The Killing Gloves of Boxing, often abbreviated to K.G.B., are an unlockable melee weapons for the Heavy. They appear as a pair of large, padded, team-colored boxing gloves.
These gloves deal the same damage on hit as the default Fists, but have a 20% longer swing time and thus less potential to follow up hits. When the Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B., however, he is guaranteed critical hits for the next 5 seconds, and can kill additional enemies with the weapon to refresh the boost's duration. This boost affects other weapons, allowing the Heavy to switch to other weapons such as the Shotgun to deal further damage at the cost of losing boost time through the switch animation.
The Killing Gloves of Boxing are automatically given to any player who obtains 22 Heavy achievements.
Damage and funtion times
Damage and function times
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Damage
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Maximum ramp-up
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150%
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72
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Base damage
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100%
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65
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Maximum fall-off
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52.8%
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59
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Critical
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195
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Mini-crit
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88
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Function times
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Attack interval
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0.97 s
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Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
As a Crafting Ingredient
Related Achievements
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Communist Mani-Fisto Kill an enemy with a critical punch.
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Update history
August 19, 2008 Patch (A Heavy Update)
- The Killing Gloves of Boxing were added to the game.
February 25, 2009 Patch
- Fixed the Heavy's hands disappearing when he's stunned while wearing the K.G.B.
September 30, 2010 Patch (The Mann-Conomy Update)
January 7, 2011 Patch
January 10, 2011 Patch
- Fixed the Heavy's fists not playing the critical hit animation.
February 14, 2011 Patch
- Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
March 15, 2011 Patch
- [Undocumented] The weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Fists of Steel.
- [Undocumented] The crafting cost for the Gloves of Running Urgently reduced to one Scrap Metal + K.G.B.
June 3, 2011 Patch
- Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.
Bugs
- The Heavy's hands will sometimes clip through the Gloves while taunting.
- The Heavy's hands disappear sometimes on death.
- The K.G.B.'s crit boost from making successive kills can contribute towards the Supreme Soviet achievement.
Trivia
- K.G.B. is the acronym for the Russian security agency, secret police and intelligence agency Template:W, which was disbanded in 1995.
- The K.G.B.'s taunt is an homage to Mr. Sandman's warm-up technique from Template:W.
- In the .gcf files, there is a scrapped weapon mechanic which was intended for the K.G.B. With it, every kill would earn the Heavy, and his surrounding allies, 50 health regenerated and an additional 10% to their critical hit chances. The downside was that the Heavy taunted after each and every successful K.G.B. kill.
Gallery
See also
External links
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