0000

WHATS WITH BOOMERCHARGE ?

By: Brian_Black

Brian_Black — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:48:38 +0000

No speculation on the latest update yet?

Also, Panzerwurst; light scout, airblast into corner/wall, wait for double jump, airblast again, axtinguish. Works more often than most scouts would like.

By: Panzerwurst

Panzerwurst — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:09:45 +0000

>scout
>axtinguisher

Yeah, uh, good luck with that, mate.

By: ComissarCain

ComissarCain — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:06:03 +0000

In my experience, people so rarely use the ‘go left’ ‘go right’ ‘move up’ commands seriously that as an enemy player I tend to regard them as spammers or someone screwing with me and react accordingly: Might also want to make sure your teammates know the fakeout.

However, I have noticed a particularly useful on variation on that. Spy players DO listen for “Spy!” and often try to complete whatever it is they’re doing or escape. Seeing a group of friendly players and hitting ‘Spy’ can often snag you a spy that you otherwise might have missed or not spychecked in time: I’ve seen enemy spies change course, or even just cloak and run off before I even attempt a Spycheck.

You can also *occasionally* trick the enemy team as a friendly spy player by using Voice commands in an odd way. This includes using a Medic cry (or Spy Cry) before you uncloak, resulting in an awful lot of Spychecking the ACTUAL player, or to make it a little more robust, call-out, than quickly swap costumes (while cloaked) for a little misdirection. I wouldn’t recommend trying it shortly before you go to sap/stab combo on an Engi (he pretty much knows you’re coming) but you can create a minor bit of mayhem. (Note that using Medic however will still put that icon above your head–in the wrong situation, that can be very, very bad).

By: pulf

pulf — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:56:31 +0000

Tygrys is GMod god, not only that, he can also write witty articles! That’s a win!

By: gelugon2105

gelugon2105 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:12:19 +0000

Good things to keep in mind, though some of these won’t work against more experienced players.

Nice GMod images though.

By: Sandman

Sandman — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:52:26 +0000

Great article.

For effectiveness and laughs, I love the DR spy disguised as a friendly sniper. If you act the part correctly (not flaunting the DR, just being a very visible and hard-to-hit target), many of the opposing snipers will concentrate on you instead of your team. You’ll give your sniper teammates uncontested shots at them, and then at the rest of their team when they’re no longer threats.

Dead Ringer – providing laughs since 2009.

By: Secret Agent Clank!

Secret Agent Clank! — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:26:37 +0000

Hey Tygrys. About time you’re on board too.

W + M1 fo leif

By: orange!GAMER

orange!GAMER — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:20:58 +0000

@FlyingHat: Yet, this game is full of idiots.

This article reminds me of a section on the OMFGNinja guide of fooling your enemies, spies can do wonders with this tactics, considering the friendly disguise and combning it with the dead ringer, I just hope more people used both of them in the right way… then again, this game is full of idiots

By: FlyingHat

FlyingHat — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:27:11 +0000

If you’re fooled by #2, you’re nothing short of being an idiot.

By: Joe the Plumer

Joe the Plumer — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:12:06 +0000

Finally, a new article

By: HelisPoe

HelisPoe — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:27:26 +0000

The Sandvich Heavy decoy is incredibly useful. With the Sandvich buff, you know have a decoy that is still irresistible to enemies yet continues to fully heal itself. It’s appalling how effective it is.

By: chipbuster

chipbuster — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:10:49 +0000

“. . . Those skilled in war can make themselves invincible, but cannot cause an enemy to be certainly vulnerable. Therefore it is said that one may know how to win, but cannot necessarily do so.” -Sun Tzu

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:19:28 +0000

Under voice commands, I wish you could add how “om-nom-nomming” through your mic can fool an enemy into a heavy eating a sandvich.

I never tried the “go Left!” commands though. Tanks for you two bucks.

By: ExAstris

ExAstris — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:06:29 +0000

That last screenshot is pure gold. Good guide, too