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“

— The Engineer on faster construction Ya ain't too fast for me and my machines now, are ya? Heh. Are ya? ”

The Jag is a community-created melee weapon for the Engineer. It is a combination monkey and pipe wrench or a combination pipe and nut wrench, with a brown taped grip.

This weapon has 15% faster attack speed and speeds up the construction of any buildings, whether on initial setup or redeployment, upon being struck by the Engineer. As a downside, the weapon also has a 25% damage reduction, 33% damage reduction against buildings (making it remove Sappers in three hits instead of two), and 20% lower repair rate, making this wrench less effective for maintaining a base or engaging in melee combat.

Switching from this weapon to the Gunslinger will destroy the sentry the player has built. Similarly, switching to this weapon from the Gunslinger will also cause the Combat Mini-Sentry Gun to be destroyed.

The kill icon for the Jag was contributed by Psyke.

Damage and function times

Damage and function times Damage type Melee Ranged or Melee damage? Melee Damage Base damage 100% 49 Point blank Players: 49

Buildings:

Sappers: [1] Critical 146 Mini-crit 66 Damage repaired per hit 81 Upgrade amount per hit 25 Metal cost per repairing hit 1 + damage / 3 Metal cost for reloading ammo 1 / bullet

2 / rocket salvo Function times Attack interval 0.68 s Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Crafting

Blueprint

As a crafting ingredient

Strange variant





Related achievements

Engineer to Eternity

Kill an Engineer as he repairs his sentry gun while it's under enemy fire.





Built to Last

Help a single building tank over 2000 damage without being destroyed.

Circle the Wagons

Repair 50,000 damage to friendly buildings constructed by other players.

Doc, Stock, and Barrel

Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic.

Fistful of Sappers

Destroy 25 sappers on buildings built by other team members.

Get Along!

Manage to get to, and then remove, a sapper placed on your building while you were several meters away. Land Grab

Help a teammate construct a building.

Quick Draw

Kill a Spy and two sappers within 10 seconds.

Rio Grind

Perform 50 repairs and/or reloads on a Sentry gun being Wrangled by another Engineer.

Silent Pardner

Upgrade 50 buildings built by other team members.

The Wrench Connection

Kill a disguised spy with your Wrench.





Midwife Crisis

Heal an Engineer as he repairs his sentry gun while it's under enemy fire.

Bugs

In certain instances, the weapon will not remove the Sapper at the other end of a Teleporter.

Trivia

A jag, or "cleaning jag", is a tool used to clean firearms and thereby improve their efficiency.

The Jag was first found fully textured in the Team Fortress 2 game files after the Mann-Conomy Update, and was displayed in the Steam Update image for the Mann-Conomy Update. According to Robin Walker in an email to community author Jman, the Jag was originally intended to be a part of the Engineer Update, and was eventually cut when Valve couldn't figure out attributes for it. The Jag was later added to the game as part of the Australian Christmas update.

game files after the Mann-Conomy Update, and was displayed in the Steam Update image for the Mann-Conomy Update. According to Robin Walker in an email to community author Jman, the Jag was originally intended to be a part of the Engineer Update, and was eventually cut when Valve couldn't figure out attributes for it. The Jag was later added to the game as part of the Australian Christmas update. The Jag was submitted as part of Jman's submission into the Polycount Pack contest, the Jag Pack.

The Jag's animations use the prefix pdq_ . The P.D.Q. was a Wrench tested in the closed beta that also increased the construction rate for buildings.

Gallery

First-person view.

RED Festivized variant.

BLU Festivized variant.

The original Steam popup with the Jag before it was officially added to the game.

See also