Battalion's Backup
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Soldier |
| Slot: | Secondary |
| Equip region: | Back |
| Contributed by: | Larolaro |
| Released: | September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update) |
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase, Uncrate #4, Uncrate #15, Uncrate #71 (Strange) or Chemistry Set (Collector's) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 The Battalion's Backup |
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| “ | Now don't get me wrong, YOU don't need back-up, but please dig deep in that war torn black pea of a heart and feel pity for the rest of your good-for-nothing team. All you need is the Battalion's Backup to give them a helping hand. Just make sure you ain't too busy kicking somebody's ass when they call.
— Battalion's Backup publicity blurb
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The Battalion's Backup is a community-created secondary weapon for the Soldier. It is a military backpack-mounted radio transceiver, featuring a folded map secured by two brown straps, along with an attached black magnetic compass. Accompanying it is a bronze-colored bugle with a pewter mouthpiece, and a tattered yellow triangular banner, patched up and reattached in the middle, that is displayed when the buff is active.
Essentially the counterpart to the Buff Banner, this weapon aims to support teams defensively, rather than offensively. Similar to the Buff Banner, the player's Rage meter, displayed in the HUD, is filled through dealing damage to other players in a single life; once filled, the pack can be used to make all nearby teammates within 450 units, and the player themselves, immune to critical hits, and grant them 35% resistance to regular damage, and a 50% resistance to sentry damage for 10 seconds. It is possible to delay the release of the effect of the Battalion's Backup after the bugle call, and thereby delaying the buffing effect, by holding down the primary fire key (default key: MOUSE1). Additionally, equipping the Battalion's Backup increases the Soldier's maximum health by 20 points to 220. The maximum possible overheal is also raised to 330 HP and 276 HP from the Quick-Fix.
The critical damage immunity applies to criticals and mini-crits for all teammates within the radius, regardless of critical/mini-crit application method. The critical immunity also prevents all increases to knockback normally incurred by a critical hit. The damage resistance stacks multiplicatively with all other damage modifiers, such as Pain Train's hitscan weakness and the Chargin' Targe's explosive resistance.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
| Damage and function times | ||
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| Effect range | 450 units | |
| Damage | ||
| Charge fill damage | 600 | |
| Function times | ||
| Effect duration | 10 s | |
| Activation time | 2.645 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Item set
Main article: Item sets
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Leave a Calling Card on your victims |
Demonstration
Crafting
See also: Crafting
Blueprint
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Strange variant
Related achievements
Soldier
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Update history
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- The Battalion's Backup was added to the game.
- Soldiers no longer maintain their rage level when changing loadout.
- The Battalion's Backup no longer gives rage for falling damage.
- [Undocumented] The Battalion's Backup was added to the crafting blueprint for the Grenadier's Softcap.
- Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on tournament servers when the server is restricting the player's weapons using the item_whitelist.
- [Undocumented] Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on Medieval maps for items that are not allowed in medieval mode.
- [Undocumented] The Battalion's Backup was added in the crafting blueprint for the Concheror.
April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)
- Reduced rage generation rate by 50%.
- Fixed a bug that caused players to see the wrong backpacks on some classes.
- [Undocumented] The Battalion's Backup was added in the crafting blueprint for the Righteous Bison.
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- The Battalion's Backup now uses the Buff Banner's taunt.
- Fixed incorrect player animations for the Battalion's Backup.
- Fixed Soldier buffs and rage meters not always being reset.
- Changed attributes:
- Added additional +15% Sentry damage resistance to all teammates while banner effect is active (50% damage reduction while banner is active).
- Rage is now generated from damage dealt instead of damage received.
- [Undocumented] Added a shield emblem next to the health bar when under the effects of the Battalion's Backup.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
- Changed attribute:
- Added +20 max HP passive for the wearer.
July 2, 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)
- Fixed an issue that caused rocket jumps to be decreased when it was active.
- Fixed a bug that did not prevent crits while using items like the Battalion's Backup.
- [Undocumented] Added new sounds for the Battalion's Backup.
Bugs
- If the player switches to another secondary weapon while the rage is active, the damage reduction buff will be deployed until the rage is depleted.
- If the user switches to another banner, and then touches a Resupply locker, the rage will be carried over.
- The damage resistance scales instead of the set 35%. It seems to be based on damage rampup and falloff. [1]
- The strange variant of the item can rank up during battles against bots and when sv_cheats is set to 1.
Trivia
- The Battalion's Backup resembles the US Military's Vietnam-era backpack-mounted radio transceiver, the AN/PRC-77.
- The Battalion's Backup has separate, unique calls for both the RED and BLU teams. The Buff Banner also shares this feature.
- The Battalion's Backup's flag was originally team-colored according to the polycount concept art.
Gallery
First-person view.
Backpack component.
Bugle component.
Flag component.
Conceptual artwork of the Grenadier's Softcap, Black Box and Battalion's Backup backpack component.
Conceptual artwork of the Grenadier's Softcap, Black Box, and Battalion's Backup's backpack, bugle and flag components.
References
See also
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