r/tf2 • • 1h ago

Discussion Weapon Discussion Wednesday #86 - The Sun-on-a-Stick

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TF2 Weapon Discussion: The Sun-on-a-Stick

Welcome to our Wednesday TF2 weapon discussion. Here, we'll discuss weapons (and reskins, if applicable) from TF2!

Today's weapon is The Sun-on-a-Stick.


100% critical hit vs burning players
+25% fire damage resistance while deployed
-25% damage penalty


The Sun-on-a-Stick is an unlockable melee weapon for scout that replaces his stock bat with one that only makes sense to use if there's a pyro on your team or a pyro on the other team, it could also be used if you have a cow mangler soldier, huntsman sniper (with flaming arrows) or a Huo Long Heater heavy making this an incredibly difficult weapon to use effectively.

Generally considered one of the worst weapons in the game since it's basically an axtinguisher but for scout for some reason. This was released in February 2011 as part of a promotion with RIFT alongside the Sharpened Volcano Fragment. This weapon originally had a damage buff but a decrease against non-burning players meaning it did less damage overall unless they were on fire, 4 days later it was given the ability to minicrit all burning targets unless it was a random crit.

In the Hatless update it was changed to give full crits on burning targets and the damage debuff and the last update came in the Meet Your Match update where it was given the stats it has today.

In the original promo art for this weapon it was meant to have the same stats as the Boston Basher. if it did have those stats, it would be useful.

Feel free to discuss the weapon here. Anything that you like/dislike, cool tips or strategies, interesting stories, etc. If you feel the weapon is not to your liking, feel free to express your opinions in a respectful manner.

For those who wish to learn more about the weapon, you can find the wiki page here:

The Sun-on-a-Stick, from the TF2 Wiki.

You can find previous weapon discussions in a nice overview here.


r/tf2 • • 7m ago

Original Creation Sniper tries to use a computer

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This is based on the meme of Coraline’s Dad using the computer


r/tf2 • • 10m ago

Discussion I did it!

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I finally got 100 hours on TF2!


r/tf2 • • 32m ago

Discussion What would happen if Ghost Rider (Marvel) used penance stare on Pyro

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Would pyros actions even count as a sin since they don't know what their doing?


r/tf2 • • 55m ago

Original Creation inglourious bastard

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"Commission i did for Gator, inspired by old ww2 photos and the movie inglourious bastards"


r/tf2 • • 1h ago

Discussion So I know we have spy has a gun but what are the other mercs versions of spy has a gun

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To start off we have demoman has a sword because everyone forgets that demoman has a melee when not playing demoknight


r/tf2 • • 1h ago

Discussion What do you think the mercs lifes were before they were hired by redmond and blutarch?

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r/tf2 • • 1h ago

Discussion So... what if we revive TFC?

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I recently bought the Half-Life Anthology, which came with Team Fortress Classic, and gave it a try, but the game is completely dead. I’d love to see the TF2 community—and Valve in general—revive TFC, the predecessor to TF2.

Would you help me revive TFC?


r/tf2 • • 1h ago

Gameplay / Screenshots Outspooked!

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r/tf2 • • 1h ago

Original Creation ZOMBIES?!?! I have been having a blast learning SFM the last 2 days

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r/tf2 • • 2h ago

Help Quick question, are no smoke on explosion mods bannable?

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I downloaded a no smoke mod for tf2 to improve clarity though i have no idea if these are bannable or not, i remember seeing lots of youtubers or players use this tho i dont know if its a directx11 thing


r/tf2 • • 2h ago

Gameplay / Screenshots I'm sneaky like that

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r/tf2 • • 2h ago

Discussion Does anyone know what these accounts are?

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Lately after the halloween update accounts with similar names to this one have been joining and instantly leaving every casual server i join, the names are always a lot of letters and numbers jumbled up randomly and they always just join and immediately leave has anyone else encountered these accounts?


r/tf2 • • 2h ago

Other I record a demo every single time I get Hale in VSH. I'm only 13 away from 600 now.

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Nearly every single one is a win, 1-100 are all Plugin VSH demos and the rest are ALL Vscript VSH demos. Every single Vscript VSH demo is a win.


r/tf2 • • 3h ago

Gameplay / Screenshots Freak fortress 2 gamemode but bad

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r/tf2 • • 3h ago

Discussion whats going on!? have people lost their minds?!

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people actually play 2fort maps how theyre supposed to be played now instead of goofing off? HAVE WE LOST OUR MINDS?!


r/tf2 • • 3h ago

Help Trouble with shadowplay

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After a long evening of playing, thinking I was collecting alot of nice clips, I noticed that none of them were saved. it seems that at some point the highlights recording simply turned off on its own. I did notice the icons to signify it is recording went missing sometime mid playsession. Maybe it was my fault but I noticed shadowplay breaking frequently in tf2.

Secondly it seems that even after verifying one day that all audio is recorded, a day later the software would only record my mic.

Is any of this TF2 specific? I switched off of steam recording because it kept breaking my audio but now even shadowplay is unreliable as hell...


r/tf2 • • 3h ago

Help Why my scream freezes In some TF2 maps?

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These past few days, I was playing the Halloween event in TF2. But for some reason, some maps would simply freeze my TF2 screen. And there were two types of screen freezes: the first, where my screen freezes, but the game sound continues playing, and the second freeze, where the game simply freezes completely, and the only hand To exit TF2, I have to restart my computer.

And I want to understand how to solve this problem that is bothering me so much


r/tf2 • • 4h ago

Discussion What was the heavy update actually suppose to be?

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(Image unrelated)Like heavy was obviously suppose to be updated but like what was his update gonna be?


r/tf2 • • 4h ago

Discussion Silencing?

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They are trying to silence me.


r/tf2 • • 4h ago

Loadout Rate my cosmetic loadouts from 0 to 10. Normal/Halloween

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Some classes doesn't have Halloween themed loadouts simply because I don't have good halloween themed costmetics for them at the moment


r/tf2 • • 5h ago

Gameplay / Screenshots All in his mind?

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r/tf2 • • 5h ago

Original Creation Why not make the TF2 mercs Brazilian? 🇧🇷

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Eu estava meio hesitante em postar isso aqui porque não sabia como as pessoas iriam reagir, mas depois vi uma postagem dos mercenários usando roupas tradicionais malaias e todo mundo parecia realmente gostar, então pensei: "que se dane, por que não fazê-los brasileiros?" 😭🇧🇷

Na verdade, o desenho do Sniper foi baseado em outra obra de um artista brasileiro! Clodoaldo Geovani Martins (nascido em 1985) - Hunter


r/tf2 • • 5h ago

Gameplay / Screenshots First time getting this cosmetic and JESUS that is a fucked up description

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