Huo-Long Heater
| Huo-Long Heater | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Heavy |
| Slot: | Primary |
| Contributed by: | Nidhogg Robot Joe Jormungandrson SquareEnix Mr. Bunce |
| Released: | August 2, 2012 Patch (Triad Pack) |
| Availability: | Promotional, Drop, Craft, Purchase, Uncrate #59 (Strange) or Chemistry Set (Collector's) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | Yes |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 200 |
| Reload type: | No Reload |
| Available Qualities | |
| Loadout Stats | |
 The Huo-Long Heater |
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| “ | The burning you feel? It is shame.
Click to listen
— The Heavy to a burning Spy
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The Huo-Long Heater is a community-created 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).
The Huo-Long heater emits constant rings of fire around the player while the weapon is spun-up, with either the primary or secondary fire buttons. Its base damage is also increased by 25% against burning players, such as those lit by its own fire rings. However, this comes at the cost of 4 ammo lost per second while spun-up, and 10% less base damage compared to the default Minigun.
The Huo-Long Heater was awarded in Genuine quality to players who pre-ordered 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.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
| Damage and function times | ||
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| Shot type | Hitscan | |
| Damage type | Bullet | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 12 / per bullet |
| Base damage | 100% | 8 / per bullet |
| Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 4 / per bullet |
| Point blank | 41-48 / per 1 ammo 410-480 / per second | |
| Medium range | 7-21 / per 1 ammo 70-210 / per second | |
| Long range | 4-9 / per 1 ammo 40-90 / per second | |
| Critical | 24 / per bullet | |
| Mini-crit | 11-16 / per bullet | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.1 s | |
| Ammo consumption interval | 4 / s 14 / s | |
| Wind-up time | 0.87 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Fire Ring
See also: Damage
| Damage and function times | ||
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| Shot type | Area of effect | |
| Damage type | Fire | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 12 |
| Point blank | 12 | |
| Mini-crit | 16 | |
| Afterburn | 4 / tick 80 total | |
| Afterburn (mini-crit) | 5 / tick 100 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
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Update history
August 2, 2012 Patch (Triad Pack)
- The Huo Long Heatmaker was added to the game.
- Fixed The Huo Long Heatmaker not consuming additional ammo while firing.
- Renamed from "The Huo Long Heatmaker" to "The Huo-Long Heater".
- [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.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
- Fixed not being able to apply Killstreak Kits to the Sleeping Dogs promo items.
- All mini-guns now have damage and accuracy ramp up after they start firing. Full accuracy and damage is reached 1 second after firing.
- Minigun: Winding up via secondary attack now counts toward reducing the one-second accuracy penalty.
- Fixed not being able to switch away from the Minigun while spinning down.
July 2, 2015 Patch (Gun Mettle Update)
- Minigun damage penalty on Level 2 and Level 3 Sentry Guns slightly decreased. Level 2 Sentry resistance changed from 20% to 15% and Level 3 changed from 33% to 20%.
- Updated description to better detail the weapon's features.
- The Huo-Long Heater can now accept Posthumous Kills strange parts.
July 7, 2016 Patch (Meet Your Match Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Added -10% damage.
- Added +25% increased damage vs. burning players.
- Reduced ammo drain to -4/sec (from -6).
- Reduced pulse damage from Ring of Fire to 12 (from 15) due to increased damage vs. burning targets.
Bugs
- The attribute 25% damage vs burning targets is missing a "+", which may be misread as the weapon only dealing 25% damage to burning targets.
- The Genuine variant viewmodel does not affect by "Use minimized viewmodels" option.
- 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.
- The Huo-Long Heater is called Sheila by Heavy, which can be seen in The Showdown comic. [3]
Gallery
RED first-person view
BLU first-person view
The Huo-Long Heater's concept art
The Huo-Long Heater's concept art
A previous iteration of the Huo-Long Heater before the final changes to the in-game version
The viewmodel view of the previous Huo-Long Heater iteration
Promotional image featuring the Sleeping Dogs promotional items
Steam Workshop thumbnail for the Huo-Long Heater
Huo-Long Heater, featured in The Showdown comic along with 3 other miniguns: Minigun, Tomislav and Brass Beast
See also
References
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