Hotrod

Hotrod is a boss in Slender Fortress 2, appearing only on Demon Hamster's SF2 server. It was created in either 2015 or 2016, and has since appeared once more since 2019.

Description
This boss came into existence when Demon Hamster listened to the Ministry track, Jesus Built my Hotrod, first hearing it in a Mario Kart Deathmatch map in TF2. Around 2015 or 2016, he was looking through the map using GCFScape and found that music track. He would make Hotrod into a boss one day, using a generic broken down car model (car002b.mdl) from the Half-Life 2 game files. As sounds besides Jesus Built my Hotrod for being the chase theme, it uses the Abrams tank sounds from Black Mesa. While the boss itself wasn't well received in 2016 due to it's bugs and the model partially sticking in the ground, it's come back in 2019, as well as the odd concept for a boss, arguably makes it one of Demon Hamster's most recognizable bosses to date.

In Slender Fortress
Hotrod behaves like some sort of wandering Charger. It's walk speed is rather slow, but once it starts chasing, it moves very fast. Hotrod has a yellow flashlight-like glow in front of it, which can be used to tell where it is currently. It also has a few second grace time before it starts chasing, so one may be able to get out of Hotrod's field of view and into a hiding spot in time. It's low field of view can also be a useful feat, as one can sneak past Hotrod if it's looking away. However, Hotrod has a very fast instantly killing attack, it cannot be stunned either.

There exists a variant called "Jesus Built my Hotrod" which is of course, an extremely overpowered variant of Hotrod spawned by admins only. It has buffed stats like the regular Hotrod and has new nasty tricks up it's... "sleeves". Appearance-wise, it is Hotrod, but is far bigger and it's glow is far brighter with a huge radius.

Recommendations
Since Hotrod has a low detection range and a rather long grace time, Spy works wonderfully against this boss due to his sneaky nature. Scout could be a viable class to play against Hotrod if one wants to get out of the way in time. Once Hotrod starts chasing, it's game over. Generally, if one wants to survive against Hotrod, they must never let it chase them in the first place.

Trivia

 * As stated, this boss was created when Demon Hamster listened to the Ministry song Jesus Built my Hotrod.
 * Despite being called "Hotrod", the boss itself is not a hot rod. The vehicle seems to be a wrecked red Trabant 601 Estate.