Guitar Smash

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Let's do this Texas style. Click to listen — The Engineer on texan guitar combat

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Kabong! is a taunt performed by the Engineer while carrying the Frontier Justice unlockable shotgun. When performed, the Engineer pulls out his trusty guitar, plays a few choice notes, and then bashes it over the head of anyone too slow, unaware, or unfortunate enough to be in his way.

Damage

• 450+ (Instant Kill)

Function times

• Taunt Duration: ~4

All times are listed in seconds, and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

Honky-Tonk Man Smash an enemy player's head in with your guitar.

Six String Stinger Provide an enemy player with a freeze cam of your guitar playing skills.

Trivia

• The guitar was first featured in Meet the Engineer.
• Using a guitar in this fashion draws similarities between the Engineer and El Kabong the vigilante identity of Quick Draw McGraw.
• RovertScott on the Steam Forums came up with a Guitar unlock with the exact same method of Taunt kill on 12-17-2009. [link]http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1070987[/link]
• Even when the Engineer doesn't hit anything, his guitar still breaks into pieces.
• The model for the guitar is right handed, but the kill icon guitar is left handed.
• Like the Soldier's Kamikaze, the Engineer seems to able to carry a limitless amount of guitars, always having another one ready despite how many he smashes. Unlike the Kamikaze, however, the Engineer isn't meant to be killed with his Taunt attack.
• The chord that the engneer plays before smashing his guitar is an E natural.
• When a character is hit by the guitar their heads are pounded into their chest.
• The sound the guitar makes as it breaks has been ripped from Left 4 Dead 2, another Valve product.

See also

• Kabong! strategy