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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>.
 
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>.
  
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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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.
 
 
<!--Begin-->// copied from portal2 code; original code came with client-predicted counterpart,
 
// but implementing predictable triggers in {{botignore|tf2}} wasn't trivial so this is just the
 
// server component. it works but causes prediction errors.<!--End-->
 
  
 
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.
 
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.

Revision as of 08:53, 1 May 2020

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[1].

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.

There are also plenty of // HACK! comments on many lines involving float mathematics, indicating that the building was scrapped most likely due to these technical reasons.

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