Iron Curtain
For the achievement of a similar name, see Heavy achievements.
| Iron Curtain | |
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| Kill Icon | |
| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Heavy |
| Slot: | Primary |
| Contributed by: | Telltale Games |
| Released: | November 19, 2010 Patch |
| Availability: | Promotional (Unlock) |
| Tradable: | No |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | No |
| Ammo | |
| Ammo loaded: | 200 |
| Reload type: | No Reload |
| Available Qualities | |
| Loadout Stats | |
 Iron Curtain |
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| “ | The Heavy has spared no expense in crafting this historic tribute to the mother land. Forged from Soviet iron and inlaid with the remaindered mahogany from Alexander II's favorite chair, each kill is not only for "pride of team," but for the Republic.
— Official Description
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The Iron Curtain is a promotional primary weapon for the Heavy. It is a minigun made out of wood and metal, with identifiable features such as the Communist Hammer and Sickle emblem visible on the ammo casing and a smoking vent on the side. It was supposedly crafted by the Heavy himself.
This weapon functions exactly the same way as the Minigun.
It is awarded to players of Poker Night at the Inventory for defeating the Heavy during a round in which he has bought in with the item instead of cash.
The kill icon for the Iron Curtain was contributed by HyenaDip.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
Identical to: Minigun
| Damage and function times | ||
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| Shot type | Hitscan | |
| Damage | ||
| Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 13.5 / per bullet |
| Base damage | 100% | 9 / per bullet |
| Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 4.5 / per bullet |
| Point blank | 50-54 / per 1 ammo 500-540 / per second | |
| Medium range | 5-30 / per 1 ammo 50-300 / per second | |
| Long range | 5-10 / per 1 ammo 50-100 / per second | |
| Critical | 27 / per bullet | |
| Mini-crit | 12 / per bullet | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.1 s | |
| Wind-up time | 0.87 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Related achievements
Heavy
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Poker Night at the Inventory
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Special Item: The Heavy Knock out The Heavy after he's bought in with his special item. |
The Great Steam Treasure Hunt
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Update history
- The Iron Curtain was added to the game.
- [Undocumented] Made crafted Poker Night promotional items untradable.
- [Item schema update] The item could no longer be obtained via the item drop system or crafting.
- Fixed a bug that enabled players to weapon switch away from the Iron Curtain during spin down.
- This weapon was given a unique kill icon.
- [Undocumented] The spin-up and spin-down animations of the Heavy's miniguns were changed.
- Updated model with optimizations and new LODs.
- [Undocumented] The textures of the Iron Curtain were updated.
- Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.
Bugs
- The muzzle flash coming from the end of the Iron Curtain is further out than the actual barrel.
- In the view model there is a slight clipping issue between the handle of the Iron Curtain and the Heavy's hand. This is noticeable when spinning down the weapon.
- When spinning the barrel sometimes it won't show the spinning animation.
- On rare occasions, when you receive this item in Poker Night at the Inventory for the first time, it will not show up in your Team Fortress 2 backpack. The same applies with any other item that you receive through the said game.
Trivia
- The name of this weapon is a reference to a quote from British Prime Minster Template:W, in which he said the "Template:W" would divide the Soviet Union's territory from the Western Democracies.
- The first person view model of the Iron Curtain, as well as that of the Brass Beast, are based on the actual scale of the weapon models. This is in contrast to the Minigun and Natascha, which used separate skewed models to present more of the weapons on the screen.
- In Poker Night at The Inventory, the Heavy refers to this gun as Sasha, instead of his default Minigun.
Gallery
First-person view.
Promotional image of the Heavy with the Dealer's Visor and Iron Curtain.
The Iron Curtain as it appears in Poker Night at the Inventory.
Unlock window from Poker Night at the Inventory.
See also
External links
- TF2 Official Blog: "Shh. Sascha is asleep." – November 3, 2010
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