Backstab
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"So, your deadly skill is jogging? Mine is murdering people."
- The Spy to the enemy Scout
A Backstab is a context-sensitive attack with the Spy's Knife that results in a one-hit kill (unless prevented with the Dead Ringer or an Ubercharge). Backstabs can be made from anywhere from a suitably-close 180° range directly behind the enemy player. A indication that you are within the backstab radius will result in your knife being deployed into a backstab position, and will remain that way until the target moves or the backstab is deployed.
A backstab can be performed while you are disguised, although your disguise will be removed upon performing it, whether it connects or not.
A useful technique that can be employed by a skilled Spy is to sap an Engineer's sentry gun and immediately backstab them. As most Engineers will turn to face their sentry gun to remove the sapper, this gives the Spy an excellent backstab setup. Even trickier still is backstabbing the Engineer first, then quickly equipping and placing a Sapper before his Sentry is able to turn and fire.
Backstab Issues
Due to an in-game glitch, a backstab can sometimes occur upon stabbing an enemy in the face, referred to by the community as 'facestabs'. While these problems have been reported to be fixed in the developer notes accompanying various patches over time, but some users continue to report additional occurrences. Care should be taken to distinguish between "true" facestabs (where the Spy attacked head-on to a player) and stabs that simply appear strange due to lag compensation.
Another community-coined term, the "failstab", refers to a backstab which should have succeeded but instead did only normal knife damage.
The way backstabs are calculated seems to be based more on the Spy's location, rather than where they are aiming. It is possible to get a Backstab on an enemy by aiming almost anywhere, so long as you're within range and standing in their rear 180° arc. For example, you can stand right next to an enemy and only be slightly behind them and still kill them by aiming at their front half.
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