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6 unusual facts about Team Fortress 2


Bee Cave, Texas

Tie-in literature for the class-based multiplayer shooter video game Team Fortress 2 lists the Engineer, an amiable Texan in a hard hat and with a penchant for building murderous contraptions, as a native of Bee Cave.

Colt Diamondback

The Spy from Team Fortress 2 appears to use the Colt Diamondback as his primary handgun.

Cornish game hen

In Team Fortress 2, the Spy will comment "I am going to gut you like a Cornish game hen" when taunting with the knife equipped.

I Can't Live Without My Radio

On February 9, 2012, "I Can't Live Without My Radio" and LL Cool J's album Bigger and Deffer were featured on the official Team Fortress 2 blog.

Ocker

In the popular multiplayer video game Team Fortress 2, the Sniper is described as a "rugged and ready crack shot ocker from the Australian outback".

Putto

In the 1st-person shooter Team Fortress 2, the Meet the Pyro video has the BLU Team appear as putti in Pyroland (The Pyro's vision).


John Patrick Lowrie

Lowrie has notably performed roles in video games such as The Suffering and The Suffering: Ties That Bind, Total Annihilation and its expansions, The Operative: No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way, and Valve games Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2.

Noclip mode

This can also happen in Source engine games including Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Left 4 Dead, and Team Fortress 2, where if a mapmaker has not set the correct properties on a floor (disable shadowing, etc.), the shadows of the players above will show through.

Planet Half-Life

Planet Half-Life has been running public game servers since 2006, hosting 24/7 map rotations for Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Team Fortress 2.


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