Righteous Bison

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A favourite amongst sporting enthusiast and misanthropes alike — its wide beam dispersal will make aiming a thing of the past.
Righteous Bison publicity blurb

The Righteous Bison is a secondary weapon for the Soldier. It is a handheld retro-futuristic or steampunk styled ray gun.

The weapon fires an unreflectable projectile beam that is capable of piercing through multiple targets in a straight line but at the cost of dealing heavily reduced damage to buildings. The beam deals damage to any enemies that are touching it every 45 milliseconds and can hit the same target repeatedly. In addition, the beam can be used to ignite Huntsman arrows held by a friendly Sniper. Critical hits fired by the Righteous Bison will suffer damage falloff over distance.

Like the Cow Mangler 5000, the Righteous Bison features a "Bison" bar in the HUD which serves as an indication of its ammunition clip. After the bar is depleted, it can be recharged through a reloading process in which a piston in the back of the weapon is pumped. It does not incorporate the traditional ammo reserve used by other weapons.

Enemies killed by the Bison suffer a distinctive death by vaporization: they turn black, hover in mid-air while performing a specific disintegration animation surrounded by team-colored particles, and then disappear into ashes.

Weta Workshop held a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 and handed out coupon codes to visitors that can be redeemed in Team Fortress 2 for a Genuine quality Righteous Bison.[1]

Contents

Damage and function times

See also: Damage
Damage and function times
Damage
Maximum ramp-up 125% 20
Base damage 100%
Players:
16
4
Maximum fall-off 75% 12
Point blank 17-63
Medium range 11-42
Long range 11-42
Critical 36-60
Mini-crit 14-31
Function times
Attack interval 0.8 s
Reload (first) 0.92 s
Reload (consecutive) 0.4 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Item set

Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack
Item icon Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack.png
Righteous Bison
Righteous Bison
Effect

No effect

Demonstration

Learn more about the Weapon Demonstration project.

Crafting

Main article: Crafting

Blueprint

Reclaimed Metal Battalion's Backup Righteous Bison
Item icon Reclaimed Metal.png + Item icon Battalion's Backup.png = Item icon Righteous Bison.png
Class Token - Soldier Slot Token - Secondary Scrap Metal Possible Results
Item icon Class Token - Soldier.png + Item icon Slot Token - Secondary.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.png =
Item icon Buff Banner.png Item icon Gunboats.png Item icon Battalion's Backup.png Item icon Concheror.png
Item icon Mantreads.png Item icon Reserve Shooter.png Item icon Righteous Bison.png

As a crafting ingredient

Refined Metal Victory Pack weapon Possible Results
Item icon Refined Metal.pngx4 + Item icon Cow Mangler 5000.pngItem icon Righteous Bison.png =
Item icon Lord Cockswain's Pith Helmet.png Item icon Lord Cockswain's Novelty Mutton Chops and Pipe.png
Reclaimed Metal Righteous Bison Sydney Sleeper Machina
Item icon Reclaimed Metal.png + Item icon Righteous Bison.png + Item icon Sydney Sleeper.png = Item icon Machina.png
Reclaimed Metal Righteous Bison Short Circuit Pomson 6000
Item icon Reclaimed Metal.png + Item icon Righteous Bison.png + Item icon Short Circuit.png = Item icon Pomson 6000.png

Update history

July 19, 2011 [Item schema update]
  • The item was added to the item schema as 'Mystery Item'.[2]

July 20, 2011 Patch (Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack)

  • The Righteous Bison was added to the game.

July 22, 2011 Patch

  • Optimized many particle effects related to the Righteous Bison.
  • Updated the gamehaptics file
    • Added recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for the Righteous Bison.

August 2, 2011 Patch

  • Fix a crash bug related to the Righteous Bison.

August 3, 2011 [Item schema update]

  • All previous promotional Righteous Bisons are now Genuine quality.
  • Fixed Gift Wrapped Righteous Bisons losing Genuine quality.
  • Made Genuine Righteous Bisons tradable after a period of time. This is based on when the code was redeemed, and works like tools bought in the Mann Co Store. Observations show it takes around 5 days for a Genuine Righteous Bison to become tradeable.

August 18, 2011 Patch

  • Added the Righteous Bison to the crafting recipe for the Machina.

September 15, 2011 Patch

  • Updated the particle effects for the Cow Mangler 5000 and the Righteous Bison.

October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)

January 11, 2012 Patch

  • [Undocumented] This item was added to the crafting blueprint for the Pomson 6000.

Bugs

Trivia

Gallery

See also

References

  1. News Reel - drgrordborts.com
  2. Team Fortress 2 Schema diff (commit 85d48e33…) on OPTF2 Wiki Schema Tracker, 21:35:04 UTC, July 19, 2011. Accessed July 19, 2011.
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