Scottish Handshake
“ | [grunts] Who drank all my rum?
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— Davy Jones to the Demoman
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The Scottish Handshake is a community-created melee weapon for the Demoman. It is a dark brown glass rum bottle, made by the Demoman's DeGroot family ancestors in 1680.
This weapon functions identically to the Bottle.
While the weapon works similarly to most of the other melee weapons, if a Critical hit is achieved when striking a surface or player, the Scottish Handshake's lower half shatters and remains so until the player is killed (it does not mend upon touching a Resupply locker). Like the Bottle's same effect, this is purely cosmetic; the broken Scottish Handshake has the same range and deals no more or less damage than it did prior to being broken.
The Scottish Handshake was later contributed to the Steam Workshop, at Valve's request.
The backpack icon was contributed by smash.mn .
Contents
[hide]Damage and function times
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Damage type | Melee | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
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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
Item set
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Crafting
Blueprint
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As a crafting ingredient
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Related achievements
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Update history
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- The Scottish Handshake was added to the game.
- Backpack sounds updated for the Scottish Handshake.
October 26, 2012 Patch (Spectral Halloween Special)
- [Undocumented] Removed shattered-bottle materials from the game files.
June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)
- [Undocumented] Re-added broken model for the Scottish Handshake.
October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)
- Fixed the Scottish Handshake not having its models break on Critical hits.
Bugs
- When performing a Mini-Crit melee strike with the charge of the Tide Turner, the Scottish Handshake appears broken for a brief period before quickly returning to normal.
Trivia
- The term "Scottish Handshake" refers to the stereotype that a person of Scottish heritage greets people with physical assault, due to their stereotypical violent nature.
- The year that appears on the bottle, 1680, was chosen because it was the year the notorious pirate Blackbeard was born.
- This item was originally showcased in the Medieval Update, together with the rest of Swashbuckler's Swag set.
Gallery
The Demoman holding the Scottish Handshake on the main menu.
See also
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