Avatars
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An avatar refers to a 184x184 image visible on an individual's Steam Community page. Avatars have no effect on gameplay, and are intended to identify and differentiate players within the Steam Community. In-game, each player's avatar is visible next to his/her/their name on the scoreboard. If a player is killed, when the freeze frame of their killer appears, their avatar will be shown alongside their name. If the killer is one of the player's Steam Community Friends then a buddy icon is shown next to their avatar.
Although there are no official guidelines on selecting an avatar, many servers will kick or even ban players with offensive, racist, or pornographic avatars.
After the Manniversary Update, the 'Contribute!' section on the Official TF2 Site was replaced by workshop guidelines. Avatar submitting is currently unavailable.
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Official avatars
On July 15, 2009, Valve introduced a set of official Team Fortress 2-themed avatars. The official avatars are close-up pictures of each of the nine classes. On September 16, 2009, Valve introduced a second set of avatars which featured each of the nine classes, ÜberCharged and angry.
Original set
RED ÜberCharged set
Scout
Soldier
Pyro
Demoman
Heavy
Engineer
Medic
Sniper
Spy
BLU ÜberCharged set
Scout
Soldier
Pyro
Demoman
Heavy
Engineer
Medic
Sniper
Spy
Trivia
- The predecessor (and most likely inspiration) to the official set of ÜberCharged avatars released by Valve were originally conceptualized by two users, Occlusion and Fearlezz, on the now defunct FacePunch Forums. Over ten "Manly Angry Avatars" were made; several of which, were used by employees at Valve; including shorturl.at/afNW4 Robin Walker himself!
- It is also assumed that these avatars are what put the idea in Valve's head for Killstreak items
