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| [ | You made this too easy, you're supposed to have the upper hand. ―Mechanic vaporizing Annihilator and his sticky trap. 
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The Short Circuit is a secondary weapon for the Mechanic. It is a small, futuristic handheld gun.
The Short Circuit does not have its own ammunition and instead draws directly from the user's metal reserve. The weapon's primary fire consumes 3 metal and unleashes a short-ranged burst that zaps enemies every 0.1 seconds, dealing 10 damage.
Alt-Fire releases an energy ball with a 0.5 second attack interval, that travels rapidly and destroys all enemy projectiles (except for projectiles that cannot be deflected, such as the Personal Death Ray, and the Huntsman) it collides with. The energy ball launched via Alt-Fire consumes 65 metal and deals 15 damage, it can also hit enemies multiple times.
While the Short Circuit is deployed, the user cannot haul buildings.
Enemies killed by the Short Circuit suffer a distinctive death by vaporization, turning them completely black, making them hover mid-air whilst being surrounded by blue electrical particles, and then disappearing into ashes while a loud sound emulating a vaporization plays.
Damage and Function Times[]
Primary Fire[]
| Damage and function times | ||
|---|---|---|
| Shot type | Hitscan | |
| Damage type | Bullet | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 10 |
| Critical | 30 | |
| Mini-crit | 13 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.1s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Secondary Fire[]
| Damage and function times | ||
|---|---|---|
| Shot type | Projectile | |
| Damage type | Bullet | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 15 |
| Critical | 45 | |
| Mini-crit | 19 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.5s | |
| Projectile speed | 75.994 studs | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Tips[]
- The main gimmick of the Short Circuit is that it's actually two weapons in one. You can either fire tiny lasers, or a huge Energy Ball.
- Note that the Energy Ball itself is a projectile; fire on where the enemy will go, not where the enemy is.
- Use the Short Circuit defensively.
- The primary attack, which is a stream of tiny lasers, is a bit weak. Do mind that shooting these drains your ammo three times faster. Only use it to finish off enemies that are heavily injured from your Primary weapon, but now are out of its range.
- The alt-fire attack, the Energy Ball, can help you escape Troopers and Annihilators that are chasing after you. Running away and occasionally shooting the Energy Ball behind you will delete their explosives.
- The Energy Ball also does 15 damage to any enemies near it, the same damage as a Pistol. So consider it a travelling Mini-Sentry.
- Before fighting with the Short Circuit, make sure you've built all of your buildings first.
- Remember the locations of nearby ammo boxes, and how often they're grabbed by teammates. That way, you can easily refill your ammo and metal.
- Unlike in Team Fortress 2, the Energy Ball is very small. It's about the size of a character's torso, so your aim will have to be perfect in order to deal damage or delete incoming projectiles.
- Do not use the Widowmaker with this weapon. They both depend on your metal supply, so you'll find yourself with no metal and will have to use your Wrench to fight in melee combat.
- However, you can prepare for this scenario by equipping a Wrench that does good damage against players. The stock Wrench is a perfect example.
- The weapon is great to clear chokepoints filled with projectiles and sticky traps. As the Energy Ball travels towards the enemy team, it will clear any form of projectiles in its path.
- This weapon is great on Payload offense, the infinite ammo received from Payload Carts allows the Mechanic to spam Alt-Fire.
Related Achievements[]
See also: Achievements
Mechanic[]
Update History[]
September 14, 2019
- Added the Short Circuit.
October 8, 2019
- The Short Circuit's alt-fire is now functional.
February 8, 2021 (Executive Update)
- New model by CookiesInOJ.
- Adjusted backpack icon.
February 27, 2021
- Fixed being able to pick up buildings when using the Short Circuit's alt-fire.
June 11, 2021 (Summer 2021)
- Added anti-LoB treatment particles.
December 18, 2021 (Holiday 2021)
- Reduced ammo per-shot penalty from -5 to -1. (Undocumented)
April 1, 2022 (OverColors 3)
- Increased ammo per-shot penalty from -1 to -3. (Undocumented)
December 24, 2023 (Kringle's Annual New Year Expansion)
- New model by TremblingAspens.
March 3, 2024
- Updated backpack icon. (Undocumented)
July 13, 2024 (Summer FM)
- Updated kill-icon. (Undocumented)
- Updated viewmodel animation.
October 19, 2024 (Typical Horrors IV)
- Updated the kill effect.
February 1, 2025 (The New WINTER)
- Increased projectile hitbox size. (Undocumented)
Trivia[]
- This weapon was previously tested in the CTE server.
- You can use the Short Circuit to dig the dirt in The Underground War, which can easily allow you to get The Hollowed War achievement.
- If the alt-fire's projectile hits an enemy's Short Circuit's alt-fire, they will cancel out.
- The 2023 model was originally going to be implemented to the Typical Horrors III update, as it was shown in an unused render.
Gallery[]
Past Designs[]
Viewmodels[]
Concepts[]
Miscellaneous[]
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