Handy Pardner
 | “Ok guys, bad news: we lost that last one.” This article documents experimental content for Team Fortress 2. It may contain speculation, broken links or errors. |
| “ | Built by Engineers for Engineers.
— Handy Pardner publicity blurb
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The Handy Pardner is a community-contributed, unused experimental PDA for the Engineer that was being play-tested by Valve. It is a PDA used to build the Mini-Dispenser, which itself is an experimental building that has not yet made it into the game. It appears to be a gray blocky device with a computer screen and three buttons, displaying a team-colored command-line interface filled with various commands and random text.
The backpack icons, model, and textures for the Handy Pardner were accidentally leaked in the Jungle Inferno Update. Based on the patch diff for the update, it appears that when Valve migrated some weapons and cosmetics over to the tf\models\workshop directory from their original directories (tf\models\player\items, tf\models\weapons\c_models), they accidentally migrated some "staging build" (in-dev) Workshop content they were testing at the time (if not for the past two years) and pushed it in the update.
The Handy Pardner was contributed to the Steam Workshop.
Command-line text
Note: This is an approximate transcription of the apparent text in the team-colored screen:
./buildings/mco/pda
Kernel PDA2.v2.8
Checking for updates...
aconet/updates/updt.mco -upt v3
ERROR:Argument "v3" is invalid.
./eng/blds/stlbld.mco
BUILT: [random text]
ERROR: [random text]
WARNING: [long random text]
MSG[x]: [random text]
WARNING: [random text]
MSG[spda58]: [longest random text]
Update history
October 20, 2017 Patch (Jungle Inferno Update Patch 1)
- [Undocumented] Files for the Handy Pardner were added to the game.
Unknown
- [Undocumented] Files for the Handy Pardner were removed from the game.
Trivia
- In the apparent screen text, the
.mcofile type is in real life associated with Windows Live Messenger, associated with Adobe Flash-like animations.
Gallery
Backpack icon
BLU skin
First person view (RED)
First person view (BLU)
First person view (RED, Gunslinger equipped)
First person view (BLU, Gunslinger equipped)
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