Scout

Scout
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Basic Information
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Type:	Offensive
Health:	125 (110 with the Sandman equipped) (185 when buffed by a Medic, 165 with the Sandman equipped)
Speed:	133%
Meet the Scout

“

Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people. Click to listen — The Scout on himself

”

A fast-running and fast-talking kid from Boston with a penchant for baseball and grievous bodily harm, the Scout flies like a butterfly and stings like a Shotgun blast to the face. The fastest of all the classes, his speed and ability to Double Jump will leave slower opponents spinning. This, coupled with his Scattergun or Force-A-Nature shotguns, makes the Scout ideal at hit and run tactics, allowing him to inflict massive close-range damage before dashing away to safety. Not content with only one way to harass his foes, the Scout can also equip his trusty Sandman to Stun opponents with long-range Baseballs.

The Scout is an ideal choice if you need an objective done quickly; capturing points and moving carts twice as fast as his teammates and spiriting the enemy Intelligence away before they even know he's there.

Bio

Name: N/A Location of origin: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Job: Rapid Recovery Motto: "Too. Much. Caffeine." Emblems:    Description: The youngest of eight boys from the south side of Boston, the Scout learned early how to problem solve with his fists. With seven older brothers on his side, fights tended to end before the runt of the litter could maneuver into punching distance, so the Scout trained himself to run. He ran everywhere, all the time, until he could beat his pack of mad dog siblings to the fray.

Basic Strategy

Main articles: Scout tips, Scout strategy

• Jump in mid-air to change direction, and avoid enemy fire.
• You capture control points twice as fast as other classes.
• You're most effective when you stay moving and use your speed to your advantage.
• Strafing augments the natural advantage given by your speed.
• Flanking enemies gives you plenty of opportunities to cause havoc.
• Your Scattergun is lethal at point blank range, often killing in one or two hits.
• Your Pistol is great for picking off enemies at a distance.

Weapons

Note: Weapon damage is approximate and listed at base value. See individual weapon pages for additional figures.

Primary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Scattergun	6	32	Base/Max: 60/105 Crit:180
Unlock	Force-A-Nature	2	32	Base/Max: 65/113 Crit:194	Enhanced knockback effect: Propels enemies backwards when hit and/or propels the user in the opposite direction when fired while airbourne. With double the firing speed of the Scattergun the FAN has a clip size of only 2 shells, as opposed to the 6 of the Scattergun.

Secondary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Pistol	12	36	Base: 15 Crit: 45 [6 rounds/sec]
Sam & Max variant	Lugermorph	12	36	Base: 15 Crit: 45 [6 rounds/sec]	Same specs as Pistol.
Unlock	Bonk! Atomic Punch	1	∞ (6sec duration, 24sec cooldown)	N/A	Makes user immune to all damage for a short while. Bonk! must recharge before it can be used again. Player can not attack while invincible. Player is still affected by knockback.
Drop	Crit-A-Cola	1	∞ (6sec duration, 24sec cooldown)	N/A	During the 6-second effect, all attacks fired are Mini-Crits, and all damage taken by the player is Mini-Crit damage.

Melee

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Bat	N/A	N/A	Base: 35 Crit: 105 [about 2 hits per second]
Unlock	Sandman	1	∞ (15sec ball respawn)	Base: 35 (Ball: 5-15) Crit: 105 (Ball: 45) [about 2 hits per second]	Launches a Baseball at enemy, Stunning them between 1–8 seconds (depending on ascending distance). -15 hp on wearer (110 hp total).

Taunt Attack

	Attack	Weapon	Duration	Damage
File:Item icon home run.png Melee	Home Run	Sandman	5 seconds	500 (Instant kill)

Hats

Main article: Hats

Original	Classless		Community		Hatless
Batter's Helmet	Bonk Helm	Ye Olde Baker Boy	Troublemaker's Tossle Cap	Whoopee Cap	Baseball Bill's Sports Shine

Official class avatars

Official class avatars
Original set	RED ÜberCharged set	BLU ÜberCharged set
Get TF2 avatars on Steam: Original

Achievements

Main article: Scout achievements

Scout pack: 35 achievements, 3 milestones.

Trivia

• The Scout is voiced by Nathan Vetterlein.
• The BLU Scout's Mother is in a relationship with the RED Spy. A file in the BLU base contains photos documenting their...activities.
• The Scout is one of two classes with no emblem on their sleeves, the other being the Spy.
• The excited Scout mascot in the Force-A-Nature ad [1] also appears in slightly altered form as the icon for the 'You'll Feel a Little Prick' Medic achievement.
• The Scout mascot mentioned above wears his earpiece over his right ear, not his left like his game counterpart.
• The Scout wears a left-handed Batter's Helmet, despite being a right-handed batter, most likely because he already wears the headset on his left ear.
• The Scout's "No otha' class gonna do dat!" line is the only time a class has actually referred to themselves as a class.
  • The Scout's line "This map ain't big enough for the two of us" is the only time a class has referred to the battle ground they are on as a map.
• The Scout's right eye is at the position 1.337 on the X-axis.
• The Submachine Gun for the Sniper was originally intended for the Scout.
  • The Nailgun, a scrapped weapon carried over from Team Fortress Classic, was also intended for the Scout (the closest weapon to it now is the Medic's Syringe Gun). This makes the Scout the only class to have their primary weapon changed twice in production.

R.I.P. Crazy Legs

The Scout looks on at the PCs

• After players noted a resemblance between the Scout and TV pitchman Vince Offer, several players requested that Valve add a reference to this in-game. With the release of the Scout update, lines such as "If you order now, I'll throw in an extra beatin', absolutely free" and "No other class is gonna do that" were added to the game files.
• The Scout has the same voice actor as the "Church Guy" character in Valve title Left 4 Dead. The voices used by Nathan Vetterlein for both characters are strikingly similar.
• For a very long time, there was a bug that would cause the Scout's legs to disjoint crazily during a Double-Jump. Valve finally fixed the "Crazy Legs" bug in January 2010. [2]
• The Scout is the youngest class in the game.
• The Scout is the only class whose voice is unchanged when doing a domination response to a random class. For example, the Spy talks with a much darker voice.
• The Scout repeatedly breaks the fourth wall, most notably when he tells his domination victims to rage quit.
• According to the Jarate comic from the Sniper update, the Scout likes tacos.
• The Spy claims the Scout is a virgin in his domination lines. Considering the nature and age of the Scout, this may be true.
• The Scout and Pyro are the only classes without stubble.
• To the Scout has a total of 24 unlocks, with 4 unlockable weapons, 1 promotional item, 6 Scout hats, 8 All-Class hats and 5 All-Class misc items.
  • Additionally, The Scout is the first class to have three weapon unlocks for a specific slot. And is one of three classes to have so, the others are the Demoman and the Engineer.
• In the group picture that the camera in every Meet the Team trailer zooms out to with the ending flourish, the Scout is the only Offensive class wielding a melee weapon.
• During the Mac Update comic, the Scout tries to impress Jessica.
• The Scout's symbol- a shoe with a wing on it- is a reference to Mercury; the winged footed messenger in Roman mythology.
• The Scout is the only class without a freeze-cam related Achievement.
  • He is, however, the only class that requires one specific map in order to unlock an Achievement. (Quick Hook requires the player to be on Well.)
• The Scout has had a number of his Achievement conditions changed since the Scout Update's initial release.
  • The Achievements changed include "Retire the Runner" (which required the player to kill another Scout suffering from post-Bonk! slowdown; this was changed because that side effect has since been removed), and "The Big Hurt" (which required the player to stun ÜberCharged opponents; this was changed because the ability to stun invincible opponents with the Sandman has also been removed).

See also

• Scout scripts
• Scout strategy
• How to play the Scout
• Scout Match-ups
• Scout voice commands
• Scout Responses
• Scout taunts
• Scout Rush
• Scout's mother
• List of references (Scout)

External links

• The Scout Update
• TF2 Official Blog- Okay, this does not look good here. Umm...
• TF2 Official Blog- Hey good job, there, hardhat
• TF2 Official Blog- That's what I'm talking about!
• TF2 Official Blog- Better Late Than Never