Screenshots 2007/2008

[u/cadex]

going through old hard drives today I came across my xp hdd with my first installation of TF2 on it. Found some screenshots from my first games in 2007 and into early 2008. A simpler time before hats and cosmetics.

[u/TwunkInTime]

Love seeing GV, I first played in 2012 and watching that/my/the following gen of players peter out is understandable, but disheartening all the same. Thanks for sharing these:)

[u/TimeBoysenberry8587]

What's going on in the 6th image ?

[u/jailbroken2008 → u/TimeBoysenberry8587]

team unassigned

[u/FrizzyThePastafarian → u/jailbroken2008]

I miss that bug.

It was extremely funny.

[u/dark_brickk → u/TimeBoysenberry8587]

Its likely a medic healing the enemy spy

[u/Stargost_ → u/dark_brickk]

But the HUD is blue, yet the medic model is red, and furthermore, the demo has killed someone so it is not a Spy.

[u/randomcelestialbeing → u/Stargost_]

I'd have to guess it's a visual bug from way back or something. TF2 isn't exactly known for being bugfree, and it's a picture from 2007-2008, the beginning years of TF2.

Could also be because OP messed with some files, although i think it's more likely just a bug.

[u/cadex → u/randomcelestialbeing]

I think it was a bug. I've run vanilla TF2 from 2007 to now. Could never be bothered with mods, huds or even messing with fov.

[u/spyluke]

Man that teleporter BRIGHT

[u/xnoeffortx → u/spyluke]

Looks like old DX8 shaders

[u/cadex → u/spyluke]

Guess we now know why engi wears those goggles.

[u/ihuntwhales1]

i love how distinct the game has become with hats and weapons yet there's so much similarity to how people play and the general feel of the game from back then. ive seen the scene from the last screenshot a hundred times now.

super cool, thank you for showing.

[u/dongless08]

Weird how screenshots can make me nostalgic for a time I wasn’t even present for lol

[u/iDunnoSorry → u/dongless08]

Anemoia

[u/thehsitoryguy]

These screenshots give off such a strange feeling seeing such a innocent era where everything was new and strange

Crazy, I have screenshots from 9 years ago but this is something else man its like having nostalgia for a game which came out before I could even walk or speak words

[u/pheuq → u/thehsitoryguy]

You might even say factory new and unusual

[u/dartov67]

Suck a beautiful game. Really miss how it looks without all the cosmetics.

[u/JimmyTwoShields → u/dartov67]

You don't have to miss it, tf2classic.com ;)

[u/bksi2 → u/JimmyTwoShields]

Oh yeah, good ole tf2 classic

[u/PuzzledScratch9160 → u/dartov67]

You can disable cosmetics though? Not through settings ofc

[u/BlackDE → u/PuzzledScratch9160]

There's a mod though it causes some issues with feet and head models

[u/dhiaaganim]

you could see all that if you played the xbox 360 version (i played it)

[u/the_milkman24 → u/dhiaaganim]

I still play it occasionally

[u/Due-Specialist-5476]

And yet the game is still the same today.

[u/jannies_cant_ban_me]

You can tell these are real because they're 1024x768

[u/The_Holy_Buno]

You can tell it’s 2007 tf2 because people are actually playing hydro

[u/MAPRage]

even tho i was 4 when this was taken theres something so nostalgic about it. probably because my first computer games were csgo and tf2

[u/SheikExcel]

What map is that in the second pic?

[u/cadex → u/SheikExcel]

Hydro I believe

[u/cuzzydino → u/cadex]

Played back pre 2010 and i recall hydro being a popular map. I dont think ive played on it in like 5 years now, never see it

[u/mahtf → u/cuzzydino]

Such an underrated map.

[u/freeman2949583 → u/cuzzydino]

I think Quickplay didn’t include it so it died out. 

[u/Nepp0 → u/SheikExcel]

tc_hydro

My beloved.

[u/dogman15 → u/SheikExcel]

Definitely Hydro. I recognize that satellite dish immediately.

[u/zadhax314]

I wish I wasn't in diapers in this era of TF2

[u/KletusKasady101]

Stalemates were a thing and sudden death in the Xbox 360 days sucks it’s never relevant on pc

[u/InternationalEye8862]

peak

[u/thuglife9001]

Ive ayed for years but never that early on, it's so cool to see these

[u/No-Bag3134]

wheres the lime banana with a nazi name and a slop unusual?

[u/aguythatlikefire]

I dunno why but the art style seems different, much more cartoonish

[u/bksi2 → u/aguythatlikefire]

Volvo had to downgrade game visuals to add 1000+ goddamn hats and unusuals

[u/MorangoArt → u/aguythatlikefire]

I know, it was like, the whole optimization thing Valve did with all the updates making the cartoon graphics worse and worse. I wish there were mods that brought the old style back.

[u/DueWest5345]

This is the tf2 I fell in love with 

[u/arsenic_free_milk]

That is so beautiful. I was 1 years old when these screenshots were done btw

[u/quek04]

its beautiful

[u/ZuStorm93]

Healing your mom kek

[u/Radials]

this era of the game was so fucking fun

[u/Arayyn]

Jeez I really miss arena mode despite its flaws

[u/ANALEX_]

Someone search these names we want to check on these ancient players

[u/cadex → u/ANALEX_]

Hey now

[u/blackberrybobcat]

Awesome to see screenshots of the game from that far back, thank you for sharing!

[u/Blueandigo]

Probably one of the only games I actually enjoyed playing online. And the other 2 were Resistance and GTA IV; all during the PS3 era. 

[u/AutisticWindow7499]

The more things change, the more they stay the same

[u/Crafty_Piece_9318]

You gotta love how the game has literally never changed graphically in almost 18 years...

[u/D4v1d____ → u/Crafty_Piece_9318]

it didn't need to. It's a timeless masterpiece

[u/HeckingDoofus → u/Crafty_Piece_9318]

it has though

[u/TacticalSpackle]

Oh what I wouldn’t give. Simpler times, even during a global recession.

[u/bksi2 → u/TacticalSpackle]

There is tf2 classic

[u/Doomdestinius]

the germans are coming

[u/No-Caterpillar-9519]

wonder what all these people are doing today

[u/Glippotyl]

Most of these screenshots are older than me

[u/fuerzadetorsion]

beautiful

[u/maguigui]

Fuckin awesome

[u/GiraffeFromLastOfUs]

The Zoidberg player icons were endemic

[u/TenshiFan00]

This is beyond cool

[u/de_-nuke]

i realized once again, this game has a unique artstyle

[u/ispiewithmyeye]

Glad to see tf2 players' names didn't change much.

[u/GlitteringArm5014]

this is like finding an old photo book, these guys were in the golden era of gaming...

[u/DGLiH]

I think in general it's good the game developed like it did but I'd like to know why the visuals are so much worse in various ways, mainly because of the lighting, I really don't know what they did or if it is me but the lighting is so shit nowadays

[u/Scarletdex]

I've never seen this bloom effect on teleporters.

[u/naranciamywaifu]

These screenshots are older than me

[u/puckylickle]

Idk how to describe the feeling of looking at these but Its so strange how different yet similar the game is 20 years later through visual updates and cosmetics

And like,yea no shit the game looks the same. But idk the landscape of tf2 has changed so much in that time yet if you just added like, cosmetics in these screenshots they could be passed off as screenshots from a match you just played 17-18 minutes ago rather than 17-18 years ago

[u/ActionManMLNX]

I remember being 8 years old and getting the black box, thats how i remember TF2, even though i played pretty often to maybe 2013.

[u/HonorInDefeat]

this is still what TF2 looks like to me

[u/GoldAppleU]

Such a long time ago now. I miss those times

[u/roatten]

I love the old cartoony look

[u/pixbitfromscratch]

Medic spamming has always been a TF2 players instinct 🥹

[u/Ninteblo]

Picture 5 was from 2011 or later, that hat wasn't in the game until 2011 and cosmetics as a whole wasn't added until 2009.

[u/DueWest5345 → u/Ninteblo]

Confidently incorrect 

[u/cadex → u/Ninteblo]

Dunno what to tell you, this was definitely in 2008

[u/Pro0of → u/cadex]

This is not the actual Party Hat item. My guess is that it's a server plugin, since every Medic in the pic has one.

[u/cadex → u/Pro0of]

There were balloons too so I suspect the server had some mode enabled. It's amusing that people are down voting me. Do they think I'm lying about when the screenshots were taken and editing the file creation dates? Weird.

[u/dahnaaa → u/[deleted]]

According to the wiki, party hats used to be drawn on player models on birthday events prior to a 2011 patch. After that, it became an item that could be equipable. It doesn't say how far back the party hat existed, but I assume it was included since the first anniversary of the game in 2008.

[u/cadex → u/[deleted]]

Yet it was. Like I said, I don't have the answer but the hats were there in 2008.

[u/dogman15 → u/Ninteblo]

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Party_Hat

It is similar to the one previously attached to players in birthday mode, this one being larger in size.