Valve admits to wonky backstab code

**Tick** · 02-05-09, 05:51 PM

As seen in their latest TF2 blog...

If you look at at (A) on the old line, you'll see that point isn't reached until you've done 550 recent damage, a feat that occurs about as often as our backstab code works correctly.

So, looks like the face stabbing, back whiffing, kidney slicing shenanigans have been a known issue for quite some time. No mention of any fixes planned, though, as the article mostly just deals with the change to crits this last patch.

A good read overall, though, especially for Langrad who I'm sure is wondering what the hell happened to his magic crit rockets 8). Find the full article here.

**Langrad** · 02-05-09, 06:18 PM

What are you talking about? Langrad hacks arnt affected by some.... Company messing with code! Its all natural baby like corn or the interwebs.

**Panic** · 02-05-09, 07:55 PM

**IRON MAN 2142** · 02-05-09, 08:52 PM

I knew it!

**Pseudo** · 02-05-09, 09:15 PM

No more lucky facestabs on Pyros? BS!

**Birdinator** · 02-08-09, 01:04 AM

I noticed that in the blog too, and chuckled to myself. Then I remembered I've been facestabbed all week and started cursing under my breath =\

Its sort of exploitable anyway, that Lt. Cyndi Lauper guy (irony?) whose video was posted here a few weeks ago has another video where he talks about height advantage, and I feel like some of the ones he does from crouch-jumping over people and going for the back of their heads result in facestabs more often than not