Team Fortress 2: 15 Stupidest Additions So Far

Taunts are pure fun. Sure, it’s annoying as hell when a server devolves into a mass multi-cultural conga-line, but there’s nothing more satisfying than winding the Scout’s Sandman bat up and hitting that camping sniper across the map. The spy-crab taunt was added by Valve in reference to the Spy’s likeness to a gangly-legged crab when you crouch walk and look directly up, holding the disguise kit.

How it works is through performing the normal taunt with the Disguise Kit equipped, you have a 10% chance that it will be this spy-crab variation. 

It’s entirely down to chance, which birthed “spy-crabbing”, where two people keep taunting between each other and the first to spy-crab loses and has to surrender a bounty. Harmless fun? It should be, but people have started using it do some some very high-stakes gambling.

This video shows two people “spy-crabbing”, each with $9,000 worth of items at stake. Often people do not uphold their end of the bargain and bail, causing primary school playground levels of bickering. This gambling is usually restricted to the trade server culture so it’s thankfully kept out of real servers, but still - you’d be better off with a friendly rock-paper-scissors tournament. Or, y’know, you could just shoot some people, in the first-person shooter you’re playing.