[TF2] The Secret Lore of Bread Space

I know it's not often I do semi-serious videos, but this map really felt worthy of a deeper dive and I figured that made it my job to take the dive. Thanks to all the amazing devs over in the workshop that made this masterpiece - and especially Glitch2 for answering my specific questions to guide me in the right directions - and thanks to Valve for actually adding something interesting. All we need now is Comic #8 and...
who am I kidding we're never getting that lmao

Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 The Money's Tragedy
2:35 Contact Moonbase
3:44 The Documents
9:09 Enter Team Fortress
11:48 Possession
12:58 Map Details
15:09 Return of the King
17:21 Tying Loose Ends

Here's links to some of the stuff used in this video for theory-crafting purposes:

Thanks again for watching. :)

#TF2 #Bread #Lore

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Hey, thanks for watching my video. Your viewing support means a lot to me. There used to be a message here explaining that the purpose of this channel was a YouTube race between me and one of my friends, but I roundly trounced him (in yer face Spencer) so I can't put that here anymore. So uhh... I guess I just make YouTube videos for YouTube's sake now. Enjoy lmao

Here's some links:

My TF2 Stupid Server's ip: 173.237.52.135
My TF2 Sunny Server's ip: 185.24.8.166

Once again, thanks for watching! :D
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[BigJoeySlaps]

Is the Giant "Mama" bread single?

_Asking for a friend..._

[sylveonever]

Honestly wouldn’t put it past soldier to accidentally tap into government teleporters just to teleport bread

[TheKirbstomper]

Bread space creator: "alright time to make a funny meme map."

TF2 lore:

[punnyperson]

Now we just need a Gordon Expensman from Apperature Laboratories to take care of our problems

[stapleboy]

you know tf2 is wacky when the bread has lore

[tvstatic]

I believe that the person who is trying to revive poopy Joe is soldier. He got the monkey's bugle, he lived with Merasmus, so he might know how to use magic (definitely if you consider scream fortress) and in reality, it seems like something soldier would do.

[TheKingMgee]

Ah, so I have an answer for the unusual cubes at 16:05 ! Accessing through GMod, if you look in the Asteroid folder in the TF2 Directory, you can find the unique models used for rd_asteroid. There are several grey/metallic cubes that share the name 'Moon Gravel'. While it might just be boring old Moon Rocks, it's definitely from the Moon, confirming the space connection.

[thattrashguy]

Time to talk about the one non Christmas map in a Christmas update.

[alexanderharrison]

I've always semi ironically semi unironically liked stories where basically every bad thing that ever happens ever can be directly or indirectly pinned on One Dude
Like Soldier singlehandedly destroyed an entire moonbase because he had a bunch of bread and some free time

[thedappercrow]

I'm kinda surprised sam missed the "bread heads" writing in red's spawn an the first point, or at least made no mention of it, since it shows the administrator, saxton hale, and even blutarch and redmond mann, possibly diving deaper into the whole "bread reaching other parts of the planet" thing, as well as bread crabs being capable of possible reanimation of corpses, and my be an alternate reason for poopy joe's return

[bredoffender]

Plus another bread monster is seen at the end of expiration date, where Pyro plays with it like a puppy.

[Samwiz]

Alright, let's see, bonus info time:

- It only occurred to me after I made the video, but someone commented that Poopy Joe's bugle is the same as the bugle Soldier uses with the Buff Banner. If this is true, the purpose of Banana Bay could be to get Soldier there so the Bugle could be stolen, with the pointless objective of both teams blowing up the same train just being a distraction to keep them busy.

- Someone commented asking why it had to be Soldier teleporting the mutated bread to the moon and why it couldn't have just been a normal loaf of bread being teleported up as a routine supply drop by the government. This is a fair point, but I'd counter by saying that if Bread was allowed to be teleported up, the station should've had a problem with it far sooner and before the dome was even completed. The fact that Mama only arrives on the station after a long period of the station being active and functional suggests something changed in their system, for which Soldier is still the most likely source of change, given the wall-scrawls depicting him.

- I missed a wall-scrawl depicting a recipe and a handful of other notable TF2 NPCs with bread taped over their faces. This was an oversight on my part, but it was motivated by the fact that I don't believe these wall-scrawls mean anything. Lore-wise they're too far-stretched to suggest anything massive, aside from maybe they were made by a possessed Red team planning on which bread types to infect the targets with. I doubt they have any real immediate implications though.

[bobix]

Something else you might have missed. In banana bay underneath red spawn there are two conveyer belts converting dozens of bananas into Australium bars. This could mean that the Bananas produced there could contain Australium, which is why the summoning circle uses bananas

[wolfer]

For the Teleporter point being like a Hub: In MvM the Engie can turn his Teleporter into a 2 Way Tele and the Eureka Effect only requires a Teleport Exit to work, so it wouldn't be dumb to assume that the Teleporter technolegy could work in different ways. Probably a lot of Exits around the World/the Moon and a modefied Entry that can switch frequencies between them to change destination

[Gibus_Priest_Funny]

Spy: i once stoped a men from destryoing the moon
EGGMEN: I M B A C K N O W THE BREAD IS GONNA PISS ON THE MOON

[Antagon]

A few thoughts from my noggin:

That 1979 on the wall got me thinking. You know where else I saw a year on the wall? Many times in Portal 2. As we progress back up to the main Aperture facility, we endure many years worth of tests. They end in 1982. The "bees injection" poster seems exactly like something Cave Johnson might want to use for a test. In addition, might this be where Cave got his 70 million dollars worth of moon rocks? I think what we have here is some potential "fun lore".

[crash]

On the topic of "Aliens and BLU being heroes", I'd say pl_snowycoast could count as one.

From what I read in the wiki, the map is inspired by 'The Thing', the big telling being it takes place in snowy complex and the stranded UFO.

it seems, an UFO crash landed there, the RED team were quick to built facilities around it to research it, but unfortunately all of them were assimilated by the 'Thing'.

BLU got the hold of this and decided to stop the alien invasion by blowing up the root of it.

The BLUs of course has to fight the Things that has been impersonating the RED mercenaries, keeping them away from their base.

[tonyarch]

Copper and Fuchs are a reference to John Carpenter's The Thing. That is really cool.

[jaredbopry]

I love how you took the effort to finding the lore within the map, it's beautiful.

[verneh]

You know, ever since this map got added to the game I felt it was off. It's not very Smissmas-y in any way. A question always ached inside my skull: "Why this map?"
Now with the discovery of the lore of the map, and the map being made official, that question aches more.
Is Valve trying to show us something? Is something coming somehow related to this map?
I could very likely be going insane from the lack of... Well, everything related to TF2, but it all just feels a bit off.