After priming, this grenade exudes a yellow cloud of hallucinogen for about 15 seconds. If you are caught in this cloud, it has a couple of effects. Firstly, it cuases you damage - the longer you stay in the cloud, the more damage it does - you can drop a few of these together
multiplying the damage. In addition, you also basically see and hear things that arn't there - you hear grenades exploding, the screen shakes and you see grenades dropped in front of you. This is pretty unnerving at first, though after a couple of times you get used to this and this grenade has no massive effect.
As a spy, this grenade has no major effect except one - it tells everyone that there's a spy around - not something you'd normally advertise so I try and avoid using them. The main use for them, I find, is to drop a load round a dropped flag - any opponant that grabs you flag will lose a LOT of health and armor very quickly - this makes it much easier for your team to take them out before they escape. For some reason, some spys seem to take great pleasure from dropping a group of these at your respawn - this is fantastically annoying though quite whether this is a legitimate tactic I have yet to make my mind up.
Overall, I'd say this is a pretty useless grenade and when I play as a spy I very rarely use it.
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