Gunslinger
| Gunslinger | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Engineer |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Released: | Engineer Update |
| Availability: | Unlock, Drop, Craft, Uncrate (#1), Purchase |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 The Gunslinger |
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| “ | The hand is quicker than the eye!
Click to listen
— The Engineer
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The Gunslinger is an unlockable melee weapon for the Engineer. It is a robotic hand, comprised of segmented finger parts, wires and a pressure gauge. It replaces the Engineer's right hand.
The device grants the Engineer an additional 25 max health (raising total health to 150), promoting more offensive play at the cost of no random critical hits. Additionally, the player is able to perform a three-part combo attack on enemies. Should an enemy be hit three times in succession, the third strike with the fist will become an automatic critical hit. This does not need to be performed on a single enemy, but the correct bound key cannot be released during the combo or it will be lost and reset.
The critical hit animation for the Gunslinger is a downward punch swing. After that, the hand will jerk and produce a mechanical twitching noise before resuming the normal idle animation, though this is only a visual effect. The critical hit animation will also play when attacking friendly players and when building/upgrading the Engineer's own buildings.
Using the Gunslinger allows the Engineer to build a Combat Mini-Sentry Gun instead of the standard Sentry Gun. A Mini-sentry takes only 2.5 seconds to build, costs only 100 metal and fires 50% faster. However, it cannot be upgraded or repaired, and only deals 50% damage per shot compared to a normal level 1 Sentry Gun.
Switching from the Gunslinger to a different melee weapon will destroy all existing buildings.
Taunting with the Gunslinger will perform the Organ Grinder taunt kill.
The Gunslinger is automatically given to any player who obtains 11 Engineer achievements.
Contents
Damage and function times
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| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 65 |
| Point blank | 59-72 | |
| Critical | 195 | |
| Mini-crit | 88 | |
| Damage repaired per hit | 105 | |
| Upgrade amount per hit | 25 | |
| Metal cost per repairing hit | 1 + damage / 5 | |
| Metal cost for reloading ammo | 1 / bullet 2 / rocket salvo | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
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Related Achievements
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Update history
July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)
- The item was added to the game.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed Engineers to build level 2 or 3 mini Sentry Guns.
- The Gunslinger 3 hit combo now only increments the combo count when hitting enemy players.
- Fixed an exploit where Engineers could create level 3 mini-Sentry Guns.
- [Undocumented] Fixed Engineer's first-person arms using the wrong bodygroup when having a renamed Shotgun or Pistol equipped with the Gunslinger.
Bugs
- If an Engineer dies while the Gunslinger is his active weapon, he will not drop a recoverable weapon pickup.
- The right hand gib of a gibbed Gunslinger-wearing Engineer will still show his regular glove.
- If the Engineer has been crit-boosted with the Kritzkrieg or Humiliation, the Gunslinger will deal critical hits, but the critical animation will not occur.
- If an ÜberCharge is deployed on an Engineer using the Gunslinger, it will show a wrong skin position of the invulnerable Engineer.
- Weapon switching glitches can occur with the Gunslinger and any Wrench, which creates a glitched first-person model of the Gunslinger holding the selected Wrench at the same time (which should be impossible as they are both melee weapons, and thus could not be used together). It is also possible for the Gunslinger to appear as the Engineer's default glove.
- It is possible to 'store' the third (critical) punch by hitting a friendly player twice, then switching away to a different weapon before the third punch is dealt.
Trivia
- The Gunslinger, along with the Frontier Justice, Wrangler, and Southern Hospitality, appears to have been designed by Radigan Conagher, the Engineer's grandfather. This is shown by a hidden link in the Engineer Update.
- The Gunslinger shares traits with the P.D.Q., an Engineer weapon from the closed beta. Both items share the ability to construct un-upgradable Sentry Guns in a shorter time span than normal. In contrast, the Gunslinger's 4x construction rate beats the P.D.Q.'s 1.5x construction rate.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
See also
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