Tightrope

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Tightrope is a server mod that aims to be a community-run version of the official beta by testing out new weapons, new maps, balance changes and other alterations. It is currently active on all TF2 Tightrope servers.

Changes currently undergoing testing

New weapons

Class		Notes/Special abilities
Soldier	Secondary Personal Death Ray	Shoots rockets  Only holds one rocket in clip
Pyro	Primary Arsonist's Arseblast	Airblast cures and stores ally status ailments  Taunting cures and stores user's status ailments  Airblast applies stored status ailments to enemies  Does not apply afterburn
	Primary Adiabatter	Airblast type: Overheat  Airblast ignites enemies and projectiles  Airblast doesn't use up ammo  User absorbs unused heat from airblasts  User takes damage if too much heat is absorbed  -50% max ammo
Medic	Primary Practitioner's Pointer	Keep cursor on enemies with medigun active to point them out to teammates  Pointed out enemies are covered in milk and can be seen through walls  Passive weapon  -25% healing rate on medigun
Sniper	Melee Ascender	Climbs walls  Wearer takes minicrits when aiming
Spy	Watch Sundial	+33% move speed when cloaked  Cloak doesn’t automatically recharge  +40% cloak consumption rate

Changed weapons

Class	Item	Old	New
Soldier	Rocket Jumper	+100% fire damage vulnerability on wearer +100% explosive damage vulnerability on wearer +100% bullet damage vulnerability on wearer	No vulnerabilities
	Cow Mangler 5000	Reflected rockets crit	Reflected rockets minicrit
	Liberty Launcher	~	-25% firing speed
	Direct Hit	Base damage: 57 - 140	Base damage does not exceed 125
	Mantreads	Deals 3x falling damage to the player you land on	Creates an explosion that deals 3x falling damage when you land
	Battalion's Backup	Rage filled by taking 450 damage	Rage filled by taking 200 damage
	Concheror	Rage filled by taking 333 damage or dealing 1133 damage	Rage filled by taking 200 damage or dealing 600 damage
	Market Gardener	Deals crits while the wielder is rocket jumping	Deals crits while the wielder is rocket jumping and for 0.5 seconds after landing
	Equalizer	Base damage: 33 - 113 Speed starts increasing when the user is at 160 health and caps at 40 health	Base damage: 20 - 100  Speed starts increasing when the user is at 100 health and caps at 10 health
	Disciplinary Action	Grants 40% speed buff	Grants 25% speed buff
Pyro	Flame Thrower	~	+10% damage bonus
	Sharpened Volcano Fragment	~	Now appears to be on fire
Demoman	Grenade Launcher	Direct hits deal 84 - 123 damage	Direct hits always deal 100 damage
	Loch-n-Load	Direct hits deal 103 - 147 damage	Direct hits always deal 120 damage
Engineer	Pomson 6000	Drains extra cloak when target is cloaked	Always drains correct amount of cloak

Other changes

• Players can change their field of vision beyond the normal limits when on tightrope servers by altering the custom_fov variable in the console.

Bugs

• Players can enter the civilian pose by unequipping all their weapons with the unequip menu.

External links

• TF2 Tightrope blog
• TF2 Tightrope forum