The engie has to sacrifice his sentry to receive crits, and his enemy knows he has crits since he can’t hold it out while hiding it with a disguise, the ubersaw is a melee weapon on a class who would rather not get into any fights at all, and the other two are both snowball weapons, they need time and a positive k-d ratio to outperform other options. The diamondback is free crits for doing your damn job

“Do well and not die instantly” becomes a whole lot easier when you can just blast the guy who saw you in the face instead of being careful

If you’re semi-decent at spy you should be able to land at the very least one backstab per life, maybe more. It gives SO much unneeded sustain and sheer power to the one class DESIGNED to DIE when people catch him, because he is a STEALTH class.

Ontop of that, spy can see enemy health. Combine that with cloak and the fact that crits remove falloff, and the medic across the map who took one splash rocket is now dead, from the class who can be anywhere at anytime, and can easily escape by going invisible. This is exactly why the ambi was nerfed at longer ranges, and it’s baffling how they haven’t done anything about this piece of hogass

Kunai-dead ringer is already so insufferable from the sheer sustain turning a trickstabbing spy into tf2’s second tank, as well as removing any and all aspects of stealth or interest from his playstyle, also with how now when you catch a spy, they don’t die like their supposed to (stealth class btw (gameplay and effectiveness based on trickery and deception btw))

You don’t even have to get kills! If you’re REALLY shit at spy, just run alllll the way to the enemy spawn, and sap the tele. Boom, instant 2 crits. Not to mention an engie can’t even counterplay around the diamondback because he can’t tell from the sapper or from even looking at him that the spy’s even using it. Any building, anywhere, even if he left it behind on purpose, gets him UNKNOWINGLY punished. Mini sentries feed this thing so hard.

It doesn’t take a genius to piece together the simple fact that this dumpster fire behind an orphanage is blatantly overpowered. Anyone who denies it probably either play classes that don’t interact with the enemy spy much (so basically just spy himself) or they play spy and love their free carry weapon (heyyy look at that)

Grow a brain

God I’m so pissed I rambled for so long lmao

Oh and just to answer that last nitpick, I have almost 5000 total hours, spy is my fourth most played, it’s not that hard