Holy Mackerel
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| “ | Tired of people telling you what you can or cannot use as a weapon? Those days are over! This fish is PURE ACTION!
— Holy Mackerel publicity blurb
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The Holy Mackerel is a community-made melee weapon for the Scout. It is a fish, presumably a mackerel, wrapped in faded newspaper and tied with a rubber band. The end of the newspaper is shaped for easy handling. While the Scout is moving, the Holy Mackerel will bend around, depending on your direction.
The Holy Mackerel is identical to the default Bat. However, every successful hit by the weapon on another player will be announced in the kill feed, showing the weapon's icon in addition to the number of times the victim has been slapped recently. Upon killing a player, the kill feed will replace this number with the message "FISH KILL!" alongside the icon.
The kill feed will not register hits or announce "FISH KILL!" on non-player objects such as buildings or bosses.
The kill icon for the Holy Mackerel was contributed by [HoV] Psyke.
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Damage and function times
| Damage and function times | ||
|---|---|---|
| Damage | ||
| Base damage | 100% | 35 |
| Point blank | 30-40 | |
| Critical hit | 105 | |
| Mini-crit | 40-54 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.5 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Item set
| The Special Delivery | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Effect |
+25 max health on wearer | |||
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
| Sandman | Reclaimed Metal | Holy Mackerel | ||
| | + | | = | |
| Class Token - Scout | Slot Token - Melee | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | ||||||||||||
| | + | | + | | = |
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As a crafting ingredient
| Refined Metal | Special Delivery weapon | Milkman | ||
| | + | | = | |
| Reclaimed Metal | Holy Mackerel | Gloves of Running Urgently | Holiday Punch | |||
| | + | | + | | = | |
Strange variant
| Strange Variant Information | |
|---|---|
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Strange Holy Mackerel Strange Fish - Humiliations: 0 Getting hit by a fish has got to be humiliating.
| Only kills with the strange holy mackerel count as humiliations. |
Update history
- The Holy Mackerel was added to the game.
- This weapon was altered to not display the hit message concerning disguised Spies.
- Hitting someone with this weapon no longer counts as a kill, as this would cause problems with achievements and some statistics systems.
- [Undocumented] This weapon will no longer add to the kill feed when hitting a building.
- [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Milkman.
- The hit message no longer awards the player First Blood during an Arena match.
- Fixed the assister's name not being listed in the fish humiliation and kill notices.
- Fixed this weapon's melee attack not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
- Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on tournament servers when the server is restricting the player's weapons using the item_whitelist.
- Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange Quality.
- [Undocumented] This item was added to the crafting blueprint for the Holiday Punch.
Bugs
- Upon hitting a Spy with the Dead Ringer out, the kill feed will not display 'FISH KILL!'. Instead, it will add to the number of times hit, thus notifying the player of the Spy's remaining presence.
- After 24 hits on a single target, the weapon will no longer broadcast a hit announcement in the kill feed.
- The model, on rare occasions, will deform when it crits.
- The flipped viewmodel version of this weapon appears as if it has been turned inside out.
Trivia
- The Holy Mackerel's level, 42, is a reference to Douglas Adams' book series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which 42 is considered to be the answer to "the ultimate question of Life, The Universe, and Everything".
- Two further references are the books So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, a title in the overall book series whose name was taken from a line in the original book, and The Salmon of Doubt, a posthumous collection of various essays and an unfinished novel written by Adams.
- "Holy Mackerel!" is an expression of surprise found commonly in comedy TV shows, as well as cartoons and other children's TV shows.
- The texture file of the Holy Mackerel reveals that the newspaper wrapped around the fish is named The Gravel Pit Gazette, alluding to the map Gravel Pit. The Gravel Pit Gazette was also the newspaper that advertised the Soldier vs Demo conflict.
- The melee weapon for the Special Delivery pack was originally a spiked bat named "Nail Biter" before being replaced by the Holy Mackerel.
- The subtitle for this weapon's announcement in the Polycount pack (shown here) is a reference to the British comedy troupe Monty Python's sketch about a British ritual.
- As part of a cross-promotion, the Holy Mackerel is available as a melee weapon in Alliance of Valiant Arms.
Gallery
The Holy Mackerel as it appears in Alliance of Valiant Arms. |
See also
| Weapons | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slot 1 | stock | Scattergun | Rocket Launcher | Flame Thrower | Grenade Launcher | Minigun | Shotgun | Syringe Gun | Sniper Rifle | — |
| unlock | Force-A-Nature | Direct Hit | Backburner | — | Natascha | Frontier Justice | Blutsauger | Huntsman | — | |
| craft | Shortstop Soda Popper | Black Box Rocket Jumper Liberty Launcher Cow Mangler 5000 Original | Degreaser Phlogistinator | Loch-n-Load Ali Baba's Wee Booties Bootlegger | Brass Beast Tomislav | Widowmaker Pomson 6000 | Crusader's Crossbow Overdose | Sydney Sleeper Bazaar Bargain Machina | — | |
| promotion | — | — | — | — | Iron Curtain | — | — | — | — | |
| Slot 2 | stock | Pistol | Shotgun | Shotgun | Stickybomb Launcher | Shotgun | Pistol | Medi Gun | Submachine Gun | Revolver |
| unlock | Bonk! Atomic Punch | Buff Banner | Flare Gun | Chargin' Targe Scottish Resistance | Sandvich | Wrangler | Kritzkrieg | Jarate Razorback | Ambassador | |
| craft | Crit-a-Cola Mad Milk Winger | Gunboats Battalion's Backup Concheror Mantreads Reserve Shooter Righteous Bison | Detonator Reserve Shooter Manmelter | Sticky Jumper Splendid Screen | Dalokohs Bar Buffalo Steak Sandvich Family Business | Short Circuit | Quick-Fix | Darwin's Danger Shield Cozy Camper | L'Etranger Enforcer Diamondback | |
| promotion | Lugermorph | — | — | — | Fishcake | Lugermorph | — | — | Big Kill | |
| Melee | stock | Bat | Shovel | Fire Axe | Bottle | Fists | Wrench | Bonesaw | Kukri | Knife |
| unlock | Sandman | Equalizer | Axtinguisher | Eyelander | Killing Gloves of Boxing | Gunslinger | Übersaw | — | — | |
| craft | Holy Mackerel Candy Cane Boston Basher Sun-on-a-Stick Fan O'War Three-Rune Blade Atomizer Conscientious Objector Unarmed Combat Wrap Assassin | Pain Train Half-Zatoichi Disciplinary Action Market Gardener Conscientious Objector | Homewrecker Powerjack Back Scratcher Sharpened Volcano Fragment Maul Postal Pummeler Conscientious Objector Third Degree | Pain Train Scotsman's Skullcutter Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker Ullapool Caber Claidheamh Mòr Half-Zatoichi Persian Persuader Nessie's Nine Iron Scottish Handshake Conscientious Objector | Gloves of Running Urgently Warrior's Spirit Fists of Steel Eviction Notice Conscientious Objector Apoco-Fists Holiday Punch | Southern Hospitality Jag Eureka Effect | Vita-Saw Amputator Solemn Vow Conscientious Objector | Tribalman's Shiv Bushwacka Shahanshah Conscientious Objector | Your Eternal Reward Conniver's Kunai Big Earner Wanga Prick Sharp Dresser Spy-cicle | |
| promotion | Frying Pan Saxxy | Frying Pan Saxxy | Frying Pan Saxxy | Frying Pan Saxxy | Frying Pan Saxxy | Golden Wrench Saxxy | Frying Pan Saxxy | Frying Pan Saxxy | Saxxy Black Rose | |
| PDA | stock | — | — | — | — | — | Build Tool | — | — | Disguise Kit |
| PDA 2 | stock | — | — | — | — | — | Demolish Tool | — | — | Invisibility Watch |
| unlock | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Cloak and Dagger Dead Ringer | |
| promotion | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Enthusiast's Timepiece | |
| Building | stock | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Sapper |
| Taunt | various | Home Run (Sandman/Atomizer) | Kamikaze (Equalizer) | Hadouken (Shotgun/Flare Gun/Detonator/Reserve Shooter) Mmmph (Phlogistinator) | Decapitation (Eyelander/HHHH/Claidheamh Mòr/Half-Zatoichi/Persian Persuader/Nessie's Nine Iron) | Showdown (Fists/Saxxy/Apoco-Fists/Holiday Punch) | Dischord (Frontier Justice) Organ Grinder (Gunslinger) Eureka Effect Taunt (Eureka Effect) | Oktoberfest (Kritzkrieg) Medicating Melody (Amputator) Spinal Tap (Übersaw) | Skewer (Huntsman) | Fencing (Knife/Your Eternal Reward/Conniver's Kunai/Saxxy/Big Earner/Wanga Prick/Black Rose) |
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