Spitfire

Spitfire
Basic Information
Used by:	Pyro
Slot:	Secondary
Contributed by:	NeoDement

The Spitfire is an experimental secondary weapon for the Pyro that was being play-tested by Valve. The existence of this weapon was first discovered in the form of a materials directory string found in the texture_preload_list.txt file that had been added to the game as part of the October 28, 2015 Patch;

models/workshop/weapons/c_models/c_pilot_flaregun/c_pilot_flare
models/workshop/weapons/c_models/c_pilot_flaregun/c_pilot_flaregun

Almost two years later exactly (off by 8 days), the backpack icons, model and textures for the Spitfire were accidentally leaked in the Jungle Inferno Update. Based on the patch diff for the update, it appears that when Valve had added the new tf\models\workshop directory and migrated some weapons and cosmetics over to the new directory from their original directories (tf\models\player\items, tf\models\weapons\c_models), they accidentally migrated some staging build (in-dev) Workshop content they were testing at the time (if not for the past two years) and pushed it in the update.

Update history

October 28, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Material directory string for the Spitfire was found listed in texture_preload_list.txt, a file that had been added in this update.

October 20, 2017 Patch (Jungle Inferno Update Patch 1)

• [Undocumented] Files for the Spitfire were added to the game.

October 23, 2017 Patch

• [Undocumented] Files for the Spitfire were removed from the game. Oops.

Gallery

• Spitfire Backpack Icon.png

  Backpack icon

• Spitfire Viewmodel.png

  First person view