Army Combat Vet Reacts to The End of the Line (TF2 SFM) 

For a little insight on heavy's chess move at the start. He belives a leader should be on the frontlines and be an example. Thats why he uses the king, the ruler to attack first although its not a valid move in chess

For a little context, this was made to accompany an in-game update event. So while it wasn't animated by Valve, it has a little bit more of an official "blessing" than the other fanmade SFMs on RU-vid, you can (almost) look at it in the context of the Meet the Team videos and Expiration Date

11:49 The Mercs are ALL extremely competent combatants. They may be lunatics, but at least they're dangerous, bizarrely effective ones.

The red team wasnt in the winter. The blu team just had very poweful binoculars

It is terrifying just how much momentum a speeding train can have, let alone one that's had time to build up speed while going downhill from a mountain *and* with the locomotive running at full-tilt. The shock from an impact against something it can't overcome almost certainly could, at least theoretically, throw the cars around in that manner... it just doesn't because that kind of force usually just causes the train to buckle under its own weight from the force, where it effectively disintegrates into itself or collapses like an accordion being closed.

He's really analyzing Pyros art right now. Keep doing what you're doin', man. This is good stuff.

One thing to understand about the TF2 mercenaries is that they may all be quirky buffoons, theyre neither incompetent nor unintelligent (except soldier and to some extent scout) and all of them are good at what they do, otherwise the Mann brothers never would have hired them

For your confusion on which class is which (the confident soldier or heavy question), look at the shoulder of the character, they have unique badges to signify who they are: Rocket: Soldier Fist: Heavy Bomb: Demoman Fire decal: Pyro Medical: Medic Hermes Shoe: Scout Crosshair: Sniper (Spy doesnt have one, but he is signified with a knife anyway) Wrench: Engineer.

I love how they're enemies but they still have a perfect railway connection to each other's base of operations

3:50 This is the kind of insider perspective we come to this channel for lmao

"in canon they're all idiots"... Heavy canonically has a phd in russian literature, enginieer has 11 phds in "hard science", the medic "had" a medical license. i mean one third isnt really all of them but they all aren't idiots.

In regards to the train cars flying through the air, bear in mind that was a train moving as fast along the tracks as it possibly could, coming to a complete stop in like, 3 seconds, losing the majority of its speed instantly due to the impact. That puts tremendous force on the entire length of the train, and trains aren’t solid along their entire length.

When heavy stood in front of the train, he was ready to die to protect his comrades and the civilians

11:35 Land Rover from the 60s would not move that fast even on a downhill. But at 15:15 the Land Rover was supposed to be the British Equivalent of the Jeep, or a more superior and updated version of it, so the wheel hubs are definitely gonna keep the wheel on there even with a camper back and 1970s-80s aftermarket parts.

One thing that is often misunderstood about Heavy. He isn't dumb... just slow. (Almost as if there is an intentional joke there... Also... "He isn't dumb..." is a direct quote from his description.)

Now that you've seen this video, you should play on the map that goes with it - Snowplow (a control points map with a train that is technically a payload). It's in the "alternative game modes".

Losing most of your body heat through your head has actually been proven false, in the original test where the myth originated from they put soldiers in a winter environment with proper covering on everything but the head. As a result, most of the heat was lost through the head as it was the only part of their bodies that was exposed. How you lose body heat depends on the surface area that is exposed.

Using "Vet" as the short version for "Veteran" has me confused at first, thought you meant Vet like Combat Veterinarian, which very much did and do exist

The camper is actually Sniper's. It's shown in his Meet the Team video and referenced frequently in fanmade videos like this.

I think the Sniper scoping was suppose to be him Scouting the area with his sniper rifle, but either way, he does shoot while standing with a sniper rifle.

"Heavy is gonna discover the thing they need to stop the train" Well yes, but actually no.

keep in mind: heavy is quite strong and quite durable. he wrestled a bear. and the beam the medic shot at him buffed his durability even furthur

MHGR reaction to tf2 vids in a nutshell; 90% pausing 20% watching peacefully 50% talking

1:15 Those were RED Medic, Heavy and Demoman. And there was no heavy snowy weather where they were. Thus, no winter wear.

Thank you for reacting to end of the line!

Fun fact: In the TF2 Canon, Heavy is actually one of the more intelligent mercs, holding a PHD in Russian Literature, and the Engineer is the proud owner of 11 "Hard Science" PHD's

7:05 Sniper is supposed to be one of the best marksman ever so he doesn't need to steady himself with objects that often

Train: *is out of control* Red team: *tries to stop it* MHGR: *shows no reaction*

7:00 each Australian have there own biological physics field, so they can shoot how ever they please

Still waiting on one of the first great fan made SFMs, 'practical problems'.

Fun fact regarding the subject of mountains and their effect on weather: The presence of mountains can actually block rain-carrying clouds, causing the areas downwind to become deserts.

You see, there's two ways of looking at this chess scene right here, the obvious one is9:30 "Haha, Heavy dumb, he don't know how to chess works", but also notice how he used his King. The most important part of the board to save his pawns from being attacked. This shows us that Heavy would put himself in danger to save his friends, so he's generally selfless. Which would align amazingly with his sacrifice at the end. Where he volunteers [21:45] himself to stand in the trail tracks to slow down the train as much as possible. It wasn't until this points that Medic understands what his move meant. Then he swoops in with an Ubercharge to help Heavy stop the train aswell. [23:20] [25:13]

Alright MHGR, I'd just LOVE to see you try to break down a Smexual, HA also still recommending Fawful's Minion TF2 Retrospective

I'd recommend you watch a classsic "Cow Eating Contest" Charming

Fun fact: Heavy has a PhD in Russian literature.

Counterpoint on Sniper's posture He's from the country that turned into atlantis, grew up in Australia which has Australium, and he's an expert mercenary, he can do it.

Watch "Agent Gunn." It's probably the highest-quality SFM made to-date, at leas from an animation perspective.

4:09 I love that he's giving a little bit of critique on the Pyro's bit of graffiti art there. XD

And then i thought:why not just take a car, take some of the explosives, exchange few meters of rail for not getting your entire base get blown off

End of The Line, such a classic

The train had still fully working engine and demo just blew the cockpit so that red couldn't simply pull the stop lever

this whole excellent valve supported animation for a few cosmetic items and a single game mode and map that valve removed from circulation for "being too confusing to new players" despite it just being a form of time limited control point.

Please watch voice over of the TF2 comics done by The Beard, THEY'RE SO GOOD (theres different types of tf2 comics) *TF Comics* _(pretty much lore and a more realistic team fortress 2 universe)_ *Update Comics* _(Comics made for updates, who would've guessed)_ *Saxton Series* _(Saxton Hale is cool enough to have his own series)_

Those reds at the beginning are not in the snowstorm as the blues are. The sniper was probably suing his scope as a form of binoculars. The Winnebago is Sniper's personal vehicle. And that was way over dramatic of a train wreck and poor sniper.

My two propositions: 1. Pootis engage - really great TF2 SFM video 2. The other TF2 game - Titanfall 2 Very futuristic FPS that makes me curious what your commentary would be :)

16:21 uh, actually no, he’s actually gonna be part of an AWESOME SCENE!!

Yo somebody needs to get this guy to react to pootis engage

I like how the sniper drives a series 1 Land Rover

23:00 Trains can actually move fast enough to turn railcars into missiles! The Hinton train disaster in Canada had one of the tanker cars go flying through the air as a result of the crash and the cars' momentum behind it.

Love you man! Every time I watch your videos, here is almost 1 am, but I enjoy them anyway while eating some midnight snacks

I've seen a few reaction videos to this one & there's one thing that no one has mentioned...We all saw Pyro's paint job on the side of the shipping container, but no one seemed to point out that this was the same container that had all of the rubber duckies. This much is confirmed shortly before Scout disarmed the payload; Pyro's duckies were in the first container behind Heavy's both back in the Blue base & again when Scout was aboard the train. The duckies were right behind the payload, so that's how the duckies got so badly burned. I'm fairly certain that other people figured that out but I haven't seen anyone else mention it before me. After Heavy climbed out from under the wreckage, he demonstrates his prowess in Jujutsu on the Spy, which can be defined as "Involuntary Yoga" or "The gentle Art of folding clothes while someone is still wearing them." Let us take a moment to appreciate that this video ended with a cliff-hanger...For Sniper, it's literal.

Just curious, What happened to your mic? You sound like you're underwater now lmao

Oh it definitely could if it was sent hurtling down a mountain with zero brakes. The weight of it combined with the downhill movement would lead to some fucking scary momentum.

The dynamite is also a reference to the original concept shown in the 1st trailer for demo man.

Fun fact about denying use of rails to enemy combatants: I believe during the American Civil War and WW1, armies would basically create these heavy plows that they'd attach to locomotives and drive them backwards as they retreat through an area. The plows would obliterate the ties connecting the rails together after the locomotive passed over them, rendering the track entirely unusable at a fast rate. It lacked the subtlety of simply removing the spikes, but for denial of service it was undoubtedly effective.

ive been waiting for this, thank you

I love how he gives commentary on Pyro's art on the train

Half right, the train launching itself would not happen on flat track but going from say 9000 ft elevation to 2000 means it has a lot of time to pick up the speed to crash like that, plus a large main line diesel locomotive can get going at 90 mph so a train going down a 2 percent grade it could potentially get well over 120 mph. For good examples look up cajon pass runaways, 3 in total and one demolished a neighborhood much like that train did to the red team's base.

Sad thing is, this could of, could of been an amazing update for Team Fortress 2, with how cool/amazing the film 🎥 and animation was done. However Valve was like, ehhhhhh no, let’s make this shit.

As far as the comics Canon at least, all the mercs are the bottom of the barrel, last resort sort, but as dumb as they may be, they are just competent and lucky enough to always win. Which, considering the founder of Mann Co....honestly just fits.

The Sniper wasn't aiming to shoot, he was aiming to scout. You see it all the time in movies with characters using a long range scope to see something in the distance.

End of the line was the bast movie ever

Here's my gripe with the End of the Line short, when scout accidentally decopoled the boxcar with anvils the brakes should have locked up because the brake lines are pressurized and the pressure keeps the brakes open and because of that the wheels should have locked up and I know that the train is on a mountain when that happens and like you sayed in the video it was picking up speed down the mountain but "it should keep its speed somewhat" but here's the thing yes trains have low friction between the wheels and the track (less the your finger and a peace of glass in fact) but since that's the case as the train slides down the track the wheels should be becoming flat which means more friction which means it slowdowns more and by the time it reaches the base of the mountain it should have stop or slowdown significantly, or scout could get to the back of the train open the brake line that way PS. I know they did that for the sake of story telling and if I got any of my facts wrong please let me know and be civil please

The Snowplow map in the game is based on that cinematic, is a bit confusing, but you should try.

Fun fact, during WWII the US did work on developing a pigeon guided missile for targeting ships. The project was even revived after the war before being cancelled once microchips reached the point of being usable for that purpose.

"They're all idiots" Heavy-PHD in Russian literature Engineer- built a teleporter and life expanding machine

Im pretty sure its been proven that the head loses less warmth than the body over time

i am once again asking for your ~financial support~ reaction to rimmy downunder's arma 3 videos. Airborne Guardsman Land Hotter than D-Day is a good one to start with

Fun fact: The pigeon bomb is an easter egg in one of the tf2 maps (thunder mountain?)

Heavy actually has a PhD The mercs aren't as dumb as they are just raw crazy

Day # (I lost count) of recommending Krunkidile's "Team Service Announcement" series

17:00 I believe that they actually put the train into accelerate and then wanted to blow up the controls so the train doesn't stop accelerating. (yes I realize how this is realistically very unreliable, but Blu team had very little to lose mostlikely) 22:30 it is also possible that the Red base is incredibly underprepared as they probably didn't have time and tools to utilize your idea.

You'd be surprised how violent train crashes can actually be.

As always, nice video!!

Canonically speaking, none of the mercenaries save Soldier are actually idiots. Heavy acts pretty simple, but he has a bachelor's degree in Russian Literature, Spy is basically French James Bond, the Medic is still an accomplished doctor, license or not (remember, he stole a patient's skeleton, and they STILL WOKE UP), Engineer is, well, an engineer capable of constructing automated defense turrets, Demoman makes and fires his own explosives, all while drunk and somehow not killing himself ("One wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch, and KABLOOEY!"), Sniper is a cold and calculating hitman with great respect for his own workmanship, Pyro is... well, either majorly psychotic, on LSD constantly, or being tricked into fighting by his goggles actually making him see those little girl fantasy visions, nobody seems sure on that one. Scout is basically a kid from Boston, so not the brightest bulb in the box, but not a complete idiot either. Soldier, on the other hand, has always been a harebrained idiot, and has only been getting worse since joining the mercenaries' war because he refuses to drink bottled water like everyone else, and instead continues drinking lead-contaminated tap water from the lands they're fighting over.

Please read the comics or listen to the great dub. You'll find some interesting and hilarious character moments. Heavy not actually being a moron and being intelligent and competant. Sniper's thoughts about his job. Pyro having a sucessful company. Murdering bears. A lot of neck snapping. Tom Jones. Baboons.

I liked The moment you saw pyros painting you gave it a tactical opinion, explaining what you liked about it.

And that is from where the map cp_snowplow begins. The BLU base burning in the background.

27:32 The pidgons here are carrying a bomb, as in the earlier scene where solider is planning the train attack, there seems to be a plan for a pidgon bomb, so this is a backup plan I suppose.

why do i feel like MHGR takes a sip in every 30 seconds in this vid

i like how the cat didnt give a fuck when the railcar with anvils stoppe inches away from it

the whole "you loose most of your body heat through your head" is actually a misinterpretation of the experiment, you loose the most heat through exposed skin the head is just the easiest thing to uncover

So the idea that humans lose 90 percent of their heat through the head is a misunderstanding of the actual study. In the 1950's the US Army wanted to test cold weather gear and set up a test where soldiers stood outside in full cold weather gear minus any headwear and pointed a thermal camera at said soldiers. They equipment was 90 percent effective compared to the uncovered head and over the years the story mutated into losing 90 percent of all body heat through the head

You didn't react at all to the fact that they actually used the secret pigeon bomb shown earlier.

Fun fact Uber charge only makes the skin indestructible how ever your insides can still be crushed

Well, it was traveling down a mountain slope for a while. That would generally build a shit load of momentum.

Unless I am crazy, he did acknowledge the #1 sniper and #2 sniper mugs

for the longest time i thought end of the line was an offical tf2 film

He doesn’t know soldier from the heavy. He doesn’t have the qualifications to react to the end of the line Sfm

Hey MHGR, I suggest reacting to one of Soundsmith's Monthly Meatloaf videos or Stereotypes, he's a uhh.. Soldier main guy with a funni shovel

So a combat veteran is really going into tf2, even though like cod and other game's had better graphics... The community salute you

i know i'm a year too late but at 11:59 you say they are all idiots, but heavy is actually one of the smartest person in the team, he is very litterate and kindhearted,he even use most of his money from being a mercenary to take care of his mother and sisters all by himself. Of course engi, spy and sniper are also pretty smarts in their own right but in the game they are dumbified for the appeal mostly.

This man makes 14 minute long videos into 29 minute long videos.

Damn, I forgot how good the music is in this one.

If you want a little help, the icons on the sleeve tell the class

3:50 yooo you are an artist

Paul looks like captain Price with that moustache

Do you see it, Paul? Do you see the POWER of SFM?!

The train was probably moving at 90 mph.

Actually, flying train cars are very common in high-speed rail accidents