Soda Popper
| Soda Popper | |
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| Kill Icon | |
| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Scout |
| Slot: | Primary |
| Contributed by: | Template:Dictionary/steam ids/326067125 |
| Released: | Über Update |
| Availability: | Craft, Drop, Purchase |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | Yes |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 2 |
| Ammo carried: | 32 |
| Reload type: | Manual shell replacement |
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 The Soda Popper |
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| “ | Look at me!
Click to listen
— The Scout on hype building
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The Soda Popper is a primary weapon for the Scout. It is a broken Force-A-Nature repaired with several black bands, with slitted barrels and a can of Crit-a-Cola attached underneath.
The weapon offers 25% faster reloading speed and 50% faster firing speed compared to the default Scattergun. However, it is restricted to loading only two shots at a time, and it is incapable of delivering random critical hits.
In addition, equipping the Soda Popper places a "hype" meter on the HUD, which charges whilst the player is moving with the weapon in use. It takes approximately 5200 Hammer units of distance traveled, either through running or jumping, to fill up the hype meter. When the meter is full, all weapons will automatically deal mini-crits for 8 seconds. The meter will not charge while a different weapon is held, allowing a Scout to save the boost for when he needs it.
Contents
Damage and function times
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| Shot type | Hitscan | |
| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 9 / pellet |
| Base damage | 100% | 6 / pellet |
| Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 3 / pellet |
| Pellet count | 10 | |
| Point blank | 90 | |
| Medium range | 24-67 | |
| Long range | 3-26 | |
| Critical | 18 / pellet | |
| Mini-crit | 8 / pellet | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.315 s | |
| Reload | 1.23 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Item set
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Crafting
Blueprint
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As a Crafting Ingredient
| Soda Popper | Refined Metal | Bonk Boy | ||
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Update history
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- The Soda Popper was added to the game.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the new Scout items from being used in crafting recipes.
- Added/Refined recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for all of the new weapons in the Uber Update
Bugs
- In first person view, the Scout's right hand clips through the black bands of the weapon.
- The weapon only manages to ramp-up to 150% damage, unlike the other Primary weapons where they could ramp-up to 175% damage. This may be an unintentional bug, or may be part of the item but is not written in the description.
- On 4:3 resolutions, the Hype meter will overlap the objective HUD.
- When used on itemtest, this weapon has the Scattergun's rate of fire and clip size. As a result of this, every single shell loaded uses the Soda Popper's reload animation, resulting in a very slow reload.
Trivia
- The shells appear to have the Radiation Template:W (☢) on them.[1]
- Although a can of Crit-a-Cola is strapped to the barrel, a Bonk! Atomic Punch is required instead in the crafting recipe. While coincidental, early versions of the Soda Popper had a can of Bonk! Atomic Punch strapped to the barrel.
Gallery
First-person view.
- Soda Popper first person reloading.png
Close-up shot of reloading.
References
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