Gloves of Running Urgently

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The G.R.U. (Gloves of Running Urgently) are a craftable melee weapon for the Heavy. They appear as large, smooth, padded boxing gloves in team colours with flame decals.

When the G.R.U. is the active weapon, it adds a 30% speed bonus, allowing the Heavy to move faster than the Soldier and Demoman, but slightly slower in comparison to the other classes. It also drains 6 health per second on the wearer, indicated by a team coloured skull particle appearing over the player each time health is lost. Continual use of the G.R.U, therefore, will result in the Heavy's death, either from other players or the weapon itself. The player will also only be able to deliver 50% damage when hitting an enemy with this weapon.

Similar to the Fists and K.G.B, when the Heavy dies holding this weapon, he will drop his Minigun in order to provide ammo and metal. The Critical hit animation with the G.R.U is also the same as the Fists and K.G.B.; a right handed uppercut.

Damage

See also: Damage

• Point Blank: 32 (29 to 35 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 43
• Critical hit: 96
• Average Damage per Second (DPS): 40

Note: * Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Effects

• Increases movement speed while equipped to 299 Hammer Units per second, or nearly 100% of the 300 HU/sec baseline (see also Speed).
• Hit points decrease by 6 HP/sec while equipped. Each ping of damage features minor knockback which can be exploited to move even further, horizontally or vertically, while airborne. This can be used to reach previously inaccessible or difficult to reach areas.

Trivia

• G.R.U. is an acronym for the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye, the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, (formerly the Red Army General Staff of the Soviet Union). G.R.U. is actually an English transliteration of the Russian acronym ГРУ, which stands for "Главное Разведывательное Управление", meaning Main Intelligence Directorate. The G.R.U. is Russia's largest foreign intelligence bureau, deploying 6 times as many agents as the SVR (The K.G.B.'s intelligence successor) and commanded as many as 25,000 'Spetznaz' Special Forces Units in 1997.
• The G.R.U. were featured in the closed beta, the attributes of which were leaked by testers. The G.R.U. did not have their own unique taunt, model, or texture and instead used the K.G.B. model and Showdown taunt as placeholders. The first version of the G.R.U. increased the movement speed of the Heavy, but reduced the damage done by 50% and decreased max health by 100. These effects only took place while the weapon was active. A 'Beta 2' version exists, where the Heavy receives less health from healing sources rather than a loss of max health. A 'Beta 3' version replaces the max health loss with a 6 health drain per second while the weapon is active.
• The G.R.U. use the Showdown taunt, which causes the Heavies fingers to clip through the gloves themselves. This has been confirmed as a glitch and should be remedied soon.
• It is interesting to note that the health loss given by the G.R.U is identical in manner as the afterburn effect given by weapons of the Pyro.
• The health loss given by this weapon is a suitable candidate for building an ÜberCharge.

Gallery

• G.R.U. 1st person red cropped.png

  RED 1st person view.

• G.R.U. 1st person red.png

  Full RED 1st person view.

• G.R.U. 1st person blu cropped.png

  BLU 1st person view.

• G.R.U. 1st person blu.png

  Full BLU 1st person view.

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  The team-colored skulls emitted from a Heavy while wearing the Gloves.