Spy-cicle
“ | Icy spy!
Click to listen
— The Heavy
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The Spy-cicle is a community-created melee weapon for the Spy. It is a long, translucent, light blue icicle. The weapon gives off mist in third-person view.
Whilst having the same damage and speed capabilities as the Knife, its victims turn into solid ice when backstabbed, similar to the golden statue effect from Australium weapons. Enemies do not turn into ice statues if killed via a standard melee swing.
When backstabbed, a unique sound of ice freezing is produced, allowing alert players to notice the presence of the Spy. Unlike other knives, enemies killed with a backstab from this weapon always perform their unique backstab death animation, causing them to freeze in a pose (unless they are killed in midair).
If the Spy is hit by fire with the weapon active, the Spy-cicle melts and instantly extinguishes the Spy, rendering him immune to any further fire for 1 second and afterburn for 10 seconds. The effect is fast enough that a cloaked Spy remains undamaged even under point-blank flamethrower fire, only taking damage from the first flame particle (it should be noted that fire immunity takes effect after the first fire particle does damage, not before). However, the melted icicle is rendered unusable in the process, taking 15 seconds to regenerate. Picking up ammo speeds up the regeneration progress. As it melts, the Spy-cicle emits a loud extinguishing sound. Further contact with flames during the one-second interval still produces the crackling sound that typically accompanies direct damage from the Pyro's flamethrower, even if the Spy is invisible. The Spy also shouts a fire-related response after the Spy-cicle triggers.
The Spy-cicle was contributed to the Steam Workshop.
Contents
Damage and function times
Damage and function times | ||
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Damage type | Melee | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
Damage | ||
Base damage | 100% | 40 |
Backstab | 600% | |
Critical | 120 | |
Mini-crit | 54 | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
Recharge time | 15 s / Instantly | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
Reclaimed Metal | Your Eternal Reward | Spy-cicle | ||
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Class Token - Spy | Slot Token - Melee | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | |||||||||||||||||||
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As a crafting ingredient
Spy-cicle | Reclaimed Metal | Red-Tape Recorder | ||
x3 | + | = |
Strange variant
Related achievements
Soldier
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Sniper
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Spy
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Update history
- The Spy-cicle was added to the game.
- Added draw/melee swing/melee hit/crit forces for the Spy-cicle.
- The Spy-cicle is now droppable and craftable.
- Fixed a Spy-cicle exploit.
- [Undocumented] The Spy-cicle now uses the Revolver taunt.
- Added crafting blueprint for the Spy-cicle.
- [Undocumented] The Spy-cicle no longer grants afterburn immunity.
- Fixed the Spy-cicle's fireproof attribute not working.
December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the charge meter to not reset when the Spy was killed.
- Added Collector's quality.
October 29, 2014 Patch (Scream Fortress 2014)
- [Undocumented] The Spy-cicle no longer provides fire resistance.
- Fixed the Spycicle(sic) not giving the Spy fire resistance.
July 2, 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Changed fire immunity for 3 seconds to fire immunity for 1 second and 7 seconds of afterburn immunity.
- Removed silent killer attribute.
- Spy-cicle recharge timer can now be reduced by picking up ammo boxes.
July 2, 2015 Patch #2
- Changed afterburn immunity duration to 10 seconds (previous note was incorrect).
- Fixed the Spy-cicle causing a fire-immune bubble to be displayed when the Spy is cloaked.
December 17, 2015 Patch (Tough Break Update)
- Fixed the Spy-cicle not melting properly if the Spy is burned while stunned.
- Fixed a bug where ammo packs from dead players were not filling the Spy-cicle meter.
- Changed attribute:
- Fire immunity shield no longer appears when fire immunity is triggered.
December 21, 2016 Patch (Smissmas 2016)
- Added Festivized variant.
- Fixed the Spy-cicle not giving the Spy fire immunity.
Unused content
- There is a unique deploy sound effect for this weapon that is unused.
Bugs
- In some cases, the frost effect that is supposed to surround the Spy-cicle is found at the Spy's feet.
- In Mann vs. Machine, if a Spy has placed a Sapper on a robot and then has their Spy-cicle melted while the Sapper is on cooldown and was their previous weapon, the Spy-cicle extinguishes the Spy and enters cooldown period, however, the Spy-cicle is still available for use.
- While rare, there is a chance that, while being disguised as an enemy Spy who is using the Spy-cicle, the Spy-cicle's frost effect can appear floating around where the Spy's hand is, even while completely cloaked.
- During the inspect animation, with minimized viewmodels on, the Spy's other hand can be seen in the bottom left corner.
Notes
- In Medieval Mode, if a Spy is ignited with the Spy-cicle equipped, it extinguishes flames and appears to enter cooldown, though it is still usable.
Trivia
- Fire damage resistance and the inability for the Spy to be ignited were both originally tested on variations of the Fire Retardant Suit.
- Once the fire immunity is activated, the user can survive a Hadouken without taking damage, but not if the Hadouken itself activates the fire immunity.
- The Spy-cicle was first teased on the first day of the Australian Christmas 2011 update, on the bottom left corner of the title image.
Gallery
- First-person view
- Frozen victims
- Other
RED first-person view.
RED first-person view, ready to backstab.
BLU first-person view.
RED Festivized variant.
The Spy-cicle in A Smissmas Story.
See also
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