Gluestick

The fourth class of the game, also one of the oldest designed dating back from 2003.

Stances

Full (default)

Color/Alternate Yellow #FFFF00 ███ / Green #00FF00 ███
Color intensity / Alternate 128 / 128
Total blunt damage +9%
Movement speed 15 pixels per frame
Jump Power 30
Jump Height 240
Jump reload time 21 frames

Strength 6 ☼☼☼☼☼☼
Agility 0
Speed 0
Weight 6 ☼☼☼☼☼☼
Stamina 4 ☼☼☼☼
Life 4 ☼☼☼☼
Reach 4 ☼☼☼☼
Difficulty 1 ☼

Empty

Color/Alternate None
Color intensity / Alternate 128 / 128
Total blunt damage +7.5%
Movement speed 19 pixels per frame
Jump Power 39.25
Jump Height 364.5
Jump reload time 12 frames

Strength 6 ☼☼☼☼☼☼
Agility 1 ☼ +1
Speed 2 ☼☼ +2
Weight 3 ☼☼☼ -3
Stamina 4 ☼☼☼☼
Life 4 ☼☼☼☼

Started December 2021
First apparition Demo 11
Last update 0.1.1.6 (June 2025)
Status Playable (2024)
Creator
☼ FlameofChange
Taker
☼ FlameofChange
Cropper
☼ FlameofChange
Placer
☼ FlameofChange
Hander
☼ FlameofChange
Effecter
☼ FlameofChange
Integrator
☼ FlameofChange
Balancer
☼ FlameofChange

Description

It is a UHU 21 grams gluestick with a long barrel. The body is gray, the cap and the screw white. It is used as a renaissance era like cannon, but it is not limited to its main gun. The splines on the screw leave place to secondary and smaller guns, while the texture of the cap makes even smaller guns like a gatling. However the weapon doesn't rotate itself, as each barrel is independently loaded and fired. The main cannon is in reality short barreled, as the hole stops about the third of the length of the gluestick. Furthermore the hole has multiple successive smaller radius, making a somewhat imprecise cannon. Speaking of which, it may be a cannon but it is a plastic cannon, hence its sounds. However the projectiles are intentionally metal based.

When empty/dry, the gluestick is much lighter, but still heavier than most of desktop items.

Strategy

"Heavy gunner with high brute strength and weight. Brawls and shoots in short range, bulldozing everything in its path."

The Gluestick is an unstoppable force when going in the offensive, ignoring most incoming damage and stuns to continue combos. Its attacks have high reward and may catch the enemy even if it was evading somewhat. Its swings are good, but its strengths comes from its wide array of shots. However it is somewhat slow and medium ranged, so it may miss many attacks. But it doesn't matter if it gets punished, as its good weight, stamina and HP can compensate the loss.

The Empty stance has a much different play style as it gains more mobility without sacrificing much offense and defense. Its jump reload speed almost doubles and its dodge gets a bit more acceptable. In reality it has so low base mobility that any increase makes it very sensible.

Quirks
☼ Heavy gunner
☼ Multiple types of ranged attacks

Strengths
☼ Good push and bulldoze power
☼ Good passive defense
☼ Hard to push and break
☼ Heavy attacks at point blank
☼ Steamroll potential

Weaknesses
☼ Low mobility
► Some attacks grants it some leverage, but it's more cumbersome than other classes
► The Empty stance makes it bellow average instead of awful
☼ High recovery times
☼ Mostly static & predictable combos

Development history

The empty stance doesn't change the external appearance, so it picks the player color instead. It used Brawlhalla cannon sounds as placeholders for hits and gunfire, but the Gatling is actually from Rise of Nations. Current impact sounds were made by hitting a big plastic box around the microphone. Movement was done by blowing to the side of the hole like a flute. At some points during animation reworks, the gluestick screw has been granted more spline relief (examples bellow). The damage gadget system was primarily created to make projectiles more flexible for the gluestick, as it was before completely merged in the animation. The older stats were

Strength 4 ☼☼☼☼
Agility 0
Speed 0
Weight 4
Stamina 3 ☼☼☼
Life 3 ☼☼☼
Blunt 4 ☼☼☼☼
Reach 1 ☼
Difficulty 1 ☼

Lore

Trivia

☼ All of its projectiles deal pure damage, so they are not changed by the stats

☼ It is currently the slowest and tankiest class of the game
► The closest would be Unarmed with Defense stance, but its lack of weight doesn't make it as stalwart as the gluestick

☼ When handled IRL by FlameofChange, it has a grip & fight style closer to ballpen (clamped in front between the thumb and all of the 4 fingers), but was changed when designing the class to give a different personality and shifting the weapon more towards a cannon rather than a big fighting log.

☼ It could be a Scotch triangular shaped glue stick, but the UHU stick was mostly used by FlameofChange
► It is the reason of the green alternate color, the other being Scotch inspired
► Scotch gluesticks may appear as a variant, with just the main gun and three secondaries
► If added as a purely separate stance, it would be lighter

☼ It is purely used as a cannon and never use glue based attacks, despite being a gluestick
► It was planned at some points, but the gameplay focused on the gun aspect first in the meantime

☼ FlameofChange practiced a lot on smaller 8.2 grams, making light cannons
► He preferred picking a larger gluestick to give more fluff and variety

☼ It is planned to use the pop sound made by the thump on the hole as a possible taunt

☼ The appearance has been simplified, making it a bit paradoxical
► The end of the screw splines stops straight instead of being rounded
► The text and symbols on the body has been removed for obvious copyright reasons, and the symmetrical handling makes it almost unidirectional
► The slight difference of radius between the cap and the body is very often neglected
► The arrows on the top of the cap have been simplified into simple lines

☼ The gluestick never opens its cap, as IRL it would be messy and put glue sticking everywhere

☼ It also never screw its gluestick in animations, except at Spawn

☼ The gluestick hand has a slightly bigger scale compared to other hands, which was a small oversight
► That also makes the gluestick slightly bigger than IRL, but the difference is negligible for the gameplay
► Even if it was more sensible, it fits the bulky spirit of the class

The Scotch gluestick would be based on this, but with a green cap and yellow screw (haven't found the exact image).

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