Pistol
| Pistol | |
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| Kill Icon | |
| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Scout, Engineer |
| Slot: | Secondary |
| Availability: | Stock, Uncrate #23 (Strange), Uncrate #42 (Strange), Contract (Decorated), Uncrate #93, Uncrate #94 or War Paint (Decorated) |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 12 |
| Ammo carried: | 36 (Scout) 200 (Engineer) |
| Reload type: | Magazine |
| Available Qualities | |
| Loadout Stats | |
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This article is about the stock secondary weapon shared by the Scout and Engineer. For other pistols, see Pistol (disambiguation).
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— The Scout
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The Pistol is the default secondary weapon for the Scout and Engineer. It is a semi-automatic pistol sidearm with a fixed hair trigger that fires bullets from a cartridge magazine.
The weapon's accuracy, while not entirely exceptional, is superior to that of the Scattergun or Shotgun. This makes it useful for hitting targets at medium or long range, or when the primary weapon is out of ammunition. The accuracy also makes it very ideal for destroying stickybombs and taking out unsupervised Sentry Guns from outside their firing range.
The Pistol suffers from medium damage falloff and, when combined with its relatively weak damage per hit, is often neglected by players. However, due to its firing speed, fast reload, and good damage if multiple shots hit at close range, this weapon is formidable in the hands of an experienced player. Notably, the Scout is able to reload his Pistol slightly faster than the Engineer, while the Engineer carries substantially more ammunition to the point where running out of secondary ammunition is simply not a concern for the Engineer.
Like the Revolver and Submachine Gun, the Pistol fires a single, perfectly accurate shot before its bullet spread goes into effect, as long as the player has waited at least 1.25 seconds since firing the last shot.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
Identical to: Lugermorph
| Damage and function times | ||
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| Shot type | Hitscan | |
| Damage type | Bullet | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 22 |
| Base damage | 100% | 15 |
| Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 8 |
| Critical | 45 | |
| Mini-crit | 20 - 30 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.17 s | |
| Reload | Engineer: 1.36 s Scout: 1.25 s | |
| Spread recovery | 1.25 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Strange variant
Related achievements
Scout
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Engineer
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Update history
August 13, 2009 Patch (Classless Update)
- The fire rate of the Pistol is now set at a fixed rate, rather than the rate of how fast the fire button is pressed.
- Fixed Engineer's Pistol not using team skins for the Engineer's arms.
- Fixed this weapon being unequipable due to customizations.
- [Undocumented] Pistols using Name or Description Tags now properly use the c_model equivalent.
- [Undocumented] Fixed Engineer's first-person arms using the wrong bodygroup when having a renamed Pistol equipped with the Gunslinger.
July 12, 2011
- [Item schema update] Added Strange quality.
June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)
- Converted the Pistol models to use the
c_modelssystem.
- Updated Scout's Pistol animation.
December 21, 2016 Patch (Smissmas 2016)
- Added Festive variant.
Trivia
- The Pistol's animation lacks several aspects of function that pistols of similar design in real life possess, such as the slide and hammer drawing back upon firing. This also applies to its variants, The Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol and The Winger.
- It is unknown if this is an intentional design choice to prevent player distraction or merely a forgotten feature.
Gallery
Scout first-person view.
Engineer first-person view.
RED Engineer first-person view with the Gunslinger equipped.
BLU Engineer first-person view with the Gunslinger equipped.
RED Scout Festive variant
BLU Scout Festive variant
RED Engineer Festive variant
BLU Engineer Festive variant
RED Engineer with Gunslinger Festive variant
BLU Engineer with Gunslinger Festive variant
Concept art of the Pistol.
Concept art of the Pistol.
Concept art of the Pistol.
See also
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