And for those that weren't implemented into the game, they live on in the Advanced Weaponiser mod.The Spy's Dead Ringer (cloak and leave behind a corpse) was actually programmed in on some fan-altered servers before Valve implemented the idea into the regular game. The most requested ones were the Heavy's Sandvich and the Scout's Bonk! Atomic Punch. Before the Huntsman was released, there had been a 40+ page thread discussing a bow and arrow for the Sniper on the official forums. Many of the expansion items were suggested by fans.

And now Makani even works for Valve, doing comics/'Choose A Game Mode' illustrations for Team Fortress 2, working on the science fair posters for Portal 2, and drawing all of the Steam Summer Sale front page illustrations for 2011. This popular fanart of the Administrator ended up strongly influencing her official appearance (as revealed in this comic as The Administrator and foreshadowed two months prior with this image of The Clan that everything in the game traces its lineage back to).The Scream Fortress 6 map, Carnival of Carnage, has a bumper car minigame after completing a round, which uses a better version of the percent-damage knockback system from the Super Smash Bros.The boss also utilizes a form of the famous Prop-hunt mod. In the Scream Fortress 4 update, several randomized map effects were added, including no gravity, high jump, and extra speed, which were all fairly popular server mods.Snakewater was a popular Control Point map for competitive matches long before being added into the game proper.Quite a few of the new weapons use models contributed by the community, along with a few of the theories regarding the Administrator being made official (along with a fan artist who drew her most popular image getting hired by Valve).It's an official Valve-made sequel to an official Valve-made sequel to a Quake mod.He came up with Saxton Hale's voice based on many of the locals he met while vacationing there. Actor-Inspired Element: JB Blanc had relatives in Australia, and so frequently travelled to the northern parts of the country to visit them.The normal version of Sunshine didn't make its appearance in the base game until half a year later in the Meet Your Match update. Adaptation First: Sunshine, a community-made map, was first introduced to the game as a 2015 Halloween variation, Sinshine.He also voiced both Engineer and Soldier (for at least one line) in 'Expiration Date'. Nolan North voices Redmond, Blutarch, and Zepheniah Mann in the Helltower map, as well as Merasmus and the Bombinomicon on other Halloween maps.Dennis Bateman, who hails from Seattle, voices the French Spy and the mumbling Pyro.The Husky Russkie Heavy and Scottish Demoman are both voiced by New York native Gary Schwartz.Actor Allusion: The Administrator's 'Don't disappoint me.'.

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