TF2's Strange Mods 

The reason why valve's servers disable clientside mods is because clientsided mods, while solely cosmetic, have been used to enable literal wallhacks. It's surprising what a clientside mod can do with a little malicious creativity.

Hello! I am a developer for Lambda Fortress: Community Edition! (We're planning on breaking off into our own mod entirely, because of how absolutely mad this mod has became in such a small amount of time) I am also the one who designed the Enforcer, Jerry, John Freeman, and Repressor classes. These are, at the moment, unfinished classes that have planned mechanics. We are up for any kind of criticism so we can make this mod a fun and unique experience! (Even if it is a bit insane) Also, most the crashes you encounter are mostly caused by LF:E's code, as well as the new features that are being added. We are working to fix all these issues! By the way, look forward to a whole revamp of the hl2 campaign. Adding new rooms, new enemy encounters, and probably more. Making the Water Hazard, and Highway 17 chapters actually fun to play is also on the agenda. (There are also some custom campaigns being worked on the side) also there's mvm :troll:

Hi there, I'm a recently added Lambda Fortress Community Edition dev, a lot of the unbalanced shit and broken stuff were added by sole devs that are very much gone from the project, I have since removed and been rebalancing all day what is trash and overpowered, it'll stay very silly and stupid but I'm happy to see you had fun, it's been in development for like a few months so there's a lot of work to do and code to clean-up.

“Giant fucking tire strapped to the medics back” holy shit it’s Junkrat

they should add a mod that adds in the cut “heavy” class.

You can disable the Meet Your Match HUD: “Use the team status display in the HUD” in the Advanced Options or “tf_use_match_hud”.

Valve’s list of things to remove from TF2: Turkey Medic Not bots

I use to have a mod several years ago that turned the Soldier's rockets into Sniper, they would fly out screaming while A-posing then explode and saying piss several times, It truly was beautiful.

I love tf2 modding so much. Ended up compiling a bunch of sonic mods for tf2 into a single modpack not too long ago and haven’t looked back lmao, even made some sound and texture replacements of my own.

As the creator of the big booty fempyro mod, I am glad I could contribute to the chaos that is tf2 modding.

If memory serves me well. The reason why titanfall 1 and 2 got parkour. is because one of the devs had i think a HL or mod on a source that had parkour and thought it will be neat to be core mechanic in TF1&2. and we know that TF1&2 are made on source too.

Ritcher has once again fed us with good content, Thank you Ritcher!

1:51 Probably to prevent wall hacks/ making big player models

Hi! I really like this video because you actually delved into *weirder stuff*, unlike most "Wow TF2 Mods Are Wacky" videos which are just the same popular stuff over and over again. It felt like a real love letter to TF2's weirder customization scene. The TF2 modding scene IS still a wild west, and this video kinda shows that (although with some relatively dated examples, for example the Demoman Creeper - I made that four years ago.) I thought I might provide extra context from my personal perspectives as a "silly TF2 mod guy". *Warning, wall of text ahead.* *[Regarding LF:CE]* I'm actually a developer/contributor (on-and-off) for Lambda Fortress Community Edition! The Minecraft weapon you mentioned was originally a model I made for a TF2Maps jam, and wanted to use it here to try and replicate Minecraft-esque combat as a TF2 weapon. One of my mods was also used before I even heard of LFCE (that being a Manhack reskin for the Robro, that was repurposed as a passive secondary item). I animated the M1 Garand, and also animated the shotgun for Sniper. I've also coded stats here and there for balancing and also trying to properly replicate live TF2 weapon mechanics (before I implemented it, the Classic didn't work entirely right, the Atomizer didn't work as it did nowadays, etc etc.) Since LFCE's a "community led mod", it's mostly just an unofficial mishmash of stuff that isn't serious in any matter. I personally see it as a "HL2: Overcharged" take on the LF formula (a mishmash of everything) rather than something to be taken seriously. If you want that, either play the old LFE, or wait for CoaXion to finish developing their remake (from the ground up) of Lambda Fortress. *[Regarding the state of TF2 modding]* Yeah TF2 modding is a shell of its former self. And not just from the user-side (thanks to sv_pure basically shafting anything that isn't a custom hud or config), either. Most modern submissions on GameBanana are mostly serious stuff (workshop submissions, fixes to stuff, custom huds, what have you) or things that have an audience of extremely hormonal young adults (for example, after a certain Pyro incident, a noticeable influx of "grotesquely large pyro" requests have appeared on the site, and probably contributed to the site adding a "Fetishistic" content filter). However, there are definitely diamonds among the rough - recently some high-effort Overwatch ports have appeared (not just limited to the tracer mod you showed footage of briefly), a Kiryu mod for Spy, a giant baguette Tomislav, just to name a few posted within the past couple of weeks. Hopefully more people will over time get interested in making silly stuff again, as I won't lie, they're just fun to make if nothing else. *[Continuing modding, as a modder]* I probably won't stop making silly mods any time soon. I may try to put more polish and content into my modern work (for example, I initially planned to make a Fortnite playermodel work with *all Sniper cosmetics*, which I am pretty sure is just unrealistic for one guy to do himself), but that's just because of a personal wish to actually improve each time I make something (unfortunately it results in me making less and less stuff because I don't want to churn out little things and so burn myself out rather easily, even though I enjoy making little things more than larger projects). This video (and the research I contributed in its creation) helped me remember that little silly things (which I started out with) are still appreciated by people, and I should maybe make them more. if you read this far into the comment reply "war paint classic" or something idk thank you for taking the time to read my giant essay on tf2 mods

I made a mod for the game that’s a calendar mod. I redrew the style and framing of the calendars from the base game, but I drew some of my characters instead of the nameless girls. It got some nice attention and quite a few downloads. It makes me happy to see that a silly thing I made for myself for flavor got welcomed by the community.

I'm suprised he didn't mention Alaxe's new Fem Pyro now that it's actually out

8:03 group hallucinations guys, its a normal pyro

I love that Richter always opens with "good evening" and always uploads at like 1pm

I remember Shanghai - the surprisingly short one - from the OG days, back when it ended after the slide down, and had a sub-20 second top time. Good days.

10:42 the two obvious reasons 1. simps 2. simps

Knowing the guy who made my favorite TF2 community mode worked on my favorite game is awesome.

I like how says they don’t work in casual BUT THEY DO

Please, please make more of this. I absolutely loved this video. Great job :)

Oh man Parkour Fortress was a blast from the past! I remember when i was playing with a bunch of players in new year eve. I also didint know that the same guy made A Hat in Time! Good Video!

Ah yes, the pyrocynical mod.

Writing a comment before I watch the video to see if the Necromobile (a 2009 mod that replaces Spy's Fancy Fedora with an entire full-scale hearse) gets mentioned. It's slipped into deep obscurity, which is a damn shame.

Hey I've seen some things I've made mentioned in this video! I made LFCE and also that smg sten gun mod for scout

Wait, soo you're saying that the majority of the time i was playing pyro, my model was a fem pyro on some dude's game?

2:14 Whenever somebody mentions Jonas, I always think about how in FUNKe's A Hat in Time review he brings up getting banned in the Gearrs for Breakfast tf2 servers

Ending the video with the Re-Volt N64 intro theme was a nice punch of nostalgia, good taste.

I downloaded a mod that replaced the mannrobics song with the National Aerobic Championship Theme from 1988. It was the best mod I've ever downloaded

Hi there, I'm the Voice Actor for Drake (on a stick), a recently added weapon in the latest patch. The build you used in your video on the mod not only did not include the Drake (on a stick) weapon, but also was one of the earlier builds. Alot of the bugs you brought up as concerns only existed in that specific build. I don't want to speak for the devs here, but I'd personally hope you'd give the more recent build of the mod a shot, even if only to enjoy the recently added Drake (on a stick) weapon. ^^

Parkour Fortress is such a great mod, I've spent many hours trying to get new PBs. Huge shoutout to Screwdriver and the PF crew for keeping it alive after all this time!

Great video, modding community is always awesome. RE-volt credit music is a nice touch

You have great music taste mate, I spot that The Social Network soundtrack around 2:41

My favorite clientside mod is actually the flat-chested fempyro mod. The other, well known fempyro mod just looks too unrealistic and too extreme. In short, too big boobs and butt. The flat-chested one is perfection to its core imo. I also use an addon that fixes props, which should appear for taunts but for some reason, don't. It's pretty useful.

would love to see a video on some classic comunity maps like harbl_hotel and the mario kart one full of old memes from 2007.

Great choices of background music!

The potential of a tf2 story game, where you go through levels as the classes in a way maybe similar to attack defence could be insane

the roblox mods specifically the "typical colors" or tc2 mods are pretty cool attempts of porting the visuals of a group of roblox devs that tried to make tf2 in roblox called typical colors 2, tc2 is still being updated and a lot of stuff has been added like a camera for spy that temporarily allows ur teanates to see a targetted enemy through walls which is interesting, ive played its personally not my cup of tea but id certainly recommend ppl to give it a try

The outro song is FrontEnd (Main Menu theme) from Re-Volt.

I remember seeing the see tinh taunt in the store, and it was just a work of art

"Client Mods don't work in casual" Fempyro: Allow me to introduce myself

Crazy news! As of ~2 days ago, it turns out that custom models *are* completely possible in Casual. One of the summer update patches that fixed a crashing bug when using custom models has a weird side effect. After the patch models are able to be loaded into casual, but mods made before about yesterday will appear invisible because they still have their textures blocked. Custom models can be seen in Casual either by using existing textures from the game, OR by sneakily redirecting the model's textures into one of the "allowed" texture folders like the ones used for custom backgrounds and HUD elements. ~5 mods have already done this as of today and it seems like gamebanana is kinda blowing up with hype, everyone's frantically trying to figure out how to port their stuff to casual right now. Big things are happening but it's just gonna take some time. I'm really hoping that Valve is too lazy and aloof to patch this one

Awesome video as usual

So many good memories on balloon wars, achievement_engineer, freak fortress 2, and especially slender fortress...

Best quote ive heard about tf2: "Valve thinks me using turkey medic is a bigger threat than the bots who have been tormenting casual servers for the past 5 years straight"

thanks for just casually dropping that the creator of parkour fortress also made one of my top 10 favorite games of all time totally didn't blow my mind or anything

Yeah you're gonna need to make a follow up on this one, someone found a way to make mods work on casual.

i play parkour fortress weekly for YEARS since it came out. so happy you gave it some attention. amazing video 10/10

I need a compilation just of Richter saying „Good Evening“.

video aside. atleast someone still remember's Re-volt. gotta love hearing the menu screen while choosing your RC-CAR and map. man i miss that game

The end credits song hit me so hard, as if I had just played re-volt on the ps2 yesterday.... From time to time you recognise some random song instantly, because it played on some MTV Snowboarding game for the ps1... (btw it was "Fear FActory - Cars" , for anyone that even played this game)

If you didnt know, you can use client side mods like weapon viewmodels (yes like a eyelander weapon mod etc) models and animations by putting "map itemtest; wait 10; disconnect" in your autoexec

very nice vid richta, as always

At least you forgot my birthday 3 days ago Richter. That was a pretty cool video.

“Old habits die HARD” -Richter Overtime

Parkour maps were the jam a whole decade ago. I remember from time to time me and my mate used to troll people by standing behind the red doors so they couldn't be opened.

The only 2 mods I really ever use are Bot Overhaul (which works pretty well in terms of generating navemeshes, but doesn’t fix problems like the opposite team being able to tell you’re a spy just by bumping into you even if you aren’t cloaked) so I can play TF2 without the anxiety of being having to interact with other people, and Highertower, which is Hightower but Higher.

1:49 there was a mod that reskined player models so you could see them through walls.

At the moment,the community is making casual compatible mods,which is sth very new and interesting to say

Im so glad you talked about lambda fortress, it's just such a cool mod.

Does anyone know what the revolver animation mod at 0:05 is called

the parkour fortress thing reminds me the titanfall series run on a heavily modified version of the source engine

oh my gosh parkour fortress was my shit back in the day thank you for bringinf back these memories, i still didnt forget any of those levels after so many years xD

you gave me whiplash with the outro song I HAVE to go play Re-Volt now

11:21 There's no reason for anybody to suspect that I have downloaded this...

I used to have a client side mod that replaced some of my taunts with old animations from Dr. Face and other classic SFM creators. Man I miss those days.

never heard of community edition but i've been playing Lambda Fortress extended for awhile. I haven't really seen any updates from their discord but they have the download there and its seems a lot closer to the original than community edition and consistently has players online.

i already know this video was gonna be good by just hearing the poker night at the inventory ost in the background in the intro

I know why TF2 modding kind of changed over the years. TF2 server pluggin moding used to be huge because Valve didn't have their own servers at launch, so community was the only option until official pubs (and later casual) became the forefront. Clientside modding was also big back then because Valve didn't moderate it until 2015 with sv_pure being added to said official servers after they overtook community servers in popularity.

Had a ragdoll mod where if killed, your body would flip out and fly everywhere hitting stuff and if you keep killing more people it becomes complete chaos

is is honestly FASCINATING how much advances in tools we have, like aftereffects, photoshop, blender, etc., have improved the average quality of p0rn on the internet, game mods included. just 12 years ago, when Skyrim first came out, making entirely new meshes for mods, instead of ripping professionally made assets from elsewhere, was still rather rare.

Ayo the end screen soundtrack is fire. Re-Volt is such a banger

Richter, don't you dare escape, what did you do with your fluffy bunny VOD?

wheres the big booty pyro mod!?!?!?!?

That lambada fortress reminds me of me playing LFD2 with a bunch of random mods that didn’t mesh well together having a grand ole time

anyone know what the song is during the presentation for Lambda Fortress?

Years ago I played a bunch of Pony Fortress 2, which gave each team a pony-themed Saxton Hale with a class gimmick tacked on (like spy's invisibility or scout's double-jump). The pony heroes also had ultimate abilities which buffed their teammates. It breathed a lot of new life into the game and could have probably gathered popularity if wasn't exclusive to a single server, and had a less controversal theme.

Oh man I remember seeing that sniper with the jar in his mouth as a kid. It’s haunted me ever since

WHY DOES BOTH RATLOBBER AND RICHET HAS THE FUCKING FEMPYRO MOD INSTALLED!?!? 1:12 💀💀💀💀💀💀

I hope I'm not going crazy, but does anyone know if a 6 team mod exists? I swear I saw a thumbnail that autoplayed and it showed 6 different control points that were colored as each different team (red, blue, green, pink, yellow, and I don't remember the last color.)

7:03 this was my dream when I was little, I always wanted to do something like this in tf2, and I can’t believe it was an actual thing back that, I had loved half life and tf2 and portal and all of that, but I never knew there was an actual game mode for that, also, nice choice of music here, the fukin boss theme from PvZ lol

Person that had made some skins in the past for TF2 on gamebanana here - thing that mostly killed skinning community from gamebanana, was mostly Valve adding more content that made our work pointless Here is a mostly example of what i mean - Australium Guns, around 11-12 years ago, there have been a "Boom" of making Autralisum Skins over teamfortress -> even Myself i manage to get part of that Cake... #2 most downloaded Loch-n-Load skin there

"And with Mecha The Slag moving his priorities toward creating the indie game, A Hat in Time-" Yeah, 'cause _that's_ the kind of bombs that we just _casually_ drop on the Richter Overtime channel! What the heck, I had no idea the creator of Parkour Fortress directed A Hat in Time!

A really cool video ! Your video reminds me of the "Pre-Fortress 2" mod, which back in the day in 2019, wants to recreate the beta atmosphere like arounds 2019. It's apparently dead.

The reason why this kind of mods doesn't work casual official server is some point in back in the early times people able to textures or replaces skin model able to do that in the official server then after and like few months later people started to making cheats like see through the texture or players outline mods which was cheating since there are able to see other player location. From both team. And that is why velve changed those features now only thing that works in the official server is the animation and huds. I may be totally wrong but that is all I found out when I was trying to figure out how to use mods.

8:30 John Freeman who is Gordon Freeman's brother?!? I haven't seen him since he killed all those zombie ghosts in that house

8:48 that melee weapon is literally a melee weapon from dead rising 2 that is an axe + a sledgehammer. ik it's an axe + a bat now, but if you SAW the weapon i'm referring to you'd clearly see the resemblance.

thanks for reminding me to play PF. I used to play it for hours on end and last time I was on it was a couple of years ago.

Okay to be fair there's actually a good reason to not allow client side visual mods since you could use it to make every model always visible through walls or make the spy visible when he is cloaked.

i havent watched this guy in so long, good to see hes more popular now

babe wake up new richter overtime video just dropped

Thank you for informing me that the guy who made a parkour tf2 mod, also made one of my favorite indie games, a hat in time.

There is a sort of co-op in the game already on the community servers and it's called mvm Machine Attacks

7:24 is that a job? because if so i know my new dream job

voice mods work just fine on official servers (but not other sound mods) (due to the default sv_pure blacklist settings used by official servers). I personally enjoy the one(s) where Pyro's voice is replaced by DECtalk 4.64 Paul as featured in Moonbase Alpha

Recently I was looking for parkour fortress again on community servers after so many years passed.

I didn’t expect to see a mod turning the demo man into the Roblox typical colors variant.

do someone know the name of the outro music of this video