Have you ever noticed the player who is supposed to be playing as the "Hunted" model on a Hunted map running around as something besides the squishy lard-tub he's supposed to be? Here's how you do it:

Get to be the president. After selecting the president team and while still dead(or if you're already on the team, switch to another team and switch back), go to the console by typing '~'. In the console, type the name of the class you want to play, ie scout, engineer, spy, hwguy, etc. You'll respawn with all the features of the class you chose!

Now you can set up a sentry gun as an engineer that will blast both the bodyguards and the assasins (but not damage the bodyguards), disguise yourself as a spy, pepper the place with mirv grenades as a demoman, and generally run around like William Taft on crack.

Thnx Johnny K!

Server Shutdown Top

This cheat is a fun one. It doesnt work on every level - it's only successful on servers with a door (or section of a door) that opens from the top down.

Be a spy. Stand in such an open doorway. Feign death. The door will try to close with you inside of it. Just when it closes as much as possible, un-feign back to life- you will be stuck in the door. If you hear a terrible grinding sound on your speakers, you know it's working.

Now the exodus begins. Nearly every player in the server will immediately be overflowed and booted by the stream of packets that are for some reason spewed by the server when you trap yourself in the door. Only people with especially good connections will remain (you will probably kick yourself with this cheat as well).

I've confirmed successful server-shutdowns on 2fort4, and Well.

This bug is a lot of fun on crowded servers like Won.net, and has the potential to make the game unplayable if enough people continue to do it. It brings up a question of ethics. And here is the answer. Fuck ethics! The bug is there, and I'm going to exploit it. If you didn't want it happening, you shouldn't have put it in the game.

Now, go crash some servers. Tell em Johnny K sent you.

Medic Mania Top

Here's a way to endlessly rack up the frags. Its pretty much the same as in quake.

As a feature of both Team Fortress Classic and Team Fortress Quake, a medic will gain a frag when he heals a person of their infection. You can rig a game in your favor by repeatedly healing an infection.

The easiest way to do this is to round up three people (one red medic, one blue medic, and one non-medic) and get to an out of the way place. Both medics start feverishly healing/infecting the third player. Each time his infection is cured, the medic who cured him will gain a frag. You can do this at an incredible rate and get frags in the triple digits in no time at all.

Gotta love Johnny K!

Hole Knockin' Top

This isn't much of a bug, but it's so damn fun I just had to post it here.

Go into the rock and stand guard as a sniper in one of the tunnels. Whenever one of your teammates tries to jump across the hole, shoot em in the back and make em fall in! Then when they say "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!" you say, "Sorry, just checking for spies!" or "Oops, did I do that? My bad!"

It's also fun to give yourself a name like "Hole Knocker" or "Spy Checker" or even "Oops, did I knock you in? My bad!"

Johnny K!

Det & Switch Top

If you're in the mood for some traitourous Team Fortress action, this is the bug for you.

The crux of this bug is that damage in Team Fortress is distrubted only if you're on the opposite team of the victim. For weapons that have a delayed effect time (Det-packs, grenades, gas, napalm), there is a window where you can use the weapon and then switch teams before it goes off.

For example, be a demoman and set a detpack in the respawn room or chuck a bunch of MIRV grenades around the place. Then quickly switch to the other team, and any one in the previous respawn room will paint the walls with their guts. Try the engineer's EMP grenades in the respawn for some really big booms.

For precision killing, use the Demoman's pipebombs. Since pipebombs detonate when you die, you will kill any teammates in the area the instant you switch teams. It's a little easier to hit people like this than with grenades.

This has some especially nifty advantages in Canal Zone. If you place a det-pack in the enemy's control room, you can remove all their flags. However, getting yourself into the enemy's control room can be rather difficult - it's a lot easier to get into your own control room, place a det-pack, and switch teams for the same effect!

Misha has the praise on this one!

Push Class Bug Top

In the soccer-like level Push you are limited to certain classes. Specifically, you are not allowed to choose to be a spy or an engineer.

However, if you choose to be a Random Player Class, you will occasionaly show up as either a spy or an engineer. Engineers work great for defending the goal, and spy's don't lose their disguise when they get the ball!

Guess who? The K

Setinfo Overflow Top

Well, the good 'ole Setinfo bug that hunts Quake TF has been carried over into Half-Life.

d/l this script and exec it in a game. and start capping! Here are the effects:

• You keep the flag after capping (great on Push)
• No name
• No scoreboard name or anything
• Invis to Sentry Guns
• Server Admins cant kick u because u have no name (might not have a uid as in regular TF, but i don't know)
• Hunted - u can cap so many points with prez and not respawn back
• CZ2 - take all flags away so no more respawn to play
• Rock2 - gas doesn't hurt u and u can release the gas indefinitely (first effect)

Thnx [iBO]QWhAX0R for the cheat and H3X for tellin it to me!

Dead Sentry Top

This bug gives Engineers a third item they can build: Invincible roadblocks.

Step 1: Become thoroughly deoressed and commit suicide (by typing kill in the console).
Step 2: Attempt to build by pushing your build key (right mouse button). Usually this would respawn you, but since you committed suicide you will have to wait 5 seconds, and you are then able to build either a dispenser or a sentry.

If the timer runs out and you respawn before you finish building, you will have a nice invincible structure there - either an un-useable dispenser or a sentry tripod without a gun.

If you finish building before the timer runs out, you will crash the server. Whether or not this is good is up to you.

You can build as many tripods/fake dispensers as you want, just keep suiciding and repeating. I want someone to send me a picture of a freakin' huge ass roadblock of sentries and dispensers, I'll put it on the page and put the sender in the hall of fame.

Thnx Hades and LiXeN!

Also, you can also build things on top of each other, dead or alive. You can build sentries in the air by building an ammo dispenser next to a ramp or box and standing at the point where your feet are level with the top of the dispenser. The game will think the top of the dispenser is the ground and you can build a sentry. Then you can remove the dispenser and the top of the gun will stay in the air but the bottom part will fall to the ground, making a very funny-looking sentry.

Thnx 5oh!