Southern Hospitality

“

Take it like a man, shorty. Click to listen — The Engineer on accepting physical trauma

”

The Southern Hospitality is an unlockable, community-made melee weapon used by the Engineer. It appears as a modified Pipe Wrench with a spiked knuckle guard and a sharp metal piece on the top.

Striking an opponent with this weapon will cause them to bleed, allowing players to chase fleeing Cloaked Spies. On the other hand, this weapon will not deliver random Critical hits, and players wielding it will have a 20% fire vulnerability.

Equipping the Gunslinger or the Wrench will destroy all existing Buildings.

Damage

See also: Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 88
• Critical hit: 195
• Damage Repaired per Hit: 105
• Upgrade Amount per Hit: 25 (Corresponding loss in metal)
• Metal Cost per Repairing Stroke: 1 + Damage / 5
• Metal Cost for reloading ammo: 1 per bullet, 2 per rocket salvo

• Bleeding Damage: 3-5 damage per tick, 8.5 damage per second for 5 seconds (42.5 damage total)

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8
• Bleed Duration: 5

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

Blueprint

Ambassador		Scrap Metal		Southern Hospitality
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Related Achievements

Built to Last Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed. Circle the Wagons Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players. Doc, Stock, and Barrel Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic. Fistful of Sappers Destroy 25 sappers on buildings built by other team members. Get Along! Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away.

Land Grab Help a teammate construct a building. Quick Draw Kill a Spy and two sappers within 10 seconds. Rio Grind Perform 50 repairs and/or reloads on a Sentry gun being Wrangled by another Engineer. Silent Pardner Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members. The Wrench Connection Kill a disguised spy with your Wrench.

Trivia

Radigan Conagher holding the Southern Hospitality.

• The Southern Hospitality, as with the Frontier Justice, the Wrangler, and the Gunslinger, appears to have been designed by Radigan Conagher, the Engineer's ancestor. This is shown by a hidden link in the Engineer Update.
• The model was submittted by WatchMaker| using the contribute page. He suggested the name 'Beat All'.
• The name "Southern Hospitality" is derived from the same phrase describing the warm and welcoming American South; an ironic statement considering the fact that it is a weapon causing excessive bleeding.
• The Southern Hospitality is one of two weapons that requires a Scrap Metal to craft, the other being the Pain Train.
• The Southern Hospitality is the second weapon in the game to cause players to bleed, the first being the Tribalman's Shiv.
• The Southern Hospitality is the only community-made weapon that was released with a class update.
• The Southern Hospitality appears to have a bottle opener incorporated at the top, implying the Engineer may also enjoy beer in his spare time.
• There is also a glitch that allows the Southern Hospitality to be used in conjunction with The Gunslinger. The Gunslinger is not usable and not visible in world view.
• Since the Polycount update, the Southern Hospitality's kill icon turned lighter gray than normal.
• Even though the wrench has spikes along the knuckles they are never used.

Gallery

• Southern Hospitality 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

• Gunslinger Glitch.JPG

  Southern Hospitality and Gunslinger

See also

• Southern Hospitality strategy