Gun Mettle Update

This article is for content released in the update. For the patch itself, see July 2, 2015 Patch.

The Gun Mettle Update was a major update that introduced weapon skins, 4 new maps, and 3 new taunts. It also introduced the Gun Mettle Campaign, a three-month event allowing players to complete skill-based contract challenges to unlock one-of-a-kind weapons and exclusive weapon cases. To participate in the Gun Mettle Campaign, players had to obtain the Gun Mettle Campaign Pass, which was available for purchase in the Mann Co. Store.

Additional content was further added in the August 27, 2015 Patch with the introduction of the Gun Mettle Cosmetic Case.

Additions

Maps

Name	Picture	Game mode	File name
Borneo		Payload	pl_borneo
Powerhouse		Control Point	cp_powerhouse
Snowplow		Control Point	cp_snowplow
Suijin		King of the Hill	koth_suijin

Cosmetics

Main article: Cosmetic items

Added in August 27, 2015 Patch

Tools

Main article: Tools

Tweaked Classes

Class	Changes
Heavy	Changed: 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%.
Engineer	Changed: Construction boosts (Wrench hits, redeploys) from multiple sources is now additive instead of multiplicative. Calculations are based around a 1x base building speed.
	Changed: Changing Wrenches no longer destroys all buildings, only if the building type is changed (Switching from a Wrench to Gunslinger or vice versa).
	Changed: Increased base Wrench construction speed on hit boost by 50%. Buildings now build 2.5x faster instead of just 2x (additive of 1.5x + base speed).
	Changed: Teleporters and Dispensers redeploy +50% faster (2.5x without Wrench boost, 5.5x with Wrench boost).
	Changed: Hauling speed penalty reduced from 25% to 10%.
	Changed: Building repair costs increased from 20 metal to 33 metal to repair 100hp per Wrench hit (from 5HP per metal to 3HP per metal).
Spy	Changed: The Revolver's reload animation now no longer obstructs its user's aim.
	Changed: Changing to a new disguise now takes only 0.5 seconds, instead of 2 seconds.
	Added: While invisible, Spy receives 20% less damage from all damage sources.
	Added: While invisible, Spy has reduced timer on debuffs (fire, Jarate, milk, bleed).
	Changed: Decreased Revolver damage penalty on sapped Sentry Guns from -66% to -33%.

Tweaked Weapons

Class	Weapon		Changes
Scout	Baby Face's Blaster		Added: Boost reduced on taking damage
			Changed: Increased amount of Boost lost on air jump to 75% (from 50%)
	Shortstop		Changed: No longer uses secondary ammo and now uses primary ammo instead
			Changed: Healing and knockback passives are only active when weapon is deployed
	Fan O'War		Added: Crits whenever it would normally mini-crit
			Changed: Reduced damage penalty to 75% (from 90%)
	Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol		Added: Up to +3 health per hit
			Changed: Damage vulnerability from +50% fire to +20% all sources while active
			Changed: Passive effects on the Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol are only in effect when the weapon is deployed
			Removed: +15 max health on wearer
Soldier	Air Strike		Removed: Clip size penalty
			Changed: Reduced blast radius penalty to 10% (from 15%)
			Changed: Reduced damage penalty to 15% (from 25%)
			Changed: Reduced self blast damage reduction to 15% (from 25%)
	Black Box		Changed: +15 health on hit to +20 health on hit per attack
			Changed: Changed how health on hit works for radius damage. Is now capped per attack and scales with total damage done relative to base damage. (i.e. doing 45 damage nets +10 health on hit as base damage is 90. Hitting 3 enemies for 45 each for a total of 135 damage only returns +20 health)
	Liberty Launcher		Added: +25% clip size
	Escape Plan	Equalizer	Changed: No healing penalty to 90% less healing from Medics while active
Pyro	Flare Gun		Added: Added text to describe 100% critical hits on burning targets
	Scorch Shot		Changed: Reduced damage penalty to 35% (from 50%)
			Added: Increased knock back on burning targets
			Changed: Increased the blast radius from flares from 92Hu to 110Hu
			Added: 100% minicrit chance vs burning targets
	Detonator		Changed: Slightly increased blast jump height when doing a Detonator jump
			Changed: Increased blast radius to 110Hu (from 92Hu)
			Changed: Detonated explosions now also Mini-Crit burning targets
			Added: Added text to describe 100% Mini-Crits on burning targets
			Changed: Increased damage penalty to -25%
			Changed: Increased self-damage penalty to 50% (from 25%)
	Powerjack		Changed: Reduced health gained on kill to 25 (from 75)
Demoman	Ali Baba's Wee Booties	Bootlegger	Added: Added +10% movement speed bonus
			Changed: Changed +25% charge on charge kill to +25% charge on melee kill
	Loch-n-Load		Changed: Damage bonus now only applies to buildings
	Iron Bomber		Removed: Damage penalty on self-detonate
			Changed: Reduced radius penalty to 15% (from 20%)
	Tide Turner		Changed: Self damage will no longer decrease charge when charging
			Changed: Fall damage will no longer decrease charge when charging
			Changed: Reduced amount of charge taken away on damage when charging reduced to 1 per point of damage (from 3)
	Quickiebomb Launcher		Changed: Damage is now increased based on charge amount when the bomb is fired.
	Ullapool Caber		Changed: Reduced explosion base damage to 75 (from 100)
			Changed: Reduced damage ramp up bonus for close range attacks, now the same as other explosive weapons
	Claidheamh Mòr		Changed: +25% charge on charge kill to +25% charge on melee kill
Heavy	Brass Beast		Added: 20% damage resistance while spun up
	Tomislav		Added: 20% more accurate (less spread)
			Changed: Increased faster spin up speed to 20% (from 10%)
	Natascha		Added: 20% damage resistance while spun up
			Added: Stun amount now has distance falloff, decreases starting at 512hu down to zero stun at 1536Hu
	Family Business		Added: +15% faster firing speed
	Dalokohs Bar		Changed: Can now overheal up to 400hp
			Added: Alt-fire to throw and share as a small medkit for other players to use
			Added: 10 second cool down on use
	Warrior's Spirit		Added: +10 health on hit
	Eviction Notice		Added: 3 second speed boost on hit
Engineer	Pomson 6000		Changed: Uber and Cloak drain decreases over distance from target, decreases start at 512hu from target and reaches 0 drain at 1536hu
	Rescue Ranger		Changed: Reduced cost of long range building pick up to 100 metal (from 130 metal)
	Wrangler		Changed: Ammo and repair given to a shielded Sentry is reduced by the strength of the shield (66% reduced) when shield is active
			Changed: Engineer death keeps the Wrangled sentry shielded and disabled for 3 seconds, same as when Wrangler is switched away. (Previously Engineer death caused disable state for only 1 second)
	Short Circuit		Added: Projectile destruction has been moved to alt-fire at the cost of -15 per shot. There is a 0.5s cool down between attempts and refire
			Added: Cannot pick up buildings when the Short Circuit is deployed
	Gunslinger		Changed: Mini Sentry Guns can now be repaired
			Changed: Mini Sentry Guns can now be Wrench construction boosted
			Changed: Mini Sentry base build speed decreased. Mini Sentry Guns that are Wrench boosted build slightly faster than previously
			Changed: Mini Sentry Guns start at 50% health on construction and gain health during construction instead of starting at 100%
			Changed: Metal gibs from destroyed Mini Sentry Guns no longer grant any metal
	Jag		Added: +15% swing speed
			Changed:With the change to Base Construction boost, Jag bonus has improved. 30% increase of 1.5x makes a total of 1.95x (total of 2.95x when base speed is added)
			Added: 20% repair penalty (Repairs will give up to 80hp per swing instead 100hp per swing)
	Eureka Effect		Changed: Previous penalties have been removed and replaced with the following:
			Added: Construction hit speed boost decreased by 50%
			Added: 50% less metal from pickups and Dispensers
Medic	Vaccinator		Added: Vaccinator Über deploys now always take exactly 1 bar of Übercharge.
			Added: Vaccinator Über deploys give the patient a 2.5 second bubble of 75% damage resistance of the current resist type and full crit resistance to that type. These bubbles do not disappear if the Medic stops targeting the current patient. Multiple bubbles of different types can be applied to the same patient or multiple patients given the same resist Über each consuming 1 charge.
			Changed: Vaccinator Über build now suffers the same penalties as other Mediguns when it comes to multiple Medics on the same target and max overhealed patients
			Changed: Reduced the bonus healing a Medic received for properly selecting the right damage resistance type from 25% of incoming damage to 10% of incoming damage
			Added: Penalty of 66% decreased Übercharge build rate while healing a overhealed patient
	Solemn Vow		Added: Added 10% attack speed penalty
Sniper	Sydney Sleeper		Changed: Jarate now applies on all scoped shots, duration scales with charge duration (2 to 8 seconds)
	Bazaar Bargain		Changed: No longer lose heads on miss
			Changed: Now requires 2 headshot kills to be back at base speed and 6 kills for 200% charge rate
			Changed: Each head boosts charge rate by 25% up to 200%
			Changed: Collecting a head requires a headshot kill and not just a headshot
			Changed: Increased charge rate penalty changed to 50% (from 25%)
	Cozy Camper		Removed: Increased damage taken penalty
	Bushwacka		Changed: Changed penalty from +20% fire vulnerability to +20% damage vulnerability while active
Spy	Enforcer		Changed: +20% damage bonus while undisguised to +20% damage bonus while disguised
	Spy-cicle		Added: Spy-cicle recharge timer can now be reduced by picking up ammo boxes
			Changed: Changed fire immunity for 3 seconds to fire immunity for 1 second and 10 seconds of afterburn immunity
			Removed: Silent killer attribute
	Big Earner		Added: 3 second speed gain on kill
	Conniver's Kunai		Changed: Reduced health penalty reduced to -55 health (from -65 health)
			Changed: Increased minimum health gain of 75 on kill
			Changed: Increased maximum overheal from Kunai increased to 210 (from 195)
	Cloak and Dagger		Added: Can now pick up ammo kits for cloak meter while visible. Previously could not pick up ammo packs for cloak. Cloak gain is at a reduced rate when compared to stock Invis Watch on ammo pick up
	Dead Ringer		Added: When Feign Death is triggered, the Spy receives a 3 second speed boost
			Changed: Initial attack that triggers feign death has its damage reduced by 50%
			Changed: Feign Death stealth has no bump shimmer for 3 seconds
			Changed: Increased drain rate to a decreased drain rate. Overall duration of invisibility is still 7 seconds when accounting for initial spend of 50% cloak meter for triggering Feign Death
			Changed: Reduced cloak regen rate from to 50% faster (from 80%)
			Added: Triggering Feign Death instantly removes 50% cloak meter
			Changed: Damage resistance on triggering feign death scales over time. 65% to 20% over 3 seconds
			Changed: 3 seconds after triggering Feign Death, the Spy is under normal invisible conditions (20% armor and shimmers if bumped or shot)
			Changed: Can no longer pick up ammo for cloak meter while cloaked
	Disguise Kit		Added: Pressing 'reload' (Default bind: R ) also toggles the disguise team.
Soldier Pyro Heavy Engineer	Panic Attack		Changed: Increased base fire rate to 30% (from 15%)
			Added: 50% faster switch to speed
			Changed: Increased base reload speed to 50% faster (from 33%)

Achievements

Five new achievements were introduced in this update.

Balance of Power Win a round in which the enemy team has attempted to capture your final control point. Power Down Kill 15 enemies while they are capturing a point. The Power and the Glory Win 142 Rounds.

Wet Work Kill five enemies while they are in the water. Power Trip Capture the final control point within 15 seconds of your team capturing the previous control point.

Gallery

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  The update page for part 1

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  The update page for part 2, without the list of class and weapon tweaks

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  Steam popup advertising the Gun Mettle Update.

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  A gallery of the Teufort weapon collection.

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  A gallery of the Powerhouse weapon collection.

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  A gallery of the Concealed Killer weapon collection.

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  A gallery of the Craftsmann weapon collection.

External links

• Gun Mettle update
• Update page
• The Gun Mettle Update