Righteous Bison
“ | Scientists in the future have studied your ass for centuries - and sent me back in time to kick it!
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— The Soldier on the space marines and futuristic robots
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The Righteous Bison is a secondary weapon for the Soldier. It is a handheld retro-futuristic or steampunk-styled ray gun.
The weapon fires the slowest projectile in the game, an unreflectable projectile beam that pierces targets in a straight line, at the cost of dealing heavily reduced damage to buildings. Each beam is able to hurt an infinite amount of targets, but its damage is reduced by 25% for each target penetrated.
Should the Righteous Bison's projectile pass through enough targets, the laser will lose enough damage to become harmless, and will disappear on the next target that it lands on.
Like the Cow Mangler 5000, the Righteous Bison features a "Bison" bar in the HUD which serves as an indication of its ammunition clip. After the bar is depleted, it can be recharged through a reloading process in which a piston in the back of the weapon is pumped. It does not incorporate the traditional ammo reserve used by other weapons.
Enemies killed by the Bison suffer a distinctive death by vaporization: they turn black, hover in mid-air while surrounded by team-colored particles, and then disappear into ashes while a loud, distinct vaporization sound plays. Like backstabs and headshots, there is a 25% chance that opponents will perform a specific disintegration animation if killed in this way.
Weta Workshop held a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 and handed out coupon codes to visitors that can be redeemed in Team Fortress 2 for a Genuine quality Righteous Bison.[1]
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Shot type | Projectile | |
Damage type | Bullet | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
Damage | ||
Maximum ramp-up | 120% | Players: 54 |
Base damage | 100% | Players: 459 |
Maximum fall-off | 53% | Players: 24 |
Critical | 135 | |
Mini-crit | 61-73 | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
Reload (first) | 0.92 s | |
Reload (consecutive) | 0.4 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Item set
Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack | |
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Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
Reclaimed Metal | Battalion's Backup | Righteous Bison | ||
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As a crafting ingredient
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Strange variant
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Update history
- The Righteous Bison was added to the item schema as 'Mystery Item'
July 20, 2011 Patch (Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack Update)
- The Righteous Bison was added to the game.
- Optimized many particle effects related to the Righteous Bison.
- Added recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for the Righteous Bison.
- Fixed a crash bug related to the Righteous Bison.
August 3, 2011 [Item schema update]
- All previous promotional Righteous Bisons are now Genuine quality.
- Fixed Gift Wrapped Righteous Bisons losing Genuine quality.
- Made Genuine Righteous Bisons tradable after a period of time. This is based on when the code was redeemed, and works like tools bought in the Mann Co Store. Observations show it takes around 5 days for a Genuine Righteous Bison to become tradable.
- Added the Righteous Bison to the crafting recipe for the Machina.
- Updated the particle effects for the Righteous Bison.
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- Updated to uses the Buff Banner taunt animation.
- [Undocumented] The Righteous Bison was added to the crafting blueprint for the Pomson 6000.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
- Fixed dropped energy weapons not being able to fire after being picked up.
- Fixed energy weapons not reloading when using
cl_autoreload
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July 7, 2016 Patch #1 (Meet Your Match Update)
- Fixed a bug causing players to be hit by the same projectile multiple times, causing the damage dealt to vary wildly.
- Per-shot damage has been increased to compensate, resulting in slightly more damage on average:
- Point-blank deals 54 damage (previously 20-80).
- Maximum range deals 24 damage (previously 14-26).
- Slowed projectile by 30%
- Projectile damage reduced by 25% for each enemy penetrated.
- Updated projectile impact sound.
- Fixed a dedicated server crash caused by projectiles from the Righteous Bison.
- Fixed an issue with the Righteous Bison hit detection where projectiles were being removed when colliding with invisible entities.
- Fixed the Righteous Bison projectiles colliding with, but not impacting on some doors. (ex. the BLU spawn doors of cp_mountainlab)
October 20, 2017 Patch (Jungle Inferno Update)
- Reverted to previous design.
- Changed attributes:
- Deals 20 damage per tick.
- Projectiles are no longer limited on the number of times they can hit the same target.
- Projectile velocity increased from 840 to 1200.
Unused content
- There is a set of additional projectile particles that are not used.
- There is also an impact particle, though since the projectile just passes through the enemies, the impact particle is never seen.
- This weapon contains an unused idle sound and an alternative projectile shot sound.
Bugs
- The attribute -34% clip size is missing.
- Rarely, after a moment of not firing, the Soldier will automatically reload the weapon's clip, regardless of the player's auto-reload setting.
- In the client view, while crouching, the projectile will appear to fire much higher than the weapon model.
- When minimizing the game with this weapon equipped, the ammo portion of the HUD may disappear. Looking at the scoreboard may fix this.
Trivia
- The appearance of this weapon is based on that of 'The Righteous Bison - Indivisible Particle Smasher', which can be purchased from the online store at Weta Workshop.
Gallery
The Righteous Bison in Grordbort's Crash.
References
See also
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