Guitar Smash

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Let's do this Texas style. Click to listen — The Engineer

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Upon taunting with the Frontier Justice equipped, the Engineer pulls out his trusty guitar, plays a few choice notes, and then bashes it over the head of anyone too slow, unaware, or unfortunate enough to be in his way. It is necessary to kill someone using this taunt to gain the 'Honky-Tonk Man' achievement.

As a taunt, this can still be used during Humiliation (despite being visually disarmed) to kill the winning team members, as well during Stalemate, although the achievement cannot be obtained during these modes.

Damage

• 450+ (Instant Kill)

Function times

• Taunt Duration: ~4

All times are listed in seconds, and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

Honky Tonk Man Smash an enemy player's head in with your guitar.

Six-String Stinger Provide an enemy player with a freeze cam of your guitar playing skills.

Bugs

• During the Scream Fortress event, when attempting to perform the Dischord taunt, but instead performing the Thriller taunt, several guitar gibs would still fall out of the player.

Trivia

• The guitar was first featured in Meet the Engineer.
• Using a guitar in this fashion draws similarities between the Engineer and El Kabong, the vigilante identity of Quick Draw McGraw.
• The model for the guitar is right handed, but the kill icon guitar is left handed.
• The chord that the Engineer plays before smashing his guitar appears to be Eadd9.
• When a character is hit by the guitar, their head is pounded into their chest.
• The sound the guitar makes as it breaks was reused from the Valve game Template:W.
• The inlays on the guitar are not spaced correctly. There should be one dot on the 3, 5, 7, 9 frets and two on the 12th fret.
• This taunt can kill an enemy standing on the Engineer's head, but it will not kill an enemy the Engineer is standing on.

See also

• Dischord strategy