Sandman

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Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hitcha. No, wait, yeah I did! Click to listen — The Scout

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The Sandman is an unlockable replacement for the Scout's Bat and is unlocked after obtaining 16 of the Scout achievements. Unlike the standard Bat, right-clicking will launch a baseball towards the enemy. Successfully hitting the target with the baseball will stun the enemy. That is, forcing the player into their Humiliation stance, rendering them unable to attack (exception of taunt attacks), will move at 25% slower movement speed and cannot jump or crouch. The baseball will also damage them provided that they are a sufficient distance away and are not ÜberCharged. The farther the ball flies before hitting the enemy, the longer the victim will be stunned, ranging from 1 – 8 seconds. If they are hit with a baseball from extreme range, the victim will suffer a moonshot and will be completely immobile for the maximum stun duration. On the downside, Scouts carrying The Sandman have a 15 max health points disadvantage, leaving a maximum of only 110 health points rather than 125 (Previously, the disadvantage was inability to Double Jump). The Sandman is able to collect baseballs launched by opposing Scouts, you can also hit them back in mid air which requires good timing.

The Scout is equipped with only one baseball, which will reload after a 15-second interval. Baseballs can be picked up off the ground (whether your own ball, or another Scout's) or by visiting a Resupply Cabinet. Balls are not classed as ammunition and thus cannot retrieved by picking up dropped weapons or Ammo packs. A baseball that does not hit an enemy will remain on the ground and disappear after 15 seconds, effectively the time it takes the Scout to gain a new one. After stunning an enemy, it will disappear much quicker (after about three seconds), but can still be picked up and used again if grabbed quickly.

With the Sandman equipped, you can perform the Bonk kill taunt.

Damage

• Base: 35 (32 to 39 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 47
• Critical Hit: 105
• Baseball All Ranges: 15 (stuns for n seconds depending on how far the baseball travels)
• Baseball Mini-Crit: 20
• Baseball Critical Hit: 45

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.5 (assumed the same as regular Bat)
• Baseball Hit Interval: 0.25
• Baseball 'Respawn': 15 seconds
• The stun ball travels around 1940 hammer units per second, approximately 83 miles per hour.

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

Balance changes

After its release, the Sandman has undergone numerous changes following gameplay and balancing concerns from the community.

February 25, 2009 Patch:

• Removed the damage reduction against non-stunned enemies on the new bat

March 13, 2009 Patch:

• Players who are stunned by a Scout now take 50% less damage
• Increased the minimum distance to stun a player with the Sandman

August 13, 2009 Patch (The Classless Update):

• A Scout will receive 1 point for stunning an enemy and 2 points for a long range stun
• Stunned players now take 75% of all incoming damage instead of 50%
• Übercharged players can no longer be stunned
• Heavies spinning their mini-guns will continue to spin when stunned (whether the left or right mouse button is pressed)
• The minimum distance to stun a target has been reduced
• The negative attribute has changed from "no double jump" to "-30 max health"

December 17, 2009 Patch:

• The Sandman now only stuns on a max range hit (when you hear the cheering)
• All shorter hits now force the enemy into the thirdperson fleeing state (also removed the damage reduction on them)

January 6, 2010 Patch:

• Reduced the health penalty on The Sandman

April 28, 2010 Patch:

• Added a slight speed reduction to stunned players.

Related Achievements

Scout

64px	Beanball Stun a Scout with their own ball.	64px	Brushback Stun 50 enemies while they are capturing a point or pushing the cart.
64px	Foul Territory Cause an environmental death by stunning an enemy.	64px	Moon Shot Stun an enemy for the maximum possible duration by hitting them with a long-range ball.
64px	Strike Zone Kill 50 enemies while they are stunned.	64px	Out of the Park Bat an enemy 25 meters.

Soldier

The Longest Daze Kill 5 stunned players.

Trivia

• Even though the Sandman is made out of wood, when dropped it still supplies Engineers with 100 points of metal, like the Tribalman's Shiv or the Huntsman.
• On one of the sides of the Sandman (seen all the time with the Sandman out in the view model), the Bat itself has its name printed/written on it.
• The band on the end seems to be holding a cracked section of wood together, presumably from the Scout beating someone a little too enthusiastically on a previous occasion.
• In Major League Baseball, only wooden bats are considered regulation. Perhaps this is why the Scout only hits balls with the Sandman.
• The baseball used with the Sandman is an "All Ballers League"-style ball and manufactured by "Ball Fortress."

Gallery

• Sandman 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

• Sandman 1st person.png

  Full 1st person view.

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  Projectile.

See also

• Sandman strategy
• Stun
• Home Run

External links

• The Scout Update- The Sandman