Human Buffs in Manned Machines

Human buffs in manned machines

Shotgun: +20% reload and firing speed and 1 point of the Bullet Penetration upgrade
Reserve Shooter: +40% deploy speed, mini-crits become crits, and crits for 2x damage vs blast-jumping robots
Half-Zatoichi: +15 health on hit
All other Damaging Taunts: 2.5x damage dealt by taunt

Passive: Always respawn around 4 seconds after death, +20% faster reload speed
All Scatterguns & Pistols: 1 point of the Bullet Penetration upgrade
Pistol: Gain a speed boost on hit for 2 seconds
Cleaver: Bleed lasts for 10 seconds
Stock melee & Reskins: Provides all weapons with +50% max ammo and +25% reload speed
Atomizer: +3 bonus jumps instead of +1 bonus jump, mini-crits become crits
Candy Cane: +33% more health from healthpacks and +4 passive health regen
Sandman Baseball: Target is disoriented
Wrap Assassin Ornament: Reduce robot heal rate on hit by 50% for 5 seconds
Sun-on-a-stick: Gain the ability to use the Fireball spell, has a 30 second cooldown

All Rocket Launchers: +20% reload speed
Air Strike: Gain 1 additional clip for every 250 damage dealt to robots
Black Box: Up to +30 health on hit
Beggars Bazooka: +3 clip size
Liberty Launcher: Provides all banners +200% longer buff duration
Rocket Launcher: +50% larger explosion radius
Cow Mangler & The Righteous Bison: Reduce robot heal rate on hit by 50% for 1 second. Also reduce shield meter by 5% vs robot medics with an active shield
Manntreads: Target is disoriented, +100% stomp damage bonus
Gunboats: No fall damage on wearer
Market Gardener: +50% damage while blast-jumping
Kamikaze Grenade Taunt: 3.5x damage dealt by taunt

Passive: +50% fire damage resistance
Third Degree: Crits players who are being healed and hits all players connected to the same heal source
Thermal Thruster: Deals no knockback to robots when landing
Axtinguisher: Battalion’s Backup buff is gained along with the speed boost, both effects last for 5 seconds
Powerjack: +50 health on hit, health gained can overheal
Hadouken Taunt: 3x damage dealt by taunt

Passive: When dealing damage, gain a stackable damage bonus that decays over time. Bonus damage is capped at +40%
All Projectile Weapons: +25% reload speed
Quickiebomb Launcher: Up to +65% damage based on charge instead of +35%
Stock melee & Reskins: +20 max health
Caber: +20% damage bonus on the hit that causes the explosion. Crits become mini-crits
Demoknight: +25% faster melee swing speed, +25% bullet, melee and crit damage resistance
Eyelander: Gains a head every hit vs robots
The Claidheamh Mòr: Charge time increased by 2 seconds instead of 0.5
Shield Impact: Reduce robot heal rate by 50% and stun robot for 0.5 seconds upon impacting a “Tank” type robot

All Miniguns: -20% damage
Tomsislav: Mini-crits targets when fired at their back from close range. +60% faster rev up speed
Natascha: Gain a speed boost on hit for 3 seconds. +20% faster movement speed while spun up
Stock melee & Reskins: +50% max ammo on all weapons
Warrior’s Spirit: +50 health on hit, health gained can overheal
KGB: Gain crits for 6 seconds when landing a quick 3 hit combo

Frontier Justice: Gains 1 revenge crit for every 250 damage your sentry does to robots
Pomson 6000 & Short Circuit: Reduce robot heal rate on hit by 50% for 1 second. Also reduce shield meter by 5% vs robot medics with an active shield
Pistol: +100% clip size
Gunslinger: +15% movement speed while active

Syringe gun: Dealing damage gives you small amounts of uber. +15% passive uber build rate
Blutsauger: Reduce robot heal rate on hit by 35% for 1 second. +20 max health
Overdose: Provides your medigun the overheal decay disabled upgrade
Crusader’s Crossbow: Teammates hit get the Resistance rune effect for 1 second.
Quick-Fix: MvM shield ability. Shield has -30% time to build, but -20% duration and deals no damage
Vaccinator: +10% to all resistance effects
All Melees: “Organs” system from the vanilla Vita-Saw. Maximum uber retained caps at 50%
Stock melee & Reskins: Provides your medigun an additional 25% faster build rate
Amputator: +70% passive crit resistance
Solemn Vow: Provides your medigun with 4 points of the Healing Mastery upgrade. You can see robot medics’ uber percentage

Sniper Rifle: 1 point of the Explosive Headshots upgrade
Bazaar Bargain: Gain 1 head on headshot, but lose 2 heads on bodyshot
Classic: Headshot anytime
Huntsman: 1 point of the Projectile Penetration upgrade, 10 seconds of bleed on hit, and +93% max ammo
SMG: Gain a speed boost on hit for 2 seconds
Razorback: +50% melee damage resistance, will instantly recharge and stun spy robot when triggered
Stock melee & Reskins: +15% movement speed while active
Shahansah: Fling yourself in the opposite direction on hit
Tribalman’s Shiv: Bleed lasts for 20 seconds

Passive: Use robot teamporters by touching their spawn
All Revolvers: Tag robots on hit for 8 seconds and 1 point of the Bullet Penetration upgrade
Diamondback: Gain 2 crits on backstab
Enforcer: +200% Damage bonus vs sapped buildings
Ambassador: No crit damage falloff
All knives: Gain the Resistance rune effect on backstab for 1 second. 2x backstab damage if the victim has at least 80% health. +20% backstab damage vs Heavies
Knife: Tag robots on hit for 8 seconds
Big Earner: Gain a speed boost on backstab for 3 seconds. +15% movement speed while active
Spycicle: Reduce all damage dealt by the victim on backstab by 30% for 6 seconds
Kunai: +120 health on backstab, health gained can overheal

This page may not always be correct or up to date after an update. The latest code for human buffs can be found on the gamemode’s Github.

Any other weapon changes in the gamemode are from Balance Mod, and can be found here.

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