Cow Mangler 5000
| Cow Mangler 5000 | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Soldier |
| Slot: | Primary |
| Released: | July 20, 2011 Patch (Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack Update) |
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase or Chemistry Set (Collector's) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 4 |
| Ammo carried: | Unlimited |
| Reload type: | Single |
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 The Cow Mangler 5000 |
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| “ | A deadly device by any measure, the Cow Mangler will quantum disentangle Cows, Sheep, Humans and even Demomen!
— Cow Mangler 5000 publicity blurb
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The Cow Mangler 5000 is a primary weapon for the Soldier. It is a large, shoulder-fired, retrofuturistic raygun. Several portions of the weapon are team-colored, and arcs of electricity appear periodically on the frontal nodes.
This weapon can fire up to four blasts of team-colored energy that deal about 20% damage to buildings compared to the default Rocket Launcher. The blasts fired function similarly to rocket projectiles; as such, rocket jumps can be executed similarly, and shots can be reflected by enemy Pyros. Projectiles fired travel at the same speed as those from the default Rocket Launcher at 1100 Hammer units per second (approximately 76 km/h or 47 mph). The Cow Mangler 5000 features a "Mangler" bar in the HUD which serves as an indication of its ammunition clip. After the bar is depleted, it is recharged through a reloading animation where the lever on the Mangler's side is cranked. The weapon does not incorporate the traditional ammo reserve used by other weapons and hence has unlimited ammunition, a feature it shares with the Righteous Bison, Pomson 6000, and Manmelter.
When the Mangler bar is full, pressing the secondary fire button (default key: MOUSE2) causes the weapon to begin charging up. During this process, the entire Mangler bar is consumed, the user cannot switch weapons and the Soldier's movement speed is reduced from 80% (normal) to 27%. This charging period lasts two seconds, after which a single charged shot is fired with the same speed and blast radius of a primary fire blast. This shot deals Mini-Crit damage to players and inflicts 6 seconds of afterburn damage, at the same rate as the Flame Thrower. This can damage and ignite the Soldier who fired it if they are close enough to the impact. The charged shot can destroy enemy stickybombs and disables hit enemy buildings for four seconds. However, damage dealt to enemies is reduced by items that offer explosive or fire resistances.
The Cow Mangler is unable to deal random or guaranteed Critical hits. Granted or earned critboosts from the Kritzkrieg's ÜberCharge or Crit Boosted Power Up Canteens are converted to Mini-Crits instead. The conversion ignores ramp-up the same way Crits do, so at close range it does less damage than normal Mini-Crits.
Enemies killed by the Cow Mangler 5000 suffer a distinctive death by vaporization: they turn black, hover in mid-air while surrounded by team-colored particles, and then disappear into ashes while a loud, distinct vaporization sound plays. Like backstabs and headshots, there is a 25% chance of opponents performing a specific disintegration animation if killed in this way. This vaporization effect is shared among the energy weapons. If killed by a charged shot, the victim explodes and their gibs vaporize individually, flying out in random directions.
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Damage and function times
See also: Damage
| Damage and function times | ||
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| Shot type | Projectile | |
| Damage type | Explosive | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 125% | 112 |
| Base damage | 100% | Players: 9018 |
| Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 48 |
| Point blank | 105-112 | |
| Medium range | 50-90 | |
| Long range | 24-48 | |
| Critical | 270 | |
| Mini-crit | 122-151 | |
| Afterburn | 4 / tick 48 total | |
| Afterburn (mini-crit) | 5 / tick 60 total | |
| Splash damage | ||
| Minimum splash | 50% | 2.77 m |
| Self-damage | 27-89 | |
| Self damage (rocket jump) | 27-46 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| Reload (first) | 0.92 s | |
| Reload (consecutive) | 0.8 s | |
| Afterburn duration | 6 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Item set
Main article: Item sets
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Demonstration
Crafting
Main article: Crafting
Blueprint
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Related achievements
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Update history
July 20, 2011 Patch #1 (Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack Update)
- The Cow Mangler 5000 was added to the game.
July 20, 2011 Patch #2
- Fixed being able to paint the Cow Mangler 5000.
- Improved the impact sounds for the Cow Mangler 5000’s projectiles.
- Optimized many particle effects related to the Cow Mangler 5000.
- Updated the Cow Mangler 5000 to display the drawbacks in its attribute list.
- Updated the gamehaptics file.
- Added recoil/draw/Crit/reload forces for the Cow Mangler 5000.
- Added charge shot force for the Cow Mangler 5000.
July 22, 2011 Patch #2
- Fixed the charged shot sometimes doing more damage than intended.
- Fixed a bug that caused the projectiles to stay in the world after a team change.
- Changed attributes:
- Slowed reload rate by 5%.
- Decreased damage dealt by 10%.
- Corrected the damage ramp for the Cow Mangler 5000.
- [Undocumented] Updated the kill icon for Cow Mangler 5000.
- Updated the particle effects for the Cow Mangler 5000 and the Righteous Bison.
October 14, 2011 [Item schema update]
- The Cow Mangler 5000 can no longer be painted.
October 27, 2011 Patch (Very Scary Halloween Special)
- Updated effects for the Cow Mangler 5000.
- [Undocumented] Fixed reflected Cow Mangler shots becoming Critical hits.
- Changed attributes:
- Reduced clip size (from 5 to 4).
- Removed -10% damage attribute.
- Removed 5% slower reload attribute.
- Added missing "sets players on fire" description text.
- Updated particles and sound.
- Fixed missing Cow Mangler 5000 particles when running in DirectX8.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
- Fixed dropped energy weapons not being able to fire after being picked up.
- Fixed energy weapons not reloading when using
cl_autoreload.
- Adjusted the Cow Mangler 5000 reload animation to be slightly faster (now matches the default Rocket Launcher).
- Fixed a bug with the Cow Mangler 5000 reload speed.
- Fixed being able to damage enemies through gates with the Cow Mangler 5000.
October 20, 2017 Patch (Jungle Inferno Update)
- Changed attribute:
- Removed cannot be critboosted.
- Granted/earned Crits will be converted to Mini-Crits instead.
- Fixed the afterburn duration for the Cow Mangler 5000.
- Fixed the Cow Mangler 5000's charged shot so that afterburn lasts 6 seconds (instead of 10).
- [Undocumented] The charged shot can now destroy enemy stickybombs.
- Fixed movement bug related to the Cow Mangler 5000.
Unused content
- In the VPK files there is an unused alternate sound for charged shots resembling some Quake sounds listed as
cow_mangler_over_charge_shot. There is also an unused idle sound and some alternative explosion sounds. - The Cow Mangler 5000 is set up for paint to be applied, but the ability to do so is disabled. It was briefly enabled between the weapon's introduction and the second July 20, 2011 Patch.
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Main article: Paint Can
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| An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge | Color No. 216-190-216 | Peculiarly Drab Tincture | Aged Moustache Grey |
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| A Distinctive Lack of Hue | After Eight | Radigan Conagher Brown | Ye Olde Rustic Colour |
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| Muskelmannbraun | Mann Co. Orange | Australium Gold | The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants |
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| Dark Salmon Injustice | Pink as Hell | A Deep Commitment to Purple | Noble Hatter's Violet |
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| A Color Similar to Slate | Zepheniah's Greed | Drably Olive | Indubitably Green |
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| The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime | A Mann's Mint | ||
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| Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) | Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) | Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) | Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU) |
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| Team Spirit (RED) | Team Spirit (BLU) | Operator's Overalls (RED) | Operator's Overalls (BLU) |
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| The Value of Teamwork (RED) | The Value of Teamwork (BLU) | An Air of Debonair (RED) | An Air of Debonair (BLU) |
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| Cream Spirit (RED) | Cream Spirit (BLU) | Unpainted (RED) | Unpainted (BLU) |
Bugs
- If the Soldier dies from the afterburn of his own charged shot after being damaged by an enemy, the enemy is credited with the kill and the kill feed displays the Cow Mangler icon.
- The weapon fires a charged shot even if the charging process is interrupted by Humiliation or getting stunned.
- Rarely, after a moment of not firing, the Soldier automatically reloads the weapon's clip, regardless of the player's auto-reload setting.[1]
- When minimizing the game with this weapon equipped, the ammo portion of the HUD may disappear. Opening the scoreboard may fix this.
- The weapon does not glow when boosted by Mini-Crits.
- If the Soldier dies from their own Cow Mangler, the vaporization effect uses the opposite team's color.
- If the player dies while the Mangler is active, the weapon's particle effects still appear in spectate while the player waits to respawn.
- The backpack icon has the team-colored parts of the weapon colored in dark orange.
- On respawn zones, if a player switches loadout presets to another with the Cow Mangler equipped, and starts charging right before respawning, the charge continues, but the speed penalty is not applied.[2]
- Additionally, under the same criteria, constantly switching loadouts delays the charged shot from being fired.[3]
- These conditions only work if the "Automatically respawn after loadout changes in respawn zones" option is enabled on the game's Advanced Options menu.
- Additionally, under the same criteria, constantly switching loadouts delays the charged shot from being fired.[3]
- The Cow Mangler 5000 fires closer to the center than the stock Rocket Launcher.
- The weapon's description does not mention that it can destroy enemy stickybombs.
Trivia
- The name Cow Mangler is a reference to the association of alien contact with cattle mutilation. This originated from American science-fiction movies of the 1950s in which aliens would use laser and plasma weapons to cause mutilation to livestock.
Gallery
BLU variant of the weapon.
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
RED projectile.
BLU projectile.
Old RED projectile.
Old BLU projectile.
Early particle effect concept for the Cow Mangler 5000.
See also
References
- ↑ Cow Mangler 5000 ignores cl_autoreload 0 on YouTube
- ↑ cow mangler on YouTube
- ↑ cow mangler 2 on YouTube
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