Syringe Gun
| Syringe Gun | |
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| Kill Icon | |
| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Medic |
| Slot: | Primary |
| Availability: | Stock |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 40 |
| Ammo carried: | 150 |
| Reload type: | Clip |
| Available Qualities | |
| Loadout Stats | |
 Syringe Gun |
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| “ | Ooh hoo hoo, your gun shoots medicine! It's intimidatin'!
Click to listen
— The Scout
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The Syringe Gun is the default primary weapon for the Medic. It is an oddly-shaped air-powered gun. Mounted on top of the weapon is a transparent cylindrical case filled with syringes, from which the projectiles it fires are apparently derived.
Fairly high damage syringes are fired out of the weapon at a rate of ten syringes a second, at the speed of 990 Hammer units/61.88 feet per second. The syringes follow an arced trajectory, making it necessary to lead a moving target and aim upward to compensate for distance. The Syringe Gun is reasonably accurate when the trajectory is taken into account and has a moderate damage falloff with distance. Despite being projectiles, syringes cannot be reflected.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
| Damage and function times | ||
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| Shot type | Projectile | |
| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 120% | 12 |
| Base damage | 100% | 10 |
| Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 5 |
| Point blank | 10-15 | |
| Medium range | 5-10 | |
| Long range | 5-6 | |
| Critical | 30 | |
| Mini-crit | 14 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.1 s | |
| Reload | 1.6 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Related Achievements
Medic
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Update history
- Fixed occasional misreporting of Syringe Gun & Fire Axe damage distances to the stats system
- Fixed syringegun projectiles sometimes pushing players high up into the air, allowing them to reach bad map locations.
Trivia
- The name and weapon design are based on real-life syringe guns, which are used to inject needles into patients with more control than by hand (and are often air-powered).
- In their initial testing of the Medic update, Valve added 3 items to the game's files. These were later removed as part of the Mann-Conomy Update. The secondary and melee weapons use the Kritzkrieg and Übersaw images respectively, but with the names and stats of the standard weapons. However, the Syringe Gun image was that of the standard weapon with a different angle, as seen to the right.
- The model of the weapon never runs out of needles, even if the ammunition is depleted. Rather, the reload animation replaces an air cartridge in the back.
- Pressing primary fire once will cause the weapon to shoot a single syringe, yet it will sound as if two have been fired.
- Due to how the Syringe Gun fires the needle projectiles, players running forward while shooting at a target will do damage faster than someone running backwards. This is because the needles need time to travel - running forward means that the 2nd needle will be shot closer to the first one, meaning less space between needles which then arrive at the target faster.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
RED syringe.
BLU syringe.
See also
