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“ — Killing Gloves of Boxing publicity blurb Any time a Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B he receives five seconds of guaranteed critical hits. ”

The Killing Gloves of Boxing (K.G.B.) are an unlockable melee weapon for the Heavy. They appear as a pair of large, padded, team-colored boxing gloves.

These gloves deal the same damage on hit as the default Fists, but have a 20% longer swing time and thus less potential to follow up hits. When the Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B., however, he is guaranteed Critical hits for the next 5 seconds and can kill additional enemies with the weapon to refresh the boost's duration. This boost affects other weapons, allowing the Heavy to switch to other weapons such as the Shotgun to deal further damage at the cost of losing boost time through the switch animation.

The Killing Gloves of Boxing are automatically given to any player who obtains 22 Heavy achievements.

Damage and function times

Damage and function times Damage type Melee Ranged or Melee damage? Melee Damage Base damage 100% 65 Critical 195 Mini-crit 88 Function times Attack interval 0.96 s Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Crafting

Blueprint

As a crafting ingredient

Strange variant





Related achievements

Borscht Belt

Kill 10 Heavies with The K.G.B. Communist Mani-Fisto

Kill an enemy with a critical punch.

Blunt Trauma

Assist in punching 2 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Heavy.

Unused content

In the .gcf files, there is a scrapped weapon mechanic which was intended for the K.G.B. With it, every kill would earn the Heavy, and his surrounding allies, 50 health regenerated and an additional 10% to their critical hit chances. The downside was that the Heavy taunted after each and every successful K.G.B. kill.

Bugs

The Heavy achievement Supreme Soviet counts the critical boosts received by killed enemies with this weapon.

Trivia

K.G.B. is the acronym for the Soviet security agency, secret police and intelligence agency Komityét Gosudárstvennoy Bezopásnosti, (Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности, Committee for State Security), the foreign intelligence agency of the USSR, which was disbanded in 1991 following the USSR's dissolution that year.

The K.G.B.'s taunt is an homage to Mr. Sandman's warm-up technique from Punch Out!!.

Gallery

RED first-person view.

BLU first-person view.