It took 17 years, however Valve has lastly mounted the Scout’s pants as a part of an replace for Workforce Fortress 2 that rolled out Thursday. The repair has been broadly celebrated by the TF2 neighborhood, which has quietly suffered with incorrectly coloured trousers for years whereas enjoying because the BLU Scout.
Workforce Fortress 2’s solid of characters sport a RED or BLU shade scheme. On the RED aspect, characters’ pants are purple, brown, or someplace in between. On the BLU aspect, except the Scout for the previous 17 years, characters’ pants are shades of blue or grey. As of Thursday’s replace, the BLU aspect now enjoys a constant and on-brand blue hue from the waist down.
“Lastly, they turned on that photoshop layer,” defined one other participant.
A video from Workforce Fortress YouTuber shounic posted in 2023 defined how the Scout’s bugged-out bottoms could have come to be. It seems to have been an oversight associated to a PhotoShop layer (therefore the Reddit remark) that gave the BLU Scout the identical pants because the RED Scout.
As shounic factors out, BLU Scout has been proven sporting blue-colored pants in loads of official screenshots, promotional supplies, comics, and even in-game, however solely within the PlayStation 3 model of Workforce Fortress 2, included in The Orange Field assortment. The Steam model has had the mistaken pants this complete time. Hell, even Valve’s Meet the Spy video from 2009 received it mistaken.
The saga of BLU Scout’s slacks isn’t over, although. As many Workforce Fortress 2 gamers have identified, different cosmetics for BLU Scout nonetheless have the mistaken shade. The Blizzard Britches and Mann vs. Machine robotic pores and skin for the BLU Scout haven’t but been mounted. We could also be in for an additional 17-year wait till TF2 is totally, actually playable.
It’s not clear why Valve lastly determined to replace the Scout’s pants, and the way a lot growth effort was required to drag this off. However epicgamejourney has reached out to Valve for remark and can replace when the developer responds.
