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 a Sapper replacement for the Spy. It is 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 half-speed 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 large ammo pickup. Destroying the Recorder will allow the building to reconstruct but not restore any lost levels, unless the building is in the middle of an upgrade animation, which will allow it to upgrade to the next level.
The Recorder breaks into four metal fragments upon removal. The fragments can then be picked up, each gib giving 3 metal when removed from a Dispenser.
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.
Contents
Function Times
| Building | Progression | Time taken |
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| Sentry | Level 1 | 10.7 s |
| Downgrade | 1.7s | |
| Mini Sentry | Level 1 | 10.5 s |
| Dispenser | Level 1 | 21.2 s |
| Downgrade | 1.7 s | |
| Teleporter | Level 1 | 21.2 s |
| Downgrade | 3.0 s |
Note: Values are approximate and are determined by community testing.
Crafting
Blueprint
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Update history
- The Red-Tape Recorder was added to the game.
- Increased The Red-Tape Recorder's downgrade speed from 1.6 seconds to 3.0 seconds.
- Fixed building health compounding after being downgraded
- [Undocumented] Fixed the Homewrecker not destroying Red-Tape Recorder Sappers in one hit.
Bugs
- 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 function 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.
- 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.
- If the Red-Tape Recorder is placed on and removed from a building that is still under construction, it will deal some damage to the building. This in contrary to the item's description.
- Sometimes, Red-Tap Recorder does not revert buildings when sapped.
- The Red-Tape Recorder does not glow when crit boosted.
Trivia
- This weapon's name references the term "red tape", which refers to bureaucracy that hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
- A vaguely audible message can be heard when placing the Red-Tape Recorder onto a Sentry Gun. When slowed down 80%, spy_tape_03 appears to say: "Let's make some noise..." then, followed by the tape's normal noise. [1]
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
Concept for the Red-Tape Recorder drawn by Sexy Robot.
Promotional image featuring the Sleeping Dogs promotional items.
See also
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