Batter's Helmet

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Batter up!
The Scout

The Batter's Helmet is an unlockable headwear item for the Scout. It appears as a team-coloured, fibreglass batting helmet with a single ear-guard that fits over the Scout's regular hat. Despite the fact that batting helmets are worn to protect the batter from a ball to the head, the helmet does not prevent the stun effect if the player wearing it is hit by a baseball or offer any kind of additional protection.

Painted variants

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Single colors
Painted Batter's Helmet E6E6E6.png Painted Batter's Helmet D8BED8.png Painted Batter's Helmet C5AF91.png Painted Batter's Helmet 7E7E7E.png
An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge Color No. 216-190-216 Peculiarly Drab Tincture Aged Moustache Grey
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A Distinctive Lack of Hue After Eight Radigan Conagher Brown Ye Olde Rustic Colour
Painted Batter's Helmet A57545.png Painted Batter's Helmet CF7336.png Painted Batter's Helmet E7B53B.png Painted Batter's Helmet F0E68C.png
Muskelmannbraun Mann Co. Orange Australium Gold The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants
Painted Batter's Helmet E9967A.png Painted Batter's Helmet FF69B4.png Painted Batter's Helmet 7D4071.png Painted Batter's Helmet 51384A.png
Dark Salmon Injustice Pink as Hell A Deep Commitment to Purple Noble Hatter's Violet
Painted Batter's Helmet 2F4F4F.png Painted Batter's Helmet 424F3B.png Painted Batter's Helmet 808000.png Painted Batter's Helmet 729E42.png
A Color Similar to Slate Zepheniah's Greed Drably Olive Indubitably Green
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The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime A Mann's Mint
Team colors
Painted Batter's Helmet A89A8C.png Painted Batter's Helmet 839FA3.png Painted Batter's Helmet 3B1F23.png Painted Batter's Helmet 18233D.png
Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)
Painted Batter's Helmet B8383B.png Painted Batter's Helmet 5885A2.png Painted Batter's Helmet 483838.png Painted Batter's Helmet 384248.png
Team Spirit (RED) Team Spirit (BLU) Operator's Overalls (RED) Operator's Overalls (BLU)
Painted Batter's Helmet 803020.png Painted Batter's Helmet 256D8D.png Painted Batter's Helmet 654740.png Painted Batter's Helmet 28394D.png
The Value of Teamwork (RED) The Value of Teamwork (BLU) An Air of Debonair (RED) An Air of Debonair (BLU)
Painted Batter's Helmet C36C2D.png Painted Batter's Helmet B88035.png RED Batter's Helmet Hat and Headphones.png BLU Batter's Helmet Hat and Headphones.png
Cream Spirit (RED) Cream Spirit (BLU) Unpainted (RED) Unpainted (BLU)

Trivia

  • A batting helmet covers the back, top, and sides of the head, and at least one ear. The Scout has the ear-guard covering his right ear, leaving his left ear with the headset free.
  • The left ear is covered for right-handed batters and the right ear for left-handed batters, whichever ear faces the pitcher. Since the Scout is a right-handed batter, he would seem to be wearing the wrong sided helmet. However, this could be because the Scout already wears the headset on his left ear.
  • Batting helmets were not made mandatory in Major League Baseball until 1971, making the Scout somewhat of a pioneer.
  • Even when this item is equipped, the Scout may still say, "Yo, I'm not even wearing a helmet!" on dominating a Soldier. That can be very ironic, especially when the Soldier is equipped with an all-class hat, the Grenadier's Softcap, Chieftan's Challenge, Stout Shako, Dr's Dapper Topper or the Sergeant's Drill Hat, since none of these are helmets. The same applies to the Bonk Helm.
  • For performance reasons, the Batter's Helmet hat does not replace the default hat and headset, which remains visible under it. This means custom content creators cannot replace the Batter's Helmet and the default headgear at the same time without editing the player model.
  • The Batter's Helmet can be crafted into the Bonk Helm by crafting it with two Bonk! Atomic Punches. Currently, it is the only hat which can be specifically crafted in this fashion.
  • The hat description was written by TheTwoTonHammer.