Splendid Screen
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The Splendid Screen is a community-made secondary weapon for the Demoman. It is an iron shield spattered with blood, with four bosses in the cardinal directions and a larger boss in the middle.
The Splendid Screen's charge ability is more potent than the Chargin' Targe's; there is no minimum distance required to deliver damage with a shield bash, and a successful charge bash delivers 70% more damage. Like the Targe, heads gathered by the Eyelander, Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker or Nessie's Nine Iron will increase the damage of the bash, at a maximum of 5 heads. However, the Splendid Screen only offers +20% fire resistance and +15% explosive resistance, instead of the Targe's +50% fire resistance and +40% explosive resistance.
The strength of the charge is indicated in a meter in the HUD which changes color as it depletes. Using a melee weapon in conjunction with the charge will provide extra damage potential. For example, when the meter is white or green, a melee attack will only do normal damage. At the yellow color, essentially half of the charge distance, striking will add mini-crit damage. Finally, moving the full distance and attacking at red will give it a full-power critical hit. Additionally, disregarding distance charged, you still get a melee crit swing immediately after bashing into a player. While charging, any enemy in the direct path will be bashed by the Splendid Screen provided the player does not end the charge prematurely by attacking.
This item has four different styles. These styles, titled "Classic", "Spike", "Arrow", and "Spike and Arrow", allow the Splendid Screen to bear a spike, an arrow, neither, or both, embedded in its face.
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Damage
Alternate fire initiates a charge attack, which deals damage on its own, or may be used in conjunction with another weapon.
- Charge damage: 85 (if shield connects with enemy) + 17 per head (up to 5 heads).
- Mini-crit charge damage: 115 (if shield connects with enemy) + 23 per head (up to 5 heads)
- Both the shield regular and mini-crit damage are affected by weapon damage spread, meaning it is not a constant number.
- Charge speed: 750 Hammer units/sec, or 250%.
- Charge speed: 637.5 Hammer units/sec with Scotsman's Skullcutter equipped, or 213%.
Function times
- Charge interval: 12 seconds
- 6 seconds with the Persian Persuader equipped
Times are approximate and determined by community testing.
Demonstration
Item set
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Crafting
Blueprint
| Reclaimed Metal | Chargin' Targe | Splendid Screen | ||
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| Class Token - Demoman | Slot Token - Secondary | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | |||||||||||||||
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As a crafting ingredient
| Refined Metal | 1,001 Demoknights weapon | Sultan's Ceremonial | ||
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Styles
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| Classic | Spike | Arrow | Spike And Arrow | ||||||
The Splendid Screen's appearance can differ through the use of styles. This, however, has no bearing on the kill icon. The style shows up in both the world and client view.
Strange variant
Related achievements
Demoman
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Update history
- The Splendid Screen was added to the game.
- Added the Splendid Screen to the whitelist for Medieval mode.
- Fixed a bug where Demomen kept their leftover charge amount when self-aborting charges. (The player still keeps leftovers when stopped by enemy airblasts.)
June 29, 2011 [Item schema update]
- Fire and Explosive resistance were reduced by 5%.
- [Undocumented] Changed the style name on the Splendid Screen from "Spike & Arrow" to "Spike And Arrow".
- [Undocumented] The physics of charging with a shield as a Demoman have been altered.
- Fixed the Demoman not being able to charge while in the air.
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- Fixed Demoman weapons primary/secondary being backwards in the loadout screen.
- Fixed the Demoman shields not saving their upgrades upon round reset in Mann vs. Machine.
- Fixed Demoman shields not reducing explosive damage in non-MvM games.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
Bugs
- This weapon does not glow in the world view when crit boosted.
Gallery
First-person view with Eyelander. |
First-person view with Scotsman's Skullcutter. |
First-person view with Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker. |
RED first-person view with Claidheamh Mòr. |
BLU first-person view with Claidheamh Mòr. |
First-person view with the Half-Zatoichi. |
First-person view with the Persian Persuader |
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First-person view with the Nessie's Nine Iron. |
See also
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| unlock | Force-A-Nature | Direct Hit | Backburner | — | Natascha | Frontier Justice | Blutsauger | Huntsman | Ambassador | |
| craft | Shortstop Soda Popper Baby Face's Blaster | Black Box Rocket Jumper Liberty Launcher Cow Mangler 5000 Original Beggar's Bazooka | Degreaser Phlogistinator Rainblower | Loch-n-Load Ali Baba's Wee Booties Bootlegger Loose Cannon | Brass Beast Tomislav Huo-Long Heater | Widowmaker Pomson 6000 Rescue Ranger | Crusader's Crossbow Overdose | Sydney Sleeper Bazaar Bargain Machina Hitman's Heatmaker | L'Etranger Enforcer Diamondback | |
| promotion | — | — | — | — | Iron Curtain | — | — | AWPer Hand | Big Kill | |
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| stock | Pistol | Shotgun | Shotgun | Stickybomb Launcher | Shotgun | Pistol | Medi Gun | Submachine Gun | Sapper | |
| unlock | Bonk! Atomic Punch | Buff Banner | Flare Gun | Chargin' Targe Scottish Resistance | Sandvich | Wrangler | Kritzkrieg | Jarate Razorback | — | |
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| promotion | Lugermorph | — | — | — | Fishcake Robo-Sandvich | Lugermorph | — | — | Ap-Sap | |
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| stock | Bat | Shovel | Fire Axe | Bottle | Fists | Wrench | Bonesaw | Kukri | Knife | |
| unlock | Sandman | Equalizer | Axtinguisher | Eyelander | Killing Gloves of Boxing | Gunslinger | Übersaw | — | — | |
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| promotion | Frying Pan Saxxy Freedom Staff Memory Maker Ham Shank | Frying Pan Saxxy Freedom Staff Memory Maker Ham Shank | Frying Pan Saxxy Freedom Staff Memory Maker Ham Shank | Frying Pan Saxxy Freedom Staff Memory Maker Ham Shank | Frying Pan Saxxy Freedom Staff Memory Maker Ham Shank | Golden Wrench Saxxy | Frying Pan Saxxy Freedom Staff Memory Maker Ham Shank | Frying Pan Saxxy Freedom Staff Memory Maker Ham Shank | Saxxy Black Rose | |
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| unlock | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Cloak and Dagger Dead Ringer | |
| promotion | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Enthusiast's Timepiece Quäckenbirdt | |
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