Robot Variants

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Across Valve & Community Mann Vs Machine missions are variants of robots that deviate from normal stats of the humanoid mercenaries, they behave differently and usually provide an extra layer of challenge for the players to face.

Verity is the spice of life, but it is highly recommended to maintain a fair and fun experience, overwhelming players with many powerful variants of robots at once could lead to fatigue for most, and some eventually rage quit if failing over and over again.

Official Variants

Variants seen in Valve's population files and/or missions.

Armored

Colloquially named by the community after the "Armored Giant Sandman Scout", these robots usually have more Health and are larger then standard variants but still smaller than Giants, and usually will have unique roles and combat styles.

Unofficially this might allude Gigantism for robots provides better cognitive capabilities, combat prowess, etc.

Name	Template/Origins	Description	Stats
Shortstop Scout	T_TFBot_Scout_Shortstop	A stronger combat scout designed for medium-long range combat	Health 650 (Class HP + 525) head scale 0.7 move speed bonus 1.25 Scale 1.4
Steel Gauntlet	T_TFBot_Heavyweapons_Fist	Simplistic damage sponge. Contains a commented out cut Attribute "DefensiveBuffHigh" that would've provided passive damage reduction replacing high health	Health 900 (Class HP + 300) Scale 1.5
Steel Gauntlet Pusher	T_TFBot_Heavy_IronFist_Airblast	Similar to the Steel Gauntlet Heavy-Bot, but when it successfully hits the victim it pushes them away like the Pyro's airblast	damage bonus 1.5 Health 900 (Class HP + 300) Scale 1.5
Samurai Demo	T_TFBot_Demoman_Samurai	Jumps high at 10 second intervals, then will charge towards the nearest victim after it hits peak jump height	charge time increased 2 charge recharge rate increased 7 damage bonus 1.5 Health 600 (Class HP + 425) increased jump height 2.3 Scale 1.3
Bowman Rapid Fire	T_TFBot_Sniper_Huntsman_Spammer	Unused by Valve, quickly shoots its arrows at victims	fire rate bonus 0.6 Health 1200 (Class HP + 1075) head scale 0.7 move speed bonus 0.85 Scale 1.5

Gatebots

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Used for Gateway Mode maps that utilize these robots to capture control points for the robots.

They appear as standard robots and giants, they differentiate by having yellow glowing eyes and headwear.

Name	Template/Origins	Description	Stats

Giants

These robots usually have thousands of Health and larger than standard robots (Defined by the "tf_mvm_miniboss_scale" command, default is 1.75), acting as spearheads to break through defenses or force player priority.

They have smaller heads to make headshots harder to achieve, have 25% resistance to backstabs, and slow down when sapped instead of being stunned like standard robots.

Note: Below shows the general/average values across the giant robots, if you wish to learn the specifics check out the Wiki page

Name	Description	Stats
Giant Scout-Bots	Fastest giants types, but can be slowed down with Mad Milk upgrades	airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.7 damage force reduction 0.7 Health 1200-3000
Giant Soldier-Bots	Punishing if unable to dodge/reflect it's projectiles	airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.4 damage force reduction 0.4 Health 3800 - 4200 move speed bonus 0.5
Giant Pyro-Bots	Punishing if you get too close to them, usually harmless at long ranges	airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.6 damage force reduction 0.6 Health 3000 move speed bonus 0.35 - 0.5
Giant Demo-Bots	Punishing if unable to dodge/reflect it's projectiles	airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.4 - 0.5 damage force reduction 0 - 0.5 Health 3000 - 3300 move speed bonus 0.5
Giant Heavy-Bots	Punishing if unable to stay out of sight or corner peek, usually has slower reaction times	airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.3 damage force reduction 0.3 Health 5000 MaxVisionRange 1200 - Infinite move speed bonus 0.35 - 0.7
Giant Medic-Bots	Harmless by itself, but dangerous for healing it's ally or provide temporary buffs like human Medics	airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.6 damage force reduction 0.6 Health 4500 move speed bonus 0.5

Giant Chiefs

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These robots are similar to Giants, but have much more Health acting as bosses all players much fight, which is why they usually spawn alone or with standard robots for game balancing.

They have smaller heads to make headshots harder to achieve, have 25% resistance to backstabs, and slow down when sapped instead of being stunned like standard robots.

Note: If you wish to learn the specifics check out the Wiki page

Name	Template/Origins	Description	Stats
Giant Heavy	T_TFBot_Chief_Heavyweapons_HealOnKill	A dangerous projectile-destroyer that regains 8000 Health when killing a player!	airblast vertical vulnerability multiplier 0.1 airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.4 Health 70000 damage bonus 1.2 damage force reduction 0.3 MaxVisionRange 1600 move speed bonus 0.4 Scale 1.8
Giant Rapid Fire Demo Chief	T_TFBot_Giant_Demo_Spammer_Reload_Chief	A dangerous 11 round projectile shooter	airblast vertical vulnerability multiplier 0.1 airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.4 Health 60000 damage force reduction 0.4 move speed bonus 0.5 Scale 1.9
Captain Punch	T_TFBot_Chief_Gauntlet	Dangerous at close range and has 40% resistance to ranged attacks, meaning in theory it's Effective Health is 100000!	airblast vertical vulnerability multiplier 0.1 airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.3 Health 60000 health regen 250 damage force reduction 0.3 move speed bonus 0.4 Scale 1.9
Chief Tavish	T_TFBot_Chief_Tavish	Deadly at close range, and able to charge towards targets	airblast vertical vulnerability multiplier 0.1 airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.3 Health 55000 health regen 500 damage force reduction 0.3 move speed bonus 0.4 Scale 1.9
Chief Pyro	T_TFBot_Chief_Pyro	Deadly at close range, can airblast projectiles	airblast pushback scale 2.0 airblast vertical vulnerability multiplier 0.1 airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.3 damage bonus 5 Health 55000 health regen 500 damage force reduction 0.3 move speed bonus 0.4 Scale 1.9
Sergeant Crits	T_TFBot_Chief_Soldier	Deadly rapid 11 round critical hit projectile shooter	airblast vertical vulnerability multiplier 0.1 airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.4 damage bonus 1.5 Health 60000 health regen 250 damage force reduction 0.4 move speed bonus 0.5 Scale 1.9
Major Crits	T_TFBot_Chief_Soldier_SlowCrit	Unused by Valve, would've been similar to "Sir Nukesalot" but for the Soldier	airblast vertical vulnerability multiplier 0.1 airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.4 damage bonus 1.5 Health 60000 health regen 250 damage force reduction 0.4 move speed bonus 0.5 Scale 1.9
Chief Blast Soldier	T_TFBot_Chief_Soldier_RocketPush	Deadly burst fire shooter that pushes victims away on hit like the Pyro's airblast	airblast vertical vulnerability multiplier 0.1 airblast vulnerability multiplier 0.4 Health 60000 damage force reduction 0.4 move speed bonus 0.5 Scale 1.8