Frontier Justice
For the map of similar name, see Frontier.
“ | You done incurred my wrath, son!
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— The Engineer on revenge
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The Frontier Justice is an unlockable primary weapon for the Engineer. It is a large pump-action coach gun-style shotgun with a wooden stock and ornate engravings on the metal receiver, to which a team-colored cylindrical capacitor with an antenna is attached.
This weapon cannot randomly deal critical hits and has half the shell capacity of the regular Shotgun. It does, however, have the ability to deal "Revenge Crits"; for every kill acquired by the Engineer's Sentry Gun, two Revenge Crits are stored, while a kill assist stores one. Spies feigning death with the Dead Ringer do not count towards the Revenge Crit count. Upon the machine's destruction, the Frontier Justice is granted with all of the Revenge Crits to use as actual critical attacks. This applies even if the Engineer destroys his own Sentry Gun with the PDA. The Frontier Justice is only able to store up to 35 of these crits at one time, which is the maximum ammo the weapon can have: three shots stored in the magazine and 32 stored in reserve. If the Engineer has not respawned when his Sentry Gun is destroyed, no Revenge Crits will be given to the Engineer. Furthermore, should the Engineer die, he will lose all Revenge Crits currently stored in the Frontier Justice; those still stored in the Sentry Gun will remain, however, until its own destruction. The Revenge Crits are retained even when switching weapons and do not expire based on time. If the Engineer has Revenge Crits and is crit-boosted from another source, firing the Frontier Justice will still spend the Revenge Crits.
Like other Shotguns, the first shell will fire at least one pellet straight down the crosshair before "bullet spread" takes effect. When random spread is disabled the pellets will land forming a three by three grid pattern.
Taunting with the Frontier Justice equipped will perform the Dischord kill taunt.
The Frontier Justice is automatically given to any player who obtains 5 Engineer achievements.
Contents
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Shot type | Hitscan | |
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Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 9 / pellet |
Base damage | 100% | 6 / pellet |
Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 3 / pellet |
Pellet count | 10 | |
Point blank | 80-90 | |
Medium range | 10-30 | |
Long range | 3-10 | |
Pellet spread | 30:1 | |
Critical | 18 / pellet | |
Mini-crit | 8.1-12.15 / pellet | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.625 s | |
Reload (first) | 1.0 s | |
Reload (consecutive) | 0.5 s | |
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Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
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Strange variant
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Related achievements
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Update history
- The Frontier Justice was added to the game.
- The amount of revenge crits a player can have at one time is now capped at 35.
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- [Undocumented] Now works correctly with critical boosts.
- [Undocumented] Removed the Frontier Justice's normal map.
- Fixed a Frontier Justice exploit that let Engineers have infinite crits for their current life/round.
- Updated model with optimizations and new LODs.
- Fixed the revenge crit label not being localized correctly.
- [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Family Business and the Reserve Shooter.
- [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Diamondback.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange Quality.
- Fixed the Frontier Justice getting infinite crits.
December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)
- Added Festive variant.
- Fixed the Festive Frontier Justice using the incorrect skin for the Blue team.
- Added Collector's quality.
- Added Australium variant.
Bugs
- When dying while having revenge crits, occasionally the crit sound will continuously loop until the map changes or the player reconnects to the server.
- While performing the Thriller taunt, the guitar gibs still spawn in front of the Engineer.
- Changing weapons while performing the Dischord taunt results in the guitar gibs spawn in front of the Engineer
Trivia
- The Frontier Justice was first shown in the Mac update trailer, held by the RED Engineer before being officially announced on July 5, 2010.
- The Frontier Justice, along with the Wrangler, the Gunslinger, and the Southern Hospitality, appears to have been designed by Radigan Conagher, the Engineer's grandfather. This is shown via a hidden link in the Engineer Update.
- Frontier justice is a form of vigilantism, namely punishing those who evaded or were lightly treated by law and order.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
RED first-person view with the Gunslinger equipped.
BLU first-person view.
RED Festive variant.
Australium variant with the Gunslinger equipped.
See also
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