Robotic Boogaloo's Unused/Scrapped Mission 2013-03-20
A mission originally developed as a showcase for the Robotic Boogaloo update.
Back when the Robotic Boogaloo update was being conjured up by the community, both AbeX300 and I worked on a population file as a sort of showcase of what robot hats would be featured. NeoDement helped out by creating bodygrouped models of the robots, which ended up being used on the promotional art on the webpage, as well as some custom icons. However due to Valve only wanting to focus on cosmetics it wasn't added, and due to some accidental miscommunication we ended up finishing this mission without finding out that they weren't considering non-cosmetic content until much later.
Since this was the early days of population creation where we were just writing it in Notepad++, we mostly wanted to experiment with new bot ideas and gimmicks that weren't done yet to make it interesting. We also would have liked to take these ideas and move them to a community made MvM map, but there weren't any that were close enough to be finished by that time, so we stuck with Mannworks.
It's been almost a decade since this was made so I can't vouch for its quality (we thought that we'd eventually get feedback if it moved forward, we did test it with friends multiple times however) and I gotta imagine that it's laughably easy now with how balance in MvM changed over time. This mission assumes that you have the Bodygrouped Models mod by NeoDement installed (which I don't have anymore, not sure if that's still out there) and the custom icons.
Funnily enough, since this was made before the items were out, the bots aren't even wearing the equivalent robot versions of the hats, and we originally just expected people to install a big model replacement. If anyone would like to edit this mission to fix that, or maybe even update the balance to better fit current TF2, I'm fine with that as long you credit everyone. I'd love to play that!
I saw this get called "TF2 Lost Media" but I'm not entirely sure if this counts, since this didn't really move forward. I guess it is on a technicality. Either way, I kept this package in the state that it was packaged up in since 2013 when it was put on the Emporium.
Credit to SnickerPuffs for putting in the effort to actually find me to upload this again.
Since this was the early days of population creation where we were just writing it in Notepad++, we mostly wanted to experiment with new bot ideas and gimmicks that weren't done yet to make it interesting. We also would have liked to take these ideas and move them to a community made MvM map, but there weren't any that were close enough to be finished by that time, so we stuck with Mannworks.
It's been almost a decade since this was made so I can't vouch for its quality (we thought that we'd eventually get feedback if it moved forward, we did test it with friends multiple times however) and I gotta imagine that it's laughably easy now with how balance in MvM changed over time. This mission assumes that you have the Bodygrouped Models mod by NeoDement installed (which I don't have anymore, not sure if that's still out there) and the custom icons.
Funnily enough, since this was made before the items were out, the bots aren't even wearing the equivalent robot versions of the hats, and we originally just expected people to install a big model replacement. If anyone would like to edit this mission to fix that, or maybe even update the balance to better fit current TF2, I'm fine with that as long you credit everyone. I'd love to play that!
I saw this get called "TF2 Lost Media" but I'm not entirely sure if this counts, since this didn't really move forward. I guess it is on a technicality. Either way, I kept this package in the state that it was packaged up in since 2013 when it was put on the Emporium.
Credit to SnickerPuffs for putting in the effort to actually find me to upload this again.