The Feeback Loop: A Spy's Guide to Pissing off the entire enemy team

It has become very apparent that getting backstabbed, in general, is the most humiliating way to die. People who are very skilled tend to get very angry at the notion that they were taken out from behind, while they were helplessly unaware. They were not even given a chance to react to this sudden attack. And when this happens repeatedly, a person tends to exact revenge as their first priority, even over the objectives.

Now, knowing how vulnerable the Spy is, many players think it is easy to spot and kill a Spy if you look hard enough and never leave your back facing one direction for more than two seconds.

Well, here's how you piss people off, and how it happens:

First, you start by backstabbing as many players as possible. At this point, no one has taken particular notice of you.

Next, you start targeting specific players. Heavies make the best ones in my opinion, because they become almost immobile and completely distracted the moment they take on an opponent. Keep backstabbing them.

Deliver the coup de grâce  by spawnkilling them. For maximum lolz, do this right after you have backstabbed them. Note that this will only work if the spawn door they are exiting through is the old fashioned kind that is solid and opens upwards. Hide in the corner of the door, and as soon as they walk through, stab them. I guarantee you it will piss them off to no end and they will do nothing but hunt you down until they get their revenge. Then you backstab them again.


Repeat on multiple players, and you will have yourselves a Witch hunt in no time.



ENGINEER SPECIAL: As sun has perfected, you can seriously piss of engineers by destroying any buildings they set up with your revolver (do this at a distance) with a single shot, just as they build them. Doing this repeatedly can cause them to hunt you down. Another good tactic is to sap their teleporter entrances. While they will defend their nests with the utmost vigor, they are forced to go back to spawn to rebuild their teleporter entrances. If they do this, you can go and sap everything in their nest while they are still either waiting to respawn or walking back to it. This WILL piss them off to no avail.

Spelling: coup de grâce, coup d'gras means blow of fat instead of blow of mercy

Ohhh snap, is that all we're supposed to do? Kill people repeatedly? I thought that was kinda the idea behind the whole game, for every class lol.

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This post makes more sense with the OP's spelling.

No, the point is to kill people in a fashion calculated to piss them off.

Example include placing Sentries where healthpacks spawn, killing them with taunts, taunting every time you kill them, and other such things.

ya but if you get backstabbed by a spy, it makes you extra mad because you were incompetent and therefore didn't even have a chance.
I guess I should include pyros in this to because they only have to W+M1 to kill you, requiring no skill at all. It gets annoying because all pyros are noobs.












JK about the pyro junk. just yanking your chain Razor

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No, this is a strategic way to piss off specific people for your enjoyment.

More than just killing people, you kill them in certain ways as to make them even angrier than they normally would, and to only target THEM.

For instance: spawnstabbing (new term?) the same guy you just backstabbed.

yeah buts its just like common sense. it applies to all classes. getting killed out of spawn would make aynone equally mad regardless of class. Besides,spawncamping for spies is hardly a strategiclly viable option.

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That is correct. It is not, in any way, strategic. Except for the fact that it completely pisses people off, and will catch players unawares the first time around.

And no other class can kill instantly like the Spy can. Most classes camping spawn would result in the campee retreating back into spawn. It wouldn't have nearly the same effect.

Getting suddenly attack by a Pyro outside of spawn probably won't kill you, and even if it does, it won't anger you that much. Getting backstabbed out of nowhere, after you just respawned having been backstabbed by that same person will severely piss that person off.

I kinda see where stabby is going with this. Refer to my last post in this thread. Getting stabbed and instantly dieing without a chance is a lot more annoying then walking out and getting flamed up. At least you can defend if not kill the pyro.