| [ | You got the range but not the smarts. ―Mechanic. 
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The Wrangler is a secondary weapon for the Mechanic. It is an Atari 2600 controller with a team-colored button and analog stick with an angled wooden foregrip attached to the bottom and with a satellite dish in front.
When a sentry is controlled, it gains an unserviceable shield and a laser pointer that follows the user's crosshair. Clicking/holding the left mouse button will shoot bullets from a sentry and clicking right mouse button will shoot rockets if controlling a level 3 sentry. Unequipping the Wrangler will disable the sentry for a second.
The range that the user can shoot doesn't have a limit, so shooting enemies across the map is practical as bullets from wrangled sentries don't have damage falloff or bullet spread.
The user can effectively use the Wrangler while taunting.
Function Times and Differences[]
| Function times and differences | ||
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| Self-damage | Normal / 8 Mini-Sentry / 3 | |
| Self-damage (rockets) | Normal / 89 Blast jump / 40 | |
| Disabled interval | 1s | |
| Wrangled/unwrangled firing speed differences | ||
| Firing speed (unwrangled) | Lvl 1 Sentry / 0.225s Lvl 2 and 3 Sentries / 0.135s Mini-Sentry / 0.18s | |
| Firing speed (wrangled) | Lvl 1 Sentry / 0.1125s Lvl 2 and 3 Sentries / 0.0675s Mini-Sentry / 0.09s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Tips[]
- Enemies can be alerted to the sentry gun's position if they see the laser on a wall.
- You can use the Wrangler to choose certain targets, like the Doctor who is healing a Brute or a disguised enemy Agent.
- The Wrangler's damage is reliant on how close/far the player themselves is to the enemy, rather than the sentry.
- You can perform a rocket jump with the Wrangler by using rockets from a level 3 sentry to get farther distances.
Related Achievements[]
Mechanic[]
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Mangled by the Wrangle |
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Unpretentious Intelligence |
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Unconventional Sniper |
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Update History[]
- Added Wrangler.
September 14, 2019
- Decreased wrangled sentry's fire rate bonus from 100% to 50%
October 4, 2019
- Added damage falloff to wrangled sentries.
February 19, 2021
- Adjusted unwrangled and wrangled attack interval:
- Level 1 sentry
- Increased unwrangled interval from 1/3 to 0.225 second.
- Increased wrangled interval from 1/6 to 0.135 second.
- Level 2 and 3 sentries
- Increased unwrangled interval from 1/6 to 0.135 second.
- Decreased wrangled interval from 1/12 to 0.09 second.
- Mini-sentry
- Increased unwrangled interval from 1/6 to 0.18 second.
- Decreased wrangled interval from 1/12 to 0.09 second.
- Level 1 sentry
February 21, 2021
- The shield properly affects repair rate only and not general metal supply to sentries.
February 27, 2021
- Added no self damage from sentries bonus.
- Removed wrangled sentries gain a shield that reduces damage and repairs by 33% bonus.
- Removed damage fall-off. (Undocumented)
February 27, 2021 (#2)
- Reduced disabled interval from 3 seconds to 1 second after unequipping the Wrangler.
- Adjusted wrangled fire rates:
- Decreased level 1 sentry from 0.135 to 0.1125 second.
- Decreased level 2 and 3 sentries from 0.09 to 0.0675 second.
March 29, 2021
- Removed no self damage from sentries bonus. (now takes 50% self damage)
March 8, 2022 (Item Schema)
- You can able to use the Wrangler while taunting. (Undocumented)
July 27, 2023
- Fixed a bug where 2 beams appeared while deploying with a sentry.
December 24, 2023 (Kringle's Annual New Year Expansion)
- Level 2 and 3 sentries controlled by the Wrangler now only fire 50% faster instead of 100%.
Trivia[]
- This weapon was previously tested in the CTE server.
- There was a bug where the Wrangler wasn't able to shoot if the user is not pointing at an object.
- The Wrangler can be mini-crit boosted but can not be crit boosted.
- Since Marksman's sniper rifles used the same laser as the Wrangler, they can control the sentry if the Mechanic happens to have one of the rifles in Randomizer.
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