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Icy spy!
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— The Heavy playing a pun.
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The Spy-cicle is a community-created melee weapon for the Spy. It is a long, light blue Template:W.
Whilst having the same damage and speed capabilities as the Knife, backstabbed victims will not scream and will turn into solid ice, similar to Australium-infused weapons. No death notice will be produced to the enemy team as well. However when Spy performs a backstab, a unique sound of ice freezing is produced, allowing alert players to notice the presence of the Spy.
If the Spy is hit by fire with the weapon active, it will melt and instantly extinguish the Spy while rendering him immune to any further fire and afterburn for 2 seconds. The effect is fast enough that a Cloaked Spy will remain undamaged and undetected even under point-blank Flamethrower fire, only taking damage from the first flame particle. However, the melted icicle is rendered unusable in the process, taking 15 seconds to regenerate.
Non-backstab kills achieved will not turn the victim into solid ice, but the kill will still be silent.
If playing in Medieval Mode, the Spy-cicle will regenerate instantly.
The Spy-cicle was contributed to the game via the Steam Workshop under the name "The Cold Shoulder".
Damage and function times
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| Base damage
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100%
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40
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| Point blank
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34-46
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| Backstab
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600%
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| Critical
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120
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| Mini-crit
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46-62
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| Function times
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| Attack interval
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0.8 s
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| Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
Related achievements
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A Cut Above
Kill a gun-wielding Spy with your knife.
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Agent Provocateur
Backstab your Steam Community friends 10 times.
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FYI I am a Spy
Backstab a Medic who has healed you in the last 5 seconds.
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May I Cut In?
Backstab an enemy and the Medic healing him within 10 seconds of each other.
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Slash and Burn
Backstab an enemy, who then switches to Pyro before they respawn.
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Wetwork
Stab an enemy to death while under the influence of Jarate.
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You Only Shiv Thrice
Backstab 3 enemies within 10 seconds.
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Update history
December 15, 2011 Patch (Australian Christmas 2011)
- The Spy-cicle was added to the game.
December 21, 2011 Patch
- Added draw/melee swing/melee hit/crit forces for the Spy-cicle.
- The Spy-cicle is now droppable and craftable.
December 23, 2011 Patch
- Fixed a Spy-cicle exploit
- [Undocumented] The Spy-cicle now uses the Revolver taunt.
January 11, 2012 Patch
- Added crafting blueprint for the Spy-cicle.
Bugs
- A knife will not respawn with the player. In order to receive a new knife after death, the player must touch a resupply cabinet or wait for the meter to fill.
- In some cases, the frost effect that is supposed to surround the Spy-cicle is found at the Spy's feet.
- If a Spy gets hit by fire while stunned by the Razorback, the knife will not vanish but the knife bar will still recharge and the fire resistance will not extend beyond 2 seconds.
- While cloaked with the Spy-cicle as the active weapon, the frost effect is still visible.
- Backstabbing an Engineer while he is hauling a Building will result in the killfeed displaying the Building's destruction to the enemy team.
- Backstabbing an invisible Spy will lead to an invisible 'Iced' corpse. This corpse will react exactly like a normal Iced victim, but cannot be seen by anybody.
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