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. There is a Steam Group for Tightrope.

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
Heavy	Primary Glasha	Fire rate increases the longer it is deployed  500% slower base firing speed
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
	Watch Lungbuster	Doesn't use up cloak charge  -6 health drained per second when cloaked

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% knockback  -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	Speed and damage increase as the user becomes injured	Damage doesn't increase as the user becomes injured  -50% damage penalty
	Disciplinary Action	Grants 40% speed buff	Grants 25% speed buff
Pyro	Flame Thrower	~	+10% damage bonus1
	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
Heavy	Minigun	~	33% slower spin up time2
	Gloves of Running Urgently	When active: -6 health drained per second on wearer	When active: No health drain  When active: User is ignited  -50 max health on wearer
Engineer	Pomson 6000	Drains extra cloak when target is cloaked	Always drains correct amount of cloak
Spy	Enforcer	0.5 sec increase in time taken to cloak	Doesn't increase time taken to cloak  -15 cloak per shot
1This change only applies to the stock Flamethrower. 2This change also applies to all other Miniguns.

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