Iron Curtain
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| Used by: | Heavy |
| Slot: | Primary |
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 The Iron Curtain |
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| “ | The Heavy has spared no expense in crafting this historic tribute to the mother land. Forged from Soviet iron and inlaid with the remaindered mahogany from Alexander II's favorite chair, each kill is not only for "pride of team," but for the Republic.
— Official Description
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The Iron Curtain is a currently released promotional primary weapon for the Heavy. It appears to be a Minigun made partially out of wood, with identifiable features such as a Communist Hammer and Sickle emblem visible on the ammo casing and a smoking vent on the side. The weapon was supposedly crafted by the Heavy himself.
The weapon functions in exactly the same way as the standard Minigun. It is able to fire 10 ammo per second, but has a large cone of fire and individual bullets suffer damage falloff with range. For each 1 ammo, the gun fires 4 bullets; if all 200 ammo count is fired, that equals 800 bullets. In order to fire, the gun requires approximately one second for the barrel to revolve at the correct speed before being ready. Players can begin spinning the barrel without firing by holding down secondary fire. While either spinning or firing, the Heavy's movement speed is slowed considerably (to 37% speed) and he is unable to jump. Furthermore, the Heavy cannot move while both crouched and spinning or firing.
It is awarded to players of Template:W for defeating the Heavy during a special bonus round.[1]
Contents
Damage
| Range | Damage per 1 ammo | Critical damage | Damage per second |
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| Point Blank | 50-54 | 108 | 500-540 (Crit: 1080) |
| Medium | 5-30 | 27/54/81/108 | 50-300 (Crit: 540) |
| Long | 5-10 | 27/54 | 50-100 (Crit: 270) |
- Base: 9 per bullet
- Max Ramp Up: 150% (13.5 damage per bullet)
- Max Fall Off: 50% (4.5 damage per bullet)
- Bullet Count: 4 per ammo
- Mini-Crit: 12 per bullet
- Critical hit: 27 per bullet
Base damage is subject to distance-based damage falloff.
Note: The Critical hit DPS; long range assumes 1 Crit bullet hits per 1 ammo, medium range assumes 2 Crit bullets hit per 1 ammo, point blank range assumes all 4 bullets hit per 1 ammo. Medium range is defined as the main resupply door to the opposite wall on the upper level of 2Fort. Long range is defined as battlement to battlement on 2Fort. Base damage is the damage done at 512 units before damage variance or bullet spread. Ramp up maxes out at 0 units. Fall off maxes out at 1024 units. Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.
Function times
- Attack Interval: 0.1
- Windup Time: .87
All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.
Previous Changes
- In the first part of the patch, the Iron Curtain was marked as craftable and could be found via the item drop system. The second patch on this day, however, removed these attributes and all items obtained these ways were then marked as untradeable.
Bugs
- The Iron Curtain has a quick switch effect between weapons by ignoring the spin-down time. Considering that the Iron Curtain is a promotional item, this is likely to be an unintended side-effect.
Trivia
- The Iron Curtain is canonically the Heavy's first Minigun before Sasha. Telltale initially revealed that the Heavy would wager Sasha in the bonus round.
- The name of this weapon is a reference to a quote from British Prime Minster Winston Churchill, in which he said the "Iron Curtain" would divide the Soviet Union's territory from the Western Democracies.
- The Iron Curtain had team-colored paint in Poker Night at the Inventory's launch trailer.
Gallery
- Iron Curtain 1st person cropped.png
1st person view.
A preliminary version of the Iron Curtain.
See also
Related Achievements
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References
External links
- TF2 Official Blog: "Shh. Sascha is asleep." – November 3, 2010
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