Vaccinator
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Medic |
| Slot: | Secondary |
| Equip region: | Back |
| Contributed by: | Psyke Frying Dutchman The Ronin Pie_Savvy |
| Released: | Mecha Update |
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase or Chemistry Set (Collector's) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | No |
| Available Qualities | |
| Loadout Stats | |
 The Vaccinator |
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— The Medic on changing resistances
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The Vaccinator is a community-created secondary weapon for the Medic. It roughly resembles a Medi Gun, with a team-colored, glowing liquid-filled beaker attached to the lower middle section, a small monitor left of the main body and additional cables and valves. It also changes the stock Medi Gun backpack to a small Canteen-like device.
The main feature of the weapon is the Medic's ability to select the desired resistance that will be applied both to the Medic and the heal target. The player can cycle through bullet, explosive, and fire resistances by pressing the reload button (default key: R) and an appropriate icon will appear over the ÜberCharge meter. In addition, a clacking sound cue is played every time resistance is switched as an auditory feeback signal to the player. Note that weapons that deal generic typeless damage (such as Huntsman or Crusader's Crossbow arrows) are treated as bullets by this mechanic, while there is no way to defend against other damage types, such as melee.
Compared to the the stock Medi Gun, the weapon has a 50% faster ÜberCharge build rate but a 66% slower overheal rate. Additionally, the Vaccinator's charge rate is not reduced when healing a patient with full health or a patient being healed by other sources. While actively healing, the Medic and the heal target gain a 10% resistance to the selected type of damage and the Medic will be healed 25% of correctly-matched incoming damage to the heal target. In addition, the previously mentioned icon will appear above the health meter on both the Medic's and heal target's HUD and over their heads. Also, and this is likely a bug, the bonus damage of critical hits is entirely resisted during this passive benefit (as opposed to only during Übercharge), and this does not incur any ÜberCharge penalty.
When the ÜberCharge is deployed, both the Medic and the heal target (if applicable) gain 75% damage resistance to the selected type of damage. In addition, the bonus damage of critical hits and mini-crits is completely negated, though at the expense of a certain amount of ÜberCharge per attack (-75% per explosion, -1% per flame particle/flare, and -3% per bullet (note that attacks with multiple pellets, such as shotguns, still only deduct -3% per shot regardless of how many pellets hit)).
Instead of a single ÜberCharge bar, the Vaccinator builds up to four smaller bars of ÜberCharge, filled in intervals of 25% ÜberCharge (i.e. the bars are filled in order as 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% ÜberCharge is reached), which can be deployed one at a time as 2-second ÜberCharges. Each time a bar is filled up a specific brief sound effect (different from the resistances sound cue) is played to alert the player. A full übercharge bar may also automatically trigger the Übercharge Ready voice response from the character. If an ÜberCharge is activated while the next ÜberCharge bar is only partially full, the progress is lost and the ÜberCharge begins depleting the last filled ÜberCharge bar. It is not possible to change the type of resistance in the middle of an ÜberCharge; however, keeping the alternate fire button pressed maintains the ÜberCharge through all the charges left with no interruptions in between. An activated übercharge has its own characteristic sound effect which is quite different to that of the other mediguns and can be heard by all players in the vicinity.
The Vaccinator was originally contributed to the Steam Workshop under the name "The Hot Coffee".
Contents
Healing and function times
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| Healing | ||
| Healing (in combat) | 100% | 24 / s (8 / s) |
| Healing (out of combat) | 300% | 72 / s (24 / s) |
| Function times | ||
| Effect duration | 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 s | |
| Charge fill speed | 3.75% / s | |
| Maximum charge time | 26.67 s | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
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Related achievements
General
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Scout
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Soldier
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Pyro
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Heavy
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Engineer
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Medic
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Sniper
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Überectomy Kill a Medic that is ready to deploy an ÜberCharge. |
Spy
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Update history
December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)
- The Vaccinator was added to the game.
- Fixed missing text in the recipe description for the Vaccinator.
- [Undocumented] Fixed an issue with the self-illumination on the Vaccinator's backpack.
- Updated the Vaccinator with its own uber-off sound and a sound when toggling resist types.
- Changed attribute:
- Über now fully absorbs crit damage for the selected damage type, but depletes Übercharge based on the amount of damage prevented.
- Updated the Vaccinator to use the reload key to cycle through resist types.
- Added Collector's quality.
Unused content
- There are three different styles of beam intended for this weapon, one for each type of resistance. Instead, the weapon shares its beam with the Kritzkrieg and Quick-Fix. [1]
Bugs
- Being set on fire will cause the player to lose the team-colored overlay when under the effects of the ÜberCharge.
- This weapon does not glow when crit boosted.
- The backpack device always shows RED lights, regardless of the team in Mann Co. Store preview.
- If the Medic or his patient die during ÜberCharge, the shield will remain in the world for a few seconds.
Trivia
- The healing given to the Medic when the patient takes matched damage also applies to self-inflicted damage - for example, if a Soldier is being healed with the Vaccinator set to explosive resistance, the Medic will receive health whenever the Soldier rocket jumps.
Gallery
RED first-person view.
BLU first-person view.
RED backpack.
BLU backpack.
All the RED Vaccinator buff icons.
All the BLU Vaccinator buff icons.
The RED ÜberCharge bar.
The BLU ÜberCharge bar.
The Steam Workshop thumbnail image for the Vaccinator.
References
See also
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Arrow Stab | Fencing | |
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