Giger Counter
“ | Analyzes and slightly irradiates your enemies!
— Giger Counter publicity blurb
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The Giger Counter is a community-created secondary weapon for the Engineer. It is an Aliens inspired Motion Tracker with a joystick attacked to the top of the handle. It also emits a team-colored light that glows in the dark.
This weapon functions identically to the Wrangler.
The Giger Counter was contributed to the Steam Workshop.
Strange variant
Update history
October 6, 2015 Patch (Invasion Community Update)
- The Giger Counter was added to the game.
October 28, 2015 Patch (Scream Fortress 2015)
- Added inspect animations for the Giger Counter
Trivia
- This item's name is a portmanteau of "Geiger counter", an instrument used for measuring ionizing radiation, and H. R. Giger, a surrealist artist who heavily influenced science fiction art and designed the Alien creature, among other things.
- The design of the weapon seems to be based specifically on the M314 Motion Tracker, a fictional tool that first appeared on the 1986 movie Aliens.
Gallery
<gallery> File:Steamworkshop_tf2_giger_counter_import_thumb.jpg|Steam Workshop thumbnail for the Giger Counter. File:motion tracker replica 2.jpg|A replica of the M314 Motion Tracker used in the movie Aliens. <gallery>