| [ | Ate them bullets faster than you ate that burger! ―Marksman on hunting seasons. 
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The Poacher's Pride is a primary weapon for the Marksman. It is a Franchi Instinct L with a vertical latch, firing slug shells rather than buckshot shells.
Unlike Marksman's other weapons, the Poacher's Pride does not have a scope. However, there are two bullets per ammo clip instead of one, in turn for an -11% damage penalty.
Headshotting enemies deal crit damage, but enemies further than 96 studs will receive mini-crit damage instead. This encourages the player to fight at mid-range instead of long-range.
If fired, it will have a 0.95 second cooldown before it can headshot again; if fired during this cooldown, it will reset. This cooldown takes into effect regardless if the previous shot didn't deal any damage.
The Poacher's Pride makes the Marksman a more offensive class than a support. The absence of a scope and its reduced damage range will force players to fight on the frontlines instead of hiding in a camping spot.
Damage and Function Times
| Damage and function times | ||
|---|---|---|
| Shot type | Hitscan | |
| Damage type | Bullet | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 40 |
| Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 60 |
| Maximum fall-off | 50% | 20 |
| Critical | 120 | |
| Mini-crit | 54-81 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.315s | |
| Reload speed | 2.5s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Tips
- The Poacher's Pride is one of the two primary weapons for the Marksman in which change his playstyle to be a more aggressive attacker, others being the Huntsman.
- This weapon can be paired with the Suppressed Solution to gain charge after heavily weakening to activate heavy damage for both weapons, fortifying your role as a very offensive attacker.
- Since the Poacher's Pride forces you to be down on the battlefield instead of camping out, try wearing the Razorback. It has a small speed boost, so you'll be just as fast as Agents, Doctors, and can go toe-to-toe with Flankers in combat.
- When fighting along with your team, make sure you're behind your teammates.
- Remember, although the Poacher's Pride forces a more offensive playstyle, you can easily be killed by any enemies who rush you down.
- Simply stay behind your team and do chip damage to the enemy team from a safe distance to help your own team win their individual fights.
- If you haven't figured it out already, the Poacher's Pride shoots straight on your first bullet, but goes slightly off on your second. So expect for your first shot to be a guaranteed headshot, while the second will either hit the body or will miss entirely.
- You can quickly take out any light class with a headshot to bodyshot combo, which can also kill Doctors at medium range and even Annihilators and Arsonists at close range, assuming they aren't overhealed.
Related Achievements
See also: Achievements
Maps
Orange Valley
On Yellowvalley (CP), headshot and kill an enemy within the first 20 seconds of the round.
Marksman
Headhunter
As a Marksman, kill 1,000 players with headshots.
Annihilated
As a Marksman, headshot and kill a charging Annihilator.
Glued to the Ground
As a Marksman, get 30 kills while standing completely still.
Stop Watch
As a Marksman, headshot and kill a player capturing the objective while overtime is in effect.
Intelligent Shot
As a Marksman, headshot an enemy carrying the intelligence, and prevent any other players from picking it up.
Later Alligator
As a Marksman, headshot an enemy, then headshot them again after they respawn.
Gator County
As a Marksman, kill 5 enemies with headshots in a single life.
Target Practice
As a Marksman, headshot 10 parachuting players.
Update History
June 18, 2016
- Added Poacher Pride as a Randomizer DM-exclusive weapon. (Undocumented)
September 10, 2016
- Added Poacher's Pride to the Fitten Co. Store.
- New model. (Undocumented)
September 21, 2017
- Removed Poacher's Pride. (Undocumented)
October 26, 2018
- Re-added Poacher's Pride. (Undocumented)
October 26, 2018 (#2)
- Poacher's Pride is now functionable.
- Added -34% crit damage penalty. (Undocumented)
- Increased price from 0 funds to 10. (Undocumented)
- Adjusted backpack icon. (Undocumented)
- Fixed an issue where the Poacher's Pride would break players' inventory upon purchase. (Undocumented)
August 16, 2019
- New model.
August 23, 2019
- No longer affected by damage ramp-up or fall-off.
- Added +20% damage bonus.
- Increased headshot damage from 100 to 120.
- Changed "Can perform headshots without zooming in" bonus to "Can perform headshots independent of zoom"
- Changed "Cannot zoom in" penalty to "No zoom or damage charge"
- Changed "-34% crit damage" penalty to "-33% headshot damage"
September 1, 2019
- Damage is now doubled and deals critical damage whenever it would normally mini-crit in Vs. Bosses.
February 8, 2021 (Executive Update)
- New model by CookiesInOJ.
- Added new firing and reloading sounds.
March 30, 2021
- No longer deals knockback in Vs. Bosses.
April 23, 2021
- Added -11% damage penalty.
- Removed +20% damage bonus.
- Removed -33% headshot damage penalty.
- Added damage ramp-up and fall-off.
May 1, 2021
- New model by CookiesInOJ.
July 14, 2023 (The Update with Patches And Content)
- Removed the Poacher's Pride's headshot cooldown.
July 27, 2023
- Re-added the Poacher's Pride's headshot cooldown.
Trivia
- This weapon is based on a Team Fortress 2 workshop item of the same name.
- On October 26, 2018, the Poacher's Pride could be bought for free in the Fitten Co. Store, however purchasing it would temporarily break the player's inventory.
- The current model is based off the Browning Cynergy CX Over & Under Shotgun.
- The 2019 model was taken from Arsenal's DBS, albeit without the holographic sight.
- The 2018 model was re-used from the Sniper Rifle, but greyed out and without the scope.
- This weapon is counted as a shotgun in Kills and Damage Dealt contracts.
- This is the only Marksman primary to have distance-based ramp-up and fall-off, except for crits and headshots (headshots don't ramp up, but will mini-crit at a certain distance).
Gallery
Past Designs
2021. (Previous)
2019.
2018.
2016.
2016. (Previous)
Viewmodels
GRN Marksman's first person view.
RED Marksman's first person view.
Miscellaneous
Initial backpack icon.
Previous 2021 model preview.
