Red-Tape Recorder
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| Red-Tape Recorder | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Spy |
| Slot: | Building |
| Released: | August 2, 2012 Patch |
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase or Promotional |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | Yes |
| Medieval: | ? |
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 The Red-Tape Recorder |
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The Red-Tape Recorder is a Sapper for the Spy. It appears as a tape recorder with two 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. 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.
Crafting
Blueprint
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Update history
- The Red-Tape Recorder was added to the game.
Bugs
- 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.
- After downgrading a building, it will still gain health when upgrading it again, 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 glitched sentry, will result in the server crashing.
- The Homewrecker can't destroy the Red-Tape Recorder in one hit.
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, "反砲塔", can be directly translated as "Anti-Cannon Tower".
