User:GrampaSwood/Truce

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Hey, I'll say it. Everybody else here is too scared to say it, but I'll just say what everybody's thinkin'! We're all best friends. We are all dear, dear friends! Birthday party at my place this weekend, by the way. Nobody showed up last weekend so I figured, now no big whoop, I'd just have it again.

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— The Scout, making the most of the truce

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Truce mode, or simply Truce, is a period of time in which players cannot kill each other. A truce is enacted on some maps whenever a boss appears. The purpose of the truce is to let both teams focus on the boss fight, rather than each other, and prevent players from accidentally killing each other while trying to focus on the boss. Several limitations are applied to players in order to prevent them from messing with the other team. Not every map with a boss fight features a truce.

Truce mode can be toggled on servers by setting the console command tf_halloween_allow_truce_during_boss_event to 1. However, this command only works for MONOCULUS and Merasmus, and requires Halloween mode to be enabled; the truce does not take effect during a Full Moon. Halloween mode can be forced by setting tf_forced_holiday to 2, 9, or 10 or by using Enchantment: Eternaween.

Limitations

Players cannot knock each other back, but still collide with each other.
Spies cannot pull out or use their sappers.
The Rock, Paper, Scissors taunt does not kill enemy players if they lose.
On-hit effects do not give any effects.

Maps with a truce

Ghost Fort, during the Merasmus fight.
Eyeaduct, during the MONOCULUS fight.

Update history

November 6, 2015 Patch

Updated the truce during boss fights to prevent airblasting enemy players and projectiles.

October 12, 2016 Patch

Community requests
- Added the ability for community Halloween maps to call a truce during a Monoculus or Merasmus fight.
  - Can be set via the game rules entity using the SetMapForcedTruceDuringBossFight input.

November 2, 2016 Patch

Updated the truce period during Halloween boss fights.
- Players are no longer affected by the truce when in their spawn room, allowing them to fight their way out if necessary.
- Sappers can no longer be used while a truce is active.

November 10, 2016 Patch