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TF2's Unused Ray Guns

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Quite a few years back, Valve partnered with the Dr. Grordbort company to bring us cool looking laser weapons like the Pomson 6000 and the Righteous Bison. But the ones we have in-game aren't the only ray guns that the company has made - there are still several more that didn't make it into TF2 for whatever reason that I could easily see being added under different circumstances. In this video, I go through the weapons that have yet to be added, theorize which class might use them, and come up with some stats for 'em. Not exactly balanced ones, mind you, but cool concepts nonetheless.

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20 Comments

@TARINunit9 4 years ago

Valve and Weta once upon a time made concept art of Scout and Medic wielding new Grordbort weapons. Shame we never got them

@aknight7642 4 years ago

Fun little note:
There is a weapon submission in the tf2 workshop called "Dr. Al Coholic's 4th Law".
It's incredibly well done.

@FoxMan_FF 4 years ago

I like the concept of the Family Guy Funny Moment-inator. Honestly, I really wish we had more of these retro-futuristic weapons in TF2, this was a missed opportunity!

@Jorvalt 4 years ago

For the Demo one I would have actually made it a weapon that does MORE damage to buildings and LESS damage to players, owing to the "matter mangler and disentangler" bit.

@weedspagon4522 4 years ago

The 4th Law could play into the 'mangler and disentangler' thing by having a chance to turn killed enemies into buffalo steak sandvich drops (yummy meat chunks)

@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth 4 years ago

4:06
Just do what Valve always does when balancing strong Engineer weapons. Make the charge shot cost metal.

@honeycrisp808 4 years ago

I miss when TF2 would do things like this. I hope someday we'll get more crossover items.

@GleebieDeebie 2 years ago

5:47 I love the background footage of you instantly making the split second decision to destroy that spray of Sayori

@rosem325 4 years ago

Personally I think having a demo “laser” grenade launcher shoot EMP grenades that do more damage to buildings instead. Give it some other stats and make it make sticky launchers worse in some way and you have something that sword focused hybrid knight can use to deal with buildings

@scrowlerhouse 4 years ago

I think its fine for the demo weapon to be like the scorch shot, since you're replacing your incredibly powerful grenade launcher instead of the stock shotgun

@Goober1298 4 years ago (edited)

perhaps for the 4th law instead of afterburn it would make enemy's have "plasma waste" left on them that would slightly pull them towards other grenades you launch but after being hit by a grenade they are pushed further by the explosion this affect would apply to you as well. Though that could be very annoying to deal with. Also great video, keep up the good work.

@Succer 4 years ago

I actually have thought too hard about Dr. Grordbort's weapons. I have the Bison.

@TheStickBall25 4 years ago

I actually have seen a ray gun for Demoman made for the community workshop called Dr Al Coholic's 4th law which looked pretty neat and very similar to the Cowmangler. You should take a look at it.

@jancastro5403 1 year ago

surprised the theoretical demo weapon didn't have the charge mechanic that the stickybomb launchers and the loose cannon has. it would probably fit his secondary since the pumping action for the grordbort weapons fits the standard sticky reload animation.

@TheDarkSlayer415 4 years ago

There’s actually two workshop submissions from WETA Workshop that conceptualized two Grordbort item sets for Scout and Medic. I think you should take a look at them next time as well.

@GlassedRanger 1 year ago

6:00 Sounds like the average PVZ GW All-Star weapon.

@Protolisk 4 years ago

I always love the retro-future aesthetic and this series of weapons has (mostly) been my favorites to just have fun with back when I still played TF2 regularly. (Realizing the Pomson sucked was... yeah.)

Of all of them, the combination of the two Heavy weapons I think are my favorite conceptually. They not only fill their own niche, but combine together well that would be super interesting, and their benefits still help out the other options you could pair them with (minigun for the secondary and the lunchbox items for the primary).

@pajamapantsjack 4 years ago

I would actually love to own a real life righteous bison. After all irl tf2 items are a rarity

@maxsparks3764 4 years ago

I work at a used bookstore and we got a little hardcover copy of the Dr. Grordbort catalogue. Pictures and descriptions of different weapons, plus a few comics and pages that remind me of, "Come visit the beautiful Dr. Deathlock's Island!" or "Wish You Were Here With Me (On The Verdant Death Planet)!" It's so great.