Killing Gloves of Boxing
| Killing Gloves of Boxing | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Heavy |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Released: | A Heavy Update |
| Availability: | Unlock, Drop, Craft, Purchase |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 The Killing Gloves of Boxing |
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| “ | Is not fair to use gun on such a tiny man.
Click to listen
— The Heavy
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The Killing Gloves of Boxing, often abbreviated as K.G.B., are unlockable melee weapons for the Heavy. They appear as large, smooth, padded boxing gloves in team colours.
These gloves deal the same damage on hit as the Fists, but have a 20% longer swing time and thus less potential to follow up hits. When the Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B., however, he is guaranteed critical hits for the next 5 seconds, and can kill additional enemies with the weapon to refresh the boost's duration. This boost affects other weapons, allowing the Heavy to switch to other weapons such as the Shotgun to deal further damage at the cost of losing boost time through the switch animation.
The Killing Gloves of Boxing are automatically given to any player who obtains 22 Heavy achievements.
Contents
Damage
See also: Damage
Identical to the Fists.
Function times
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| Attack interval | 0.96 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Crafting
See also: Crafting
Blueprint
| Class Token - Heavy | Slot Token - Melee | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | |||||||||||||||||||
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As a Crafting Ingredient
| Killing Gloves of Boxing | Scrap Metal | Gloves of Running Urgently | ||
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| Killing Gloves of Boxing | Reclaimed Metal | Fists of Steel | ||
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Related Achievements
Heavy
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Update history
August 19, 2008 Patch (A Heavy Update)
- The item was added to the game.
- Fixed the Heavy's hands disappearing when he's stunned while wearing the K.G.B.
- [Undocumented] The weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Gloves of Running Urgently.
- This weapon's kill icon was updated.
- Fixed the Heavy's fists not playing the critical hit animation.
- [Undocumented] The weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Fists of Steel.
- [Undocumented] The crafting cost for the Gloves of Running Urgently reduced to two Scrap Metal + K.G.B.
Bugs
- The Heavy's hands will sometimes majorly clip through the Gloves while taunting.
Trivia
- K.G.B. was the acronym for the Russian security agency, secret police and intelligence agency Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty, which was disbanded in 1995.
- The K.G.B.'s taunt is an homage to Mr. Sandman's warm-up technique from Punch Out!!.
- In the .gcf files, there is a scrapped weapon mechanic which was intended for the K.G.B. With it, every kill would earn the Heavy, and his surrounding allies, 50 health regenerated and an additional 10% to their critical hit chances. The downside was that the Heavy taunted after each and every successful K.G.B. kill.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
See also
External links
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