Killing Gloves of Boxing

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Any time a Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B he receives five seconds of guaranteed critical hits.
Killing Gloves of Boxing publicity blurb

The Killing Gloves of Boxing (K.G.B.) are an unlockable melee weapon for the Heavy. They appear as a pair of large, padded, team-colored boxing gloves.

These gloves deal the same damage on hit as the default Fists, but have a 20% longer swing time and thus less potential to follow up hits. When the Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B., however, he is guaranteed critical hits for the next 5 seconds and can kill additional enemies with the weapon to refresh the boost's duration. This boost affects other weapons, allowing the Heavy to switch to other weapons such as the Shotgun to deal further damage at the cost of losing boost time through the switch animation.

The Killing Gloves of Boxing are automatically given to any player who obtains 22 Heavy achievements.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage
Damage and function times
Damage
Base damage 100% 65
Point blank 55-75
Critical 195
Mini-crit 75-101
Function times
Attack interval 0.97 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Class Token - Heavy Slot Token - Melee Scrap Metal Possible Results
Item icon Class Token - Heavy.png + Item icon Slot Token - Melee.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.png =
Item icon Killing Gloves of Boxing.png Item icon Gloves of Running Urgently.png Item icon Warrior's Spirit.png Item icon Fists of Steel.png
Item icon Eviction Notice.png Item icon Apoco-Fists.png Item icon Holiday Punch.png Item icon Freedom Staff.png
Item icon Ham Shank.png Item icon Bat Outta Hell.png Item icon Conscientious Objector.png

As a crafting ingredient

Killing Gloves of Boxing Scrap Metal Gloves of Running Urgently
Item icon Killing Gloves of Boxing.png + Item icon Scrap Metal.pngx2 = Item icon Gloves of Running Urgently.png
Killing Gloves of Boxing Reclaimed Metal Fists of Steel
Item icon Killing Gloves of Boxing.png + Item icon Reclaimed Metal.png = Item icon Fists of Steel.png

Related achievements

Leaderboard class heavy.png Heavy

Borscht Belt
Borscht Belt
Kill 10 Heavies with The K.G.B.
Communist Mani-Fisto
Communist Mani-Fisto
Kill an enemy with a critical punch.

Leaderboard class medic.png Medic

Blunt Trauma
Blunt Trauma
Assist in punching 2 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Heavy.

Update history

August 19, 2008 Patch (A Heavy Update)
  • The Killing Gloves of Boxing were added to the game.

February 25, 2009 Patch

  • Fixed the Heavy's hands disappearing when he's stunned while wearing the K.G.B.

September 30, 2010 Patch (The Mann-Conomy Update)

January 7, 2011 Patch

January 10, 2011 Patch

  • Fixed the Heavy's fists not playing the critical hit animation.

February 14, 2011 Patch

  • Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).

March 15, 2011 Patch

  • [Undocumented] The weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Fists of Steel.
  • [Undocumented] The crafting cost for the Gloves of Running Urgently reduced to one Scrap Metal + K.G.B.

June 3, 2011 Patch

  • Added new community contributed response rules to this weapon.

August 18, 2011 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Fixed this weapon not hiding Heavy's default fists.

Bugs

  • Each of the K.G.B.'s critical boosts received from making successive kills can be contributed towards the Supreme Soviet achievement.
  • Sometimes the K.G.B is invisible in third person mode

Unused content

  • In the .gcf files, there is a scrapped weapon mechanic which was intended for the K.G.B. With it, every kill would earn the Heavy, and his surrounding allies, 50 health regenerated and an additional 10% to their critical hit chances. The downside was that the Heavy taunted after each and every successful K.G.B. kill.

Trivia

  • K.G.B. is the acronym for the Russian security agency, secret police and intelligence agency Template:W, which was disbanded in 1995.
  • The K.G.B.'s taunt is an homage to Mr. Sandman's warm-up technique from Template:W.

Gallery

See also

External links