Robotic Boogaloo

This article is for content released in the update. For the patch itself, see May 17, 2013 Patch.

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This update is 100% created by the TF2 community. And when we say everything, we mean everything—the in-game content, the update hub website, the animated short, the comic, even the splash images in the Steam store. Even better, everything you created avoided the classic trap of using other companies’ intellectual property. — TF2 Official Blog

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Robotic Boogaloo was a major content update for Team Fortress 2, released during the May 17, 2013 Patch. It was the first ever community-created update, with 57 different community-created cosmetics being added into the game. The 57 cosmetics added are robotic versions of ordinary TF2 cosmetics, spanning all classes. Along with this, 10 new robot-related Unusual effects, 4 new action items - the Battery Canteens, Pallet of Crates, Random RoboKey Gift and Pile of RoboKey Gifts - and one tool - the RoboCrate Key - were added to the game.

Additions

Cosmetic items

Main article: Cosmetic items

Action items

Main article: Action items

Tools

Main article: Tools

	Robo Community Crate
	Robo Community Crate Key

Unusual effects

Main article: Unusual effects

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  Anti-Freeze

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  Roboactive

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  Time Warp

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  Green Black Hole

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  Memory Leak

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  Overclocked

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  Power Surge

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  Electrostatic

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  Sulphurous

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  Phosphorous

Videos

This is the video that was released by MrPopulus89 on 17 May on YouTube and the TF2 website.

This is the earlier version of the video which was released 1 February with a few minor changes in the video.

Video Transcript

Transcript

[A crowbar pries open a crate.] [A Scout Robot is seen.] [It then shows a Football Helmet in the crate. ] [The Scout Robot picks the Football Helmet up, and rotates his head around.] [The Scout Robot turns, rotates his head back around, and begins to run.] [The Scout Robot runs past large piles of crates and a pile of hats consisting of Sober Stuntmans, Big Chiefs, Counterfeit Billycocks and more.] [The Scout Robot then approaches a circular mechanism in the center surrounded by piles of crates with four wires leading to it.] [The robot places the helmet on the pad, and covers his face] [The machine starts scanning the helmet. Then on the monitor it shows a blue thumbs up and slams a tube over it] [It begins to play an edited version of ROBOTS! (Soundtrack)] [Follows the tube which leads to four long conveyor belts with machines on either side of each of them] [Then we see the Gridiron Guardian being created by the mechanical arms] [The Gridiron Guardian then falls off the conveyor belt and lands on a Heavy] Heavy: "YES!" [nods] [A sign saying Team Fortress 2 then hits the Heavy in the face then the words Robotic Boogaloo hits him over]

Comparisons and Differences

• Both videos have large piles of hats, however the older version has more Ghastly Gibuses than anything else.
• More crates are seen in the older version.
• The newer version has four conveyors rather than one.
• The machine that scans the Football Helmet is more detailed in the newer version and has a blue thumbs up unlike the old green OK.
• In the older version, the Scout Robot uses a forked crowbar while in the newer version, it doesn't.
• The Football Helmet is seen in the crate in the new version, unlike the old version which shows it after the camera angle changes.
• More lighting effects and hay detail are in the new version.
• The newer version has more detail on the Football Helmet when robotizing it.
• In the newer version, The Gridiron Guardian falls straight onto the Heavy's head instead of panning down to see the Heavy then having The Gridiron Guardian fall down.
• In the older version, the "Team Fortress 2" logo hits the Heavy in the head twice instead of once before having "Robotic Boogaloo" appear.

Trivia

• The update's name is a reference to the 1985 film Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. It gained notoriety for being poorly reviewed by critics and as a box office flop compared to its successful predecessor the year before. The term "boogaloo" has entered the pop-culture lexicon as a pejorative nickname for unnecessary and unwanted sequels.
  • The name is also echoed in the Electric Badge-aloo, awarded to contributors to the update.
• On the Battlefield page, two of the Mecha-Engineers are named after famous cowboys:
  • Dell "Snake-in-my-boot-disk" Computagher is named after Dell Conagher, and his nickname is a reference to Sheriff Woody from the 1995 animated movie Toy Story. Dell is also the name of an electronics company.
  • The Syntax Kid is named after Harry Longabaugh, better known as "The Sundance Kid", an outlaw who thrived in the American Old West.

Gallery

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  Robotic Boogaloo Update Page.

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  Robotic Boogaloo Factory Page.

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  Robotic Boogaloo Battlefield Page.

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  Steam advertisement for the Robotic Boogaloo update.

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  In-game notification.

External links

• Robotic Boogaloo
• Factory Page
• Battlefield Page
• Artwork Gallery
• Credits