Iron Bomber
“ | In your language; 'Eat lead, laddies!'
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— The Demoman on heavy grenades
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The Iron Bomber is a community-created primary weapon for the Demoman. It is a quad-barreled grenade launcher with longer barrels, a wooden foregrip and stock, and a large, circular, flip-up front sight.
The grenades fired by the Iron Bomber are spherical in shape, glow, and do not bounce or roll much at all, leaving them to explode in mostly the same place as where they first collided with an object (aside from the effects of gravity). In addition, they have a 15% smaller blast radius (except for the Demoman who fired it) and a 30% shorter fuse time, allowing players to create short-term ground traps with the Iron Bomber's grenades.
The Iron Bomber's grenades have a team-colored band around each of them: if fired on a slope, grenades can often roll in the direction of the band; otherwise, grenades tend to stay in one place.
The Iron Bomber was contributed to the Steam Workshop.
Contents
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Shot type | Projectile | |
Damage type | Explosive | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
Damage | ||
Base damage | 100% | 100 60 |
Critical | 300 180 | |
Mini-crit | 135 81 | |
Splash damage | ||
Minimum splash | 50% | 2.4m |
Damage reduction | 1% / 2.44 | |
Self-damage | 38-73 | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.6 s | |
Reload (first) | 1.24 s | |
Reload (consecutive) | 0.6 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
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Strange variant
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Related achievements
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Update history
- The Iron Bomber was added to the game.
- Fixed missing Killstreak sheen effects for the Iron Bomber.
July 2, 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Removed damage penalty on self-detonate (was -10%).
- Reduced radius penalty from -20% to -15%.
- [Undocumented] Updated the Iron Bomber's explosion sounds.
July 7, 2016 Patch #1 (Meet Your Match Update)
- Decreased the fuse time to 1.4 seconds (from 2.0).
- Added Strange quality.
- Fixed seeing the wrong custom projectiles for grenade launchers like the Iron Bomber when the wielder has recently changed loadout.
December 21, 2017 Patch (Smissmas 2017)
- Added Festivized variant.
- Fixed the Iron Bomber's projectile collision size not matching other projectile collision sizes.
Unused content
- The Iron Bomber has a set of three unused explosion sounds that have existed since the weapon's release.
Bugs
- The Iron Bomber uses the same reload animation as the Grenade Launcher, and shows bombs being inserted into the bottom left of the chambers and not actually being inserted into the slots.
- Due to how the model is rigged, the Iron Bomber's barrels do not spin during the firing animation.
Trivia
- While the Iron Bomber's projectiles appear visually with a spherical shape, they interact with the world with a cylindrical shape identical to the Grenade Launcher's projectiles.[1] This is most noticeable when the grenades are fired onto ramped surfaces. This also means that the Iron Bomber's projectiles travel in the same arch as the Grenade Launcher's projectiles.
Gallery
RED Festivized variant.
BLU Festivized variant.
The Iron Bomber as appeared in the blog.
See also
References
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