Thread: Healing friendly spies: when is it good?

Originally Posted by Menoske

while thats all well and good for enemy spies, we're talking about healing spies on your team, ya know, when you can see an accurate health bar, and what disguise hes wearing.

=p

and you may have his kidneys, but I snuck into his house to steal his beer...so tell me, whos the better spy?

I stole both the beer from you and the kidneys from Agent while you were arguing about it.

Noobs.

Originally Posted by Menoske

while thats all well and good for enemy spies, we're talking about healing spies on your team, ya know, when you can see an accurate health bar, and what disguise hes wearing.

My point was that you should buff spies as far as you can whenever it's safe to heal them. I just read some comments about not putting them above their standard health, and that's 100% wrong, as the other team can't see their health anyways.

Mediocreske, i like it. Very clever agent.

You get +2 cool points, and +5 to Less Suck.

Meh, keep blathering on all you want. One of you is still missing a kidney, and the other is missing their beer.

Not sure which is worse, honestly, so you're both screwed.

Originally Posted by jabberwock

From TF2 wiki... For your education...

Whenever he dons a disguise, an enemy Spy is given a fake and randomized 50%-80% health level that shows up to the other team. The spy can remove this clue by tricking an opposing medic into healing him.

The Spy can never feign a health level less than 50%. Neither dispensers nor health packs can increase his apparent health. A spy can only consume health powerups if he is truly below 100% health, so a player who appears damaged but runs over health without picking it up is likely a spy.

50%-80% health doesn't sound right. Pretty sure there's plenty of times I've gunned down spies running at me with full health yelling for medic.


Anyway, it sounds like what everyone is saying is this:

1. Heal spies like you would heal any other player, BUT:
a. If they're disguised, make sure no one's watching
b. If they're running away from your lines, don't heal them

With those guidlines in mind, I'll do my best to help my sneaky friends out :)

-Pulp

1. Heal spies like you would heal any other player, BUT:
a. If they're disguised, make sure no one's watching

If they are within Medic's heal gun range and neither is attacking, it's already a dead giveaway.

I tend to heal spies with relatively high priority. Typically a spy will be at or near the top of the heal ramp and will heal quite fast.