Shortstop
“ | Hard day on the job? Wanna finish it off the right way? This is everything you wanted in a handgun and more. Make it quick and make it easy with some shots to the back.
— Shortstop publicity blurb
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The Shortstop is a community-created primary weapon for the Scout. It is a four-barreled derringer-style peppergun fitted with pearl grips.
Compared to the Scattergun, the Shortstop has two fewer shots loaded, fires 60% fewer pellets per shot, and does not possess the increased damage ramp-up of the Scout's other primary weapons. However, it fires approximately 40% faster, is 40% more accurate and deals twice the damage per pellet, although this still results in an overall 20% lower base damage per shot. Unlike most of the Scout's other primary weapons, the Shortstop also reloads its entire clip of ammunition all at once, similarly to the Pistol and its alternatives.
Pressing alt-fire (default key: MOUSE2) causes the Scout to perform a shove, dealing 1 damage and pushing a single enemy in melee range backward a set distance, similar to the Pyro's compression blast. This shove does not happen immediately, instead occurring after a short pause, similar to melee weapon swings. There is a cooldown period of around 1.5 seconds before the player can shove again, and the player cannot shove while reloading or while using other weapons.
When the Shortstop is the active weapon, the player receives 20% more knockback when taking damage, as well as from the Pyro's compression blast.
Like other bullet-based weaponry, the Shortstop's first shell fires at least one pellet straight down the crosshair before "bullet spread" takes effect. When random bullet spread is disabled, the pellets spread in a fixed T-shape consisting of the center row and bottom center position of a 3x3 square.
Random Critical hits are delivered in a manner similar to rapid-fire weapons like the Pistol, granting 2 seconds of Critical hits per successful critical roll.
The kill icon for the Shortstop was contributed by Psyke .
Contents
Damage and function times
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Shot type | Hitscan | |
Damage type | Bullet | |
Ranged or Melee damage? | Ranged | |
Damage | ||
Maximum ramp-up | 150% | 18 / pellet |
Base damage | 100% | 12 / pellet |
Maximum fall-off | 52.8% | 6.33 / pellet |
Pellet count | 4 | |
Point blank | 18-72 | |
Medium range | 12-48 | |
Long range | 6-25 | |
Pellet spread | 50:1 | |
Critical | 36 / pellet | |
Mini-crit | 16.2 - 24.3 / pellet | |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 0.36 s | |
Reload | 1.52 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Shove
Damage and function times | ||
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Damage | ||
Base damage | 100% | 1 |
Function times | ||
Attack interval | 1.5 s | |
Values are approximate and determined by community testing. |
Item set
The Special Delivery | |
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Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
Force-A-Nature | Reclaimed Metal | Shortstop | ||
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Class Token - Scout | Slot Token - Primary | Scrap Metal | Possible Results | |||||||||||||||||||
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As a crafting ingredient
Refined Metal | Special Delivery weapon | Milkman | ||
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Reclaimed Metal | Shortstop | Winger | ||
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Reclaimed Metal | Shortstop | Baby Face's Blaster | ||
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Reclaimed Metal | Shortstop | Crit-a-Cola | Back Scatter | |||
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Strange variant
Update history
- The Shortstop was added to the game.
- The Shortstop is now affected by
tf_use_fixed_weaponspreads
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- [Undocumented] The Shortstop was added to the crafting blueprint for the Milkman.
December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas)
- [Undocumented] Removed the (non-functioning) slowdown effect from the Shortstop.
- [Undocumented] Fixed bullets clipping into the gun model when Auto-Reload is enabled, or the player holds down the reload key while firing.
- Fixed not seeing the critboost effect for the Shortstop.
- Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on tournament servers when the server is restricting the player's weapons using the item_whitelist.
- [Undocumented] Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on Medieval maps for items that are not allowed in medieval mode.
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- [Undocumented] The Shortstop was added in the Winger's crafting blueprint.
October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
- [Undocumented] The Shortstop reload time has been slowed down by 50%.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
- Changed attributes:
- Added 20% bonus healing while deployed.
- Added 80% vulnerability increase to all push forces while deployed.
- [Undocumented] Added Collector's quality.
- Changed attribute:
- Reduced extra knockback penalty from 80% to 40%.
- Fixed the Shortstop not using its crit sound when firing crits.
July 2, 2015 Patch #1 (Gun Mettle Update)
- Updated description to better detail the weapon's features.
- Changed attributes:
- No longer uses secondary ammo and now uses primary ammo instead.
- Healing and knockback passives are only active when weapon is deployed.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Shortstop to reload faster than normal.
July 7, 2016 Patch (Meet Your Match Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Added an Alt-fire attack -- reach out and shove someone!
- Removed +healing bonus
- Reduced pushback vuln to +20% (from +40%)
- Updated the sounds made when the Scout shoves someone while using the Shortstop.
- Fixed the Scout not playing the correct animation when using the Shortstop's Alt-Fire to shove someone.
- Fixed the Scout not getting assists for shoving players while using the Shortstop.
October 20, 2017 Patch (Jungle Inferno Update)
- [Undocumented] Updated reload sound.
December 21, 2017 Patch (Smissmas 2017)
- Can now be Festivized.
- Fixed the inspect animation for the Shortstop.
- Fixed The Shortstop shove showing as self-inflicted damage.
Bugs
- At higher field-of-views, the bullets from the Shortstop can be seen in the lower middle of the screen.
- If the player has their model quality set to medium or lower, the Scout does not break open the Shortstop during reloading or inspecting.
Trivia
- The Shortstop was modeled from elements of various break action handguns, including the Remington Elliot 4 shot (trigger and grip) and the COP .357 Derringer (barrels), which coincidentally had a .410 scattergun version.[1]
- The Shortstop's name is a reference to the shortstop, the fielding position between second and third base in baseball, the Scout's favorite sport. It also seems to be a pun on the Shortstop's old slowdown effect, which was meant to stop enemies for a short time. However, this functionality never worked.
- Although the Shortstop fires multiple projectiles per shot, the model for its ammunition depicts a large single bullet in each casing.
- The Shortstop's rounds are held together by a flat metal clip, which are often used to speed the reload process of certain breach weapons.
- The clip seems to disappear during the reload, as the ejected cases do not feature the clip and it is never seen leaving the gun otherwise.
- This item's type, "peppergun", is slang for shotgun, due to the weapon's ability to "pepper" a target.
Gallery
RED Festivized variant.
BLU Festivized variant.
References
See also
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