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Other Means of Travel (in TF2)


Justin Gallagher

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Hopefully, anyone who is reading this understands the basic concept behind walking. If not, then google it because I will not cover that topic. What I am here for is to talk about the physic defying ways to travel in Team Fortress 2, a video game created by Valve Software. The game includes nine playable characters, but today we will be focusing on only one class, the Scout.

The Scout is fast-talking, cocky, baseball fan and street runner from Boston, Massachusetts. He is a fast, agile character, armed with a scattergun, a pistol and an aluminum baseball bat. What is interesting about the Scout is that he is capable of performing the infamous Double Jump, A move so legendary, so bold, that is has been seen in many other video games. The Double Jump defys Newton's First Law of Motion: When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external force. In this case, the Scout says screw it and jumps while in midair without the aid of an external force. When you equip the scout with a baseball bat called the the Atomizer, it magically gives him the ability to triple Jump. If you give him a pisol called the Winger, He now can jump 25% higher. This absolutely makes no sense when you try to even comprehend it. However, it gets a little better. In the Game there is a shotgun called the Force Of Nature. Its recoil is so unbelievably god-like that when you shoot it in mid air, it propels the scout in a direction that is opposite of the shot, Thus Following Newtons Third Law of Motion: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body. Here is an interesting video to see it in action:

As you can see, the scout does not like to follow all of the rules that governs our universe, however, due to this, its allows for some very interesting game play.

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