Bottle

From Team Fortress Wiki
Revision as of 22:40, 30 March 2023 by BrazilianNut (talk | contribs) ({{Hatnote}} -> {{Other uses}}; other, minor changes.)
Jump to: navigation, search
This article is about the Demoman's stock melee weapon. For other bottles, see Bottle (disambiguation).]].
Ay, me bottle o' scrumpy!
The Demoman

The Bottle is the default melee weapon for the Demoman. It is a brown, opaque glass bottle of scrumpy marked with 'XXX' on the label and a year suggesting it was made in 1808.

While the weapon works similarly to most of the other default melee weapons, if a critical hit is achieved when striking a surface or player, the Bottle's lower half shatters and remains so until the player is killed (it does not mend upon touching a Resupply locker). This is purely cosmetic; the broken Bottle has the same range and deals no more or less damage than it did prior to being broken.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage
Damage and function times
Damage type Melee
Ranged or Melee damage? Melee
Damage
Base damage 100% 65
Critical 195
Mini-crit 88
Function times
Attack interval 0.8 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Strange variant


Related achievements

Leaderboard class demoman.png Demoman

The Scottish Play
The Scottish Play
Get a melee kill while sticky jumping.

Update history

April 29, 2008 Patch (Gold Rush Update)
  • Added new swing animations.

February 16, 2009 Patch

  • [Undocumented] The Bottle's taunt now has a burp sound.

February 14, 2011 Patch

  • Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).

June 3, 2011 Patch

  • Added new community contributed response rules to the Bottle.

March 22, 2012 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.

June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)

  • Converted the Bottle models to use the c_models system.
  • [Undocumented] Bottle no longer breaks upon crit impact.

October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)

  • Fixed the Bottle not having its models break on critical hits.

Unused content

  • In the VPK, there exists an unused texture for the beta BLU Bottle listed as v_bottle_blue. There is also a version of the model where the Bottle is broken, as well as hit sounds for it.

Bugs

  • When performing a mini-crit melee strike with the charge of the Tide Turner, the Bottle appears broken for a brief period before quickly returning to normal.

Trivia

  • Scrumpy is a type of strong cider traditionally brewed in the West Country of England. Liquor is usually stored in dark-colored bottles, as this prevents sunlight from spoiling the contents.
  • The 'XXX' logo refers to how alcohol is commonly portrayed in cartoons to avoid copyright infringement. It is also a reference to the traditional way of rating alcohol strength, 3 X's being the strongest.
  • The bucket icons for the Bottle are team-specific, showing that there were once RED and BLU versions of the Bottle.

Gallery

See also