Dead Ringer Dispenser Cont...

[crazyrockets]

Many of you may have seen this thread: http://edgegamers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=88079&highlight=dead+ringer+dispenser

I did not know you could do this until a couple days ago when I got dead ringered while standing next to a dispenser. Although it is only truely effective with a level 3 dispenser, it is awesome! I was just crouching there with 4 or 5 enemy players wacking at me for quite a while until one of them finally did enough damage to kill me!

I did it again today when an enemy engineer built in my sewers in 2 fort. Nothing like waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike without a cloak flicker when bumped and great damage resistance!

If anyone has more ideas how this can be used, please post! One that I want to try is blocking hallways completely while cloaked and damage-resistant, so if any of you have done it, please let me know how it went!

 

[Kevimaster]

No, your cloak flickers and you lose the damage reduction after about 3-5 seconds. You were lucky.

 

[Sabion]

Yea, you lose your cloak resistance after a few seconds while on a dispenser =P

 

[crazyrockets]

I was on top of a dispenser cloaked for half a minute waiting for a good opportunity to attack the sentry nest in the sewers, the engineer at one point was wacking at the teleporter I was standing on, and didn't once try to hit me!
I have seen some issues with the damage reduction getting lost, but one of the times I did it, it lasted for 10 or so seconds of being shot and wacked by several people, including a sniper taking headshots at me If I actually cared about stealth at that point as opposed to seeing how long it could last, it would easily have been enough!

 

[Kevimaster]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but you were, as I said, just lucky. It goes away after 3 seconds, its a game mechanic.

 

[xXracecarXx]

You can also use the Dead ringer to generate health using the water around you.
Example

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVH8hCx7NM[/ame]

 

[crazyrockets]

You can also use the Dead ringer to generate health using the water around you.
Example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVH8hCx7NM

SWEET!!! Yet another thing to use to my advantage until valve fixes it! Although I don't give it too long until it is fixed

 

[Skill/CJaZ]

I did that once. Hilarious.

 

[QB]

Yeah the constant spy bugs are pretty much the reason for most players' disdain of the class. Face stabs, magic stabs, deadringer full cloak bug, c&d invisible taunt kill bug, swimming under people and stabbing their feet...

The list goes on.

 

[DRaGZ]

Yeah the constant spy bugs are pretty much the reason for most players' disdain of the class. Face stabs, magic stabs, deadringer full cloak bug, c&d invisible taunt kill bug, swimming under people and stabbing their feet...

The list goes on.

I think the Dead Ringer cloak doesn't flicker or show outlines without fire, Jarate, or water on purpose.

 

[Kevimaster]

Yeah the constant spy bugs are pretty much the reason for most players' disdain of the class. Face stabs, magic stabs, deadringer full cloak bug, c&d invisible taunt kill bug, swimming under people and stabbing their feet...

The list goes on.

Facestabs/Magic Stabs (whatever those are lol ): Think of them as random crits for the spy

DR Cloak Bug: I actually don't know what this is, funny because I'm a DR spy lol

CnD Taunt Kill: Not allowed on our servers

Stabbing their feet: If they're behind you its still technically your back, your fault for not being observant enough , plus I mean, this is very hard to do on any map but well, and we don't have a server that runs well. (its do-able on 2Fort but hard)

 

[Akisohida]

Ug. I was in BlackMesa last night, vents.

I was in the middle of the vent so no one could get past me.

Spy ran up and stabbed me in the face. Game decided it was a backstab dispite the fact that he had not seen my back, EVER! :\

 

[? Frisky Dingo ?]

Yeah the constant spy bugs are pretty much the reason for most players' disdain of the class. Face stabs, magic stabs, deadringer full cloak bug, c&d invisible taunt kill bug, swimming under people and stabbing their feet...

The list goes on.

As ive stated before in a previous thread, noone ever complains when they spam as any class and get random kills or when they get a random krit shot when they are low health and they kill someone with full health. I stopped complaining and apologizing about face stabs long ago, I think all of us should.

 

[Sabion]

Facestabs = Random crit knife kills? =O

 

[BodyBagger08]

Yes i noticed this before seeing these threads very usefull though

 

[Thereven]

As ive stated before in a previous thread, noone ever complains when they spam as any class and get random kills or when they get a random krit shot when they are low health and they kill someone with full health. I stopped complaining and apologizing about face stabs long ago, I think all of us should.

Crits = regularly-coded random chance of massive damage for all classes.
Facestabs = taking advantage of buggy netcode for one class to unfairly instakill anyone.

If a person cannot see the difference between the two, then that person is a spy

 

[? Frisky Dingo ?]

Crits = regularly-coded random chance of massive damage for all classes.
Facestabs = taking advantage of buggy netcode for one class to unfairly instakill anyone.

If a person cannot see the difference between the two, then that person is a spy

 

[Thereven]

 

[DRaGZ]

Crits = regularly-coded random chance of massive damage for all classes.
Facestabs = taking advantage of buggy netcode for one class to unfairly instakill anyone.

If a person cannot see the difference between the two, then that person is a spy

Thing is, both are mostly out of the control of the player. They just happen. If anything, random crits are more in control of the player than random facestabs because random crit chance percentages are based on performance whereas facestabs are based on crazy lag/code mess-ups which are entirely unpredictable.

So yeah, too bad ya got facestabbed, but don't blame the player, blame the game.

And for the record, any crit from any normal melee weapon is an instant kill on 7/9 classes anyway, soooooooo...>_>

 

[crazyrockets]

I hate facestabs as much as everyone else, and I play spy!
Also, i though they fixed the cloak and dagger taunt kill exploit? Wasn't that one of the first fixes, or did they re-enable it for some reason later?