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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>.
  
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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. The Catapult's physics-related code was ported in from Portal 2, which brought with it some client prediction issues as evidenced by some developer comments;
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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>
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There are also plenty of {{code|// HACK!}} comments on many lines involving float mathematics, indicating that the building was scrapped most likely due to these technical reasons.
 
  
 
== Gallery ==
 
== Gallery ==

Latest revision as of 15:35, 14 March 2024

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This article documents experimental content for Team Fortress 2. It may contain speculation, broken links or errors.

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

  • Lecture Valley Catapult teaser

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
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