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*[http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dead%20ringer.html Dead Ringer] is a phrase used to describe something or someone looking nearly identical to something or someone else. (e.g.'' 'He's a Dead Ringer for that BLU Spy we shot earlier!' '') | *[http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dead%20ringer.html Dead Ringer] is a phrase used to describe something or someone looking nearly identical to something or someone else. (e.g.'' 'He's a Dead Ringer for that BLU Spy we shot earlier!' '') | ||
*The ability to feign death was present in Team Fortress Classic, and the Dead Ringer's function was likely inspired by that ability. However in Team Fortress Classic, feigning death was limited to being rendered immobile and having to hope that the enemy would pass by as opposed to turning invisible. | *The ability to feign death was present in Team Fortress Classic, and the Dead Ringer's function was likely inspired by that ability. However in Team Fortress Classic, feigning death was limited to being rendered immobile and having to hope that the enemy would pass by as opposed to turning invisible. | ||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== |
Revision as of 07:16, 23 December 2010
“ | By the time your adversary races towards your 'body' to frisk you for cash and pull gold fillings out of your mouth, you'll already be behind him, poised for the killing blow.
— Dead Ringer publicity blurb
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The Dead Ringer is an unlockable secondary PDA item for the Spy class. It is a gold-plated pocket watch with an engraving of a hummingbird on the outside of it.
This weapon's main attribute is to Cloak the owner for 6.5 seconds upon being injured, leaving behind a fake corpse to distract and deceive enemies. To use it, the Spy must be holding the watch before taking damage. The Cloak generated is instantaneous, and can generate fake kill feeds, dominations, revenges, and even achievements. Heads will also be added to the Eyelander via a fake death. When triggered in an Arena before any other player is killed, it grants the attacker the First blood buff. Triggering a fake death against a Spy you are dueling will not add a point to your duel score. If the player is disguised as a friendly class, activation drops a ragdoll corpse of that class.
During Cloak, the Dead Ringer blocks 90% of the damage from the activating hit. This allows the player to survive fully charged headshots by Snipers or backstabs from enemy Spies, as long as the user has a sufficient amount of Hit Points before the attack was made. Since backstabs have a base damage of 6 times the victim's current health, and the initial hit that activates the Dead Ringer does 10% damage, backstabs will deal 6/10 of the Spy's current health. Additionally, the watch prevents the Cloak from flickering upon impact with enemies or damage.
The Dead Ringer uncloaks with a very distinct sound. The uncloak noise is quite loud up-close, but rapidly fades with distance (this can be "fixed" with the Saharan Spy set). Its Cloak meter drains significantly upon uncloaking, and cannot be used again until fully recharged: emerging from the Dead Ringer's Cloak will always drain a minimum of 60% of its meter. Like the standard Invisibility Watch, Resupply areas, Dispensers, picked up weapons, and ammo can also replenish the Cloak meter. A large ammo box and medium boxes will restore 35% and small boxes 25%. If a Spy is cloaked for more than 6.5 seconds using the Dead Ringer, through collecting ammo or other sources, it will revert to a standard Cloak, losing the 90% damage reduction and letting the Cloak flicker if the Spy collides with an enemy or gets shot.
Activating the Dead Ringer while already on fire extinguishes it. The player must take evasive action, however, as they can be lit on fire again during Cloak. The Dead Ringer Cloak will activate even if the Spy was previously covered by Jarate (the increased damage will still be in effect however), but will short out if he is hit by Jarate while the Cloak is active. The Tribalman's Shiv, Southern Hospitality, or Boston Basher can inflict bleed which will cause the Spy to drop blood even while cloaked, allowing him to be tracked by sharp-eyed opponents.
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Function times
Activates upon injury. The Spy will take only 10% damage from attacks while he is cloaked, including the initial triggering attack.
- Cloak maximum duration: 6.5 seconds
- Cloak recharge time (from 100% depletion): 16 seconds
As a Crafting Ingredient
Dead Ringer | Huntsman | Tribalman's Shiv | ||
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Dead Ringer | Reclaimed Metal | L'Etranger | ||
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Related Achievements
Pyro
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Demoman
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Heavy
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Engineer
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Sniper
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Spy
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Previous Changes
- The Dead Ringer now reduces Cloak to 40% when uncloaking early.
- Made a 35% cap on the amount of Cloak it can gain from an ammo pack.
- It now has a quieter de-Cloak sound.
- Feigning death can now play custom death animations like a normal death (head loss, Sniper shot, backstab, etc).
- Feigning death due to explosive damage now has a chance to gib, like a normal death.
- Corpses from a feign death now use the correct wearable behavior (hats stay on, or fall off as they should).
- The weapons dropped by feign death corpses now have appropriate physics and collision for their type.
- Fixed Spies that feign death while disguised as enemy Spies dropping fake ragdolls wearing a mask.
- Fixed a couple of physics issues on ragdolls created by feign death.
Bugs
- Reloading either the Revolver or the Ambassador, or taking out a Electro Sapper whilst holding the Dead Ringer up will cause the Spy to appear to have three arms.
- If the Spy takes any damage (with the exception of taunt kills that stun the enemy like The Gunslinger) while taunting with the Dead Ringer activated, the Spy does not feign death and a fake watch is created. On the player's screen, the Spy can be seen holding the Dead Ringer, but they can still use their weapons. However, only the first hit will have reduced damage. Each hit after that takes full damage. The player can right click again to activate the actual Dead Ringer.
- Killing a Spy using the Dead Ringer with the Eyelander will increase the head count of the Demoman that 'killed' the Spy.
Trivia
- Though it is possible to use the Dead Ringer to momentarily survive a train hit, the train will plow into the Spy again and kill them unless they move quickly out of its path.
- This is also true for any enviromental kills, such as drowning.
- When ping and network transmission are not an issue, a Spy can bring up the Dead Ringer and be protected in less than 1/100th of a second. In the average online match this margin is greater, but the times serve to show that the Dead Ringer was designed with no real activation delay.
- Dead Ringer is a phrase used to describe something or someone looking nearly identical to something or someone else. (e.g. 'He's a Dead Ringer for that BLU Spy we shot earlier!' )
- The ability to feign death was present in Team Fortress Classic, and the Dead Ringer's function was likely inspired by that ability. However in Team Fortress Classic, feigning death was limited to being rendered immobile and having to hope that the enemy would pass by as opposed to turning invisible.
Gallery
- Dead Ringer 1st person red cropped.png
RED 1st person view.
- Dead Ringer 1st person blu cropped.png
BLU 1st person view.
See also
- Invisibility Watch
- Cloak and Dagger
- Cloak article for Cloak specifics and strategy