Bottle
| Bottle | |
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| Kill Icon | |
| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Demoman |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Availability: | Stock |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
| Available Qualities | |
| Loadout Stats | |
 Bottle |
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| “ | Imagine if I hadn't been drunk! Ah heh.
Click to listen
— The Demoman
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The Bottle is the default melee weapon for the Demoman. It is a brown glass bottle of scrumpy marked with 'XXX' on the label and a year suggesting it was made in 1808.
While the weapon works similarly to most of the other default melee weapons, if a critical hit is achieved when striking a surface or player, the Bottle's lower half shatters and will remain so until the player is killed (it does not mend upon touching a Resupply locker). This is purely cosmetic; the broken Bottle has the same range, and deals no more or less damage than it did prior to being broken.
The Bottle's critical hit animation is a swift downward swing.
Contents
Damage and function times
| Damage and function times | ||
|---|---|---|
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 65 |
| Point blank | 55-75 | |
| Critical | 195 | |
| Mini-crit | 75-101 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Related achievements
Demoman
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Update history
April 29, 2008 Patch (Gold Rush Update)
- Added new swing animations.
- [Undocumented] The Bottle's taunt now has a burp sound.
- Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
- Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.
Unused content
- In the GCF, there exists an unused texture for the beta BLU bottle listed as
v_bottle_blue.
Trivia
- Scrumpy is a type of strong cider made in the West Country of England. Liquor is usually stored in dark-colored bottles as this stops sunlight from spoiling the contents.
- The 'XXX' logo can also be seen on the Reggaelator and Whoopee Cap.
- The X system is an old-fashoned way of rating (or advertising) the strength of a beer: the more Xes, the stronger.[1][2] X-ratings have found their way into various brand names, most famously Template:W-brand beer from Australian brewer Castlemaine, and the US' (non-alcoholic!) Template:W root beer.
- The bucket icons for the Bottle are team-specific, showing that there were RED and BLU versions of the Bottle.
Gallery
First-person view
First-person view after a critical hit, showing the broken Bottle.
The Bottle after being broken.
The unused texture of the RED Bottle; depicting the Bottle as a type of Whiskey . Also the picture used on the official website to represent the bottle.
The unused texture of the BLU Bottle; depicting the Bottle as a type of Scotch.
See also
- ↑ Beer: Health and Nutrition, Charles W. Bamforth, Blackwell Science Ltd 2004 ISBN 0-632-06446-3 p.34
- ↑ The Art of Brewing (Published under the superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge), Baldwin & Craddock, London 1829 p.2
