Gloves of Running Urgently
“ | Ooohhhh, run, run, I'm coming for you!
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— The Heavy running urgently to the front-lines
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The Gloves of Running Urgently (G.R.U.) are a melee weapon for the Heavy. They are a pair of large, padded, team-colored boxing gloves, similar in appearance to the Killing Gloves of Boxing, with flame decals and orange rings around the cuffs.
While the Gloves of Running Urgently are the active weapon, the Heavy moves 30% faster at 99.67% of the base movement speed, or 299 Hammer units per second (roughly 20.4 km/h or 12.7 mph). However, each time the gloves are deployed, the user's max health is instantly lowered by 20 and then further drained while the weapon is active at a rate of -10 health per second. The user's max health does not decay below 100. Holstering the weapon allows the user's max health to begin regenerating at the same rate. As this occurs, the user's current health changes in a way that keeps their health percentage constant; a Heavy at half health remains at half health no matter how this weapon modifies his max health (aside from rounding errors). The user's max overheal is also reduced when deployed, remaining at 150% of the user's current max health and 125% when using the Quick-Fix.
As with the Fists, and most of the Heavy's other melee weapons, primary fire swings the left fist, secondary fire swings the right fist, and the Critical hit animation is always a right-handed uppercut.
The kill icon for the G.R.U. was contributed by flutterravie.
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Damage type | Melee | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
Damage | ||
Base damage | 100% | 65 |
Critical | 195 | |
Mini-crit | 88 | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
Killing Gloves of Boxing | Scrap Metal | Gloves of Running Urgently | ||
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As a crafting ingredient
Gloves of Running Urgently | Scrap Metal | Warrior's Spirit | ||
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Mantreads | Gloves of Running Urgently | Ali Baba's Wee Booties | ||
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Reclaimed Metal | Gloves of Running Urgently | Crusader's Crossbow | Overdose | |||
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Reclaimed Metal | Holy Mackerel | Gloves of Running Urgently | Holiday Punch | |||
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Strange variant
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Related achievements
Heavy
Communist Mani-Fisto Kill an enemy with a critical punch. |
Medic
Blunt Trauma Assist in punching 2 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Heavy. |
Update history
- The Gloves of Running Urgently were added to the game.
- The Gloves of Running Urgently now using the boxing taunt and boxing glove weapons are now of the type "Boxing Gloves" instead of "Fists."
- [Undocumented] Gave the Gloves of Running Urgently a unique crafting recipe.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed people to bypass the Gloves of Running Urgently's damage taking penalty.
- The Buffalo Steak Sandvich's speed boost no longer stacks with other speed boosts.
- The Gloves of Running Urgently was given a unique kill icon.
- Fixed the Heavy's fists not playing the Critical hit animation.
- Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
- [Undocumented] The crafting cost of the Gloves of Running Urgently was changed from 1 Reclaimed Metal and a Killing Gloves of Boxing to 2 Scrap Metal and a Killing Gloves of Boxing.
May 5, 2011 Patch (Replay Update)
- Fixed the Gloves of Running Urgently not using the correct skin in the character loadout screen.
- Added community contributed response rules to the Gloves of Running Urgently.
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- Added Strange Quality.
- [Undocumented] The damage bonus attribute was changed from "-50% damage done" to "-50% damage penalty".
- [Undocumented] Fixed the Gloves of Running Urgently not hiding Heavy's default fists.
- [Undocumented] The Gloves of Running Urgently was added to the crafting blueprint for the Holiday Punch.
- [Undocumented] Fixed the Gloves of Running Urgently using the Fists impact sounds.
- Fixed not hearing third person sounds.
June 27, 2012 Patch (Pyromania Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Removed self-damage over time penalty.
- Heavy takes Mini-Crits while active and for 3 seconds after switching away.
- Attack damage penalty reduced from -50% to -25%.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
December 20, 2013 Patch (Smissmas 2013)
- [Undocumented] Added Festive variant.
- Updated the Festive Gloves of Running Urgently to include a blue material when equipped by the Blue team.
- [Undocumented] The Mini-Crit vulnerability after switching away was increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
- Fixed a bug with the Gloves of Running Urgently that increased the marked for death time to 5 seconds instead of 3.
December 17, 2015 Patch (Tough Break Update)
- Changed attribute:
- Increased holster time penalty.
- [Undocumented] Updated firing sounds for the Gloves of Running Urgently.
October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Removed 25% damage penalty.
- Removed Marked-For-Death effect while active.
- Added attribute: Max-health is drained while item is active (-10/sec), and regenerated while holstered. Health will regenerate only the amount drained while active - minus any damage taken during that time. Each time the gloves are deployed, the drain rate is accelerated for a brief period of time.
- Fixed an exploit related to the Heavy's health and the Gloves of Running Urgently.
- Fixed an issue with the Gloves of Running Urgently where players that were missing health would not be properly restored when touching a resupply cabinet.
- Fixed Heavy exploit related to infinite overheal using the Gloves of Running Urgently.
Unused content
- The original set of team-colored skull particles are still in the game files, but are not used.
Trivia
- G.R.U. is an acronym for the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye, the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Red Army General Staff of the Soviet Union).
- Three variants of the Gloves of Running Urgently were featured in the closed beta, the attributes of which were leaked by testers. They did not have their own texture or taunt and instead used the Killing Gloves of Boxing's model and the High Noon taunt as placeholders.
- G.R.U. Beta 3 was identical to the weapon as it was originally implemented in the Mann-Conomy Update.
- The Mann Co. Catalog has two instances of the Gloves of Running Urgently, one using the weapon's stats from before the Jungle Inferno Update; this version is exclusively used for Heavyweight Champ robots in Mann vs. Machine and is not accessible in-game by players.
Gallery
BLU variant of the weapon.
RED first-person view.
RED Festive variant.
See also
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