Projectiles

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In Team Fortress 2, certain weapons fire projectiles. Projectiles, unlike hitscan bullets, do not travel instantaneously across the map but rather at a preset speed and often subject to engine physics. This speed also differs between the weapons used to launch the projectile. Projectiles are not affected by Lag compensation, likely due to technical limitations surrounding the engine's physics applied on projectiles.

The Compression Blast ability of the Flamethrower and Degreaser can reflect all projectiles save for the syringe. Once reflected they will switch ownership to the Pyro whom reflected the projectile (unless said projectile is a stickybomb -- they are simply rolled on the ground when blasted), and deal Mini-Crit damage on enemies they hit. In addition, when colliding mid-air some projectiles may deflect opposing ones, or destroy them completely.

Projectiles

Projectile	Rocket	Grenade	Stickybomb	Arrow	Jarate	Baseball	Flare	Syringe	Mad Milk
Speed (Approximate)	RL: 1100 U/s DH: 1980 U/s SG: Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	1875 U/s	Unknown	1940 U/s	1450 U/s	Unknown	Unknown
Arcs	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reflected by	Compression blast	Compression blast Baseballs	Compression blast	Compression blast	Compression blast Baseballs	Compression blast The Bat or Sandman	Compression blast	Unknown	Compression blast
Destroyed by	Arrows*	Unknown	Bullets** Stickybombs (Scottish Resistance)	Arrows	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

*Destruction of Sentry Rockets is unknown

**Only after attaching to a surface

Hit Boxes

The hitboxes used for projectile weapons differ from those used for hitscan ones. Whereas the hitscan ones consist of several small rectangulars "wrapped" tightly around each class's model, the hitboxes for projectile weapons are larger, and consist of only one box that covers both the model and some of the space surrounding it. This is the reason why seemingly failed shots from projectile weapons (e.g. Huntsman) end up hitting their target.