If anyone is wondering why the audio from 1:11 - 1:58 is really odd, it's because I got a fraudulent copyright claim, so I had to replace the song. I care less about earning money from this video than I do not letting THEM get any from it.
put a disney song in it for long enough to get copyright claimed nintendo would just file a lawsuit and get it taken down but just force youtube to make 0 profit from it
I like saying "Thank you" as if you're grateful for their spychecking, usually works and inflicts extra emotional damage when they turn their back and realize they've been shammed
Getting ubered by an enemy medic then just standing there saying "Thank you" while nodding never gets old. A small handful of times the med will just killbind after ubering an enemy spy and tbh i get it
@ComFurt im a medic main with 800 hours in tf2, only two spies managed to fool me into ubering them It was only two times, but it still makes me rethink my existence every time i think about it, its genuinely psychological damage to the brain
"Disguises don't work" dumbasses who use the scout disguise and run at you then use dead ringer to get behind only to die anyway because we've become so used to it.
Oh the scout disguise?? Oh you maybe dont know this, this is a secret among spy mains, only we know about it, the reality is that if you disguise as scout... your head hitbox is completely different! Thats right! Im sacrificing credibility to make it harder for 1 of the 9 classes to headshot me! I mean they can still headshot me but who cares! We are spy mains! We are so superior! Praise the lord mr Daddy Paladin for brainwashing us for a whole decade! 🙏
The thing is that that kind of playstyle is completely different from the average "be patient" kind of plays that stock spy does. It's usually used by high level spies that know about their positioning and know how to blend in. You have no idea how much that sniper a few meters away from your target gives them tunnel vision.
4:41 You should make this clip into a tip. "Remember to never panic cloak if an enemy begins to shoot you as a spy checking method. Act calm, and pretend as if what they are doing does not alter your current mindset. Tricking enemies is what spy excels at, and it's very satisfying when an enemy shoots you down to single digit health, only for them to see you not react to said damage, assume you are really a teammate, and offer their back to you like Easter candy. 7:28 also works for this.
Good players dont stop spychecking just because there was no reaction, though. You stop spychecking until the spy would reasonably have died or when the teammate shoots back. There is no counter to this spycheck strategy; The moment you see a teammate who is not shooting at you, you know they are a spy. Basically, whenever your "disguises work", you're just playing against bad players. No different from backstabbing F2P players to get diamondback crits to kill the better players. Damn, spy is badly designed class, lol.
Yeah, when you have a whole minute to look you can obviously see through the disguise. Spy disguises work best when the enemy player's attention's focused on something else, as in every single waking moment while you're playing TF2, since you're usually way more worried about the potential uber push, random crocket, sniper that's dominating half your team, or any number of other things than if that random pyro over there waiting for a health-pack as you walk by for a second _might_ be a spy. Bonus points if it's the YER, since then it could literally be the guy you just checked 2 seconds ago...
People think “disguises dont work” and then they actually work, causing them to think “disguises work”, but then ONE bad spy does a bad acting lesson then people go back to “disguises dont work”, leading to never ending suffering that can only be rivaled by sisyphus and his huge-ass boulder
@@enbybunny9940 Switch to the alternate disguise GUI in settings (i think it's called fast disguise or something?). Instead of having to push 1-9, you first press 1-3 to select Attack, Defense, or Support, then 1-3 again to pick which class in the group to play as. After turning that on I have absolutely no idea how anyone can play the default way anymore, it basically locks you out of playing any class further right on the select screen than heavy unless you lift a hand out of position.
Disguising as your own team (I think press R while the menu is open) is a super underrated way to get out of spawn without yelling to the whole enemy team "HEY IM A SPY"
@@Grayson-tk5hn well first, enemies on the opposite team, when respawning, can see teammates through walls for a few seconds, meaning they can also see you on the other side of the map, and know that a spy is approaching. Second, if the other team sees you before you cloak, they won't know that you are a spy, and think you are a normal enemy, after which you can go back and cloak without the enemy team knowing you're a spy.
Exactly, it also works well with the dead ringer especially when leaving spawn as a round starts on RED. Tank a hit or two as a scout and people will be so busy with the round starting chaos to notice that a spy's body dropped since you will visually be going from red to red and not blu to red. Use this time to get behind enemy lines and then you have a window of time where they are not really expecting spy's yet
Gotta make sure you still act though. A soldier or demo who don't do a jump or even fire at all out of spawn is suspicious. So is a too-slow scout or medic without a healing target. Pyro with secondary out though...
"Disguises don't work." *Then make it work.* I'm a firm believer that disguises are the most powerful tool in a friendly spy's toolkit, but use your brain and the disguise actually works, you have a 30 second god complex, lol.
I remember my one and only good spy play. I spent like 5 minutes running around near the enemy spawn disguised as a pyro spamming the "SPY!" voice line, pretending to be searching for, well, myself. an actual pyro comes out of their spawn, is initially wary of me, but then ends up looking for me, with me. together we make our way to the frontline after a little more searching, and i'm perfectly set up for a chainstab, when finally, i get shot in the back of the head by a bot
6:53 I always try to gun down Razorback snipers whenever I can. Three point-blank shots will always kill a sniper, and they never have any time to react! The Razorback only counters a bad spy (which is sadly most of them), as long as you know that *_SPY HAS A GUN_* it's no trouble.
That varies because if the Razorback Sniper is by a Sentry then you have two problems to contend with that require some team assistance to take care of.
It really depends on context. If the sniper has teammates or a sentry around as Talon mentioned gunning down might not be an option. Even in more idea situations it increases the risk something will go wrong before making the kill.
@@izzy-wt9sr so? if the sniper has any teammates or sentries nearby, you will instantly die after whipping it out. If the razorback sniper is playing far from team, then razorback does nothing to begin with.
What people mean when they say disguises don’t work: you can’t spend 20 minutes sitting in their lines What disguises are actually meant to do: give you that 2 or 3 second window Still requires skill to not give yourself away though
I always feel bad for the Spies who keep using the same disguise or even the same player, and who either don't notice or don't learn that they're disguising as someone our team doesn't have. Those ones end up being a little too easy to catch out. Plus the absolute prank Valve pulled on them with the outlines on spawn...
*"It's not that disguises don't work, it's that you are too self-centered into your main character role to truly embrace the silence and discretion of a simple extra"* - Spy Main who plays Medic whenever there are just so many f*cking spies
You know, I just realized your main trick to making disguises work: when you get shot, you don’t react. You just keep walking at them, and they’re like “Oh, my bad, didn’t know you were chill like that.”, and then turn around.
Its not the main trick. It sometimes works and works better in some contexts than others. Tactics like not looking directly at who you are trying to kill as you close are more important.
Only works if the opponent is bad. The moment you do animations (shooting, revving, etc), you prove yourself as not a spy. The point of spychecking is to do those animations, not to just stand there dumbfounded that your team is trying to kill you. Really only very bad players will fall for this trick, although it does work if you're in middle of a hectic fight.
Of course they do work, the question is how often. Obviously the more experienced the player is, the less likely they'll be fooled. Personally I'm almost never fooled by spies, but occasionally I do encounter spies that deserve an oscar, in that they manage to fool me, which means that it is possible but it certainly requires a lot of skill.
If you watch competitive highlander games it happens at least a couple of times most games. More often than trick stabs at the very least. The reason it works is tradeoffs. It takes time, attention, and clip to spy check. So in many cases you have to make split second choices to risk death by non-spys because you were paying attention to a suspect but not sure if spy or you have to risk death by the spy. In short enough time windows its impossible to tell for sure if someone is a spy so acting is important. It also isn't as difficult as you might suspect. Just try playing dead wringer spy and walk backward while disguised towards the enemy team. It is bizarrly effective againts most players. It is honestly much easier than trick stabbing consistently. Its just that fewer people but time into getting better at it.
@@peterisawesomeplease spychecking isn't just when you shoot an opponent, it's when you "prove yourself innocent" of being spy by doing any animation at all. For classes like pyro, medic and heavy, they can spycheck themselves by shooting/healing/revving without losing much ammo or speed. So using any of those disguises is impossible against good players, unless there's a bad medic/pyro/heavy in your team that doesn't understand this mechanic. And at that moment, disguising as those players is equal to farming diamondback crits from the same bad players; Their team suffers not from you playing better or from them playing worse, but just because there was a bad player in their team
@@benshulz4179 Yes a reason to spy check is also to to prove your self innocent. But again even at the highest levels of comp people are still "fooled". It isn't because they don't understand how disguises work. Its because there are attention and clip trade offs. If there is no one around you can spy check everyone. But in the middle of a battle you have to make educated guesses on incomplete information. You see a pyro not shooting but in the right position for a quarter of a second do you spy check them? Yes if you are not about to die to the scout in your face. But with that scout in your face its better to use that last rocket trying to kill the scout than to spy check someone that might or might not be a spy.
At one point it would be pretty neat, if the YeR doesn't make you lose disguise when you swing the knife and hit nothing. Like you could bait people so much with it, where you disguise as someone with their melee out and when the enemy look at you and you swing the YeR and the disguise also swing their melee the enemy with think it friendly since Spy can't perform a melee attack so you can sneak into a fight or base pretty casually.
loved this, tho i didnt really like the sound you played to censor swears. I found the snort abrasive, and i also genuinely thought you were snorting, like, while playing lol. Other than that minor issue, i loved this vid!
@@aspiceeoneI dont know about that... You'd be surprised how well this works if you can play pretend well enough. Im sure you manage that very well in your daily life 😎
You see, now because you drew attention to thorn in your comment, nobody is going to actually talk about the real message. This is something you'll have to think about, but I'll evade it for now. Yeah, the dead ringer really influences new spy players into a bad mindset. Dead ringer users just use their disguise to avoid sentries, but I hereby propose that we simply make fun of Valve for the 2,147,483,647th time because bad game design funny.
Disguises are the most situational part of spy’s arsenal, if the enemy is stacking Soldier, heavy, and demo. You will have a very hard time getting a good disguise with high speed because if you choose scout an bhop and there isn’t one on the enemy teay and they are good they will INSTANTLY kill you because you are not wearing cosmetics. Spy’s disguises are also VERY buggy, there are cases where the demoman disguise is missing his legs because the person being disguised as is wearing the booties/bootlegger. Pyro disguises are notorious for missing their heads. Another situational thing about spy is if you have another spy on your team, if that spy is playing VERY poorly the enemy will automatically spycheck anyone suspicious.
Sharing my story of how disguises work: Was playing in pl_enclosure, disguising as Pyro with low health, stands directly next to dispenser to act as if I am healing, RED soldier fires a rocket at me, then stops because I just look like an innocent Pyro healing, Soldier passes by me to fight at the frontlines, Engineer then comes, still standing at dispenser, wait for Engineer to turn his back then stab him. And I live.
How the cycle of "disguises don't work" work: 1. Spy uses good acting skills to win game 2. Community sees good spy replay 3. Community says disguises work 3. THEN a bad spy with no acting skills enter the community 4. Community sees bad spy replay 5. Community returns to saying disguises are bad 6. repeat
and takes a fall damage amount that makes... everything fatal to them, continuing to try the stupid trick only to reveal that they tricked you with the dead ringer 43 times and repeat the process on their next victim. this is disguising as a bad actor
It’s honestly incredibly how well disguises work whenever you actually play like the class you are pretending to be. Weird how that works, bet that’s a totally unintended play style.
my fav trick as spy that literally always works is to disguise as a medic and crouch next to a dispenser while spamming "help" and "medic". ive done it so many times in the middle of the enemy and they never catch on.
I'm a bit sick of spies saying that disguises do work, then cherrypicking clips to show their point but in the end of the day you'll be randomly spychecked for literally no reason anyways the way he functions mostly depends on luck if this video was right then some random youtuber could make a similar video with the richeous bison, kill a lot of free to plays with it, slap a "best weapon in the game" to the title and be done with it hell even in some exaples you've shown the enemy is just stupid considering the heavy in this clip 4:44 could've just as easily RANDOMLY kept his gun at you for longer and bam you'd be dead
“Randomly spychecked for literally no reason” If you keep telling yourself that it’ll never get better, said players likely weren’t focused on something else
For begginers, try disguising as sniper from time to time and just stay back (also look at your team not the enemy). Engineers usually set up nests so pretend you are looking for a spot. Scout is generally a bad idea, soldier pyro demo and heavy go into battle, medic should stay at spawn and spy is also not great
@@yardendrori8118 Jontohil created a Spy Psychology video called How To Disguise. Lots of great tips, highly recommend you watch it if you want to get better at disguising.
Disguises CAN be used to get to the backlines, it’s just not that consistent. One easy way to do it is just by fucking walking backwards (just act like u retreatin) I tried this out just because i forgot i had the dead ringer equipped and god damn, it worked every single time i tried it that round. Conclusion: S key op
Imo, one of the most important things to remember is to think about what disguises work in what scenarios. You can’t just always disguise as scout or heavy, nor can you never disguise as scout or heavy. You need to have a disguise that fits the situation. If in a flank route that also works as a sniping spot, disguise as sniper. If closer to your own team’s lines, disguise as spy. (Fun tip: if playing casual, you would not believe how easy it is to fool the enemy team into thinking you are just bad at sniper.)
0:48 I like that when he realized you were not part of the same team he tried to get a kill by sawing you to death. Too bad the doctor got a knife to the back XD
I love watching your videos, man. So fun and it’s honestly crazy seeing some of the plays you pull, nothing I could pull off in a million years. (Then again I’m pretty bad lol)
I played one game of upward, went spy on last (defence) and i LITERALLY JUST WALKED BACKWARDS STABBED THEIR MED AND SHOT THE RAZORBACK BECAUSE SPY HAS A GUN
Pay attention to the video carefully. The biggest aspect of not getting spy checked is to not look at the back of who you are trying to stab directly. This is a dead give away. Look towards the battle like a real player. There are a ton of other tricks but this is the most important. A simple way to try it is just walk backwards toward the front line uncloaked but disguised with the dead wringer. Try it until it works. It will work eventually. Then start optimizing from there.
A moment I still hold dear to my heart is when I was playing with my pyro main friend and we both knew we couldn’t get through the enemy’s defenses, so instead we came up with a plan: I, a master in the art of disguising, walked backwards into the enemy team while my friend blasted me with flames. All the enemy’s attention was focused on the scary pyro, so I proceeded to backstab their medic and two heavies. So moral of the story, shoot at the disguised spy. Even the tiniest bullet will help
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If anyone is wondering why the audio from 1:11 - 1:58 is really odd, it's because I got a fraudulent copyright claim, so I had to replace the song.
I care less about earning money from this video than I do not letting THEM get any from it.
Honestly that's pretty Based, like no joke!
It's a hilarious way to punish the claimer!
@@Fatih_M177punish?
The claimer could care less about it
@@ESALTEREGOi mean they claimed the video for money so clearly they care a fair bit
@@NocturnalTyphlosion 99% of all claims are automatic
So who cares? The machine? Ya need to learn how youtube works, kiddo
put a disney song in it for long enough to get copyright claimed
nintendo would just file a lawsuit and get it taken down but just force youtube to make 0 profit from it
People who say disguises dont work definitely just run out of their base disguised and run directly at the enemy
+disguised as a scout
+the person they're disguised as isn't playing scout
+playing Mannpower
+runs directly into the team’s pyro
+Runs directly at the enemy with a syringe gun disguised as a medic
+addicted to trickstabs
+does not even try to act
+uses the dead ringer as a crutch
Conclusion: quite literally the description for the try hard spy loadout
"disguises don't work" mfs when I disguise as anyone and just start walking backwards towards them:
Lol
The Saint "S" key. It helps me a lot. Especially in PL.
@@aspiceeoneNah I’ve seen it work in comp
@@burndish5162 because running away from a backstab opportunity means you arent a spy *_and it works?_*
@@scruggly_ahh_commenter they never expect it. Unless they are extremely paranoid.
What I'm taking from this video is to just act like the bullets don't phase you so they stop shooting you. Then just walk behind them.
I like saying "Thank you" as if you're grateful for their spychecking, usually works and inflicts extra emotional damage when they turn their back and realize they've been shammed
@@ComFurt They usually say "Thanks!" because of the enemy thinking you were a spy (and dying just to find out you were)
@@ComFurt "Thank you. For being so stupid!"
@@ComFurt Emotional damage doesn't show up on the scoreboard
@@Грымза “Ok, well, it is worth a chuckle” -Lazypurple
Fun fact, I started editing this video 34 hours ago.
Sounds quite gay
Dam, its pretty good
let me guess, had to sift through all the clips of you dying while disguised to cherry pick ones where you get kills? (/j, or am i?)
cool
im trying to go to bed mr spy main sir. (its 11 pm)
Making someone believe your disguise is the most satisfying thing to do as a spy
Getting ubered by an enemy medic then just standing there saying "Thank you" while nodding never gets old. A small handful of times the med will just killbind after ubering an enemy spy and tbh i get it
"Fuck I ubered a spy" *Explodes*
@@ComFurt It's the only honourable way out after such a blunder.
@ComFurt im a medic main with 800 hours in tf2, only two spies managed to fool me into ubering them
It was only two times, but it still makes me rethink my existence every time i think about it, its genuinely psychological damage to the brain
getting ubered by a medic is easily the best moment as spy, far better than a killstreak for me
"Disguises don't work"
dumbasses who use the scout disguise and run at you then use dead ringer to get behind only to die anyway because we've become so used to it.
Oh the scout disguise?? Oh you maybe dont know this, this is a secret among spy mains, only we know about it, the reality is that if you disguise as scout... your head hitbox is completely different! Thats right! Im sacrificing credibility to make it harder for 1 of the 9 classes to headshot me! I mean they can still headshot me but who cares! We are spy mains! We are so superior! Praise the lord mr Daddy Paladin for brainwashing us for a whole decade! 🙏
The thing is that that kind of playstyle is completely different from the average "be patient" kind of plays that stock spy does. It's usually used by high level spies that know about their positioning and know how to blend in. You have no idea how much that sniper a few meters away from your target gives them tunnel vision.
Stabystaby in a nutshell
Judging from LazyPurple's video that's just lacking space awareness.@@defauItsettings
@@rockowlgamer631 Well, tf2 IS an action game. You can't really focus on every single enemy at once, so it shouldn't be anyone to blame, really.
4:41
You should make this clip into a tip.
"Remember to never panic cloak if an enemy begins to shoot you as a spy checking method. Act calm, and pretend as if what they are doing does not alter your current mindset. Tricking enemies is what spy excels at, and it's very satisfying when an enemy shoots you down to single digit health, only for them to see you not react to said damage, assume you are really a teammate, and offer their back to you like Easter candy.
7:28 also works for this.
Good players dont stop spychecking just because there was no reaction, though. You stop spychecking until the spy would reasonably have died or when the teammate shoots back.
There is no counter to this spycheck strategy; The moment you see a teammate who is not shooting at you, you know they are a spy.
Basically, whenever your "disguises work", you're just playing against bad players. No different from backstabbing F2P players to get diamondback crits to kill the better players.
Damn, spy is badly designed class, lol.
“They’re just stupid. *I* wouldn’t be fooled!” - The overanalyzing douches in the comments.
"I wouldn't be fooled" they say as they're seeing the entire thing from the spy's perspective
Yeah, when you have a whole minute to look you can obviously see through the disguise.
Spy disguises work best when the enemy player's attention's focused on something else, as in every single waking moment while you're playing TF2, since you're usually way more worried about the potential uber push, random crocket, sniper that's dominating half your team, or any number of other things than if that random pyro over there waiting for a health-pack as you walk by for a second _might_ be a spy. Bonus points if it's the YER, since then it could literally be the guy you just checked 2 seconds ago...
Me disguising as a heavy:
They only catch up after the first few stabs
"Nah, I'd win"
@@aspiceeone thats... literally the point...?
People think “disguises dont work” and then they actually work, causing them to think “disguises work”, but then ONE bad spy does a bad acting lesson then people go back to “disguises dont work”, leading to never ending suffering that can only be rivaled by sisyphus and his huge-ass boulder
No, just sisyphus's huge ass
Frr
a visitor
One must imagine the Spy checker happy
@@notmedicine9700hmm, indeed, I have slept long enough
"Disguises dont work"
-The mf who keeps picking the same disguise
-Me, who defaults to pyro because it’s easier for me to click fast
@@enbybunny9940 and doesn't have a major speed penalty and is common in the flank and front lines
@@enbybunny9940 Switch to the alternate disguise GUI in settings (i think it's called fast disguise or something?). Instead of having to push 1-9, you first press 1-3 to select Attack, Defense, or Support, then 1-3 again to pick which class in the group to play as.
After turning that on I have absolutely no idea how anyone can play the default way anymore, it basically locks you out of playing any class further right on the select screen than heavy unless you lift a hand out of position.
@@enbybunny9940 Also hello fellow enby :3
Mfs who only disguise as scout
“Disguised don’t work” yeah, because you stare at the enemies and make a beeline towards them
Exactly, ACTING
Act like your enemies don't exist, it's what teammates often do
6:53 Revolver Spy gaming.
7:33 the disguise definitely tricked that soldier into raising some doubts whether if he's chasing a spy or not.
5:32 no way that cartoon run was purposely synced to the music, absolute perfection.
Yes
Disguising as your own team (I think press R while the menu is open) is a super underrated way to get out of spawn without yelling to the whole enemy team "HEY IM A SPY"
Yeah, i love disguising as a friendly scout running out of spawn, and only when getting behind the enemy team do i pick an actual disguise.
but what does it do?
@@Grayson-tk5hn well first, enemies on the opposite team, when respawning, can see teammates through walls for a few seconds, meaning they can also see you on the other side of the map, and know that a spy is approaching. Second, if the other team sees you before you cloak, they won't know that you are a spy, and think you are a normal enemy, after which you can go back and cloak without the enemy team knowing you're a spy.
Exactly, it also works well with the dead ringer especially when leaving spawn as a round starts on RED. Tank a hit or two as a scout and people will be so busy with the round starting chaos to notice that a spy's body dropped since you will visually be going from red to red and not blu to red. Use this time to get behind enemy lines and then you have a window of time where they are not really expecting spy's yet
Gotta make sure you still act though. A soldier or demo who don't do a jump or even fire at all out of spawn is suspicious. So is a too-slow scout or medic without a healing target.
Pyro with secondary out though...
spy truly becomes the lethal class he's shown to be when the player starts to understand disguises
"Disguises don't work."
*Then make it work.*
I'm a firm believer that disguises are the most powerful tool in a friendly spy's toolkit, but use your brain and the disguise actually works, you have a 30 second god complex, lol.
I remember my one and only good spy play. I spent like 5 minutes running around near the enemy spawn disguised as a pyro spamming the "SPY!" voice line, pretending to be searching for, well, myself. an actual pyro comes out of their spawn, is initially wary of me, but then ends up looking for me, with me.
together we make our way to the frontline after a little more searching, and i'm perfectly set up for a chainstab, when finally, i get shot in the back of the head by a bot
One time i saw a my demo get stabbed by yer in front of me, I didn’t notice for 2 minutes until i saw the disguised demo with no feet.
lmao
6:53
I always try to gun down Razorback snipers whenever I can. Three point-blank shots will always kill a sniper, and they never have any time to react!
The Razorback only counters a bad spy (which is sadly most of them), as long as you know that *_SPY HAS A GUN_* it's no trouble.
That varies because if the Razorback Sniper is by a Sentry then you have two problems to contend with that require some team assistance to take care of.
It really depends on context. If the sniper has teammates or a sentry around as Talon mentioned gunning down might not be an option. Even in more idea situations it increases the risk something will go wrong before making the kill.
razorback counters spy completely, unless the sniper is playing alone (in which case it does nothing)
@@benshulz4179SPY HAS A GUN
@@izzy-wt9sr so? if the sniper has any teammates or sentries nearby, you will instantly die after whipping it out.
If the razorback sniper is playing far from team, then razorback does nothing to begin with.
the people that say "disguises dont work" are the same people who always pick scout disguise and run straight at the enemy
+Dead Ringer
mostly weeb kunai spies
2:56 I did not expect an RT game reference.
1:26 is beautiful. Sometimes all you need to sell a disguise is a teammate doing shenanigans.
What people mean when they say disguises don’t work: you can’t spend 20 minutes sitting in their lines
What disguises are actually meant to do: give you that 2 or 3 second window
Still requires skill to not give yourself away though
This is how I've always wished I could play Spy. I have so much to learn...
"Babe, wake up! New Jontohil2 video just dropped!"
I always feel bad for the Spies who keep using the same disguise or even the same player, and who either don't notice or don't learn that they're disguising as someone our team doesn't have. Those ones end up being a little too easy to catch out. Plus the absolute prank Valve pulled on them with the outlines on spawn...
3:56 that spy did a get down Mr president for the demo
4:52 i love how both of the demo help calls sync whit the music at the right time
*"It's not that disguises don't work, it's that you are too self-centered into your main character role to truly embrace the silence and discretion of a simple extra"*
- Spy Main who plays Medic whenever there are just so many f*cking spies
"I AM THE ONE WHO KNOWS HOW CLASSES ACT IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS" -me, a no-main tf2 player
jontohil2 spending a day and a half editing his sick frag movie:
ALSO BONE IN MY SPAGHETTI IS THE BEST TRACK
You know, I just realized your main trick to making disguises work: when you get shot, you don’t react. You just keep walking at them, and they’re like “Oh, my bad, didn’t know you were chill like that.”, and then turn around.
It rarely works IMO. The enemy will see that you took knockback, and if they decide to shoot you twice, then you are screwed
@@Plackowicz But you don’t take knockback while disguised.
Its not the main trick. It sometimes works and works better in some contexts than others. Tactics like not looking directly at who you are trying to kill as you close are more important.
Only works if the opponent is bad. The moment you do animations (shooting, revving, etc), you prove yourself as not a spy. The point of spychecking is to do those animations, not to just stand there dumbfounded that your team is trying to kill you.
Really only very bad players will fall for this trick, although it does work if you're in middle of a hectic fight.
Which sound on kill do you use?
Of course they do work, the question is how often. Obviously the more experienced the player is, the less likely they'll be fooled. Personally I'm almost never fooled by spies, but occasionally I do encounter spies that deserve an oscar, in that they manage to fool me, which means that it is possible but it certainly requires a lot of skill.
If you watch competitive highlander games it happens at least a couple of times most games. More often than trick stabs at the very least. The reason it works is tradeoffs. It takes time, attention, and clip to spy check. So in many cases you have to make split second choices to risk death by non-spys because you were paying attention to a suspect but not sure if spy or you have to risk death by the spy. In short enough time windows its impossible to tell for sure if someone is a spy so acting is important.
It also isn't as difficult as you might suspect. Just try playing dead wringer spy and walk backward while disguised towards the enemy team. It is bizarrly effective againts most players. It is honestly much easier than trick stabbing consistently. Its just that fewer people but time into getting better at it.
@@peterisawesomeplease spychecking isn't just when you shoot an opponent, it's when you "prove yourself innocent" of being spy by doing any animation at all. For classes like pyro, medic and heavy, they can spycheck themselves by shooting/healing/revving without losing much ammo or speed.
So using any of those disguises is impossible against good players, unless there's a bad medic/pyro/heavy in your team that doesn't understand this mechanic.
And at that moment, disguising as those players is equal to farming diamondback crits from the same bad players; Their team suffers not from you playing better or from them playing worse, but just because there was a bad player in their team
@@benshulz4179 Yes a reason to spy check is also to to prove your self innocent.
But again even at the highest levels of comp people are still "fooled". It isn't because they don't understand how disguises work.
Its because there are attention and clip trade offs. If there is no one around you can spy check everyone. But in the middle of a battle you have to make educated guesses on incomplete information.
You see a pyro not shooting but in the right position for a quarter of a second do you spy check them? Yes if you are not about to die to the scout in your face. But with that scout in your face its better to use that last rocket trying to kill the scout than to spy check someone that might or might not be a spy.
"How many more lies have I been told by the council?"
At one point it would be pretty neat, if the YeR doesn't make you lose disguise when you swing the knife and hit nothing.
Like you could bait people so much with it, where you disguise as someone with their melee out and when the enemy look at you and you swing the YeR and the disguise also swing their melee the enemy with think it friendly since Spy can't perform a melee attack so you can sneak into a fight or base pretty casually.
Disguises work as long as people don't spycheck you with a lethal amount of damage lol, that's the message I'm getting from this
My Favourite thing as spy is when I fool the enemy team somehow brings indescribable amounts of joys
Here is my motto: Disguises don’t suck, you do.
I'm just disguised as a noob
spy is second least played class
Yeah, disguises do not suck, the players who are fooled by them do.
Day brightened. Thank you funny spy man
loved this, tho i didnt really like the sound you played to censor swears. I found the snort abrasive, and i also genuinely thought you were snorting, like, while playing lol. Other than that minor issue, i loved this vid!
“Disguises don’t work. Any half-decent player can see right þrough þem.” - Dead Ringer Spy Who Þinks Disguising Exclusively as Scout is a Good Idea
Gigachad using thorn instead of th
Praise him. Praise him *NOW.*
Unfaþomably based þorn user
@@MegaJaniI can never unsee that as a p with an extended top.
@@aspiceeoneI dont know about that...
You'd be surprised how well this works if you can play pretend well enough. Im sure you manage that very well in your daily life 😎
You see, now because you drew attention to thorn in your comment, nobody is going to actually talk about the real message. This is something you'll have to think about, but I'll evade it for now.
Yeah, the dead ringer really influences new spy players into a bad mindset. Dead ringer users just use their disguise to avoid sentries, but I hereby propose that we simply make fun of Valve for the 2,147,483,647th time because bad game design funny.
it’s almost like the purpose is to DISGUISE yourself as the ENEMY
Disguises are the most situational part of spy’s arsenal, if the enemy is stacking Soldier, heavy, and demo. You will have a very hard time getting a good disguise with high speed because if you choose scout an bhop and there isn’t one on the enemy teay and they are good they will INSTANTLY kill you because you are not wearing cosmetics. Spy’s disguises are also VERY buggy, there are cases where the demoman disguise is missing his legs because the person being disguised as is wearing the booties/bootlegger. Pyro disguises are notorious for missing their heads.
Another situational thing about spy is if you have another spy on your team, if that spy is playing VERY poorly the enemy will automatically spycheck anyone suspicious.
*"Thy backslashing frenchman supremacy"*
Sharing my story of how disguises work: Was playing in pl_enclosure, disguising as Pyro with low health, stands directly next to dispenser to act as if I am healing, RED soldier fires a rocket at me, then stops because I just look like an innocent Pyro healing, Soldier passes by me to fight at the frontlines, Engineer then comes, still standing at dispenser, wait for Engineer to turn his back then stab him.
And I live.
"Disguises don't work"
-That one spy disguised as scout and held w+m1
I don't think there are any disguised spies holding m1
hinestly jontos acting is like a substitute for trickstabs lmao
How the cycle of "disguises don't work" work:
1. Spy uses good acting skills to win game
2. Community sees good spy replay
3. Community says disguises work
3. THEN a bad spy with no acting skills enter the community
4. Community sees bad spy replay
5. Community returns to saying disguises are bad
6. repeat
3:56 that poor spy
". Disguise kit is one of the most original ideas in any game."-Mewze
Your videos are what got me into maining spy, thanks for all the tips and tricks!
This guy gives advice you cant forget this man got me 10k kills on my strange knife best spy known to man 😂😂
I appreciate the text exclaiming how much you guys curse.
And don't think I didn't notice you use UA-cam like mister drift king himself either.
Try some of the pizza tower remixes by robotic wisp so that you show it to your friend so they listen to it more so that they can't hear you uncloak.
An enemy medic healed me and he ubered me so after that i backstabed him. "Disguises don't work" yeah right
I play eternal reward/letranger, so I’ll disguise, cloak, get behind the enemy, and then have some fun
I mean whenever I get shot I just look back like there's a spy behind me it works almost 80-90% of the times.
3:56 GET DOWN MR. PRESIDENT
Disguises as scout and start bunnyhopping towards the enemy agressively.
That would work if you ain't picking the same disguise each time
and takes a fall damage amount that makes... everything fatal to them, continuing to try the stupid trick
only to reveal that they tricked you with the dead ringer 43 times and repeat the process on their next victim.
this is disguising as a bad actor
But when I dissguise as Scout and run in a straight line towards the enemy team they don't work...
4:15 that was me you disguised as lol
It’s honestly incredibly how well disguises work whenever you actually play like the class you are pretending to be. Weird how that works, bet that’s a totally unintended play style.
@Jontohil2, thanks for showing this video. This and the Spy Psychology Series made me learn How to Play Spy even that "SPY HAS A GUN."
my fav trick as spy that literally always works is to disguise as a medic and crouch next to a dispenser while spamming "help" and "medic". ive done it so many times in the middle of the enemy and they never catch on.
How does that work
Hey, if you haven't already, can you do a Spy Psychology video on when to cloak and when to decloak?
I'm a bit sick of spies saying that disguises do work, then cherrypicking clips to show their point but in the end of the day you'll be randomly spychecked for literally no reason anyways
the way he functions mostly depends on luck
if this video was right then some random youtuber could make a similar video with the richeous bison, kill a lot of free to plays with it, slap a "best weapon in the game" to the title and be done with it
hell even in some exaples you've shown the enemy is just stupid considering the heavy in this clip 4:44 could've just as easily RANDOMLY kept his gun at you for longer and bam you'd be dead
“Randomly spychecked for literally no reason”
If you keep telling yourself that it’ll never get better, said players likely weren’t focused on something else
Disguises don't work.
Btw loved this pyro kill compilation.
the more people think disguises dont work, the better disguises become
Oh hey its always nice to hear the occasional vine audio clip out of nowhere. Aforementioned audio clip here 9:58
I would love more compilations in general. This was hilarious and great to watch!
3:52 Accidentally backstabbing an invisible spy is some of the wildest shit I think I've ever seen in this game
SPY HAS A DISGUISE KIT
As an amture i can confirm that MY disguise doesnt work
For begginers, try disguising as sniper from time to time and just stay back (also look at your team not the enemy). Engineers usually set up nests so pretend you are looking for a spot. Scout is generally a bad idea, soldier pyro demo and heavy go into battle, medic should stay at spawn and spy is also not great
I know thqta whqt im trying to do
@@yardendrori8118 Jontohil created a Spy Psychology video called How To Disguise. Lots of great tips, highly recommend you watch it if you want to get better at disguising.
There is nothing more satisfying than truly tricking the enemy team even for a brief moment
just had a cool spy sesion today, my acting was pretty alright and god damn i had the entire team wraped around my finger
0:13 Any time I hear this specific track in a video, I know that shit's gonna go down. And it's just as chaotic as this video is, lmao.
2:07 there's a bone in my spaghetti, good choice, it banger
"Disguises don't work"
The demoman with an entire leg missing:
Disguises CAN be used to get to the backlines, it’s just not that consistent. One easy way to do it is just by fucking walking backwards (just act like u retreatin) I tried this out just because i forgot i had the dead ringer equipped and god damn, it worked every single time i tried it that round. Conclusion: S key op
nothings better than getting an enemy medic to follow you sometimes even getting them to uber you
Imo, one of the most important things to remember is to think about what disguises work in what scenarios. You can’t just always disguise as scout or heavy, nor can you never disguise as scout or heavy. You need to have a disguise that fits the situation. If in a flank route that also works as a sniping spot, disguise as sniper. If closer to your own team’s lines, disguise as spy. (Fun tip: if playing casual, you would not believe how easy it is to fool the enemy team into thinking you are just bad at sniper.)
most of these clips would work without the disguise
No they absolutely wouldn't
0:48
I like that when he realized you were not part of the same team he tried to get a kill by sawing you to death. Too bad the doctor got a knife to the back XD
When you uber your teammate but they turn the wrong color
Great vid! I like how half of this video is just "jontohill harrases his friends cuz funny"
Thanks for syncing silly sound effects to the music for bonus dopamine
I know disguises work. However, MY disguises don't work.
sometimes while disguised i get confused whether i am blu or red and fail a stab because of it
You are the sole reason I want to even try playing spy.
Normal people don't listen to the pizza tower ost? In that case, I do not want to be normal
I’d like to say that in the official Meet The Spy, Red Spy disguises as Scout.
I love watching your videos, man. So fun and it’s honestly crazy seeing some of the plays you pull, nothing I could pull off in a million years.
(Then again I’m pretty bad lol)
I played one game of upward, went spy on last (defence) and i LITERALLY JUST WALKED BACKWARDS STABBED THEIR MED AND SHOT THE RAZORBACK BECAUSE SPY HAS A GUN
So I'm just unlucky to have every single enemy Spycheck me whenever I am in their field of range?
Pay attention to the video carefully. The biggest aspect of not getting spy checked is to not look at the back of who you are trying to stab directly. This is a dead give away. Look towards the battle like a real player. There are a ton of other tricks but this is the most important. A simple way to try it is just walk backwards toward the front line uncloaked but disguised with the dead wringer. Try it until it works. It will work eventually. Then start optimizing from there.
I swear some of the laughs in this video gives me the Heath ledger joker vibes
I love when invis spies do the "get down Mr. President!"
I was not expecting to hear Pikuniku music, nice.
ur my fav tf2 yet, i rewatch all of your videos. (I was a spy main since beginning)
3:55 UNLUCKIEST.SPY.EVERRRRR!
A moment I still hold dear to my heart is when I was playing with my pyro main friend and we both knew we couldn’t get through the enemy’s defenses, so instead we came up with a plan: I, a master in the art of disguising, walked backwards into the enemy team while my friend blasted me with flames. All the enemy’s attention was focused on the scary pyro, so I proceeded to backstab their medic and two heavies. So moral of the story, shoot at the disguised spy. Even the tiniest bullet will help