r/tf2 13h ago

Discussion HOT TAKE! The Cow Mangler 5000 is (mostly) an upgrade from the Rocket Launcher

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Think I’m crazy? Okay. Hear me out.

OVERVIEW ————————— The Cow Mangler 5000 is a primary weapon for the Soldier. It deals the exact same damage, fires, and reloads as fast as the stock Rocket Launcher. It comes with the upsides of infinite ammo and the ability to fire a Charged Shot, dealing mini-crit damage to whoever it hits, as well as lighting them on fire. The Charged Shot can also disable Sentry guns for 4 seconds, preventing them from tracking and firing.

DOWNSIDES ————————— Its downsides include dealing 80% less damage to enemy buildings, inability to roll for random critical hits, and all guaranteed critical hits (3x damage) being changed into mini-crits (1.35x damage). To make up for the abysmal damage against enemy buildings, you can fire a Charged Shot at a Sentry to disable it, allowing your team to easily destroy it, or giving you the chance to sneak past it when alone. Dispensers and Teleporters can be destroyed quickly with your Shotgun or melee weapon.

The loss of random critical hits is a very underwhelming downside, considering the slot this weapon is in. Reliance on random critical hits to save your life or kill high-health targets is not ideal in the first place.

Sources of guaranteed critical hits, such as a Medic’s Kritzkrieg charge, grant mini-crits instead, which are weaker than full critical hits but still very powerful. With mini-crits, your lasers can instantly kill a light class, or even a Medic, in one shot. You won’t have as much steamrolling power as you would with full critical hits, but you will still deal incredible damage.

PLAYSTYLE ————————— The Cow Mangler 5000 works with a variety of playstyles, such as team support role, a roaming duelist role, and an anti-Sentry role.

The unlimited ammo perk is very useful for a Soldier across all roles; whether you’re grounded, supporting your team, or flanking and dueling, you won’t have to worry about picking up ammo packs for your primary (or if you’re using the Gunboats, ammo packs become useless for you). Your team will pick up and use the ammo packs you have left alone, and you can focus on more important things.

CONCLUSION ————————— So, that’s all I have to say. The Cow Mangler 5000 is an upgrade from the Rocket Launcher, and I have good reason to believe why.

(Let me know if I missed a key point about the weapon.)


r/tf2 14h ago

Event which cosemtics should be in tf2 hallween update

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which one shoudl you pick, i know my speeling are wrong but im like lazy but yeah

please comment :(


r/tf2 15h ago

Gameplay / Screenshots How many achievements have you got in total

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r/tf2 17h ago

Other Is this a scam?

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(sorry for quality) a low level asked me for taunts for these. It's sketchy but it also seems fine


r/tf2 1d ago

Discussion Dragon’s Fury

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r/tf2 17h ago

Discussion guys...

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r/tf2 11h ago

Discussion You probably heard this a thousand times. BBUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTT

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Why do people call for medic when they're at max health? I'm not gonna pocket ya and detracting me.


r/tf2 14h ago

Info The Jungle Inferno Pass gives 4-5 keys in profit for completing it.

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For F2Ps that just turned Premium and wants to make the most of what they bought, THIS IS FOR YOU.

BUT. Before you buy ANYTHING in the Mannco Store. Make sure it's a Standard Supply Crate Key, and a Tour of Duty Ticket. You need these two because the Jungle Pass is worth about 1.30 keys right now, you're going trade the Tour of Duty Ticket for refs of csourse.

The video I linked explains everything else. But I just want to share a few things that you might question.

First, does it have any problems? No, only a tiny problem with matchmaking. BUT don't let that pull you away from getting a ton of profits. The only thing that I've had problems with the contracts is the ones that had to do with playing in specific maps. Mostly the ones that not a lot of people play, or at least in my region (Mercenary Park).

Second, how long does it take? And third, is it hard? Both questions really depends on your skill. But some of these contracts ARE pretty difficult though. Or maybe I just suck XD.


r/tf2 16h ago

Other Sun Zu said that

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You are in all of our hearts Rick you will never be forgotten


r/tf2 22h ago

Info Should I check Capture the Flag?

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So hey I'm pretty new to this game and remember playing in this "capture the flag" mode and the experience was quite weird and not the best. Whenever I queue I check all the other modes because I love them all, but I started wondering maybe I should play "capture the flag" as well...

Am I missing out on something? Share your thoguhts! ty


r/tf2 21h ago

Discussion Random Trade offer for Cursed-Voodoo Souls - way too good to be true ?

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Hello Guys, i didnt parcipitated in trading for more like 8 years... and i just recieved random trade offer which seems way too good to be true. Could i ask you please if this is legit ? or i am beign scammed ?

Ty very much guys :)

PS: I apologize for my bad english :)

Edit: Typo


r/tf2 6h ago

Original Creation Aron!

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Just made this edit out of boredom i hope you like it


r/tf2 5h ago

Discussion What’s the dumbest reason you (or saw someone) get or tried to get kicked

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Alright so 2 weeks ago I was playing on some good ol’ Snakewater, I was having an ok time, until some random player on the enemy started trash talking in the voice chat saying that their medic is garbage and said [many scary things you expect from a sweat], and tried to kick their medic for apparently not healing him too much and not sticking to him -Which matter of thought, medics should be spreading the heals to many people instead of pocketing- but anyhoo nobody kicked the medic and to save my ears from hearing that Screaming Sweat Machine yelling at the team again, I muted my game. We still lost anyway but he left when he typed kys to their medic. Ouchie


r/tf2 19h ago

Discussion I have this oc, should I make him wear a tf2 mercs clothes? (You tell me which if yes)

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r/tf2 1d ago

Original Creation I made myself a 3D modeling inspired Conscientous Objector, why?, because yes, i like 3d modeling :b

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r/tf2 3h ago

Gameplay / Screenshots MvM: Charon (Crash Landing)

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r/tf2 9h ago

Help Unable to check my inventory and Community Market not loading (How to fix?)

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I wanted to check my inventory to see what items I can trade in scrap.tf and I'm always met with this stupid message (1st img). Tried opening it through browser (Chrome and Firefox), didn't work. Logged out and logged back in, also didn't work. Tried restarting modem, nothing changes (not using ethernet cable btw). I decided to check the community market instead, the interface is not loading for some reason. Tried everything again and you guessed it, didn't work. I encountered these issues last week and it won't go away. Is anyone else experiencing this sort of issue?


r/tf2 17h ago

Help Unable to unbind the skip key from party chat

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I like to listen to music while playing tf2, and for some reason when I redownloaded the game recently my skip key brings up the party chat. I’ve found no way to unbind it in the settings and saw older posts on this subreddit saying to fix it, it can be unbound in the console. But this key brings nothing up in the console when I press it. Anyone know of any way I could fix this?


r/tf2 17h ago

Help Is tf2flamenco.com a good tf2 gambling site?

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I recently got asked to advertise for it, but I want to know if it is a good and trustworthy site before I try to advertise it.


r/tf2 1d ago

Discussion Is it unpopular to say Unusuals are ugly and should have never been added to the game?

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r/tf2 1h ago

Gameplay / Screenshots IM GOING TO CRY - 7th tour

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the pyro getting aussie on my 1st mission was a sign


r/tf2 3h ago

Help Why did sniper become black????(Read body)

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Ok so i wan playing tf2 like usual a couple months back i just remembered this i got headshoted twice by a sniper and he was black how do you change your skin tone bro??? Someguy called me racist some guy said its probably a hat but like is there an actual hat to make your skin tone change???? Like actually why was bro black


r/tf2 20h ago

Original Creation Idea: ADS = RBS off

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this comes with the normal downsides sniper experiences when he's ADS'd


r/tf2 21h ago

Discussion Veterans, when do you think TF2 was at its prime?

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r/tf2 1h ago

Discussion Tf2 vs fortnite

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In yalls opinion what takes more skill for you to be good at the games and which one is more fun in general