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(add image from old trailer insted of nothing for idea who want to know what is look going to be.)
(It's important information. The previous version suggested "airblast" pushing mechanism (why?), while Portal 2 Aerial Faith Plate physically thrusts the player)
 
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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. It was teased in Lecture Valley<ref>http://www.teamfortress.com/lecturevalley/02.php</ref>.
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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 using airblast force to do so.
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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.
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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