Gibs
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Gibs, or giblets, are the bits and pieces of a player's body that are left after the player has been killed in a specific manner, often explosive in nature. When a player is gibbed, their body parts may be highlighted on the Deathcam. Additionally, the Horseless Headless Horsemann always drops its own unique gibs on death.
The term gibs also encapsulates debris left by destroyed buildings,[1] stickybombs,[1] Sappers,[1] Razorbacks, Guitars, Robots in Robot Destruction gamemode, props, and the fallout from the explosion upon the attacking teams' victory on the final stage of a Payload map. "Gib" can also be used as a verb, e.g. "gibbing" someone, meaning reducing an enemy to gibs by blowing them up with a rocket or grenade.
Players can gib themselves on command by entering explode into the console (similar to suiciding by entering the kill command into the console), or by having the command bound to a key. When playing Mann vs. Machine, both players and robots will only gib when forced by either decapitation or the Bombinomicon. However, giant robots will always gib on death, unless they are killed by energy weapons such as the Cow Mangler 5000.
The server setting tf_playergib can also be used to modify gibbing behavior: when it is set to '0', players will not gib at all, no matter what kills them. When set to '1' (the default setting), gibbing behavior is as normal. Finally, with the setting tf_playergib 2, players will gib when killed by practically any means - be it a backstab, environmental kill, or Shotgun blast. This does not alter the behaviour of gib-related achievements.
Causes
Deaths caused by the following can result in the creation of gibs:
- Rockets
- Grenades
- Stickybombs
- Ullapool Caber
- The Detonator and the Scorch Shot flares explosion
- A killing blow from a critical hit or mini crit with the Apoco-Fists
- A charged shot from the Classic
- Soldier's Kamikaze taunt
- Engineer's Organ Grinder taunt
- Rock, Paper, Scissors taunt
- Any death with the Bombinomicon equiped
Deaths caused by the following will result in the creation of only the head gib:
- Eyelander
- Scotsman's Skullcutter
- Claidheamh Mòr
- Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker
- Half-Zatoichi
- Nessie's Nine Iron
- Persian Persuader
- Demoman's Decapitation taunt
- A headshot with the Hitman's Heatmaker
- Horseless Headless Horsemann's melee attack
- Merasmus' melee attack
A weapon able to create gibs, with the exception of weapons capable of decapitation, will do so if fatal damage equals or surpasses the victim's hitpoints by 10 (a 60 hitpoint damage dealing hit would gib a player with 50 hitpoints remaining, but would not gib one with 51 hitpoints). This rule does not apply if the damage is dealt in the form of critical hits or mini-crits, in which case the victim is guaranteed to be gibbed.
List
Deathcam examples
Violent gibs
Silly gibs
Class gibs
Robot gibs
Asteroid robot gibs
Asteroid robot gibs
Asteroid robot A gibs used as part of the spawn animation
Generic gibs
A generic organ, the most common of gibs
Silly gibs
Birthday mode servers and censored versions of Team Fortress 2 have completely different types of gibs. They can also be enabled client-side with the -sillygibs launch option.
Balloon Dog
Bolt
Boot
Cheeseburger
Can
Alarm Clock
Rubber Ducky
Fish Bones
Gear 1
Gear 2
Gear 3
Gear 4
Gear 5
Hubcap
License plate
Spring 1
Spring 2
Wind-up teeth
Unicycle wheel
Building gibs
Destroyed Level 1 Sentry Gun or Combat Mini-Sentry
Destroyed Level 2 Sentry Gun
Destroyed Level 3 Sentry Gun
Destroyed Dispenser
Destroyed Teleporter
Broken Electro Sapper
Broken Red-Tape Recorder
Projectile gibs
Destroyed Arrow
Destroyed Festive Arrow
Destroyed Repair Claw
Destroyed Stickybomb
Horseless Headless Horsemann gibs
Horseless Headless Horsemann's gibs
Miscellaneous gibs
Related achievements
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Update history
- Updated explosion debris to be a bit darker.
- [Undocumented] Scouts now have a 1 out of 100 chance of having a flying dove spawn when killed via gibbing.
- Fixed a bug that would cause team-painted wearable gibs to show an incorrect color.
- Fixed a client crash related to breakables/gibs.
- Fixed decapitations creating head gibs in Low Violence and Pyrovision.
Bugs
- Notification boxes that label the body part appear on censored gibs, even in the censored versions of Team Fortress 2.
- The Engineer's right hand gib will always be his glove, even when the Gunslinger or Short Circuit is equipped.
- The Combat Mini-Sentry deployed by Gunslinger Engineers uses the same gibs as a destroyed Level 1 Sentry Gun, they are just sized down.
- Gibs, like the ÜberCharge textures, with the exception of the Soldier's on BLU, do not show the class' final designs. For example, a gibbed Scout has a different shoe design and his socks have stripes.
- If a player is wearing a Voodoo-Cursed Soul, they will not be gibbed regardless being hit with a direct explosive, or even the command:
explode, but instead be launched from the position from where they were hit.
Trivia
- When a Scout is gibbed, there is a chance that a dove will fly out of his body. This is a reference to the Meet the Medic video where at the end the Scout realises Archimedes is stuck in his chest.
- The Spy's gibs are actually from his Beta models.
- The license plate silly gib has an expiration date of 1964, being one of few in game items to give the events of the game a time span.
