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Shoot, son, y'all slow as molasses. Klikk for å lytte — The Engineer

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Slowdown, or slow for short, is a gameplay mechanic that decreases the speed of a player for a set amount of time. This effect can be applied to a player when under attack by certain weapons or as a penalty for using a certain item. In addition, players' movement speed is naturally slowed to 90% of their base speed while running backwards and to 33% of base speed while crouching (see Classes for specifics on how much each class is slowed).

The slowdown effect has no falloff distance; players hit from any distance are always slowed down by at least a small amount.

Weapon effect

List of slowdown-inflicting weapons
Scout	Nærvåpen		The Sandman's secondary fire launches a baseball that can slowdown the target for several seconds. The target will be slowed down for the duration of the effect based on distance.
		Jon Blund
Heavy	Primært		On Hit: 100% chance to slow target. Every bullet that hits the target will slow them to approximately 113 Hammer units per second. Differences in class or normal running speed does not change this figure. The slowdown effect is reduced based upon the target's distance (the further the target, the less they will be slowed down). It is currently unknown as to how much speed is reduced over what distance. Disguised Spies will not be affected by slowdown from this weapon.
		Natascha
Note		Includes Festive, Botkiller and Australium variants.

Weapon penalty

List of slowdown penalty weapons
Scout	Primært			Movement speed is reduced to 120% while equipped in the loadout. Speed increases as up to 99 damage is done without air jumping or getting damaged.
		Barneansiktets bankraner
	Sekundær			Applies a slowdown effect for 5 seconds to the player after phasing wears off, based on the amount of damage they absorbed. Speed decreased by -25% at low damage, to -50% at 200+ damage.
		Bonk! Atomenergi
Soldier	Primært			Movement speed reduced to 27% while charging.
		Ku-kvester 5000
Demoman	Nærvåpen			Movement speed reduced to 79% while deployed.
		Skottens skallekløyver
Heavy	Primært			Movement speed is reduced to 37% while spun up.
		Mitraljøse	Jernteppe
		Natascha	Tomislav
		Ilddrake
				Movement speed is reduced to 14.66% while spun up.
		Messingbeist
Engineer	Bygning			Movement speed is reduced to 90% while hauling a building.
		Hauling
Sniper	Primært			Movement speed is reduced to 27% while zoomed in with a scope.
		Snikskytterrifle	AWPetitt
		Machina	Stjerneskudd
		Basarkupp	Sengevæter
		Leiemorderens lykketreff
				Movement speed is reduced to 45% while an arrow is drawn.
		Jeger	Trimmet trinsebue
				Movement speed is reduced to 27% while charging.
		Klassiker
Spy	PDA			Movement speed is reduced if disguised as a class slower than the Spy: 100% if disguised as a Pyro, Engineer, or Sniper 93% if disguised as a Demoman 80% if disguised as a Soldier 77% if disguised as a Heavy
		Forkledningssett
Note		Includes Festive, Botkiller, and Australium variants.

Environmental slowdowns

List of environmental slowdowns
Ghost Horseless Headless Horsemann		On certain Halloween maps, one or more ghosts occasionally haunt certain areas of the map. Any players who get near or come into contact with these ghosts are frightened and have their movement speed reduced in addition to being unable to fire any weapons, much like when stunned. The Horseless Headless Horsemann can scream and inflict a similar effect on all players nearby. On certain Halloween maps, players change to ghosts when they die in the end-round Underworld. Ghost players do not scare other players as non-player ghosts do.
	Scared

Bugs

• It is possible to bypass movement slowdowns with specific movement inputs.

See also

• Stun