Over 100 Team Fortress Facts You (Maybe) Didn't Know [TF2]

How did Studio Ghibli inspire TF2's art style? What's the most expensive Team Fortress item ever sold? And what gender is the Pyro officially? Over 100 interesting facts and fun trivia about the TF2 universe collected here for your entertainment!
With my 15 years experience in and around the world of Team Fortress, I decided to gather as many cool stories, surprising truths and little-known mechanics in the following categories: lore (story, what we know about the TF2 characters outside of the game), gameplay (uncommon mechanics and interactions or obscure abilities), items (facts about rare hats, or cool trivia about how certain items came to exist), development (history about TF2's development and unusual facts not many people know), and finally community activities (events and achievements of the amazing TF2 players who have contributed to the game's legacy).
I gathered around 20 facts in each category, mixed them around so there's variety all the way through the video, and balanced out the categories where I felt some facts would be lesser known compared to others. What's left is a collection of some of Team Fortress's coolest trivia and rare nuggets of knowledge that you (maybe) didn't know!
As always, the incredible TF2 Wiki is a great source of verification and inspiration. These articles in particular helped source many of the facts in this video:
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I'm releasing this video 10 years to the day from my first ever video with voice over "5 Things You (Maybe) Didn't Know About Spy": • TF2 Tips: 5 Things You...
I consider that video my first step in to "doing KZbin" with any sort of conscious effort, so 10 years later this video over 20x bigger is very much a celebration of those 10 years and a homage to the video that started it all. I also chose many of these 101 facts as a sort of "greatest hits" of Casperr content, with many of the chosen facts having previously had a dedicated video on this channel in the past, whilst at the same time being an opportunity for me to throw in a few cool pieces of TF2 trivia I never found a way to squeeze into a video before now.
Casperr videos covering some of the facts in more detail:
What we learned from comic #6 - • TF2 Comic #6: Overview...
TF2's coolest glitch trivia - • TF2 Glitches: What Wen...
TF2's player number problem - • TF2's Player Stats Are...
TF2's complete character lore - • The TF2 Mercs' Officia...
All about one-of-a-kind hats - • TF2: One-of-a-Kind Hats!
An 8 year old discussion about random crits - • TF2 Random Crits Expla...
TF2's cut content - • TF2: Coolest Unused Co...
Item Qualities thoroughly explained - • The Secret Meaning of ...
A nearly 10 year old video about YER - • TF2: Your Eternal Rewa...
Impossible Unusuals - • These Unusual Items Sh...
The Administrator's hidden portrait - • I Investigated the Adm...
TF2 characters in other games - • The Surprising Team Fo...
The massive unusual unbox bug - • This Typo Killed Tradi...
Grandmaster and other IRL promo hats - • TF2: Expensive IRL Ite...
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Corrections:
8:56 - And of course Scout himself at 133%
11:56 - The Official TF2 soundtrack vinyl suggests Miss Pauling's first initial is "F"
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[@Casperr]

Honestly, how many of these did you know before today? 😅 And what's your favourite random TF2 fact of all time? It doesn't have to be from this video, share the gift of a TF2 knowledge with us all! This video is two things: firstly, it's a celebration of a *decade of doing KZbin!* On 24 May 2014 I released “5 Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know About Spy” - my first video with voice over and the point where I decided to “do KZbin” with any sort of conscious effort. And now, 10 years later, I am _still_ doing KZbin in part thanks to what I learned and experienced making and releasing that now ancient listicle. So this video is as much a callback to that seminal release as it is a “greatest hits” of the many of the cool things that have featured on the Casperr channel over all these years! Secondly, this video is the bookend for the current era of Casperr. I’m going to spend some time working on multiple videos simultaneously - an intentional effort to craft a “season” of content with a common theme and style between all the videos - so when I eventually return it will be a sort of “soft relaunch” for the channel. Still very recognisably Casperr, but with a shiny new vibe that I am really excited about creating, and I hope that you will enjoy once it’s here! Until then, all I have left to say is thanks everyone for *a decade* of tuning in (Of course if Valve just so happen to launch a brand new free-to-play class-based shooter in the meantime then I may show up before all of that new stuff is ready, but we’ll cross that bridge if we come to it 🙂)

[@mbars977]

You should play the finals, there is a TV head cosmetic there that would fit you perfectly

[@Ban-zx9se]

55/100

[@pinguino5105]

I knew pretty much everything, except for some very specific numbers (e.g the playcount peak) and some of the beta stuff that was never released.

[@1992SFA]

As a viewer of I think 10 years (if not, very close), thank you! Always love your content. I knew probably about half of these facts. Still, cool!

[@AliensComeback]

Closed Captions typo at 4:59 and 5:59. Also at 12:28, you forgot about Heavy's item "Yuri's Revenge", not entirely pop-culture but it does reference to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2's expansion pack.

[@toaster9922]

Fun fact: The owner of the Death-Defying Skull is still alive and playing tf2 today :)

[@Mrshovelmin]

The best ending:

[@mymanmarty8433]

Me and my buddies got the pleasure of meeting him a couple weeks ago completely by chance He even accepted my friend request 😁

[@ChesterManfred]

Portal reference

[@the_rustydoornob1164]

Yea, I think it’s the items name but he said somewhere in game “update, I kicked cancers ass”

[@thatguystar817]

Best fact :D

[@CuddlyTheMadElite]

8:53 Reason why Scout isn’t here because he runs and doesn’t have walking speed.

[@garryhlambert]

Real

[@willjensen5595]

deserved top comment

[@inkycat191]

Damn… You’re right

[@WeaselOnaStick]

I'm very sorry to ruin this joke (that made me laugh as I remembered the "walking scout" tech) by pointing out that Casperr explicitly said "move speed". I'll make it up by saving you a trip to tf2 wiki and disclosing his speed is 133%

[@fantastikboom1094]

All mercs run. It's just that not all of them can consistently run at high speed like scout.

[@Funghios]

Pyro is 5 chickens in a trenchcoat, I mean just compare the sounds

[@da_real_bup]

No 🙄🙄🙄 He's obviously a bunch of fire and firewood stuffed in a trench coat

[@cloudynguyen6527]

Would be funny if they are just chickens in CS. No wonder Pyro is so volatile and weird.

[@Aminos_prime]

Also, saxton Hales blood is only red because his pure Australium blood rusts as soon as it becomes in contact with oxygen

[@Loot_Bugs]

I find the idea of rusting Australium far more disturbing than the idea of having it for blood.

[@SoluKissin]

I'm pretty sure that's why regular blood is red too, all the iron in it oxidizes

[@Aminos_prime]

@@SoluKissin no blood is always red. If you think it's blue then you were lied to.

[@SoluKissin]

@@Aminos_prime I never said it was blue at any point. Blood being red due to the iron in the hemes is still correct and it never stops being red

[@fantastikboom1094]

@@SoluKissin Your sentence is poorly formed, accidently impliyng that.

[@metalclawsteelheart]

5:05 OH OF COURSE THE THIRD ONE DOESN'T EXIST.

[@Petal316]

Trust me, it was not a good concept, brotherhood of arms wouldn’t of survived until today like tf2 did

[@kytkeyboardsyoureterrific439]

9:23 *random Japanese player after reading text on the top of a box he found* OHHHH-

[@evilwizard2236]

11:51 Just a small note here, we do actually know something about Miss Pauling's first name! Within the Fight Songs vinyl, there's a bunch of Polaroid-style photos of the mercs. One of the photos is signed "Photo: F. Pauling", which seems to suggest that Pauling's first name starts with an F. This, coupled with the fact that many of the photos depict all nine mercs, seems to also suggest that Miss Pauling was the one taking the pictures! TotePyro has an album on imgur which is full of pictures of the vinyl itself if you would like to see them for yourself.

[@GaybrohamStinkton]

Her forst name starts with A 😬

[@idkplzhalp]

​@@GaybrohamStinkton no it doesnt.. the person you're responding to literally gave a canon source, where are you getting A from 😭 I thought that was just a fandom thing

[@fishstickfailur3]

@@GaybrohamStinkton forst

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

@@GaybrohamStinkton That's a nice argument senator, why don't you back it up with a source?

[@redstonewarrior0152]

​@@TrixterTheFemboy My source is I made it the fuck up

[@vinectf]

Fun Fact! There is a new most expensive item, the Spellbound Antlers. It was sold for roughly 16410 keys. The trade was a golden frying pan, a Soulful Slice Patriot Peak, a Poisoned Shadows Antlers and 300 pure keys.

[@wintube360]

i cried when he said "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" edit: Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch is a city

[@thunderknight4149]

Your comment has a "translate to english" under it but all it does is turn "Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch" to "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndroblllllantysiliogogogoch"

[@Octobyt3]

8:53 I guess Scout doesn't exist

[@minus100iq8]

What? Who's Scout? There is only 8 classes

[@giuseppe9653]

That would be a great idea for a 4th class!

[@Hand-to-handWombatCombat]

Honestly scout has always been a weird community take on the madcap

[@someasiandude4797]

You mean Madcap?

[@sniper7303]

cant wait for miss pauling to hire a new scout

[@level20eevee75]

20:17 i think they did actually explain why there is 2 of the same class on each side. It is because each of the classes are seperate individuals. it is shown that the red demo and blu soldier are best friends, but never shown that the red demo and red soldier are close friends

[@mumia2176]

8:44 "short films" (proceeds to show a 2 hour long movie)

[@DelinaSilence]

14:17 Not only the sentry gun beeps indicate level, teleporters also follow the same suit

[@nickspencerfishingrodd2383]

i didn't know that tbh

[@wiggytommy8607]

15:37 The person in the middle of the photograph is implied to be Charles Darling. This can be determined due to the fact that he is related to Zephaniah Mann’s wife, whose maiden name is Darling.

[@Psyche_TH]

It's unlikely to be Charles Darling as the photograph is from too long ago compared to Darling in the time of the main comic series, and we have no indication that he had a life extension machine like Blutarch, Redmond, Gray and Helen do, although there's nothing to confirm that he doesn't have one either. The most likely scenario, as in the only one the wiki gives any weight to, is that it's an ancestor of Charles, perhaps Bette Mann's father.

[@Lemonzmaker]

I cant. Believe that rhe box can snitch at 9:21

[@kevkevplays5662]

9:10 forgot scouts move speed

[@The_Pope_real]

He runs. Not walks.

[@theSato]

@@The_Pope_real that's a cope. medic and engi 'run' as well (or at least 'jog'), its certainly not a 'walk'. But when we say 'walking speed' we mean 'movement speed' (and if there is a separate function to increase movespeed we call that a sprint, but it doesnt exist here, so all grounded move speeds are walking speeds ) Scout was just neglected to be added and that's okay.

[@The_Pope_real]

@@theSato That's a cope. He runs, not walks.

[@dah_tah]

​​@@The_Pope_realThat's a cope, He runs, not runs.

[@nickspencerfishingrodd2383]

@@dah_tah that's a runs, he cope, not runs

[@TabooRetka701]

Scout's character is made after a popular TF2 streamer Jerma985, that's why scout's name is Jeremy and he is from Boston

[@awezmo5499]

Only Jeremy can be a nod to Jerma but the Scout was from Boston already, wtf

[@screamsinrussian5773]

​@@awezmo5499boston is not real, jerma made it up as part of his channel lore

[@airburrito4315]

8:52 While true, there is some in-game evidence that pyro is indeed human: the Voodoo-cursed Pyro soul. When equipped, the top portion of Pyro’s mask is removed, along with his skin and flesh, revealing their very human skull. Unless there happens to be a species that shares a skull structure with Humans, Pyro is all but confirmed Human.

[@SkjesRed]

In-game stuff is not usually considered canon due to most of it being community-created, and most lore from VALVe is explicitly released through the comics, online and physical media, etc.

[@flamingscar5263]

Then again there are many cosmetics that straight up remove their (its?) Head

[@airburrito4315]

@@SkjesRed fair enough

[@cactusgamingyt9960]

munkee

[@dinkelbroetchenlover]

@@SkjesRed But even those official sources contradict each other so many times...

[@aduckwalkeduptoalemonadestand]

10:11 Sadly after 2021 MacOS stopped supporting 32bit software. I was hopeful that the 64bit update would allow us Mac users to play TF2 again but Valve never released the update to Mac users.

[@explodinghammeronthe17thof36]

lol

[@maxlimit9129]

Fun fact: Scout is named Jeremy after a specific content creator who had his origins in TF2 content, resembles Scout, and recently announced his soft retirement from streaming. Yes, I'm not kidding, Scout is genuinely named after Jerma. If this is how you found out about his soft retirement, my condolences.

[@Davenzoid]

No way! Did he ever say why? He just had enough of streaming? Bigger plans?

[@damsen978]

Yup, i knew all of them, and here are a few you haven't mentioned. - The first reload on guns like the scattergun, any rocket launcher, any shotgun, the bison, the pomsom 6000, etc, take longer than the subsequent reloadings. - TF2 has multiple "Ultra high settings": 1. mat_picmip -10 for uncompressed textures. 2. For level of detail, "r_lod 0" and "r_rootlod 0" for the player models to always be at their highest detail regardless of distance. 3. " cl_new_impact_effects 1" changes the bullet impact effects on surfaces to better looking, more optimized impact effects, it even adds an impact effect for glasses when by default TF2 never had any for that surface. 4. "cl_burninggibs 1" makes gibs to remain on fire if a player gets gib-killed while on fire. 5. Adding "-no_texture_stream" to the game's parameters makes it so the game never loads blurry textures and always loads them at their best quality. Texture streaming is commonly used for old PCs with weak video cards. 6. For last, the most obscure and impressive one are "mp_usehwmmodels" and "mp_usehwmvcds". These two commands (now defunct) used to enable hardware morph models, improving the look of the heads of the 9 classes with better facial expressions (akin to the ones seen in their official SFM videos), and with new kinds of textures like adding wrinkles on their forehead when raising their eyebrows. They also came with unique, more complex facial expressions that aren't seen otherwise. Valve apparently disabled their functionality because they didn't want to bother updating their bodygroups or adding facial expressions for newer voice lines. - SFM has higher polygon models of the 9 classes. With also better textures like Sniper's Garand thumb. Giving them a more polished look. - Sniper's viewmodel is inconsistent, he wears two gloves with no watch while in third person/world view he only wears one glove and with a watch. -Some of TF2's class portraits found in the game's HUD are from the beta player models, the most notable example being Spy. Valve never bothered to update them, only adding 3D displays as an optional bandaid fix. -Some if not all gibs of the 9 classes are also from their beta player model counterparts. Again, Valve never bothered to update them. -Don't forget the hidden official page from Valve that rewarded players with Soldier's Gentle Manne's Service Medal during the classless or war update.

[@damsen978]

Forgot another one which i'm not sure if most players knows of this. Any team that wins a match, not only get crit buffed but also have a very slight speed buff, while the losing team gets slightly slower.

[@fantastikboom1094]

Not only this is interesting but might be useful. Cool.

[@DJVexillum]

I love/hate the fact that with the introduction of the Australium lore, they totally forgot about Sniper being Australian and had to retcon him to being from New Zealand instead

[@fantastikboom1094]

8:57 There are 6 move speed types. You forgot the Scout with 133%.

[@sn0ipe333]

9:00 forgor scout

[@kubikirii]

something i thought about that i wanna add: pyro's thermal thruster is still pretty broken. you can trick source spaghetti into thinking you're mid-air 24/7 by just launching yourself to the loadout cabinet if you've swapped out your secondary to anything else. this was discovered in early 2019 and to my knowledge still works. it's technically an unfair exploit but its use cases are extremely circumstantial; you have the ability to stomp people if you fall from high enough and you also take practically no fall damage.

[@nukellavee]

Fact #22 is wrong. The video "Candy Crash" by Kostamoinen has 227 million views. As far as I've seen, that's the most viewed TF2 video ever made.

[@Felix-Felix]

15:33 That game is about your vehicle transforming from a cart into a boat or a plane and so on. When you're driving a plane, it becomes spy. When you're driving a boat it becomes Heavy. And none of them use their original voice actors. 16:03 - Scout naturally is worth 2 players pushing it. Same for Soldier or Demo if they're holding the "Pain Train" melee weapon. These stats also work for control points too. 18:03 - In Russian accent, "Mikhail" is "Mirraeel". He also has a nickname from his sisters and mom as "Misha" 18:06 - There's a chance that Medic's second name is "Humboldt". On the map Rottenburg for mvm, we find a place that states a certain "Mr. Humboldt" sells baboon uteruses, the same that medic uses on the most recent comics.

[@redstonewarrior0152]

Mr. Humboldt may also be where the Medic sources his baboon uteruses from.

[@Team_Fortress2]

I unboxed 7 unusual in 30 crates. I did it in the Vatican City Server a while back. i still have all the hats from that unbox. That was a crazy night.

[@pushyrummble8625]

yeah didn't they only let you have 1st unsual for trading or whatever but the rest are untradable

[@Team_Fortress2]

@@pushyrummble8625 i did this on the Christmas update last year. It was no where close to that broken crate drop rate time. Honestly it would be 30 of 30 for unusual and that would have been broke as all hell.

[@SteampunkCorvus]

5:16 What about Team Fortress 2 Invasion? (The game that was leaked with Half life 2, not the community event)

[@jakedoesyoutube]

6:00 the hat has a hidden stat of making Notch take 10% more damage of all kinds. Yes, really.

[@poi5352]

TFtubers single handedly keeping TF2 alive

[@LightsJusticeZ]

12:15 #63 I didn't realize this was changed. It used to be the Spy's name would be your name. So if you saw a friendly when your name, it was a dead giveaway it was a Spy.

[@Wokko_wok]

For fact 45 you forgot scout...

[@legless_sam]

Am I the only one who needed to watch this twice because he didn't pay attention properly the first time?

[@explodinghammeronthe17thof36]

21:20 LOL is that where the spies disguise sfm idea came from?

[@pyrofromtf2]

102nd fact: I am Pyro. I became real.

[@theunitedkingdomofaxollotls]

Pyro when is the next tf2 update coming out

[@pyrofromtf2]

@@theunitedkingdomofaxollotls never.

[@wilddoggames5949]

Oh

[@gamingplus2884]

When is the next tf2 update not coming out?

[@pyrofromtf2]

@@gamingplus2884 never.

[@mudderbad5780]

Wow, I didn't know you still uploaded. This is the first video I've gotten recommended from you in over a year. Glad to see you're still here

[@komrade_gagarin]

The first major game with different classes was Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. This game, wothout a strong community, but still, is alive.

[@zedz2360]

10,000 hours and I did not know the sydney sleeper can extinguish teammates

[@frischfisch6217]

10:45 One of the reasons to disable auto reload is that it can block the Rescue Ranger from saving a building.

[@Psyche_TH]

The other two reasons are that scout's force-a-nature and soda popper completely waste the second shell if they're reloaded with ammo remaining, and that spy can only mimic his disguise's reload animation if he reloads himself, which can virtually never happen with auto-reload enabled as in most cases you'll reload while undisguised or still in the process of disguising. On spy there used to also be the reason that the revolver reload animation blocked your entire view for a split-second which made the ambassador awful to use with auto-reload, but this animation was eventually changed to a less obstructive one.

[@wojtekpolska1013]

i knew all of those but the sentry beeps :) i knew that the beeps were different but didnt notice that it beeps one time for each level

[@ehrenmaes7841]

The sentry beep fact shook me , never noticed with 4000+ hours

[@no-ex8ft]

i forgot you were supposed to pronounce that city at the end of the video and laughed so hard once you did it

[@lordoats]

smh didn't even talk about the official crossover with Peggle, Peggle Extreme, where pyro sets a hamster on fire

[@lunar1194]

his name is jimmy lightning god damnit and you will respect it

[@Falcarious]

5:20 this man doesn't know about Team Fortress Invasion

[@Casperr]

I did read about that when deciding how to phrase this fact, and intentionally left it out. As far as I can tell, it existed as a lot of concepts but no real game and if anything is just more Brotherhood of Arms. The "4" I settled on were all essentially complete and playable games. Even though Brotherhood of Arms never released, it has full official trailers and even won awards.

[@Clone1212]

There was more than Invasion between Brotherhood and the final TF2. You left out a lot

[@randreysantos7196]

Maybe the capacity to transform yourself in a dispenser, serves to a hide and seek mode, idk.

[@lmrls1187]

Fun fact : the lead animator of the Turbulence SFM movie now works with Disney and lead the animation of various main characters in recent Disney movies

[@KlassicLoL]

Love that I’m still learning things about this 17 year old game

[@krypt1ccc739]

Extinguishing teammates with sydney sleeper blew my mind.

[@Fafr]

15:22 To add on to this fact, in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, Pyro isn't the only TF2 character. When the vehicle is transformed into a boat, it's driven by Heavy instead. And when it's a plane, the pilot is Spy

[@r3ynolds_ow581]

I once met someone in game with a community sparkle effect for the Demo's Dustcatcher cosmetic. It was really cool.

[@vooshoos]

Cheers for constant quality uploads I consider myself a knowledge bank but there were quite a lot of things I didn't even know that were on here.

[@ricksmith1975]

14:49 note: The fortress forever mod of tfc has a different sniper rifle design without the no-zoom headshot thing

[@Pinkooru]

6:15 Oh hey that middle one I got two days in a row. Fun stuff.

[@Garayin]

13:24 Idk if that's when it started or I noticed it but when that background music hit my ears I immediately chimed out "You were close!"

[@Madick07]

The Xbox 360 version of Tf2 has special features like no airblast and 6 grenade launcher rounds instead of 4, and you can combine the levels from half life and portal to make custom levels

[@LightsJusticeZ]

Technically incorrect. The X360 version has 4 pipes like PC but only if you keep it updated. Deleting any patches will revert it back to day 1 release with 6 pipes. The PS3 version on the other hand never received any updates so they'll always have 6 pipes.

[@zyxaqc]

I like to think that Demo could still load 6 grenades in the stock launcher, but he only loads 4 because he's too drunk to remember how many it can hold. Same goes for loading 3 grenades in the Loch-n-Load despite its model only having room for 2.

[@pikajade]

14:51 neglecting to mention that it's named that because the mayor changed it to "two farts" on a dare and was too scared to change it all the way back

[@Knux84]

My favourite TF2 crossover trivia is that there's a dispenser in Sam and Max season 3, and if you interact with it 8 times (the number of times it takes to upgrade when an engineer hits it with a wrench in TF2), there's an easter egg where it dispenses a can of Banang (a running gag from Sam and Max)

[@Memelordvr]

Other games: I thought you died, tf2: my death was greatly exaggerated

[@Mitioritos]

The auto reload is actually funky with the shortstop

[@vukanimation2899]

you need to know thes facts they are 101 facts

[@plushmaster2i443]

8:42 incredible “short” films 😂

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

18:00 Scout is actually named Jeremy after Jerma985 because of how much people would say he resembles and acts like him.

[@salty4life]

4:28 If we count all the warpaints that have been added to the game, that can be applied to 42 weapons, have 5 wear conditions each, and can come in strange, unusual or both and add everything up, just the warcases added roughly 108 360 unique possible items into TF2 since they've been introduced into the game

[@happyraintf]

That's great quiz material..... And a fantastic video!

[@xanimation368]

15:33 it's actually not just pyro it's heavy and spy too

[@greenth-mac2550]

15:55 Looking and hearing about this picture for the first time, I have a theory that this mysterious unknown man in the middle might have something to do with the Administrator's old debt that she's been trying to settle using the Australium in the comics. I am surprised this was never mentioned before

[@SilliestGoobish]

on the steam deck some of the runtime files are named after tf2 mercs

[@engied8459]

18:17 Hey thats me getting killed there

[@Awsome2464]

Out of all these facts, the one that blows my mind the most is the sentry guns' beeps indicating their level. I've sunk hundreds of hours into Engie and never picked up on that

[@lucastakeji1845]

I got my wiki cap back in 2011 (jesus im getting old). Im surprised that a lot of players to this day still had no ideia it existed. You can still get one. I think the last owner was awarded a few months ago.

[@Psyche_TH]

It's because there's an understated disparity between people that do things about the game and people that play the game. The overlap of people that do both on a regular enough basis is surprisingly small. Creators on the workshop (or at least, the ones that successfully get their items into the game) have accrued a reputation for outright spitting on the TF2 art style as they just want royalties and don't actually play: many cosmetics and a number of maps are testament to this. Others from 'the good old days' have mostly moved onto other things, notwithstanding that a lot of the items during said days were created by Valve themselves so community items were less common. TF2 KZbinrs tend to end up spending more time editing and adding commentary to gameplay footage than they did recording it, or in some instances they're using SFM to illustrate a scene so they didn't need to use the game at all. This is counterbalanced by streamers and pro scene casters, but the audience for those is much smaller at present. Then there's 'trader mains' who are only interested in the economy and only open the game to organise their backpack or show off/advertise in a trade server, which I wouldn't really count as playing. So it would therefore not surprise me if most people that have earned themselves the wiki cap in reality don't meaningfully engage with the source product the wiki is about, and subsequently the wiki cap is rarely seen by other players. Same as how you'll probably never see other real 'community' or 'self-made' quality items due to what I said about workshoppers above.

[@xFluing]

A fun fact about scout's name is that he was named after Jerma because they look so much alike.

[@shiskele3273]

Finally a video that i straight from the start facts without yappin

[@Turgineer]

14:20 As an Engineer main, it was shocking for me to learn this 9 years after I started playing the game.

[@ricksmith1975]

12:20 Stock also means new or preferred loadout

[@rain28980]

i didn't know that being able to interrupt your reload was unique to tf2

[@Mossandleaf]

Now I know these facts,thank you for telling me these!

[@for_vraks592]

im pretty sure that the administrator portrait is a reference to pulp fiction!

[@AliensComeback]

15:48 This guy we don't see could be someone we're supposed to see in the unreleased 8th comic.

[@sunshinerainbow8469]

5:00 …life-life engine? (turn on captions)

[@XnerzTheNerd]

That town name was the real reason i watched your video thank you Casperr

[@Junakase]

9:04 When they changed Spy's speed from 100% to 107% that made Spies so much more annoying. I remember back in the days, killing a Spy as a Scout was not that difficult, if you knew how to recognize disguised Spies. Even with the Dead Ringer, you were still able to kill them, if you could guess where they were going. But since they allowed them to outrun any other class including Pyro, killing a somewhat decent Spy has become way too difficult, especially when your teammates don't know how to spycheck and give them additional health or speed boosts. In my opinion, one of the worst changes ever made.

[@OctoLemon06]

My favourite item referencing something is probably the brothers in blues which obviously references the movie The Blues Brothers. Rip John Belushi.

[@dellconagher8599]

For the most expensive item I was under the impression that it was actually 50,000 dollars for a "Self made Max's severed head".

[@Casperr]

Got any source for that?

[@dellconagher8599]

@@Casperr ok, I just checked, and I was WAY off. Idk if i confused it with something else but yea I was wrong.

[@NeverStopGaming36]

Poor scout never got his move speed included.

[@anonymouscletus]

Now I know why super has tf at the end of his name... I always had my speculation but I never really researched the dude

[@ChesterManfred]

Siberian jungle sounds like such an excellent idea. Unfortunately, pyro mains are the epitome of quantity over quality

[@ludwigiapilosa508]

I once saw the heavy Dota 2 hat in game.

[@lrkeribergaard6110]

bro wasen't lying! he can pronounce that very long town name!

[@thespringlock1794]

really nice video, just a few things I wanted to point out: 10: Also worth bringing up Team Fortress Classic in that (or Team Classic or whatever). I would also say that it kinda fucks with the whole RED and BLU thing to just have halves of the mercenaries from each game comprise a "team", which leads to whether or not there are 18 mercs or if there's just 9, especially considering how BLU (with the exception of Engie) just flat out disappears from existence after Gray takes over (or just 9 of the 18 if you go off of A Fate Worse Than Chess), like Miss Pauling doesn't even try to track down BLU team, and RED team is treated as THE Medic, or THE Sniper... or how some mercs remember things that only happened to their other team's counterpart, but whatever. Thinking about the "logic" of TF2's world hurts me brain. 28: Fifth if we include Team Fortress Invasion (since we are counting Brotherhood of Arms). 30: Ayyy ay wait, didn't you debunk that in your Admin video? Wouldn't she be ~120yrs with that logic (the genealogy/census records)? Like, even if you're talking about Elizabeth, the voice that announces to the mercs in-game is very much Helen (see: The Naked and the Dead). Oh yeah also are you ever gonna elaborate on the cliffhanger ya put in that video... or was that the joke? 45: Bro really just willed Scout out of existence lol. 61: We know that her first name starts with an "F" thanks to the Fight Songs vinyl case. But yeah, that's about it. I always assumed she was close to Scout in age, but that would mean that Administrator hired her for this job as a teenager, making all that abuse somehow even worse. 79: idk I still say it's an ancestor of Charles Darling (or even himself, idk). 83: It's worth noting that the Organ Needle neighbors a missile range built in 1941 (White Sands). Could this mean anything for Admin's painfully hollow mysterious plans and "old debt"? Probably not. 85: Probably to not set the community in (even more) flames. TF2 remains as the one thing that is still worth sending 2 guys over to sprinkle some fancy bug fixes and community-made content on every now and then. 100: I'm pretty sure it can be deduced that Arena's removal was due to the death mechanics being a nightmare for the casual queuing system and prompting more rage quits, worsening the problem (and arguably just shit in general for 12v12 but that's neither here nor there). Asteroid and Cactus Canyon were likely cases of Valve having no place for the Beta queue in casual and subsequently losing motivation. But yeah, no "official word". Sorry for the long comment. Can't wait for this new era of Casperr, and I wish you the best of luck with this path!

[@pancakeperson8905]

Pauling being a teenager when she was hired absolutely makes sense for TF2 lore.

[@thespringlock1794]

@@pancakeperson8905 ik, it also explains the way she behaves and treats her job (see: Expiration Date, the Tough Break contract lines, her vision in The Naked and the Dead, etc.). it’s just not a pretty picture when ya think about it.

[@Psyche_TH]

My theory with regard to the teams and why one team seems to evaporate from existence in the comic timeline is that it's part of a continuity. The Gravel Wars used two teams, one for BLU and one for RED, and the lore mentions multiple times that these teams were evenly matched and caused a stalemate. Whether this is because neither team was able to kill the other, or because both companies had cloning technology (which explains respawns and multiple of the same class on the same team) that was too dangerous for Blutarch and Redmond to use on themselves, is up to you and is a small diversion within the theory that doesn't matter in the end. Either way, eventually nine of the 18 mercs do die for real (and the cloning technology is destroyed somehow) but only one of each class, with no two scouts, soldiers, pyros, etc surviving. The stalemate appears to be over. However, before either side gets a chance to totally eliminate the other, Gray assassinates Blutarch and Redmond which means the mercs are no longer hired so they stop fighting. Then is the MvM saga, and like we see in the first MvM trailer, the remainders of the two teams unite to fight the robots. They unify under RED uniform not out of allegiance to Redmond or his company but purely for logical combat purposes as the robots are all of metallic bluish colour so they're now red for contrast in order to spot each other as allies. They have no problem getting along and having the same team dynamic as they did with their dead comrades as the Gravel Wars were just business. This is the team that is always seen as being RED in the stories that appear to omit the existence of BLU team, or vice versa.

[@thespringlock1794]

@@Psyche_TH honestly i would be all for that theory, it’s just that, again, certain classes know (or are associated with) things that exclusively happened to their other-team counterpart, biggest example being the reference to A Smissmas Story in Unhappy Returns (former-BLU Scout retells a tale involving former+current-RED Soldier and Spy, when all three were BLU in that story). also, you’d think permanently losing half of the mercenary power of RED and BLU due to some freak accident would be what forces the Mann brothers into a truce, but nah, Gray tricks them both with fabricated letters. there’s also the consistency issue of *which* mercs from *which* team survived (A Fate Worse Than Chess, the MvM trailer, the Fight Songs cover, etc.), and the question of the same logic with TFC and the other past teams, but whatever. the way I see it, there is absolutely no in-universe explanation. the writers simply did not give a shit and wanted a whole story arc without having to keep track of two of each class (especially when TFC comes along), and so they just had one of each to represent each class.

[@Psyche_TH]

@@thespringlock1794 Yeah that's fair. In the end the efficient storywriting reason makes the most sense, but I like to use the theory whenever I want to be immersed.

[@pepsiman8483]

20:20 and so, the community took the idea into their own hands

[@Madick07]

Did you know that even when the Xbox 360 online store shuts down this year, you’ll still be able to play Xbox 360 online

[@mrsquid_]

jeremy as scout is actually based on jerma and was named by the voice actor

[@honeybunchesofnopes1762]

I waited till the end for him to pronounce that town. was not dissappear

[@boss-de-boss2012]

i have 5400 h in this game and i know 50+ of these, i deserve a medal

[@Sheerspeechcraft]

You deserve the world after coming through with your promise at the end.

[@coughfee1416]

I just wanna be there for a TF2 update. I joined after Jungle Inferno and Blue Moon, I do envy people who were around for the updates, must have been very cool to see new stuff.

[@MegaDuckLol]

Scout runs he doesn't walk