Huo-Long Heater

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The Heavy

The Huo-Long Heater is a promotional primary weapon for the Heavy. It is an antique-looking, partially team-colored machine gun made of wood and metal, which features a traditional Chinese dragon's head mounted on the muzzle of the gun and a hexagonal, chest-resembling ammo drum. The name comes from the Chinese word for "fire dragon" (火龍, huǒlóng).

While deployed, a flashing ring of flame and smoke surrounds the user; this ring lights any enemy within the flame's radius on fire and inflicts afterburn damage, but will not damage buildings and cannot deal critical hits (though it can deal Mini-crits). However, the Huo-Long Heater consumes an additional 6 ammunition per second while spun up, even if not firing. In addition, the fire ring will stop appearing if the weapon is out of ammunition.

This item was awarded in Genuine quality to players who pre-purchased Sleeping Dogs on Steam before August 14, 2012, or August 17, 2012 in Europe.

The Huo-Long Heater was later contributed to the Steam Workshop, at Valve's request.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage
Damage and function times
Shot type Hitscan
Damage type Bullet
Ranged or Melee damage? Ranged
Damage
Maximum ramp-up 150% 13.5 / per bullet
Base damage 100% 9 / per bullet
Maximum fall-off 52.8% 4.5 / per bullet
Point blank 50-54 / per 1 ammo
500-540 / per second
Medium range 5-30 / per 1 ammo
50-300 / per second
Long range 5-10 / per 1 ammo
50-100 / per second
Critical 27 / per bullet
Mini-crit 12-18 / per bullet
Function times
Attack interval 0.1 s
Ammo consumption interval 6 / s
16 / s
Wind-up time 0.87 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Fire Ring

See also: Damage
Damage and function times
Shot type Area of effect
Damage type Fire
Ranged or Melee damage? Ranged
Damage
Base damage 100% 15
Point blank 12-18
Mini-crit 16-24
Afterburn 3 / tick
60 total
Afterburn (mini-crit) 4 / tick
80 total
Function times
Attack interval 0.5 s
Afterburn duration 10 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Strange variant


Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Family Business Reclaimed Metal Huo-Long Heater
Item icon Family Business.pngx3 + Item icon Reclaimed Metal.png = Item icon Huo-Long Heater.png
Class Token - Heavy Slot Token - Primary Scrap Metal Possible Results
Item icon Class Token - Heavy.png + Item icon Slot Token - Primary.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.png =
Item icon Natascha.png Item icon Brass Beast.png Item icon Tomislav.png Item icon Huo-Long Heater.png
Item icon Panic Attack.png

Related achievements

Leaderboard class heavy.png Heavy

Heavy Industry
Heavy Industry
Fire $200,000 worth of minigun rounds in a single life.


Marxman
Marxman
Kill 10 enemies in mid-air with the minigun.
Permanent Revolution
Permanent Revolution
Kill 5 enemies without spinning down your gun.

Update history

August 2, 2012 Patch

  • The Huo Long Heatmaker was added to the game.

August 3, 2012 Patch

  • Fixed The Huo Long Heatmaker not consuming additional ammo while firing.

August 10, 2012 Patch

  • Renamed from "The Huo Long Heatmaker" to "The Huo-Long Heater".

August 15, 2012 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Added Huo-Long Heater to the drop system.

September 13, 2012 [Item schema update]

  • Made the Huo-Long Heater in genuine quality tradable and giftable.

June 19, 2013 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.

November 12, 2013 Patch

June 18, 2014 Patch

  • All mini-guns now have damage and accuracy ramp up after they start firing. Full accuracy and damage is reached 1 second after firing.

Bugs

  • The fire ring can damage enemies while underwater.
  • The ring still can have an Afterburn effect on a Pyro, if the Pyro has been injured by another Huo-Long Heater.

Trivia

  • The weapon was originally designed to be a firework cannon, but was changed into more of a gun shape at Valve’s request. [1]
  • If the contributors were unable to make the proper changes to the weapon in time, then Wrath of Wan Hu, a Pyro flamethrower with a similar theme submitted before the promotion, would have taken the Huo-Long Heater’s place. However, Huo-Long Heater was finished in time.[2]
  • The weapon's name and appearance are based on the Chinese God called Huang Long. He is a large gold (or yellow) dragon, according to Chinese mythology.

Gallery

See also

References