Panic Attack
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The Panic Attack is a community-created primary weapon for the Engineer, and a secondary weapon for the Soldier, Pyro, and Heavy. It is a pump-action shotgun with a drum magazine attached to the front and an external firing hammer.
Compared to the default Shotgun, the Panic Attack deploys 50% faster, fires 50% more pellets per shot, and deals 20% less damage. If all pellets hit at point blank, this translates to slightly more damage compared to the default Shotgun (108 instead of 90). The weapon also fires wide, fixed shots in a 5 x 3 grid pattern, whether or not bullet spread is enabled.
The weapon's main downside lies in its gradually widening shot pattern: as the user fires successive shots (such as by holding down primary fire or firing before the class cocks the weapon), the shot pattern spreads and only resets when the player stops firing, reloads, or switches to a different weapon. This makes confrontations past close range difficult, and makes successive shots a somewhat less viable strategy.
The Panic Attack was contributed to the Steam Workshop.
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Damage and function times
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Shot type | Hitscan | |
Damage type | Bullet | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
Damage | ||
Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 7.2 / pellet |
Base damage | 100% | 4.8 / pellet |
Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 2.5344 / pellet |
Pellet count | 15 | |
Point blank | 7-108 | |
Medium range | 5-72 | |
Long range | 3-38 | |
Pellet Spread | 30-21:1 | |
Critical | 14.4 / pellet | |
Mini-crit | 6.5 - 9.7 / pellet | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.625 s | |
Reload (first) | 1.0 s | |
Reload (consecutive) | 0.5 s | |
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Demonstration
Strange variant
Crafting
Blueprint
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Class Token - Soldier | Slot Token - Primary | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | |||||||||||||||||||
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Class Token - Pyro | Slot Token - Primary | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | |||||||||||||||||||
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Class Token - Heavy | Slot Token - Primary | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | |||||||||||||||||||
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Related achievements
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Pyro
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Engineer
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Update history
- The Panic Attack was added to the game. The attributes were:
- 34% faster reload time.
- Fire rate increases as health decreases.
- Hold fire to load up to 4 shells.
- Weapon spread increases as health decreases.
- Fixed the Crit Boost material effect for the Panic Attack.
- Updated the kill icon for the Panic Attack.
- Fixed being able to pick-up buildings while reloading the Panic Attack.
- Fixed the Panic Attack not using the correct sound for crits.
July 2, 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Base Fire rate increased. (from 15% to 30%)
- Base reload speed increased. (from 33% to 50%)
- Added increased switch to speed by +50%.
December 17, 2015 Patch (Tough Break Update)
- Changed attribute:
- No longer auto-fires when fully loaded. Shots can be held and released at will.
- Updated the materials for the Panic Attack to support
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July 7, 2016 Patch #1 (Meet Your Match Update)
- Added Strange quality.
October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Increased switch speed by 50%.
- Increased number of pellets by 50%.
- Decreased damage by 30%.
- Fires a wide, fixed shot pattern.
- Shot pattern grows with successive shots but resets after the player stops firing or reloads.
December 21, 2017 Patch (Smissmas 2017)
- Added Festivized variant.
- Changed attributes:
- Reduced worst-case shot pattern spread by 40%.
- Reduced damage penalty to -20% (from -30%).
- Fixed a visual artifact when inspecting the Panic Attack.
Bugs
- One can craft the Panic Attack with incorrect slot and class tokens. i.e. Soldier class token with Primary slot token. This is due to the Panic Attack being shared by Soldier, Pyro, Heavy, and Engineer while using different weapon slots for each class.
Trivia
- This weapon gets its name from a panic attack, which is a sudden feeling of intense fear and anxiety.
- The Panic Attack is a left-handed shotgun (as shown by the ejection port being visible on the left hand side of the gun). A right-handed shotgun has the ejection port on its right side to prevent ejected shells from striking the user.
Gallery
Soldier BLU first-person view.
Soldier RED Festivized variant.
Pyro first-person view.
Heavy first-person view.
Engineer first-person view.
Engineer first-person view with the Gunslinger equipped.
The Panic Attack as appeared in the blog.
See also
- Panic Attack strategy (Soldier)
- Panic Attack strategy (Pyro)
- Panic Attack strategy (Heavy)
- Panic Attack strategy (Engineer)
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