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“ | Did I throw a 'wrench' into your plans? Hahahaha!
Klikk for å lytte
— The Spy on reverse-engineering
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The Red-Tape Recorder is a community-created promotional building weapon for the Spy. It is a reel-to-reel tape recorder with three Chinese characters ("反炮塔", fǎnpàotǎ) on the front printed on a frayed, white label. Translated into English, these characters can be closely translated as "Anti-Turret (Device)" or "Anti-Sentry (Device)".
Instead of damaging enemy buildings, the Red-Tape Recorder reverses the building process; any applicable upgrade animations are played in reverse, followed by the building packing itself up into a toolbox. As a result, this destroys the building and leaves the toolbox behind as a large ammo pickup with no Metal, instead of dropping gibs. Destroying the Recorder allows the building to reconstruct, but not restore any lost levels, unless the building is in the middle of an upgrade animation, which allows it to continue upgrading to the next level. If a Dispenser starts deconstructing to below its level 1 state, it loses any Metal stored within it.
The Red-Tape Recorder has five different sounds for when it is sapping a building. The type of sound produced is randomized. It may play either a high-pitched rewind sound, a slightly lower-pitched rewind sound, high-pitched gibberish, a short recording in Cantonese, or a short recording in English.
Sapped Sentry Guns take 33% less damage from the Spy who applied the Sapper, for example when shooting it with a Revolver. Dispensers and Teleporters are unaffected by this.
This weapon functions the same way as the default Sapper against robots in Mann vs. Machine.
This item was awarded in Genuine quality to players who pre-purchased Sleeping Dogs on Steam before August 14, 2012, or August 17, 2012 in Europe.
The Red-Tape Recorder was later contributed to the Steam Workshop, at Valve's request.
Innhold
Damage and function times
Skade og funksjonstider | ||
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Skade | ||
Base damage | 100% | Sentry: 14 / sDispenser: 7 / sTeleporter: 7 / sMini-Sentry: 9.5 / s
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Function times | ||
Recharge time | Normal: N/AMvM: 15 s
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Building destroy time | Downgrade: 3.4 sSentry: 10.7 sDispenser: 21.4 sTeleporter: 21.4 sMini-Sentry: 10.5 s
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Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Demonstrasjon
Crafting
Blueprint
Sniktapp | Gjenvunnet metall | Byråkratisk opptaker | ||
x3 | + | = |
Strange variant
Strange ranks
Rank | Bygninger sappet | Navn |
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0 | 0 | Merkelig |
1 | 3 | Alminnelig |
2 | 9 | Scarcely Shocking |
3 | 15 | Mildly Magnetizing |
4 | 21 | Somewhat Inducting |
5 | 30 | Uheldig |
6 | 42 | Notably Deleterious |
7 | 54 | Sufficiently Ruinous |
8 | 69 | Truly Conducting |
9 | 84 | Spectacularly Pseudoful |
10 | 105 | Ion-Spattered |
11 | 150 | Wickedly Dynamizing |
12 | 225 | Positively Plasmatic |
13 | 299 | Helt ordinær |
14 | 300 | Kretssmeltende |
15 | 450 | Nullity-Inducing |
16 | 750 | Tjener-uttømmende |
17 | 1500 | Episk |
18 | 2250 | Legendarisk |
19 | 2345 | Australsk |
20 | 2550 | Mann Co.-utvalgt |
Related achievements
Pyro
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Demoman
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Engineer
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Spy
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Mann vs. Maskin-pakken
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Update history
- The Red-Tape Recorder was added to the game.
- Increased The Red-Tape Recorder’s downgrade speed from 1.6 seconds to 3.0 seconds.
- Fixed building health compounding after being downgraded.
- [Udokumentert] Fixed the Homewrecker not destroying Red-Tape Recorder Sappers in one hit.
- [Udokumentert] Added the Red-Tape Recorder to the item drop system.
13 september 2012 [Item schema update]
- Fixed buildings not always being downgraded at the same rate by the Red-Tape Recorder.
- Fixed the Spy not holding Sappers correctly in third person.
- Fixed a bug where Dispensers sapped by a Red-Tape Recorder would continue to heal players.
- Fixed buildings destroyed by the Red-Tape Recorder not always displaying a death notice.
- [Udokumentert] The Red-Tape Recorder no longer clears metal from Dispensers upon downgrade.
- Fixed an exploit with the Red-Tape Recorder and Sentry where the Sentry could build up a large amount of health.
- Added Strange quality.
2 juli 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)
- Decreased the damage penalty on Sentry Guns sapped by the Spy from -66% to -33% (i.e. shooting a Sentry the Spy sapped with a Revolver is now more effective).
20 oktober 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)
- [Udokumentert] Converted the Red-Tape Recorder models to use the
c_models
system.
- Fixed the
OnDestroyed
output not getting fired when an object is destroyed by the Red-Tape Recorder.
Unused content
The Red-Tape Recorder is set up for paint to be applied, but the ability to do so is disabled.
Unused painted variants | |||
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Hovedartikkel: Malingsspann
Flytt musepilen over et bilde for å se den med sort bakgrunn.
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Singulære farger | |||
En ekstraordinær mengde av skjær | Farge Nr. 216-190-216 | Merkelig kjedelig fargetone | Aldret mustasjegrå |
En særpreget mangel på fargetone | After Eight | Radigan Conagher brun | Den gamle rustne fargen |
Muskelmannbrun | Mann Co. Oransje | Australium Gull | Fargen på en Gentlemanns forretningsbukser |
Mørk laks urettferdighet | Rosa som faen | Et dypt engasjement for fiolett | Edel hattemakers fiolett |
En farge i likhet med skifer | Zephaniahs grådighet | Kjedsom oliven | Utvilsomt Grønt |
Den bitre smaken av nederlag og lime | En Manns mint | ||
Lag farger | |||
Vasstrukken labfrakk (RED) | Vasstrukken labfrakk (BLU) | Balaclavas varer evig (RED) | Balaclavas varer evig (BLU) |
Lagmoral (RED) | Lagmoral (BLU) | Operatørens overlegg (RED) | Operatørens overlegg (BLU) |
Verdien av lagarbeid (RED) | Verdien av lagarbeid (BLU) | Et snev av sjarm (RED) | Et snev av sjarm (BLU) |
Krem-ånd (RED) | Krem-ånd (BLU) | Umalt |
Notes
- If a sapped building does not start with full health or is damaged during the deconstruction process, it reaches 0 health before the deconstruction animation completes, which interrupts the animation and "snaps" it into the toolbox state.
Bugs
- If a Teleporter Entrance is sapped by the Red-Tape Recorder, and the Red-Tape Recorder is removed in-between upgrade animations, the arrow pointing to the Exit Teleporter is removed.
- If the Red-Tape Recorder is placed on and removed from a building that is still under construction, it deals some damage to the building, making a contradiction of its description.
- Removing the Red-Tape Recorder from built Dispensers or Teleporters immediately reactivates them, while they play their re-constructing animations.
- The Red-Tape Recorder does not glow when crit boosted.
- If a Robot is sapped using the Red-Tape Recorder, the Red-Tape Recorder appears invisible.
Trivia
- This weapon's name references the term "red tape", which refers to bureaucracy that hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
- The Cantonese phrases directly translate to "That's him! Quick, get him!"
- As the Red-Tape Recorder's sapping sounds are meant to replicate the effect of overspeeding a tape reel player, slowing the playback down reveals the source sound:
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
Broken Red-Tape Recorder (gib).
Promotional image featuring the Sleeping Dogs promotional items.
At the rear of the BLU respawn room, on the Kong King map.
References
See also
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Primær-PDA | — | — | — | — | — | Konstruksjons-PDA | — | — | Forkledningssett | |
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Sekundær-PDA | — | — | — | — | — | Rivings-PDA | — | — | Usynlighetsklokke | |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Snikmorder Dobbeltgjenger Entusiastens urverk Quäckenbirdt | ||
Bygning | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Sapper | |
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Hån | Grand Slam | Grenade | Hadouken Armageddon Execution Gas Blast |
Barbarian Swing | High Noon | Arm Blender Guitar Smash |
Oktoberfest Uberslice Medicating Melody |
Arrow Stab | Fencing |
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