Suicide

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Don't throw your life away, son. You only get one! Or, depending on your religious affiliation, several! Either way it is a finite number so think it through! Click to listen — The Soldier

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Any death unaided by an opposing player is considered to be a suicide.

There are multiple ways to suicide in the game. These include the player switching to another class or team while not inside a Respawn area or Resupply area, a Soldier and a Demoman hitting themselves with their own explosives, a Pyro deflecting projectiles at their feet, or a Scout with the Boston Basher or Three-Rune Blade hitting himself repeatedly. It is also possible for an Engineer to be killed by his own Sentry Gun. If the player killed himself by switching teams or classes or using console commands, the message, "<insert name here> bid farewell, cruel world!" will appear as a kill notice. These kill notices do not appear on death by environmental damage. However, death by drowning, trains, and saw blades will indicate the player suicided. Dying by trains, saw blades, or in an Underworld produces distinct kill icons. Dying by fall damage (or a Pitfall) produces a different death message: "<insert name here> fell to a clumsy, painful death."

Soldiers are able to suicide by performing the Kamikaze taunt, killing themselves and any opposing players in range. However, the Soldier can survive if overhealed by a Medic and buffed with the Battalion's Backup, or if ÜberCharged.

A suicide can also be performed instantly by typing kill into the console. This is normally used in specific situations, such as when the player is stuck and wishes to begin the respawn cycle. Similarly, a player can enter explode into the console to undergo a gibbing suicide, as if killed by an explosion. These commands, however, are disabled during humiliation.

Players who have recently damaged enemies who die from suicide or an environmental death get an assist in the kills list in the form of "<player> finished off <victim>". Any death not directly caused by a player will achieve this.

Strategy

While not being alive generally means that your team gets in disadvantage in terms of number and damage, suiciding can be used in some situations. This can be risky with the Engineer as you will leave your buildings vulnerable, and is not worth with classes that uses a charge ability, like the Medic with the Übercharge or the Soldier with a banner's rage.

• You can suicide to avoid the benefit of you attacker from the final blow. For example, suiciding instead of letting a Medic to kill you with the Ubersaw can avoid the Medic to complete his Übercharge to activate it and save himself or start a push.
• In some maps with short respawn times, suiciding can skip the long way to the base, specially with slow classes.
  • Note that if you respawn as your spawn zone changes, instead of suiciding, you can change class to inmediatly respawn in the most forward spawn.
• While playing as a Ninjaneer, you can suicide instead of trying to return to your base and risk the enemy to see you and to suspect that you built a hidden teleporter behind them.
  • You can skip this if you are using the Eureka Effect.

Related achievements

 Scout

Fall Classic Cause an environmental death or suicide using the Force-A-Nature's knockback.

Foul Territory Cause an environmental death by stunning or slowing an enemy.

 Demoman

He Who Celt It Use the Sticky Launcher to kill an enemy player via environmental damage.

 Medic

Medical Intervention Save a falling teammate from dying on impact.

Gallery

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  A Pyro after suiciding by explode.

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  A Pyro after suiciding by kill.

Kill icons

Main article: Kill icons

 Scout bid farewell, cruel world!

Sniper 

  finished off Spy

 Demoman fell to a clumsy, painful death

 Pyro

 Heavy

 Soldier

Update history

August 4, 2008 Patch

• Fixed clients earning achievements when a player they've recently damaged suicides.

See also

• Damage