High Noon

High Noon
Kill Icon
Basic Information
Used by:	Heavy
Slot:	[[Weapons|]] (Taunt)
Available Qualities
Unique

“

POW! Ha ha! Click to listen — The Heavy

”

Upon taunting with the Fists equipped, the Heavy mimics a quick-draw Pistol Showdown, resulting in instant death for anyone slow, unaware, or simply unfortunate enough to be hit by it. Being a taunt, Showdown can be used to kill enemy players during Humiliation and Stalemates. It is necessary to kill someone using the Showdown taunt to gain the Show Trial achievement. The taunt animation exists in the 360 and PS3 versions of the game but does not cause any damage.

Community testing has found that the range at which this taunt will kill is actually pretty respectable for such a situational attack. The taunt can (and will) kill people who are standing the equivalent of 9 players (of any class) away from the Heavy performing the taunt (horizontally), or about the length of one of the storage units at Granary, and its vertical range is approximately the distance between the ground level and second floor ceiling of 2Fort, giving it the longest range of all the taunt attacks by far.

Damage

• Point Blank: 400-500
• Medium Range: 400-500
• Long Range: N/A (out of range)
• Mini-Crit: 675
• Critical hit: N/A

Function times

• Attack Interval: 3

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

Show Trial Kill an enemy with a taunt.

Trivia

• Before the Heavy Update, there were three different lines of dialogue associated with the performance of this taunt. When it became a taunt kill, two of the lines were removed.
• The Gloves of Running Urgently briefly used the Showdown taunt after the Mann-Conomy Update. They now use the same taunt as the Killing Gloves of Boxing.
• Unlike most taunt kills, the Showdown must be aimed manually; the taunt's invisible bullet will fire in the direction the Heavy was facing. Because of this, it can be aimed in any direction, including straight up or down, and can miss even when the enemy is directly in front of the Heavy's "gun hand." (The Engineer's Organ Grinder attack also functions in an identical fashion.)

See also

• Showdown strategy