Soldier
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Basic Information | |
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Type: | Offensive |
Health: | 200 /![]() (See Health below for further details) |
Speed: | 80% (See Speed below for further details) |
Meet the Soldier | |
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“ | If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!
Click to listen
— The Soldier on the art of war
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The Soldier is a crazed, jingoistic patriot from Midwest, USA, who portrays himself as a military man despite being rejected from the US army. Tough and well-armed, he is a versatile clas, capable of both offense and defense, and a great starter class to get familiar with the game.
Well-balanced and possessing both survivability and mobility, the Soldier is considered one of the most flexible classes in Team Fortress 2. Despite his low ground movement speed, he is capable of using rocket jumps to reach his destination quickly. His large health pool is second only to that of the Heavy, and his wide array of armaments and weaponry allows him to bring whatever weapon or equipment is best suited to the situation at hand.
The Soldier is well known for his spectacular rocket jump. In defiance of all good sense and judgment, the Soldier can detonate a rocket at his feet and launch himself skyward at the cost of some health (which can be reduced by the Gunboats, or negated altogether with the Rocket Jumper). To rocket jump effectively, the player must fire the rocket at the ground or a wall, then immediately jump and crouch. This ability allows the Soldier to navigate the battlefield by air, appear from unexpected places, and reach areas inaccessible to the Scout's double jump and HYPE jumps. After rocket jumping, the Soldier can remain airborne for longer by deploying the B.A.S.E. Jumper.
The Soldier was[1] voiced by the late Rick May. He was voiced by May and Nolan North in Expiration Date.
Contents
Bio
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Health
Class | Health | Overheal | Quick-Fix Overheal |
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200 | 300 | 251 |
With the Battalion's Backup equipped | 220 | 330 | 276 |
Speed
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Charging the Cow Mangler 5000 |
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Wielding the Escape Plan over 160 Health |
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Wielding the Escape Plan between 160 and 121 Health |
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Wielding the Escape Plan between 120 and 81 Health |
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Wielding the Escape Plan between 80 and 41 Health |
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Wielding the Escape Plan below 41 Health |
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Basic strategy
- You can rocket jump to great heights by simultaneously jumping and firing a rocket at the ground.
- Crouching and jumping simultaneously while aiming at the ground will propel you farther at the cost of more self-damage.
- Aim rockets at enemy's feet to ensure they cannot avoid your explosion damage.
- Soldiers often take a lot of damage, so press E to call for a Medic if you get hurt. Nearby Medics will be notified of your need.
- Ensure your Rocket Launcher is loaded to avoid being caught out by enemies.
Weapons
Note: Weapon damage is approximate and listed at base value. See individual weapon pages for additional figures.
Primary
Weapon | Kill icon | Ammo Loaded |
Ammo Carried |
Damage Range | Notes / Special Abilities |
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![]() Stock Rocket Launcher |
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4 | 20 | Base: 90 Crit: 270 |
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![]() Unlock Direct Hit |
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Base: 112 Crit: 338 |
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![]() Craft Black Box |
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3 | Base: 90 Crit: 270 |
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![]() Craft Rocket Jumper |
N/A | 4 | 60 | Base: 0 Crit: 0 |
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![]() Craft Liberty Launcher |
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5 | 20 | Base: 68 Crit: 203 |
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![]() Craft Cow Mangler 5000 |
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4 | ∞ | Base: 90
Charged shot: 122 Crit: 122-151 Afterburn:
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![]() Craft Beggar's Bazooka |
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3 | 20 | Base: 90 Crit: 270 |
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![]() Craft Air Strike |
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4-8 | Base: 76 Crit: 230 |
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Secondary
Weapon | Kill icon | Ammo Loaded |
Ammo Carried |
Damage Range | Notes / Special Abilities |
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![]() Stock Shotgun |
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6 | 32 | Base: 60 Crit: 180 [6 damage × 10 pellets] |
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N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ![]()
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![]() Craft Gunboats |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ![]()
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![]() Craft Battalion's Backup |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ![]()
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![]() Promotional / Craft Concheror |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ![]()
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![]() Craft Mantreads |
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N/A | N/A | N/A | ![]()
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![]() Craft Reserve Shooter |
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4 | 32 | Base: 60 Crit: 180 [6 damage × 10 pellets] |
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![]() Promotional / Craft Righteous Bison |
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4 | ∞ | Base: 20 Crit: 60 |
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![]() Craft B.A.S.E. Jumper |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
![]() Craft Panic Attack |
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6 | 32 | Base: 72 Crit: 216 [4.8 damage × 15 pellets] |
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Melee
Weapon | Kill icon | Ammo Loaded |
Ammo Carried |
Damage Range | Notes / Special Abilities |
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![]() Stock Shovel |
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N/A | N/A | Base: 65 Crit: 195 |
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![]() Promotional Freedom Staff |
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![]() Distributed Memory Maker |
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![]() Uncrate Crossing Guard |
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![]() Promotional Prinny Machete |
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![]() Distributed Saxxy |
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Limited item from the Replay Update.
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![]() Distributed Golden Frying Pan |
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Limited item from the Two Cities Update.
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![]() Unlock Equalizer |
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N/A | N/A | Base:
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![]() Craft Pain Train |
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N/A | N/A | Base: 65 Crit: 195 |
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![]() Promotional / Craft Half-Zatoichi |
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N/A | N/A | Base: 65 Crit: 195 |
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![]() Craft Disciplinary Action |
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N/A | N/A | Base: 49 Crit: 146 |
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![]() Craft Market Gardener |
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N/A | N/A | Base: 65 Crit: 195 |
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![]() Craft Escape Plan |
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N/A | N/A | Base: 65 Crit: 195 |
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Taunt Attack
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Associated items | Description | Kill Icon |
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Main article: Grenade
The Soldier tosses away his pickaxe, cracks his knuckles, takes a grenade off his chest sling, thrusts his fist in the air and explodes, killing himself and any nearby enemies, including buildings. If the player has the Lumbricus Lid equipped, the Soldier completes the taunt with the "Hallelujah" music short playing. Upon a successful taunt kill, a different kill icon is displayed (displayed underneath the normal icon to the right). |
Item sets
The Tank Buster | |
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Leave a Calling Card on your victims |
The General's Formals | |
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No effect |
The Airborne Armaments | |
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Effect |
No effect |
Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack | |
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No effect |
The Tin Soldier | |
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Enables additional voice responses |
The Dumpster Diver | |
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No effect |
The Rocket Ranger | |
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No effect |
The Terracotta Trooper | |
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No effect |
The Federal Express Pack | |
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No effect |
The Sgt. Helsing | |
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No effect |
Cosmetic items
Official class avatars
Official class avatars | ||
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Original set | RED ÜberCharged set | BLU ÜberCharged set |
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Get TF2 avatars on Steam: Original |
Achievements
Main article: Soldier achievements
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Update history
- Fixed rocket explosions being able to impart damage through thin ceilings.
- Fixed Rocket trail effects sometimes existing permanently in world.
- Reduced Soldier's maximum rocket reserve ammo from 36 to 16.
June 19, 2008 Patch (Pyro Update)
- Removed Soldier's 40% damage reduction from his own rockets. Does not affect rocket jumps.
- Fixed rockets being able to fire through grates at round starts.
- Added smoke to the feet of a rocket jumping Soldier.
- Increased Soldier primary ammo count from 16 to 20.
August 13, 2009 Patch (Classless Update)
- Removed self-inflicted Mini-Crits. Fixes Jarate'd Soldiers having ineffective rocket/grenade jumps.
- [Undocumented] Added hat bodygroups to the Soldier.
- Fixed rocket jumping.
- Compensated by increasing the radius of grenades, stickies, and rockets to 50% of what they lost at the corners of the OBB.
- Rocket radius change: 121->146.
- Added counters to the HUDs of Soldiers to keep count of how many Demomen they kill and subsequently contributed to the WAR! Update.
December 17, 2009 Patch (WAR! Update)
- Added 35 Soldier achievements.
- Added Soldier Domination lines.
June 10, 2010 Patch (Mac Update)
- Added Training for the Soldier.
- [Undocumented] Added a grenade bodygroup to the Soldier model.
May 5, 2011 Patch (Replay Update)
- Community contributed voice responses rules have been implemented for the Grenade.
- Added community contributed response rules for when a Soldier kills a Demoman.
- [Undocumented] New laughing taunt animations have been added but are currently unused.
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- Added "A,W,S,D" movement instruction to Soldier training.
- [Undocumented] Added bomb carrying and showing animations for the Soldier.
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- Added a line to the getting ÜberCharged response.
October 27, 2011 Patch (Very Scary Halloween Special)
- [Undocumented] Added voice lines and response rules for the Soldier which play when wearing The Tin Soldier set.
- Added a taunt for the Tin Soldier set.
- Fixed the Soldier's melee dare response rules.
August 15, 2012 Patch (Mann vs. Machine Update)
- [Undocumented] Added voice lines to Soldier.
October 26, 2012 Patch (Spectral Halloween Special)
- [Undocumented] Added voice lines to Soldier.
- [Undocumented] Updated player models.
- Added missing Payload audio for the Medic, Soldier, Demoman, and Spy.
- Fixed
AE_CL_BODYGROUP_SET_VALUE
animation events not working properly.- Fixes the Soldier's rocket reload missing the rocket.
- Fixed the Professor Speks moving around on the Soldier's face.
- Fixed a dedicated server crash caused by a Soldier with Mantreads landing on a player with the Warlock powerup equipped.
- [Undocumented] Fixed Heavy and Soldier not playing animations for some of their voice commands.
Bugs
- If a primary weapon is fired when the player initially spawns into the game, a continuous loop of the reload animation can occur. This can be remedied by firing another shot or switching weapons.
- If the Soldier starts reloading while taunting with the "Auto Reload" option was enabled, the reload animation will continuously loop.
- Taunting while reloading a primary weapon (other than the Cow Mangler 5000) causes a rocket to blink in and out of the Soldier's hand.
Trivia
- The Soldier has made several posts on the Official Blog, often referring to the Team Fortress 2 team as "The Powers That Be".
- In Poker Night at the Inventory, an image of the Soldier makes a cameo as the King of Spades & Clubs in the "Team Fortress 2" deck.
- He is also mentioned in a Heavy idle response line; "You are like sleeping Soldier who just stands at base instead of running to point!"
- The Soldier, alongside every other class, makes an appearance in the game Saints Row: The Third in the form of a wearable head mask.
- The first BLU team Soldier resembled Stonewall Jackson.
- In Worms: Reloaded, the Soldier's helmet is a selectable hat for the player's worms.
- The Soldier's uniform and Rocket Launcher could be used by Megabeth in the game Super Monday Night Combat.
- The Soldier is known to recite quotes from the United States Marine Corps and Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
- Soldier's alias, Jane Doe, is also used as a placeholder name when referring to a female person or corpse whose true identity is unknown or must be withheld.
- The ability of rocket-wielders to use their rockets to jump higher originated from Quake and was a bug in the original Team Fortress games. Valve embraced it in TF2, as evidenced by the addition of weapons such as the Rocket Jumper and Soldier rocket jumping in the first modern TF2 trailer.
Gallery
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Trading card front.
A lone Soldier wandering Lumberyard, concept art.
A Soldier with the General's Formals leads troops on World War Wednesday.
Contract drawer photo.
The Soldier King of Clubs card from Poker Night at The Inventory.
Related merchandise
Soldier Figurine (Unavailable)
Soldier Class Patches (Unavailable)
See also
- Rocket jump
- Soldier match-ups
- Anti-Soldier strategy
- Soldier responses
- Soldier voice commands
- Basic Soldier strategy
- Community Soldier strategy
- Soldier (Classic)
References
- ↑ John Patrick Lowrie, voice of the Sniper, on the life of Rick May
- ↑ WAR! Comic, page 16.
- ↑ a b Team Fortress 2 Trailer 2, released in September 2006.
- ↑ Soldier page on the Official TF2 Website
External links
- Soldier page on the Official TF2 Website
- WAR! Update
- WAR! Update - The Soldier Update
- The Soldier comic
- TF2 Official Website - Some Manner of Grid-based Cipher Code
- TF2 Official Website - More dot-commy mumbo jumbo for you bunch of women
- The Zepheniah Mann & Sons Co. Quarterly Concern
- Classless Update - Today is A Good Day
- TF2 Official Website - Drop And Give Me Terror!
- TF2 Official Website - How to Get a Ghostly Gibus Hat
- TF2 Official Website - Attention Employees...
- TF2 Official Website - The War Update
- TF2 Official Website - It's a Bloodbath!
- TF2 Official Website - War, Day 2
- TF2 Official Website - The Big Red One
- TF2 Official Website - It Is Me, But Smaller!
- TF2 Official Website - This is Very Good Title to Blog Post
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