07/05/10 Update

[The Political Gamer]

Team Fortress 2

- Fixed players seeing cloaked Spies when they should be fully cloaked
- Updated the Homewrecker
- It now damages enemy sappers on friendly buildings
- Fixed items not displaying correctly while playing back a demo
- Badge hire dates now display the time in GMT

So the pyro is now ultimate anti-spy!

 

[Seba]

So how many HW hits per removed sapper?

 

[Shmitz]

I haven't tested it personally, but what I've heard is one hit to remove the sapper, but it's bugged in that it doesn't remove the sapper at the other end of a TP pair.

 

[Penguin]

So how many HW hits per removed sapper?

One.

 

[Crash]

I haven't tested it personally, but what I've heard is one hit to remove the sapper, but it's bugged in that it doesn't remove the sapper at the other end of a TP pair.

That might be intentional?

 

[Penguin]

Hardly. That lets pyros grief their team. Again.

It's like the sticky refelcts all over.

 

[McNuggetFiend]

And Valve continues to support turtling.

 

[Rasputin]

And Valve continues to support turtling.

... or teamwork.

Whatever fits your agenda.

 

[Exist]

So how many HW hits per removed sapper?

How many hits dose it take to detach a sapper from a sentry?

lets find out...one, tahwooo, twee....

Crunch.

The world may never know.

//but really, pretty sure it's 1//

 

[Grim Tuesday]

Does anyone else feel like this is an enormous nerf for the Spy?

I mean, now just about all he can do is backstab...

 

[Eyce]

Does anyone else feel like this is an enormous nerf for the Spy?

I mean, now just about all he can do is backstab...

You must be pretty bad to believe that a single upgrade to an underpowered weapon completely nerfs the Spy.

 

[Grim Tuesday]

Well, I do main soldier, but IMHO, this makes the sapper almost totally useless if a pyro can come along and knock it off.

We'll just have to wait and see

 

[Freyja]

The pyro also has to have found, and using the homewrecker, which I'd still not swap out over the axetinguisher

 

[Penguin]

Axtinguisher > All, especially nowe that the actual flamethrower is less useful than a pistol.

 

[Shmitz]

Keep in mind also that the pyro can't repair what's being sapped. But more importantly, if there's a pyro hanging around a sentry, that means there's teamwork going on. If the spy wants to be effective against that, maybe the answer is to get some teamwork of his own.

 

[Tapp]

This isn't op, if a pyro is around an engineer's buildings during a spy attack it will fail anyway. All this allows the pyro to do is help if the engineer died and the spy auto-sapped.

 

[StickZer0]

What Tapp said.

You'd need a dedicated anti-spy pyro for this to work, who is using the homewrecker out of THEIR OWN FREE WILL. Not gonna happen.

 

[Dustoxx]

If you're lucky the pyro will choose to remove your sappers leaving you alone and able to retreat.

 

[Micnax]

I already stick around sentries during massive enemy waves just to blast stickies and pipebombs away.

Yet I won't give up that Axtinguisher

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Once I get it I'll probably always use it, just because I am horrible at melee attacks and usually results in my death anyway.