Gunslinger

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The hand is quicker than the eye!
The Engineer

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.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage
Identical to: Wrench
Damage and function times
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

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Class Token - Engineer Slot Token - Melee Scrap Metal Possible Results
Item icon Class Token - Engineer.png + Item icon Slot Token - Melee.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.png =
Item icon Gunslinger.png Item icon Southern Hospitality.png Item icon Jag.png Item icon Eureka Effect.png

Related Achievements

Leaderboard class engineer.png Engineer

Built to Last
Built to Last
Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed.


Circle the Wagons
Circle the Wagons
Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players.


Doc, Stock, and Barrel
Doc, Stock, and Barrel
Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic.


Fistful of Sappers
Fistful of Sappers
Destroy 25 sappers on buildings built by other team members.


Get Along!
Get Along!
Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away.
Land Grab
Land Grab
Help a teammate construct a building.


Quick Draw
Quick Draw
Kill a Spy and two sappers within 10 seconds.


Rio Grind
Rio Grind
Perform 50 repairs and/or reloads on a Sentry gun being Wrangled by another Engineer.


Silent Pardner
Silent Pardner
Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members.


The Wrench Connection
The Wrench Connection
Kill a disguised spy with your Wrench.

Update history

July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)

  • The item was added to the game.

July 9, 2010 Patch

  • 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.

July 13, 2010 Patch

  • Fixed an exploit where Engineers could create level 3 mini-Sentry Guns.

February 3, 2011 Patch

  • Engineers who hit teammate Sentry Guns with their Wrench now get kill assists from that Sentry Gun.

February 14, 2011 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Fixed Engineer's first-person arms using the wrong bodygroup when having a renamed Shotgun or Pistol equipped with the Gunslinger.
  • Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).

March 10, 2011 Patch

  • Fixed the Best Little Slaughterhouse in Texas achievement not counting Wrangler and Mini-Sentry kills.

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.

Trivia

Radigan Conagher wielding the Gunslinger.
  • 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.
  • It is implied that the Engineer amputated his own arm in order to use this weapon. This is obvious by the way the Engineer's hand seems to have disappeared from the Engineer's arm, instead being replaced by a robotic hand.

Gallery

See also