Southern Hospitality

“

Take it like a man, shorty. Click to listen — The Engineer on accepting physical trauma

”

The Southern Hospitality is an unlockable, community-made melee weapon used by the Engineer. It appears as a modified Pipe Wrench with a spiked knuckle guard and a sharp metal piece on the top. Striking an opponent with it will cause them to bleed. This weapon will not deal out random Crits. When wielding this weapon, you have a 20% fire vulnerability.

Equipping the Gunslinger or the Wrench will destroy all existing Buildings.

Damage

See also: Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 88
• Critical hit: 195
• Damage Repaired per Hit: 105
• Upgrade Amount per Hit: 25 (Corresponding loss in metal)
• Metal Cost per Repairing Stroke: 1 + Damage / 5
• Metal Cost for reloading ammo: 1 per bullet, 2 per rocket salvo

• Bleeding Damage: 3-5 damage per tick, 8.5 damage per second for 5 seconds (42.5 damage total)

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8
• Bleed Duration: 5

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

Blueprint

Ambassador		Scrap Metal		Southern Hospitality
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Related Achievements

Built to Last Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed. Circle the Wagons Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players. Doc, Stock, and Barrel Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic. Fistful of Sappers Destroy 25 sappers on buildings built by other team members. Get Along! Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away.

Land Grab Help a teammate construct a building. Quick Draw Kill a Spy and two sappers within 10 seconds. Rio Grind Perform 50 repairs and/or reloads on a Sentry gun being Wrangled by another Engineer. Silent Pardner Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members. The Wrench Connection Kill a disguised spy with your Wrench.

Trivia

Radigan Conagher holding the Southern Hospitality.

• The Southern Hospitality, as with the Frontier Justice, the Wrangler, and the Gunslinger, appears to have been designed by Radigan Conagher, the Engineer's ancestor. This is shown by a hidden link in the Engineer Update.
• The model was submittted by WatchMaker| using the contribute page. He suggested the name 'Beat All'.
• The name "Southern Hospitality" is derived from the same phrase describing the warm and welcoming American South; an ironic statement considering the fact that it is a weapon causing excessive bleeding.
• The Southern Hospitality is one of two weapons that requires a Scrap Metal to craft, the other being the Pain Train.
• This Wrench is unlike the default Wrench and Golden Wrench, which are old-fashioned monkey wrenches.
• The implements adorning the weapon are most likely the sources of the bleeding effect.
• The Southern Hospitality is the second weapon in the game to cause players to bleed, the other being the Tribalman's Shiv.
• The console incorrectly lists this weapon's name as the "southern_comfort"
• The Southern Hospitality is the only community-made weapon that was released with a class update.
• The Southern Hospitality appears to have a bottle opener incorporated at the top, implying the Engineer may also enjoy beer in his spare time.

Gallery

• Southern Hospitality 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

See also

• Bleeding
• Southern Hospitality strategy