Gloves of Running Urgently

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The Heavy

The Gloves of Running Urgently, commonly abbreviated as the G.R.U., are a craftable melee weapon for the Heavy. They appear as large, smooth, padded boxing gloves in team colors with flame decals and orange rings around the cuffs.

While the Gloves of Running Urgently are the active weapons, the Heavy moves 30% faster - at 99.67% base movement speed, or at a rate of 299 Hammer units per second to be exact. While this effect is active, the Heavy suffers a health loss of 6 health per second, indicated by a team-colored skull particle appearing above him every time health is lost. Continual use of the G.R.U. will therefore result in the Heavy's death unless he is being continually healed. The G.R.U.'s damage is half that of the Fists.

As with the Fists and K.G.B., primary fire swings the left fist, secondary fire swings the right fist, and the critical hit animation is always a right-handed uppercut.

The G.R.U.'s self-inflicted damage is cumulative with respect to time. For example, if a player took out the G.R.U. for 0.5 seconds, switched to Minigun, and then switched back to the G.R.U., that player would take 6 damage after wielding the weapon for another 0.5 seconds. A player can minimize damage taken during travel by repeatedly jumping and only taking the G.R.U. out while touching the ground, as velocity is not lost by losing base move speed mid-air.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage
Damage and function times
Effect +30% faster move speed while deployed.
Damage
Maximum ramp-up 150% 37
Base damage 100% 33
Maximum fall-off 52.8% 29
Critical 96
Mini-crit 43
Self-damage 6 HP per second
Function times
Attack interval 0.8 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Killing Gloves of Boxing Scrap Metal Gloves of Running Urgently
Item icon Killing Gloves of Boxing.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.pngx2 = Item icon Gloves of Running Urgently.png
Class Token - Heavy Slot Token - Melee Scrap Metal Possible Results
Item icon Class Token - Heavy.png + Item icon Slot Token - Melee.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.png =
Item icon Killing Gloves of Boxing.png Item icon Gloves of Running Urgently.png Item icon Warrior's Spirit.png Item icon Fists of Steel.png
Item icon Eviction Notice.png Item icon Apoco-Fists.png Item icon Holiday Punch.png Item icon Freedom Staff.png
Item icon Ham Shank.png Item icon Bat Outta Hell.png Item icon Conscientious Objector.png

As a Crafting Ingredient

Gloves of Running Urgently Scrap Metal Warrior's Spirit
Item icon Gloves of Running Urgently.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.png = Item icon Warrior's Spirit.png

Related Achievements

Leaderboard class heavy.png Heavy

Borscht Belt
Borscht Belt
Kill 10 Heavies with The K.G.B.
Communist Mani-Fisto
Communist Mani-Fisto
Kill an enemy with a critical punch.

Update history

September 30, 2010 Patch

  • The item was added to the game.

October 6, 2010 Patch

  • The Gloves of Running Urgently now using the boxing taunt and boxing glove weapons are now of the type "Boxing Gloves" instead of "Fists."

October 8, 2010 Patch

  • Fixed an exploit that allowed people to bypass the Gloves of Running Urgently's damage taking penalty.

December 21, 2010 Patch

December 22, 2010 Patch

January 7, 2011 Patch

January 10, 2011 Patch

  • Fixed the Heavy's fists not playing the critical hit animation.

March 15, 2011 Patch

  • [Undocumented] The crafting cost for the weapon was reduced from one Reclaimed Metal + K.G.B to two Scrap Metal + K.G.B.
  • [Undocumented] The weapon was removed from the crafting blueprint for the Fists of Steel.
  • [Undocumented] The crafting cost for the Warrior's Spirit was reduced to one Scrap Metal + G.R.U.

Bugs

  • The G.R.U uses the Fists' sound effects rather than the K.G.B's when attacking with them.

Trivia

  • G.R.U. is an acronym for the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye, the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Red Army General Staff of the Soviet Union).
  • The G.R.U. were featured in the closed beta, the attributes of which were leaked by testers. The beta G.R.U. did not have their own texture or taunt and instead used the K.G.B. model and Showdown taunt as placeholders. The first version of the G.R.U. increased the movement speed of the Heavy, but reduced the damage done by 50% and decreased max health by 100. These effects only took place while the weapon was active. A 'Beta 2' version existed, where the Heavy received less health from healing sources, rather than a loss of maximum health. A 'Beta 3' version replaced the max health loss with a 6 health drain per second while the weapon was active. The "Beta 3" version of the weapon is used in the game.

Gallery

See also