Decoy

Decoy
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General
Slot	8
Equipment For	Traitor
Class Name	weapon_ttt_decoy

The Decoy is an equipment item in Trouble in Terrorist Town, only available for Traitors.

Overview

The Decoy's main use is to decieve a Detective that is using either a Radar or a DNA Scanner.

Placing a Decoy down will cause it to show on the Detective's Radar as a green ping, acting no differently from other pings that the Radar can see. A Traitor's Radar will show the ping as grey, so that they know which pings are fake ones. This can trick the Detective into thinking there are more players alive than there actually are, or can lead them to the Decoy's position for an entrapment.

The Decoy will also spoof the DNA of the Traitor that placed it down. If the Detective collects DNA that would normally point to the Traitor, it will instead point to the Decoy, buying the Traitor some time before the Detective can find and destroy the Decoy.

Trivia

• There is leftover code in the Decoy's lua file that allows it to be dropped onto the ground like the C4. A comment next to this code explains that this allowed the Decoy to be thrown into unreachable spots, and so was removed.
  • "Drop is disabled to prevent traitors from placing the decoy in unreachable places."

Version History

v16 (October 20 2010)

• Decoy equipment for Traitors: shows a fake radar blip at its location, and redirects any DNA scans made on your DNA to that spot until it is destroyed.