Valve Pulls Hilarious Bait and Switch with Latest TF2 Update (Updated)

Posted 05/16/2009 at 2:58am | by Nathan Grayson

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Update: Valve's brand new "Meet the Spy" video has surfaced on Youtube. It's rib-wrenchingly hilarious, as expected. Go check it out, then try figuring out the, er, fascinating web of relationships found therein. You'll understand after you've seen it, so go now! 

Close range hunting bows? Electrically charged shields? How’s a Spy supposed to put food on the table with such uncouth technologies standing in his way? Well, you gotta spend money to make money, as they say -- and it seems TF2’s classiest killer did just that.
 
Oh, you’re wondering about that whole Sniper update thing? Well don’t. It’s been, er, cut short.
 
As such, the Spy’s now hogging the spotlight, and as a certain incapacitated gunner might attest, the Spy’s shopping trip was a rousing success. First up, he nabbed the “Dead Ringer” Spy watch which, if you’re hit with a non-lethal shot, cloaks you for up to eight seconds and leaves behind a fake corpse to complete the illusion. After that, you can run or make with the stabbing. Either one's better than being dead, obviously.
 
Next up in this strange convergence of time-telling and murder is the “Cloak and Dagger” Spy watch. It grants you permanent invisibility – so long as you stand completely still. So if you always thought more games should involve being completely immobile, your particular specialty will bring you infinitely regenerating cloaking abilities.

Both items will be hitting just in time to combat the Sniper’s new toys on May 21. Along with head slot items. And new maps. And a new game mode. All for free. See, other developers? This is how you do DLC.