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Incoming!
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— The Soldier flying towards his victim
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The Market Gardener is a community-made melee weapon for the Soldier. It is an entrenching shovel with a tan wooden handle fastened with green metal.
The Market Gardener deals critical hits to enemies whilst the wielder is rocket jumping or soon after he lands, but will not randomly crit otherwise.
Damage and function times
Damage and function times
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Damage
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Base damage
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100%
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65
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Point blank
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55-75
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Critical
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195
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Mini-Crit
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75-101
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Function times
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Attack interval
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0.8 s
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Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Item set
Demonstration
Related achievements
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Wings of Glory Kill an enemy soldier while both you and the target are airborne.
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Crafting
Blueprint
As a crafting ingredient
Update history
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- The Market Gardener was added to the game.
June 28, 2011 Patch
- Added/Refined recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for all of the new weapons in the Über Update.
Bugs
- As the Soldier holds this weapon with one hand (the right hand that is) increasing the viewmodel field of view (EX: 120) the player is able to see the left arm of the soldier.
Trivia
- The item's name is a reference to Template:W which was the largest airborne operation in World War II. Around 14,589 allied soldiers were landed by glider and 20,011 by parachute behind German enemy lines.
- The item was initally designed to be a cross between a pickaxe and a Shovel, however, in the final stages of development, the pickaxe was removed, and the Market Gardener remains a Shovel.
- Its backpack image still uses the scrapped version of the Market Gardener.
Gallery
See also
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Shovel ( Frying Pan, Saxxy, Conscientious Objector, Freedom Staff, Bat Outta Hell, Memory Maker, Ham Shank, Golden Frying Pan, Necro Smasher, Crossing Guard, Prinny Machete) · Equalizer · Pain Train · Half-Zatoichi · Disciplinary Action · Market Gardener · Escape Plan | | | |
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