Brass Beast

Brass Beast
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Basic Information
Used by:	Heavy
Slot:	Primary
Contributed by:	Template:Dictionary/steam ids/228276528
Released:	Australian Christmas
Availability:	Craft, Drop, Purchase, Uncrate(#12)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	No
Medieval:	No
Ammo
Ammo loaded:	200
Reload type:	No Reload
Available Qualities
Unique Vintage Strange Collector's Decorated
Loadout Stats
The Brass Beast 1 - 100 +20% damage done 50% slower spin up time -60% slower move speed while deployed

“

New gun is unfair to tiny baby enemies. Click to listen — The Heavy

”

The Brass Beast is a community-made primary weapon for the Heavy. It is an antique machine gun made almost entirely of brass, bearing resemblance to the original 1861 Gatling gun made by Template:W.

This weapon does more damage per second than the original Minigun, at the cost of a lengthy spin up time and slower movement speed while it is both deployed and revved up. As a result, players are unable to move effectively whilst deployed, but can deal significant damage to oncoming enemies. This makes the Brass Beast particularly strong in defensive situations where a Heavy can keep the weapon spinning without having to move.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage

Damage and function times
Shot type		Hitscan
Damage
Maximum ramp-up	150%	16.2 / per bullet
Base damage	100%	10.8 / per bullet
Maximum fall-off	52.8%	5.4 / per bullet
Point blank		60-65 / per 1 ammo 600-650 / per second
Medium range		6-36 / per 1 ammo 60-360 / per second
Long range		5-12 / per 1 ammo 60-120 / per second
Critical		32.4 / per bullet
Mini-crit		14.6 / per bullet
Function times
Attack interval		0.1 s
Wind-up time		1.31 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Item Set

Main article: Item sets

The Hibernating Bear
	Brass Beast Buffalo Steak Sandvich Warrior's Spirit Big Chief
Effect	No effect

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Reclaimed Metal		Natascha		Brass Beast
	+		=

Class Token - Heavy		Slot Token - Primary		Scrap Metal		Possible Results
	+		+		=

As a Crafting Ingredient

Reclaimed Metal		Brass Beast		Tomislav
x2	+		=

Related Achievements

 Heavy

Don't Touch Sandvich Kill 50 Scouts using Natascha. Heavy Industry Fire $200,000 worth of minigun rounds in a single life.

Marxman Kill 10 enemies in mid-air with the minigun. Permanent Revolution Kill 5 enemies without spinning down your gun.

Update history

December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas)

• The Brass Beast was added to the game.

December 21, 2010 Patch

• The item was added to the Mann Co. Store, made craftable, and included in random drops.

January 7, 2011 Patch

• This weapon was given a unique kill icon.
• [Undocumented] The spin-up and spin-down animations of the Heavy's miniguns were changed.

February 3, 2011 Patch

• Updated sounds for the Brass Beast.
• Updated model with optimizations and new LODs.

February 14, 2011 Patch

• Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on tournament servers when the server is restricting the player's weapons using the item_whitelist.
• [Undocumented] Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on Medieval maps for items that are not allowed in medieval mode.

March 15, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] The crafting cost for the weapon was reduced by one Reclaimed Metal.
• All Brass Beasts crafted using the previous recipe have been upgraded to Vintage quality.

June 3, 2011 Patch

• Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.

June 28, 2011 Patch

• Tuned Brass Beast recoil to have less of an impact on your aiming reticle.

Bugs

• Because of the placement of the chain and ammo drum, the Brass Beast will clip through the Heavy's left hand and right arm when taunting and spinning up and down.
• Don't Touch Sandvich, an Achievement involving Natascha, can be unlocked using the Brass Beast.
• There is a rare instance where the barrel will not rotate while spinning with secondary fire.
• During deployment, the sound of the weapon will pause for a brief second before resuming at a louder volume.
• Whilst firing, the bullets will seem to originate from the right of the weapon in first person view.

Trivia

• The first-person view models of the Brass Beast, as well as that of the Iron Curtain, are based on the actual scale of the weapon models. This is in contrast to the Minigun and Natascha, which used separate skewed models to present more of the weapons on the screen.
• Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, and although used primarily for its decorative applications it also sees use in areas where a decent lack of friction is required, such as in mechanical devices with a lot of moving parts and is used to make gears.(Wikipedia)
• It could be that the Engineer constructed the Brass Beast for the Heavy, as there are blueprints that resemble it in the background during the Engineer update.

Gallery

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  First-person view.

See also

• Brass Beast strategy