Talk:Spy

Basic Strategy

The tips noted under "Basic Strategy" do not comply with the TF2 Wiki style guide—they refer to commands that are specific to PC gamers, and therefore are of no help to console gamers. These commands also only work on qwerty keyboards which, despite their popularity, are not the only style in existence. GenericCola 07:40, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Picture?

I noticed the displayed pictures for all classes are for the RED version of each class, except the Spy. Is there any particular reason? Betenoire 14:16, 9 December 2010 (UTC) Probably no particular reason though i think we should try to be consistent with the pictures. I might try to find a red one and put it in. Pierow 05:26, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

I always thought it was just a little joke. Like, the BLU spy had infiltrated the wiki or something >_< Idk it make me giggle a bit. -- Babygirl 17:57, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

I was playing tf2 today, and found this. No skins whatsoever. http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/469813240332462660/CE297B8CB6BC46585ED42A557D5A26440E53CD6D/ Hurricaden (talk) 08:55, 28 June 2014 (PDT)

What about it? Also, in the future please put new subjects at the bottom of talk pages. This conversation is from 2011 atf412 (talk) 11:11, 28 June 2014 (PDT)

Spelling/Grammar note

When editing Spy pages, keep in mind that the weapon name is "L'Etranger", not "the L'Etranger". The L and apostrophe are a French equivalent of "the". So, writing "the L'Etranger" is the same as writing "the the Etranger". Sorry for the nitpick, but being fluent in French, this is an error that often frustrates me. --Szthesquid 19:10, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Can you explain more clearly, I can't really see the difference; is the apostrophe in a different place? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mattkim824 (talk) • (contribs) 03:41, 13 October 2011

I think Szthesquid is referring to the "the" prefix. Please remember to sign your name after possts by typing ~~~~ thanks. » Cooper Kid (blether) • (contreebs) 03:25, 23 October 2011 (PDT)

Achievements

i have been noticing alot about the spy pistols they all have the achievement 'A Cut Above' but it's not specific to any pistol the achievement works with any pistol at all and is not specific to a certain pistol

i have been getting messages from people saying "as long it has to do with the weapon its ok" and other people saying "it must be specific to that weapon to be counted" so what is the correct statement can someone clear that up for me? Lexicon249 05:16, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Knife

(Backstab: 450) The Knife deals more than 450 Dmg, it deals 6x of the enemys maximum healthpoints. This could be important, because Deadringer Spys sometimes can take more than 450 damage points. --Picard 08:18, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

You are correct, editted --Firestorm 01:21, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Another thing I noticed :D

"Ironically, the Spy is voiced by Dennis Bateman, the same VA as the Pyro, his second worst enemy."

Who is the Spys worst enemy? Because the Sniper isnt the worst Enemy of the Spy, but the Spy is the worst enemy of the Sniper. --Picard 21:32, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

I guess "Enemy" is referring to the one he hates the most. I don't like the line at all though. --Firestorm 21:33, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

"The Spy appears to have separate voices for BLU and RED as the RED Spy has a lower, raspier voice." Does he? Is this referring only to voices of the spies in Valve machinima? I had never noticed. --A Sassy Dog 15:01, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Removed until proof is provided -Firestorm 16:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

I did notice that the spy has two distinct intonations, but I don't think they're specific to team color. — Wind 16:26, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

The red spy does speak in a lower voice. In Meet the Spy you can tell the difference. Kevschow 01:38, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Only in his 'Meet The...' video. In gameplay, there is no difference between the two teams. This tidbit is listed on the 'Meet The Spy' page, which I reckon is more appropriate than having it here. Alphard 15:12, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Name?

Is there any source of his name?--DCybertron 01:34, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Nope --Firestorm 01:34, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

His name is Philippe Lefebvre! Just watch OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions DWM91 18:11, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

I keep stumbeling accross people calling him Émile, no idea where this comes from. Anyone any insight? Trent Easton 17:16, 29 November 2011 (PST)

Link?Carez 17:18, 29 November 2011 (PST)

Meme

Should we mention the Gentlemen meme in trivia? Kevschow 01:41, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Memes --Firestorm 01:43, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

But of course. ~weirdduder10 13:58:17, 14 October 2012 (US)

Revolvers

At point blank Revolver deals 60 damage, Ambassador 51 and L'Etranger 48. Checked 10/15/2010. --Onotole 00:54, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure what information you're trying to correct as those values are already listed (albeit as ranges) in the articles for each of those weapons. -RJ 01:32, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

I was wondering, why were the revolvers listed as secondary weapons? cause in the loadouts, i see them as 1st: Revolver 2nd: Sapper 3rd: Knife PDA: spy watch. I get kind of confused like that. -Weirdduder10 13:52:32, 14 October 2012

Trivia

Regarding the current second to last trivia ("Before the Spy update..."): it ends with the statement '"As his voice lines are said in a calm collected manner, this gives him a split personality."' This seems rather like a stretch, but I'm new here and don't want to edit something out of existence based solely on my judgement (yet). Can someone else sound off on this or just jump in and delete it? Thanks. Scurve 07:05, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Also the Spy says "Gracias" in the French voice lines, implying that he has a Spainish accent, not an English one.Isaac Condon (talk) 13:43, 23 April 2014 (PDT)

View Model Beta Color Scheme

The Spy's view model sleeves still have beta color schemes. In addition, the number of stripes on his sleeve do not match the world model.

Is the essentially saying the same thing? Could it be rewritten as "The spy's view model sleeves are from the beta texture and do not match the color and stripe count of the world model" or something? CptObvious 08:10, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Don't forget that the ingame hud still displays the original beta Spy's design Baron Royale

New Spy Picture

I noticed that the original picture of the Spy standing with the knife and smoking has been replaced with a Spy "taunting" and pulling up a sigarrette from his Spy-Kit. Well, i dont mind a picture change but i expected a RED Spy and not a BLU again (:3). The Noble Scout 12:28, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Health glitch

I think the health from Kunai glitch should be noted in the description box. The glitch speed from GRU and Steak was in Heavy article too before patch. --SandeProElite 15:29, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Kill Icons

It may be repetitive, but each of the Spy melee weapons does have the backstab kill icon associated with it. Shouldn't that icon be represented in each of the boxes as opposed to just that of the Knife? Babygirl 22:51, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Ermmmm in my opinion they all looks same.Rins (talk | contribs) 12:49, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

They do. I'm just worried that the Spy page might give the impression that only the vanilla knife has a unique backstab icon. -- Babygirl 15:20, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Motto

Isn't it technically "..."? Tendog 02:11, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm sure it would be more "Gentlemen" (mentlegen?) Weirdduder10 14:04:53, 14 October 2012 (US)

Beta Suit

Should I include the beta suit as a bug or as "Unused Content"? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Doktorpsyko (talk) • (contribs)

Do you mean just to mention it on the wiki? If so, neither. The Fire proof suit has a page, and if you mean the design change, it isn't notable as either. - nixshadow (t|c) 23:25, 2 July 2011 (PDT)

Top of Page Portrait

Currently it depicts a Blue spy, while all the other class portraits depict the Red team. May want that corrected. Grug 05:14, 9 July 2011 (PDT)

Yes, I agree, but a lot of people seem passionate about this being a BLU Spy for some reason Balladofwindfishes 05:18, 9 July 2011 (PDT)

Relationship with other classes

Is that necessary ? - WatdaFok. 10:55, 17 July 2011 (PDT)

Relationship is mean Match-ups. So Relationship is useless Hinaomi 02:05, 18 July 2011 (PDT)

Knife (2)

Spycicle's 'frozen statue' effect is listed with a red 'negative' marker - should this be the case if the Saxxy effect is so similar and uses the blue 'info' marker? Dreamdayer 14:17, 26 June 2012 (PDT)

I think I agree with you, this is a cosmetic effect as well. Carez 00:18, 26 June 2012 (PDT)

Spy's identity?

Is it possible that the Spy is actually Gray Mann? In Blood Brothers, he says "Gentlemen" (one of the Spy's phrases), wears a suit that resembles Spy's (albeit a different color), and kills Redmond and Blutarch by stabbing them in the back. Digifreek 09:54, 13 August 2012 (PDT)

Well, he actually stabs them in the chest going from his relative position at the end of the comic, but speculation and this kind of discussion belongs on the Steam Forums ^^ 09:55, 13 August 2012 (PDT)

If i had to say who would most likely be Gray Mann would be engineer's grandfather, or engineer. Because Engineer's grandfather had a blueprint that had a scout robot, which is confusing because scout was probably not even born at the time, And spy's well known phrase "Gentlemen" doesn't mean who ever says it is the spy. Weirdduder10 13:02:31, 14 October 2012

As the other pages of the wiki and the comics says, Grey Mann is the third child of Zepheniah Mann and is the third of the Mann Brothers. Assuming his relationship with the scout's mother, it is a possibility that he is his father, since the page regarding the scount's mother did not mention anything regarding her marriage. Gigagadget 9:15, 10 January 2013 (PH)

Spy/pyro/heavy in Sonic and Sega All stars tranformed

Spy alongside heavy and the pyro will be in the latest Sonic game Sonic and Sega allstars racing transformed as playable dlc drivers only for the pc version.I think we should mention this in the trivia section --Engineer's Sentry 17:09, 16 November 2012 (PST)

X of Y trivia. Please read this before add or think to add trivia. Hinaomi (talk) • (contributions) 17:30, 16 November 2012 (PST)

It's not really an X of Y trivia at all, and given that class articles mention class appearances in other games (even just cameos), I think their upcoming appearance is a perfectly valid thing to add. Blazios 06:21, 10 January 2013 (PST)

While it's not x of y trivia, it's not quite official yet. Just being in the files of the game isn't enough to really state they're in the game as characters. Let's wait until the PC version comes out or the characters are otherwise officially announced. Balladofwindfishes 07:01, 10 January 2013 (PST)

Three Hand Spy Bug

The last time I played, I noticed that Spy no longer mysteriously sprouts a third hand to reload his revolver if he has the Dead Ringer out. Would someone confirm if that bug is still active, and if not, when it was patched? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dotchan (talk) • (contribs) 21 September 2013‎

Well it wasn't really a notable bug to begin with. Date of patch is gonna be a bit hard to find though. Ashes (talk) 20:23, 21 September 2013 (PDT)

Spy Height

The Spy is depicted as being 6' in the last panel of Ring of Fired. Is this substantial enough to include in the article? EthanB009 (talk) 00:16, 10 March 2014 (PDT)

Inconsistent class image

For consistency sake I think this image needs to change since it's different from all the other classes. Like here and here. -- CoreDude98 (talk) 15:53, 16 April 2015 (PDT)

What do you mean by "it's different"? That's a pretty vague way of describing an issue with it. --Omolong (talk) 15:57, 16 April 2015 (PDT)

The dimensions of the picture is not the same as the other classes 2D Images. The other 2D class images are 250 x 250 while this one is clearly not. -- CoreDude98 (talk) 00:28, 18 April 2015 (PDT)

Disguising Crash

I've had this glitch happen on multiple occasions. When you are disguised as a class with an unequippable backpack, like the Sniper with the Darwin's Danger Shield, and you try to switch to it by pulling out the sapper and hitting the disguise weapon button, the game crashes. Budder Bowler (talk) 16:58, 15 May 2015 (PDT)

So, i'm a Spy player for 500+ hours, and never seen this happening, this can be a crash with your pc (bad config or whatever). — The preceding assigned comment was added by Tark {Finish Him! ▪ Contribs} 17:34, 15 May 2015 (PDT)

I tested in itemtest and nothing happened. But, one thing I didn't tested was disguising a Sniper with Darwin Shield which later switches to another secondary weapon via his loadout, this isn't possible on itemtest, and I haven't done this on normal gameplay. ▪ - 17:40, 15 May 2015 (PDT)

From what happens when I do it is playing as Spy and disguising as Sniper who has the Darwin's Danger Shield equipped. What the game appears to do is try to have the sniper equip a weapon that is not there, and it defaults to the SMG, but it then crashes since the game appears to know this is not possible. Budder Bowler (talk) 18:33, 17 May 2015 (PDT)

Catalan

Please remove it from the languages spoken by the spy. It was added by some user a few years back with no factual proof. There is no evidence anywhere.

Cloaks

Maybe a cool cloak concepts is that he could teleport somewhere with a invis watch but it only has 1 charge so you dont make it too OP. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by ThinkingSeal (talk) • (contribs) 30 December 2018

This talkpage is for discussion related to the article, please post your cool cloak concept in the Steam Community Discussions instead. Thanks! VasyaTheWizard ^{(talk) • (contributions)} 17:52, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Spy is perfect

Spy is perfect is because he can kill you with one backstab but the dead ringer got nerfed then it killed it well it’s was to over powered.

This talkpage is for discussion related to the wiki article. In the future, please post things like this in the Steam Community Discussions instead. Thanks! VasyaTheWizard ^{(talk) • (contributions)} 07:11, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Bugs

The bug with Soldier, Heavy, Engineer, and Pyro’s Shotgun also happens with Scout’s pistol. Pow haha (talk) 14:29, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

If you can provide proof for this, the page will be changed.
GrampaSwood (talk) 15:25, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Inspect Bug

I found a bug that occurs when spy inspects his knife. An additional arm will appear on the left side of the screen. This will happen with any knife, with or without a watch active, on any FOV above 60. --Gibus Gold (talk) 04:01, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

File:User Gibus Gold 20220929235202 1.jpg

Interesting find... However, this bug would fall under the minor bug category. Since this visual bug does not really affects gameplay, and only happens when you have an FOV higher than 60.

Thanks for bringing it to the talk page tho. Yossef • Talk 08:47, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

This happens with quite a few viewmodels, the most notable one being the Original viewmodel or the Sapper (except they are without inspecting). Usually minmode solves this.
GrampaSwood (talk) 11:17, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

If Spy fathered Jeremy (Scout), Did he father the siblings as well?

Ok, so, if As revealed in Naked and the Dead, RED Spy is RED Scout’s biological father. If he fathered Jeremy, did he father Scout’s siblings as well? I mean, he couldn’t have, justifying if Scout would be the youngest of his siblings , why leave him as the youngest, and why didn’t Scout’s siblings not bring up any mention of Spy whatsoever? And interesting dialogue from Scout mentions that his father left him. And considering his age in late 1920s to 1930s -1972, he couldn’t have that much kids in such a short time stamp, but he might have, considering, again, Scout is the youngest.

Soldurian (talk) 19:07, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

It's only speculation that Spy is Scout's father, not a 100% thing.
GrampaSwood (talk) 19:12, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Well, it would be heavily implied by Valve that Spy is Scout’s Father, considering NATD.

Soldurian (talk) 19:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

It is heavily implied but not a confirmed thing, so any speculation about siblings would already assume that he is the father.
GrampaSwood (talk) 19:20, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Was Meet The Spy supposed to be the prequel to Meet The Medic?

I have a hunch about why that BLU Spy head is in Medic’s Fridge. Meet The Spy. When Soldier Shoots Spy. However, Spy’s head would be realistically blown to bits, but Medic could have pieced it back, as shown in MvM. But that does not explain how it did not piece the body back together. However, that could have been the Medigun in early stages, malfunctioning. But, I’m just speculating.

Soldurian (talk) 14:53, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

The BLU classes die over and over in the Meet the Team videos. Nearly the entire BLU team appears beheaded at the end of Meet the Soldier; a BLU Soldier dies in every Meet the Team video (and several die just in Meet the Medic). The deaths of the BLU team are not really taken in consideration for this. - BrazilianNut (talk) 21:32, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Why does the Disguise Kit have the option to disguise as the same team?

Why does it? I mean, it could be from someone being autobalanced, manually switching teams, etc. But why would it be? It’s totally pointless. But, maybe it had a hidden gem. Soldurian (talk) 16:06, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

The option to disguise as teammates can be used for fooling enemies into thinking that you haven't feigned death if used in combination with the Dead Ringer, or it can be used while pushing the cart to confuse enemy Snipers (due to a different in the hitbox) or make enemies more reluctant to approach you (if you are a Heavy, for example).
GrampaSwood (talk) 17:46, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

So, let me be clear, RED Spy is banging BLU Scout’s Mom, and BLU Spy is banging RED Scout’s mother?

Is it reversed? Soldurian (talk) 22:08, 10 January 2023 (UTC)