Black Box
| Black Box | |
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| Kill Icon | |
| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Soldier |
| Slot: | Primary |
| Contributed by: | Larolaro |
| Released: | Mann-Conomy Update |
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase, Uncrate #2, Uncrate #15 or Uncrate #29 (Strange) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 3 |
| Ammo carried: | 20 |
| Reload type: | Single |
| Available Qualities | |
| Loadout Stats | |
 The Black Box |
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| “ | I am going to enjoy killing each and every one of you sorry sacks of scum!
Click to listen
— The Soldier on health benefits
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The Black Box is a community-made primary weapon for the Soldier. It is a black, rectangular rocket launcher with rounded edges, sporting two dark grey fastening bands near the front end and case coverings hanging open at both ends of the weapon. The rear case covering swings idly.
For every enemy successfully hit with the Black Box, the player will be awarded 15 health points per enemy hit, regardless of how much damage is dealt. The Soldier will not receive health if the target is a disguised Spy or an enemy under the effects of an ÜberCharge, however health will still be awarded if the target is a Scout under the effects of Bonk! Atomic Punch. A successful hit will not remove the effects of fire, bleeding, Jarate, or Mad Milk on the player. Unlike the Powerjack and Eyelander, health gained through Black Box hits cannot grant overheal. Health gains are indicated by the health counter in the Head-up display. The downside of this weapon is its amount of loaded rockets is reduced by one. This makes using the Black Box a good choice for improving survivability, at the expense of the amount of damage that can be dealt.
Should a Pyro successfully reflect a Black Box rocket in such a way that it collides with the shooter or another enemy, the health bonus will be given to the Pyro.
The kill icon for the Black Box was contributed by Template:Steam profile link.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
Identical to: Rocket Launcher
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| Shot type | Projectile | |
| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 125% | 112 |
| Base damage | 100% | 90 |
| Maximum fall-off | 53% | 48 |
| Point blank | 105-112 | |
| Medium range | 50-90 | |
| Long range | 45-60 | |
| Critical | 270 | |
| Mini-crit | 122 | |
| Splash damage | ||
| Minimum splash | 50% | 9 ft |
| Damage reduction | 1% / 2.88 | |
| Self-damage | 27-89 | |
| Self damage (rocket jump) | 27-46 | |
| Healing | ||
| Healing amount | 15 on hit | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| Reload (first) | 0.92 s | |
| Reload (consecutive) | 0.8 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Item set
Main article: Item sets
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Leave a Calling Card on your victims |
Demonstration
Crafting
See also: Crafting
Blueprint
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Strange variant
Related achievements
Soldier
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Update history
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- The Black Box was added to the game.
- [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Grenadier's Softcap.
- This weapon was given a unique kill icon.
- 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 10, 2011 Patch (Shogun Pack)
- Updated model with optimizations and new LODs.
- Fixed players getting a health bonus based on the weapon they're currently holding instead of the weapon that dealt the killing blow.
- [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Liberty Launcher.
- [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Cow Mangler 5000.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange Quality.
- Fixed damage to buildings applying on-hit effects
Unused content
- The Black Box has three unused explosion impact sound effects found in the GCF. These sounds also have their own soundscript found in
game_sounds_weapons.txt.
Bugs
- As with all rocket-using primary weapons, excluding the Rocket Launcher, the Rocket Jumper and the Original, the Soldier does not load any rockets while reloading.
- Hitting multiple targets with a single rocket will heal 15 HP for each player hit, but as this all happens at the same time, the HUD healing notification will only show one +15.
- If a long range rocket is fired, and the Soldier switches to his Equalizer and receives the health benefit, he will still stay at the same speed, even if he was injured beforehand.
Trivia
- The Black Box was originally based on the real world Template:W incendiary rocket launcher. The four barrel holes were swapped for one due to gameplay issues.
- Template:W was the name of an unreleased compilation of the new content in The Orange Box.
- An early concept of the Black Box shows that it originally had a scope attached to it, much like the Direct Hit.
- The term "black box" refers to any device with a known function but an unknown means of internal operations.
- It is also a common term for Template:W, highly sturdy devices which are used to record what happens in a cockpit in case of a plane crash.
Gallery
First-person view.
Projectile.
Conceptual artwork of the Grenadier's Softcap, Black Box and Battalion's Backup backpack component
Conceptual artwork of the Grenadier's Softcap, Black Box and Battalion's Backup's backpack, bugle and flag components
See also
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