Fists
| Fists | |
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| Kill Icon | |
| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Heavy |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Availability: | Stock |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
| Available Qualities | |
| Loadout Stats | |
 Fists |
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| “ | Why waste bullet on such a teeny man?
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— The Heavy on hand-to-hand combat
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The Fists are the default melee weapon of the Heavy class. They are simply large, meaty hands wearing fingerless gloves and curled into deadly weapons.
Dealing significant damage with less than normal speed, the Fists are suitable when an opponent is at close range and the Minigun is possibly out of ammo. Alternatively, the Fists may be used to attack enemies within melee range if the spin-up time for the Minigun is too costly. When the Heavy dies with his Fists out, he drops his Minigun which can be picked up by players for ammo.
By default, the primary fire key throws a left-handed punch, while the secondary fire key throws a right-handed punch; this has no effect on gameplay, as both fists have the same speed, hitbox, and damage, if and when they make contact. Critical hit punches appear as a right-handed uppercut animation no matter which button was pressed.
Taunting with the Fists equipped will perform the Showdown Special taunt.
Contents
Damage and function times
| Damage and function times | ||
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| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 65 |
| Point blank | 55-75 | |
| Critical | 195 | |
| Mini-crit | 75-101 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Related achievements
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Update history
- The Showdown taunt now kills those in front of the Heavy.
- [Undocumented] The Fists were given a new kill icon. The previous kill icon is assigned to the Killing Gloves of Boxing.
- Fixed being able to alt-fire with the fists while stunned.
- Fixed the Heavy's punches not matching mouse button presses when the view models are flipped
- Fixed the Heavy's fists being hidden while taunting.
- Fixed the Heavy's fists not playing the critical hit animation.
- Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
- Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.
Bugs
- The colors of the Heavy's fingerless gloves are different in the world and view models. In the view model, the gloves are colored dark gray, but in the world view the gloves are a dark shade of brown.
- The player can continue to attack while stunned, albeit with invisible animations, with the Fists as their active weapon.
Trivia
- The bucket icon for the Fists have RED or BLU gloves depending on what team the Heavy is on, showing that sometime in the beta the Heavy had team-colored gloves.
Gallery
First-person view
The unused model of the RED fists.
The unused model of the BLU fists.
See also
- Fists strategy
- Showdown
- Killing Gloves of Boxing
- Gloves of Running Urgently
- Warrior's Spirit
- Fists of Steel
