Upgrade Station

Upgrade Station

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When a robot kills a human, we erupt into a pleading mist of blood, meat particles and tears, which you can't really trade for anything. But when a robot dies, he explodes in a shower of money, which, during between-wave lulls, you can exchange at any Upgrade Station for weapon, item and ability upgrades. — Saxton Hale

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An Upgrade Station is a place for players to buy weapon upgrades, abilities, and Power Up Canteen buffs in Mann vs. Machine. Players may access one of the two kiosks in the base at any time to purchase upgrades with collected credits. The cost of each upgrade does not increase with a repeated purchase.

Upgrades and used credits are lost during class changes between waves. Players may reselect their class in order to regain upgrades. This icon () will appear next to a class in the Class Selection Menu if that class already has upgrades applied to it. Upgrades can carry over class changes, if they apply to a different class. Changing weapons will lose all upgrades associated with that weapon, but will be regained once the player switches back to it.

Failing to complete a wave will refund the credits spent before that wave, to give the player a chance to use a different strategy. Otherwise, credits will not be refunded after accepting the upgrades.

Since there are no Resupply Cabinets in the base, purchasing an upgrade from an Upgrade Station will restore health and ammo without needing to switch classes.

User Interface

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Upgrade Stations are accessed by walking up to them. By default, the primary weapon slot is selected. The UI automatically shades upgrades in a slot if the player cannot afford them. Players may cancel at any time or simply walk away from the kiosk before accepting an upgrade to regain the credits used during the session.

Class

Upgrade	Classes	Cost	Levels	Notes
+25% Blast Resistance	All	350	3	Take less damage from explosions.
+25% Bullet Resistance	All	350	3	Take less damage from hitscan weapons.
+10% Movement Speed	All	200	3	Adds 10% to movement speed.
+2% Health Regen	All	200	5	Regenerates health every second.
+20% Jump Height	All	200	3	Jump higher.
+25% Fire Resistance	All	150	3	Take less damage from fire and afterburn.
+25% Crit Resistance	All	150	3	Take less damage from critical hits.
+5% Metal Regen	Engineer	200	5	Metal is regenerated every 5 seconds.

Weapon

Primary

Upgrade	Weapons	Cost	Levels	Notes
Destroy Projectiles	Heavy Primary	600	1	Bullets destroy Rockets and Grenades mid-flight
Knockback Rage	Heavy Primary	350	1	+1 rage on damage, taunt to knock back targets on damage
+20% Damage	Soldier Primary  Demoman Primary	500	4
+25% Damage	Scout Primary  Sniper Primary  Pyro Primary	400	4
+2 Clip Size	Soldier Primary  Demoman Primary  Medic Crusader's Crossbow	400	4
+50% Clip Size	Clip-based weapons	400	4
Projectile Penetration	Hitscan Huntsman	400	1	Projectiles penetrate enemy players.
Explosive Headshot	Sniper Primary (Ambassador cannot be used)	350	3	Increased headshot explosion radius and damage to nearby enemies
+50% Ammo Capacity	All Ammunition-Using Weapons	250	3	Ammo pickups grant more ammo accordingly.
+20% Reload Speed	Soldier Primary  Demoman Primary Hitscan	250	3
+10% Firing Speed	Soldier Primary  Demoman Primary  Sniper Hitscan (except Sniper Primary)	200	4
+25 Health On Kill	All Primary Weapons	200	4
+25% Projectile Speed	Soldier Primary  Demoman Primary	200	4
+25% Faster Charge	Sniper Primary	250	4
+25% Burn Damage	Pyro Primary	250	4	Afterburn damage bonus
+25% Burn Time	Pyro Primary	250	4	Afterburn duration
+25% Airblast Force	Pyro Primary (Except Phlogistinator)	100	4

Secondary

Upgrade	Weapons	Cost	Levels	Notes
+2 Clip Size	Demoman Secondary	400	4
+50% Clip Size	Clip-based weapons	200	4
Projectile Penetration	Hitscan	200	1	Projectiles penetrate enemy players.
+25 Health On Kill	All damage dealing weapons	100	4
+50% Ammo Capacity	Ammunition-Using	125	3	Ammo pickups grant more ammo accordingly.
+20% Reload Speed	Stickybomb Launcher Scottish Resistance Shotguns Flare Guns	250	3
+20% Recharge Rate	Sandvich Buffalo Steak Sandvich Mad Milk Jarate	250	4
+25% Buff Duration	Buff Banner Battalion's Backup Concheror	250	2
+10% Firing Speed	Stickybomb Launcher Scottish Resistance Sticky Jumper Hitscan	100	4
-35% Speed On Target	Jarate, Mad Milk	200	1
+100% Charge Recharge Rate	Demoman Shields	150	4

Melee

Upgrade	Weapons	Cost	Levels	Notes
+10% Attack Speed	Any Melee	200	4
+25 Health On Kill	Any Melee	100	4	Health from robot kills can overheal players.
Armor Penetration	Spy Melee	400	4	Allows backstabs against giant robots at X% (out of 750) damage
+2s Crits On Kill	Demoman Melee  Spy Melee	350	2	2 seconds of 100% critical hit chance
+20% Recharge Rate	Scout Sandman Wrap Assassin	250	4	Faster baseball/bauble recharge rate.
+100% Max Misc Ammo	Scout Sandman Wrap Assassin	100	4	Gives the Scout one extra baseball/bauble per level.
Ball Marks Target	Sandman	500	1	Marks one target at a time, similar to the Fan O'War, on hit with the baseball

Other

Sapper

This is only available to the Spy's Sappers.

Upgrade	Cost	Levels	Notes
Robot Sapper Power	350	3	Increases robot Sapper radius and duration

Medi Gun

These are available only to the Medic's Medi Guns.

Upgrade	Cost	Levels	Notes
Share Canteens	600	1	Share canteen powerups with heal target
+25% Übercharge Rate	300	4
+25% Heal Rate	250	4
+2s Über Duration	250	3
+25% Max Overheal	200	4
+50% Overheal Time	150	2	Decreases overheal decay rates.

Buildings

These are available only to the Engineer.

Upgrade	Cost	Levels	Notes
+1 Disposable Sentry Gun	500	1	Gives the player a disposable mini-sentry. Mini-sentry cannot be upgraded, repaired, or refilled. Once the mini-sentry runs out of ammunition, it self-destructs. Not affected by building health and sentry fire rate upgrades.
+100% Building Health	400	3	You have to build new buildings for this to take effect.
+10% Sentry Firing Speed	350	3	10% faster sentry fire rate.
2-Way Teleporters	250	1	Teleporters will teleport players regardless if they are standing on an Entrance or an Exit.
+50% Max Metal Capacity	200	4	+50% metal to the Engineer, not the buildings.
+100% Dispenser Range	100	3	Players can stand further away from the Dispenser to gain Ammo and Health.

Power Up Canteen

These are available to any class with a Power Up Canteen in their Action Slot.

Upgrade	Cost	Levels	Notes
Become Crit Boosted	100	3	Crits and doubled sentry fire rate for 5 seconds.
Become Übercharged	75	3	Übercharge and puts a Wrangler shield around your sentry for 5 seconds.
Building Upgrade	50	3	(Engineers only) Upgrades all existing buildings to Level 3.
Refill Clips and Ammo	25	3	Instantly refills all weapons' clips and ammumition.
Teleport to Spawn	10	3	Instantly teleport to spawn with a speed boost.

Note certain weapons cannot be upgraded. These include:

• Razorback
• Darwin's Danger Shield
• Cozy Camper
• Wrangler
• Gunboats
• Mantreads
• Ali Baba's Wee Booties
• Bootlegger

Related achievements

Mann vs. Machievements

Maximum Performance Max out all resistances on a single class.

System Upgrade Max out all primary weapon upgrades.

Update history

August 15, 2012 Patch

• Added Mann vs. Machine

August 17, 2012 Patch

• Fixed a client crash related to the Mann vs. Machine upgrade panel
• Fixed seeing incorrect upgrades in the Mann vs. Machine upgrade panel
• Updated upgrade icons to remove numbers

Bugs

• Occasionally, upon a failure, the Chargin' Targe's upgrades will be reset. However, the money used on the upgrades will not be refunded.

Trivia

• There are several items visible inside the Upgrade Station. These include:
  • A large Health pickup
  • Three medium ammo crates
  • A Bear Trap
  • A Level 3 Sentry Gun gib
  • A drill press
  • A Shotgun
  • A Grenade Launcher
  • Several Frag Grenades
  • Several pipe bombs
  • Three cans of Bonk! Atomic Punch
  • A Wrench
  • Forge tongs and a blacksmith hammer
  • A Pistol with a clip
  • An oil can

See also

• Credits

External links

• "The Mercs" update page