#Team fortress concept art mod#
#Team fortress concept art update#

Archimedes, the Spycrab, and Balloonicorn exist as real-life merchandise.

('Helen' and 'Ellen' sound almost identical in most dialects of English).

The Danza: The Administrator is named for her voice actress.

Character-Specific Pages: Each class has their own dedicated page due to the amount of character and gameplay depth each of them have.

Casting Gag: The voiced characters in the game's Halloween maps (Merasmus, The Bombinomicon, Redmond, Blutarch, and Zepheniah Mann) were all played by Nolan North, whose birthday falls on Halloween.

In Expiration Date, the Soilder does not say 'I have done nothing but teleport bread for the past 3 days,' he only says 'I have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days.'.

Dying is gay.В” That came from a video of a well-known TF2 youtuber, STBlackST, 'Endless Unusual Troubles'.

The Soldier never said В“Son, always remember.

Most voice lines that were added in subsequent major updates never got translated in non-English versions of the game.

When it was first released, the HHH was even advertised as TF2's first boss monster.

The Horseless Headless Horsemann and the other Halloween bosses were directly inspired by the fan-made Versus Saxton Hale Mode.

#Team fortress concept art mod#

Fans certainly have noticed in any Garry's Mod or Source Film Maker video in which Heavy casts a magic spell (such as these three examples ), it's almost always the 'caputus' spell. When Heavy recites the spell 'caputus crepitus', his voice actor puts much emphasis on the syllables '-putus', which may be a nod to the 'POOTIS' meme.Once he's discovered, he'll immediately turn back to normal and attack the player who revealed him. When fighting him as a boss, Merasmus will do a homage to the Prop Hunt mod and spawn random objects around the map while turning into one himself to hide amongst them at both 50% (one half) and 10% (one tenth) of his HP.The Pyro from Team Fortress Classic is a woman. Two issues later, it gets poked at again. The fan-speculation about the Pyro's actual gender has been lampshaded.As of the Гњber update, the fan terms 'Demoknight' and 'Pocket Medic' have been accepted into canon.Valve has also opened a submission site for custom avatars and items.Similarly, the Payload mode is based on the fan-made map Happycow.

The King of the Hill gameplay mode was originally a custom mod done by the No Heroes TF2 community before Valve implemented a slightly modified version as an official gameplay mode.

And now Makani even works for Valve, doing comics/'Choose A Game Mode' illustrations for Team Fortress 2, working on the science fair posters for Portal 2, and drawing all of the Steam Summer Sale front page illustrations for 2011.

This popular fanart of the Administrator ended up strongly influencing her official appearance (as revealed in this comic as The Administrator and foreshadowed two months prior with this image of The Clan that everything in the game traces its lineage back to).

However, they have done updates to curb the aimbot crisis that started in 2020, so not all hope is lost. The fact that the development team has shrunk down to less than ten people indicates that Valve no longer prioritizes TF2 over their other projects, at least for the time being.

#Team fortress concept art update#

Artist Disillusionment: As time has gone on, Valve seems to have become less and less interested in updating Team Fortress 2 compared to their other titles (most notable Counter-Strike), with the last major new content update being Jungle Inferno.