Iron Curtain

For the achievement of a similar name, please see Heavy achievements.

Iron Curtain
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Basic Information
Used by:	Heavy
Slot:	Primary
Availability:	Promotional
Tradable:	No
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Medieval:	No
Ammo
Ammo loaded:	200
Reload type:	No Reload
Available Qualities
Unique
Loadout Stats
The Iron Curtain 1 - 100

“

The Heavy has spared no expense in crafting this historic tribute to the mother land. Forged from Soviet iron and inlaid with the remaindered mahogany from Alexander II's favorite chair, each kill is not only for "pride of team," but for the Republic. — Official Description

”

The Iron Curtain is a promotional primary weapon for the Heavy. It appears to be a Minigun made partially out of wood, with identifiable features such as a Communist Hammer and Sickle emblem visible on the ammo casing and a smoking vent on the side. This weapon was supposedly crafted by the Heavy himself. The weapon functions in exactly the same way as the standard Minigun.

It is awarded to players of Template:W for defeating the Heavy during a special bonus round.

Damage

See also: Damage

Range	Damage per 1 ammo	Critical damage	Damage per second
Point Blank	50-54	108	500-540 (Crit: 1080)
Medium	5-30	27/54/81/108	50-300 (Crit: 540)
Long	5-10	27/54	50-100 (Crit: 270)

• Base: 9 per bullet
• Max Ramp Up: 150% (13.5 damage per bullet)
• Max Fall Off: 50% (4.5 damage per bullet)
• Bullet Count: 4 per ammo
• Mini-Crit: 12 per bullet
• Critical hit: 27 per bullet

Base damage is subject to distance-based damage falloff.

Note: The Critical hit DPS; long range assumes 1 Crit bullet hits per 1 ammo, medium range assumes 2 Crit bullets hit per 1 ammo, point blank range assumes all 4 bullets hit per 1 ammo. Medium range is defined as the main resupply door to the opposite wall on the upper level of 2Fort. Long range is defined as battlement to battlement on 2Fort. Base damage is the damage done at 512 units before damage variance or bullet spread. Ramp up maxes out at 0 units. Fall off maxes out at 1024 units. Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.1
• Windup Time: .87

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

Previous Changes

November 19, 2010 Patch

• In the first part of the patch the Iron Curtain was marked as craftable and could be found via the item drop system. The second patch on this day removed these attributes. All items crafted were then marked as untradeable.

Winning

Bugs

• The Iron Curtain has a quick switch effect between weapons by ignoring the spin-down time. Considering that the Iron Curtain is a promotional item, this is likely to be an unintended side-effect.
• The bullet flash coming from the end of the Iron Curtain is further out than the actual end.

Trivia

• The Iron Curtain is canonically the Heavy's first Minigun before Sasha. Telltale initially revealed that the Heavy would wager Sasha in the bonus round.
  • In fact, Heavy refers to the Iron Curtain as Sasha in Poker Night, likely due to voice lines not having been changed.
• The name of this weapon is a reference to a quote from British Prime Minster Winston Churchill, in which he said the "Iron Curtain" would divide the Soviet Union's territory from the Western Democracies.
• The Iron Curtain has team-colored paint in Poker Night at the Inventory.

Gallery

• Iron Curtain 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

• 

  A preliminary version of the Iron Curtain.

See also

• Iron Curtain strategy

Related Achievements

Heavy Industry Fire $200,000 worth of minigun rounds in a single life. Marxman Kill 10 enemies in mid-air with the minigun.

Permanent Revolution Kill 5 enemies without spinning down your gun.

Poker Night at the Inventory

Special Item: The Heavy Knock out The Heavy after he's bought in with his special item.

External links

• TF2 Official Blog: "Shh. Sascha is asleep." – November 3, 2010