Unused Sounds

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Unused Sound Effects#

Scout#

Bonk! Atomic Punch#

It seems that after the Scout were to drink Bonk, he would've had a sound accompany the invincible effect. The sound also lasts as long as the original duration of Bonk used to last for (6 seconds).

On top of this, there are related sounds to Scout crushing and throwing the can of Bonk. The can crushing sound was retroactively reused for Scout's variant of the [https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Cheers! Cheers!] taunt.

Wrap Assassin#

Similar to the Sandman, it appears that the Wrap Assassin was going to have a sound when you hit a moonshot with it as well.

Jumping Sounds#

It also appears that Scout had other jumping sounds planned to be used for him.

Fan o' War#

Hidden in the folder for Half-Zatoichi's sounds, there lay three files related to marking someone for death, presumably meant for the Fan o' War which was added in the same update.

Soldier#

Air Strike#

The Air Strike has a unique unused sound for when a critical rocket is fired. Currently, it uses the Stock Rocket Launcher's critical fire sound.

Cow Mangler 5000#

There are many unused sounds for the Cow Mangler 5000, the bulk of them being alternate explosion sounds.

Righteous Bison#

Similarly to the Cow Mangler 5000, the Righteous Bison also has an unused idle sound. It also has another unused sound for firing.

Pyro#

Rainblower#

An unused rainblower sound hints that there originally was a different sound for when you were ignited on fire while in Pyroland.

Flare Gun#

There exists an unusually long sound for when a flare impacts a Sentry. It might have been planned to cut off with the building dying, but this still doesn't explain why it's so long.

Demoman#

Iron Bomber#

Similar to the Air Strike's missing sound, the Iron Bomber has unused explode sounds that were included on its inclusion in TF2. Despite this, the Iron Bomber is set to use the Air Strike's explosion sounds instead.

Grenade Launcher Drum Stop#

Demoman was intended to have a sound play for when the Grenade Launcher's drum would stop spinning. Despite being in the game since launch, it has never been implemented, with it never being called by the animation.

Loch-n-Load Dud#

The Loch-n-Load was intended to have a unique sound for when the pill shattered on a surface. By default, it uses the grenade impact sounds.

Sword Draw Sound#

Demoman also has an unused sound for when he draws one of his many swords. Instead of using this, he uses the Machete drawing sound, being the same sound that weapons like the Sniper's Kukri use.

Heavy#

Killing Gloves of Boxing#

The Killing Gloves of Boxing have many unused sounds. Such as a unique definition of gaining crits, being a shorter version of the weapon_crit_charged_on sound used by the Kritzkrieg.

The K.G.B. also has 3 unused sounds for when it swings while crit boosted. By default, it uses the Fist's crit sound.

Engineer#

Recon#

Added with the Engineer update, this is likely a remnant of a scrapped Engineer building. According to the April 21st, 2020 codebase leak, this sound was also supposed to play in Mann vs Machine mode when Spy reveals cloaked Robot Spies.

Rescue Ranger Charge and Teleport Sounds#

The Rescue Ranger has two categories of unused sounds. The first one relating to a charge of some kind.

The second category being related to teleporting buildings. The first set is for when you the buildings teleport to you, which uses stock teleporter sounds by default.

The second set hints at a scrapped feature, being able to place buildings from far away. This feature obviously had unused sounds that accompany it.

Widowmaker Cocking Sounds#

The Widowmaker has unused sounds related to it cocking. Since the Widowmaker does not have a pump, it went unused.

Wrangler#

The Wrangler has an unused sound for when either it's laser or bullet's could pass through someone.

Sniper#

Machina Reload#

The Machina has unused reload sounds for both First Person. By default, it uses the stock Sniper Rifles variants, like other rifles. However, It cannot be changed in a similar way to other unused sounds like the Iron Bomber and Air Strike. The thirdperson reload actually works as intended, meaning that these sounds are partially used, just not in their intended way.

Spy#

Sharp Dresser Backstab Sound#

The Spy has an unused sound for when the Sharp Dress backstabs someone. Like other issues similar, this is just never called in the animation.

Spy-Cicle Deploy Sound#

Similar to the Demoman, the Spy has a sound that's supposed to play for when he deploys the Spy-Cicle. Because of how animations are set up, this would enable it for most knives, excluding stock, the Sharp Dresser, and all-class melee weapons.

Mann Vs. Machine#

Expiring Money#

The credits that can be picked up in this gamemode have a rather goofy corresponding sound for disappearing, yet it is not played in-game.

"Mothership Loop"#

Not much can be deduced from this eerie hum other than the name of the file itself. This was used on the first day of MvM. This sound was later used on koth_probed for when the UFO approaches the control point.

Engineer-bot's Teleporter Activated#

An unused sound is present in the game's files related to an Engineer-bot's teleporter being activated. But this is never used in-game.

Unused MVM Siren#

There is an unused siren in the game's files that resemble an air raid siren. This could've been planned to be used with the mothership loop to indicate an air raid approaching.

Unused Tank Siren#

There is an unused tank siren/ping that could've played. It was potentially unused by being too harsh of a sound.

MVM Fall Damage Sounds#

There are unused sounds for when, presumably a robot, takes fall damage in MVM.

MVM Giant Robot Footstep Sounds#

It appears that all giant robots in MVM would have had unique footsteps depending on the class. Despite all playing the same footstep sounds, that being giant_common, their separate functionalities all remain, simply all just calling the giant common footsteps.

Coaching - Student Death#

A mournful trumpet sound clip for when the student you are coaching dies. Unused for some reason.

Noise Makers#

The noises that the unused noisemakers Spooky and Prayer Bowl were going to make are left in the game files, however, the sound for Yell isn't. At least one of the "prayer bowl" sounds are used on koth_suijin if a player hits one of the gongs in their spawn room.

HUD/UI sounds#

Buff On/Off Sounds#

Originally, there were sounds that were intended to play for when you leave and enter a Soldier with their buff active.

Retired Trading Sounds#

These were sounds that were cut when TF2's way of trading moved to Steam instead of being handled in-game. Since then, they've remain unused.

Unused Killstreak Sounds#

In the files, there lie multiple unused killstreak sounds for weapons. Weirdly enough, they have a tiering system attached to them, as well as sounds attached to getting a kill while in the tier, and dying after reaching a certain tier. Due to this tier-based system of sounds, some have speculated that this could have been tied to the Vaccinator in someway.

Tier 1:

Tier 2: Weirdly enough, Tier 2 has no death sound and 2 kill sounds left in the files.

Tier 3:

Tier 4:

Unused Map-Specific Sounds#

rd_asteroid#

rd_asteroid has a few unused sounds from when it was being developed. One of these being an alarm, potentially for when the enemy steals your teams reactor core.

cp_degrootkeep#

cp_degrootkeep has an unused music cue for when the castle gate leading to C is closed.

Unused Mannpower Powerups#

Uber Powerup#

There is remnants of the scrapped "Uber" powerup that could've been used in Mannpower, even seen in the early beta of it. Alongside it's model, it has two sounds related to it. While the first one remains completely unused, the second one was repurposed to be used for the "Revenge" powerup.

Crit Powerup#

Similar to the above, the Crit powerup was briefly seen in the Mannpower beta before having it's effects evolve into the Revenge powerup. There still remains one sound that would've played when picking it up.

Unused Music#

Lo and behold, there is unused music in the game as well.

Unused Jungle Inferno Contracker Sounds#

Sounds#

There exist miscellaneous beeps and boops for the Contracker, presumably for doing certain actions of just sitting around on the player. Some of these may have been later reused in some of Mercenary Park's soundscapes.

Music#

Added in the October 2017 "Jungle Inferno" update were music tracks specifically set to be heard while in the Contracker menu while you selected the contract you wanted to work on, or just to check progress on a given contract. These Music tracks are taken from the soundtrack, then had some of their instruments stripped and removed to be more mellow while browsing the Contracker. The prefix "cyoa" stands for "Choose Your Own Adventure", which clearly points to these playing while looking at contracts. There are also "TV" variants of all the songs, which have been further edited with a low-pass filter, as if they came from a Television.