High Five!

High Five!
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Basic Information
Used by:	All
Slot:	Action
Released:	Manniversary Update & Sale
Availability:	Purchase or Drop
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	No
Available Qualities
Unique Unusual
Loadout Stats
Taunt: The High Five! 1 - 100 Don't leave your friends hanging. This is a press-and-hold taunt. Hold down the action slot key to remain in the taunt's pose.

“

Slap my hand. Click to listen — The Spy

”

The High Five! is an action item for all classes.

This item can be purchased at the Mann Co. Store or found randomly via the drop system. When the player holds down the action button, their character will enter one of two class-specific poses with the right hand held up high. Any nearby ally can then stand in front of the player and initiate a dual animation by activating their own High Five! or standard taunt. Only the initiator needs to have the item equipped in order to successfully complete the action.

If the High Five! is initiated with insufficient space to perform the co-op taunt, such as a map height difference or obstacle in front of the player, the taunt will not initiate and a message will appear on the HUD informing the player of why they cannot taunt.

Other nearby friendly players will receive a tutorial-like prompt on their screen the first time they see an ally initiate a High Five informing them of how and where to accept it.

Update history

October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)

• High Five! was added to the game.

October 17, 2011 Patch

• Fixed high five taunts applying the wielded weapon's taunt effect

Bugs

• If the command mp_usehwmvcds is set to 1, certain classes will not have their High Five! animations play. Instead, they will be stuck in the idle animation for their current weapon for the duration of the taunt.
• If two players use the item while standing on an Engineer's Teleporter Entrance, both will be teleported.
• If a Scout with the Sandman as the active weapon initiates the taunt but cancels it, the model for the Sandman's ball will disappear from the Scout's hand in the first-person view. The ball can still be launched normally.
• On occasion, a player will appear to be stuck in the High-Five position after holding the taunt between rounds. This does not hinder gameplay.
• If a Spy pulls out the Dead Ringer before initiating the High Five! and takes damage, the Spy doesn't Cloak and damage is still reduced.
• The particle effect created by the High Five! where the two participants' hands collide can occasionally be seen through walls.
• Because the High Five! moves the responder in front of the initiator, it can be exploited to bypass invisible boundaries, such as those guarding an enemy respawn point [1].

Trivia

• The animations for the High Five! taunt have existed within the game files since the WAR! Update.
• Bots are able to detect high fives and will return them should a human player initiate one.
• The High Five! comic "Hey Sniper!" features the Sniper who, faced with a dilemma, kicks down a chair in frustration while consulting a Mann Co. Catalogue before discovering the High Five! product. This scene is in fact a reworded copy of a panel from "The Insult That Made a 'Jarate Master' Out of Sniper", where the Sniper, angry from being picked on by men his own size, kicks down a chair in frustration before discovering Jarate from a Mann Co. Catalogue.

Gallery

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  Scout

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  Soldier

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  Pyro

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  Demoman

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  Heavy

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  Engineer

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  Medic

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  Sniper

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  Spy

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  Not enough space to High Five!

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  There is a drop in front of you when trying to High Five!

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  Promotional Comic