Righteous Bison
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| Righteous Bison | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Soldier |
| Slot: | Secondary |
| Released: | July 20, 2011 Patch |
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase, Promotional |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 4 |
| Ammo carried: | Unlimited |
| Reload type: | Single |
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 The Righteous Bison |
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— The Soldier
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The Righteous Bison is a secondary weapon for the Soldier. It is a handheld retro-future or steampunk styled ray gun.
This weapon fires an unreflectable projectile that delivers reduced damage against buildings but is capable of piercing through targets; it is possible to hit the same target repeatedly with the same shot as well as multiple targets in a direct line. The projectile deals damage every 45 milliseconds. It does not feature the traditional ammo reserve used by other weapons. Additionally, it can be used to light Huntsman arrows held by a friendly Sniper.
Enemies killed by the Bison suffer a unique death; they will turn black and hover in mid-air, performing a specific disintegration animation, while surrounded by team-colored particles.
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Damage and function times
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| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 125% | 20 |
| Base damage | 100% | Players: 164 |
| Maximum fall-off | 75% | 12 |
| Point blank | 17-63 | |
| Medium range | 11-42 | |
| Long range | 11-42 | |
| Critical | 36-60 | |
| Mini-crit | 14-31 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| Reload (first) | 0.92 s | |
| Reload (consecutive) | 0.4 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Item set
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Crafting
Blueprint
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As a Crafting Ingredient
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Update history
July 19, 2011 [Item schema update]
- The item was added to the item schema as 'Mystery Item'.[1]
- The Righteous Bison was added to the game.
- Optimized many particle effects related to the Righteous Bison.
- Updated the gamehaptics file
- Added recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for the Righteous Bison.
Bugs
- Causing an enemy Spy to feign death with the Righteous Bison will sometimes create two corpses: one 'ragdoll' corpse and one 'vaporized' corpse.
- This weapon will not set off pumpkin bombs.
- If a player dies before killing an enemy with the Righteous Bison, the kill icon will be a generic skull and bones and not its original icon.
- In the client view, while crouching, the projectile will appear to fire much higher than the weapon model.
- This weapon's projectile passes through glass, but does not deal damage to enemies on the other side.
Trivia
- The appearance of this weapon is based on that of 'The Righteous Bison - Indivisible Particle Smasher', which can be purchased from the online store at Weta Workshop.
- Weta Workshop held a panel at Template:W 2011, and handed out coupon codes to visitors, which could be redeemed in Team Fortress 2 for an untradable Righteous Bison.[2]
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
The Righteous Bison promotional image in the WETA Store.
See also
References
- ↑ Team Fortress 2 Schema diff (commit
85d48e33…) on OPTF2 Wiki Schema Tracker, 21:35:04 UTC, July 19, 2011. Accessed July 19, 2011. - ↑ News Reel - drgrordborts.com
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