Gun Mettle Update

This article is for content released in the update. For the patch itself, see July 2, 2015 Patch.

The Gun Mettle Update is a major update that introduced weapon skins, 4 new maps, and 3 new taunts. It also introduced the Gun Mettle Campaign, a three-month event allowing players to complete skill-based challenges to unlock one-of-a-kind weapons and exclusive weapon cases. Players must purchase the Gun Mettle Campaign Pass in order to participate in the event.

Additions

Maps

Name	Picture	Game mode	File name
Borneo		Payload	pl_borneo
Powerhouse	160px	Control Point	cp_powerhouse
Snowplow		Control Point	cp_snowplow
Suijin		King of the Hill	koth_suijin

Cosmetics

Main article: Cosmetic items

Added in August 27, 2015 Patch

Tools

Main article: Tools

Tweaked Classes

Class	Changes
Heavy	Changed: Minigun damage penalty on Level 2 and Level 3 Sentries slightly decreased. Level 2 Sentry resistance changed from 20% to 15% and Level 3 changed from 33% to 20%.
Engineer	Changed: Construction boosts (wrench hits, redeploys) from multiple sources is now additive instead of multiplicative. Calculations are based around a 1x base building speed.
	Changed: Changing Wrenches no longer destroys all buildings, only if the building type is changed (Switching from a Wrench to Gunslinger or vice versa).
	Changed: Increased base wrench construction speed on hit boost by 50%. Buildings now build 2.5x faster instead of just 2x (additive of 1.5x + base speed).
	Changed: Teleporters and Dispensers redeploy +50% faster (2.5x without wrench boost, 5.5x with wrench boost).
	Changed: Hauling speed penalty reduced from 25% to 10%.
	Changed: Building repair costs increased from 20 metal to 33 metal to repair 100hp per wrench hit (from 5HP per metal to 3HP per metal).
Spy	Changed: The Revolver's reload animation now no longer obstructs its user's aim.
	Changed: Changing to a new disguise now takes only 0.5 seconds, instead of 2 seconds.
	Added: While invisible, Spy receives 20% less damage from all damage sources.
	Added: While invisible, Spy has reduced timer on debuffs (fire, jarate, milk, bleed).
	Changed: Decreased Revolver damage penalty on sapped Sentries from -66% to -33%.

Tweaked Weapons

Class	Weapon	Changes
Scout	Baby Face's Blaster	Added: Added Boost reduction on taking damage.
		Changed: Increased amount of Boost lost on air jump
	Shortstop	Changed: No longer uses secondary ammo and now uses primary ammo instead
		Changed: Healing and knockback passives are only active when weapon is deployed
	Fan O'War	Added: Now crits whenever it would normally mini-crit
		Changed: Reduced Damage penalty from -90% to -75%
	Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol	Changed: Passive effects on the Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol are only in effect when the weapon is deployed
		Changed: Removed +15 max health passive
		Added: Added up to +3 health per hit
		Changed: Changed damage vulnerability from +50% fire to +20% all sources while active
Soldier	Air Strike	Removed: Removed clipsize penalty.
		Changed: Reduced radius penalty from -15% to -10%
		Changed: Reduced damage penalty from -25% to -15%
		Changed: Rocket jump blast damage reduction reduced from -25% to -15%
	Equalizer Escape Plan	Changed: Changed no healing penalty to 90% less healing from Medics while active
	Black Box	Changed: Changed +15 health on hit to +20 health on hit per attack
		Changed: Changed how health on hit works for radius damage. Is now capped per attack and scales with total damage done relative to base damage. (i.e. doing 45 damage nets +10 health on hit as base damage is 90. Hitting 3 enemies for 45 each for a total of 135 damage only returns +20 health)
	Liberty Launcher	Added: Now has +25% clip size
Pyro	Flare Gun	Added: Added text to describe 100% critical hits on burning targets
	Scorch Shot	Changed: Reduced damage penalty from -50% to -35%
		Added: Now has increased knock back on burning targets
		Changed: Increased the blast radius from flares from 92Hu to 110Hu
		Added: Hits and explosions always minicrit burning targets
	Detonator	Added: Added text to describe 100% minicrits on burning targets
		Changed: Slightly increased blast jump height when doing a Detonator jump
		Changed: Increased blast radius from 92Hu to 110Hu
		Added: Detonated explosions now also minicrit burning targets
		Changed: Increased damage penalty to -25%
		Changed: Increased self-damage penalty from +25% to +50%
	Powerjack	Changed: Reduced health gained on kill from +75hp to +25hp
Demoman	Tide Turner	Changed: Self damage will no longer decrease charge when charging
		Changed: Fall damage will no longer decrease charge when charging
		Changed: Amount of charge taken away on damage when charging reduced from 3 to 1 per point of damage.
	Ali Baba's Wee Booties Bootlegger	Added: Added +10% movement speed bonus
		Changed: Changed 25 charge on charge kill to 25 charge on melee kill
	Claidheamh Mòr	Changed: Changed 25 charge on charge kill to 25 charge on melee kill
	Loch-n-Load	Changed: Changed +20% damage bonus to +20% damage against buildings
	Iron Bomber	Changed: Removed damage penalty on self-detonate
		Changed: Reduced radius penalty from -20% to -15%
	Quickiebomb Launcher	Added: Damage is now increased based on charge amount when the bomb is fired.
	Ullapool Caber	Changed: Reduced explosion base damage from 100 to 75
		Changed: Reduced damage ramp up bonus for close range attacks. Now is the same as other explosive weapons.
Heavy	Brass Beast	Added: Added 20% damage resistance while spun up
	Tomislav	Added: Now 20% more accurate (less spread)
		Added: Increased spin up bonus from 10% to 20%
	Natascha	Added: Added 20% damage resistance while spun up
		Added: Stun amount now has distance falloff. Decreases starting at 512hu down to zero stun at 1536Hu
	Family Business	Added:Now has +15% increased attack speed
	Warrior's Spirit	Added: Now has +10 health on hit
	Eviction Notice	Added: Now has 3 second speed boost on hit
	Dalokohs Bar	Added: Now has 10 second cool down on use
		Changed: Can now overheal up to 400hp
		Added: Can be thrown (alt-fire) as a small medkit for other players to use
Engineer	Gunslinger	Added: Mini Sentries can now be repaired
		Changed: Mini Sentries can now be wrench construction boosted
		Changed: Mini Sentry base build speed decreased. Mini Sentries that are wrench boosted build slightly faster than previously.
		Changed: Mini Sentries start at 50% health on construction and gain health during construction instead of starting at 100%
		Changed: Metal gibs from destroyed Mini Sentries no longer grant any metal.
	Pomson 6000	Changed: Uber and Cloak drain decreases over distance from target. Decreases start at 512 Hammer Units (Hu) from target and reach 0 drain at 1536Hu
	Rescue Ranger	Changed: Decreased cost of long range building pick up from 130 metal to 100 metal
	Wrangler	Changed:Ammo and Repair given to a shielded Sentry is reduced by the strength of the shield (66% reduced) when shield is active
		Changed: Engineer death keeps the Wrangled sentry shielded and disabled for 3 seconds, same as when Wrangler is switched away. (Previously Engineer death caused disable state for only 1 second)
	Jag	Changed:With the change to Base Construction boost, Jag bonus has improved. 30% increase of 1.5x makes a total of 1.95x (total of 2.95x when base speed is added)
		Added: Added +15% swing speed.
		Added: Added 20% repair penalty. Repairs will give up to 80hp per swing instead 100hp per swing.
	Short Circuit	Added: Projectile destruction has been moved to alt-fire at the cost of -15 per shot. There is a 0.5s cool down between attempts and refire
		Added: Cannot pick up buildings when the Short Circuit is deployed
	Eureka Effect	Added: Previous penalties have been removed and replaced with the following:
		Construction hit speed boost decreased by 50%
		50% less metal from pickups and dispensers
Medic	Vaccinator	Added: Vaccinator Uber deploys now always take exactly 1 bar of Ubercharge.
		Added: Vaccinator Uber deploys give the patient a 2.5 second bubble of 75% damage resistance of the current resist type and full crit resistance to that type. These bubbles do not disappear if the medic stops targeting the current patient. Multiple bubbles of different types can be applied to the same patient or multiple patients given the same resist uber each consuming 1 charge.
		Changed: Vaccinator uber build now suffers the same penalties as other mediguns when it comes to multiple medics on the same target and max overhealed patients.
		Changed:Decreased the bonus healing a Medic received for properly selecting the right damage resistance type from 25% of incoming damage to 10% of incoming damage
		Added: Added Penalty of 66% decreased ubercharge build rate while healing a overhealed patient
	Solemn Vow	Added: Added 10% attack speed penalty
Sniper	Sydney Sleeper	Added: Jarate now applies on all scoped shots, duration scales with charge duration (2 to 8 seconds)
	Bazaar Bargain	Added: No longer lose heads on miss
		Added: Collecting a head requires a headshot kill and not just a headshot
		Changed: Each head boosts charge rate by 25% up to 200%
		Changed: Charge rate penalty changed from -20% to -50%.
		Changed: Now requires 2 headshot kills to be back at base speed and 6 kills for 200% charge rate
	Cozy Camper	Changed: Removed increased damage taken penalty
	Bushwacka	Changed: Changed penalty from +20% fire vulnerability to +20% damage vulnerability while active
Spy	Spy-cicle	Changed: Changed fire immunity for 3 seconds to fire immunity for 1 second and 10 seconds of afterburn immunity
		Changed: Removed silent killer attribute
		Added: Spy-cicle recharge timer can now be reduced by picking up ammo boxes
	Enforcer	Changed: Changed +20% damage bonus while undisguised to +20% damage bonus while disguised
	Big Earner	Added: Added 3 second speed gain on kill
	Conniver's Kunai	Changed: Health penalty reduced from -65 to -55 (70 Health total)
		Changed: Minimum Health gain of 75 on kill
		Changed: Maximum overheal from Kunai increased from 195 to 210
	Cloak and Dagger	Added: Can now pick up ammo kits for cloak meter while visible. Previously could not pick up ammo packs for cloak. Cloak gain is at a reduced rate when compared to stock invis watch on ammo pick up
	Dead Ringer	Changed: Triggering Feign Death instantly removes 50% cloak meter
		Changed: Changed increased drain rate to a decreased drain rate. Overall duration of invisibility is still 7 seconds when accounting for initial spend of 50 cloak meter for triggering Feign Death
		Changed: Decreased cloak regen rate from +80% to +50%
		Changed: When Feign Death is triggered, the Spy receives a 3 second speed boost
		Changed: Initial attack that triggers feign death has its damage reduced by 50%
		Changed: Damage resistance on triggering feign death scales over time. 65% to 20% over 3 seconds
		Changed: Feign Death stealth has no bump shimmer for 3 seconds
		Changed: 3 seconds after triggering Feign Death, the Spy is under normal invisible conditions (20% armor and shimmers if bumped or shot)
		Changed: Can no longer pick up ammo for cloak meter while cloaked
	Disguise Kit	Added: Pressing 'reload' (Default bind: R ) also toggles the disguise team.
Soldier Pyro Heavy Engineer	Panic Attack	Changed: Base Fire rate increased (from 15% to 30%)
		Added: Added increased switch to speed by +50%
		Changed: Base reload speed increased (from 33% to 50%)

Achievements

Five new achievements were introduced in this update.

Balance of Power Win a round in which the enemy team has attempted to capture your final control point. Power Down Kill 15 enemies while they are capturing a point. The Power and the Glory Win 142 Rounds.

Wet Work Kill five enemies while they are in the water. Power Trip Capture the final control point within 15 seconds of your team capturing the previous control point.

Gallery

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  The update page for part 1

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  The update page for part 2, without the list of class and weapon tweaks

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  Steam popup advertising the Gun Mettle Update.

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  A gallery of the Teufort weapon collection.

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  A gallery of the Powerhouse weapon collection.

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  A gallery of the Concealed Killer weapon collection.

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  A gallery of the Craftsmann weapon collection.

External links

• Gun Mettle update
• Update page
• The Gun Mettle Update