User:Reverentpsycho/Sandbox/Wrangler

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Everyone loves remote control toys. But the problem with most of them is, unless you manage to remote control one directly down someone's throat, they're pretty useless as weapons. But what if we were to tell you that we fixed that obvious design flaw?
— Blog post highlighting the Wrangler

The Wrangler is an unlockable secondary weapon for the Engineer. It is a wooden grip implemented under an early-80's single-button style team-colored joystick, with a small, rectangular radar satellite dish protruding from the front. A team-colored wire which is taped and attached to the joystick runs from the back of it and into the radar dish. On the Festive variant, the base of the joystick is wrapped in yellow gift wrap on the RED team, and green gift wrap on the BLU team, alongside a large team-colored bow tied around it, with blinking Christmas lights connecting from the satellite dish to the back of the base, and the bottom of the stick given a team-colored peppermint swirl.

When active, the Wrangler allows the Engineer to manually take control of his Sentry Gun, during which the Sentry Gun loses its default auto-aim and automatic firing abilities and is instead controlled by using primary fire for bullets and alt-fire for rockets (default keys: MOUSE1 and MOUSE2, respectively). Additionally, the Sentry Gun gains a translucent, team-colored shield around it and a team-colored laser pointing where the Engineer's crosshair is aiming. The shield absorbs 66% of all incoming damage and reduces the amount of health and ammo restored per hit by 33%. When the Wrangler is put away (or the Engineer holding it dies), the Sentry Gun becomes inactive for three seconds, after which the shield disables and the Sentry Gun resumes normal operation.

Furthermore, a Wrangled Sentry Gun fires bullets 40% faster at level 1, 33% faster at levels 2 and 3, and 50% if it's a Wrangled Combat Mini-Sentry. Rockets are fired 26.5% faster and calculate damage falloff based on the Engineer's position (while bullets still calculate damage falloff based on the Sentry Gun's position). To assist with hitting targets, the Wrangler has a small aim assist that automatically points at the center of an enemy when the crosshair is near them. Disguised or cloaked Spies are not targeted automatically, being ignored entirely instead. A Wrangled Sentry Gun can still injure the Engineer that build it, which allows him to clear small gaps using the bullets or perform a Sentry Gun jump using the rockets.

The Wrangler is automatically given to any player who obtains 17 Engineer achievements.