| [ | Did you think this was over? Damn fool! ―Agent tricking an enemy Mechanic. 
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The Dead Ringer is a PDA weapon for the Agent. It is a pocket watch which activates upon the user taking damage while deployed.
Activating spawns a corpse and a fake ammo box in the user's position and activates the cloak, a fake killfeed will also be seen by the enemy team and the player, but not teammates, the initial hit that activated the ringer will also be reduced in damage by 70%.
If the user's health reaches 25% or under health upon activation, they'll gain a 3 seconds speed boost, when cloaked, any damage taken is reduced by 60%; this can be bypassed by weapons that have a damage resistance pierce effect like the Block-17 and the Buff Banner.
The Dead Ringer lasts a maximum of 14 seconds, which can be deactivated any time and takes 24 seconds to recharge from. However, the cloak meter is immediately depleted by 50% when used; this does not affect the cloak duration and is merely there to extend the recharge time.
The user also cannot receive cloak from ammo boxes and Dispensers.
The Dead Ringer is banned from Team Deathmatch, being the only weapon to be banned in the mode.
Function Times[]
| Function times | ||
|---|---|---|
| Effect | Upon activation / Drop a fake corpse and 70% damage resistance While cloaked / 60% damage resistance If under 25% health / Speed boost for 3s | |
| Maximum cloak duration | Total / 7s Effective / 6s | |
| Cloak fade time | Instant | |
| Decloak fade time | Player / 2s World / 1.8s | |
| Recharge time | 20s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Tips[]
- Unlike the Dead Ringer from Team Fortress 2, you only get a speed boost if your health is low, and not each time you fake your death. Only pull out the Dead Ringer to get out of a really bad situation.
- The Dead Ringer's speed boost activates at 25% of your base health, which means as a literal number, you'll get the speed boost around the 20-30 HP range, no matter what knife you have.
- While you may not be able to use ammo boxes to build your cloak meter faster, you can use the Cloak Revolver instead, as each landed shot gives you cloak. As a bonus, it gives you extra time while invisible.
- When you fake your death, there may be a chance that the enemy who killed you will not hear their kill sound, so that will act as a signal that you're using the Dead Ringer.
- The decloak sound is incredibly loud compared to the other watches. However, as long as enemies only hear you and can't see you, you will remain undetected.
- Just like Agent's other PDAs, try using other noises to muffle your decloaking noise.
- Making your death seem real can potentially cause the enemy team to stop being paranoid for a moment, allowing for easier backstabs. Some ways of doing this can include:
- Taking some damage, then using the Dead Ringer to tank the last needed shot. If you die to the first 65 damage hit, a good player would assume you used the Dead Ringer, but if you get attacked once, then use it, it would normally be enough damage to kill you, making the player much less suspicious. This can also give you the speed boost to get away more efferently if you're low enough.
- Utilize the ability to disguise as your teammate, you can trick the enemies into killing who they think is a teammate, allowing you to feign death and get behind without alerting the enemy that there is an Agent on your team.
- The damage resistance is enough for you to survive a fully charged headshot from a Sniper Rifle, and any other crit damage. This allows you to move around more safely around these, as long as you have the Dead Ringer out.
- You can also use the Your Eternal Reward and disguise as a "Defense Class" allowing you to have a maximum of 90% damage resistance from any source.
- Still be wary of enemy status effects, the Dead Ringer doesn't clear them, meaning Afterburn, Flanker's Mad Milk, and Marksman's Lemonade can track you down until you de-cloak. You can use the Icicle to clear the afterburn, and the other 2 have a halved duration when cloaked.
Related Achievements[]
See also: Achievements
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Marksman[]
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Update History[]
August 17, 2019
- Added Dead Ringer.
August 19, 2019
- The death sound effect will play when the Dead Ringer is triggered.
August 30, 2019
- New model by PrimeFIRE94.
February 8, 2021 (Executive Update)
- Added new cloaking and decloaking sounds.
February 18, 2021
- Increased damage resistance when cloaked from +40% to +60%.
- Fixed an issue where the Dead Ringer stores infinite cloak duration.
February 21, 2021
- Doubled volume of cloaking and decloaking sounds.
April 24, 2021
- The player's killstreak will not count towards an Agent with their Dead Ringer activated.
July 20, 2024
- Fixed feigning death sometimes sending you to the respawn box.
Trivia[]
- The previous model was taken from a Roblox free model called The Dead Ringer.
- Killing an Agent with the Dead Ringer deployed will count towards contracts and strange ranks.
- It is possible to survive a full backstab after the Dead Ringer has been triggered.
- While reloading your primary weapon while holding out your Dead Ringer, it would appear as if Agent has 3 arms.
Bugs[]
- If the Dead Ringer is used before Humiliation, the player will feign death and instantly de-cloak.
- If you are killed while the Dead Ringer is active (if someone deals more damage than the amount of health + resistance you have or if you are killed while invisible) the Dead Ringer decloak sound will play when respawned.
- Kill sounds will not play when triggering a Dead Ringer, making feign deaths very obvious.
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Past Designs[]
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