Heavy x medic was kinda obvious, but iirc valve didn't start dropping stronger hints until the past few years. Dunno if they've straight-up confirmed it yet or not; it's also been a while since I last played.

Jarate was part of the sniper update, which I thought came after release (because iirc there weren't any alternate items in the original release).

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes I think jarate was introduced the same time they gave him a bow option

[–] MickeySwitcherooney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

99% sure Jarate was in the first big alt weapon patch, because it's the last patch I enjoyed playing lol. Bow, Sandvich, Bonk, etc. came out at the same time.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Jarate must have been before 2011 when i first played tf2. and 2011 is almost 13 years ago.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Heavy x medic was kinda obvious

Outside of the game, maybe? I've played a ton of TF2 but never got involved in the outside memeing or story. In-game there's nothing obvious about any of them except Soldier sounds thick-as-pig-shit and Demo-man being black.