The Bolshevik's Bandolier - TF2 Weapon
The Bolshevik's Bandolier - TF2 Weapon
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The Bolshevik's Bandolier is a Team Fortress 2 weapon concept that tries to provide a more aggressive, shotgun-based playstyle for the Heavy. The weapon's idea is heavily inspired by the game's community-made "gimmick subclasses", which are alternate playstyles made up by players to add more variety to the game. One such gimmick subclass is the Fat Scout, which consists of playing the Heavy, but only using the shotgun. The Bolshevik's Bandolier tries to turn the Fat Scout gimmick into a fully-fledged, official subclass!
Weapon card for the Bandolier, using the Bandolier icon from Risk of Rain 2 as a temp image.
The Bandolier takes up the Heavy's primary weapon slot, meaning it removes the ability to use a Minigun (which is a very powerful tool in Heavy's loadout). Therefore, the bonuses the Bandolier grant need to be strong and worthwhile!
Granting any kind of movement speed increase is very dangerous in Team Fortress 2, as a heavy amount of the game's skill expression is done through mastering the Source engine's unique movement and physics. Therefore, the 13% movement speed increase is a very specific and deliberate decision, allowing the Heavy to move slightly faster without outrunning too many of the game's other classes.
This table was made for the document and shows the movement speed values for all the classes, including the Heavy when using items that increase his movement speed.
As a Bandolier Heavy is trading a lot of their offensive power by giving up the Minigun and any non-Shotgun secondary weapon, granting some movement speed feels like a worthy trade.
This extra speed allows the Bandolier Heavy to act as more of a hit-and-run frontline skirmisher, soaking up damage on the frontlines before dipping back to safety to receive some healing.
The document also covers which of Heavy's other weapons would work well (or not so well)Â with the Bandolier and why. Here's the final run-down for these other weapons, in the form of a small tier list.
Other topics such as the reload speed boost, class pick rates and the discussion of "why use this when you can just play Scout" are also covered in the document!
Here's a link to a Google Drive containing the document - downloading it and viewing it on Word is recommended, as using Google Docs may lead to formatting issues.
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