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] Electro Sappers,[1] Razorbacks, Guitars, 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 kill).
The server setting tf_playergib can also be used to modify gibbing behaviour: 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 behaviour is as normal. Finally, with the setting tf_playergib 2, players will gib when killed by practically any means - be it a Backstab, an environmental kill, or a humble Shotgun blast.
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Causes
Deaths caused by the following will result in the creation of gibs:
- Rockets[2]
- Grenades[2]
- Stickybombs
- The Eyelander
- The Scotsman's Skullcutter
- The Claidheamh Mòr
- The Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker
- The Half-Zatoichi
- The Nessie's Nine Iron
- The Engineer's Organ Grinder taunt
- The Soldier's Kamikaze taunt
- The Persian Persuader
List
Deathcam examples
Violent gibs
Silly gibs
Class gibs
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
Bolt
Boot
Burger
Can
Clock
Duck
Fish
Gear 1
Gear 2
Gear 3
Gear 4
Gear 5
Hubcap
License plate
Spring 1
Spring 2
Wind-up play Teeth
Tire
Debris gibs
A destroyed Level 1 Sentry Gun or Combat Mini-Sentry
A destroyed Level 2 Sentry Gun
A destroyed Level 3 Sentry Gun
A destroyed Teleporter
A broken Electro Sapper
Horseless Headless Horsemann gibs
The Horseless Headless Horsemann's gibs
Related achievements
Soldier
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Engineer
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Update history
- Fixed a bug that would cause team-painted wearable gibs to show an incorrect color
Bugs
- Notification boxes that label the bodypart 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 is equipped.
- 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.
- In addition to this, the default gib textures are low resolution. There are multiple fixes to this on sites such as GameBanana.
- If a player wearing a hat is gibbed, their hat will either disappear, or appear alongside the default hat in the player's gibs.
- Even with sillygibs turned on, a kill with the Eyelander, Scotsman's Skullcutter, Claidheamh Mòr, Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker, Half-Zatoichi, Nessie's Nine Iron and Persian Persuader will cause a head gib to appear.
