| [ | I love this little thing. ―Mechanic after building a Mini-Sentry 
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The Gunslinger is a melee weapon for the Mechanic. It is a robotic prosthetic that replaces the Mechanic's right hand.
It increases the user's maximum health by 10 and movement speed by 7%. It replaces the normal sentry with an offensive Mini-Sentry that is cheaper and faster to place but is much weaker.
Compared to a level 1 Sentry, it costs 23% less metal to place, deploys 150% faster and fires 20% faster at the cost of a 33% smaller health pool and 50% less damage per bullet. The Mini-Sentry cannot be upgraded, but can be repaired and refilled.
Exhibition[]
RED
GRN
Damage and Function Times[]
| Damage and function times | ||
|---|---|---|
| Damage type | Melee | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 65 |
| Critical | 195 | |
| Mini-crit | 88 | |
| Damage repaired per hit | 102 | |
| Upgrade amount per hit | 25 | |
| Metal cost per repairing hit | 1 + damage / 3 | |
| Metal cost for reloading ammo | 1 / bullet
2 / rocket | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.81s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration[]
Tips[]
- The Gunslinger encourages a more offensive playstyle, essentially turning the Mechanic from a backline support class to a frontline support class.
- The Mini-Sentry doesn't actually need to be hit with your Gunslinger for a construction boost, as it builds up and activates in under 4 seconds.
- Because of this, use the Mini-Sentry as a distraction for any enemies chasing you down. If the plan goes well, they'll start shooting at your Mini-Sentry instead of you, allowing you to quickly get away or shoot them down.
- Be near with the team and the enemy make use of buildings to support the team; its Mini-Sentry provides a quick fallback option and can deals consistent damage to opponents.
- Make use of your Primary and Secondary and coordinate with your team and help other classes fight against the enemy team.
- The Gunslinger pairs well with either the Avenger or the Gutbuster respectively. Both pair well since they rely on playing offensively alongside the sentry.
- Conversely, the Rescue Ranger does not pair well with the Gunslinger; the Rescue Ranger is meant to encourage a defensive playstyle, which does not compliment well with the Mini-Sentry's low survivability and damage.
- The Pistol is the best secondary for the Gunslinger; the Gunslinger's increased movement speed allows Mechanic to reach to the frontlines faster and escape faster.
- Sticking close to Mini-Sentries greatly increases chances of survival; its perfect aim allows it to deal consistent damage and is able to harass faster classes and is a great distraction against all opponents.
- Do not forget to also build a Teleporter system and a Dispenser; both are equally or more important compared to a Mini-Sentry.
Strange Variants[]
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 Strange Gunslinger Level 54 Robotic Enhancement Strange Gunslinger - Sentry Kills: 0 +7% faster movement speed on wearer +10 max health on wearer Replaces the Sentry with a Mini-Sentry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Related Achievements[]
See also: Achievements
General[]
Relentless
Kill 3 players with a melee weapon within 15 seconds.
Trooper[]
Scrap Heap
As a Trooper, destroy a Mechanic's mini-sentry 5 times in a single round.
Mechanic[]
Not So Fast
Destroy a sapper on your building while it has less than 10% health left.
Repaired Despair
Kill an enemy with your wrench after they have killed one of your buildings in the last 15 seconds.
No Right to Repair
Destroy an enemy Mechanic's building with your wrench.
Ease His Pain
Switch to Mechanic just to upgrade another Mechanic's teleporter.
Watched Pot Never Boils
As a Mechanic, hit a building and achieve no effect with a Wrench 100 times.
Update History[]
September 11, 2019
- Added Gunslinger.
December 18, 2021 (Holiday 2021)
- Removed the +25 max health on wearer bonus.
December 18, 2021 (#2)
- Re-added the +25 max health on wearer bonus.
December 22, 2021
- Fixed a visual bug where the Gunslinger didn't have the +25 max health on wearer bonus in the inventory stats.
January 8, 2022
- Fixed an issue where Gunslinger would hide the Mechanic's hair.
April 6, 2022
- Reduced the health bonus from +25% to +10. (Incorrectly listed as +10%.) (Undocumented)
- Added Strange quality. (Undocumented)
April 6, 2022 (#2)
- The Gunslinger and Heavy Metal's speed attributes now stack.
- Disabled the Gunslinger's speed bonus in Infection mode.
June 9, 2022
- Temporarily added the Strange-quality variant to the standard item drop pool.
July 12, 2022 (A "Heavy" Update)
- Added Collector's quality. (Undocumented)
July 14, 2023 (The Update with Patches And Content)
- Max health increase corrected to be listed as "+10 max health". (Undocumented)
July 13, 2024 (Summer FM)
- Now has a 0.2s delay before the hitbox comes out, hitbox lasts for 0.18s.
February 1, 2025 (The New WINTER)
- Added the ability to taunt kill.
February 2, 2025
- "Taunt Kills" strange part can now be applied.
Trivia[]
- This weapon was previously tested in the CTE server on September 10, 2019.
- There was a bug where the model wouldn't attach to the player's ragdoll properly.
- The Holiday 2021 update saw the removal of the health bonus. This would be reverted only 9 hours later due to community backlash.
Gallery[]
GRN Mechanic's first person view.
RED Mechanic's first person view.
Gunslinger's taunt.
