Suicide

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You are dead, not big surprise. Click to listen — The Heavy

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Any death unaided by an opposing player is considered to be a suicide.

There are multiple ways to suicide in the game. These include the player switching to another class or team while not inside a Respawn area or Resupply area, a Soldier's own rockets, and a Demoman's own Grenades and Stickybombs, a Pyro deflecting projectiles at his feet, a Heavy with the Gloves of Running Urgently active or a Scout with the Boston Basher hitting himself repeatedly. It also possible for an Engineer to be killed by his own Sentry Gun. If the player killed himself by switching teams or classes, the message, "<insert name here> bid farewell, cruel world!" will appear as a kill notice. These kill notices also appear on death by environmental damage, which include drowning, trains, and saw blades.

Soldiers are able to suicide by performing the Kamikaze taunt, killing themselves and any opposing players in range. However, the Soldier can survive if overhealed by a Medic and buffed with Battalion's Backup or if the Soldier has the Rocket Jumper equipped.

A suicide can also be performed instantly by typing kill into the console. This is normally used in specific situations such as when the player is stuck and wishes to begin the respawn cycle. Similarly, a player can enter explode into the console to undergo a gibing suicide, as if killed by an explosion. These commands, however, are disabled during humiliation.

Players who have recently damaged enemies who die from suicide get an assist in the kills list in the form of "<player> finished off <victim>". Any death not directly caused by a player will achieve this.

Related Achievements

 Scout

Fall Classic Cause an environmental death or suicide using the Force-A-Nature's knockback.

Foul Territory Cause an environmental death by stunning or slowing an enemy.

 Demoman

He Who Celt It Use the Sticky Launcher to kill an enemy player via environmental damage.

 Medic

Medical Intervention Save a falling teammate from dying on impact.

Gallery

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  A pyro after suiciding by explosion

• Pyro suicide kill.jpg

  A pyro after suiciding by kill

Kill icons

Main article: Kill icons

 Scout bid farewell cruel world!

Sniper 

  finished off Spy

Update history

August 4, 2008 Patch

• Fixed clients earning achievements when a player they've recently damaged suicides.

Trivia

• Unlike most online shooters, a suicide does not subtract a point from your score, although it does count as a death.

See also

• Damage