Gunslinger
| Gunslinger | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Engineer |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Released: | Engineer Update |
| Availability: | Unlock, Drop, Craft, Uncrate (#1), Purchase |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 The Gunslinger |
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| “ | The hand is quicker than the eye!
Click to listen
— The Engineer
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The Gunslinger is an unlockable melee weapon for the Engineer. It is a robotic hand, comprised of segmented finger parts, wires and a pressure gauge. It replaces the Engineer's entire hand.
The device grants the Engineer and additional 25 max health (raising total health to 150), promoting more offensive play at the cost of no random Critical hits. Additionally, the player is able to perform a three part combo attack on enemies. Should an enemy be hit three times in succession, the third strike with the fist will become an automatic Critical hit. This does not need to be performed on a single enemy, but the correct bound key cannot be released during the combo or it will be lost and reset.
The Critical hit animation for the Gunslinger is a downward punch swing. After that, the hand will jerk and produce a mechanical twitching noise before resuming the normal idle animation; however, this is only a visual effect, you can keep attacking at will. The Critical hit animation will also play when attacking friendly players and when building/upgrading your own buildings.
Using the Gunslinger allows the Engineer to build a Combat Mini-Sentry Gun instead of the standard Sentry Gun. A Mini-sentry takes only 2.5 seconds to build, costs only 100 metal and fires 50% faster. However, it cannot be upgraded or repaired, and only deals 50% damage per shot compared to a normal level 1 Sentry Gun. Equipping the Wrench or the Southern Hospitality will destroy all existing Buildings.
Taunting with the Gunslinger will perform the Organ Grinder taunt kill.
Contents
Damage
- Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
- Mini-Crit: 88
- Critical hit: 195
- Damage Repaired per Hit: 105
- Upgrade Amount per Hit: 25 (Corresponding loss in metal)
- Metal Cost per Repairing Stroke: 1 + Damage / 5
- Metal Cost for reloading ammo: 1 per bullet, 2 per rocket salvo
Function times
- Attack Interval: 0.8
All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.
Demonstration
Related Achievements
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Previous Changes
- Before the July 9, 2010 Patch, it was possible to build a Sentry Gun with the Wrench, upgrade it to Level 2 or 3, then switch to the Gunslinger and move it, becoming a Mini-Sentry at the same level. This otherwise impossible level 3 Mini-Sentry dealt the normal proportional damage (75% damage), even with its rockets. The flashing light effect would remain despite the light itself being absent on the Level 2 or 3 model, and the upgraded Mini-Sentry was always displayed as RED, regardless of its actual team.
- The above exploit was still possible by equipping the Wrench, readying the toolbox to put down a Sentry Gun and then using the loadout menu and a resupply cabinet to switch to the Gunslinger. The deployed Sentry Gun would still be the upgradable one the Wrench uses, which could then be hauled and redeployed into a Mini-Sentry. This version of the exploit was patched in the July 13, 2010 Patch.
- Originally, the three hit combo could be built up on allies; a player could strike an ally two times, and then attack again with the Gunslinger for a guaranteed Critical hit. This has since been patched.
Bugs
- If an Engineer dies while the Gunslinger is his active weapon, he will not drop a recoverable weapon pickup.
- The right hand gib of a gibbed Gunslinger-wearing Engineer will still show his regular glove.
- If the Engineer has been Crit-boosted with the Kritzkrieg or Humiliation, the Gunslinger will deal Critical hits, but the critical animation will not occur.
- If an ÜberCharge is deployed on an Engineer using the Gunslinger, it will show a wrong skin position of the invulnerable Engineer.
- If the Field of View is set wide enough while equipped with the Gunslinger, taking out the PDA (either one) will show that the character model will always be RED, even if on the BLU team.
- Weapon switching glitches can occur with the Gunslinger and any Wrench, which creates a glitched firstperson model of the Gunslinger holding the Southern Hospitality at the same time (Which should be impossible as they are both melee weapons, and thus could not be used together). It is also possible for the Gunslinger to appear as the Engineer's default glove.
- If an Engineer has a renamed Shotgun or Pistol equipped, viewmodels may use the Engineer glove instead of the Gunslinger. This includes when the Engineer draws the Gunslinger, resulting in what appears to be, from first person, the Engineer showing his glove instead of the Gunslinger. Going to a resupply cabinet can fix this until the Engineer dies. However, the renamed weapon will always show the glove.
- The mini sentry uses the level 1 sentry Kill icons.
Trivia
- The Gunslinger, as with the Frontier Justice, the Wrangler, and the Southern Hospitality, appears to have been designed by Radigan Conagher, the Engineer's ancestor. This is shown by a hidden link in the Engineer Update.
- The Gunslinger is more or less a reincarnation of the P.D.Q. item from the closed beta, both sharing the ability to build Sentry Guns faster, but are unable to upgrade them. However, the P.D.Q.'s build rate was 1.5x faster than normal, as opposed to the Gunslinger's 4x.
- When the Engineer stops punching after achieving a 3-hit combo, the Gunslinger will twitch mechanically, even if he has built it up on teammates or on friendly buildings.
Gallery
- Gunslinger 1st person red cropped.png
RED 1st person view.
- Gunslinger 1st person blu cropped.png
BLU 1st person view.
See also
