Tight corridors and low ceilings make it much more difficult for Scouts to dodge incoming enemy fire, especially blast damage.Scouts can drink Bonk! Atomic Punch to make themselves briefly immune to a sentry's ammo, but it only lasts for so long before it runs out. Combined with the Scout's small amount of health, sentries can lock onto and obliterate Scouts in the blink of an eye, even if it's a mini-sentry. While Scouts might be able to dodge most things the enemy throws at them, an Engineer's sentry gun is not one of them. The Scout was the fourth class to receive new equipment. His melee weapon is an aluminum baseball bat. Alternatively, the Scout can use a variety of special consumable (or throwable) drinks in his secondary weapon slot to buff himself. The Scout's arsenal includes the Scattergun, a lever-action double-barrel shotgun with excellent damage for close-up engagements, but must rely on his pistol to do more than Scratch Damage at ranges beyond shoving the barrel up the enemy's nose. Moreover, because he counts as two people when on map objectives such as the Payload cart or a Control Point, taking them is often a Scout's job. With a piddling 125HP but a staggering 133% base speed, a Scattergun capable of two shotting any class short of a Heavy, and the ability to Double Jump, he's a fragile but fast and powerful class who relies on agility and speed to outmaneuver his enemies and weave around their attacks, making him the ideal class for flanking and objective-pushing. The Scout is an Offense character with emphasis on lightning-fast combat. He coincidentally looks and sounds exactly like Vince Offer, and to some extent even has a similar personality. The Scout is canonically the youngest of eight brothers, son of a single mother, and grew up on the streets trying to pick fights alongside his siblings and thus had to learn to run fast to join the brawls first. Moreover, he's an obvious baseball fan, given his baseball cap, bat, and sports-themed accessories. A narcissistic braggart with an ego the size of the Soviet Union, Scout is always ready to hype himself up with overly-inflated praises and trash-talk his enemies. The Scout (real name Jeremy) is an American hailing from South Boston, but somehow has a Bronx accent. On May 16th, Twitter user posted fan art of Mimi-Sentry, garnering over 30,000 likes in a day (shown below).'You listenin'? Okay - grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, I hurt people.'

The character also became a prominent subject of fan art around the same time on sites including the /r/tf2 subreddit, DeviantArt and Twitter (examples shown below).

On May 12th, YouTuber Colonel Fanzipantzen posted an animation that gained over 142,000 views. On May 11th, YouTuber atsuover posted an SFM animation using the character model, garnering over 273,000 views in a week (shown below). On the same day, YouTuber annaberu posted an animation of Mimi-Sentry dancing to ' Out Of Touch,' also posting it to /r/tf2, garnering over 100,000 views and 2,900 upvotes, respectively, in 10 days (shown below). On May 7th, a Redditor on /r/tf2 made a post asking for members' opinions on the mod and sharing artwork made using it, garnering over 2,500 upvotes in 10 days. The model became increasingly prevalent online in May 2023 as people began creating further fan animation and art featuring the character.įor example, on April 18th, 2023, YouTuber NikoTak04 posted an SFM animation using the model that gained over 200,000 views in a month (shown below, left).

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