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== Update history == | == Update history == | ||
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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. |
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| + | '''[[October 27, 2010 Patch]]''' | ||
| + | * {{Undocumented}} Added this item to the Mann Co. Store | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
Revision as of 00:15, 13 March 2011
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| Basic Information | |||||
| Worn by: | Engineer | ||||
| Slot: | Cosmetic | ||||
| Equip region: | Template:Dictionary/items/er error | ||||
| Contributed by: | Template:Dictionary/steam ids/69196386 | ||||
| Released: | First Community Contribution Update | ||||
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase | ||||
| Tradable: | Yes | ||||
| Giftable: | Yes | ||||
| Craftable: | Yes | ||||
| Paintable: | No | ||||
| Nameable: | Yes | ||||
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| “ | 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
- Updated the new community-built hats so they can be crafted.
- [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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