Here's the interview about what, why, how of this silly thing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g92ipNh_v7-agpc.htmlsi=qXDYT__P9sOWcIHR

She’s right. Once you’re in Team Fortress, you’ll never get out.

Knowing how desperate the TF2 community is for more official media, if you guys manage to find the actual storyboards/dialogue you did for it I GUARANTEE people would be making it a proper series in a heartbeat

2023 has been great for TF2

This could've been 2010's The Amazing Digital Circus, it had so much potential.

massive props to toph for reaching out to the crew involved with this pilot

"She's a cartoon Gary" "I know, I like that part too"

Ok, that scout loadout could be made into a base for a subclass, like, idk, "the protagonist" functiouning: "default loadout": pistol or shortstop (to be functional in game) pretty boys pocket pistol Candy Cane or Stock. Still, my respect for the creators, and if you excuse me im gonna make that scout loadout into a mvm robot.

Nahhhh why did this gem get hidden away this is probably the best TF2 SFM I have seen

1:20 Kills heavies by headshoting them with the only weapon that deals no damage to the head.

This is actually Historic! Thank you for showing this to us!

Really charming 2014 vibes at its best, thanks for releasing this!

3:51 spys hat is missing -the only mistake in the video i saw

I downloaded this video for archival purposes. Just in case.

FINALLY The TF2 Isekai we never knew we wanted!!!😆🥰

Oh, My, God... I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! I CAN'T FUCKEN BELIEVE IT!!! HOLY SHIIIT!!!

I can totally see this as an short series on Neftlix.

Im so happy to finally see this being released

I'm curious, if you could contact a TF2 SFM maker (Like Winglet for example) and got the VA's back, do you think you could restart the production of this if we donated money?

This is dope. The animation is great and the comedy is really good. Voice acting is also hilarious.

Man, that was great. I feel like I would've watched the entire series if Machinima did greenlight it. Growing up, I watched a lot of shows from them, and I feel I would've absolutely loved Escape from teamfortress.

Thanks for taking the time to release this and give us a full interview, it was absolutely worth the wait!

I can't believe Gary got the best class, Scout. He will always be the fastest.

I cannot believe it, its actually found!

This was so amazing! And even for being done 10 years ago, the animation and comedy hold up today! Thank you so much for sharing this, I was so happy to see this released. I hope we get to see more!

I have several questions, mostly on how the world works. Clearly, this is following more SFM rules where certain liberties are taken, such as RED Scout insta killing Gary, Alissa performing parkour and one-shotting Heavies, & the pistol acting like an actual pistol. This makes some wonder if they are in the actual TF2 game universe, or transported in the actual game. If it's the former, this makes a lot of sense (may eliminate some tension/cause problems later if Medic can decimate three Heavies at once, but it's fine for now) & works the same as any SFM where more 'realism' & freedom is applied to movement, combat, & interactions. If it's the latter, this creates a whole slew of problems, such as what other players see when a Femedic (BTW, not complaining, but confused about the inclusion of Fem & Bot models) kills them in one shot while jumping off the walls or a Soldier getting killed in three shots by the pistol. I'm sure this would have been explained throughout the series & maybe made more sense if we had the full first episode. Overall, I'm very intrigued & interested in this idea & what it could have been.

Absolutely love Gary's triple tap at 2:07. Wish we could've gotten more. Honestly kinda curious how you guys would've handled a L4D series if you got more access to Valve's IPs - a few of Gary's line deliveries (like at 1:42 when piecing together that he's "Douchebag") sound like a dead ringer to Nick.

the tf2 community needs to know this! most of them still don't know about it

thank you i can sleep again without thinking what happend to this series

I really love this animation! I want see more episodes

The voice acting!!!! Is seriously awesome as the animation!!

Well I didn't expect to see this, I am actually impressed with the animation and how clean it looks despite being 10 years old

i hope you guys one day able to work with fortress films to create more perfect movies in the future for the valve community and possibly even others!

I love how Gary just sounds like he’s totally Scout will Simon is nothing like Spy. Then I remember Spies also hide a lot, hate getting shot, and are irritating.

I’m really happy this is finally seeing the light of day. Good animation and voice work.

this is truly me when i escape from team fortress 2

Actually, this is great, i really would love to see the second part, but... i think that's not happening... Also at 3:52 spy's hat disappears (he probably disguised that's why lol)

Just started playing the game this year and already this has been found. Hell yeah :P

i am SO EXCITED to see this im 9 days late ik but STILL ive been waiting for this pilot to get found for YEARS, ever since ive heard of it i wanted it found i wish this series got more episodes (and funding) because this actually looks really cool and it has a really interesting story i like how Simon's personality is more cautious and logical, to contrast Gary's more douchebag, badass hero-wannabe kind of personality!

“She’s a cartoon Gary” “I know! That’s the part I like too!”

This is actually Well Done!

I wish this got made. I loved this series so far.

Can't wait for the next episode, if this does gain enough popularity for one

waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit just reading the coments and responses and this thing could still come out!!!! I really want to see how this does. just.... try not to delay too much more after 10 years....

This reminds me more of Tales From The Borderlands than anything else,it has that humor and the voice acting...MMH,classic

yoo thats nice it was found.. good work hlg and tophonator

2:55 dustbowl blu pov:

I saw too many fan videos to not expect twisted, warped faces. Feels weird without it.

Well this was certainly an interesting little gem to find out finally got found. Really liked the shot of red team on the roof, especially with the two red bots, that was an unexpected treat to be sure (especially since they're entirely unused not just in pvp, but in the whole game), but the whole shot was just really well made. Certainly far from perfect, but its a shame this never went anywhere, seems like it would've been fun at least. Even seeming to be tackling elements from a few of those recent Gmod/SFM ARG series years beforehand.

if this becomes a series I'd watch it

WOOOO NOW WE HAVE ACTUAL MATERIAL TO WORK OFF OF

this is like watching sfm content as a kid

I watched a video about tophonator talking about the lost tf2 media and he talked about the whole thing. What a time to be a TF2 fan rn. I really wanna see more of this!

Remember watching a video about this. Never thought I was ever going to see this in full.

I wish there was more

HOLY SHIT

I cant wait for an animator to pick this back up and help finish it, this is so good

0:42 Holy shit I wheezed xd, this was hilarious Happy this has been dug out and reuploaded, its great! Shame it wasn't finished

There are some animation errors, but the main characters really charismatic that I don`t really care for those and jokes not bad, eather) Totally would`ve watch this series, if it`s ever gonna be pick up again! Hope it will)

I love this. Kinda bummer we can't see the rest of it!

i hope you guys bring this show back idk if its a 1 season thing but i would also like some actual live action parts for the show maybe try securing funding by gofundme or patiron

We seriously need a series like this

it looks so good i wish there was more

Idk if yall are still working on this but I would love to see the rest of the episodes animated!

i actually really like this, could've been a gem.

i cant believe spy tf2 said fuck

i wish there was more of this series

Its amazing this was released! The comedy is amazing! 😂

this was actually better than what i expected

Its so good, its be interesting if you finish all serious

My favorite part was when he said "fuck" and "sex"

This is really good ngl I wish there was more episode now but life aint fair

HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL CHAT

HOLY

the better digital circus

2:05 oof

I wish this was continued even more.

Mabye one day we'll get to see the entire series take form

I hope to see the other 7 episodes if possible

Not bad.

Hello! Just a question, have you guys made other episodes from this series or only this episode. Asked this just to give clarity on what was made for this series. Thanks!

"Video game hell" That doesn't look like 2Fort to me. Sawmill is more like purgatory, you get sent there if you've not given your soul to a Payload map, as is proper.

Holy hell it actually happened!!

This is fantastic!

this is incredible

This would be an awesome series if you guys would like to keep it going, maybe if you want to, i would suggest to make a deal with FortressFilms , it would be awesome to have it be what it was gonna be

now i want an entire series

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Forget the Red Spy Soldier! ESCAPE FROM TF2 DROPPED!! After 10 years of being lost "Hopefully it was worth the wait" and by god it was

Holy

I was a bludledore who thought that this was lost to time forever...guess younger me was wrong :p

Буду ждать этого проекта с нетерпением

THIS IS SO SICK

Worth the wait

WAITER WAITER MORE PLEASE (jokes aside this is actually amazing this is something that id actually watch and its so dumb that it got canceled)

ayo this is good af

After the long Waite we finally got it!!

Tf2 fans are eating good this year

This looks amazing

whaaaaaaaat no way