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| name          = Catapult
 
| type          = weapon
 
| type          = weapon
| name          = Catapult
 
 
| unused        = yes
 
| unused        = yes
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| image          = Unknownweapon.png
 
| hide-kill-icon = yes
 
| hide-kill-icon = yes
 
| used-by        = [[Engineer]]
 
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The '''Catapult''' is a scrapped Engineer building seen in footage of a leaked Team Fortress 2 "staging" (indev) build alongside other features that were being worked on for the scrapped Spy vs Engineer WAR! update.
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The '''Catapult''' is a [[scrapped]] building for the [[Engineer]] seen in footage of a leaked [[Team Fortress 2]] "staging" (indev) build alongside other features that were being worked on for the scrapped Spy vs Engineer WAR! update. It was teased in Lecture Valley<ref>http://www.teamfortress.com/lecturevalley/02.php</ref>.
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This building was intended to throw player into the air.<ref>game/shared/tf/trigger_catapult_shared.cpp</ref>. According to in-code comment, this code was copied from Portal 2 and then modified.
  
In November of 2019, a leaked "Staging" build of Team Fortress 2 from around the time of the Gun Mettle update was shown off on Twitch<ref>https://www.twitch.tv/videos/503852021</ref>. Within this staging build were many features that were to be part of the scrapped Spy vs Engineer WAR! update. Many features shown off were rudimentary in setup. The Catapult was one such feature that was shown off. The Catapult was a modified Teleporter that worked similar to the player launchers in the [[Passtime]] gamemode, launching the user into the air with some forward momentum. In the end, the building, along with the entire Spy vs Engineer WAR! update was scrapped.
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Building speed for this building type is increasesd 4 times (approximately 5.2 seconds) when constructed and 7 times (3 seconds) when redeployed.<ref>game/server/tf/tf_player.cpp:L7973-7976</ref>
  
The Catapult was also somewhat teased in Lecture Valley<ref>http://www.teamfortress.com/lecturevalley/02.php</ref>
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== Gallery ==
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<gallery>
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File:LectureValley02.png|Lecture Valley Catapult teaser
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</gallery>
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==

Latest revision as of 15:35, 14 March 2024

The Catapult is a scrapped building for the Engineer seen in footage of a leaked Team Fortress 2 "staging" (indev) build alongside other features that were being worked on for the scrapped Spy vs Engineer WAR! update. It was teased in Lecture Valley[1].

This building was intended to throw player into the air.[2]. According to in-code comment, this code was copied from Portal 2 and then modified.

Building speed for this building type is increasesd 4 times (approximately 5.2 seconds) when constructed and 7 times (3 seconds) when redeployed.[3]

Gallery

References

  1. http://www.teamfortress.com/lecturevalley/02.php
  2. game/shared/tf/trigger_catapult_shared.cpp
  3. game/server/tf/tf_player.cpp:L7973-7976