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 |
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The Red-Tape Recorder |
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| “ | Did I throw a 'wrench' into your plans?
Click to listen
— The Spy on reverse-engineering
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The Red-Tape Recorder is an unlockable replacement Sapper for the Spy. It appears as a Template:W with three Chinese characters ("反炮塔") on the front. Translated into English, these characters can be closely translated as "Anti-Turret (Device)" or "Anti-Sentry (Device)".
Instead of damaging a enemy's 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. Upon destroying the Recorder will allow the building to reconstruct but not restore any lost levels. When the recorder is removed, if the building is between two levels, the building will build up to the next level as if it was being built for the first time.
If the recorder is successful; the toolkit dropped will act as a Large Ammo Pickup, giving 200 metal, and will refill 100% of a weapon's ammo capacity.
The Recorder breaks into four metal fragments upon removal. The fragments can then be picked up, each gib giving 3 metal each.
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
Blueprint
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Update history
- 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 a level 3 Sentry is downgraded to level 1, it retains 216 maximum HP, and will gain additional maximum HP when upgraded again.
- Buildings destroyed by the Red-Tape Recorder will not fire the OnDestroyed logic output, which can adversely affect map logic.
- Dispensers that get sapped by this weapon will heal as normal instead of being disabled.
- When a building is destroyed by the Red-Tape Recorder, it doesn't always appear in the killfeed.
- Occasionally when removing the Red-Tape Recorder from a Mini-Sentry, the mini sentry will revert to a buggy level 2 Mini-Sentry.
- Most of the time, the Homewrecker can't destroy the Red-Tape Recorder in one hit.
- 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.
- If a Teleporter is sapped by the Recorder, and the Recorder is removed in-between upgrade animations, the arrows pointing to the other end of the Teleporter will be removed.
- The Red-Tape Recorder clips through the Spy's hands when viewing him from the world.
Trivia
- This weapon's name references the term "red tape", which refers to bureaucracy that hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
See also
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