Rescue Ranger

Rescue Ranger
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Basic Information
Used by:	Engineer
Slot:	Primary
Contributed by:	Commie
Released:	December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)
Availability:	Drop, Craft, Purchase, Uncrate #77 (Strange) or Chemistry Set (Collector's)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	No
Medieval:	No
Ammo
Ammo loaded:	4
Ammo carried:	16
Reload type:	Single
Available Qualities
Unique Strange Collector's Decorated
Loadout Stats
The Rescue Ranger 1 - 100 Alt-Fire: Use metal to pick up buildings from long range Fires a special bolt that can repair friendly buildings -34% clip size -50% max primary ammo on wearer Self mark for death on building pick up

“

Gotcha! Click to listen — The Engineer rescuing a building from far away

”

The Rescue Ranger is a community-created primary weapon for the Engineer. It resembles the normal Shotgun, but has a small, permanently turned on monitor mounted on its top in the location a scope is typically found which shows a moving sine wave. The monitor is connected to a yellow box at the end of the barrel with a team-colored light on its end.

While the Rescue Ranger is the Engineer's active weapon, it is able to pick up any of his buildings that are in his direct line of sight from long range, at the cost of 100 Metal. Hauling a building in this way will immediately teleport the building into the Engineer's possession with a team-colored flash, and leaves a tracer beam that temporarily notifies others of the user's location. The weapon also fires unique bolts instead of bullets, which repair 75 health to friendly buildings that they are fired at with no Metal cost. Note that these shots will only repair the building, and not restock ammo, apply upgrades, or damage attached enemy Sappers. Firing at a Teleporter will not repair the other side, and firing at a Mini-Sentry will not repair it at all.

As the downside to these perks, the weapon carries much less ammo than its stock counterpart, with only a clip size of 4 and a reserve stock of 16. In addition, possessing the Rescue Ranger means the Engineer becomes marked for death whenever he hauls a building, causing him to take mini-crits from any incoming damage, for as long as he hauls the building and for a few seconds after redeploying it. This effect applies whether the building was picked up via the Rescue Ranger's ability or not.

As with most projectiles, the Rescue Ranger's bolts can be reflected by the Pyro's compression blast. Reflected bolts will deal regular damage to enemy buildings, but cannot repair friendly buildings, and simply have no effect.

The Rescue Ranger was contributed to the Steam Workshop under the name "Modified Shotgun".

Damage and function times

See also: Damage

Damage and function times
Shot type		Projectile
Damage type		Bullet
Ranged or Melee damage?		Ranged
Damage
Maximum ramp-up	150%	60
Base damage	100%	40
Maximum fall-off	50%	21
Point blank		60
Medium range		27
Long range		21
Critical		120
Mini-crit		54-72
Function times
Attack interval		0.625 s
Reload (first)		1.0 s
Reload (consecutive)		0.5 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Eureka Effect		Reclaimed Metal		Rescue Ranger
x3	+		=

Class Token - Engineer		Slot Token - Primary		Scrap Metal		Possible Results
	+		+		=

Strange variant

Strange variant information

Strange Rescue Ranger Strange Shotgun - Kills: 0 Alt-Fire: Use metal to pick up buildings from long range Fires a special bolt that can repair friendly buildings -34% clip size -50% max primary ammo on wearer Self mark for death on building pick up Only the first statistic counts towards the strange rank.

Compatible Strange parts Strange Part: Damage Dealt Strange Cosmetic Part: Fires Survived Strange Part: Allied Healing Done Strange Part: Allies Extinguished Strange Part: Scouts Killed Strange Part: Soldiers Killed Strange Part: Pyros Killed Strange Part: Demomen Killed Strange Part: Heavies Killed Strange Part: Engineers Killed Strange Part: Medics Killed Strange Part: Snipers Killed Strange Part: Spies Killed Strange Part: Cloaked Spies Killed Strange Part: Low-Health Kills Strange Part: Posthumous Kills Strange Part: Kills While Übercharged Strange Part: Defender Kills Strange Part: Underwater Kills Strange Part: Critical Kills Strange Part: Gib Kills Strange Part: Kills While Explosive Jumping Strange Part: Headshot Kills Strange Part: Airborne Enemies Killed Strange Part: Burning Enemy Kills Strange Part: Medics Killed That Have Full ÜberCharge Strange Part: Unusual-Wearing Player Kills Strange Part: Point-Blank Kills Strange Part: Long-Distance Kills Strange Part: Domination Kills Strange Part: Revenge Kills Strange Part: Full Moon Kills Strange Part: Halloween Kills Strange Part: Kills During Victory Time Strange Part: Kills with a Taunt Attack Strange Part: Buildings Destroyed Strange Part: Sappers Destroyed Strange Part: Robots Destroyed Strange Part: Giant Robots Destroyed Strange Part: Robot Spies Destroyed Strange Part: Tanks Destroyed Strange Part: Robots Destroyed During Halloween Strange Part: Projectiles Reflected Strange Cosmetic Part: Freezecam Taunt Appearances Strange Part: Killstreaks Ended Strange Part: Player Hits

Related achievements

 Engineer

Built to Last Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed. Texas Ranger Haul buildings 1 km over your career. Doc, Stock, and Barrel Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic.

Rio Grind Perform 50 repairs and/or reloads on a Sentry gun being Wrangled by another Engineer. Texas Two-Step Use your shotgun to finish off an enemy recently damaged by your sentry gun.

Mann vs. Machievements

Real Steal As an Engineer, escape with your sentry as a sentry buster is about to detonate.

Update history

December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)

• The Rescue Ranger was added to the game.

December 21, 2012 Patch

• Fixed Rescue Ranger bolts using incorrect hit boxes.

January 24, 2013 Patch

• Fixed missing text in the recipe description for the Rescue Ranger.
• Updated the Rescue Ranger so it can be used as a crafting ingredient.

July 10, 2013 Patch

• Changed attributes:
  • Increased in damage per bolt by 14%.
  • Increased building healing from 50 to 75 per bolt.

November 12, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.

December 6, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.

April 1, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Fixed crit boosted glow not showing.

November 4, 2014 Patch

• Updated the Rescue Ranger so players no longer block its ability to pick-up buildings from a distance.

November 5, 2014 Patch

• Fixed the Rescue Ranger being able pick-up buildings through walls.

[Unknown Date]

• Fixed Rescue Ranger bolts dealing headshot damage when reflected.

July 2, 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)

• Changed attribute:
  • Decreased ranged hauling metal cost to from 130 to 100.

Unused content

• There is a set of unused sounds for this weapon associated with buildings teleporting and some kind of charging.
  • Some of the sounds are named rescue_ranger_teleport_send_01 and rescue_ranger_teleport_receive_01, which hint that this weapon could have been able to both pick up buildings from a distance and place them from a distance.

Bugs

• The Engineer achievements Texas Two-Step and Circle the Wagons cannot be earned with the Rescue Ranger, despite it being a shotgun and able to repair friendly buildings.
• When picking up a level 3 sentry from a distance, the player may be unable to deploy it.
• Bolts appear to repair redeployed buildings even when they cannot yet be repaired due to not having finished reconstruction.
• When crouching, the bolts are fired from above the actual location.
• The "Fires a special bolt that can repair friendly buildings" attribute is treated as an on-wearer attribute as opposed to an on-weapon one. As a result, any Grappling Hooks the Engineer fires will also be capable of healing friendly buildings. This same behaviour is what makes Pyros unable to use reflected bolts to heal buildings.

Trivia

• The amplitude of the sine wave in the monitor is based on the user's Metal count: having full Metal causes the wave to be at maximum height, while lacking enough Metal to long-range haul a building will make it significantly flatter and having no Metal renders the wave almost completely flat.
  • The effect is done using a dedicated material proxy.

Gallery

• 

  RED first-person view.

• 

  RED first-person view with the Gunslinger equipped.

• 

  BLU first-person view.

• 

  BLU first-person view with the Gunslinger equipped.

• 

  RED projectile.

• 

  BLU projectile.

• 

  Flat view of the scope.

• 

  Steam Workshop thumbnail for the Rescue Ranger.

See also

• Rescue Ranger strategy