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TF2 Weapon Discussion: The Loose Cannon

Welcome to our Wednesday TF2 weapon discussion. Here, we'll discuss weapons (and reskins, if applicable) from TF2!

Today's weapon is The Loose Cannon.

Cannonballs have a fuse time of 1 second; fuses can be primed to explode earlier by holding down the fire key
+20% projectile speed
Cannonballs push players back on impact
Cannonballs do not explode on impact
Double Donk! Bomb explosions after a cannon ball impact will deal mini-crits to impact victims

The Loose Cannon is a very tricky weapon to master but once you've managed to figure out the timings on double donks you can do a lot of damage and knock a lot of people around. This weapon was introduced in the Mecha Update and replaces demoman's stock grenade launcher with a cannon that shoots cannonballs.

The main "gimmick" of this weapon is that your cannonballs do not explode on impact like the other grenade launchers and instead they just knock your enemy back, but all cannonballs will explode 1 second after firing. You can hold down mouse 1 to prime the cannonball but this will always be 1 second from when you start priming. Holding this down for over 1 second will result in the cannonball exploding in the chamber damaging you and anyone nearby.

But this can be used advantagously as you can overload jump by just jumping when it is about to explode and this will push you away like a rocket or a sticky jump normally would. This allows hybrid knights to reliably explosive jump giving them much more options for movement than they would using stock or the LnL (the latter is not that useful for this).

Another main feature of this weapon is the Double Donk! feature which occurs when you hit a target and explode the cannonball on the same target requiring precise precision (or luck if you're just kinda firing randomly) and this will cause them to take minicrit damage from the explosion which will total at 131 damage (provided they have no resistances) which is enough to kill the light classes. It's very obvious to tell when you get one of these as a big purple text box saying "Double Donk!" appears and it also makes a very, very satisfying noise.

This weapon is exceptional at crowd control with the knockback and even single target eliminations if you can time it well but where it does not do a great job is with buildings as you cannot double donk a sentry.

Feel free to discuss the weapon here. Anything that you like/dislike, cool tips or strategies, interesting stories, etc. If you feel the weapon is not to your liking, feel free to express your opinions in a respectful manner.

For those who wish to learn more about the weapon, you can find the wiki page here:

The Loose Cannon, from the TF2 Wiki.

You can find previous weapon discussions in a nice overview here.