Heavy

Heavy
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Basic Information
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Type:	Defensive
Health:	300 /450 (See Health below for further details)
Speed:	77% (See Speed below for further details)
Meet the Heavy

“

Some people think they can outsmart me - maybe... maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet. Click to listen — The Heavy on intelligence

”

The Heavy, or Heavy Weapons Guy, is a towering hulk of a man that hails from the USSR. The Heavy is the largest and possibly most dangerous class in Team Fortress 2. Boasting the most default health and devastating firepower from his trusty Minigun, the Heavy is no pushover. The Heavy's Minigun can inflict heavy damage at a high rate of fire, allowing him to mow down most enemies in seconds. The Heavy's movement speed is his main weakness. Revving up or firing his Minigun brings his already unimpressive speed down to a snail's pace, making him a very easy target for Snipers and Spies. His slow speed makes him more dependent on support from Medics and Engineers to keep him in the fight. Aside from decimating entire teams, the Heavy is able to provide further support for his comrades with an oft-required health boost via his Sandvich, which, when consumed, is capable of healing him to full health. It can also be dropped to provide an instant 50% health boost to the Heavy himself or his greedy teammates. However, if he isn't careful, an enemy may pick up the dropped Sandvich for a health boost of their own.

The Heavy is the face of Team Fortress 2. He appears prominently on box-art and promotional materials, starred in the very first Meet the Team video, and has appeared in all further videos to date.

Bio

Name: Unknown Location of origin: Template:W Job: Mow Down Motto: "Shooting Good." Emblems:    Description: Like a hibernating bear, the Heavy appears to be a gentle giant. Also like a bear, confusing his deliberate, sleepy demeanor with gentleness will get you ripped limb from limb. Though he speaks simply and moves with an economy of energy that's often confused with napping, the Heavy isn't dumb; he's not your big friend and he generally wishes you'd just shut up before he has to make you shut up.

Health

Main articles: Health, Overheal

Modifier	Normal Max	Overhealed Max
Standard	300	450
While under Dalokohs Bar or Fishcake's effect.	350	450
Warrior's Spirit equipped.	280	420
While under Dalokohs Bar or Fishcake's effect and with the Warrior's Spirit equipped.	330	420

Speed

Main article: Speed

Modifier	Speed
Standard	77%
With Minigun, Natascha, Iron Curtain or Tomislav revved.	37%
With Brass Beast revved.	14.66%
While using the G.R.U..	99.67%
When buffed by the Buffalo Steak Sandvich.	103.5%

Basic strategy

Main articles: Heavy tips, Heavy strategy

• Hold MOUSE2 to keep your Minigun spinning, ready for approaching enemies.
• You're a great Medic buddy. Keep a clear line of sight to your Medic to keep the Medigun on you.
• Hit E to call for a Medic if you get hurt. Nearby Medics will be notified of your need.
• Your Minigun chews up a lot of ammo. Pick up fallen weapons to refill your supply.

Weapons

Main article: Weapons

Note: Weapon damage is approximate and listed at base value. See individual weapon pages for additional figures.

Primary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Minigun		200	N/A	Base: 520 / sec. Crit: 1080 / sec.	Secondary fire spins-up the barrel without firing.  Fires 4 bullets per unit of ammo used.
Unlock Natascha		200	N/A	Base: 390 / sec. Crit: 810 / sec.	Secondary fire spins-up the barrel without firing.  Fires 4 bullets per unit of ammo used.  On hit slows down enemy players.  Deals 25% less damage.  30% longer spin-up time.  Slowdown-on-hit effect is reduced over distance.
Promotional Iron Curtain		200	N/A	Base: 520 / sec. Crit: 1080 / sec.	Has the same attributes as the Minigun.
Craft Brass Beast		200	N/A	Base: 625 / sec. Crit: 1290 / sec.	Secondary fire spins-up the barrel without firing.  Fires 4 bullets per unit of ammo used.  +20% Damage done.  50% slower spin up time.  60% slower move speed when deployed.
Craft Tomislav		200	N/A	Base: 450 / sec. Crit: 900 / sec.	Secondary fire spins-up the barrel without firing.  Fires 4 bullets per unit of ammo used.  40% faster, silent spin up time.  20% slower firing speed.

Secondary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Shotgun		6	32	Base: 60 Crit: 180 [6 dmg. × 10 pellets]
Unlock Sandvich		1	∞	N/A	With primary fire or taunt key, restores 300 health over about 4 seconds.  With secondary fire, throws it for other players or self to restore 50% health.  If injured, after use it must recharge (over about 25.7 seconds or with any health pickup when at full health) to be used again.
Craft Dalokohs Bar		1	∞	N/A	Restores 60 health points over about 4 seconds.  Raises maximum health by 50 points for 30 seconds.
Craft Buffalo Steak Sandvich		1	∞	N/A	While active, grants 35% faster speed movement.  While active, all damage dealt and damage taken are Mini-Crits.  While active, player can only use melee weapons.  Effects last for 15 seconds.  With secondary fire, throws it for other players or self to restore 50% health.  After use it must recharge (over about 25.7 seconds or with any health pickup when at full health) to be used again.
Promotional Fishcake		1	∞	N/A	Has the same attributes as the Dalokohs Bar.
Craft Family Business		8	32	Base: 51 Crit: 153 [5.1 dmg. × 10 pellets]	+40% clip size.  -15% damage done.

Melee

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Fists		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Secondary fire will throw a right-handed punch (no difference from left-handed punch).
Unlock Killing Gloves of Boxing		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Secondary fire will throw a right-handed punch (no difference from left-handed punch).  On kill grants 5 seconds of guaranteed Critical hits for all weapons.  Has 20% slower swing rate.
Craft Gloves of Running Urgently		N/A	N/A	Base: 33 Crit: 99	Secondary fire will throw a right-handed punch (no difference from left-handed punch).  When active, grants 30% faster speed movement.  When active, drains 6 health per second.  Deals 50% less damage.
Craft Warrior's Spirit		N/A	N/A	Base: 85 Crit: 250	Secondary fire will throw a right-handed punch (no difference from left-handed punch).  +30% Damage done.  -20 Max health on wearer.
Craft Fists of Steel		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Secondary fire will throw a right-handed punch (no difference from left-handed punch).  -40% Damage done from ranged sources while active.  -20% Slower weapon switch.  +100% Damage done from melee sources while active.
Distributed Saxxy		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Limited item from the Replay Update.  Killed enemies freeze into solid Australium statues.
Craft Eviction Notice		N/A	N/A	Base: 26 Crit: 78	Secondary fire will throw a right-handed punch (no difference from left-handed punch).  +50% faster firing speed.  -60% damage done.

Taunt Attack

	Associated items	Description
	Fists  Saxxy	Main article: Showdown With a flick of the wrist, the Heavy mimics a quick-draw Pistol Showdown and shouts. "Pow! Haha!"

Item sets

Main article: Item sets

The Hibernating Bear
	Brass Beast Buffalo Steak Sandvich Warrior's Spirit Big Chief
Effect	No effect

Main article: Item sets

Black Market Business
	Tomislav Family Business Eviction Notice Capo's Capper
Effect	No effect

Hats

Main article: Hats

Official class avatars

Official class avatars
Original set	RED ÜberCharged set	BLU ÜberCharged set
Get TF2 avatars on Steam: Original

Achievements

Main article: Heavy achievements Heavy pack: 35 achievements, 3 milestones.

Update history

October 8, 2007 Patch

• Fixed Heavy minigun exploit

April 29, 2008 Patch (Gold Rush Update)

• Added new speech for the Heavy

August 19, 2008 Patch (A Heavy Update)

• Added Natascha, The Sandvich and The Killing Gloves of Boxing
• Added 35 new Heavy achievements
• Fixed players getting stuck in a bad animation state when class switching while spinning the minigun
• Fixed a bug which caused the minigun spinning & firing sounds to occasionally stop while the Heavy was still firing
• [Undocumented] Added a new Fists kill icon.
  • The previous kill icon is assigned to the Killing Gloves of Boxing.
• [Undocumented] Showdown becomes a taunt kill attack.
• [Undocumented] Added a new fist bodygroup to the Heavy model.

January 28, 2009 Patch

• Fixed Natascha not getting the proper 75% of damage and slightly increased the strength of Natascha's slowdown

February 2, 2009 Patch

• Slight reduction (improvement) of the minigun's spread
• Rewrote Natascha's slowdown code to be more consistent

February 16, 2009 Patch

• Removed Natascha's ammo belt in first person view model

February 25, 2009 Patch

• Players with full health can now pick up dropped Sandviches
• Fixed the Heavy's hands disappearing when he's stunned while wearing the KGB

March 5, 2009 Patch

• Fixed a bug that caused Natascha's slow on hit effect to be inverted from 75% to 25%

March 13, 2009 Patch

• Fixed Natascha's chain not being drawn on the view model
• Fixed stun code regression that resulted in a subtle reduction of Natascha's slowdown effect

May 21, 2009 Patch (The Sniper vs. Spy Update)

• The Heavy and Sniper now have new custom death animations
• Added hat Football Helmet

June 8, 2009 Patch

• Added a backstab custom death animation to the Heavy

June 25, 2009 Patch

• Fixed the Heavy's punches not matching mouse button presses when the view models are flipped

August 13, 2009 Patch (Classless Update)

• Heavies spinning their mini-guns will continue to spin when stunned (whether the left or right mouse button is pressed)
• Fixed Heavy "civilian" exploit
• Added Hats: Officer's Ushanka and Tough Guy's Toque

August 21, 2009 Patch

• Fixed being able to alt-fire with the fists while stunned as a Heavy

September 15, 2009 Patch

• Alt-fire on the Sandvich now drops sandviches
  • A single sandvich can be dropped at a time. Dropping the Sandvich removes it from the Heavy
  • A Heavy can regain his sandvich by collecting a healthkit while already being at full health
  • Eating a Sandvich using the taunt method now heals a Heavy to full health
  • Dropped Sandviches heal 50% of the collector's health

October 14, 2009 Patch

• Fixed being able to eat your Sandvich (via taunt) and drop it in the same frame
• Fixed thrown Sandvich traveling through players before being activated
• Fixed Sandviches sometimes spawning inside walls, or being thrown through thin walls

December 7, 2009 Patch

• Fixed the Heavy's fists being hidden while taunting

December 22, 2009 Patch

• Fixed the Heavy picking up his own thrown Sandvich if it was thrown while running forward

December 22, 2009 Patch

• Achievement fixes
  • Fixed the "Gorky Parked" Heavy achievement being incremented by committing suicide on a control point
  • Updated the "Big Pharma" (Medic) and "Division of Labor" (Heavy) achievements to be 10 kills in a single life

January 13, 2010 Patch

• Shotgun reload for Heavy & Pyro changed to feel more appropriate now

March 18, 2010 Patch (First Community Contribution Update)

• Added weapon: Dalokohs Bar
• Added hat: Hound Dog

April 28, 2010 Patch

• Minigun spin-up/down time reduced by 25%
• Minigun firing movement speed increased to just under half-normal (from 80 to 110).
• Throwing a Sandvich to a teammate now earns a full bonus point (was half a point).

May 20, 2010 Patch (Second Community Contribution Update)

• Added hat: Heavy Duty Rag

July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)

• The Sandvich now uses a cooldown timer, instead of the health pack recharge mechanic

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)

• Added Weapon: Gloves of Running Urgently
• Added Hats: Pugilist's Protector and Hard Counter
• Achievement tuning
  • Heavy achievement "Krazy Ivan" changed to 50 from 100
• [Undocumented] Removed the cooldown timer from the Sandvich and the Dalokohs Bar when eating
  • This was later revealed to be a bug, as Valve tried to make the Sandvich/Dalokohs Bar only trigger the cooldown when the heavy was hurt when he starts eating, likely in an attempt to revive "Heavy Picnics". It has since been correctly patched
• [Undocumented] Added unused "Hi-five" taunt

October 6, 2010 Patch

• Fixed the Sandvich cooldown not occurring when the Heavy is hurt
• Fixed the Heavy's hands being invisible
• The Pugilist's Protector, The Hard Counter, Football Helmet paint effects are more noticeable
• The Gloves of Running Urgently now using the boxing taunt and boxing glove weapons are now of the type "Boxing Gloves" instead of "Fists."

October 8, 2010 Patch

• Fixed an exploit that allowed people to bypass the Gloves of Running Urgently's damage taking penalty

October 27, 2010 Patch (Scream Fortress)

• Added hat: Cadaver's Cranium
• [Undocumented] Added the Cadaver's Cranium and Heavy Duty Rag to the store

November 3, 2010 Patch

• Added the Dealer's Visor for players who pre-purchase Poker Night from Telltale Games

November 19, 2010 Patch

• Added Telltale Games items:
  • The Iron Curtain: The Heavy's first love (equipped by the Heavy, obviously)
• Fixed a Heavy exploit that let him run at full speed while shooting
• Fixed the shotgun reload animations for the Heavy looping endlessly

December 7, 2010 Patch

• Fixed a bug that enabled players to weapon switch away from the Iron Curtain during spin down

December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas)

• 'Natascha' changes:
  • Spin-up time increased
  • Slowdown-on-hit effect is reduced over distance
• Added 'The Hibernating Bear' item set
• Added new weapons: 'The Fists of Steel', 'The Buffalo Steak Sandvich', 'The Brass Beast' and 'The Warrior's Spirit'
• Added new hats: 'Big Chief', 'Magnificent Mongolian' and 'Coupe D'isaster'

December 21, 2010 Patch

• The following hats are now paintable or have had their paintability improved: Coupe D'isaster

December 22, 2010 Patch

• The Buffalo Steak Sandvich's speed boost no longer stacks with other speed boosts

January 7, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] The spin-up and spin-down animations of the Heavy's miniguns were changed

January 19, 2011 Patch

• Added a new plate model to be used when a Heavy throws the Buffalo Steak Sandvich to heal teammates
• [Undocumented] Textures of The Iron Curtain were updated

February 3, 2011 Patch

• Updated sounds for the Brass Beast

February 22, 2011 Patch

• Updated the Red team skin for the Fists of Steel

February 28, 2011 Patch

• The Hard Counter and Pugilist's Protector were added to the Mann Co. Store

March 10, 2011 Patch (Shogun Pack)

• Added hat: Dread Knot

March 15, 2011 Patch

• Crafting recipe for the following weapons changed Brass Beast, Buffalo Steak Sandvich, Dalokohs Bar, Gloves of Running Urgently and Warrior's Spirit

April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)

• Item changes:
  • Removed item cool down meter and ammo count when using the Dalokohs Bar
  • Increase Fists of Steel deploy times 20% and Ranged damage reduced 40% (down from 60%)

April 28, 2011 Patch

• Added Fishcake

May 5, 2011 Patch (Replay Update)

• Added new hats: Large Luchadore and The Team Captain
• Fixed the Gloves of Running Urgently not using the correct skin in the character loadout screen

May 6, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Removed the ability to craft the Fishcake using a secondary slot token

May 25, 2011 Patch

• Added the Fishcake to the list of weapons allowed in Medieval mode

June 8, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] New laughing taunt animations have been added but are currently unused

June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)

• Added weapons: Tomislav, Family Business and Eviction Notice
• Added hat: Capo's Capper
• Added misc: Pocket Medic

June 28, 2011 Patch

• Tomislav spin-up reduction has been reduced from 75% to 40% (so it now spins-up slower)
• Tuned Brass Beast recoil to have less of an impact on your aiming reticle.

July 1, 2011 Patch

• Added new Hats Big Steel Jaw of Summer Fun and Copper's Hard Top
• Added new Misc Security Shades
• Fixed a bug allowing players to switch from the Saxxy to Heavy's primary weapon after eating a Buffalo Steak Sandvich
• Fixed an exploit with the Heavy's Buffalo Steak Sandvich

July 7, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Fixed Buffalo Steak Sandvich allowing the user to switch to a primary weapon.

July 18, 2011 Patch

• Copper's Hard Top, Big Steel Jaw of Summer Fun and Security Shades became craftable

July 22, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Changed Tomislav Description "This weapon has no barrel spin sound" is now "Silent Killer: No barrel spin sound"

August 2, 2011 Patch

• Added new hat: Pilotka

August 3, 2011 Patch

• Added new hat: Tamrielic Relic

August 18, 2011 Patch (Manno-Technology Bundle)

• Added new Misc Purity Fist

Bugs

• The Heavy's bullet chain slung around his large body clips through his front and back quite noticeably in world view.
• In third-person, the Heavy's gloves appear to be a dark brown, where in first-person the gloves are black.
• Sometimes when the Heavy dies while firing the Minigun, a glitch appears after the respawn that shows a muzzle flash and the sound of shooting while the gun itself is unrevved.
• Depleting all of the ammo of any Minigun by lightly tapping the primary fire while keeping it spun-up with secondary fire allows the Heavy to appear to be firing indefinitely despite having no ammunition. Sounds will play and a muzzle flash is visible, but no damage will be dealt.
• A Heavy with any melee weapon as his active weapon can continue to attack while stunned, albeit with invisible animations.

Trivia

• The Heavy's voice actor, Gary Schwartz, also voices the Demoman class.
• The songs the Heavy may sing as part of his response rules include Mily Balakirev's 'Song of the Volga Boatmen', Chopin's 'Funeral March', Khachaturian's 'Sabre Dance'.
• The emblem on the Heavy's sleeve was originally a skull and crossbones. This is still visible in Meet the Heavy and in a backdrop for TF2's library page on Steam.
• The Heavy is the mascot of "Heavy Gulp," a brand of drink sold in Left 4 Dead 2.
• In the Left 4 Dead comic "The Sacrifice", a RED Heavy statue appears on Louis' work desk during his recollection. [1]
• The Heavy takes a starring role in Telltale Games' Poker Night at the Inventory; players can unlock the Iron Curtain for use in Team Fortress 2 by beating him in a special round. In addition to being one of the 4 main characters, the Heavy makes appearances in two of the unlockable card decks. In the "TF2" card deck, he appears as the King card for both of the red suits - diamonds and hearts - and in the "Poker Night" card deck, he appears as the King of Diamonds.
• The Heavy makes an appearance in Worms: Reloaded as part of one of the forts; the rest of the fort is composed of Dustbowl. A plastic mask of the Heavy also makes an appearance as one of the hats selectable for the player's worms.
• The Gunner class of Monday Night Combat has a promo item resembling the Heavy's ammo belt, named "Bavcon".
  • The name "Bavcon" comes from bandolier, the type of ammo belt that Heavy wears. Bacon is a running gag throughout Monday Night Combat.
• The Heavy lives in a remote log mansion in the Template:W.
• John Henry was hired as the first BLU team Heavy.
• Heavy posted his first blog post on April 7, 2011 while Soldier was on jury duty.
• In the Meet the Director comic, it was revealed that Heavy sleeps in a bed next to Sasha, who is in a smaller bed.
  • It was also mentioned that the Heavy's father was a "counter-revolutionary" who was executed, and that his mother, sisters and himself were sent to a north Siberian Gulag in September 1941. The gulag was destroyed and all prisoners escaped in December of the same year.

Gallery

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  Team Fortress Heavy Weapons Guy model

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  The Heavy class of Team Fortress Classic.

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  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy

• Heavy concept r.png

  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy

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  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy, with a mullet

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  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy

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  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy

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  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy

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  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy

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  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy

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  Concept art of the Heavy Weapons Guy

• Heavy back.jpg

  Trading card front

• Heavy2.jpg

  Trading card back

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  The Heavy's mugshot from the Über Update.

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  The Heavy Card as seen in the "TF2 Deck" in Poker Night at the Inventory (hearts and diamonds).

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  The "Poker Night Deck" Heavy Card, as seen in Poker Night at the Inventory.

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  The Heavy Weapons Guy mask as a selectable Worms: Reloaded worm hat

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  The in-game item for Monday Night Combat; "Bavcon".

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  Class card

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  Arsenal

Related merchandise

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  The Sandvich T-Shirt

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  The Heavy T-Shirt

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  The Heavy RED Figurine

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  The Heavy BLU Figurine

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  The Heavy Poster

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  Anatomy of Heavy Weapons Guy Poster

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  The Minigun Poster

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  The Sandvich Poster

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  Team Mousepad

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  RED Team Mousepad

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  Heavy Mousepad

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  The Team Poster

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  Heavy Class Decal, White

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  Heavy Class Decal, Black

See also

• Meet the Heavy
• Meet the Sandvich
• Heavy match-ups
• Anti-Heavy strategy
• Heavy taunts
• Heavy responses
• Heavy voice commands
• Basic Heavy strategy
• Community Heavy strategy
• List of references (Heavy)
• Heavy Weapons Guy (Classic)

External links

• Heavy page on the Official TF2 Website
• "A Heavy Update"
• TF2 Official Blog - A Heavy Problem
• TF2 Official Blog - So much blood!
• TF2 Official Blog - Incoming Heavy!
• TF2 Official Blog - This is Very Good Title to Blog Post