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* The melee weapon for the [[Special Delivery (item set)|Special Delivery]] pack was originally a [https://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1137694&postcount=2 spiked bat] named "Nail Biter" before being replaced by the Holy Mackerel. | * The melee weapon for the [[Special Delivery (item set)|Special Delivery]] pack was originally a [https://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1137694&postcount=2 spiked bat] named "Nail Biter" before being replaced by the Holy Mackerel. | ||
* As part of a cross-promotion, the Holy Mackerel was available as a melee weapon in ''[[Alliance of Valiant Arms]]'', before it was shut down on June 29th, 2018. | * As part of a cross-promotion, the Holy Mackerel was available as a melee weapon in ''[[Alliance of Valiant Arms]]'', before it was shut down on June 29th, 2018. | ||
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== Gallery == | == Gallery == |
Revision as of 23:29, 2 December 2022
“ | Tired of people telling you what you can or cannot use as a weapon? Those days are over! This fish is PURE ACTION!
— Holy Mackerel publicity blurb
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The Holy Mackerel is a community-created melee weapon for the Scout. It is a fish, presumably a mackerel, wrapped in faded, dirty newspaper and tied with a rubber band. The end of the newspaper is shaped for easy handling. The Festive version replaces the newspaper with gift wrap, and places five small, team-colored lights around the handle, as well as one large one in the fish's mouth. The Festivized version of the Holy Mackerel is similar to the default, with nine small team-colored festive lights wrapped around it with a battery pack charging the lights. While the Scout is moving, the Holy Mackerel bends around, depending on your direction.
The Holy Mackerel functions identically to the default Bat. However, every successful hit by the weapon on another player is announced in the kill feed, showing the weapon's icon in addition to the number of times the victim has been slapped recently. Upon killing a player, the kill feed replaces this number with the message "FISH KILL!" alongside the icon.
The kill feed does not register hits or announce "FISH KILL!" on non-player objects such as buildings or bosses. It also only displays the number of hits when it triggers a Spy's Dead Ringer, instead of saying "FISH KILL!", which can be used to determine if a death was legitimate or not.
The kill icon for the Holy Mackerel was contributed by Psyke .
Contents
[hide]Damage and function times
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Damage type | Melee | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
Damage | ||
Base damage | 100% | 35 |
Critical | 105 | |
Mini-crit | 47 | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.5 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Item set
The Special Delivery | |
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Effect |
Leave a Calling Card on your victims |
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
Sandman | Reclaimed Metal | Holy Mackerel | ||
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As a crafting ingredient
Refined Metal | Special Delivery weapon | Milkman | ||
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Reclaimed Metal | Holy Mackerel | Gloves of Running Urgently | Holiday Punch | |||
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Strange variant
[expand]Strange variant information |
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Update history
- The Holy Mackerel was added to the game.
- The Holy Mackerel was altered to not display the hit message concerning disguised Spies.
- Hitting someone with the Holy Mackerel no longer counts as a kill, as this would cause problems with achievements and some statistics systems.
- [Undocumented] The Holy Mackerel will no longer add to the kill feed when hitting a building.
- [Undocumented] The Holy Mackerel was added to the crafting blueprint for the Milkman.
- The hit message no longer awards the player First Blood during an Arena match.
- Fixed the assister's name not being listed in the fish humiliation and kill notices.
- Fixed the Holy Mackerel's melee attack not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
- Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on tournament servers when the server is restricting the player's weapons using the item_whitelist.
- Added community contributed response rules to the Holy Mackerel.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
- [Undocumented] The Holy Mackerel was added to the crafting blueprint for the Holiday Punch.
December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)
- Added Festive variant.
- Fixed Festive Holy Mackerel not completing a set when equipped.
- Fixed the Festive Holy Mackerel using the wrong sounds.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
December 21, 2017 Patch (Smissmas 2017)
- Added Festivized variant.
Bugs
- If the player assists a fish kill, the kill icon is not highlighted in the kill feed like other kills and assists.
Trivia
- "Holy Mackerel!" is an expression of surprise found commonly in comedy TV shows, as well as cartoons and other children's TV shows.
- The Holy Mackerel's level, 42, is a reference to Douglas Adams's book series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which 42 is considered to be the answer to "The ultimate question of Life, The Universe, and Everything".
- Two further references are the books So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, a title in the book series whose name was taken from a line in the original book, and The Salmon of Doubt, a posthumous collection of various essays and an unfinished novel written by Adams.
- The texture file of the Holy Mackerel reveals that the newspaper wrapped around the fish is named The Gravel Pit Gazette, alluding to the map Gravel Pit.
- A Fish Bat is a fishermen tool and police, trucker, and SCA slang for a shorter, heavy club.
- The melee weapon for the Special Delivery pack was originally a spiked bat named "Nail Biter" before being replaced by the Holy Mackerel.
- As part of a cross-promotion, the Holy Mackerel was available as a melee weapon in Alliance of Valiant Arms, before it was shut down on June 29th, 2018.
- The Holy Mackeral is a reference to fishes, which are water animals.
Gallery
BLU Festive variant.
The Holy Mackerel as it appears in Alliance of Valiant Arms
See also
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