Disguise
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— The BLU Spy speaking of the RED Spy, shortly before his head was obliterated by the BLU Soldier's shotgun
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The Spy has the ability to disguise himself as any character class of either team using his Disguise Kit.
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Applying a Disguise
A disguise can be applied by opening the Disguise Kit and pressing the number for the class you want to disguise as (Scout = 1, Soldier = 2, etc. - the same numbers as on the standard class selection screen). You will disguise as an enemy player by default, but can also disguise as a friendly player to keep the enemy unaware of the fact that there is a Spy on your team.
Additionally, there are console commands that can be used to disguise yourself:
Class X Value Team Y Value Scout 1 Enemy -1 Soldier 3 Friendly -2 Pyro 7 BLU 1 Demoman 4 Red 2 Heavy 6 Engineer 9 Medic 5 Sniper 2 Spy 8
Using the lastdisguise command, bound by default to B, will automatically reapply your last worn disguise.
Using the Simple Disguise menu allows one to disguised as any class using only the 1, 2 or 3 keys, but with two keystrokes. This means that one can disguise as an enemy Spy without moving their hand across the keyboard.
With Your Eternal Reward equipped in your loadout, you cannot use the Disguise Kit. To apply a disguise you must [Backstab] an enemy team member (normal knife kills do not count).
While disguising, a Spy will produce glowing particles of his team's color and a cloud of smoke. After about two seconds, he will stop emitting these particles, now fully disguised.
The smoke and glowing particles will easily reveal your position to enemy players. You can avoid making them altogether by being cloaked to any degree before you select your disguise, and thus avoid immediately revealing yourself to any nearby enemies.
Gameplay While Disguised
While disguised, the Spy's allies will see him wearing a cut-out mask of the class he's disguised as, and when they aim at him, his health indicator will display the team and class he is disguised as below his name (e.g. "Disguised as enemy Demoman" or "Disguised as friendly Sniper"). Enemies will see him as the class he disguised as on the selected team, and when they aim at him, he will appear to have the identity of an allied or enemy player also playing that class, wielding that team member's primary weapon. If the chosen team has at least one player of the chosen disguise class, the Spy will take on the identity of one of those players randomly; if the selected team has no player of the selected class, the Spy will take on the identity of any random player on the selected team regardless of class. When a Spy copies a player's identity, he takes on the name, hit points, and weapon loadouts of that player. If the chosen disguise class has a slower move speed than the Spy's, the Spy will reduce his speed to match that of his disguised class except while cloaked. His speed will not increase to match that of the Medic or Scout if disguised as either.
While disguised as an enemy, a Spy can be spotted when he picks up a healthpack, as the cross icon that appears above him will be his team's color and not the color of his disguise. Additionally, a Spy who is hurt may pick up a health pack while his disguise displays full health or appears to be Overhealed.
Actions While Disguised
Disguising as an enemy player:
- Prevents you from defending control points and Payload carts.
- Prevents you from capturing control points or pushing Payload carts.
- Disables the appearance of Teleporter particles on your character from friendly Teleporters.
- Allows you to use enemy Teleporters (will produce teleport particles of your team's color, potentially giving you away as an enemy).
- Allows you to use enemy Dispensers (will not produce heal stream particles if cloaked).
- Allows you to be healed and ÜberCharged by enemy Medics.
- Allows you to be healed by and receive ammo from the enemy Payload cart.
- Causes enemy Sentry Guns to not target you as long as you have not shown your team color to them since entering their vision (they have no vision of you while cloaked or behind surfaces/objects).
Disguising as a friendly player essentially causes all game mechanics to treat you as undisguised, except of course for your appearance as a different class to enemy team members.
There are several actions you can take that are specifically designed to make your disguise more convincing to enemy team members.
- Changing your disguise weapon - Changing to your primary, secondary, or melee weapon and pressing (PLACEHOLDER: Add correct button if known, please) will cause your disguise to change to make you appear to be using the weapon in the same slot for the class you are disguised as (ex: holding the Knife while disguised as a Scout lets you appear to equip the Baseball Bat or equivalent). If the person you are disguised as has equipped an unlockable weapon in the chosen slot, you will appear to be wielding the same weapon in your disguised state.
- Reloading - If your disguise weapon is one that reloads a clip or shells (i.e. Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, Scattergun, SMG, etc.), reloading your Revolver will cause your disguise to reload their weapon. This does not apply to weapons like the Flare Gun or Sniper Rifle, which load one shot at a time. You cannot fake-reload while your Revolver has all 6 shots loaded.
- Voice commands - Any voice commands made while disguised will broadcast to your team as coming from you and to the enemy team as coming from the person you are disguised as. You can call for an enemy Medic to heal you in this way. This can, however, alert the person you are disguised as to your presence since they will see voice commands attributed to them but not coming from them, and they may tell their team.
Disguise Removal
While disguised, the following actions will remove your disguise:
- Dying.
- Picking up intelligence.
- Firing any equipped Revolver or using any of your Knives.
The Electro Sapper is the only weapon that can be used while disguised that will not remove the disguise.
Notes
- Disguises do not change your actual hitbox sizes, shapes, or positions. Using certain disguises can therefore reduce the risk of headshot.
- If you pick up health kits or get healed, your disguise will appear to gain health accordingly. This allows you to pick up health pickups even if your health is full so long as your disguise's health is not.
- You cannot taunt while disguised.
- You gain knockback immunity, regardless of disguise color.
- Disguising does not change the fact that Spies can walk through team mates but not enemies.
- If you are using the Dead Ringer and are disguised as your own team when shot, the corpse dropped will be that of the class you were disguised as.
Related Achievements
General
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Scarechievements
Pyro
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Engineer
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Spy
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See also
- Spy strategy for information on how to infiltrate enemy territory effectively using disguises.
- Classes for details on the speed differences between classes.
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