New Spy Stab

[Zerockas]

Ok, so I hadn't been able to play with the new upgrades until today and I still haven't played scout, but....I did play spy and HOLY COW!!! I've heard a lot of people complaining about the changes so I was worried and with 60 hours into spy I was afraid my favorite class had gotten nerfed but wow.

The speed of the new stab animation is finally fast enough to be able to stab multiple people in a row without glitching and missing 12 stabs. I mean, I'm not thrilled about the no side stabs and I haven't tested the engineer headstab and sap yet but it's pretty cool.

I know there are spies in eGO with much more time in than me and I wanted to know what they and even the spy n00bs thought about the new update.

I however, highly approve.

 

[harro]

i agree, the fast animation is awesome. its way easier to backstab an entire group of ppl. i am bummed about the no side stabs though. now all the snipers/engies can just hug walls

 

[Masterpiece]

i agree, the fast animation is awesome. its way easier to backstab an entire group of ppl. i am bummed about the no side stabs though. now all the snipers/engies can just hug walls

In this situation just use your gun ... but yeah I tried spy today and I was amazed, It's really nice! I don't really care about facestabs/sidestabs, you will just need to play like you're supposed to

 

[FreakingHell]

I think headstab should of been kept but sidestab gotten rid of.

 

[Retribution]

yes I love the fast stab. Sucks they got rid of the side stabs though (

 

[? Frisky Dingo ?]

Although I like the upgrades that they gave spy, I find it way to easy now to stab and sap...way to easy. My thoughts on the backstab is kind of a nerf...if you can think about it this way, they got rid of flick stabs and now you have to practically hug ur opponant when previously you really didnt. Stair stabs are still possible but very hard to pull off at times and im so glad face stabs that turn into backstabs have nearly been wiped clean off the game...ive heard it still happens at times, but not all the time.

 

[NUFAN]

haven't played as spy yet, so I dunno, there are a lot more multi-stabs though.

 

[enJoy #BAMF]

its preeetty weird hah idk y but it makes me giggle

 

[Angelspit]

I sucked at doing those 180 degree stabs anyways

 

[harro]

In this situation just use your gun ... but yeah I tried spy today and I was amazed, It's really nice! I don't really care about facestabs/sidestabs, you will just need to play like you're supposed to

that'll take too long when there are 3 snipers all zoomed in just waiting to be stabbed.

 

[HL2master]

I love what they did to the spys stabbing animation. Other than no side stabs, it seems like it helped the spy more then nerfed it.

 

[bigwilly]

It helps, as does changing the shown weapon ability - makes spy-checking either more time-consuming or done less often. It took Valve a looooonnnnnggg time to address the spy tho. Basic vulnerabilities to the spy still exist. Snipers actually got a default buff with the deletion of side-stabs. The abundance of scouts makes spy hard to get around undetected.

 

[Gman is GOD]

I am half and half with the update. I dont like the fact that you cant backstab snipers when they are against a wall, but i do like that it is faster. so, 50/50

 

[pitchblack]

love the quick backstabbing, but i loved to do quickstabs and side stabs but they got rid of it

 

[Deja]

The quick backstab animation is great; especially for stab/saps.

Sure, they "took away" the side stab, however, I can still get it off about 60-75% of the time.. The other 25% are a quick 3 revolver shots and they're done..

I LOVE the fact that only the skilled spies can leap/fall stab now.

It's so much easier to stalk people now as a spy whenever you can see who you're going to kill (Para hates this one...)

All in all, the update was credit to team...

 

[Cl!FF]

Don't really care much about a backstab, I think they should fix the headstab already critical backstab are already too powerful in my eyes.

 

[CheeseGamer]

I miss sidestab so much D:

I love the new backstabby, but now my effectiveness as a spy in most maps against a few classes has gone down D:

oh, right, and showing the names is nice, but fairly useless.

 

[Synn]

I miss sidestab so much D:

I love the new backstabby, but now my effectiveness as a spy in most maps against a few classes has gone down D:

oh, right, and showing the names is nice, but fairly useless.

The fact that you see their health is very useful.You can see if you don't even need to backstab the guy, just a little slice needed , or just a shot with your revolver! Great!

 

[Cl!FF]

and showing the names is nice, but fairly useless.

This part is the most annoying of all, now the spy's know who they are going to stab, in other words they can single out targets for sacrifice stabs....

 

[Ballzac]

ive been playing spy alot more just because of this!