TF2's Mysterious and Bizarre Cut Content

a little over a month ago TF2 turned 15 years old having come out in 2007. to put that into perspective that means TF2 came out before the Great Recession Obama's presidency and the assassination of Franz Ferdinand with the amount of time TF2 has existed on God's green earth it makes sense some content would slip through the cracks and never make it into the live game today we will be looking at the post-launch content for TF2 that was left on The Cutting Room floor or completely removed from existence because diving into the pre-release state of TF2 is a deep enough Rabbit Hole I'll save for another time so we'll take a look at all of tf2's bizarre unreleased content and what could have been after the break you tired of that dumb phone wasting space in your pocket wish you could do something cool with it other than Watch the watch show well thanks to today's sponsor you can have a AAA quality game right in your pocket introducing raid Shadow Legends with over 600 Champions with unique 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file still with some being fairly standard but all these are truly weird such as this animation of engineer puking his guts out presumably at the site of a medic unironically using the vaccinator there's also these animations for heavy and Soldier now they're either showing off some sort of mysterious object or doing what I can only describe is look at you with abject disappointment something Tick-Tock would shamelessly steal years later other animations exist too such as a whole set of animations for burning to death that would play similarly to getting backstabbed or headshot some of these are really Charming such as medic checking his pulse before kicking the bucket or engineer flailing around like a madman a whole set of unused death animations also exists for the MVM robots too I don't really understand why these aren't in the game they're fluid looking and fit the tone of the game really well my personal favorite of the bunch is the animation for the heavy robot getting headshot which is just really funny looking to me other than scrapped animations there exists various cosmetic items that were never released one of these Cosmetics is The bonkin Flash an early version of the Bonk boy that was never released due to being a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen even though years later they added an item that ripped off the flashes look even harder so I guess valve cares about copyright law as much as they care about TF2 I gotta say though seeing an uncircumcised Bonk boy feels incredibly cursed and I much prefer the version we ended up getting as a result so thanks copyright law other Cosmetics also made it into the game's files but were shoved last second due to unknown reasons The Improv skin cap for Soldier was added into the game on October 21st 2016. to be part of the creepy crawly case but never actually made it into the game and was removed from the files four days later another last second removal was the Pyro's mummy eyes intended for the Scream Fortress 2013 Update the item was added to the game and even featured in a promotional image for a Halloween bundle staring very ominously from this crate like a creepy old guy from under a bridge but yet again for some unknown reason this teal was removed and any mention was scrubbed from the promotional image the removal of these Cosmetics is super confusing to me why go through all of the effort into adding these into the game only to yank them out at the last possible second other cut hats include a whole collection of Yeti Park themed hats intended for the jungle Inferno update and the ID badge which should have functioned like a regular decal item able to put any image you want on it as far as the ID badge goes it's probably for the best it was removed because one last decal item in the game is one less opportunity for my eyes to be defiled by furry Sandy Cheeks with the this suck taxi cab with jump some of the most bizarre loss Cosmetics come from a crossover with DOTA 2. these Dota 2 Cosmetics aren't lost because they were never added to the game were impossible to get just that the means of unlocking them were so obscure a single one has never been redeemed the clocks Works Helm storm Spirits Jolly hat and sniper sniping glass where hats that were given to winners of a 2011 Dota 2 Championship however as you can imagine the crossover between professional MOBA Dota 2 players and Casual FPS TF2 players aren't very high so not only were these hats given to an incredibly small amount of people that were given to people who don't give a crap about TF2 not a single one of these hats was redeemed as far as I can tell and I really doubt any Dota 2 players that received them are gonna suddenly pick up an interest in TF2 over a decade later but that's just a hunch digging deeper into the rabbit hole also reveals other scrapped content the game's code shows that there was originally going to be content restricted to Valentine's Day similarly to the Halloween content Lord knows what kind of spicy content you could only access on Valentine's Day there was also a plethora of unused kill icons in the game some for reflecting certain projectiles and some for specific instances such as getting a kill through a Medi Beam with the third degree however the most interesting scrapped icons relate to things that never even existed at all there is an unused kill icon for the shred alert tone of all things which means at one point not only could you shred the guitar you could also shred your enemies to Pieces other kill icons show weapons that never even existed such as the baleful beacon a scrapped Lantern weapon for pyro there's also a kill icon for the stratonic swatter a scrapped fly swatter weapon for Soldier which even made an appearance in marketing material for Scream Fortress but never made it into the game perhaps the most head scratching of these kill icons is what appears to be a water balloon weapon what class would have used the water balloon is unknown or perhaps what's even more confusing is how a water balloon would even be lethal at all unleash the thrill of Summer with bunch of balloons these kill icons are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to scrap weapons though there exists leaked arm animations for the engineer which heavily imply that at some point a revolver type weapon was being developed for him and considering the engineer is a gun tote and cowboy Texan the fact that he has never been given a proper six shooter is disappointing especially knowing how close he was a leaked backpack icon also shows that at one point spy was gonna be given a fire red ensue tested in 2009 this item replaced the revolver but granted spy a 90 damage reduction to fire damage which is absolutely insane a second version was tested that was a little less busted that instead just negated after burn damage but the item was scrapped altogether no one knows why it was scrapped but my guess is that the item was too powerful and also the recent edition of Cosmetics would make it hard to tell if a spy was wearing the suit a couple years later the spicy always added to the game that serves a similar purpose just more balance to fight against throughout tf2's lifespan many more weapons have been tested but never released to the public and very rarely do we get a peek behind the curtain but that's exactly what happened with the jungle Inferno update although the update only added five weapons with two of them being fart jokes within the files added were a whole salute of weapons that didn't make the cut the leaked weapons were the afterburner a scrapped flamethrower for pyro the assault Cannon which was a primary for heavy also shout out to the guy on the tier 2 subreddit that made mock-up stats for this item that don't make any sense within TF2 and in the comments just straight up said they've never played TF2 and never want to also added were the handy partner which is unique in the fact that it would have allowed Engineers to build a mini dispenser in the same vein as many centuries and took up the rarely used PDA slot there was also the specialist a scrapped primary for scout the Spitfire a scrapped flare gun for pyro and a scrap sniper rifle called the viewfinder here this one in the handy partner are unique in the fact that we actually know what purpose it would have served the viewfinder would highlight enemies with this skill presumably to track them behind walls which sounds like a really neat concept fortunately the same effect can be achieved by installing some handy dandy wall hacks so nothing of value was lost there perhaps my favorite of these scrapped items and the one I'm most disappointed never saw an official release is a scrapped spy melee called the inside jab instead of a knife you are backstabbing people with a God blessed firearm like a true American but hey screw new weapons nobody cares about those did you know at one point valve was toying with the idea of letting you paint weapons I know I'd be rocking a full set of flesh-colored weapons it's pretty common knowledge in the TF2 community at this point but the ability to paint weapons very briefly slipped through the cracks one day for just five minutes the cow Mangler 5000 was made paintable the only pains you can apply to the cow Mangler were the team paints so sadly there was never a flesh painted cow mingler as sad as that is they have become incredibly rare collectors pieces and it is said that there's only less than 10 in existence so if you want your cow Mangler 5000 to be a slightly darker shade of red or blue you must Journey the Seas climb the high highest Mountaintop and Venture through the deepest Ravine and when you finally find one probably pay like 10 000-ish dollars now here's where I don my conspiracy cap and dive into where the line between fiction and reality gets a little fuzzy at one point the Vita saw was also made paintable as well there exists a vitasaw painted orange but pretty much any solid proof of its existence has been straight up 1984 off the internet and lost to the sands of time so you're just gonna have to take my word for it something that's a little less mysterious and more soul-crushingly disappointing is the exclusion of the map's Cactus Canyon and asteroid these two maps were added to the game as part of an early access feature where players could play test Maps early and give their feedback to Val which was awesome Cactus Canyon was a payload map and asteroid was an entirely new game mode set on the moon where you had to destroy the opposing team's robot minions and typical valve fashion they worked on the maps for like three months then shelved them and never mentioned them again leaving TF2 fans in the dust valve delaying projects and being inefficient with the TF2 IP they would never do that but of losing two map sucks how about an entire game mode Arena Arena Arena Where Art Thou for the unaware Arena was a deathmatch like game mode where every round both teams would spawn in and whoever was the last team standing won as deaths were permanent until the round ended it was a refreshing way to play the game and there was a whole bunch of exciting Maps exclusive to the game mode unfortunately with the arrival of casual mode Arena was never included and basically got erased from the game which is a real shame because it was a fun way to play the game it's gotten some love recently with the Halloween map graveyard being an arena light sort of experience and Arena mode receiving an update for some reason in a July 22nd patch but beyond that arena is a lost game mode most players will never experience but in sheer scope all of this pales in comparison to the biggest lost piece of TF2 content the official TF2 TV show adult swim in TF2 used to collaborate fairly often whether that be the Robot Chicken TF2 sketch The Venture Bros commercial or the various Adult Swim themed Cosmetics added to the game including the one that just looks like a foreskin man two foreskin jokes in one video I'm On Fire the show would have been done in Source Filmmaker and aired on Adult Swim but unfortunately Val couldn't meet deadlines or really just be efficient at all wow what a shocker valve not working efficiently and delaying projects they would never do that so unfortunately all of the work done on the TF2 TV show was a waste in the partnership fell through just imagine the reality where valve didn't suck and we actually got to see a tf2 TV show airing on a major Network it is rumored however that the expiration date short is actually the result of work done on the TF2 TV show so at least we got that and the foreskin hat if you want to look into it further I highly recommend Tyler mcvicker's video on the subject and that's most of the things I'm going to cover without even diving into pre-release content or other small emissions like the unused unusuals or the unused War Paints in the games files if you want to learn more about those I put links in the description to videos that cover them but before I go I've saved the strangest for last the absolute most confusing and unnerving piece of lost content in TF2 history I present to you CP cloak a map I can't even begin to describe and doesn't even have a known purpose the map is a cube you're trapped in while all nine mercs stare at you while more cubes linger in the distance the only explanation I can find for this map with such fine scenery that looks like it's from a creepypasta is that it was used to test map Sky boxes so have fun trying to sleep tonight with that piece of nightmare fuel lingering in your brain bye bye now [Music] I used to think my life was a frag movie but now I realize it's silly casual Team Fortress 2 moments

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Length: 15min 51sec (951 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 24 2022