Why?
If you play engineer and you don't have the eureka effect to switch to half your teleporter cost you are playing at a sever disadvantage. The Engipads are added to give engineer an alternative to teleporters in situations where teleporters are not commonly used. Sitations like last holds on defense and first points on attack.

Why?
The sniper rifles are very powerful weapons with very little counterplay at the highest level of play. The ammo reduction will lower the snipers effective time in battle, and the quickscope reduction will allow medics to peek sniper sightlines without getting one shot. Soldiers and heavies will also live slightly longer. As this change makes the sniper stay more in scope overall, which the sniper is supposed to be anyway.

Why?
Being able to run at spy speed regardless of disguise opens a whole new level of deception and usefulness for the slower and less used disguises for the spy

Why?
Switching out a Grenade Launcher for shoes that gave very little for sticky-bomb launcher is not that great. The melee refill also made certain swords worse than others. Now the shoes buff both shields and sticky-bomb users alike.

Why?
The nerf this weapon got a while back crippled it completely, to the point of never really being any point using it ever. This fix will help with it's mobility somewhat, which is it's key thing

Why?
Demonkight is not that good, however this shield now has the same killpower as a sticky-bomb launcher in theory.

Why?
For consistency, if it does less damage to enemies, it should also do less damage to yourself. An oversight from Valve that's been fixed here.

Why?
With the Chargin' Targe being the damage bash shield, this shield is now the faster-recharge speed, giving you the rapid mobility the sticky-bomb launcher normally offers.

Why?
While being the easiest to turn and control for sick trimps or whatever, giving this a slight buff is also fitting given the other shields got buffs as well.

Why?
Slowering holstering penalty could be negated by switching through other weapon slots quickly, so it has been removed from all weapons with slower holstering penalty.

Why?
With all the changes to shields and shoes, Eyelander ended up being the superior demoknight choice with how it scaled itself. With the reduction in health and no longer healing on kill, it now gives more room for other swords to be viable depending on your playstyle.

Why?
It now serves as a melee sword with very few downsides. As an Eyelander light. Can now be used with Grenades and Sticky-bombs without crippling the demo. While still having the same function with going full demoknight.

Why?
While this weapon does decent damage, the slower movement speed combined with the slower deploy time made it difficult to get into melee range for a successful hit. Lowering the movespeed penalty should help mitigate this.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 caber leaves much to be desired, the longer melee range makes it easier to hit and the damage increase will make it seem less weak. But it hurts yourself alot more.

Why?
Drain of Uber and Cloak is not acceptable, as those classes rely heavily upon that. And similar to the Bison, the slow projectile is hard to hit, the increased damage will allow Pomson enthusiasts to actually get kills of this weapon now, instead of mildly annoying the enemy.

Why?
Not being able to refill metal when teleporting back to spawn and having to press the loadout key to refill was a very strange way of doing things, now when you teleport back to spawn you get your ammo back (loadout unchanged), so we've eliminated a redundant step similar to the holstering penalites on other weapons. Now this weapon will flow more naturally in the game for you engineers.

Why?
I'm still not sure what this weapons place is, so we're testing longer dispenser range for now, if you have any good ideas for what we can do with this wrench, let me know. As we're looking for proper ways it can support the team somehow.

Why?
Slow on hit isn't fun to play against. So it's been inverted and now we speed up, opening a whole new world of unrev jump-techs to do as heavy. While still being the weakest of the miniguns, it offers the most different playstyle.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 Brass beast movement speed is so slow that you take a lot of additional splash damage, even so much it negates the resistance you have below half health. By increasing the movespeed you can now dodge a bit easierly and won't need the resistance anymore. The removal of the damage resist is due to that you can't tell easily if a heavy is at half health or not, since the heavy now moves faster, it's been removed. Since you can use movement to negate taking the full damage you normally would with the official weapon.

Why?
In Vanilla TF2 it doesn't offer enough visiual confirmation of hitting players that's on fire. It also doesn't pack enough punch to warrant only 13 seconds of effective firing time. The increased damage to the flamerings makes it really scary to be close to a revved up huo-long heater heavy. The damage is offset to be similar to the original huo-long heater, only with slight increased damage to on-fire targets that's far away due to how fall-off works with minicrits.

Why?
Being the second-weakest lunchbox item in Vanilla TF2, the increased eating speed allows the Heavy to eat it with less planning before combat, increasing its overall viability.

Why?
Being the weakest of all the lunchbox items for the Heavy. Now you can eat it really quick to enable the best-mode without careful planning. The glass cannon aspect has also been removed, so now you're just a cannon. Makes for great turbo conga taunts.

Why?
The rest of the unlocks for Heavy offers a lot of utility, and not much use for the stock fists, which is why they are getting this buff. The buff is to help switch speed between main and secondary. Works well in situations where you don't use your melee much or at all.

Why?
In Vanilla TF2 the gloves did as much damage as the fists. Reducing firing speed and giving them slower deploy time (does not affect when you gain speed, as you gain speed as soon as you hit weapon slot3), ensures this weapon is used as a movement tool and not emergency punching tool.

Why?
In Vanilla TF2 the Fists of Steel are bugged and OP. Reducing the damage and healing taken now fixes the overheal issue, as well as the weapon being used for anything other than tanking.

Why?
Despite being the half-value version of the G.R.U. it functioned way worse than with half the stats, giving it hardly any use as the G.R.U. was just superior. It now has a better speed gain pr health drained ratio as well as faster weapon switch to the next weapon, making it ideal for short burts of speed where you have to switch back to another weapon when seeing an enemy.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 version of these 'glass cannon' unlocks for the heavy doesn't really suit the class that well. The increase in damage has been transferred to bleed and longer melee range, as that makes more 'sense' as it's bear claws after all.

Why?
In Vanila TF2 the medic unlock choices have been locked to ubers-saw and crossbow. But with passive reload added, and uber gained on hit, this becomes a ranged ubersaw, and with the changes to the vita-saw you can effectively switch the two slots and play a new style of medic. This now allows you to build some uber in situations where you previously did nothing and were passive. But do be careful, if you're using it wrong you and your team will pay for it (like you always do).

Why?
In Vanilla TF2, this weapon is trash. It makes you die to everything faster, since you'll primarly be using the medigun. Now it's been given the same survivor power as the Overdose, but focuses on shooting enemies for heal and overheal, or teammates for reduced heal (useful when in a pinch and no health packs are around). It now helps the medic survive in a sense that is as powerful as the crossbow's ability to heal teammates.

Why?
While being a decent escape tool when you have uber, with the buffs of the other syringes, this one needed a little tweak, so now if you spawn by yourself you can use this to run to the fight faster.

Why?
Being a solo medic on a team running vaccinator is really bad, since you spend longer time overhealing, it should make sense that they are lasting a bit longer. Also works as a good additional buffer with other medics, however this is hardly noticable in fights. Just an extra carrot for medics running this solo.

Why?
With the buffs to all the other melee unlocks for medic, this one needed a little something too. As it passive health gained, on kill hp pack can be used by teammates was fitting for the medic. There's also a problem with the main feature and that is the taunt leaving the medic too vulnerable, and the heal healing too much and not overhealing. Doubling the speed also halfs the total healing done, so you will have to taunt twice to get the same amount of healing as the previous one.

Why?
With all the other unlocks for the medic's melee slot, this one falls behind. This current design is the damage melee. With added bleed should help track down careless spies.

Why?
Similar to amputator, this one needed a buff as well. In the spirit of having similar weapons on different weapon slots, giving this a free speed boost for the medic is useful. Downsides are ofcourse that it isn't the Vita-saw or ubersaw.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 Vita-saw is designed where your plan is to die. On a game perspective, your plan should never be to die. With this re-design to be that of the crossbow, along with the changes to the syringe guns, opens up a world of new viable unlock combinations for the medic. If you use crossbow at melee range (and sometimes miss due to how crossbow works) then this weapon will now achieve that without issue.

Why?
In Vanilla TF2, this weapon offer less effective DPS than if you ran perma-shotgun on pyro. The increased damage helps metigate this and removing the crippling (and weird) airblast penalty makes it viable. You still can't airblast until firing is complete, so the overall airblast output is less than a regular flamethrower.

Why?
Flames changed just to make it visually different from other flamethrowers.

Why?
In an earlier state we made the gas passer refill 80% faster, even if you always had it and threw it constantly, it was still utter trash. Taking a page out of MVM, this weapon now is an MVM-lite version of the Gas Passer. Being able to deal a cascading 60dmg to each target in the cloud, making it really great at taking out big groups of clumped up enemies.

Why?
With the introduction of the Thermal Thruster, this weapon's self-damage was just a little too high for the pyro to use while in combat after taking damage. The less damage taken allows the Pyro to do more jumps and overall increase the viability of this weapon in combat.

Why?
Being the least visually responsive weapon and dependant on the enemy team to have a pyro or cowmangler soldier to provide the flames, it's been giving faster firing speed and more damage to compensate. Now when you get and land a crit it will reward you with more damage than just flaregun.

Why?
While being able to do mini-crit to blast-jumping classes with faster initial damage, this weapon was really good, to offset the effectiveness it's been given longer reload time.

Why?
Being a bit to easy to shoot the ground and the second bounce to light people on fire, the projectile speed was lowered to give players more time to move out of the way before and after getting hit by the initial flare.

Why?
Vanila TF2 Thermal Thruster is really clunky and weird to use, and requires a lot of planning effectively making you unable to do reactive plays to the enemy. With the faster recharge and removed pushforce and holstering penalty, you can now use it as a gap closer and get more effective pyro plays out of it. While still not being able to escape too easily with the (hidden) pushpack the item previously had.

Why?
With all the other utility the other unlocks for pyro's offer, the Fire-Axe would need a buff, rather than nerf all the other items.

Why?
Being very limited in terms of use. If the enemy has no spies or buildings, there's little for this weapon to do. The added pushforce reduction allows the pyro to push through chokes more easily without the need of a speed unlock. It will also destroy wrangled sentries if you can get close.

Why?
With the speed boost on slap being so miniscule, it made sense to move the speed attribute from the Powerjack to this item. It functions just like regular Powerjack minus the health on kill, replaced with the hothands speed on slap. Making this a very ideal pushing tool if you can slap an enemy before going in.

Why?
Similar to the Homewrecker this weapon offers very little to do. Now it will give crits on kill, making it a combo tool for the pyro. Enemies not counting as wet when in Gas was also stupid so it now will crit someone covered in gas. Do note that they are not covered in gas if they are burning, this means you will only get one hit off.

Why?
Arguably the worst Vanilla TF2 meleee for the pyro. This total rework makes it a nuke on a stick. It now feels powerful and fun to use, and is in theory the 'best' melee unlock in terms of damage, however getting in position and enemies being clustered together and not outright killing you due to the range limitations of pyro is another story.

Why?
Slower holstering penalty could be avoided by just switching weapons quickly, so it's been removed.

Why?
Compared to the other melee unlocks for Pyro, it doesn't do what it's supposed to do well enough. The overheal while active allows pyro's to actively use it to gain overheal buff, since you are already using healthpacks on the flanks alone. Making that it's primary function over the damage.

Why?
While being the 'must pick' melee for pyro in Vanilla TF2, the speed and damage vulnerability has been moved to the Hot Hand. This new rework is focused on giving the pyro sustain. Pyro being a class with limited range often struggle staying a live against certain compositions. This weapon now allows the pyro to peek more aggressively and heal back up to continue fighting. If you can land a melee kill you'll be healing a lot.

Why?
While not in a better state, this current version of it is more reliable. As you don't get gimped by getting hit which is unavoidable against good players, and for double jumping. Not losing any boost at the cost of less clip and jump height makes this weapon feel very unique.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 back scatter was countered by enemies turning around, the less spread made it so you couldn't capitalize on being behind enemis. Now it behaves like regular scattergun from the front up to 4 shots fired, and a better than scattergun from the back.

Why?
In Vanilla TF2 the shortstop feels really strange to use, here I've attempted to give it a more scattergun feel, making it a decent mid-range weapon.

Why?
With the Vanilla TF2 faster firing speed, it has higher initial DPS than pistol AND it heals. The damage has been reduced to compensate for the increase in damage done from faster firing speed, while leaving the self-heal unchanged.

Why?
While being a bit underwhelming, now with the slight vertical bump on hit allows the scout to land the initial shots easierly, since the scout already got in melee range and didn't shoot this additional step should be more impactful.

Why?
To remove health off an already squishy class for a hardly useable projectile, when you have the wrap assassin is not so good. Instead the damage of the bat has gone down (it is made of wood after all) and we've increased the ball damage, giving the scout another damage dealing weapon that is similar to the wrap assassin that offers similar type of sacrifice.

Why?
The sniper rifles are very powerful weapons with very little counterplay at the highest level of play. The ammo reduction will lower the snipers effective time in battle, and the quickscope reduction will allow medics to peek sniper sightlines without getting one shot. Soldiers and heavies will also live slightly longer. As this change makes the sniper stay more in scope overall, which the sniper is supposed to be anyway.

Why?
Huntsman is notoriously hard to hit unless you play on very specific hallways. The faster arrow speed makes it easier to hit players and more scary.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 classic can be summed up like this: 'Always less damage or the same'. Being a very different sniper rifle, that offered very little practical use, removing the bodyshot damage now makes it viable for those prefering the sort of charge while unscoped sniper style.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 Sydney Sleeper is the only sniper rifle that doesn't reward you enough for headshotting. While feeling similar to the official one, this one now rewards headshots with more damage. The reduced charge speed is to make sure it doesn't kill 300HP targets on HS that much faster than stock.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 Darwin Dangershield does nothing if the enemy team doesn't have a pyro. So the fire-resistance has been swapped with 15 more max health, increasing overall survivability and not just specifically against pyros.

Why?
Being arguably the best sniper secondary. A nerf is in it's place, now it will be thrown slower, meaning the quick switch and melee hits will take longer for the sniper to do, allowing for more counterplay.

Why?
Having gone from OP to trash in Vanilla TF2, following the same principle as the Tomislav, it's now more accurate while shooting slower. The less ammo is to make sure you have a perfect 4 Clip shoot-reload. The faster firing speed buff is to make it less ass.

Why?
In Vanilla TF2, this weapon is utter ass, it elimates 1/27 different ways you can be killed in the game.

Why?
Being the better choices for perma-jarate snipers, it was due to a nerf. Now dealing less damage and taking longer to deploy, gives the opponents a larger window to counter-play the sniper switching to bushwacka.

Why?
Hardly any difference with this weapon with the small damage increase and decrease. The longer melee range should help getting more with this weapon when it's used.

Why?
The original damage reduction is so severe that you will have done less than 4 rockets worth of damage after firing 5 rockets. This slight increase in damage will ensure you will get slightly more kills, and less of enemies surviving with 3 and 2 HP.

Why?
It's still not where I'd want it to be compared to the other backpacks, but more ammo capacity is at least something.

Why?
The nerf this weapon got a while back crippled it completely, to the point of never really being any point using it ever. This fix will help with it's mobility somewhat, which is it's key thing

Why?
Being one of the least used shoes for soldiers, and competing with shotguns, the increased airspeed and pushback is not enough. The faster movespeed allows for easier pushes in as it stacks with the pushback reduction as well as longer rocketjumps and better positioning overall.

Why?
While being able to do mini-crit to blast-jumping classes with faster initial damage, this weapon was really good, to offset the effectiveness it's been given longer reload time.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 bison is both bad and inconsitent, with a slow projectile and a tickrate that makes certain classes get hit by the same projectile twice depending on which way it was fired from is really bad. The tickrate has been reduced so this doesn't happen. It will penetrate, but not hit every target that are really close to each other. The increased damage was added so you can actually kill with it.

Why?
With all the utility from other unlocks for Soldier, this one falls behind, this buff allows you to hit it multiple times and assist slightly in pushes where you take pushback.

Why?
Getting free-speed at the cost of nothing isn't really fair, so to give this overused unlock a downside, you will now lose up to 30 health when using it. However if you are below 170 there's no change. Just a little change to make it not be 'free' speed at the cost of nothing.

Why?
To give it an additonal damage dealing edge over other unlocks, the hardly used equalizer will now pack quite the punch when on low health.

Why?
The Vanilla TF2 Escape Plan could be used to escape and do high amounts of damage with random crits enabled. The 50% less damage done is to ensure it's used as an escape tool only.

Why?
Slowering holstering penalty could be negated by switching through other weapon slots quickly, so it has been removed from all weapons with slower holstering penalty.

Why?
Piror to it's current Vanilla TF2 nerf, the ambassador was one of the top tier weapons in the game, allowing good spies with good aim to snipe while being unpunishable with little to no counter play. However the nerf was too much and made the weapon garbage. I still want spies to be able to snipe, but not with 102 DMG a shot. The 100% accuracy allows the spy to snipe and land consistent shots. To make it not be worse than the diamond back the headshot damage was increased, now dealing 117.

Why?
With the nerf to the ambassador, it was surprising this weapon didn't follow the same rules. Now crits are based on range and it shoots at the same speed as the ambassador. No more 102 Hp snipes across the map from Diamond back spies.

Why?
Deconstructing buildings is buggy and gives a lot of value compared to effort put in byt the spy. So the item has been reworked in to being a throwable sapper. Thrown sapper simulates a cowmangler stun, and can be useful in well protected sentry nests guarded by pyros. You can still place the sapper, but it's very weak.

Why?
In Vanilla TF2 the spycicle is a 'get out of fire' free card. Now it servers as a self-extinguish only, so don't get caught on fire as spy, the spycicle isn't a crutch anymore.

Why?
While forcing you to be a certain disguise, spy sprint helps with this, however the cloak drain was a huge factor making this weapon a 'must use' with the le'tranger. To compensate it now takes longer to cloak making it easier for enemies to spot you before you vanish.

Why?
Spy is the hardest class to play against a competent team, the cloaking speed increase will help spy get more clutch kills in clutch scenarios.

Why?
Having been nerfed too hard by Valve, the faster regen time brings the downtime to a more acceptable time. Decloak time also slightly reduced so you can now stab as soon as the sound is over. Allowing the spy to get more spy kills.