Sapper

Sapper
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Basic Information
Used by	Spy
Slot	Sapper
Loadout Stats
Sapper Sapper Disables enemy buildings and drains their health, without removing your disguise "Who left that there?"

I murdered your toys as well.

The Spy destroying an engineers building after disposing of him

The Sapper is the stock and only sapper for the Spy. It is a boxy "electro-sapper" device that resembles a radio, with two switches, a dial, and a meter of unknown measurement on the front, with a carrying handle and two thick wires with electrical jacks. The needle on the meter will move to the right when in front of a targetable building.

The Sapper is a unique weapon that is used to disable and destroy enemy buildings, despite technically being classified as a "building" itself. It has no other purpose, and cannot be used on organic enemies. When in range of an enemy building that can be sapped, a white outline appears. Placing the sapper does not remove the Spy's disguise, and it has infinite ammo with practically no cooldown. While a building is sapped, it is totally disabled and does not function, with the Sapper dealing 25 damage per second to it, creating a loud and conspicuous electrical sound that alerts all nearby enemies to the Spy's presence. If one Teleporter is sapped, the other is automatically sapped as well, and destroying one Sapper destroys the other. When the Spy attacks a sapped Sentry Gun, his weapons deal 67% as much damage as usual.

It will also alert the Engineer who owns the building with a flashing symbol on his construction interface and an automatic voice response. If that player has the "Sapper awareness" setting activated (tf2c_building_sapper_awareness), most other game audio will have its volume lowered until the Sapper is destroyed. When the Sapper brings a building's health down to 0, it will explode as usual. The Engineer's Wrench can remove Sappers by hitting the affected building twice, preventing it from being repaired, with continual replacement of the Sapper causing the building to eventually be destroyed. The Sapper itself has 100 health, yet the only thing that can deal damage to it is the Wrench. Sapper health and sapped building health of the first Sapper placed will also be marked on the Spy's interface. Sentry Guns are still disabled for 0.5 seconds after the Sapper is destroyed.

Properties

Properties
Damage
Base damage	100%	25 / s
Status Effects
Effect		Disable
Effect duration		3.6 s 6 s 7.2 s 8.64 s
Function Times
Attack interval		Infinite
Activation time		Instant
All values are approximate.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Саботьор	Sapper
Spanish	Zapador	Sapper
English	Sapper	-
French	Saboteur	Sapper
German	Sapper	-
Italian	Sabotatore	Sapper
Brazilian Portuguese	Sabotador	Sapper
Romanian	Sapper	-
Russian	Жучок	Bug
Ukrainian	Глушилка	Jammer

Update history

2.0.0

• Fixed Buildings that're^(sic) Destroyed by a Sapper Not Showing Up in the Killfeed
• Fixed Spies being able to destroy their own sappers.^(sic)
• Fixed the Heavy, Pyro, and Soldier’s Place Sapper animations to be left-handed.

2.0.2

• Updated tf2c_spy_gun_mettle to include updated Sapper damage modifier
• Fixed Sappers being hard to place on top of buildings

2.1.3

• Sapper outline is no longer visible when sapper is not yet ready to be placed

Trivia

• The Sapper has updated animations that include the Spy flipping a switch on the device as he pulls it out.