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+ | '''[[March 18, 2010 Patch]]''' ([[First Community Contribution Update]]) | ||
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'''[[March 19, 2010 Patch]]''' | '''[[March 19, 2010 Patch]]''' | ||
* Updated the new community-built hats so they can be crafted. | * Updated the new community-built hats so they can be crafted. | ||
− | '''[[October 27, 2010 Patch]]''' | + | '''[[October 27, 2010 Patch]]''' ([[Scream Fortress|Scream Fortress Update]]) |
* {{Undocumented}} Added this item to the [[Mann Co. Store]]. | * {{Undocumented}} Added this item to the [[Mann Co. Store]]. | ||
Revision as of 02:03, 31 March 2011
“ | Now that there was a fine piece 'a work.
Click to listen
— The Engineer
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The Hotrod is a community-created headwear item for the Engineer, released with the first wave of community-contributed content. It appears as a gray Template:W with team-colored flame patterns.
The hat description was written by Shapechanger for the Hat Describing Contest.
Update history
March 18, 2010 Patch (First Community Contribution Update)
- Added the Hotrod to the game.
- Updated the new community-built hats so they can be crafted.
October 27, 2010 Patch (Scream Fortress Update)
- [Undocumented] Added this item to the Mann Co. Store.
Trivia
- The name and flame design is a reference to American cars with large engines, also called Template:W, which often sport a fiery paintjob.
- The Hotrod flips down over the Engineer's face when he is holding a building's blueprints or hauling a building.[1]
- Additionally, a Spy disguised as an Engineer currently wearing a Hotrod can have the hat flip down on his face by equipping the Electro Sapper. This can be used to detect Spies.
- "Hot Rod" is also the title of a 1979 movie in which Grant Goodeve, voice of the Engineer, starred.
- It is interesting to note that the late Template:W (Dr. Breen's voice actor in Half-Life 2) also co-starred in this film.
- The Engineer is seen using a welding mask in the teaser video for the Engineer Update, though it is not the Hotrod. The Hotrod, however, can be seen sticking out of a tool chest at the very beginning of the video, above the Engineer's acoustic guitar.
- Valve wanted to make the Hotrod paintable, but failed to get the creator's permission.
Gallery
- Spy Hotrod.jpg
The Hotrod flipped down, worn by a disguised Spy with the Sapper equipped
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