Killing Gloves of Boxing
| Killing Gloves of Boxing | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Heavy |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Released: | A Heavy Update |
| Availability: | Unlock, Craft, Drop, Purchase |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 The Killing Gloves of Boxing |
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| “ | I promise you pain without end.
Click to listen
— The Heavy on crit streaks
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The Killing Gloves of Boxing (K.G.B.) are an unlockable melee weapon 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.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
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| Base damage | 100% | 65 |
| Point blank | 55-75 | |
| Critical | 195 | |
| Mini-crit | 75-101 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.97 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Crafting
See also: Crafting
Blueprint
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As a crafting ingredient
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Related achievements
Heavy
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Medic
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Update history
August 19, 2008 Patch (A Heavy Update)
- The Killing Gloves of Boxing were added to the game.
September 30, 2010 Patch (The Mann-Conomy Update)
- [Undocumented] The weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Gloves of Running Urgently.
- This weapon's kill icon was updated.
- Fixed the Heavy's fists not playing the critical hit animation.
- Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
- [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.
- Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.
- [Undocumented] Fixed this weapon not hiding Heavy's default fists.
Bugs
- Each of the K.G.B.'s critical boosts received from making successive kills can be contributed towards the "Supreme Soviet" achievement.
- The Heavy's hands clip through the gloves in world view.
- The Heavy's fists overlap with the K.G.B. when using the Director's Vision taunt.
- Clips with Purity Fist
Unused content
- 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.
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.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
See also
External links
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