Clan C-YA

The map was Well, our spy was disguised as a medic, and was “helping” the enemy to hold the top point 3 ramp.

One of the enemy’s players then said in chat: “Goddammit medic! Heal me already! Stop standing around like a fool holding the syringe gun!”.

I saw the whole thing, spectating the spy while waiting for spawning, and burst out laughing - That player actually listed the entire method, of how to know when a medic is not really a team mate, and more generally how to spot a spy.

A medic:

• Will always have an Ubercharge percentage under his name.
• Will usually hold his medigun, and not syringe gun/bonesaw.
• Will heal nearby teammates.
• Will stay out of the line of fire.

A spy disguised:

• Will hold the default weapon of each class:
  • Scout: Scattergun
  • Soldier: Rocket Launcher
  • Pyro: Flamethrower
  • Demoman: Pipe Launcher
  • Heavy: Minigun
  • Engineer: Shotgun
  • Medic: Syringe Gun
  • Sniper: Sniper Rifle
  • Spy: Pistol
• Will not be shooting.
• Will not be doing what he’s supposed to be doing in the game (smart players will make you believe they are in fact helping your team, but can still be spotted by various discrepancies, such as the capture multiplier not counting them as helping the cap when stepping on a point).
• Will block your path, unlike teammates which you can partially clip through.
• Will do his best to stay away from Pyros.
• Will call for a medic, even when his health is high, or even full.
• If disguised as a scout, will be noticeably slower.
• Will not have an Ubercharge percentage under his name, when disguised as a medic.

A cloaked spy:

• Will shimmer in his team’s color for a brief moment when either hit by a weapon, or bumped into by a member of the opposing team.
• Will leave a visible trail if he has recently used a teleporter.
• Will have visible droplets of water falling off if he has very recently been underwater.
• His health will not fill while being healed by a medic (Thanks BaronHVG!)

However, the best way to reveal a spy is to simply trust your intuition. After enough time playing, you can gain a “sense” of when someone is acting a bit suspiciously. The best way to then confirm your suspicion is to try to walk through the suspicious player. As stated above, if he is a spy you won’t be able to partially clip through him. If this is the case, you are more than welcome to dispose of him, preferably with your melee weapon as to add insult to injury.

Goober asks us:

Is there a list of what all they keys are officially named?

I mean… what IS the middle mouse key official bind name?

The list is as follows:

• tab
• enter
• escape
• space
• backspace
• uparrow
• downarrow
• leftarrow
• rightarrow
• alt
• ctrl
• shift
• ins
• del
• pgdn
• pgup
• home
• end
• kp_home
• kp_uparrow
• kp_pgup
• kp_leftarrow
• kp_5
• kp_rightarrow
• kp_end
• kp_downarrow
• kp_pgdn
• kp_enter
• kp_ins
• kp_del
• kp_slash
• kp_minus
• kp_plus
• kp_multiply
• capslock
• joy1-4
• aux1-31
• mwheeldown
• mwheelup
• mouse1-5
• pause

The middle mouse key is “mouse3″. Scorlling it will give you mwheelup and mwheeldown.

Source: VALVe Developer Community

You will notice them once every few days - they vary from asking “What does the F10 menu do?” all the way to answering questions with the ultimate answer, “type quit in console”.

 The thing is, there is no default bind for the “quit” action, definitely not F10. And the console is turned off by default.

True, most of us the experienced gamers enable the developer console on first thing as soon as we get a VALVe/Half Life game, by going to options->Keyboard->Advanced. And bind F10 to quit, like it has been since WOLF3D.

But those that know what a console is, and how to turn it on, will not type “quit” into it, no matter how many times you tell them to. And if someone sets the keyboard shortcut F10 to quitting the game engine, then he won’t press it because you ask him what it does.

Lamers, stop embarrassing yourselves and making yourselves look like idiots. Stop wasting my precious reading time - I have a medic to disable.

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What stupid lamers did you encounter?

I’m getting old.

It’s getting harder and harder to handle the keyboard and manage multiple keys at the same time.

Does this mean I have to accept getting wtfpwnd by 12 year-olds?

Hell no! With age, comes experience.

From my experience, I have concocted a script so devious it would make teenagers cry.

I present to you: The scout’s quick dodge script.

Dodging - Quickly double jumping to any direction you choose, could get you out of a bind.

Executed similarly to dodging in Unreal Tournament, all you have to do is quick tap a movement key, and you’re on you way.

The script handles double jumping, moving, crouching and timing for you, allowing you to maneuver using a single key.

A thorough explanation of the script and its capabilities can be found along with it, in the appended file.

* Proper disclosure: I’m not old and I’m certainly not getting “wtfpwnd” by 12 year-olds, that is what’s called “dramatization” *

Happy hunting.

Download the TF2 Scout’s Quick dodge script here

Description:This script adds functionality to your movement keys by performing a quick dodge whenever tapped twice (such as in Unreal Tournament)

Usage:Holding or pressing the movement keys would result in regular movement. the script is only triggered when a movement key is held for a very short period of time, gets released, and once again gets pressed (meaning tapped twice).

Restriction:The script is useable by all classes. However, only the scout can utilize its full potential.

Activation: The script must be loaded to be used, this can be achieved by using the EXEC command ingame and specifing this file’s name (Dodge.cfg), or by appending it to your autoexec.cfg, or by issuing the EXEC command from the autoexec.cfg.

NOTE: all files mentioned above must reside in ..\SteamApps\<USER>\team fortress 2\tf\cfg

Setting up:To use this script, you must bind the aliases named: “+MoveDodgeUp”, “+MoveDodgeDown”, “+MoveDodgeLeft” and “+MoveDodgeRight”.

“+InAirAction” and “-InAirAction” are available for doing actions in mid air (such as ducking).

Default setting for all of these can be found at the bottom of this script.

Any questions you may have, may be posted in the comments below and will be answered shortly (but RTFM first).