TF2's Taunt Kill Mechanics are BROKEN

[@sirultim8643]

The scorch shot actually copies your last shot on taunt, so you can spam infinite crits with it as long as your previous shot was a crit, just spam taunt.

[@htwo1]

This actually works and I had no idea. That is so unbelievably stupid

[@chordalharmony]

Don’t tell Fishstick on a Stick, the last thing we need is more scorch shot complaints from him

[@mr.commonsense]

you know what, im gonna tell him that next stream@@chordalharmony

[@dombelly3343]

pls don't he might get hospitalised because of this info @@mr.commonsense

[@zombiegordonf9320]

@@dombelly3343if he does get hospitalized and die, do you think we can take the corpse and make fish tacos?

[@maskofthedragon]

17:39 If you Pootis Pow'd someone in a tourney, you've won in the only way that matters

[@ishotmydickoff]

On god. I would deadass throw an entire tournament in the final showdown with Pootis Pow just for shits and giggles.

[@Yellowsam4145]

Agree

[@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo]

POOTIS POW. A Russian Dark art that takes time to master. The prices? Uncletopia Players will hate you and you can’t have weapons out aside from mittens to use it.

[@june9914]

@@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo I mean most people wouldnt be happy with getting killed in a way they cant react against or even see, it's why people dont like sniper or the diamondback. It's still funny though

[@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo]

@@june9914 at least the Pootis pow is fairer than those. There was a moment where the heavy who did that had no control over their character

[@ugniusbri9192]

Soldier's exploding Samsung tablet might be the funniest thing I've seen in this game

[@vvmvx]

Samsung Contracker Note 7

[@jackiele8311]

Soldier is an IPad kid confirmed

[@Barack__Obama44th]

He changed to muslim for a second

[@nameless......................]

i only just realized this is a joke on the note 7 acting like it had a spicy pillow (doing explosi) when it was just a messed up model​@@vvmvx

[@leightiongson]

7:40 HEY VSAUCE

[@spoofert1987]

Me explaining to a comp player on how i shot them through a hole in a wall with a pootis pow

[@delmuswu-tangbroadnax9056]

Time to spam the link to this like ppl did the link to the random crit video

[@anshshah2916]

Me explaining to the admins on how I technically didn't shoot someone through a wall

[@CarinoGamingStudio]

they just want to know so that they will use it to other players.

[@echodolphonian5729]

I feel like that would work as a joke in scrims

[@MarcusAlder]

Seeing sniper get blown away by an ubered heavy yelling POW while stunned is one of the funniest things I've ever seen

[@sennahoj9332]

Heavy is sniper!!

[@1mariomaniac]

FUS-RO-POW!

[@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo]

@@1mariomaniac the Pootisborn used Dragonshout!

[@1mariomaniac]

@@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo It's super effective!

[@greenguy1531]

fun fact:You can survive the equaliser taunt If you are overhealed and call medic during the taunt, It will only deal around 250 damage

[@colatf2]

You can hit people through spawn doors and some thin walls by calling medic while doing the taunt kill. I’m pretty sure Shounic or somebody made a video explaining how the calling medic animation resets where the game thinks soldier’s right hand is

[@Linkman8912]

​@@colatf2he says this in the vid

[@portablejea7014]

​@@colatf2Bro did NOT watch the video

[@greenguy1531]

💀

[@ZPixel17]

Maybe you could also survive it with an active Battalion's Backup?

[@disappointedcucumber]

The reason Valve made the Rainblower do reduced damage for every additional player despite the equalizer taunt doing massive damage to multiple enemies is because the rainblower taunt can be spammed whereas the equalizer taunt kills you if you use (or at least, it's supposed to).

[@TKmeh]

And if you spam it with a bunch of friends like I did, you can even crash the server or your game! If you have enough people doing it, I had at least 15 people doing it at the same time sort of on a 2fort server. I crashed out and then my friend crashed out, it was hilarious and we made sure a lot of people got the mass hysteria achievement that day lol

[@jiraffy_]

Pootis Pow! **kills the entire server**

[@davidthecommenter]

Pootis- POW! (DispensaHeah was removed from the game - Skill Issue)

[@wealthybone2990]

I'd be honored if I were to die like that.

[@ch1ppychipp]

(1:05) Spy mains when someone is taunting in a 50km radius:

[@reeeboi1]

Fun Fact: The effect above the Pyro’s head in the Rainblower Taunt only shows up in Pyrovision. Thats why the Sniper at 16:26 doesn’t run away.

[@danielferrieri7434]

Luigi's Down Taunt in Smash: Are you Challenging Me?!

[@DarGrigo]

Yes

[@GodsLeastFavorite-vs3xv]

Do I amuse you? -Luiji Down Taunt

[@NathanielScar]

Finally, a worthy opponent!

[@weirdpersonidk6336]

@@GodsLeastFavorite-vs3xv my favorite matio character: luiji

[@joaozindaartist]

Your sitting for a beating - pizza tower taunts

[@CHARSARG]

2:02, Its rayCasting!! Raytracing is where the beam go bounce bounce, Raycast just sees if thing is touching line or not

[@kaczok61]

I was looking for this comment 😂

[@mewhe]

this is actually a very helpful comment, thank youa

[@R41ph3a7b6]

Oh word.

[@8stormy5]

I've only ever gotten two real tauntkills off without spamming. The first was fatfingering G as a pyro only to end up doming some poor scout trying to run up for a meatshot. The second was after bumping into a cloak and dagger spy hiding in a tiny inlet as a demoknight, realizing he physically could not move past me, and deciding in an instant to rub salt in the wound

[@nameless......................]

desyncs exist

[@grfrjiglstan]

I love that there's certain very specific cases where taunt kills are useful, like stunning an ubered player and getting after-round kills, but the taunts are so slow and easy to see coming, it doesn't break the game balance at all. It's just a fun little extra, like the Kritzkrieg's minor self-heal taunt.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Yeah, a minor self-heal on the class that regens ain't a big deal.

[@artifactU]

hahaha oktoberfest!!!

[@nameless......................]

POW! *wins*

[@Hithere-uz6wd]

The huntsman is the only taunt thats hard to react to.

[@R41ph3a7b6]

True.

[@abicto]

there's actually some cool tech related to the scorch shot taunt if you get a random crit with the scorch shot any taunt after it will be a guaranteed crit until you shoot again. it will remain after death and you can shoot with your other weapons

[@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo]

@@abicto send this to Fish on a Stick. See how much he rages

[@juanjox2006]

16:33 damn ... that pyro really ate a lot of hot food recently

[@guillaumechau6082]

Average person after eating Taco Bell

[@fonejunky6306]

Fard

[@Enderpanda24]

16:33 bro tried to hide that fart

[@calebmurray9682]

Wait he's right

[@fonejunky6306]

Bro I thought you were talking about the guy recording the audio for a sec💀

[@xiphosura413]

I love the busted sniper stab animation at 16:18 too, perfect timing on that.

[@wingedwhite]

The reason why Rainblower taunt doesn't kill everyone while Equalizer does, is because Equalizer wasn't meant to be spammable. It was meant to kill you on taunt, so every time it's a gamble whether you live or not. Rainblower taunt would be current equalizer without a need to bug the game.

[@LeHasnurg]

The Pyro doing the Thermal Thruster taunt with the contracker is golden.

[@thegreatautismo224]

I already knew about the insane range of the pootis pow, and I've even done some stupid shit with it myself, but seeing the stunned sniper have the taunt icon appear above his head and then just slide forward was fucking amazing

[@underlife8858]

How to deal with sniper: respect the sight line how to deal with heavy: respect the sight line

[@moronribbons5774]

10:07 I love how you used this exact spawndoor - which is known to have a misalignment that allows projectiles like rockets to be fired through it's rims - while talking about how the scorch's taunt flare can't fit through all the gaps hitscan could.

[@floodedmoat]

Heavy’s pootis pow is his fourth weapon slot

[@twpsyn]

for getting cl_showpos lineups, top tip is that by default if you holt left-Alt, moving your mouse will move your character instead of your aim. so you can precicely position yourself better than just using WASD

[@FlaminSarge]

That is only if you have that key bound to +strafe, right?

[@mr.m2675]

ah, one of the code leftovers from quake

[@Mo-Tx]

"pootis pow is by far the best and most powerful taunt kill in the game" medic taunt-kill: **literally gives an entire bar of uber if it lands**

[@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo]

@@Mo-Tx but the POOTIS pow has more range and doesn’t have an obvious “I’m going to saw right through your bones” voice line play out

[@MarabouPatriot]

If it lands

[@bakugo_v8]

I'm the one who found the equalizer voice line glitch, here's a trick shounic didn't mention in his video about it: it's actually better to use "nice shot" instead of "medic", because the thumbs up animation makes your right hand stick out further than the medic call animation.

[@Inoxigj]

One thing you will find in almost ANY tf2 video. A hat in time music. Not complaining. Done it myself, but still. Love to see it

[@arbiterregnant]

I got an air shot taunt kill with the Heavy within my first one hundred hours of playing TF2 without looking for it. I was at a Hightower pub and simply made a taunt kill in the distance and it got a trolldier flying around. My biggest regret still is not recording it.

[@jamesgroccia644]

Chief, I think we can let this one slide.

[@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo]

@@arbiterregnant Heavy Airshot?

[@Pyoromo]

11:00 rainblower propably checks player entry to server timestamps to check who gets hit first.

[@Underqualified_Gunman]

it's not entry time stamps all the player data is saved in order of who has joined first so when it goes down the list of players it always starts at the first to join the server, then the next and so on to see if they were hit.

[@Kop32353]

The Ullapool Caber still does not have teh proper tauntkill feature despite it looking like a tauntkill

[@Appletank8]

Definitely the worst injustice

[@drivanradosivic1357]

Give the Ullapool caber a 30 second cool down with 350 damage, plus a 15% self blast damage resistance when active and Minicrits when airborne. As for the Taunt, make the Caber and Scottish Handshake have the Smack Taunt kill, and we are golden.

[@diggyrobinson5859]

i once had a hightower spy tell me he loved me because he missed his taunt kill but i still jumped right into the last hitbox

[@glad16252]

While I don’t have a clip of it, I was playing Badwater on Uncletopia as Heavy and got an air shot taunt kill on a demo who was flying behind us with the sticky jumper. Even he was shocked when it happened and it was the peak of Uncletopia for me

[@LokiThePug]

It feels pretty great to basically be a one man-wall and stop an ubercharge by spamming the huntsman and seeing the hope of the duo to make a change slowly fade away cuz I did the taunt TWICE

[@szabiTM]

"source engine jank" ❌ "source spaghetti" ✅

[@faust1663]

4:19 take action regarding that individual immediately I am the angry pumpkin

[@ShockInazuma]

The Scorch Shot taunt is the only taunt in the game that makes little to no sound. Meaning it’s also actually one of the easier ones to get someone with if they don’t notice you.

[@AgrimarYT]

Something you don't realize about the box taunts, is that they kill *everything* within that box; go onto itemtest and spawn as many dummy bots as you want and it'll delete all of them as long as they are within that box.

[@StupidSquareGuy]

I know an amazing spot as soldier on capture the flag in doublecross First. Go to the enemy sewers as soldier (it’s better to use the rocket jumper for this) then go to the sewer bars on the wall (use the one on the right) then rocket jump on top of the grate (just crouch midair to get on there) then let go of the crouch button (make sure you are on very top of it) Then do the kamikaze taunt If you did this correctly you should be able to kill people near the front entrance (best part is if someone runs through most of the time they won’t notice you)

[@kruzenbo3694]

One of my favorite things to do as a huntsman sniper is to challenge another sniper to a ''Stab Duel''. On the count of 3 both snipers start spamming their taunt kill, the length of these duels can last from a few seconds to about a minute or longer. The entire time people nearby just hear 2 snipers saying ''Stab stab stab stab stab stab stab stab stab stab-'' while you an the other sniper stare at each other in the stun animation.

[@BlueBird1994_]

I actually tried to do this with a friend once but for some reason we couldn't get it to last more than one taunt animation as one of us would die no matter if we were both mashing the taunt button. Not sure what we're doing wrong or what.

[@kruzenbo3694]

@@BlueBird1994_ I have learned recently that it was patched out silently. It's a real shame.

[@Dolander_]

I made the Lego death my kill sound and I’ve never been happier

[@skeletonking4119]

1:05 that wasn’t me!!!!!!

[@nameless......................]

flippin' awesome turns into a taunt kill when saxton in vsh uses it probably an odd one out

[@yes-vj9wc]

violently British man talks about violent things

[@BluGalaxian]

Very informative video! Even though I've been messing with taunts for years and making compilations of taunt kills, I still learned some new stuff here! I think you could've also discussed how taunt attacks are affected by damage resistances. Examples: If a taunt attack is coming from a ranged weapon, a heavy with the fists of steel can survive one attack. The equalizer taunt can be survived with barely 20hp if you're on max overheal with the battalion equipped (330hp at max overheal). The buff from the battalion also makes it possible to survive the explosion once if you're close to full hp. The vaccinator can also be used to block incoming damage from non-melee attacks.

[@Hithere-uz6wd]

With the battalions buff active the taunt does 208 self damage

[@PlatinumSpoons]

I love the soldier escape plan taunt, I have so many spots I've found throughout the years. One cool thing you can do with it is if you have the Lumbricus Lid cosmetic item, taunt killing with the escape plan plays a hallelujah sound effect from Worms. Doesn't really help but it's funny

[@Fofenho]

do you think heavy and medic make out

[@IsYeaYesyup]

yes

[@Fofenho]

​@@IsYeaYesyupawesome

[@louminouz]

obviously

[@tezereth]

Splendid

[@NormalGambitFan]

Absolutely

[@eeeeee8762]

Fun fact: The huntsman taunt kill stun can stun another taunting huntsman player before they deal the finishing blow, meaning, you can "stab stab stab" each other indefinitely

[@1un4cy]

"What are you gonna do? Ban snipers from shooting through cracks?"

[@SandmanURL]

For the Kamikaze taunt kill through spawn doors you don’t actually have to call medic. I think on certain thin gates if you angle yourself just right you can get the explosion hitbox through the door and you will live

[@MiaSadiqah]

about 16:08, here another way to do longer version of contracker glitch. useful to "crouch" as Sniper on badwater last point pipe spot. bind [any bind] "cl_first_person_uses_world_model 1; cyoa_pda_open 1; wait 350; cyoa_pda_open 0; wait 400; cl_first_person_uses_world_model 0" note: 1. the "cl_first_person_uses_world_model" is for checking only 2. why "cyoa_pda_open 1; wait 350" instead "cyoa_pda_open 1; wait 5" are because your classes just put it back instead holding it and make you "stuck" in that pose for a while 3. explains 2 a bit, the "wait 350" is depends of which classes that have faster or slower taking the contracker. 350 is Soldier, Heavy, and Sniper animation lengths

[@oligerspanier6936]

Wait holy shit I'm in the Intro. I'm Gänz.

[@Slye_Fox]

Heavy's Showdown taunt is definitely the best taunt kill in the game.

[@lnfinitality]

3:06 in most fps games, when you shoot, the bullet invisibly comes put of your head and not the barrel of the weapon which means i think you can just peek your head a little bit over and "shoot through walls"

[@alexadams4017]

16:44 These patch notes are from 2017. Im not sure valve cares anymore.

[@beanmanisbac4186]

Did you know, that using the taunt kill as soldier, switching to the rocket jumper mid taunt will make you invincible to the explosion, but you still damage the enemy.

[@Hithere-uz6wd]

That was fixed in 2011

[@NoahWood-j1v]

What’s good with the taunt for rainblower is it doesn’t stop from death, so once jet packed in to try and drop the medic, there’s like 5 ppl there, I taunt JUST before I die and get a 100 dmg on the med and kill other ppl 16:34 AHAHAHAHA

[@kytkeyboardsyoureterrific439]

7:36 POOTIS SAUCE! Heavy here, where is my gun?

[@morkoblooper7991]

How are we not getting new taunt kills anymore

[@phunnymannfromphunnyland]

The contracker bug can also be done by having one loadout A equipped with it, and loadout B unequipped with the contracker. Go to settings, find the "Switch to Loadout A/B/C/D" binds, bind your keys and voila. You can now switch between two loadouts, one with the contracker and one without.

[@soccerandtrack10]

6:01 THIS is immersive snipeing...

[@PeterSpraypaint]

4:10 i feel like "pixel pow" would be a better name

[@spiritupgrades]

Just call it Quadp or Quadpow4:12

[@hakjobtm7472]

16:22 soldier attempts to disarm an ied while two snipers watch on, nervous.

[@FridayNightStreamz]

9:21 He’s an animator YTuber

[@jsj0520]

What years of developer neglect does to a community, they find the literal smallest flaws in a map and come up with crazy ways to “abuse” them. God dammit I love this community

[@appliedatoms7066]

I'm sure others have pointed this out by now, but because the huntsman stun is faster than the heavy pow (and I'm fairly sure it's faster even than the time between the stun and the kill from the huntsman itself), that enables two huntsman snipers to simultaneously stun each other with their taunt kills in a sort of mutually assured destruction. Also I thought I remembered hearing that the order the rainblower taunt hits players is connected to the order they joined the server, but I'm not sure.

[@Appletank8]

I think Valve patched the Huntsman taunt chain, I forget whether the 2nd or 3rd stab wins.

[@appliedatoms7066]

it's possible but I don't see that patch mentioned on the wiki. Then again, the bug showcase video has people in the comments saying it was fixed, so maybe it did happen.

[@emred4653]

no tf2 video is complete without being called a cheater in uncletopia server

[@sweetolbrew]

I remember people would have huntsman tauntkill duels, i dont know if its possible anymore but you could have two huntsman snipers spaming the taunt kill at eachother and they'd just infinitely stun each other would killing each other lol

[@Layden_lol]

12:44 you can also survive this taunt if you switch to the rocket jumper

[@charlekley1563]

16:44 "Who knows how many they'll patch in the future" Yeah, like that's ever gonna happen

[@unhumane2227]

Shame you didnt mention the classic 2 huntsman sniper stunlocking eachother in a taunt duel till one fails to taunt

[@atig51]

it was fixed thats why

[@Sphendrana]

"This is P-Quad, kill confirmed Boss!"

[@MOOtf2]

You’ve revealed the ancient magic… and enlightened me on other taunt kill shenanigans too 8)

[@PienotgameingJeff]

Is that risk of rain music

[@foxyzzzz577]

Pyro casually farting fire 16:33 💀💀

[@CWOFFEE]

you can actually do the equalizer taunt kill through certain spawn doors without even calling for medic. it's only doable through certain spawn doors (barnblitz, badwater, thunder mountain immediately come to mind), and the angle is MUCH tighter, but it's doable. also i think im going to avoid playing the sniper class in that one specific spot on borneo for a while lol

[@wyndlink]

I remember when I was first playing TF2 we'd get stuck in Huntsman duels, you'd both tauntkill each other and spam the button as much as you could until one of you won. It still kind of works, although I think you can only stun the other sniper, and you don't interrupt the damage box from coming out

[@CounterfeitDuck]

Huntsman stab is considered the fastest taunt kill because of the stun attack. It also interrupts enemy taunt kill, so you can save yourself from huntsman stab without uber or any other protection. So you can counter stab a sniper trying to stab you. Which also means that the sniper can counter your counter stab. And so on indefinitely.

[@mr.m2675]

wasn't there a problem sniper stunlocking each other in an endless loop?

[@CounterfeitDuck]

@@mr.m2675 «And so on indefinitely»

[@nm3k511]

The Pootis Pow airshot clip did occur, but in Medival Mode. Not sure if it counts tho as how predictable the degroot keep trimp can make it only a timing based instance.

[@eggstatus5824]

I've been hearing a bit of MK7 music in these videos and I'm all for it. Tis my favorite Mariokart game

[@totenkopf8814]

Box taunts do have the advantage being able to hit multiple enemies though 🗿

[@MrEzoc]

lmao the demo cabering the wall @ 2:40

[@foxyshibata3783]

Back in Oldschool Zombie Fortress, abusing the power of the finger guns was the secret sauce to bust up turtles.

[@contentconsumer3743]

The Pootis Pow is literally just the Charge Rifle from Titanfall 2

[@yuyutopt]

altho similar in terms of technicality (hitscan, charge up time,..), the tititanfall charge rifle beam actually has width hitbox, which in turn make it cannot hit thru pixel or small gap of some size unlike the potis pow, that somehow make potis pow more powerful in a sense.

[@Crazy_Dave_-lv2pu]

I think the way the rainblower taunt determines order is likely either distance, player order (order that players joined the server), or a combination of both.

[@htwo1]

I thought it would be distance too, but in testing it it didn't seem like that was the case at all, sometimes it would look like distance but sometimes it'd be seemingly random. Player join order might make sense but I've never tested that

[@bonopo]

the shooting thru walls thing at 5:00 has nothing to do with the window's thickness. it's well understood tech in other source games and there are dozens on spots to do it on swiftwater alone; and it was the bug that was responsible for the old badwater out of bounds exploit (they made engi building not just a hitscan check after that bcuz they didnt know how to fix the bug properly)

[@mr.m2675]

but it makes the angle a tiny bit easier to get working

[@twr9382]

that spy was just a meanie 1:08

[@voidgames5445]

On Hightower, if an engi is camping the payload, you can hide at the corner and pootis pow its amazing

[@TheAweDude1]

Also with the huntsman, you can interrupt another hunstman skewer taunt with your own skewer taunt. This can have two snipers facing each other, in the stun animation indefinitely.

[@MSCDonkeyKong]

12:02 So, what I did today was I had rocket jumped and then taunted; but my suicide counted as a kill for the achievement "Duty Bound". Weird janky ass mechanic there.

[@Shotzla]

Good choice of music, risk of rain, ori and the blind forest. Please list the music you use.

[@RealWatch1]

4:14 you can call it the Quad-p or the QP

[@denifnaf5874]

Imagine playing a server where you can only kill with taunts

[@hikarumitsuru2057]

3:22 I love the way he says: "Poo'is Pow" with his british accent. It's so funny.

[@JoeKiller]

You should check the pov angles vs where dmg distributes for the pyro.. it's probably just calculating some spinning ray around the circumference of sphere and starting at the 0 point

[@Galilupottepeak]

2:27 so that's why the huntsman stun glitch worked

[@BrannMolvik]

There is a much easier setup to turning the taunt in a different direction than the one you are facing. If you have multiple taunts equipped, you get the menu to choose which taunt to use as you taunt, and for some reason this gives you a short delay to aim your actual taunt direction more accurately. You can very easily hit 80-90% of the time if you use this technique.

[@silantrox]

16:37 the pyro farts

[@silent96024]

Fun fact: You do not need a bind for the contracker, you only need to press your contracker button to open then immediately close your contracker then taunt as fast as possible, I've done this trick multiple times consistantly.