Birthday mode

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The Soldier on birthdays

Birthday mode, also sometimes called party mode, is a server mode that enables various "silly gibs" to be used alongside the normal gibs. It is automatically activated on August 24, the release date of the original Team Fortress in 1996. It can manually be enabled on servers by using the setting tf_birthday 1 in the server.cfg file.

Many of the gibs seen in this mode are used in the low-violence version of the game as full-time replacements. A beach ball appears in BLU's spawn room at the beginning of the round and may be propelled by most attacks and the Pyro's compression blast. Health kits are replaced with birthday cakes and ammo packs are wrapped with a bow in a style similar to a present.

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Changes

Prior to the August 23, 2011 Patch, birthday mode would automatically draw a Party Hat on top of the classes' heads. This has been moved to its own item that can be chosen like other hats. This prevents a number of clipping issues the Party Hat had with non-default hats.

During that time, birthday mode completely disabled the use of violent gibs, and blood was replaced by balloon particles. Some violent gibs are now spawned along with presents and other silly gibs.

Scoring a crit used to play a cheering sound effect rather than the normal crit impact sound. This has now been moved to the TF Birthday Noise Maker.

Birthday Gallery

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Gibs

Main article: Silly gibs

Birthday mode uses both the normal gibs and silly gibs that low-violence versions of Team Fortress 2 use.

Promotion Gallery

Update history

August 20, 2010 Patch

August 23, 2011 Patch

August 23, 2012 Patch

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