TF2 Facts

I post all my knowledge on the source engine and tf2. Banner is a painting by Charles Demuth who is one of the inspirations of TF2s art style.

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TF2 facts #5

The Medic was going to have a secondary which would replace the Medi-Gun called the Rattenfaust. The Rattenfaust would charge up a meter when the Medic dealt damage, and on a full meter the Medic could give nearby allies invincibility for a brief period. It was to encourage a more active playstyle for the Medic, but it was found to be overpowered, so Valve didn't include it. As a nod to this excluded weapon, whenever the Medic taunts while Ubered, there's a 1 in 10000 chance that a rat will show up for a brief period, since Rattenfaust is German for "Ratfist". In addition, in an interview, Gabe Newell said that Medic's favorite animal was going to be rats and the Rattenfaust would be named after it. However, he later said that the remark was a joke.

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TF2 facts #2

An inside joke towards the tail end of TF2s development was that Heavy preferred pizza and burgers to the food of his homeland, but had to settle with sandwiches due to what was available to the mercs . This joke was most likely inspired by the 1997 Pizza Hut add where Gorbachev is featured eating in a Pizza Hut as a family discusses his legacy and one of them says that Gorbachev gave them Pizza Hut.

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TF2 facts #4

The original was "originally" going to be the design of the rocket launcher, but valve redesigned it because it was too quake like, before later adding it back in because they realized the art style was wider than they expected, & it was actually fine.

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TF2 lost media

Many tf2 and Jerma fans remembered a video or stream where he played a mod for tf2 that turned all the water into Nesquik chocolate milk and somebody in game spammed slurs so the cod got removed.

if anybody has any more info feel free to say it.

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TF2 facts #3.5

Casual is fine. the average #bringbackquickplay fan hasn’t even played quickplay

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TF2 facts #3

here’s a more well known one.

The medics official name is Ludwig

also he may or may not have served as a general in ww2. There’s a hat called “medic’s mountain cap” which has the description “The men in his unit called him 'The Bavarian Butcher'” medic seems old enough in the early 60s when the game takes place to have served in ww2.

This hat is community made and valves seems to have hinted at medic being Yiddish so it’s very debatable.

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TF2 facts #2

An inside joke towards the tail end of TF2s development was that Heavy preferred pizza and burgers to the food of his homeland, but had to settle with sandwiches due to what was available to the mercs . This joke was most likely inspired by the 1997 Pizza Hut add where Gorbachev is featured eating in a Pizza Hut as a family discusses his legacy and one of them says that Gorbachev gave them Pizza Hut.

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TF2 facts #1

Tf2 was in development hell from 1998 to 2007 they went through many different ideas for TF2 like TF2 “Invasion” which would have involved aliens .

here’s a bit of concept art from TF2 “invasion”