Pain Train

“

...gonna take down to the pain train station in train town. Click to listen — Drunken gibberish spoken by the Demoman

”

The Pain Train is an unlockable melee weapon for both the Soldier and the Demoman. It consists of what appears to be a broken Axtinguisher handle outfitted with a large railroad nail. It also looks very similar to the Club that was a Unused Sniper melee weapon.

When carried, the club grants its wielder additional capture force, effectively making them count as two players when capturing control points and carts, thus acquiring the same ability as the Scout. On the downside, carrying the Pain Train makes its owner 10% more vulnerable to bullet-firing weapons, such as the Minigun, Scattergun, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, or Sentry Guns.

Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 88
• Critical hit: 195

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8 (untested)

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

Blueprint

Sandman		Scrap Metal		Pain Train
	+		=

Bugs

• Due to how the bullet vulnerability is calculated, certain non-bullet weapons deal 10% more damage to a Pain Train wielder. This includes the Syringe Gun, all Melee weapons, the Targe Bash, and most Taunt attacks.

Trivia

• This weapon was released in the March 18, 2010 Patch as part of the first series of community-created content.
• There is a bug that exists which causes flame damage to be increased against the user.
• The item was originally intended for the Pyro.
• The Pain Train was accidentally added to the drop system a day earlier as "Unknown Item 154". At that time, the item could be acquired through the random drop system, but not found in the backpack without the help of an external item manager. Approximately 1200 players found the item, but it did not drop into the backpack until the item was permanently and officially implemented on March 18. When moved into the backpack before this, the item took the placeholder icon of the Bottle.
• For crafting purposes, the Pain Train counts as both a Soldier and a Demoman weapon. However, using it for crafting a Class Token (with any blueprint) will always produce a Soldier Token.
• The name was made up by Swizzle himself. The caption he also included with the submission was "The Pain Train's a-comin! Woo woo!"
• The Pain Train does not have unique taunts of its own; it uses the same taunt animations as the Bottle (drinking) and the Shovel (head bash).
  • It also does not have unique sound effects; Soldiers will produce Shovel sounds and Demomen will produce bottle sounds.

Gallery

• Pain Train Soldier 1st person cropped.png

  Soldier 1st person view.

• Pain Train Demoman 1st person cropped.png

  Demoman 1st person view.

See also

• Soldier's Pain Train strategy
• Demoman's Pain Train strategy