what does spinning the barrel do as heavy?

[Summoner_of_snow]

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[Hakenlien]

if you keep it spinning you can shoot immidiately, whereas if you didnt, you would have to spin it up first

[Summoner_of_snow]

ah, thanks guys

[Scally]

Half of all Heavy play involves deciding whether to spin it down in order to move faster. Keeping it spun means you can shoot straight away with full accuracy but you're more vulnerable to Spies & Snipers while moving slower. When firing from spun-down there is a short delay before boolets and a longer delay before reaching full accuracy. It's like tenths of a second but it matters.

[NW/RL]

Let's you shoot immediately instead of waiting for spin-up

[Feya Schastlivaya]

Originally posted by Scally:

Half of all Heavy play involves deciding whether to spin it down in order to move faster. Keeping it spun means you can shoot straight away with full accuracy but you're more vulnerable to Spies & Snipers while moving slower. When firing from spun-down there is a short delay before boolets and a longer delay before reaching full accuracy. It's like tenths of a second but it matters.

you need to have fully revved the minigun for a full second to get max accuracy.
1 sec seems short..but in TF2, time matter a lot

[Trickster]

lets you frag faster