Half-Zatoichi
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| Half-Zatoichi | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Soldier, Demoman |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Contributed by: | "Larolaro" Laro Template:Dictionary/steam ids/263120121 |
| Released: | Shogun Pack |
| Availability: | Promotional, Craft, Drop, Purchase |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 The Half-Zatoichi |
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| “ | You have dishonored this entire unit!
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— The Soldier
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The Half-Zatoichi is a promotional melee weapon for the Soldier and Demoman. It is a samurai's Template:W with a circular guard with rounded notches, adorned with brown hilt wrapping. Upon killing an enemy, the blade becomes decorated with the victim's blood.
Whenever the Half-Zatoichi becomes the active weapon, it cannot be switched for another until a kill is made. To offset this limitation, the blade restores the user's health to 100% upon a successful kill. In addition, wielding this weapon allows the player to instantly slay any enemy brandishing a Half-Zatoichi of their own. Unlike the Demoman's other swords, this weapon utilizes standard melee range.
Taunting as a Demoman with this weapon equipped will perform the Decapitation kill taunt. Successfully killing someone with the taunt will allow the Demoman to sheath the weapon.
Players who pre-purchased Total War: Shogun 2 on Steam before March 15, 2011 were awarded with a Genuine quality version of this item.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
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| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 65 |
| Point blank | 55-75 / 300% | |
| Critical | 195 | |
| Mini-crit | 75-101 | |
| Healing | ||
| Self-healing | 100% | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| Effect duration | ∞ | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Crafting
See also: Crafting
Blueprint
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Related Achievements
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Update history
March 10, 2011 Patch (Shogun Pack)
- The Half-Zatoichi was added to the game.
- Fixed players getting a health bonus based on the weapon they're currently holding instead of the weapon that dealt the killing blow.
- Fixed a server crash caused by using the Half-Zatoichi to hit someone not holding a weapon.
- Fixed the Soldier/Demoman taunts not working correctly when the Half-Zatoichi is the active weapon.
- Fixed a bug where players could switch weapons after deploying the Half-Zatoichi before they killed someone with it.
- The item became tradeable.
- All Half-Zatoichis crafted before this patch have been upgraded to Vintage quality.
- [Undocumented] The item was given a unique crafting recipe.
- Updated honor-bound weapons so that they can be holstered within a second of touching a supply cabinet.
April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)
- Fixed taunt kills made with a Katana not counting towards honorbound kills.
- Fixed a bug where killing a Katana wielder with a Katana was incorrectly causing an increased crit chance
- Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.
- Fixed a problem with honorbound weapons not allowing themselves to be holstered after killing a Spy using the Dead Ringer.
- Fixed a bug with honorbound weapons allowing themselves to be holstered before getting a kill.
- [Undocumented] The honorbound attribute wording was changed from "This weapon is Honorbound and once drawn cannot be sheathed until it kills" to "Honorbound: Once drawn cannot be sheathed until it kills".
Bugs
- The Soldier's thumb clips through the guard in third person view.
- The weapon clips with the Demoman's body when taunting.
- Neither the Soldier, nor the Demoman fully grip the sword in first person view. This is because the view models are recycled from the Shovel and Eyelander respectively.
- The weapon uses the Demoman and Soldier's RED sleeves in first person view, regardless of their team.
- The swinging animation may not play in some cases.
- Players are able to switch between the Half-Zatoichi and other weapons if done so before the draw animation ends and the idle animation begins. It is unknown if this is a bug or intended.
- The loadout screen shows the Demoman holding the Half-Zatoichi in the same one-handed manner as the Bottle, Frying Pan, Ullapool Caber, and the Persian Persuader. In-game, he holds it in the same two-handed manner as he does with the Eyelander, Scotsman's Skullcutter, Claidheamh Mòr and Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker which all appear correctly in the loadout screen.
- It is possible to get the Demoman achievement Scotch Tap twice with this weapon.
- A Spy disguised as a Demoman, wielding the Half-Zatoichi, will hold it like the Bottle.
- After setting someone on fire through use of the Cow Mangler 5000's charged shot, if the victim dies when the Soldier is holding the Half-Zatoichi, the weapon will be bloodied but he will remain honorbound.
Unused Content
- A kill icon exists for Half-Zatoichi duel kills, but it is currently unused.
Trivia
- Template:W is a fictional character who appears in many Japanese films. He is a very able swordsman even though he is blind.
- The weapon attribute is a reference to the legend of Template:W, a famous Japanese swordsmith, who is said to have forged swords that, once drawn, could not be sheathed again until the blade had drawn blood.
- The weapon's description is written in Template:W, a form of Japanese poetry. However, the second line's "duel" must be pronounced as a two-syllable Template:W in order to fit the line's requisite seven syllables.
- In the censored version of Team Fortress 2, the weapon is not covered in blood after a kill.
Gallery
Demoman first-person view.
Demoman first-person view with blood texture.
Demoman first-person view with Chargin' Targe.
Demoman first-person view with blood texture and Chargin' Targe.
First-person view with the Splendid Screen
first-person view with blood texture and Splendid Screen.
Soldier first-person view.
Soldier first-person view with blood texture.
The bloodied Half-Zatoichi.
Unused duel kill icon.
Half-Zatoichi concept artwork
See also
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