Homewrecker

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Damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit!!
The Engineer on the Pyro's new weapon.

The Homewrecker is a community-made melee weapon for the Pyro. It appears as a large, two-handed sledgehammer.

When wielded, the weapon is able to deal essentially double damage to an enemy Engineer's buildings. The Homewrecker is also able to destroy an Electro Sapper attached to a friendly building with a single swing. Unlike the Engineer's melee weapons, the Homewrecker cannot repair damaged buildings. Additionally, the Homewrecker will deal 25% less damage to enemies.

As buildings are now more reinforced against damage from the Flamethrower, the Homewrecker is a more suitable weapon for destroying Dispensers and Teleporters quickly. A Sentry Gun proves to be the most difficult building to destroy due to knockback and continual fire. A Pyro aided by a Medic should be able to take down most Sentry Guns, especially with an ÜberCharge.

Damage

See also: Damage

The damage of the Homewrecker is such that it will destroy all Buildings within two swings (the Combat Mini-sentry requiring only one), provided the building is not repaired between the first swing and the second, and that the building is not being protected with a Wrangler. The Homewrecker also destroys enemy Sappers in one swing.

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

  • Attack Interval: 0.8

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Equalizer Eyelander Homewrecker
Item icon Equalizer.png + Item icon Eyelander.png = Item icon Homewrecker.png

As a Crafting Ingredient

Chargin' Targe Homewrecker Claidheamh Mòr
Item icon Chargin' Targe.png + Item icon Homewrecker.png = Item icon Claidheamh Mòr.png

Related Achievements

Leaderboard class pyro.png Pyro

Clearcutter
Clearcutter
Kill 6 people with your axe in one life.


Freezer Burn
Freezer Burn
Provide enemies with freezecam shots of each of your taunts.
Lumberjack
Lumberjack
Kill 3 people with your axe in one life.

Update history

May 7, 2010 Patch

  • The Homewrecker now damages enemy Sappers on friendly buildings.

May 12, 2010 Patch

  • Added crafting recipe for this weapon.

May 27, 2010 Patch

  • This weapon was given a kill icon.

November 19, 2010 Patch

  • The Homewrecker is now capable of removing Electro Sappers from both ends of a Teleporter with a single swing.

Trivia

  • While the Homewrecker was submitted with the name "Sledgehammer", the Homewrecker's original skin name was Mr Sledge, and was available as one of the skins for the Axtinguisher.
  • The Homewrecker was accidentally added to the drop system a day earlier as "Unknown Item 153". At that time, the item could be acquired through the random drop system, but not found in the backpack without the help of an external item manager. Approximately 1200 players found the item, but it did not drop into the backpack until the item was officially implemented on March 18. When moved into the backpack before this, the item took the placeholder icon of the Bottle.
  • The maker of this weapon, Larolaro also made the Tank Buster set in the Polycount Pack.

Gallery

See also