Status effects

Status effects are temporary conditions or modifiers applied to the player that can alter your attacks, movement, health, etc. These effects can be beneficial (buffs) or detrimental (debuffs), and are triggered by certain weapons. They often have visual indicators, sound effects, and gameplay consequences. The Spy's Invis Watch reduces the duration of negative effects. addcond commands can only be used if sv_cheats is set to 1.

Crit Boost

Main article: Critical hits

Crit boost is a beneficial effect that grants you guaranteed Critical Hits, effectively tripling your damage output. Crit-boosted players' weapons will glow and crackle with team-colored energy.

Entering addcond 11, addcond 33, addcond 34, addcond 35, addcond 37, addcond 38, addcond 39, addcond 40, addcond 56, addcond 105 and addcond 114 into the console grants a crit boost.

The following weapons grant Crit Boost to another player or yourself.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Kritzkrieg		Medic	The Kritzkrieg's Übercharge grants 8 seconds of guaranteed crits.
Harvester		Pyro	The Harvester grants a guaranteed melee crit once it's HEAT meter is filled.
Chekhov's Punch		Heavy	The Chekhov's Punch grants one guaranteed crit to all weapons on a successful hit, storing up to three. The Chekhov's Punch can only crit with three stored.

Players are also given a crit boost for killing the Civilian in VIP mode, being on the winning team during humiliation and for getting the first kill in Arena mode.

Mini-crit Boost

Main article: Mini crits

Mini-crit boost is a beneficial effect that makes all of your attacks into Mini-crits, multiplying damage dealt by 35%. Mini-crit-boosted players' weapons will glow a dim yellow.

Entering addcond 112, addcond 123 into the console grants a Mini-crit boost.

The following weapons grant Mini-crit Boost to another player.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Umbrella		Civilian	The Umbrella's boost grants 8 seconds of guaranteed Mini-crits ta a teammate.

Overheal

Main article: Healing

Overheal is a beneficial effect that temporarily increases your health beyond its maximum, up to 150%. Overhealed players will emit team-colored healing crosses.

The following weapons can grant Overheal to another player or yourself.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Medigun		Medic	The Medigun can heal teammates and grant overheal at a hate of 24-72 health per second.
Kritzkrieg		Medic	The Kritzkrieg can heal teammates and grant overheal at a hate of 24-72 health per second.
Rejuvenator		Medic	The Rejuvenator can heal teammates and grant overheal.
Shock Therapy		Medic	The Shock Therapy with a full CHARGE meter can heal teammates for 100% of their base health, which can overheal.
Harvester		Pyro	Getting a melee crit with a full HEAT meter grants you 195 health, which can overheal.
Sandvich		Heavy	The Sandvich, while crit boosted, heals you for 360 health which can overheal.

Invulnerability

Main article: ÜberCharge

Invulnerability is a beneficial effect that makes you completely invulnerable to damage. Invulnerable players will be completely enveloped in a metallic, team-colored sheen.

Entering addcond 5, addcond 51, addcond 52, addcond 57, addcond 119 into the console grants invulnerability. addcond 67, addcond 68 and addcond 69 grant immunity to only bullet, explosive and fire damage respectively. The following weapons can grant Invulnerability to another player or yourself.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Medigun		Medic	The Medigun's ÜberCharge grants invulnerability to yourself and a patient for 8 seconds.
Rejuvenator		Medic	The Rejuvenator's ÜberCharge grants invulnerability to anybody inside the bubble, which lasts for 6 seconds.

Haste/Speed Boost

Main article: Haste

Haste is a beneficial effect that makes you move faster, perform actions faster and recharge items faster. Hastened players will emit team-colored chevron particles.

Entering addcond 17, addcond 32 and addcond 118 grant a speed boost. addcond 121 grants the Haste boost.

The following weapons can grant Haste or a speed boost to another player or yourself.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Derby Cane		Civilian	The Derby Cane grants Haste to a teammate for 8 seconds.
L'Escampette		Spy	The L'Escampette grants you a speed boost equal to that of the Haste boost without the other upsides.

Damage Resistance

Damage resistance is a general term for any reduction applied to any damage. Sources of damage resistance stack multiplicatively with each other.

Entering addcond 111 grants 20% damage resistance.

The following weapons can grant a damage resistance to another player or yourself.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Civilian		Civilian	The Civilian has an aura that grants 20% resistance to all damage to all nearby teammates. He is not given this resistance.
Gunboats		Soldier/Demoman	The Gunboats grant you a 60% higher resistance to self blast-damage.
Invis Watch		Spy	The Invis Watch grants you a 20% higher resistance to damage while cloaked.
L'Escampette		Spy	The L'Escampette grants you a 20% higher resistance to damage while cloaked.

Bleed

Main article: Bleed

Bleed is a negative, damage over time effect that deals 4 damage per tick, 2 ticks per second. Bleed can Mini-crit, dealing 5 damage per tick instead of 4.

Entering removecond 25 removes bleed.

The following weapons inflict bleed to enemy players.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Fishwhacker		Sniper	The Fishwhacker inflicts 2 seconds of bleed to enemies.

Afterburn

Main article: Afterburn

Afterburn is a negative, damage over time effect that deals 3 damage per tick, 2 ticks per second. Afterburn can Mini-crit, dealing 4 damage per tick instead of 3.

Entering removecond 22 removes afterburn.

The following weapons inflict afterburn to enemy players.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Flame Thrower		Pyro	The Flamethrower inflicts 10 seconds of afterburn to enemies.
Flare Gun		Pyro	The Flare Gun inflicts 10 seconds of afterburn to enemies.
Huntsman		Sniper	The Huntsman's arrows can be ignited by the Flame Thrower or torches on Medieval Mode maps, inflicting 10 seconds of afterburn to enemies.

Afterburn can be stopped by going into water, picking up a health pack, touching a resupply cabinet, getting airblasted by a friendly Pyro and killing the Pyro that caused afterburn on you if they are holding the Harvester.

Tranquilization

Main article: Tranquilization

Tranquilization is a negative effect that reduces damage dealt by 30%, movement speed by 20%, makes you colorblind and deaf and all melee damage taken will crit.

Entering addcond 109 tranquilizes you.

The following weapons tranquilize enemy players.

Name	Picture	Class	Notes
Tranquilizer Gun		Spy	The Tranquilizer Gun tranquilizes enemies for 5 seconds.