Comments on: Why Team Fortress 2 needs a /dance command

By: ShadowDragoonFTW

ShadowDragoonFTW — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:40:02 +0000

Ah, at first I thought they were all Warcraft dances stolen. The Sniper does the Napoleon dance in almost the same timing as the Male Blood Elves do it in World of Warcraft. The Male Night Elves do a little bit of Michael Jackson, which I saw the Spy doing too, but only one or two of the same moves. Interesting, though.

By: ShadowDragoonFTW

ShadowDragoonFTW — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:38:31 +0000

That… that last one is just… so wrong…

By: merrickal

merrickal — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:57:05 +0000

Ha! I lol’ed through all of them, though the Napoleon dance had already been used by the Necromancer class in Guild Wars, it’s nice to see other dance moves being used by the other TF2 characters.

Love the spy dance, it looks more like Billie Jean to me tho…

By: PeterTechGuy

PeterTechGuy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:55:32 +0000

So, dance mode for TF2? :P

By: Tim Edwards

Tim Edwards — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:16:44 +0000

Added credit – and sent a PM, James.

By: james9475

james9475 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:46:27 +0000

Hey guys, cool to see my animations up here and I’m really glad you enjoyed them. There’s more to come!

P.S. If you read this Tim, I wouldn’t mind you crediting me (James Benson) rather than the steam forums as a whole!

Peace

By: dirt1996

dirt1996 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:02:04 +0000

Welll… I must say that the Heavy/medic one would be great for gay pride week… I think… wow 0_o

By: jonfitt

jonfitt — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:39:11 +0000

That brought tears to my eyes!

Those animators are seriously talented with an excellent grasp on linking dace movements to characters. Bravo!

Sadly I don’t know how they would easily work in game. How would lateral movement work? Have you noticed that all the taunts leave your character static. You can’t shimmy to the left when there’s a wall there. I can just see people using dancing to glitch through walls. They could set it so that if there’s no room you appear to slide in place, but I can just see people using it to find glitches.

Also, how would the Heavy Medic dance get triggered?

By: zombie1991

zombie1991 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:37:15 +0000

LMAO. My son’s and I had to watch each twice. Wow those were great. I was waiting for the demo to moon walk but when he “hammer timed”….OMG. Seeing the sniper do it was GREAT.

By: The_B

The_B — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:35:52 +0000

Hang on Tim, Man in The Mirror? I would have totally gone for Dirty Spy-ana – if we’re going for Jacko/spy puns.

By: Alfie

Alfie — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:01:48 +0000

I saw these a while ago and my jaw was like 4 inches from my head

By: Woodsey

Woodsey — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:19:55 +0000

The two teams need a dance off.

By: Lack 26

Lack 26 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:06:00 +0000

@MadPhysicist,

I know, mind you TF2 can teach you a lot about life. I reckon things should be run the Mann Co. way, if you feel ill and go to the doctors, they put on a boxing glove and punch you in the face till you man up and feel better. If you want to complain about working conditions, you go to the boss, they put on a boxing glove and punch you in the face till you man up and feel better about it. If you get a broken nose, you go to the hospital… oh you get the idea.

By: MadDam

MadDam — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:59:55 +0000

The Heavy/Medic animation is just wrong for all the right reasons.

By: Isamoth

Isamoth — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:54:31 +0000

i guess im not human

By: MadPhysicist

MadPhysicist — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:13:48 +0000

Who would have thought that TF2 would actually teach me dance moves?

By: Darktan

Darktan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:10:07 +0000

Bloody hell these are impressive. Surely still time to get these into the Engineer update?