Army Combat Vet Reacts to The End of the Line (TF2 SFM)
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2021
- The End of the Line by McVee is a classic SFM from 2014. One of the few fan films for Team Fortress 2 that isn't a one person creation, it is the work of an entire team. It shows a pretty impressive level of detailed filmmaking and commitment!
Original Video is Here: • End of the Line [SFM]
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For a little context, this was made to accompany an in-game update event. So while it wasn't animated by Valve, it has a little bit more of an official "blessing" than the other fanmade SFMs on UA-cam, you can (almost) look at it in the context of the Meet the Team videos and Expiration Date
I think it was the other way around a bit
@@Hamantha Yeah you're right -- it did catch Valve's attention after it had already started being made, I just wanted to mention the special circumstances of it
I heard it was made in conjunction with Valve, using new cosmetics for the mercenaries that were being released with the update, along with the new map, although I could be wrong.
@@spamuel98 It did end up being made sort of in conjunction with Valve, yeah, but the cosmetics and map were also worked on by the End of the Line team, not Valve
It wasn't made as a tie-in until McVee was invited to VALVe headquarters
For a little insight on heavy's chess move at the start. He belives a leader should be on the frontlines and be an example. Thats why he uses the king, the ruler to attack first although its not a valid move in chess
Not a valid chess move? No wonder Medic isn't impressed.
@@chaoscontroller316 yeah heavy moved the king across 4 places AND through the pawns.
i wouldn't be happy either
That is actually really telling of his character oh my god. I didn’t realize until now!
That's... an interesting detail.
Damn I watched End of the line for a long time ago and just know this.
11:49
The Mercs are ALL extremely competent combatants. They may be lunatics, but at least they're dangerous, bizarrely effective ones.
Yeah, they all seem like they're jokesters, but in reality they were chosen for a reason - they were the best of the best in the badlands.
scouts entire tactic might be run forward, but he can aim a shogun, so uh yea.
@hueytran9691 also he runs insanely fast, he should be in the Olympics tbh
@@ManicObsevationsScout's "run forward" strategy is quite effective, as he is faster than most other people. The only class in TF2 that can keep up with him is another Scout.
@@richardkirkland6805 a really drunk and high demoman with a fancy sword from 1302
The red team wasnt in the winter. The blu team just had very poweful binoculars
With the blu team on top of a mountain.
How do they keep losing with that kind of binocular technology
@@laylaruan becuase they blu
@@laylaruan Builders Leage United is... idk
It is terrifying just how much momentum a speeding train can have, let alone one that's had time to build up speed while going downhill from a mountain *and* with the locomotive running at full-tilt. The shock from an impact against something it can't overcome almost certainly could, at least theoretically, throw the cars around in that manner... it just doesn't because that kind of force usually just causes the train to buckle under its own weight from the force, where it effectively disintegrates into itself or collapses like an accordion being closed.
And there's also the rail car loaded with anvils being at the end of the train probably contributed a lot of additional impact value...
And that last must had planned by blue so that the train could even faster if the last wagon was detach by red
@@MidnightDStroyer That last car was disconnected quite a while ago, hence why it came in so late.
@@syweb2 I know that. Scout disconnected it, albeit accidentally. It was the fact that it was full of anvils is what I was talking about...Last car, full of anvils. Regardless of whether the Payload exploded or not, the anvils were probably intended to act as additional impact, or perhaps as an insult after the injury.
For your confusion on which class is which (the confident soldier or heavy question), look at the shoulder of the character, they have unique badges to signify who they are:
Rocket: Soldier
Fist: Heavy
Bomb: Demoman
Fire decal: Pyro
Medical: Medic
Hermes Shoe: Scout
Crosshair: Sniper
(Spy doesnt have one, but he is signified with a knife anyway)
Wrench: Engineer.
Spy don't even have a class picture. That's why he is a spy, unknown, invisible, secret, and mysterious pro-spy.
@@practicalproblemsolver1667 The earlier variants of spy had the armbands with the badges though
One thing to understand about the TF2 mercenaries is that they may all be quirky buffoons, theyre neither incompetent nor unintelligent (except soldier and to some extent scout)
and all of them are good at what they do, otherwise the Mann brothers never would have hired them
Well, that & the fact that they're among the very few people that are "sturdy" enough to survive the Respawn procedures (Emesis Blue).
@@MidnightDStroyer Emesis Blue is not canon.
When heavy stood in front of the train, he was ready to die to protect his comrades and the civilians
In regards to the train cars flying through the air, bear in mind that was a train moving as fast along the tracks as it possibly could, coming to a complete stop in like, 3 seconds, losing the majority of its speed instantly due to the impact. That puts tremendous force on the entire length of the train, and trains aren’t solid along their entire length.
He's really analyzing Pyros art right now.
Keep doing what you're doin', man. This is good stuff.
"in canon they're all idiots"... Heavy canonically has a phd in russian literature, enginieer has 11 phds in "hard science", the medic "had" a medical license. i mean one third isnt really all of them but they all aren't idiots.
They're all incredibly intelligent, except for Soldier, who literally has brain damage thanks to drinking leaded water.
One thing that is often misunderstood about Heavy. He isn't dumb... just slow. (Almost as if there is an intentional joke there... Also... "He isn't dumb..." is a direct quote from his description.)
Using "Vet" as the short version for "Veteran" has me confused at first, thought you meant Vet like Combat Veterinarian, which very much did and do exist
*cough veterinarian *cough
well, considering that dogs and horses were used in battle, it makes sense.
the dog war 2
They still have dogs in the military, right?
@@spandanganguli6903 police have dogs. why not the military?
3:50 This is the kind of insider perspective we come to this channel for lmao
11:35 Land Rover from the 60s would not move that fast even on a downhill.
But at 15:15 the Land Rover was supposed to be the British Equivalent of the Jeep, or a more superior and updated version of it, so the wheel hubs are definitely gonna keep the wheel on there even with a camper back and 1970s-80s aftermarket parts.
love how sniper clutches
Plot engine
It's also the same mobile camper that Sniper was driving in "Meet the Sniper." To consider it as it's likely to be heavily modified (without *looking* like it on the outside) would probably be a good guess.
I love how they're enemies but they still have a perfect railway connection to each other's base of operations
Thats what i thought😂
Well, they *are* they're own worst enemies...They're literally fighting against clones(?) of themselves on a daily basis.
What? You don't think they would have noticed that by now?
Losing most of your body heat through your head has actually been proven false, in the original test where the myth originated from they put soldiers in a winter environment with proper covering on everything but the head. As a result, most of the heat was lost through the head as it was the only part of their bodies that was exposed. How you lose body heat depends on the surface area that is exposed.
Now that you've seen this video, you should play on the map that goes with it - Snowplow (a control points map with a train that is technically a payload). It's in the "alternative game modes".
And the map is multi-stage. Beginning is snowy and wintery while the second is bright and sunny. I like the look of the map but the way you go about the objective tends to be a little confusing considering the usual format of Attack/Defend game types and Payload.
good luck finding an actual server for it tho
@@portal7910 If enough people joins in when he plays the game then it'll be fine. Unsure the number of people he ends up playing with in his streams.
Snowplow is honestly one of my favourite alternative games. Really wish more people played it!
I think the Sniper scoping was suppose to be him Scouting the area with his sniper rifle, but either way, he does shoot while standing with a sniper rifle.
The camper is actually Sniper's. It's shown in his Meet the Team video and referenced frequently in fanmade videos like this.
"Heavy is gonna discover the thing they need to stop the train"
Well yes, but actually no.
1:15
Those were RED Medic, Heavy and Demoman.
And there was no heavy snowy weather where they were.
Thus, no winter wear.
keep in mind: heavy is quite strong and quite durable. he wrestled a bear. and the beam the medic shot at him buffed his durability even furthur
MHGR reaction to tf2 vids in a nutshell;
90% pausing
20% watching peacefully
50% talking
Fun fact: In the TF2 Canon, Heavy is actually one of the more intelligent mercs, holding a PHD in Russian Literature, and the Engineer is the proud owner of 11 "Hard Science" PHD's
Train: *is out of control*
Red team: *tries to stop it*
MHGR: *shows no reaction*
7:05 Sniper is supposed to be one of the best marksman ever so he doesn't need to steady himself with objects that often
Not to mention, TF2 was originally set during the kind of era where chicken winging was one of the more popular shooting stances so it makes sense that Sniper would use it.
@@odinlindeberg4624 yeah isn't it set in 50s and 60s
@@rivetRnC it’s set between 1969 to 1972
@@therobotengineer9834 right right thnks
Thank you for reacting to end of the line!
You see, there's two ways of looking at this chess scene right here, the obvious one is9:30 "Haha, Heavy dumb, he don't know how to chess works", but also notice how he used his King. The most important part of the board to save his pawns from being attacked. This shows us that Heavy would put himself in danger to save his friends, so he's generally selfless. Which would align amazingly with his sacrifice at the end. Where he volunteers [21:45] himself to stand in the trail tracks to slow down the train as much as possible. It wasn't until this points that Medic understands what his move meant. Then he swoops in with an Ubercharge to help Heavy stop the train aswell. [23:20] [25:13]
Still waiting on one of the first great fan made SFMs, 'practical problems'.
ooh that one brings back so many memories!
memories of a time when Valve hadnt forgotten about TF2... :c
Didn't that one use actual motion tracking?
@@noblehatterviolet So did End of the Line, in some spots, I think. At any rate, they were both produced by James McVinnie.
Yes
also, "Story of a sentry" and "Lil Guardian Pyro"
7:00 each Australian have there own biological physics field, so they can shoot how ever they please
Sniper is a Newzealander, not an Australian.
Fun fact regarding the subject of mountains and their effect on weather: The presence of mountains can actually block rain-carrying clouds, causing the areas downwind to become deserts.
Alright MHGR, I'd just LOVE to see you try to break down a Smexual, HA
also still recommending Fawful's Minion TF2 Retrospective
That would be fun…
4:09 I love that he's giving a little bit of critique on the Pyro's bit of graffiti art there. XD
Fun fact: Heavy has a PhD in Russian literature.
Counterpoint on Sniper's posture
He's from the country that turned into atlantis, grew up in Australia which has Australium, and he's an expert mercenary, he can do it.
The train had still fully working engine and demo just blew the cockpit so that red couldn't simply pull the stop lever
I'd recommend you watch a classsic "Cow Eating Contest"
Charming
Watch "Agent Gunn." It's probably the highest-quality SFM made to-date, at leas from an animation perspective.
That's a great one. Would love to see his breakdown
And then i thought:why not just take a car, take some of the explosives, exchange few meters of rail for not getting your entire base get blown off
End of The Line, such a classic
this whole excellent valve supported animation for a few cosmetic items and a single game mode and map that valve removed from circulation for "being too confusing to new players" despite it just being a form of time limited control point.
Please watch voice over of the TF2 comics done by The Beard, THEY'RE SO GOOD
(theres different types of tf2 comics)
*TF Comics* _(pretty much lore and a more realistic team fortress 2 universe)_
*Update Comics* _(Comics made for updates, who would've guessed)_
*Saxton Series* _(Saxton Hale is cool enough to have his own series)_
The Ben paddock comic dub is better!
I watched both of 'em and can't remember wich one was the better one
23:00
Trains can actually move fast enough to turn railcars into missiles! The Hinton train disaster in Canada had one of the tanker cars go flying through the air as a result of the crash and the cars' momentum behind it.
Yo somebody needs to get this guy to react to pootis engage
Heck yes!
Those reds at the beginning are not in the snowstorm as the blues are.
The sniper was probably suing his scope as a form of binoculars.
The Winnebago is Sniper's personal vehicle.
And that was way over dramatic of a train wreck and poor sniper.
I've seen a few reaction videos to this one & there's one thing that no one has mentioned...We all saw Pyro's paint job on the side of the shipping container, but no one seemed to point out that this was the same container that had all of the rubber duckies. This much is confirmed shortly before Scout disarmed the payload; Pyro's duckies were in the first container behind Heavy's both back in the Blue base & again when Scout was aboard the train. The duckies were right behind the payload, so that's how the duckies got so badly burned.
I'm fairly certain that other people figured that out but I haven't seen anyone else mention it before me.
After Heavy climbed out from under the wreckage, he demonstrates his prowess in Jujutsu on the Spy, which can be defined as "Involuntary Yoga" or "The gentle Art of folding clothes while someone is still wearing them."
Let us take a moment to appreciate that this video ended with a cliff-hanger...For Sniper, it's literal.
I like how the sniper drives a series 1 Land Rover
My two propositions:
1. Pootis engage - really great TF2 SFM video
2. The other TF2 game - Titanfall 2
Very futuristic FPS that makes me curious what your commentary would be :)
16:21 uh, actually no, he’s actually gonna be part of an AWESOME SCENE!!
Fun fact about denying use of rails to enemy combatants: I believe during the American Civil War and WW1, armies would basically create these heavy plows that they'd attach to locomotives and drive them backwards as they retreat through an area. The plows would obliterate the ties connecting the rails together after the locomotive passed over them, rendering the track entirely unusable at a fast rate. It lacked the subtlety of simply removing the spikes, but for denial of service it was undoubtedly effective.
Oh it definitely could if it was sent hurtling down a mountain with zero brakes. The weight of it combined with the downhill movement would lead to some fucking scary momentum.
Love you man! Every time I watch your videos, here is almost 1 am, but I enjoy them anyway while eating some midnight snacks
The dynamite is also a reference to the original concept shown in the 1st trailer for demo man.
ive been waiting for this, thank you
The Sniper wasn't aiming to shoot, he was aiming to scout. You see it all the time in movies with characters using a long range scope to see something in the distance.
I love how he gives commentary on Pyro's art on the train
Half right, the train launching itself would not happen on flat track but going from say 9000 ft elevation to 2000 means it has a lot of time to pick up the speed to crash like that, plus a large main line diesel locomotive can get going at 90 mph so a train going down a 2 percent grade it could potentially get well over 120 mph. For good examples look up cajon pass runaways, 3 in total and one demolished a neighborhood much like that train did to the red team's base.
"They're all idiots"
Heavy-PHD in Russian literature
Engineer- built a teleporter and life expanding machine
Just curious, What happened to your mic? You sound like you're underwater now lmao
End of the line was the bast movie ever
Ah yes the BAST video
Here's my gripe with the End of the Line short, when scout accidentally decopoled the boxcar with anvils the brakes should have locked up because the brake lines are pressurized and the pressure keeps the brakes open and because of that the wheels should have locked up and I know that the train is on a mountain when that happens and like you sayed in the video it was picking up speed down the mountain but "it should keep its speed somewhat" but here's the thing yes trains have low friction between the wheels and the track (less the your finger and a peace of glass in fact) but since that's the case as the train slides down the track the wheels should be becoming flat which means more friction which means it slowdowns more and by the time it reaches the base of the mountain it should have stop or slowdown significantly, or scout could get to the back of the train open the brake line that way PS. I know they did that for the sake of story telling and if I got any of my facts wrong please let me know and be civil please
Perhaps the BLU sabotaged the brakes and other emergency mechanisms to deliberately turn it into a weapon on train tracks?
Counterpoint, why tf would BLU leave that mechanism in place when they fucked up the front of the train to make it impossible to just do the lever that makes it stop
@thymii and @G80GZTGood point didn't think of that thank you.
My dad has worked on the railway, and train brakes actually work opposite of trucks. They actually require pressure to CLOSE the brakes, so a loss of pressure during braking would actually open them.
For example, if you remember the fatality that happened on CP Rail a few years back in BC, that train had been sitting for two hours, without the handbrakes on, and the brakes were stuck OPEN due to a loss of pressure. And since that pressure hadn’t been built back up, the crew was unable to activate the brakes to stop the train, resulting in a derail and their untimely deaths.
Yea, with this type of train, it would be pressure to apply the brakes. Throughout the train, theres a pipe called the 'train brake pipe', this carries air through the whole train. When the driver reduces pressure in this pipe, an air tank on each car lets air into the brake cylinder through whats called a triple valve. More pressure taken out of the train brake pipe, the more pressure is applied to the wheels. If this line was broken, the air would escape and the brakes would come hard on. However the wheels would NOT lock up, rather the train would slow down to a stop. When scout uncouples that car, you can hear a hissing sound as the brake pipe broke, this means there is continuous air running through the train. However, I'd say BLU is smart enough to isolate the brakes on each car to keep it rolling if this were to happen. You're able to isolate brakes on each individual car if the brakes happen to be defective, I've done this myself once to one car in a train (which is the maximum allowed by our safety guidelines). If Scout wanted to stop the train without derailing and without air, he'd be able to apply the handbrakes but that would take a lot of time and the strength of each handbrake depended on how hard scout applied it.
As far as the comics Canon at least, all the mercs are the bottom of the barrel, last resort sort, but as dumb as they may be, they are just competent and lucky enough to always win. Which, considering the founder of Mann Co....honestly just fits.
Sad thing is, this could of, could of been an amazing update for Team Fortress 2, with how cool/amazing the film 🎥 and animation was done. However Valve was like, ehhhhhh no, let’s make this shit.
Im pretty sure its been proven that the head loses less warmth than the body over time
Fun fact, during WWII the US did work on developing a pigeon guided missile for targeting ships. The project was even revived after the war before being cancelled once microchips reached the point of being usable for that purpose.
Fun fact: The pigeon bomb is an easter egg in one of the tf2 maps (thunder mountain?)
I think it's cp_snowplow. It's suppose to be added in the End of the Line update, however it ended up being cut from the update due to the map being "too confusing for new players," which is where that meme originally started. If I remembered correctly, it was finally added to the game again in the Gun Mettle update as it's own separate gamemode.
@@_freezingfrost_6515 oh ok thanks i was probably thinking of another easter egg
Heavy actually has a PhD
The mercs aren't as dumb as they are just raw crazy
As always, nice video!!
The Snowplow map in the game is based on that cinematic, is a bit confusing, but you should try.
You'd be surprised how violent train crashes can actually be.
i like how the cat didnt give a fuck when the railcar with anvils stoppe inches away from it
I liked The moment you saw pyros painting you gave it a tactical opinion, explaining what you liked about it.
i am once again asking for your ~financial support~ reaction to rimmy downunder's arma 3 videos. Airborne Guardsman Land Hotter than D-Day is a good one to start with
Day # (I lost count) of recommending Krunkidile's "Team Service Announcement" series
And that is from where the map cp_snowplow begins. The BLU base burning in the background.
Canonically speaking, none of the mercenaries save Soldier are actually idiots. Heavy acts pretty simple, but he has a bachelor's degree in Russian Literature, Spy is basically French James Bond, the Medic is still an accomplished doctor, license or not (remember, he stole a patient's skeleton, and they STILL WOKE UP), Engineer is, well, an engineer capable of constructing automated defense turrets, Demoman makes and fires his own explosives, all while drunk and somehow not killing himself ("One wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch, and KABLOOEY!"), Sniper is a cold and calculating hitman with great respect for his own workmanship, Pyro is... well, either majorly psychotic, on LSD constantly, or being tricked into fighting by his goggles actually making him see those little girl fantasy visions, nobody seems sure on that one. Scout is basically a kid from Boston, so not the brightest bulb in the box, but not a complete idiot either. Soldier, on the other hand, has always been a harebrained idiot, and has only been getting worse since joining the mercenaries' war because he refuses to drink bottled water like everyone else, and instead continues drinking lead-contaminated tap water from the lands they're fighting over.
the whole "you loose most of your body heat through your head" is actually a misinterpretation of the experiment, you loose the most heat through exposed skin the head is just the easiest thing to uncover
Please read the comics or listen to the great dub. You'll find some interesting and hilarious character moments. Heavy not actually being a moron and being intelligent and competant. Sniper's thoughts about his job. Pyro having a sucessful company. Murdering bears. A lot of neck snapping. Tom Jones. Baboons.
Fun fact Uber charge only makes the skin indestructible how ever your insides can still be crushed
Does it though? Ubered mercs can shrug off bullets and melee strikes to the head no problem.
@@ScampiTheSighted think of it like this they can be hit by trains and smashed by giant hammers and die while ubered the reason why when they are ubered and get hit it bounces of unless it explodes
@@therobotfish6715 I don't think there's a lore explanation for what can and can't kill you while ubered, only a gameplay one. You can fall from an insane height and take zero damage, but also fall from a tiny height and instantly die because it's meant to be an out-of-bounds areas and the mapmaker put a trigger_hurt at the bottom.
@@ScampiTheSighted good point
Well, it was traveling down a mountain slope for a while. That would generally build a shit load of momentum.
why do i feel like MHGR takes a sip in every 30 seconds in this vid
You didn't react at all to the fact that they actually used the secret pigeon bomb shown earlier.
27:32
The pidgons here are carrying a bomb, as in the earlier scene where solider is planning the train attack, there seems to be a plan for a pidgon bomb, so this is a backup plan I suppose.
He doesn’t know soldier from the heavy. He doesn’t have the qualifications to react to the end of the line Sfm
So the idea that humans lose 90 percent of their heat through the head is a misunderstanding of the actual study. In the 1950's the US Army wanted to test cold weather gear and set up a test where soldiers stood outside in full cold weather gear minus any headwear and pointed a thermal camera at said soldiers. They equipment was 90 percent effective compared to the uncovered head and over the years the story mutated into losing 90 percent of all body heat through the head
for the longest time i thought end of the line was
an offical tf2 film
Actually, flying train cars are very common in high-speed rail accidents
So a combat veteran is really going into tf2, even though like cod and other game's had better graphics... The community salute you
And I like how there are still no sniper mains angry at his "Little lecture"
Unless I am crazy, he did acknowledge the #1 sniper and #2 sniper mugs
Sniper is not a normal human, none of the mercs are. If Scout can hit a bear into a mountain, Sniper can shoot while standing
Hey MHGR, I suggest reacting to one of Soundsmith's Monthly Meatloaf videos or Stereotypes, he's a uhh.. Soldier main guy with a funni shovel
The train was probably moving at 90 mph.
he should react to those l4d2 sfms series by Beejie Bean that takes place from dead center to the passing
Fun fact, Uber charge only makes the mercenaries invincible, not stronger, meaning Heavy is strong enough to derail an entire train.
No, an entire *Demolition convoy of trains*
i know i'm a year too late but at 11:59 you say they are all idiots, but heavy is actually one of the smartest person in the team, he is very litterate and kindhearted,he even use most of his money from being a mercenary to take care of his mother and sisters all by himself. Of course engi, spy and sniper are also pretty smarts in their own right but in the game they are dumbified for the appeal mostly.
23.00 at this point, they might as well have let it explode
Paul looks like captain Price with that moustache
I've never been good at chess. The only way I've been able to win is by clearing as many pieces as possible while protecting the king and rooks, then use my rooks to force the king back.
If you want a little help, the icons on the sleeve tell the class