It is hardly the most powerful weapon, then, but you can deal out the slaps rapidly and every hit nets you a speed boost. It delivers swift humiliation to the person on the receiving end – on one occasion I slapped a Heavy nine times before he went down, and I could almost feel his pride crumble a little more with each strike. The Hot Hand is clearly the star of the show: for every slap you get a slot in the kill feed in the same way you do with the Scout’s fish, and a kill flashes up as a SLAP KILL along with an icon of a hand. Once I’d achieved this, however, and unlocked all of the weapons, I decided to limit myself to jetpack and slaps only, keeping my flamethrower stashed in my belt. Some of them seem all but impossible unless you have an enemy team willing to help you out, but collude with the right people (I have found 2Fort servers in the game’s ‘Casual’ mode to be the friendliest) and you can circumvent this mountainous climb.

To unlock them you have to complete new weapon contracts. It embraces the silliness that has always set TF2 apart from other shooters.Ĭombine them and you have got an ultra-mobile Pyro that loves a swift backhander. The Thruster is a jetpack that, like the best TF2 items, creates a completely new playstyle that you never knew you needed, while the Hot Hand is a novelty glove that you slap enemies with. Jungle Inferno added four new Pyro weapons and one for the Heavy, but it is the Hot Hand and the Thermal Thruster that I want to focus on, both going to our favourite arsonist. New items are the yardstick by which I always judge TF2 updates: when maps fall out of favour and cosmetic prices rise and fall on the game’s community marketplace, the best weapons quickly become staples whether you are pushing payloads or capturing control points. The update adds new maps, rebalances weapons that long needed attention, and throws in crates of cosmetics, but it is the new weapons that stand out for me.

How to unlock weapons in tf2