Instigator
| “ | A super-gun for a super-soldier. Tremendous blasts, high precision, and a decent fire speed. You can also get a portable version. | ” |
—Weapon description in the Gallery | ||
The Instigator is a Heavy weapon introduced in the 15.9.0 update. It is part of the Super Soldier Event Set that includes: Storm, Overseer, and Instigator.
Description
It is a blue-gray pistol-like weapon that shoots a toxic mine with area damage and looping shot. This weapon has a slow fire rate, low capacity, and average mobility.
Appearance
It is mostly a blue-gray weapon with black and white details. It features a scope on the top but it is unusable.
Performance
The player holds this gun from its handle with one hand, similarly to a pistol. This weapon shoots a mine that emits Poison. The projectiles also have Looping Shot, so that means the range of the mine is limited. Moreover, it also has Area Damage, so it has a blast radius when the mine explodes.
It reloads after every shot. It is reloaded by opening the storer of the mine, putting a mine, then closing the storer.
It has Fixed Delay. This means that once the player switches from any weapon to this weapon, the Instigator will always have a pull-up delay lasting around half of a second.
Strategy
Tips
- Use this gun in a small area (such as Pool Party (PG3D) or Silent School) to continuously kill opponents using the toxic mines.
- Spam this weapon, and you will climb to the top in no time.
- Take note that it cannot be used for easy way out purposes.
- Use it only in close range, since its range is limited and use it as a last-resort weapon or use it when the opponent has low health.
- Try collecting ammunition for this weapon often, since it can easily run out of ammunition.
Counters
- Stay away from the user of the weapon and fire area damage weapons such as Big Buddy (PG3D) or Adamant Bomber.
- If in small narrow hallways such as in Silent School, the Ghost Lantern's projectile hitbox will be big enough to counter Instigator spammers.
- Avoid narrow hallways at all costs, as the Toxic Mine will kill you.
Skins
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Recommended Maps
Equipment Setups
Use this weapon with guns like the Icicle Minigun (PG3D) or any gun with the Slows the Target effect, so that the Poison mines will do more damage. It is also recommended to carry an 85 mobility such as Dark Force Saber or Katana for evasion.
Changelog
- Initial release.
- Damage increased, now able to one-shot kill.
- Damage decreased, now is a three-shot kill.
- Damage increased by 23%.
- It returned in the Survivor's lottery.
- Damage increased by 64.86%.
- Rocket speed increased by 40%.
- Damage increased by 18.03%.
- Capacity supply increased 10 to 12.
- Rocket speed increased by 68%.
- Damage increased by 27%
- Damage decreased by 8%
- Rocket speed decreased by 8%
- It received a skin.
Trivia
- It is based on the third generation Metal Storm 3GL.
- It shares the exact firing sound of the Demoman.
- One of its skins, Asimov, is based of a Counter Strike weapon skin, spelt "Asiimov".
- Despite the skin's theme being the same as the 'Asiimov' skin from Counter Strike: Global Offensive, the name is misspelled, assuming the developers were to mirror the Asiimov skin and name.
- It cannot be used in the Block Crash.
