Huo-Long Heater
“ | The burning you feel? It is shame.
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— The Heavy to a burning Spy
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The Huo-Long Heater is a community-created promotional primary weapon for the Heavy, which he has named "Sheila"[1]. It is an antique-looking, partially team-colored machine gun made of wood and metal, which features a traditional Chinese dragon's head mounted on the muzzle of the gun and a hexagonal, chest-resembling ammo drum. The name comes from the Chinese word for "fire dragon" (火龙, huǒlóng).
The Huo-Long Heater emits constant rings of fire around the player's feet while the weapon is spun-up, with either the primary or secondary fire buttons. Its base damage and afterburn from the rings of fire are also increased by 25% against burning players as long as the weapon is the active weapon. However, this comes at the cost of 4 ammo lost per second while spun-up, and 10% less base damage compared to the default Minigun.
The Huo-Long Heater was awarded in Genuine quality to players who pre-ordered Sleeping Dogs on Steam before August 14, 2012, or August 17, 2012 in Europe.
The Huo-Long Heater was later contributed to the Steam Workshop, at Valve's request.
Contents
[hide]Damage and function times
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Shot type | Hitscan | |
Damage type | Bullet | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
Damage | ||
Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 12.15 / bullet |
Base damage | 100% | 8.1 / bullet |
Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 4.2768 / bullet |
Point blank | 41-48 / 1 ammo 390-456 / second | |
Medium range | 7-21 / 1 ammo 67-200 / second | |
Long range | 4-9 / 1 ammo 38-86 / second | |
Critical | 24.3 / bullet | |
Mini-crit | 11-16 / bullet | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.105 | |
Ammo consumption interval | 4 / s 14.5 / s | |
Wind-up time | 0.87 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Fire Ring
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Shot type | Area of effect | |
Damage type | Fire | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
Damage | ||
Base damage | 100% | 12 |
Mini-crit | 16 | |
Afterburn | When weapon is not active: 4 / tick64 total When weapon is active: 5 / tick80 total | |
Afterburn (mini-crit) | When weapon is not active: 5 / tick80 total When weapon is active: 6 / tick96 total | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.5 s | |
Afterburn duration | 8 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Demonstration
Strange variant
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Crafting
Blueprint
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Related achievements
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Update history
- The Huo Long Heatmaker was added to the game.
- Fixed the Huo Long Heatmaker not consuming additional ammo while firing.
- Renamed from "The Huo Long Heatmaker" to "The Huo-Long Heater".
- [Undocumented] Added Huo-Long Heater to the drop system.
September 13, 2012 [Item schema update]
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
- Fixed not being able to apply Killstreak Kits to the Sleeping Dogs promo items.
- All mini-guns now have damage and accuracy ramp up after they start firing. Full accuracy and damage is reached 1 second after firing.
- Minigun: Winding up via secondary attack now counts toward reducing the one-second accuracy penalty.
- Fixed not being able to switch away from the Minigun while spinning down.
July 2, 2015 Patch (Gun Mettle Update)
- Minigun damage penalty on Level 2 and Level 3 Sentry Guns slightly decreased. Level 2 Sentry resistance changed from 20% to 15% and Level 3 changed from 33% to 20%.
- Updated description to better detail the weapon's features.
- The Huo-Long Heater can now accept Posthumous Kills strange parts.
July 7, 2016 Patch (Meet Your Match Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Added -10% damage.
- Added +25% increased damage vs. burning players.
- Reduced ammo drain to -4/sec (from -6).
- Reduced pulse damage from Ring of Fire to 12 (from 15) due to increased damage vs. burning targets.
- [Undocumented] Updated the description of the Huo-Long Heater.
October 20, 2017 Patch (Jungle Inferno Update)
- The 1-second damage and accuracy penalty now applies to the first second of spun-up time, whether or not the Heavy is firing. Previously, the 1-second damage penalty would only be removed after 1 second of firing.
- Accuracy and damage penalties now reset when the Heavy spins down, rather than when the Heavy stops firing. This means if you stay spun-up beyond one second, and fire in bursts, damage and accuracy will remain at 100%.
- Fixed the afterburn duration for the Huo-Long Heater.
Bugs
- The Genuine variant viewmodel is not affected by the "Use minimized viewmodels" option.
- The fire ring can damage enemies while underwater.
- The ring still can have an Afterburn effect on a Pyro, if the Pyro has been injured by another Huo-Long Heater.
- If secondary fire is held down at the same time as primary fire up until 2 bullets remain, if the heavy taps primary fire the muzzle flare and firing noise will continue to play. This is visible by other players and in third person.
- When holding the primary fire button during a taunt the Huo-Long Heater's muzzle flash turns invisible.
Trivia
- The weapon was originally designed to be a firework cannon, but was changed into more of a gun shape at Valve’s request. [2]
- If the contributors were unable to make the proper changes to the weapon in time, then Wrath of Wan Hu, a Pyro flamethrower with a similar theme submitted before the promotion, would have taken the Huo-Long Heater’s place. However, Huo-Long Heater was finished in time.[3]
- The weapon's name and appearance are based on the Chinese God called Huang Long. He is a large gold (or yellow) dragon, according to Chinese mythology.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
Promotional image featuring the Sleeping Dogs promotional items.
Huo-Long Heater, featured in The Showdown comic along with 3 other miniguns: Minigun, Tomislav, and Brass Beast.
See also
References
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