Thread: Best Spy Buff Idea Ever?

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1141652

So you've sapped a building. Big deal. You're in a tight spot surrounded by enemies and engineers that'll take you down the second they see you. Your sappers will be removed seconds after you place them. As you try to run around continually trying to dodge flailing wrench swings and pyro flame a group of team mates sits idly by not aware that the sentry is disabled and free for killing. You die, you're jarateed. Maybe you don't have a microphone, maybe you tell your team you've sapped the structure but there are so many sentries you're having a hard time explaining just which one you've sapped.

I present to you sap bubbles that your team sees when you've placed a sapper, indicating where the sentry is, and when your team can turn the corner and take the damn thing out without having to say a word.

Pretty sap bubble image

This is part of "MEDIC! bubbles, but for Engineers" that was suggested by Vaught on Page 2.

Some notes:

a) Since the spy is really doing most of the work, the spy is given the main kill for any structure destroyed while being sapped, and the other person is instead given the assist.

b) MEDIC! bubbles for engineers are bubbles that hover above damaged buildings so other engineers can repair them. But engineers will not see repair bubbles or sap bubbles over their buildings when sapped as disabling the sentry includes disabling its ability to call out for help.

c) What this is actually doing is, in conjunction with engineer bubbles, the spy's sapper has reprogrammed the sentry's panic routine to instead of calling engineers to assist it, rather call out the enemy to signal its disability.

Needless to say, I was impressed.

That's a good idea.

First, great idea!

Second: That comic is on 2fort lol

It's simple ideas like this that are truly genius.

you'd think this is something they would've already put in...

I approve of this

What about giving it to both teams? An engi/homewrecker/spy buff. Might be to much

How can it be hard to realize your gun is sapped? It sizzles, it looks deactivated, and if the enge is alive he says "Spy sappin mah sentry!"