Ball-Kicking Boots
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| Worn by: | Scout | ||||
| Slot: | Cosmetic | ||||
| Equip region: | Feet | ||||
| Released: | October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale) |
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| Availability: | Purchase or Promotional (expired) | ||||
| Tradable: | Yes | ||||
| Giftable: | Yes | ||||
| Craftable: | No | ||||
| Paintable: | Yes | ||||
| Nameable: | Yes | ||||
| Craft No.?: | No | ||||
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 The Ball-Kicking Boots |
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| “ | Got da ball back!
Click to listen
— The Scout
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The Ball-Kicking Boots are a promotional cosmetic item for the Scout. They are a pair of team-colored football (soccer) socks and cleats.
When equipped, a team-colored football adorned with all nine class emblems can spawn with the player. This ball can be knocked around in a similar fashion to the Beach Ball from Birthday mode. Scout's footstep noises are also changed to resemble those of running with cleats.
This item was awarded in Genuine quality to players who pre-purchased Football Manager 2012 on Steam before October 21, 2011.
Football
Footballs are props that can spawn on maps when players equip with the Ball-Kicking Boots. One team-colored football appears in a team's spawn the first time in a round that a team member equips the Ball-Kicking Boots. At most, one RED football and one BLU football can be on a map at one time. Footballs can also appear for the duration of "Waiting for Players" before the round starts.
Once spawned, a football remains on the map for the remainder of the round, including Humiliation. This means that to put a ball on the map, a player merely has to spawn as Scout with the Ball-Kicking Boots equipped. The football will not despawn if the player changes class or team. However, footballs can become unreachable if knocked into normally inaccessible locations, such as Pitfalls. Such Pitfalls can also be found in Spawn rooms, like the back walls of BLU Spawns in maps like Upward, Mossrock, Mountain Lab, and Monster Bash.
Like the Birthday Beach Ball, footballs can be knocked around anywhere around the map by most attacks, as long as the player is in range of the ball. Footballs can be pushed far by Sandman balls, explosions and compression blasts. Other projectiles, melee attacks, bullets and pellets push the football less strongly. Some attacks, like the Short Circuit's primary fire and the Flying Guillotine's alt-fire provide little push force. Various projectiles have no effect at all, including crossbow bolts, arrows, syringes, and Pyro's flares.
When a football touches a Payload Cart, it is knocked away, sometimes flying away at great speed.
Painted variants
Main article: Paint Can
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| An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge | Color No. 216-190-216 | Peculiarly Drab Tincture | Aged Moustache Grey |
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| A Distinctive Lack of Hue | After Eight | Radigan Conagher Brown | Ye Olde Rustic Colour |
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| Muskelmannbraun | Mann Co. Orange | Australium Gold | The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants |
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| Dark Salmon Injustice | Pink as Hell | A Deep Commitment to Purple | Noble Hatter's Violet |
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| A Color Similar to Slate | Zepheniah's Greed | Drably Olive | Indubitably Green |
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| The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime | A Mann's Mint | ||
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| Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) | Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) | Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) | Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU) |
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| Team Spirit (RED) | Team Spirit (BLU) | Operator's Overalls (RED) | Operator's Overalls (BLU) |
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| The Value of Teamwork (RED) | The Value of Teamwork (BLU) | An Air of Debonair (RED) | An Air of Debonair (BLU) |
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| Cream Spirit (RED) | Cream Spirit (BLU) | Unpainted (RED) | Unpainted (BLU) |
Update history
October 13, 2011 Patch #1 (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- [Undocumented] The Ball-Kicking Boots were added to the game.
- Fixed the Ball-Kicking Boots not being able to be used in the Rebuild Headgear recipe.
Gallery
The football on the RED Team.
The football on the BLU Team.
Promotional artwork featured on the Steam Store page for Football Manager 2012.
Advertisement on Steam featuring the Ball-Kicking Boots and the Merc's Pride Scarf.
See also
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