| [ | Heh, you can't outrun technology! ―Mechanic 
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The P.D.Q is a melee weapon for the Mechanic. It is a combination wrench with a team-colored grip.
This weapon swings 15% faster, has a 30% faster construction boost speed, but also possesses a 40% slower repair rate, 25% damage penalty to enemies and deals 30% less damage to buildings. It allows the user to set up a nest quicker, in exchange for longevity.
Although its slower repair rate and damage penalty might seem detrimental at first, their effect are mostly overlapped by the faster swing speed bonus. The damage downside against building forces the user to use 3 hits to take off a sapper instead of the previous 2.
Damage and Function Times
| Damage and function times | ||
|---|---|---|
| Damage type | Melee | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | Players / 49
Buildings / 34 |
| Critical | 146 | |
| Mini-crit | 66 | |
| Damage repaired per hit | 61.2 | |
| 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 | 0.68s | |
| Attack Interval (Construction) | 0.48s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Tips
- This is the ideal weapon if you're a more offensive player, because it lets you build quicker, reducing the pain of moving a nest.
- This is the superior choice in Vs. Bosses, because of how rarely your sentry will ever take damage (and survive).
- The P.D.Q's less repair rate may seem unusable, but combined with the faster swing speed, it leads to a total 90 HP per hit, still less than the stock wrench's 125 HP per hit.
- However, using the Rescue Ranger can balance this out, due to the reduction only affecting the wrench, allowing the Rescue Ranger to help you heal much more.
- The less damage against buildings actually means you take longer to remove sappers.
- 3 hits for stock, 2 for the Slow Burn and 1 for the Stray Reflex.
Related Achievements
See also: Achievements
General
Mechanic
Update History
September 10, 2016
- Added P.D.Q.
September 21, 2017
- Removed P.D.Q. (Undocumented)
September 15, 2018
- Re-added P.D.Q.
October 6, 2018
- Fixed an issue where the P.D.Q took 4 hits to destroy a Sapper instead of 3.
August 31, 2019
- Fixed an issue where the P.D.Q took 4 hits to destroy a Sapper instead of 3.
September 14, 2019
- Adjusted backpack icon. (Undocumented)
November 16, 2020
- Decreased damage penalty vs buildings from -33% to -30%. (Undocumented)
February 8, 2021 (Executive Update)
- New model by CookiesInOJ and Green_Sama.
March 25, 2021 (Fit with Fitten)
- Adjusted model textures. (Undocumented)
July 12, 2022 (A "Heavy" Update)
- Added 20% building damage vulnerability penalty. (Undocumented)
July 22, 2022
- Increased slower repair rate penalty from 20% to 40%. (Undocumented)
- Removed 20% building damage vulnerability penalty. (Undocumented)
July 13, 2024 (Summer FM)
- Now have a 0.2s delay before the hitbox comes out, hitbox lasts for 0.18s.
- Updated viewmodel animations.
April 1, 2025
- Renamed to P.Q.D.
April 2, 2025
- Reverted the name change.
Trivia
- P.D.Q. is an adverb and acronym for "Pretty Darn Quick" which by definition is "Do something immediately!"
- The 2018 model was taken from a Roblox gear called Configuration Tool.
- This weapon's name may be based on the P.D.Q., a scrapped Engineer melee.
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Past Designs
Viewmodels
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