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| name          = Catapult
 
| type          = weapon
 
| type          = weapon
| name          = Catapult
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| unused        = yes
 
| image          = Unknownweapon.png
 
| image          = Unknownweapon.png
| unused        = yes
 
 
| hide-kill-icon = yes
 
| hide-kill-icon = yes
 
| used-by        = [[Engineer]]
 
| 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>.
  
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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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.
  
The Catapult was also somewhat teased in Lecture Valley<ref>http://www.teamfortress.com/lecturevalley/02.php</ref>
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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>
  
 
== Gallery ==
 
== Gallery ==

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