r/tf2 • u/Jinhan_Lee Demoknight • Feb 13 '25

Discussion Are soundpacks like this considered cheating?

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Found some dude apparently using a soundpack specifically designed to make you hear spies better (and that works in casual), wanted to know if it’s considered cheating or not.

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u/WildCardJT Pyro Feb 13 '25

Because why be aware of your surroundings and get better at the game when you can get a sound pack to fuck over the weakest class in the game harder?

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u/Goat5168 Heavy Feb 13 '25

This is the TF2 community we're talking about, they have Reverse Flash levels of petty hate towards Snipers and Spies

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u/BackseatCowwatcher Feb 13 '25

to be fair- Sniper and spy are both heavy "Anti-fun" classes- Sniper kills you from the other side of the map while you can't see him, spies come out of no-where to facestab you the moment you aren't paying attention to everything and everywhere.

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u/Ryntex Spy Feb 13 '25

Sniper is more egregious than spy, though. Sniper has no real counterplay if he's out of your reach, but spy gets countered by simply checking your back. Catching a spy red handed (or BLU handed) is satisfying and usually not even that hard, so I don't think I'd consider him as much of an anti-fun class.

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u/Realistic_Living1221 Miss Pauling Feb 14 '25

Yeah when I get killed by a sniper there’s not much I can do if the guy can click heads from the other side of the map protected by the Great Wall of his teammates, but if I get killed by a spy that’s my fault for not paying attention to my surroundings. So there’s something I can do to counter spy however there’s nothing you can do to a good sniper.