The Nail Gun is an alternative primary weapon for the Scout. It is a white and gray pneumatic nail gun, with an oversized drum magazine attached to the barrel, holding a belt of nails. The nails leave faint team-colored trails behind them.
Unlike the Scattergun, the Nail Gun is an automatic magazine-fed weapon that shoots a fast stream of small nail projectiles that embed themselves into enemies. The nails have a base damage of 12 each, are shot at a rate of 10 per second, are slightly affected by gravity, and are inaccurate at long range.
Properties
Properties
Shot type
Projectile
Damage type
Bullet
Ranged or Melee?
Ranged
Taunt
Show off
Damage
Maximum ramp-up
150%
18
Base damage
100%
12
Maximum fall-off
52.8%
6
Critical
36
Mini-crit
16
Mini-crit (ramp-up)
24
Bullet count
1
Spread
0.03
Ammo
Loaded
25
Carried
125
Reload type
Clip
Function Times
Attack interval
0.1s
Reload
1.15 s
All values are approximate.
Strategy
The Nail Gun deals slightly less damage per second than the Scattergun, but has sustained fire which enables a constant barrage of chip damage against an enemy. This is especially true at midrange, where the Scout can harass enemies while staying out of range from their attacks, including cutting off their pursuit by shooting nails down their path of travel. Despite dealing 2 less of its base damage (10) against Buildings it acts as a potent Sentry Gun destroyer, able to destroy buildings outside the Scout's typical range within seconds. As a consequence, the Nail Gun is more comparable to the Pistol in terms of use, featuring a similar midrange playstyle, albeit trading off the reliability of bullets for the entertainment value of nails.
Nail Gun v. Stock Scattergun
➕ Deals continuous damage
➕ Effective in mid and long range
➖ Deals less damage per second
➖ Deals less damage against Buildings
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Related achievements
Achievement
Description
Nail Biter
With the Nailgun, destroy 5 Sentry Guns.
Gauge the Distance
Using the Nailgun, hit 300 shots against enemies more than 15 meters away from you.
The Nail Gun in Team Fortress 2 Classic originated from Team Fortress Classic. It was planned to make a reappearance in TF2, but was cut during development. It can be seen in the Orange Box 2006 PlayStation 3 trailer.
The Nail Gun's model is directly taken from TF2's files and the textures were taken from pre-release TF2 files.
When holding down the attack button, the Nail Gun's ammo count does not update smoothly enough to reflect the precise amount of nails fired, often stuttering its ammo count inaccurately until the clip is empty.
The "show off" taunt was taken from live TF2 game files that went unused.
