Red-Tape Recorder

Red-Tape Recorder
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Basic Information
Used by:	Spy
Slot:	Building
Released:	August 2, 2012 Patch
Availability:	Craft, Purchase or Promotional
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	Yes
Medieval:	No
Available Qualities
Unique Genuine Strange Collector's
Loadout Stats
The Red-Tape Recorder 1 - 100 Reverses enemy building construction -100% Sapper Damage Penalty

“

The outcome was never really in doubt. Click to listen — The Spy on reverse-engineering

”

The Red-Tape Recorder is a Sapper for the Spy. It appears as a Template:W with three Chinese symbols on the front.

Instead of damaging buildings, the Red-Tape Recorder forces them to go through a reversal of the building process: any applicable upgrade animations are played in reverse, followed by the building packing itself up into a toolbox. As a result, this destroys the building and leaves the toolbox behind as a weapon pickup. Destroying the Recorder will allow the building to reconstruct but not restore any lost levels.

The Recorder has five different sounds for when it is sapping a building.

This item was awarded in Genuine quality to players who pre-purchased Sleeping Dogs on Steam before August 14, 2012.

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Spy-cicle		Reclaimed Metal		Red-Tape Recorder
x3	+		=

Update history

August 2, 2012 Patch

• The Red-Tape Recorder was added to the game.

Bugs

• A downgraded building will not have its health reduced to the lower level, and if upgraded afterwards will take on an additional health increase. For example, when downgrading a level 3 Sentry to level 1, it will keep the 216 HP from the level 3 state and will keep gaining max HP when upgrading it again.
  • Attaching a regular Sapper on a Sentry Gun affected by this glitch may result in a server crash.
• When sapping a Mini-Sentry with the Red-Tape Recorder, the toolbox at the end of the animation will be much smaller than a normal toolbox.
• The Homewrecker can't destroy the Red-Tape Recorder in one hit.
• The Red-Tape Recorder does not glow when crit boosted.
• When a building is destroyed, it doesn't always appear in the killfeed. A destroyed building will also not fire the OnDestroyed output (which normally fires when it is destroyed), which can affect map logic.
• When sapping a teleporter in between upgrade levels when the the animations and effects stop for a second, then the Sapper is removed, the arrows on the teleporter are removed.
• Occasionally when removing the Red-Tape Recorder from a Mini-Sentry, the mini sentry will revert to a buggy level 2 Mini- Sentry Gun.

Trivia

• This weapon's name references the term "red tape", which refers to bureaucracy that hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
• The Chinese characters on the Red-Tape Recorder, "反炮塔", can be literally translated as "Anti-Cannon Tower". However, it can be more closely translated as "Anti-Turret (Device)" or "Anti-Sentry (Device)".

Gallery

• 

  RED first-person view.

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  BLU first-person view.

See also

• Sapper strategy