Pyroland

The RED courtyard of 2Fort in Pyroland.

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Enter a world of imagination that's so superior to the long-winded world of imagination in books that you'll want to put all of your books in a pile and light them on fire.

— Pyroland publicity blurb

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Pyroland, as it is officially named, is how the Pyro sees the world through its eyes. It was first seen in Meet the Pyro.

Description

In the Meet the Pyro video, Pyroland is a stark contrast to the dark, deserted desert town it takes place in. Instead of a run-down desert town, Pyroland appears as a cartoonishly colorful land with big flowery meadows, a bright blue sky with giant pudgy kittens floating around, giant lollipops and candy sprouting out of the ground, and a little town full of candy shops and party decorations. The song "Do You Believe In Magic" by The Lovin' Spoonful plays in the background.

Through the Pyro's insane mind, the BLU team are seen as little winged babies, or Template:W, having their normal heads on chubby diapered bodies. They gleefully coo and giggle at Pyro's seemingly innocent antics, when in reality they are being brutally hunted and killed- for example, in Pyroland, the Pyro blows bubbles at the Scout-baby, making him laugh and swat at the bubbles, while the real Scout is actually being hit in the face with the Scorch Shot. In both Pyroland and reality, the Pyro keeps an air of carefree, happy-go-lucky cheerfulness.

In-game, by equipping the Pyrovision Goggles, Rainblower, Lollichop, Infernal Orchestrina, Burning Bongos, or Balloonicorn, the player is allowed to see certain maps through Pyro's eyes. Rockets and flares leave trails of bubbles, and explosions are replaced by confetti. When players take damage, they laugh instead of shouting in pain, and bleed balloons. Gibs are the same as those in Birthday mode and servers with sillygibs on. Health pickups appear as cake slices, and ammo boxes appear wrapped as gift boxes.

In the kill feed, Domination messages read, "[Player] is BEST FRIENDS with [Player]", while Revenge notices read, "[Player] BROKE UP with [Player]". Additionally, certain hats and miscellaneous items will appear to assist or be assisted by a player for unassisted kills, using the item's custom name, if it has one. If the player has more than one of these items equipped, one will be picked at random for the killfeed notice. Items that provide assists include:

v • d • e Cosmetic items that affect the killfeed in Pyroland
Scout
Scout	Chucklenuts	Pocket Pauling	Catcher's Companion
Soldier
Soldier	Compatriot	Lieutenant Bites	Lieutenant Bites the Dust	Larval Lid^†	Private Maggot Muncher	Semi-Tame Trapper's Hat	Grub Grenades
Pyro
	Triboniophorus Tyrannus^†	Birdcage	Cremator's Conscience	Carrion Companion	Metal Slug^†	Pocket Pardner	Fiery Phoenix	Sole Mate

	Nabler^†	Magical Mount
Demoman
Demoman	Bird-Man of Aberdeen	Polly Putrid
Heavy
Heavy	Red Army Robin	Ivan the Inedible	Little Bear	Sucker Slug^†	Momma Kiev
Engineer
	Teddy Roosebelt	Pocket Purrer	Prize Plushy	Teddy Robobelt	Pocket Pyro	Ein	Tropical Toad	Aim Assistant

	Mini-Engy	Puggyback	Pony Express	Clubsy The Seal
Medic
Medic	Archimedes	Mecha-Medes	Archimedes the Undying	Pocket Heavy	Pocket-Medes
Sniper
	Koala Compact	Sir Hootsalot	Steel Songbird	Li'l Snaggletooth	Cobber Chameleon	Carious Chameleon	Elizabeth the Third	Glow from Below

	Rocko
Spy
Spy	Backstabber's Boomslang	Spycrab	Aristotle	Bird's Eye Viewer	Monsieur Grenouille
Multi-class
Multi-class	Pocket Medic	Scrap Pack	Beep Boy	Deadliest Duckling	Hillbilly Speed Bump	Harry
All classes
	Alien Swarm Parasite^†	Hat of Undeniable Wealth and Respect	Balloonicorn	RoBro 3000	Boo Balloon	Dead Little Buddy	Unknown Monkeynaut	Reindoonicorn

	Tux	Accursed Apparition	Guano	Pocket Horsemann	Unidentified Following Object	Quoth	Sackcloth Spook	Grim Tweeter

	Catastrophic Companions	Pocket Raiders	Space Hamster Hammy	Pocket Villains	Croaking Hazard	Pocket Saxton	Quizzical Quetzal	Slithering Scarf

	Pocket Santa	Pocket Yeti	Sledder's Sidekick	Terror-antula	Polar Pal	Pocket Halloween Boss	Gingerbread Mann	Pebbles the Penguin

	Breadcrab^†	A Handsome Handy Thing	Balloonicorpse	Ominous Offering	Battle Bear	Botler 2000	Triboniophorus Gentlemannus^†
Note	^†This item gets credited with the kill instead, with the player receiving the assist credit.

Because some hats are not compatible with the Pyrovision Goggles, such as the Spiral Sallet, the Balloonicorn allows for classes to wear any hat and still view Pyroland. The Balloonicorn occupies a miscellaneous item slot, but hovers behind the player, allowing for a second badge to be placed on the character model and allowing for item sets to be used in Pyroland.

Certain items, like the Rainblower, Lollichop, and Balloonicorn can only be viewed while in Pyrovision; outside of Pyrovision, the Rainblower and Lollichop will be viewed as the stock Flamethrower and Fire Axe, respectively. However, all Pyrovision items are visible in deathcams, whether or not the player is in Pyroland.

Maps with differing textures while in Pyroland:

In-game features

Multiple birthday mode and holiday mode features are active:
- Health and ammo pickups appear as cakes or wrapped as presents, respectively.
- Gibs turn into gears, toys and other silly items such as a unicycle.
- Cables are adorned with lights.
- Blood effects become balloons, streamers, and confetti.
Lights will be turned on/glow brighter (e.g. outside lights on the left side of the RED spawn in Sawmill).
Signs in objective-based games say "MMM MMMPH", except those in Doomsday.
Resupply lockers are purple with yellow handles and have pictures of a cuddly dog on the left side and a cuddly cat on the right side.
The Soldier's, Pyro's, and Demoman's grenades (and items that replace them) appear as baby bottles.
Enemies' and allies' voices become high-pitched (does not apply to the player's own voice).
Enemies and allies on fire will be surrounded by sparkles, but not the player in third person.
Certain smoke effects will become bubbles, such as the rockets from the Soldier's Rocket Launcher and the flares from the Pyro's Flare Gun.
All custom maps with the supported textures get the effect if you extract the "mtp.cfg" file from the gcf into the cfg folder in your tf folder and add a new map to it in the same format.
Instead of death or injury sounds, players will laugh when hurt or killed.
Items such as the Rainblower or Lollichop and other Pyro-based Pyromania items are visible to the player.

Demonstration

Related achievements

BFF²
Have 2 BEST FRIENDS at the same time.

Mass Hysteria
Have 6 teammates using Pyrovision at the same time.

The Great Deflate
Kill 79 enemies who have the Balloonicorn pets.

A Fresh Pair of Eyes
Dominate a player using the Pyrovision Goggles and earn your own pair!

Reward: Pyrovision Goggles

Update history

June 27, 2012 Patch

Added Pyrovision!
[Undocumented] Added 4 new General Achievements related to Pyrovision.
[Undocumented] Brain Parasites are now credited as being assisted by the player on unassisted kills.
[Undocumented] Pocket Buddies are now credited with assists on unassisted kills.
[Undocumented] Added advanced multiplayer options to turn on Pyrovision while spectating and during replays.

June 28, 2012 Patch

Fixed seeing through Sniper fences in 2Fort when using Pyrovision.

July 2, 2012 Patch

Teddy Roosebelt can now get assists in Pyrovision.
Fixed Pyrovision sometimes activating in killcams for more than just weapons and cosmetics.
Fixed blood getting sprayed on the world in some cases in Low Violence and Pyrovision.
Fixed decapitations creating head gibs in Low Violence and Pyrovision.
Added team color to rainbow-showered players in Pyrovision.

July 5, 2012 Patch

Added new options for Pyrovision to the Advanced Options dialog.
- Added enable/disable for the HUD border.
- Added the ability to make the HUD border static.
- Added the ability to turn off the skybox depth of field.

September 4, 2012 Patch