Gunslinger
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Engineer |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Equip region: | Arms |
| Released: | July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update) |
| Availability: | Unlock, Drop, Craft, Purchase, Uncrate #1, Uncrate #18, Uncrate #30 (Strange) or Chemistry Set (Collector's) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 The Gunslinger |
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"Robot arm" redirects here. For the special Halloween 2012 item, see Voodoo-Cursed Robot Arm.
| “ | Say you have two things: a perfectly good hand, and a brilliant inventor for a grandfather. One day you stumble across a blueprint for an amazing-as-hell robot hand meant to replace an arm-stump. Wait, you have three things: the hand, the grandfather, and a saw.
— Blog post highlighting the Gunslinger
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The Gunslinger is an unlockable melee weapon for the Engineer. It is a robotic prosthetic hand which replaces the Engineer's right hand.
The Gunslinger grants the Engineer an additional of 25 maximum health (raising his total health to 150, and total overheal to 225.), at the cost of disabling random critical hits with the weapon. However, the player is able to perform a three-part combo attack on enemies. Should the player score 3 melee hits with a maximum of 1 second[1] between punches, the third punch (a swift downward motion with a clenched fist) scores a guaranteed critical hit. Any missed punch or waiting longer than 1 second resets the combo. However, as long as there is no miss and no pause in the attacks, whether all three punches hit the same target, two different targets, or three different targets, the third hit scores a guaranteed critical hit on whichever enemy player is hit.
Even though this weapon does not deal random critical hits, the Gunslinger can be crit boosted by regular means; but being a body location, it does not glow when crit boosted. Similiarly to the Fists, the fingers only show sparks to indicate the crit boost.
Using the Gunslinger replaces the Engineer's standard Sentry Gun with a Combat Mini-Sentry Gun. The Mini-Sentry builds, rotates, and fires much faster than the standard Sentry Gun; however, it cannot be upgraded, and each shot deals lower damage compared to that of a standard Level 1 Sentry Gun. The gibs from a destroyed Combat Mini-Sentry Gun do not grant the Engineer any metal when picked up.
Switching to a different melee weapon destroys the Combat Mini-Sentry Gun, if it is built. Similarly, switching to the Gunslinger from a different melee weapon will cause the original Sentry Gun to be destroyed, if built, regardless of upgrade progress.
Taunting with the Gunslinger equipped performs the Organ Grinder kill taunt.
The Gunslinger is automatically given to any player who obtains 11 Engineer achievements.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
Identical to: Wrench
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| Damage type | Melee | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 65 |
| Critical | 195 | |
| Mini-crit | 88 | |
| Damage repaired per hit | 105 | |
| Upgrade amount per hit | 25 | |
| Metal cost per repairing hit | 1 + damage / 3 | |
| Metal cost for reloading ammo | 1 / bullet 2 / rocket salvo | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Crafting
See also: Crafting
Blueprint
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Strange variant
Related achievements
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Update history
July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)
- The Gunslinger was added to the game.
- The Gunslinger 3 hit combo now only increments the combo count when hitting enemy players.
- Fixed an exploit where Engineers could create level 3 mini-Sentry Guns.
- Engineers who hit teammate Sentry Guns with their Wrench now get kill assists from that Sentry Gun.
- [Undocumented] Fixed Engineer's first-person arms using the wrong bodygroup when having a renamed Shotgun or Pistol equipped with the Gunslinger.
- Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)
- Changed attribute:
- Replaced the no-crit attribute with -25% damage on the Gunslinger.
- Changed attribute:
- [Undocumented] Replaced the -25% damage attribute with no-crit.
- [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Short Circuit.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Gunslinger to draw a normal Engineer hand first-person sometimes when wielding other weapons.
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- Gunslinger given a unique swing line.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange Quality.
- Fixed some cases where strange wrenches would fail to correctly count kills.
- Fixed the Gunslinger not accepting "Sappers Removed" strange parts.
- Fixed a bug that caused mini-Sentry Guns to heal while being constructed.
- Fixed the Gunslinger's taunt kill not counting towards taunt kills on a Strange Gunslinger.
- Added Collector's quality.
- Fixed Killstreak sheens for the Gunslinger.
- [Undocumented] Dispensers Now only cost 70 metal to build.
June 11, 2014 Patch #2
- Fixed being charged the incorrect amount of metal for a Dispenser when The Gunslinger is equipped.
- Fixed an exploit related to the Gunslinger and hitting teammates to generate a guaranteed third hit that is critical.
- Updated the description for the Gunslinger to include the three hit combo.
July 2, 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)
- Updated description to better detail the weapon's features.
- Changed attributes:
- Mini Sentry Guns can now be repaired.
- Mini Sentry Guns can now be Wrench construction boosted.
- Mini Sentry base build speed decreased. Mini Sentry Guns that are Wrench boosted build slightly faster than previously.
- Mini Sentry Guns start at 50% health on construction and gain health during construction instead of starting at 100%.
- Metal gibs from destroyed Mini Sentry Guns no longer grant any metal.
October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)
- Fixed the Engineer being able to store the Gunslinger's melee crit for a future melee attack.
Unused content
- The Engineer model has an attachment point named "exhaust" which is located where the exhaust port for the Gunslinger is. At one point, the Gunslinger may have have been planned to give off exhaust particles.
Bugs
- Weapon switching glitches can occur with the Gunslinger and any Wrench, which creates a glitched client view model of the Gunslinger holding the selected Wrench 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.
- The right-hand gib of the gibbed Gunslinger-wearing Engineer will still show his regular glove.
- If an ÜberCharge is deployed on the Engineer using the Gunslinger, it will show a wrong skin position of the invulnerable Engineer.
- If connection to the item server is lost while equipped with the Gunslinger, the Engineer's right arm will be invisible on all weapons.
- Occasionally, the Gunslinger will not load in-game and the melee weapon slot goes missing. This glitch can be fixed by switching to a wrench of any kind.
- If the player has the Short Circuit and the Gunslinger both equipped, the two items may sometimes glitch and show a distorted Engineer hand when first deployed.
- If an enemy is standing very close to a friendly building, the Engineer can still gain a critical hit on the third swing only by hitting the building.
- If the player has a primary or secondary weapon with a killstreak sheen equipped, the sheen on the weapon will also show up on the Gunslinger while the weapon is deployed.
- After equipping the Gunslinger, If you walk outside of spawn, equip a different Wrench, take out a mini sentry and don't place it, go to a resupply cabinet while still holding the Combat Mini-Sentry Gun, you will switch to a new Wrench but have the ability to still place the Combat Mini-Sentry Gun.
Trivia
- The critical hit animation for the Gunslinger is a punch being swung downward. After playing the critical hit animation, and if left idle, the Gunslinger will jerk and produce a mechanical twitching noise, before resuming the normal idle animation. This is only a visual effect.
- The Gunslinger, along with the Frontier Justice, Wrangler, and Southern Hospitality, appear to have been designed by Radigan Conagher, the Engineer's grandfather. This is shown by a hidden link in the Engineer Update.
- The Gunslinger shares traits with the P.D.Q., an Engineer weapon from the closed beta. Both items share the ability to construct non-upgradable Sentry Guns in a shorter time span than normal. In contrast, the Gunslinger's 4x construction rate for the Mini-Sentry beats the P.D.Q.'s 1.5x construction rate for all buildings.
- The term "gunslinger" is used to refer to a person, commonly in the American Old West, who was dangerous and skilled with a gun.
- The concept of a robot arm item was added based on community feedback of the background blueprints in the Engineer Update teaser trailer[2].
- A promotional advertisement featured for Brütal Legend shows the Gunslinger second to the left.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
RED Gunslinger
crit boosted:
no glow, sparks only.
BLU Gunslinger
crit boosted:
no glow, sparks only.
References
- ↑ game\shared\tf\tf_weapon_wrench.cpp:L31
- ↑ http://gamasutra.com/view/news/164922/GDC_2012_How_Valve_made_Team_Fortress_2_freetoplay.php
See also
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Eyelander Pain Train Scotsman's Skullcutter Frying Pan Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker Claidheamh Mòr Ullapool Caber Half-Zatoichi Saxxy Persian Persuader Nessie's Nine Iron Conscientious Objector Scottish Handshake Freedom Staff Bat Outta Hell Memory Maker Ham Shank Golden Frying Pan Necro Smasher Crossing Guard Prinny Machete |
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Golden Wrench Gunslinger Southern Hospitality Jag Saxxy Eureka Effect Golden Frying Pan Necro Smasher Prinny Machete |
Ubersaw Frying Pan Vita-Saw Amputator Saxxy Solemn Vow Conscientious Objector Freedom Staff Bat Outta Hell Memory Maker Ham Shank Golden Frying Pan Necro Smasher Crossing Guard Prinny Machete |
Tribalman's Shiv Bushwacka Frying Pan Saxxy Shahanshah Conscientious Objector Freedom Staff Bat Outta Hell Memory Maker Ham Shank Golden Frying Pan Necro Smasher Crossing Guard Prinny Machete |
Your Eternal Reward Conniver's Kunai Saxxy Big Earner Wanga Prick Sharp Dresser Spy-cicle Black Rose Golden Frying Pan Prinny Machete | ||
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Barbarian Swing | High Noon | Arm Blender Guitar Smash |
Oktoberfest Uberslice Medicating Melody |
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