REQUIRED FOR TROLLDIER?!?! Reacting to "Soldier Weapon Stereotypes" by Soundsmith!

[@PROrangeV2]

So, to answer why the Direct Hit has those nicknames, we gotta check its stats. We got 25% damage bonus, faster rocket speed, mini-crits players launched by explosions, grappling hooks or rocket pads. Nice, great stats. Here's the catch, this launcher has a 70% SMALLER EXPLOSION RADIUS. Since explosions are as small as TF2's melee hitreg, it gets its nicknames.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

This explanation helps so much

[@tomlawson4713]

Well it’s also because a lot of people can’t hit shots with it unless the enemy is literally right in front of them

[@frozenfiredarknight3764]

@@theduckgoesmoo there is a reason why it's called the *Direct Hit*

[@localdegenerate6891]

@@theduckgoesmoo kyle pog

[@ghastlygibus2121]

@@frozenfiredarknight3764 the reason why is called direct miss 90% of the time

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

In a competitive match, the "roamer" role is exactly what it sounds like: they roam around the map, using their superior mobility to scout, ambush, and intercept flanker classes like scouts and other Soldiers. Also, the Equalizer/Escape Plan taunt kill is the only one that kills you, since it involves the Soldier detonating the grenades on his bandolier to suicide bomb. All the others are safe, save for their long wind-up time.

[@dona2985]

Soldier is really a mad man.

[@RebbyEviolite]

Pyro's and Sniper's are quite a lot faster though

[@eliukaBruh]

To know more about market gardener "How to trolldier" by soundsmith might help you

[@autistazinha]

yes please

[@Htroxdogface]

I second this notion

[@theduckgoesmoo]

It will come soon!

[@Firenzetra]

@@theduckgoesmoo Noice

[@dona2985]

Yesss

[@Jack-jz9gr]

Difference beetween market gardener and shovel : market gardener only crits when the user is in the Air (hitting the ground or enemys head counts as landing) not to mention that it has a longer recovery time beetween each Swing and it has no random crits. The shovel does not crit in the air, No reduced recovery time between swings and has random crits.

[@frozenfiredarknight3764]

I really need that cuz I suk at trying to market garden

[@albertobellini98]

It's called the "Escape Plan" because it lets you move faster the less health you have. So pulling that weapon out is your way (your plan) to escape out of a dangerous situation. Also, many years ago the Equalizer and the Escape Plan used to be the same weapon with both effects together, and then they decided to split them in 2 separate ones.

[@footisman2059]

I mean, detonating a grenade and blast jumping to heaven is a good escape plan...

[@jianng7795]

What the Escape Plan does is make you go faster the lower your health is. Being marked for death means any damage taken is a mini-crit.

[@thechairthetable3772]

Go ham with the market gardener. Its hard to use but so satisfying to kill with it. Of course, knowing how to rocket jump is required. Also, your hair looks great in this video idk why.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

When I play Trolldier I will and thank you it was really floofy that day for some reason

[@yothatscool4569]

@@theduckgoesmoo gigachad

[@ghastlygibus2121]

@@theduckgoesmoo use the pan That melee weapon have a secretly hidden stat 60% random crit chance or all melle weapons in general But killing someone with a pan as a medic is funny just to make it

[@legendofliamd]

1:55 Im trying to think of a stronger word for YES PLEASE!

[@theduckgoesmoo]

What smash videos should I watch??

[@legendofliamd]

Reveal trailers for characters and ultimate

[@shades8852]

Weapon explanations from a soldier main: Rocket launcher - yeah Direct hit - damage buff and firing speed buff, but has a major splash area reduction, meaning you have to get a direct hit on the enemy player Black Box - extra health on every hit, but one less rocket (I don’t think it’s that bad) Rocket Jumper - no damage at all Liberty launcher - extra rocket and firing speed but less damage (it’s actually decent) Cow mangler - stock but cooler Air strike - when you kill someone, you get an extra rocket, up to 8 rockets, and have a faster firing speed in the air and you take less damage from rocket jumping, but you do less damage Gun boats - with this equipped you take slot less damage while rocket jumping, but don’t have a shotgun Shotguns in general - good back up damage, a pocket soldier is someone who stays very close to the medic and is just an up front damage dealer Buff banner - after dealing an amount of damage, you get a buff where you and your allies deal mini crits for a couple of seconds Conch - after dealing an amount of damage, you get a buff where you and your allies have a speed buff and get health back on all the damage they deal. It also has a passive ability where you constantly heal when not at full health Backup: after dealing an amount of damage, you get a buff where you and your allies take less damage, and you also have 20 extra health at all time Escape plan: when on low health, your speed is increased when you pull it out so you can escape and go to a health pack

[@VinVonVoom]

7:31 Pyro can no longer use this weapon effectively because it no longer affects players who are airblasted. 7:59 The RIghteous Bison's nerfs were reverted. 12:47 The Escape Plan makes you faster the lower your health is by holding it, but it also marks you for death, making you take Mini-Crits whenever it's out. 13:32 The Market Gardener gives garanteed crits while rocket jumping, meaning you do 195 damage to anyone you can launch yourself at.

[@benjaminschroeder5465]

How is this not a pinned comment

[@masteralex6902]

An explanation to the equaliser and escape plan. If you pull these out while at low health then you get a buff. The equaliser gives you extra melee damage at low health. And the escape plan gives you an escape plan as it gives you a speed boost also marking you for death meaning you take mini crits from all sources.

[@axllead052]

After demoknight... Now you're gonna be interested in rocket jumping/market gardening I'd look forward to seeing that~~

[@piplupfan71]

I love this series! Thank you for reacting to it!

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Thank you for watching it!!

[@Jack-jz9gr]

Roamer soldier is a term used in comp matchmaking for a soldier that is roaming alone around the Flanks and their job is to jump at the enemy when least expected and attempt to kill a important class such as a medic, demo or sniper. like a kamikaze atack. Hopefully that made sense

[@Tree-lw0]

In 2 days marks 1 year of the voice actor of solly passing, god speed Rick May

[@theduckgoesmoo]

F

[@megarayquaza9054]

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[@flameboy3378]

Rip rick may

[@benjaminizquierdo4700]

The escape plan gives you a speed bonus, but when your using it you get the marked for death effect, which makes all attacks you take deal mini crits.

[@megarayquaza9054]

Also takes minicrits

[@ScrumpeyBros]

Marked for Death causes minicrits, the reduced healing is a separate stat

[@benjaminizquierdo4700]

@@ScrumpeyBros oh never mind

[@TheDborden]

Fun Fact! Did you know that the Equalizer & Escape Plan were the same weapon at one point, the Equalizer's stats at the time were giving increased damage & movement speed the lower your health is, but at the cost of not receiving healing from Medics or dispensers while wielding it. Valve nerfed it by splitting it into 2 weapons, giving the increased damage at low health to the Equalizer & giving the increased movement speed at low health to the Escape Plan. Also the Righteous Bison projectiles go through enemies, dealing 20 damage every tick while inside the beam's hitbox, great for groups of enemies or an enemy running away in a straight line. Valve "fixed the bug of the Righteous Bison's projectiles hitting multiple times", despite the fact Valve advertised it as "It hit multiple times, so use it to punish retreating enemies.". Luckily, Valve reverted back the changes in the Jungle Inferno update.

[@horn_hero]

Disciplinary Action: (the whip) when you hit a teammate you and the teammate go faster Escape plan: the lower your health the faster you move, but you are marked for death (you take additional damage) and your healing from everything aside from pickups is reduced

[@hatandhoodie_]

For clarification. Escape Plan: Faster run speed when at low health, but you'll be Marked For Death until you switch weapons. (When Marked For Death, any attacks from enemy players become Mini-Crits against you.) Market Gardener: Deals Crits on hit while Rocket Jumping.

[@azzy6511]

the market gardener deals critical damage while you're rocket jumping and airborne.. i highly suggest you watch soundsmith's "how to trolldier" series if you want to learn more

[@gamecasthaawsome6398]

"I barely know how to rocketjump" Jump academy video when

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Would people be interested in that?

[@pixavier9746]

​@@theduckgoesmoo We are here to see whatever you make just for you... Even if it is a video about zen meditation for 12 consecutive hours .

[@frozenfiredarknight3764]

@@theduckgoesmoo lets be honest, we're interested in anything that involves tf2. lol

[@solarguard7301]

the original is a rocket launcher from the game quake, which is a successor to the original doom series, which is why it's in the center of the screen, it's sounds are also from quake direct hit has 80% faster rocket speed, 25% more damage, and mini crits when you hit someone after you launch them with it, but 70% less explosion radius, thus meaning you need to be accurate black box heals 20 health every hit, but has 1 less rocket in the clip rocket jumper has more ammo and clip size, but deals no damage, it's only meant for rocket jumping the liberty launcher shoots faster rockets, has 5 rockets instead of 4 in it's clip, and deals 25% less damage to yourself, but it also does 25% less to enemies cow mangler has unlimted ammo but still needs to reload, it's charge shot uses all shots in the clip but the shot will mini crit and give afterburn AND disables buildings, but it deals 80% less damage to buildings beggar's bazooka allows you to load up to 3 rockers by holding left click and then fire them all rapidly when you release, but trying to load more then 3 will cause you to explode, rockets are 70% faster but with 20% less explosion radius airstrike has a killstreak mechanic where every kill increases your clip by one, allowing up to 8 rockets in a clip, and after rocket jumping, your fire rate and projectile speed will skyrocket, allowing you to rain down rockets like an airstrike (hence the name), 15% less damage, 10% less explosion radius (20% after rocket jumping), and will gain 65% increased fire rate after rocket jumping righteous bison also has infinite ammo and it's shots pierce enemies and does rapid damage as it goes through them, same damage reduction to buildings as cow mangler (btw, this weapon was buffed a bit some time after this sterotype video game out, so it's not as bad as it was) mantreads allow you to deal damage to enemies by simply landing on them, the damage based on how much fall damage you would've taken x 3, it also makes you take 75% reduced knockback from enemies and gives 200% increased control in the air after rocket jumping (which was added after the video, same update as the bison, which was jungle inferno) the banners are an activatable secondary that can be activated after building up a meter by dealing damage, the active will effect you and every nearby ally the buff banner grants mini crits for 10 seconds when activated the concheror will passively make you regen 4 health every second, and when activated will give movement speed and 33% lifesteal battalion's backup passively will give soldier 20 more health, and it's active will grant immunity to crits, take 35% less damage, and 50% less damage from sentries equalizer deals more damage the lower your health is, but will make you gain 90% less healing from medics, also it's taunt kill is I believe the only one that kills the user (you blow yourself and every enemy nearby up with a grenade) escape plan is the same as the equalizer but it grants movement speed instead of damage, and while holding it it makes you marked for death (which makes every hit you take a mini crit) disciplinary action has 25% less damage but 70% longer range, but it's many benefit is that you can whip and ally and it will give them and yourself a speed boost despite it's looks, market gardener is not a reskin, it has 20% slower attack speed, but it will always crit after rocket jumping, a literal 'death from above'

[@2groovey]

Direct Hit: the rockets do less splash damage, in other words to do real damage with it you need to hit what your trying to shoot(works really well on sentry guns) The Bison: shots used to pass through multiple enemies. Soldier's taunt kill is called Kamikaze, so yes you also die doing it but its the only one like that. Escape plan: it's like the equalizer in that it works based on how low your health is, but instead of doing more damage it makes you run faster the lower your hp is(also marked for death means you take more damage Its can be seen as the skull and crossbones over theire heads) Market gardener: It gets a critical if you rocket jump and hit an enemy before you land. (though because tf2 and the source engine its made on is kinda buggy some times this isn't acurite, Soundsmith talks about this in his How to counter troldier videos)

[@ahedjehad8514]

@theduckgoestwo, the escape plan is a melee weapon that makes you faster the lower your health is. you will basically be as fast as the scout when you're almost dead. :) and the equilaizer makes you deal more damage the lower your health is. :)

[@fun_police8011]

You should probably know what the weapons do before you watch these videos tbh. The black box heals you proportional to the damage you do with the rockets, the direct hit has faster rocket speed and higher damage but almost no splash for the rockets. Also the market gardener does full critical hits while the user is rocket jumping. The escape plan makes you move faster the lower your hp is. If I missed any let me know.

[@Tjprower]

A slight correction. The black box now only heals up to 20 on a single shot, rather than proportional healing to all damage dealt. It used to be really amazing for groups before 2015, giving 15 per enemy hit.

[@fun_police8011]

@@Tjprower thanks for that. I was a bit too lazy to add tat part in.

[@n_o_n_t_u]

You should watch soundsmith's little series called "Hard Reads" where he manages to roughly predict the other players next moves.

[@Goaty_1]

1. The Direct Hit has more projectile speed and damage, but it has a *lot less* explosive radius. Many people who use this weapon can’t actually aim the *direct hits* with it. Although, it does enough damage to instantly kill a normal Scout. 2. The charged shot for the Cow Mangler 3000 does mini crit damage and sets your target on fire. However, it requires a full clip to use, and it can be activated by right clicking. 3. The Market Gardener is a shovel that crits people if you hit them while rocket jumping and it has less swing speed. The default shovel is like any other melee weapon (except Scout’s melee weapons). 4. The Equalizer and the Escape Plan are the only weapons that make you kill yourself during taunt kill. The taunt kill is soldier blowing himself up with a grenade which causes any nearby enemies to also die. 5. The Escape Plan gives you a speed boost proportional to how much health you have (lower = faster), but in turn you’re susceptible to mini crits from enemies.

[@RumbleFudge]

The Direct Shi- I mean the Direct Hit does 30% more damage but has 70% less splash damage

[@titanlord9267]

Ok, there is a meta for competitive, usually seen as a 6v6 gamemode, and there are 4 different classes used, with different playstyles Pocket Scout-Hangs around the medic, and helps build uber using the boston basher Flank Scout-Flanks the enemy, tries to get the med or make him pop Pocket Soldier-Main defense for the medic when in a team fight, typically runs a banner or a shotgun Roamer Soldier-Roams the flank so they enemy roamer can't kill the med, but can act as a suicide bomber to get the med, or act as a backup pocket (usually goes gunboats so they can come in and jump around both flanks Demoman-Main source of team damage, uses pipes and stickies to hold areas or to push, usually gets uber, but can go to Pocket Soldier Medic-Healer all mighty, heals the team, runs crossbow, stock(quick-fix if it's allowed bc it's op on 6's), and the ubersaw

[@bluprint27]

-Direct Hit: Projectiles do more damage and they're faster. -Black Box: Heals you when you do damage but it has 1 less rocket on the clip. -Air Strike: Carpet bomber. -Beggar's Bazooka: Very confusing weapon. You load in 3 rockets and shoot them in a burst but if you try to load more than 3 you damage yourself. Soundsmith made a video about this weapon. -Cow Mangler: Just like stock but has infinite ammo, has the charge shot but deals less damage to Engineer buildings. -Liberty Launcher: Has 1 extra rocket in the clip, you take less damage from rocket jumping and has faster projectiles. Rockets do less damage. -Righteous Bison: Shoots lasers. One of the worst weapons in the game. -Gunboats: You take less damage from rocket jumping while equipped. -Manntreads: You can deal damage by stomping on people while rocket jumping. On a "recent" update it gives knockback resistance. -Buff banner: Gives mini-crits when used. -Concheror: Gives a passive regen. When used you have increased movement speed and you heal yourself when you do damage. -Battalion's Backup: You have 20 extra hp when equipped. When yoused you gain damage resistance and crit immunity. -Equalizer: You do more damage the less hp you have. -Escape plan: You move faster the less hp you have when you pull it out but all damage you take is turned into mini-crits.

[@Sketchy3032]

The Original is actually the rocket launcher from the first Quake game and functions exactly the same as the stock one. It was added as a reference since the first Team Fortress game is a Quake mod, and the rocket launcher viewmodel in that game is placed on the bottom-center of the screen. The Black Box steals health from your enemies and give it to you on hit (maximum of +20hp) in exchange of only holding a 3-round magazine instead of the usual 4. The Rocket Jumper functions like a stock rocket-launcher would, except it deals 0 damage for both of you and your enemies while retaining the self-push ability. It's solely used for rocket-jumping. The Cow Mangler almost functions exactly like a rocket launcher, except its alt-fire also disables enemy sentries and set them on fire, apart from extra damage and depleting your magazine. You also won't be needing to find ammo pick-ups. The Beggar's Bazooka is that "hold fire to charge attack" weapon that lets you load 3 rockets when holding down your attack button and fire all of them in a volley on release. However, loading more than 3 would cause a misfire and explode on your face, as you've seen on that one BLU soldier. Although, you can take advantage of this downside by using that misfire to basically rocket-jump mid-air. The Air-Strike drastically increases your firing rate whenever you rocket-jump into the air (hence the name), and your magazine expands on every kill, holding up to 8 rockets. It also gives you a slight self-damage reduction on rocket-jumping. The Gunboats drastically reduces your rocket-jump self-damages by 60%. The Mantreads grant you 75% resistance from being tossed around caused by enemy damage and pyro airblasts, and 200% air control when rocket jumping (i.e. it's much easier for you to change your direction when rocket-jumping). Landing on your enemies after rocket jumping would also deal 3 times the fall damage you took. The Buff Banner is charged by dealing damage. Activating this once fully charged would cause you and nearby teammates to do mini-crit damage for 10 seconds. The Battalion's Backup is also charged by dealing damage. Activating this once fully charged would grant you and nearby teammates 35% enemy damage resistance and a neato 50% damage resistance from enemy sentry guns for 10 seconds. It also extends your max hp to 220 in of itself. The Concheror is also charged by dealing damage. Activating this once fully charged would grant you and nearby teammates a movement speed boost, and steal health from the enemies and give it to you based on the damage you've dealt to them. It also grants you health-regeneration up to 4hp per second in of itself. The Equalizer increases your damage the lower your health becomes. Now you know why it isn't being used as much... The Escape Plan is called that since it increases your movement speed the lower your health becomes, so soldiers use it to escape when they get too injured. Being "marked for death" means all of the damages you'll take will be doubled. (i.e. "mini-crits". Real "crits" would be triple damage.) Both Equalizer and Escape Plan has a taunt kill (i.e. emotes except they can kill enemies) were you would blow yourself up, hopefully killing other enemies around you. The Disciplinary Action increases your and your friendly target's movement speed for a short period of time whenever you hit them with it. The Market Gardener is basically just a stock shovel, but your damage on hitting someone would be a crit whenever you rocket-jump before hitting the ground. A roamer is a player role/archetype whose task is to play offensively and aggressively as they roam around the map (which is why they prefer using the Gunboats, as it allows them to rocket-jump all over the map and still retain their ability to deal damage). They also prevent their teammates from being flanked by the enemy team.

[@EnderBuilder]

We would like to see you going through a Jump Academy map! It'll be funny seeing you dying 400 times, raging and learning too!

[@hybrid8229]

SoundSmith goes into full depth about the Beggar's Bazooka in his Mann's Guide video about it, but I'll try and sum it up. The "rocket deviation" basically works as random spread for a rocket launcher, in that the rocket can go in a random direction within a 3º cone in front of you. So the rocket could really go anywhere within that cone. The other thing he was talking about was the stat that says that loading more than 3 rockets at a time will cause an overload, dealing AoE explosive damage around you. You also get hit and knocked back by this, which allows people to utilize this mechanic in order to "Overload Jump" which basically combines a rocket jump with Scout's midair jumping. You don't even need a solid surface to bounce off of (although you can for extra speed and height) which allows for some crazy mobility. However, because you get hit by this, you can also kill yourself this way.

[@dudded2]

Primaries: The Direct Hit deals more damage and the rockets travel faster, but they have a smaller splash zone. The Black Box heals you for dealing damage, but you can only load in 3 rockets. Rocket Jumper has a large ammo pool, but it doesn't deal damage and you can't carry the Intel or Pass Time Jack with it. Liberty Launcher can load up to 5 rockets, and its rockets travel faster, but it deals less damage. Cow Mangler doesn't use ammo and alt-firing launches a powerful projectile that deals mini-crits and sets players on fire and disables buildings temporarily, but it deals less damage to buildings and can only mini-crit. Beggar's Bazooka loads up a barrage of 3 rockets, if you try to load more than 3 rockets, you overload it and damage yourself. It has rocket deviation and you can't get ammo from dispensers for it. The Air Strike fires faster while you're rocket jumping and you can load in more rockets if you geta kill with it (Max 5 kills), but it deals less damage. Secondaries: Righteous Bison fires plasma bolts that travel through players, cannot be deflected, but they deal less damage to buildings. Gunboats give you a resistance against rockets you fire, letting you rocket jump more. Manntreads give you increases air control (you can move around in the air easily) and gives you resistance to knockback (Basically, you're impossible to air blast away) and if you land on an enemy, you stomp them to death. The 3 Banners: All banners fill up a gauge when you deal damage. When the gauge is full, you can use the banner and give yourself and your teammates buffs. The Buff Banner gives mini-crits to everyone in the radius. Concheror gives the Soldier 1hp regenaration, while the buff gives everyone a speed boost and heals them when they deal damage. Batallion's Backup gives Soldier 20 max health, while the buff gives everyone 15% damage resistance to every damage source and 35% damage resistance to Sentry Guns. Melees: Equalizer deals more damage, the lower your health is. You get less healing while you have it put. Escape Plan is the same as the Equalizer, but instead of damage, you get increased movement speed and you're Marked for Death when you have it out. Disciplinary Action gives you and your teammate (or a disguised enemy spy) when you hit them, but it deals less damage. Market Gardener deals guranteed critical hits when you're rocket jumping, but deals less damage.

[@crabhm5537]

The escape plan is a weapon that when pulled out, you gain more speed the lower health you have. the downside is that when you pull it out youre marked for death which makes every damage you take a guaranteed mini crit or crit. but it gives you a nice speed boost when youre low health to run away.

[@Halu_Miodis]

Market gardener deals crits when you are in the air as result of an explosion, so that's why it is perfect for trolldiers

[@Mattsothelioma]

“Where’s that scout going?” *Scout explodes* Hell(tower) apparently

[@rhand333]

I would really recommend watching "how to trolldier" by soundsmith.

[@ShamanEffect]

Chances are, if I'm wearing the Lumbricus Lid (pre-order bonus from a Worms game), then I'll use the Escape Plan, just for the unique taunt kill. Replacing my grenades with holy hand grenades, same kill, but now you'll hear "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" before the explosion. Even before the Equalizer/Escape Plan split, I was meme-ing with it.

[@danielm5893]

im happy to be in the first 25k subs i cant wait to see your numbers in 3 month a year and 3 years from now i think you have a good job here on youtube

[@fireblast133]

so the equalizer and escape plan, used to be one weapon. Your movement speed and melee damage would increase based on how much health you were missing, reaching almost double damage and scout speed at real low health. This was seen as overpowered, and was split into two weapons. same mechanic, different effect. Equalizer increases damage the lower your health, escape plan increases movement speed.

[@josep754]

The escape plan is a picaxe that deals less damage but it makes you faster the lower your hp is, the marketgardener gives you a crit hit if you hit someone with it while you rocketjump, all non stock weapons have upsides and downsides, stock is the point of reference and thus usually the most useful, exept on meelee, where most classes get more use out of meelee weapons that serve more as utility or a gimmick rather than a weapon since the primary and secondary have those needs covered

[@axelstack5115]

soundsmith made a video called a mann's guide to the beggar's bazooka. If you're interested in learning about the weapon then that's probably the best video to watch

[@soupcanlol]

the escape plan makes you move faster depending on how low ur health is (ur fast af when at 14 hp), at the cost of being marked for death and not getting healed as fast by medics when ur holding it out. its a really good melee choice

[@tsuaririndoku]

Surprisingly I keep using the Battalions Back Up very often as most of the time I keep seeing Kritzkrieg Medic with Sticky Demo so I use it just to be anti Crit Stickies ye know. It’s very reliable weapon in Casual, due to how much it annoys Engineers and Kritzkrieg Medics are. Once the buff activated of its very difficult for enemies to push or makes your team slightly easier to push. Plus, it gives soldier 20 extra health. I love this weapon. And for those who using it when I am doing Medic things, You deserved a medal. As it makes me easier to heal my team as well. Oh and if you use Battalions Back Up while using Escape Plan to escape on low health. This is a get out of the Jail Free card, cuz it removes the Escape Plan Downside due to being Anti any types of Crits plus you also have damage resistance to take some hits by accidents. Overall very reliable in most situations.

[@ItsMadLadSir]

You’ll love “A Mann’s guide to the beggars bazooka”

[@pocketxyco2317]

Here is a Fun fact about the Equalizer and the Escape Plan When the weapons were first released they were 1 weapon just called the Equalizer. at low health you would had the speed boost and the damage boost at low Health. It was possiable to out run and 1 hit scouts and kuni spies. Later on the weapon was split into 2 Equalizer gave you more damage with low health Escape Plan gave you a speed boost at low health but you were marked for death aka every damage you take will be a mini crit with the weapon out

[@mudderbad5780]

The escape plan allows you to run faster the more amount of hp missing, so you can well.. escape, but you get market for death/if people hit you, they deal minicrits instead of normal damage

[@cloud4035]

Word of advice, if your playing Hightower, and you see one of these guys, remember to look up every now and then. and if you see one flying towards you. just walk forwards. by the way if your heavy,. (A-your fine, it doesn't deal enough damage in one go, unless they have manntreads, they have to do it twice to kill you). your okay :D. but if you wish to be annoying, the slow mechanic on the natasha is enough to throw Trolldiers off their path and mess up their Garden.

[@yashida1999]

Battalion backup not just give you an your teammates all 3 type of resistant but it give a whopping 60% resistant against sentry and immune against critical damage, however I found this as the "META™" for soldier and his Kriz medic gf

[@MiningwithPudding]

the trash launcher (Beggars Bazooka), you hold M1 to start loading rockets into it. Release to fire them quickly (and with a small, random deviation to their aim). load to many and they start exploding in the barrel.

[@stuff9680]

The escape plan and equalizer used to be one weapon, you'd move really fast and had more damage the lower your health was so after like 2 weeks after it was added it was split into the two weapons we have now

[@Umbrex349]

I remember killing you during smissmass with the Cow Mangler 3000 and you freaking out

[@theduckgoesmoo]

You made me evaporate.... how *else* am I supposed to react?

[@frozenfiredarknight3764]

@@theduckgoesmoo oh right I forgot you're new to these things. lol

[@DetectiveCheese]

I like "the original", but that's because the original doom holds a special place in my heart.

[@rando6309]

The escape plan is a weapon when pulled out Mark's you for death making you vulnerable by making you take mini crits the reason for this is your meant to pull it out when your health is low thus giving its name the escape plan.

[@tsathirtyvods2409]

So back in the day, The Escape plan was actually both the Equalizer and the Escape plan (i dont know what it was called because i joined TF2 after the change), when you were low health you can pull it out to have increased movement speed and deal more damage with ONLY the pick, valve nerfed it and made it two weapons, the equalizer kept the damage buff and not the movement speed and the escape plan kept the movement speed and not the damage buff.

[@jamesisafk]

theduckgoesmoo:what's the escape plan? Me:you serious?

[@tyrondor5600]

the equalizer gives you more melee damage the lower your health is and the escape plan gives you more speed the lower your health is, you are marked for death while using it though. being marked for death means all damage you take will be mini-crits

[@lawnmowerre]

please react to "FRESH from the garden!!" its by soundsmith.

[@FivePebblesFan]

To comprehend the sheer absurdity of the Beggars Bazooka, I reccom3nd checking out his Mann's Guide series, in which he has done a video on it!

[@bb_2007-q1f]

Its what trolldier is built around, so probably it is required

[@megarayquaza9054]

I really would love to see you react to his Market Garden Guide

[@hyperrustynail]

You need to see Lazypurple’s “How it Feels to play...” series.

[@lok4890]

About the original. First of all, rocket launcher from Quake. Second of all, all the other rocket launchers shoot from the right( or left if you have flip viewmodels on) fromthe screen, and travel to the center The original comes straight from the center. The beggars, its a rocket launcher that cant hold rockets. You have to reload it first to shoot it, always.when you reload it, up to three rockets, you can let go of m1 to unload the weapon, releasing a barrage of rockets. It has a slightly smaller explosive radius and if you try to load more than 3 rockets, you the rockets will explode one by one, and damage you. You can use this to do mid air rocket jumps. And, it also is not acurate, the rockets dont go straight to your rockets, the have a degree of deviation, that some times leads to some rather, "What the hell was that bullshit" moments. For more info, watch Soundsmith "A mann's guide: beggars bazooka vid".

[@mrtrash4128]

Direct hit makes it to where you have little splash damage but your rockets do way more damage and move quicker The cowmangler makes you habe an infinite supply of ammo and gives you a charge shot that uses all 4 shots in your clip. But it mini crits instead of criting and does baby damage to buildings Beggars bazooka allows you to store rockets in the clip and release them all at once. If you store more than four you explode The escape plan increases your speed as you lose health, but it makes you take mini crit damage

[@Jack-jz9gr]

React to Soundsmith's newest how to trolldier video

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I guess I'll have to

[@easterntitan8308]

I actually saw someone who named their Beggars bazooka “Magic missile.” Not hard to see why, it can be a little stupid sometimes.

[@MrJosh-tu6ke]

theduckgoesPOGGERS =))) in aaaalll the thumbnails

[@ambassadorgaming8411]

The cow mangler 5000 is actually very cheap on the community market, probably cause noone uses it It’s also a pretty good weapon, since it has infinite ammo, the charged shot can minicrit players and set them on fire AND disable engie buildings for 4 seconds. The only real downside is that it changes crits to minicrits, but it doesn’t have random crits so that doesn’r really matter in casual, unless a medic is using the kritzkreig

[@itsyaboi525]

Ayy, I remember when you were just getting into tf2 and I had explained what it was in the comments

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I remember you commenting actually lol

[@OliverTeLouie]

6:40 Well my best advise is to watch Soundsmith's TF2 video called "Mann's Guide to the Beggar's Bazooka", the rocket launcher you saw.

[@Notashi0]

I feel like this guy needs to have the wiki up when he's watching these so he can understand what the hell Sound is talking about because he doesn't seem to know what even half the weapons do.

[@mati28287]

The Escape Plan gives you more speed the less hp you have

[@maxwellwang4339]

You should react to Robtheawsm best and worst weapon series since unlike Sound Smith funny style he explain ever detail about every weapon for every class, which is very useful to new player like you. You should watch him first since that way you can get what Sound Smith is talking about. Sound smith video is mainly for people that are familiar with the game because majority of the “meme” can only be understand if you play long enough

[@maxwellwang4339]

Plus it is long series that is also pretty popular too.

[@stuff9680]

The Bison used to be able to "carry" airborne enemies meaning if you hit a player who was airborne with it that player would be pushed back while taking damage and the projectile could also penetrate engineer buildings so you could spam it through dispensers or sentry guns to kill the engi behind it and this feature was even on those little tip messages in the loading screens but Valve got rid of it claiming it was a "bug" By no means was the Bison a good weapon but it had its uses now its just garbage

[@DrStxche]

So in competitive tf2, a roamer (forgive me anybody if I get this info wrong) is a soldier that sort of goes on his own to flank the enemy team using rocket jumping and to pick off important targets. Heavies, medics, etc.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I would not know

[@Greenspy.]

the market gardener gives you crits (195 damage) on hit while you on the air from blast damage.

[@ayr1190]

escape plan gives you a ton of speed the lower health you have

[@vinnie4609]

Equalizer and the escape plan used to be the same weapon giving the player both effects at the same time, valve changed it, idk if thats good or bad but they did it for some reason

[@theduckgoesmoo]

GABEN

[@lestersmug11]

RIP Rick May, but nice vid

[@ghastlygibus2121]

For this month i gonna play stock soldier To remember someone we lost a year ago

[@karlbischof2807]

Soldier only has 2 weapons that are truly useless: the equalizer and stock shovel

[@partydemon2849]

Got to watch the beggars bazooka video

[@theballoonfamily9539]

may i recommend 'Mann's guide to the beggars bazooka'?

[@evilded2]

Probably check out soundsmith's other video on the beggar's bazooka.

[@ngthanhphong8537]

Well you can go in without practices there as I always do that on some games tho but it manageable when you know enough about the mechanics of the game and yeah took me almost a month to land my first Market Gardener

[@waltteriheikkinen6214]

So the escape plan makes you faster the lower your health is but it marks you for death and for a short time after you seitch from it and you get 90 prosent less healing from medics and dispenser while you are holding it

[@sirviolettf2]

look on a wiki so you familiar with all the weaps in the game. :D Escape plan gives you speed based on how much hp you got. The less you have the faster you are

[@zenixsakai8326]

You gotta watch "bad weapon academy" or "how bad can it be? "

[@themegagamer6086]

The original is a reference to doom's rocket launcher

[@WolfsnoW55]

check out the video he made about beggers bazooka he explains is really well also video where he is learning how to rocket jump with it I great as well

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I definitely will watch more of his stuff

[@rileymiller3154]

Me only uses the battalions backup banner for the 20hp bonus because it can save you from 1 headshot from sniper

[@rileymiller3154]

Also me as soldier uses the escape plan because I'm not hanging around the front line when my HP is low also because soldier is slow compared to everyone else except heavy

[@emminist]

Watch blind pyro... You will see the beggars bazooka with different eyes

[@josefsieffen18]

This series assumes you know exactly what every single one of these weapons is capable of, I'm assuming. Never touched TF2, don't think I ever will

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Come on Dwain you know you want to

[@josefsieffen18]

@@theduckgoesmoo i really don't tho

[@repeatingimp7229]

i really hope soundsmith does a weapon skin stereotypes sometime

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Me too eventhough I don't really know what weapon skins are

[@commanderpondscc-4112]

@@theduckgoesmoo Weapon skins are what we call war paints, they have no effect on the weapon they just get a special paint. So E.g you might see a stock shotgun that a has a green camo war paint but it's still a stock shotgun, and of course there are different weapons and almost all weapons can be painted. Edit: Also there are things like festive weapons like a festive sniper rifle which is still a sniper rifle it just has christmas lights on it, ALSO there are reskins so for E.g the Awper Hand is a reskin of the default sniper rifle that looks like the Awp from CSGO and sounds like it (Reskins don't replace the weapons they are reskinned from).

[@theawesome5871]

1:53 yes please.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

What would I watch though?

[@theawesome5871]

@@theduckgoesmoo I'll try to come up with a list tomorrow and send it to you.

[@TheMagnumDon]

Honestly I think you should have looked up the weapons and their stats and then react to the video to understand what be is talking about, like the direct hit requires accuracy which is why it is very shitty compared to the stock rocket launcher but i love seeing you engaging in the TF2 community

[@Devast8or2000]

If i remember Correctly The Bison Used To Do Monsterous Amounts of Continuous Damage When Someone Backed up if i Remember Correctly XD

[@theduckgoesmoo]

That is so odd

[@roboticboom6405]

There are many weapons that are bad either they've stayed that way since they were added to the game. Or they were once very great weapons and loved/hated for it. And then nerfed to their grave by Valve.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

That's for pretty much every game though isn't it?

[@ryder17014]

You should react to Delfy's Class Mistake Series!

[@theduckgoesmoo]

It will come trust me

[@davidmacdonald1855]

@David W. The reason people upload their content is for reactions. Otherwise they would just keep what they make private.