Boston Basher
| Boston Basher | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Scout |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Contributed by: | Roy Theunissen |
| Released: | December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas) |
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase, Uncrate #23 (Strange) or Chemistry Set (Collector's) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 The Boston Basher |
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| “ | Delinquents all over the country have been harassing old ladies while you were stuck in your nearby generic desert-industrial environment. You missed out on all the extreme elderly-pestering action! No worries, though! With this handmade bat, you can still vent your frustration elsewhere.
— Boston Basher publicity blurb
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The Boston Basher is a community-created melee weapon for the Scout. It is a bloodstained wooden club covered with spikes and reinforced with metal bands.
This weapon inflicts a five-second bleed effect upon hitting an enemy. Missing the hit, however, applies the damage and bleed effect to the wearer instead; therefore, careful precision is required when attacking up close, particularly with the added risk from the Scout's movement speed. The Boston Basher deals less self-damage compared to when hitting opponents, dealing 58 self-damage compared to 75.
The self-damage effect is not applied if the player hits a teammate or any solid object such as a wall, floor or prop. Missing with a critical swing causes the critical hit sound effect, though only normal damage is inflicted. While under the effects of a Medic's ÜberCharge, missing causes no damage to the player.
Despite its main damage dealing purpose, the Boston Basher can also serve as a means of quickly charging up a Medic's ÜberCharge and if correctly timed, can also provide the Scout with a third or fourth jump, also known as a triple or quad jump. These types of jumps can help assist a Scout to reach higher or further distant areas or ledges, set up ambushes and make escapes not normally possible without the use of the Force-A-Nature and the knock back effect it provides.
The weapon was originally created for the Fancy vs. Nasty Update as a replacement for the Sandman, and has since been officially added to the game.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
Identical to: Three-Rune Blade
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| Damage type | Melee | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 35 |
| Critical | 105 | |
| Mini-crit | 47 | |
| Bleeding | 8 / s 40 total | |
| Bleeding (mini-crit) | 10 / s 50 total | |
| Self-damage | 18 + bleeding 58 total | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.495 s | |
| Bleeding duration | 5 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Crafting
See also: Crafting
Blueprint
| Sandman | Tribalman's Shiv | Boston Basher | ||
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Strange variant
Update history
December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas)
- The Boston Basher was added to the game.
- The Boston Basher was added to the Mann Co. Store, became craftable, and included in random drops.
- The Boston Basher was given a unique kill icon.
- Fixed the Boston Basher's melee attack not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
- [Undocumented] The Boston Basher was added to the crafting blueprint for the Sun-on-a-Stick.
- Added community contributed response rules to the Boston Basher.
July 12, 2011
- [Item schema update] Added Strange quality.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
- Updated sounds for the Boston Basher. The weapon now uses the Killing Gloves of Boxing's firing sound.
- [Undocumented] Updated firing sounds for the Boston Basher.
Bugs
- The user receives no self-damage and self-bleed on miss if the weapon is swung while very close to an enemy.
- When a player swings a melee weapon, the game saves a list of living enemy players that are within a radius of 57.6 units. When the melee attack misses, the game loops through the list to check if any of the players are still alive. If none of them are, then the attack is considered a "clean miss". A clean miss with the Boston Basher applies self-damage to the user.
- The intended behaviour, according to developer comments, was to prevent the user from being punished if a swing misses because the intended target was killed by a teammate by looking for potential targets at the start of the swing and checking if all of them are dead by the end of the swing.[1][2] However, the game actually checks if the potential targets are alive instead of if they're dead.
Trivia
- Unlike the Axtinguisher and the Ubersaw, the Boston Basher did not receive a censored version that removes the blood.
- The name Boston Basher is a reference to the fact that Scout grew up in Boston and on miss with the weapon, will damage or bash himself.
Gallery
First-person view.
See also
References
- ↑ game/shared/tf/tf_weaponbase_melee.cpp:
// Remember if there are potential targets when we start our swing. // If there are, the player is exempt from taking "hurt self on miss" damage // if ALL of these players have died when our swing has finished, and we didn't hit. // This guards against me performing a "good" swing and being punished by a friend // killing my target "out from under me".
- ↑ game/shared/tf/tf_weaponbase_melee.cpp:
// if ALL of my potential targets have been killed by someone else between the // time I started my swing and the time my swing would have landed, don't // punish me for it.
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