TF2 - Scout update - Spy backstab change comparison: old & new

[sibigato123]

Idk why but i like the old one better

[bombadecasa]

@sibigato123 Same, I mean this one is definitely more efficient, but the old way just felt more legit. Like it had the wind up that made the kill more satisfying.

[gothicspoon]

@bombadecasa

So I'm not the only one to feel this way!

[DarkBonesDaku]

The new backstab is fugly. :(

[chantakzee]

Well  can't see any special difference , anyone please tell ?

[DarkBonesDaku]

@chantakzee

In the old one, he lifts his knife and then stabs, in the new one he just stabs instantly.

I think it may have been done to reduce backstab delay, but who knows.

[jppfeil]

Boobz. :P

[pmanderson]

Personally, I think the backstabs are worse now than they ever have been. You can backstab people right in the face if they are running backwards. I mean, what the hell?!

[Nathan2094]

Just because you are looking at the spy dose not mean your are, your body can be facing another way than where you are looking.

[pmanderson]

So, if you're facing someone's front, your crosshair may be aiming at their back? That makes no sense. I'm talking about stabbing someone directly in the face, while standing infront of his face, and getting a backstab. There's a video on here that shows it. The running backwards problem I mentioned in my last comment.

[Nathan2094]

Never mind you seem not understand.

[pmanderson]

Fine, whatever. lol.

[vsuksteel]

erm...were you high at the time?

[pmanderson]

Dude, yeah. I smoke weed every day! But seriously. No, I wasn't high, hehe.

[joelsfallon]

He stabs alot faster in comparison to the slower (first) one, the slight delay before the initial kill happens methinks

[MegaGamer50]

he wus disguised dumbass then he cloaked

[CoreMarine]

medic at end was like WTF?

[1xadavid]

Sounds scary in slow motion D:

[tonypotterz]

oh yeah fast back stab is better then stupid slow backstab

[andrisstr]

Seems you didn't have skill as Spy.

[SilentForceX]

Seems someone hasn't played it and gotten annoyed at all the backstabs cut short when the enemy moves forward a little bit. It got really old trying to backstab an engineer, having him move to the side and his sentry turns around and gets you before you can sap it.

[spycaper51]

Side stabs haven't been removed, they're just harder to do now.

And every time Valve tries to fix something they fix 5 things the way people ask them to, and then they change 5 other things the way people didn't want them to. Valve just can't seem to find a nice balance, a complete update that fixes all the problems without introducing new ones in the process.

[Nepherupito]

well if valve fixes all the good thing and dost remove the bad thing

then unbalanceness would occur between the chrs and only heavies might be used or something

[Nirual86]

They only removed side stabs for like one update, then brought them back.

Good spies are freaking scary now.

[tonypotterz]

i want the spy pack

[thegrul2]

me too

[GivesGives]

ya i noticed that but i thought it was a modded server

[MMMAAATTTLLL]

hoyl shit i feel like playing tf2 now

[ddesjman444]

Vavle DID say there would be some changes done when this update came out

[IKnowWereYouSleep]

the ruined the backstab, impossible to do perfectly legit sidestabs

[chaoticwarrior3341]

"the ruined the backstab, impossible to do perfectly legit sidestabs "

wrong answer i did 10 in a row in a practice on tr_airstab4 map

[graveyardpc]

You can side-stab snipers still, I've tested that, but if an engineer puts his back perpendicular to a wall it's impossible. They narrowed the hit-box way too much. At least they removed the long stab animation.

[repelex]

Oh valve and your new update that fixes this.

[bombadecasa]

@IKnowWereYouSleep Thank god they fixed it huh? it's back to 180 rather than the 160 they changed it to.

[Madis090]

same

[chaoticwarrior3341]

"To be honest, I think they ruined spy with this new update Sure, the "choose your weapon thing " is cool, but I think Valve didn't see what we actually wanted, which was a switch to what the player we disguised as actually is holding at the time."

u can switch ur weapon in disguise lets say u have ur a pyro disguise with flamethrower and u wanna have the shotgun switch to ur sapper click B default for last disguise and there shotgun and the ability to see cloaked spies names should be removed

[bombadecasa]

@metalluigi625 well the spy is supposed to use his knife to backstab, not face/sidestab.

[BlueSundew]

Too easy... :D