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Revision as of 20:34, 8 December 2010

A hitscan weapon doesn't fire projectiles but instead traces lines from the player and checks for collisions with other objects. Depending on the object, the hitscan weapon then generates an effect such as dealing damage, painting blood and bullet hole sprites, or generating a vector impulse commonly known as knock back.

In gameplay terms, this means that hitscan weapons have infinite velocity. Note that this doesn't make hitscan weapons instant. A weapon might delay tracing the line for a period of time. For example, melee weapons wait .25 seconds after input before they trace a short line to see if anything should be struck. This prevents the weapon from hitting or killing a foe before the melee animation completes.

Visually, most hitscan weapons fire bullets with apparent velocity. This is actually a graphical effect applied to the line after the trace is made. Players don't see enemies dying before bullets are fired, however, because the client predicts the enemy's death and displays it with proper timing, even if the shot killed the enemy some milliseconds earlier.

Below is a list of non-melee hitscan weapons in Team Fortress 2.


Scout hitscan weapons
Scattergun Scattergun
Force-A-Nature Force-A-Nature
Shortstop Shortstop
Pistol Pistol
Item icon Lugermorph.png Lugermorph


Soldier hitscan weapons
Item icon Shotgun.png Shotgun


Pyro hitscan weapons
Item icon Shotgun.png Shotgun


Heavy hitscan weapons
Minigun Minigun
Natascha Natascha
Iron Curtain Iron Curtain
Item icon Shotgun.png Shotgun


Engineer hitscan weapons
Item icon Shotgun.png Shotgun
Item icon Frontier Justice.png Frontier Justice
Item icon Pistol.png Pistol
Item icon Lugermorph.png Lugermorph


Sniper hitscan weapons
Item icon Sniper Rifle.png Sniper Rifle
Item icon Sydney Sleeper.png Sydney Sleeper
Item icon Submachine Gun.png Submachine Gun


Spy hitscan weapons
Item icon Revolver.png Revolver
Item icon Big Kill.png Big Kill
Item icon Ambassador.png Ambassador
Item icon L'Etranger.png L'Étranger


See Also

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Hitscan on the Valve Developer Community