Manmelter

Manmelter
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Basic Information
Used by:	Pyro
Slot:	Secondary
Contributed by:	Weta Workshop
Released:	December 15, 2011 Patch; (Australian Christmas 2011)
Availability:	Drop, Craft, Purchase or Chemistry Set (Collector's)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	Yes
Medieval:	No
Ammo
Ammo loaded:	Unlimited
Reload type:	No Reload
Available Qualities
	Unique Strange Collector's
Loadout Stats
	The Manmelter; Level 30 Indivisible Particle Smasher; +50% projectile speed; Does not require ammo; Alt-Fire: Extinguish teammates to gain guaranteed critical hits; Extinguishing teammates restores 20 health; No random critical hits; This weapon will reload automatically when not active.; ; Being a device that flouts conventional scientific consensus that the molecules composing the human body must be arranged "just so", and not, for example, across a square-mile radius.

“

Ideal for atomizing moon soldiers or neighborhood dogs at your earliest convenience!

Click to listen

— Manmelter publicity blurb

”

The Manmelter is a secondary weapon for the Pyro. It is a grey, retro-futuristic laser pistol, with a small vial that contains team-colored liquid.

The weapon fires flaming bolts of energy that are similar to the flares fired by the Flare Gun, but travel 50% faster. Unlike the other flare guns, the Manmelter's energy bolts do not inflict additional damage to ignited players. The Manmelter itself has unlimited ammunition, and cannot fire random critical hits. It requires reloading, but lacks a reload animation; instead, the Manmelter will play a distinct but quiet sound, similar to that of the Machina when it's fired without scoping, and produces a small spark slightly after it is ready to be fired again. When holding the primary-fire button (or firing as fast as possible), this sound and spark effect will not play.

Holding the alt-fire button will activate a vacuum-like function, pulling up dust from the ground and extinguishing teammates that are on fire. It extinguishes at roughly the same interval as continually airblasting with a flamethrower, although the player is required to press and hold alt-fire again to keep the vacuum going after they have extinguished a teammate. For each ally extinguished, the Manmelter will grant the user 20 health (similarly to a compression blast) and stores a guaranteed critical hit for later use, similarly to the Frontier Justice and Diamondback. Up to 35 crits can be stored in this fashion, all lost upon death. Firing a crit from the Manmelter shoots a burst of fire from the gun.

Enemies killed by the Manmelter suffer a distinctive death by incineration, wherein they disintegrate into smoldering orange cinders that quickly fade away.

Taunting with the Manmelter equipped will perform the Hadouken kill taunt. As the taunt kill shares the properties of the Manmelter, enemies hit by the Hadouken will also disintegrate into cinders.

This item was named the "Manmelter 3600 ZX" in promotional materials from the Official TF2 Blog and Weta Workshop.

The Manmelter was later contributed to the Steam Workshop, at Valve's request.

Damage and function times

Demonstration

Item set

Main article: Item sets

Dr. Grordbort's Moonman Pack
	Phlogistinator Manmelter Third Degree Bubble Pipe Moonman Backpack
Effect	No effect

Crafting

Blueprint

Reclaimed Metal		Detonator		Manmelter
	+		=

Class Token - Pyro

Slot Token - Secondary

Scrap Metal

+

+

=

As a crafting ingredient

Refined Metal

x4

+

=

Strange variant

Strange variant information

Strange Manmelter
Strange Indivisible Particle Smasher - Kills: 0
+50% projectile speed
Does not require ammo
Alt-Fire: Extinguish teammates to gain guaranteed critical hits
Extinguishing teammates restores 20 health
No random critical hits
This weapon will reload automatically when not active.

Being a device that flouts conventional scientific consensus that the molecules composing the human body must be arranged "just so", and not, for example, across a square-mile radius.

Only the first statistic counts towards the strange rank.

Compatible Strange parts

Strange Part: Damage Dealt	Strange Cosmetic Part: Fires Survived	Strange Part: Allied Healing Done	Strange Part: Allies Extinguished

Strange Part: Scouts Killed	Strange Part: Soldiers Killed	Strange Part: Pyros Killed	Strange Part: Demomen Killed

Strange Part: Heavies Killed	Strange Part: Engineers Killed	Strange Part: Medics Killed	Strange Part: Snipers Killed

Strange Part: Spies Killed	Strange Part: Cloaked Spies Killed	Strange Part: Low-Health Kills	Strange Part: Posthumous Kills

Strange Part: Kills While Übercharged	Strange Part: Defender Kills	Strange Part: Underwater Kills	Strange Part: Critical Kills

Strange Part: Gib Kills	Strange Part: Kills While Explosive Jumping	Strange Part: Headshot Kills	Strange Part: Airborne Enemies Killed

Strange Part: Burning Enemy Kills	Strange Part: Medics Killed That Have Full ÜberCharge	Strange Part: Unusual-Wearing Player Kills	Strange Part: Point-Blank Kills

Strange Part: Long-Distance Kills	Strange Part: Domination Kills	Strange Part: Revenge Kills	Strange Part: Full Moon Kills

Strange Part: Halloween Kills	Strange Part: Kills During Victory Time	Strange Part: Kills with a Taunt Attack	Strange Part: Buildings Destroyed

Strange Part: Sappers Destroyed	Strange Part: Robots Destroyed	Strange Part: Giant Robots Destroyed	Strange Part: Robot Spies Destroyed

Strange Part: Tanks Destroyed	Strange Part: Robots Destroyed During Halloween	Strange Part: Projectiles Reflected	Strange Cosmetic Part: Freezecam Taunt Appearances

Strange Part: Killstreaks Ended	Strange Part: Player Hits

Related achievements

Pyro

OMGWTFBBQ
Kill an enemy with a taunt.

Update history

December 15, 2011 Patch (Australian Christmas 2011)

The Manmelter was added to the game.

December 16, 2011 Patch

Fixed Manmelter getting crits from 'Mmmph' bar.

December 16, 2011 [Item schema update]

Updated the description of the weapon.

December 21, 2011 Patch

Added particle effect on muzzle that appears when ready to fire.
Increased projectile speed while maintaining the same travel arc.
Increased extinguish range.
Added draw/recoil/crit forces for the Manmelter.

December 23, 2011 Patch

Fixed the Manmelter idle effects showing on other flare guns.

January 11, 2012 Patch

Added crafting blueprint for the Manmelter.

March 22, 2012 Patch

Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the Manmelter to display incorrect kill icons.

May 17, 2012 Patch

Fixed the Manmelter using the wrong muzzle flash effect.

June 27, 2012 Patch (Pyromania Update)

Improved visual and audio cues for when the Manmelter is ready to fire.
Fixed the Manmelter being able to earn crits via friendly Pyro self-damage.

March 19, 2013 Patch

Removed some description text from the Manmelter that incorrectly stated its projectiles could not be deflected.

November 12, 2013 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.

August 13, 2014 Patch

[Undocumented] Added Strange quality.

August 21, 2014 Patch

The Manmelter can now accept Allies Extinguished strange parts.

January 7, 2016 Patch

Changed attribute:
- Updated the Manmelter so extinguishing a teammate will return 20 health to the Pyro.

July 7, 2016 Patch (Meet Your Match Update)

Removed (hidden) 20% fire rate penalty.

September 26, 2022 Patch

Fixed duplicate reload sound entries in the tf_weapon_flaregun_revenge weapon script

Unused content

There is a unique projectile impact for the laser hitting a wall.

Bugs

When this weapon's projectile is reflected, it is reflected as a Flare Gun flare.
The critical hits counter does not show when the active weapon is not the Manmelter.
Firing at least one time will cause the weapon to not fully go back to its resting position.
While holding down alt-fire after having saved up charges, trying to fire while still holding alt-fire instantly depletes the Manmelter of all its saved charges, and the crits counter is reset to 0. The weapon does not actually fire anything while this happens.
Occasionally the ash-suck particle effect may not appear.
If a friendly Pyro is inflicted by afterburn from the Gas Passer, and the Pyro extinguishes the friendly Pyro, they will recieve points and health, but not a stored critical.

Gallery

BLU variant of the weapon.
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
RED projectile.
BLU projectile.
A first person view of the Manmelter's ash-sucking visual effect.
Steam Workshop thumbnail for the Manmelter.
Concept art showing an early idea for the Manmelter's particle effects.
The launched RED projectile accompanied by its particle effects.

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Primary PDA	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Secondary PDA	—	—	—	—	—	Destruction PDA	—	—	Invis Watch
Secondary PDA	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Cloak and Dagger Dead Ringer Enthusiast's Timepiece Quäckenbirdt
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Damage and function times
Shot type		Projectile
Damage type		Dual-type (fire and bullet)
Ranged or Melee damage?		Ranged
Damage
Base damage	100%	30
Critical		90
Mini-crit		41
Afterburn		4 / tick 60 total
Afterburn (mini-crit)		5 / tick 75 total
Function times
Attack interval		2 s
Afterburn duration		7.5 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Manmelter

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Damage and function times

Demonstration

Item set

Crafting

Blueprint

As a crafting ingredient

Strange variant

Related achievements

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Update history

Unused content

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