how many files can you delete before tf2 breaks? 

❎The entirety of TF2 relies on a coconut ✔The entirety of TF2 relies on a cow

>deletes 70% of the game files "for some reason animations are now incredibly broken"

3:41 No matter how often it comes up, it still cracks me up that basically every Valve game is a mod of Half Life 2.

Other Games: Nooo! You can't delete that empty txt file! Chad TF2: You can delete %70 of the game.

“Hey Gaben, this edible ain’t sh-“

I like how it went from "tf2 can't run without the coconut" into "tf2 can't run without the COW"

"Did you notice that? The wrangler laser IS STILL BLUE, OooOoOoOOoh. It has no textures, that damned laser IS the pinnacle of source spaghetti." - Lazy Purple, probably

Broke: "deleting a coconut will make the game unplayable" Woke: "Deleting footstep sounds will make the game unplayable"

Broke: "Deleting this coconut crashes the game." Woke: "Deleting 2fort Cow crashes the game."

It says a lot about Valve's map design that even when the game is a textureless mess of pink and black, you can still identify maps and their segments perfectly.

So long as we have different step sounds, actual player models, Cow.png, and the blurry picture of HL2, we have tf2. Glad to know this game could survive a nuke and still make more sense than it does in it current state.

4:56 surfaceprops also determines how slippery a surface is, so you will slide around on ice. It makes sense for the game to refuse to load if it doesn't know how you're supposed to move imo

"killing the medic crashes the game" looks like _SOMEONE_ at valve was too lazy to model a court scene for violating the geneva convention.

"We buffed the medic by making the game crash everytime you kill one"

The distortion effect without the texture genuinely looks really cool. Like an earthbound battle background.

Man someone should make like a challenge out of this, load into a causal server and every kill you get a file back.

7:09 "for some reason, animations are now incredible broken" TOTAL MYSTERY TO WHY THAT HAPPENED

"Killing medic immediately crushes the game" I bet you could hear him scream: "ai aaam a god!"

This reminds me of a mod I made for myself a long time ago. I was playing TF2 on a horribly outdated computer so I personally reduced all of the textures in the game down to a single pixel and I even got low-poly models of each of the games characters and weapons, so every object in the environment was a single flat color not unlike this.

The reason that some assets "fall back" to a hl2 asset is because they have the same name. It's why when you load tf2 maps in gmod the textures will sometimes look wrong.

Undeniable proof that Medic is the most powerful class in TF2

Finally, no more lag.

"A programmer decided to draw the line there" More likely the programmer never thought someone would start deleting files and didn't think it was nesseary to put in a check/fallback

No idea if this was mentionned, but the reason why the sky was smearing is because the camera in-game doesn't clear the GPU's frame buffer. Since there is a skybox, it would technically be cleared by being fully overwritten every frame, but with no skybox, any pixel without stuff to render (like the sky) will get the data from the last frame.

in grand Source Spaghetti fashion, the world hinges on footstep sounds, a random crank, the 2fort cow and locally robot sourced cash. also as a representative of the medic mains, we greatly appreciate the buff of crashing other people's games upon getting killed

This is an excellent guide for FPS boosting. I have reached 38,595 FPS and causality warps around me. I have -30 ping, because my game state can be described in three bits.

5:01 Counter Strike uses this same system which accounts for bullet penetration through surfaces. A wood material vs a metal material is the difference between concealment and cover. It also decides what impact and bullet marks get applied to the surface. My guess is because this is critical to gameplay in other games it just carried over as essential here, too.

0:40 “You should be able to recognise where you are” Me, having been recommended this video despite no prior playtime of the game: Yes

TF2 Character and level design is so good that even with no textus it looks very playable. Team colours and particle effects would be nice though.

Comp players be like: "I can squeeze more FPS"

5:52 scout forgot to instal Counter-Strike: Source

Tf2 comp players are salivating at this "Why yes I did make my game look like absolute dogshit for the sake of a 5 FPS increase"

Someone need to host a tournament like this with everyone having really high ping and using the crappiest hardware they can find lmao

Watch this turn into an aesthetic in less than 5 years. Errorwave.

7:08 "For some reason, animations are now incredibly broken." Yeah, couldn't imagine why.. Also, the red "ERROR" bits are fucking terrifying when paired with the textureless character models, good god

I would imagine the need for surface properties comes from some surfaces being more slippery than others. This would affect the game's physics simulation, like the movement of players and certain projectiles like grenades. TF2 relies on clientside and serverside sims being in sync, in order to function as a multiplayer game. So if the clientside sim doesn't know how to handle surface interactions, it's going to end up out of sync with any server it connects to. I imagine the check that aborts the game exists explicitly to prevent this from happening.

Ah, yes. The true Garry's Mod experience.

8:47 Missed opportunity for this to also be untextured

8:00 " I'm keeping my eye on ya! "

The cow is basically a god that keeps the tf2 universe stable

He turned the sniper scope into a kaleidoscope. Funniest shit I've ever seen.

The wrangler sphere being a solid ball is the funniest thing to me

The Gas Passer now has a reason to exist. If your opponent is playing without any textures it can distort their view, giving you an advantage in this extremely unlikely, extremely specific scenario.

"hello guys today i'lll show you my comp fps config"

surfaceproperties isn't only about footsteps, it also tells the physics engine how objects should interact with each other, for example it sets the friction of materials. Not sure why they decided to not just have a default settings for when there's no file though. Still, it's more important than you think.

2:40 bruv thats some good kush he’s smokin

The jarate effect is so interesting to me. The game must use a shader that picks up screen distortion values from a carefully designed texture. So it gets that weird square bubble look from the checkerboard

Shounic: Deletes all textures and almost all sounds from the game Developer: Shounic: Deletes footsteps Developer: So you have chosen... Death.

The shading Is the big thing that makes things playable

That crank is actually a valve in one of the maps so a valve coder had some elite sense of humor and irony

Crazy how good designed the mercenaries are. Without textures you can clearly tell one from another still.

Fun tiny story time: i cleared cache of TF2 and then i found that the cache clear removed the eye texture. Now everyone stares at me with purple eyes

It's worth noting, when an error occurs because something is missing, it's not that a programmer explicitly decided the game should crash without it, such as the surface properties. In fact it's closer to the opposite, the game does not consider those files might not be there and there is no code to handle that scenario, hence the fatal error occurs. The rest of the files it will search for, but it has code to handle what to do if it doesn't find them, ie the purple and black checker texture. In other words, the programmers wrote code to allow the game to continue without some assets like sound and textures, but did not consider certain other assets might be missing. Errors, especially fatal, nearly always exist because there is no code to handle a scenario because it was unexpected.

I feel like I'm watching the game scream out in agony in real time.

This is a fun idea, I wish there were some more videos on other games like this. It’s like taking it apart

3:13 Update: sniper now uses a kaleidoscope as a scope.

tf2 still breaks even in its stable form

Surface properties is probably one of the anti cheat protected files, it makes sense it should try to fetch and verify integrity every time the game loads otherwise you could change the characteristics of footfalls to never fall off or be extremely pronounced.

2:46 it looks like as if you are getting attacked by like a psychic attack would be a interesting flash bang kinda effect if it didn't make you wanna vomit

This smearing effect happens because if there is no skybox or model to render it doesn't render anything at all and keeps the previously rendered pixels without overriding them because there is no default skybox Edit: the skybox is not really a model its just 6 images for every map that form a cube for every pixel that isn't overridden it renders the skybox

Developer commentary: (guy with british accent) During early playtests people would often comment that while the game was playable, it was hard to know what was going on all the time. Furthermore, new players would also sometimes complain that while the models of the characters and core gameplay was interesting, it felt like something was missing visually. As a result, we added textures, player animations and other resources to the game. The end result helped guide new players, and had the unintentional side effect of being visually appealing.

7:14 thought said “minecraft casual servers”

The distortion effect with textures looks awesome

Comp players be like:

"the cow keeps tf2 from falling apart" sounds about right

This escalated from "TF2 can't run without the coconut" to "TF2 can't run without the cow" too quickly. And I don't have an idea why I even watched it lol.

I remember that one time when my pc was too bad that i had to manually optimize the game at the time i could see invisible spies and it helped me a lot to this day im still destroying tf2 just to encounter that file that made me able to see invisible spys

Heavy : "Now doctor!" **Proceed to turned into a fly**

finally, boneless tf2

This really showcases the quality in desing when the game is almest cometively playable without textures and also the messiness of the code when it crashes withot a cow on a random map

For those who are asking how many GB would TF2 have after this, someone here already gave an answer, but I want to add a fun tidbit to this: Nowadays TF2 is around 23-24 GB (more or less), however, I distinctly remember its size back when I started playing in 2014, which was 8GB (and it already took me quite a long time to download it). So basically, TF2 has doubled its size and then some in the last 8 years. Maybe its time to look for those extra cosmetics' models and put them in timeout.

I wanna see a gamemode where the sniper scope texture is removed and everyone is forced to use the machina

The most important question: what is the game size after cutting everything out and how much RAM it consumes?

The scout just using his arms as a melee weapon near the end is for some reason funny

surface properties might be that the game WANTS to be able to play all sounds, even if they aren't there to be played, so the game crashes when the file to check to play the walking sounds is missing, potentially from the missing file causing code that previously called on it to break

"Did you maximize preformance?" Yes... "What did it cost?" Everything...

RU-vid video compression has gone through all rings of hell to make this video playable

Average comp player config

7:11 im obsessed with how the demoman spins his own body

I'd imagine that surface properties or something else in misc 0 has something to do with map geometry as a whole, not just sounds.

5:09 I know why. Someone a long time ago exploited everything you're doing. Someone made every texture except the floor transparent to essentially have undetectable wall hacks to see through them. Well that's when they added the VPK update. That stopped that exploit. Now the foot sound effects was cause Someone could make Someone else's footsteps louder cause it USED to be separated in 2 separate wav files one for your own and another for the enemy nearby. Well that same guy made the footsteps earrape material and well...knew where everyone was by sound. So once the VPK update came out it solved THAT problem.... now they got more

shounic: *hits medic* Medic: "YOU DARE OPPOSE ME MORTAL?"

I would kinda love a community map to be made entirely of missing textures including both teams. Also that missing texture distortion effect looks kinda sick.

The sniper scope one sounds like free real estate for someone to do a multiplayer video titled "drunk sniping".

I love how he discusses the topic in a way like anybody in their right mind would go so far as to delete all of the sounds or textures to play tf2 in this state

"If you kill the medic, the game will crash" can't even violate the Geneva convention in video games, cancel culture has gone too far

"Question!" "What is your question, Soldier?" "I uninstalled Counter-Strike Source!" "What..-"

Very usefull info will use thanks for the tutorial

Some of the information I've noticed in this video are fairly inaccurate. One primary thing that stuck out to me was the mention of removing the base VPKs causing the skybox to become the cascade effect. The reason for this is because textures use two files: VMTs and VTFs. VMTs are stored inside those base VPKs (with the models and particles), while VTFs are stored within the texture VPKs, so that's why they don't break when you delete just your textures, because the game is still searching for the VMTs, that dictate phong, bumpmaps, reflectivity, transparency, and looking for a texture to use; If it doesn't have a texture to use, it defaults to the error purple and black texture, which is why the skybox is relatively unchanged when you delete just the VTFs VPK. As for glass, the same principle applies, it's grabbing the error texture to use as a transparent texture, which... the error texture doesn't have an alpha mask to determine how opaque or transparent it is. Once you delete the VMT, then (afaik) the map handles it's transparency on compile, so loading a map without the needed VMTs doesn't apply the specifics of what those VMTs are meant to show. Heck, during the part before you removed the HL2 VPKs, the glass was still "functionally transparent", so HL2 had nothing to do with fixing the glass. Also, one last thing. I think the game crashes with the surfaceprops.txt due to the fact that file determines physics, in terms of friction, it's properties with waters, sounds, and etc.

Medic and a Cow are the two pillars that support TF2…

i love how the coconut.jpg keeping tf2 together was a joke but you *actually* need the 2fort cardboard cow cutout otherwise it breaks

The game without the coconut: nothing The game without the cow: Unfixable chaos

I just love how recognizable TF2 maps are even without any textures whatsoever. It goes to show that map makers really did a good job.

This is like, TF2 on a MASSIVE budget

I’ve never played the game so I think it’s great the video was made in a way that’s accessible to people without prior TF2 knowledge

So this is the tf2 competitive guide I've been looking for

After the magic coconut... The holy cow And the crashing medic

Broke: Coconut is vital to TF2 Woke: _wooden 2fort Cow is vital to TF2_

this is such a random idea for a video i love it

thanks for talking in negative decibels, just got my eardrums blown out by the volume sfx on windows