Cow Mangler 5000
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| Cow Mangler 5000 | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Soldier |
| Slot: | Primary |
| Released: | July 20, 2011 Patch |
| Availability: | Craft, Drop, Purchase |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 5 |
| Ammo carried: | Unlimited |
| Reload type: | Single |
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 The Cow Mangler 5000 |
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| “ | This is my world. You are not welcome in my world!
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— The Soldier on aliens
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The Cow Mangler 5000 is a primary weapon for the Soldier. It is a large bazooka-style retro-future ray gun.
This weapon is able to fire five blasts of energy that deliver slightly reduced damage to players (albeit with an increased ramp-up) as the Rocket Launcher and 80% less damage against buildings. The blasts fired function similarly to rocket projectiles; as such rocket jumping can be performed without hindrance, and the shots can be reflected by enemy Pyros. As an added benefit, the projectiles can fire through allies. The Cow Mangler 5000 features a "Mangler" bar in the HUD which serves as an indication of its clip. After the bar is depleted, it can be recharged through a reloading process in which the lever on the side is cranked. It does not feature the traditional ammo reserve used by other weapons.
When the Mangler bar is full, pressing the secondary fire button will cause the weapon to begin charging up. During this process, the entire Mangler bar is consumed and the Soldier's movement speed is reduced to a third (from his standard 80% of normal speed to roughly 27%). This charging period lasts for 3 seconds, after which a single charged shot is fired with both the speed and blast radius of a typical rocket. This shot deals mini-crit damage to players. Additionally, enemies hit by this charged shot will suffer six seconds of afterburn damage at the same rate as the Flamethrower. Additionally, the charged shot may ignite Huntsman arrows held by a friendly Sniper and the even the Soldier who fired it if he is near enough. The charged shot also disables any enemy buildings hit for a total of 4 seconds.
Enemies killed by the Mangler suffer a unique death: they turn black, hover in mid-air while performing a specific disintegration animation surrounded by team-colored particles, and then disappear into ashes.
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Damage and function times
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| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 121 |
| Base damage | 100% | Players: 8116 |
| Maximum fall-off | 53% | 43 |
| Point blank | 117-121 | |
| Medium range | 45-81 | |
| Long range | 41-43 | |
| Mini-crit | 109 | |
| Afterburn | 3 / tick 36 total | |
| Afterburn (mini-crit) | 4 / tick 48 total | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8s | |
| Reload (first) | 1.3s | |
| Reload (consecutive) | 0.85s | |
| Afterburn duration | 6 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Item set
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Crafting
Blueprint
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Update history
- The Cow Mangler 5000 was added to the game.
- Improved the impact sounds for the Cow Mangler 5000’s projectiles.
- Optimized many particle effects related to the Cow Mangler 5000.
- Updated the Cow Mangler 5000 to display the drawbacks in its attribute list.
- Updated the gamehaptics file
- Added recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for the Cow Mangler 5000
- Added charge shot force for the Cow Mangler 5000
July 22, 2011 Patch #2
- Fixed the charged shot sometimes doing more damage than intended.
- Fixed a bug that caused the projectiles to stay in the world after a team change.
- Slowed reload rate by 5%.
Bugs
- Once the Soldier begins charging a shot, the weapon will fire a charged shot even if the charging process is interrupted by getting stunned or the Soldier's team losing.
- Deactivating the losing team's Sentries during humiliation will cause them to reactivate afterwards and shoot the winning team.
- Upon destroying an Engineer's building, the kill icon will still include a stick figure's body and skeleton.
- The Soldier's right arm has a tendency to flicker during the reload animation.
- Afterburn kills will be credited to whichever weapon slot the user is currently holding; holding an item that is not a weapon (such as the Buff Banner) shows the generic skull-and-crossbones icon.
- After setting someone on fire and then switching to the Half-Zatoichi, if they die, the weapon will be bloodied but the Soldier remains honorbound.
- Causing an enemy spy to feign death with the Mangler will sometimes create two corpses: one a ragdoll corpse and the other a vaporized corpse.
- Several Pyro achievements, such as "Controlled Burn," can be earned using the afterburn of the charged blast.
- Attempting to rocket jump with a charged shot will set the user on fire, awarding the "Pilot Light" achievement.
- The fire damage self-inflicted on the Soldier by the weapon is treated as an environmental hazard. As such, the last enemy to injure the player will be credited in the kill feed should the Soldier die from the afterburn damage.
- There is no kill icon for a deflected kill with this weapon.
- Pyros who reflect the projectile will deal full Critical damage instead of Mini-Crits
- It is still possible to taunt and quickly press secondary fire to charge a shot. The result is a rocket fired from the Soldier's chest as he taunts.
- If the Soldier is killed by his own laser, his gibs will glow with the opposing team's colors.
- This weapon will not glow when being mini-crit boosted.
- A charge shot will still play the mini-crit hit sound when hitting an ÜberCharged enemy.
- If the Soldier changes from the Mangler to another rocket launcher using a Resupply locker while charging a shot, he will be stuck with the slower moving speed until he changes class or finishes firing a charged shot.
Trivia
- The name of this weapon is a reference to the association of alien contact coinciding with Template:W.
Gallery
RED First-person view.
BLU First-person view.
See also
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