Southern Hospitality

“

Take it like a man, shorty. Click to listen — The Engineer on accepting physical trauma

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The Southern Hospitality is an unlockable, community-made melee weapon used by the Engineer. Striking an opponent with it will cause them to bleed. This weapon will not deal out random crits. When wielding this weapon, you have a 20% fire vulnerability.

Equipping the Gunslinger or the Wrench will destroy all existing buildings.

Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 88
• Critical Hit: 195
• Damage Repaired per Hit: 105
• Upgrade Amount per Hit: 25 (Corresponding loss in metal)
• Metal Cost per Repairing Stroke: 1 + Damage / 5
• Metal Cost for reloading ammo: 1 per bullet, 2 per rocket salvo

• Bleeding Damage: 3-5 damage per tick, 8.5 damage per second for 5 seconds (42.5 damage total)

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8
• Bleed Duration: 5

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

	Built to Last Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed.			Circle the Wagons Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players.
	Fistful of Sappers Destroy 25 sappers on buildings built by other team members.			Silent Pardner Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members.
	The Wrench Connection Kill a disguised spy with your Wrench.			Quick Draw Kill a spy and two sappers within 10 seconds.
	Git Along! Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away.			Land Grab Help a team member construct a building.

Trivia

Radigan Conagher holding the Southern Hospitality.

• The Southern Hospitality, as with the Frontier Justice, the Wrangler, and the Gunslinger, appears to have been designed by Radigan Conagher, the Engineer's ancestor. This is shown by a hidden link in the Engineer Update.
• The model was submittted by WatchMaker| using the contribute page. He suggested the name 'Beat All'.
• The name "Southern Hospitality" is derived from the same phrase describing the warm and welcoming American South; an ironic statement considering the fact that it is a weapon causing excessive bleeding.
• The Southern Hospitality is one of two weapons that requires a Scrap Metal to craft, the other being the Pain Train.
• Unlike the Wrench and Golden Wrench, which are old-fashioned monkey wrenches, the Southern Hospitality appears to be a pipe wrench with a sharpened metal triangle protractor attached to the top and a trench knife hand guard. These implements are most likely what cause the bleeding.
• The Southern Hospitality is the second weapon in the game to cause players to bleed, the other being the Tribalman's Shiv.
• The console incorrectly lists this weapon's name as the "southern_comfort"
• The Southern Hospitality is the only community-made weapon that was released with a class update.

Gallery

• Southern Hospitality 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

See also

• Bleeding
• Southern Hospitality strategy