Blackjack

For other uses, see Baseball Bat.

WEAPON
Blackjack
The Blackjack in Manhunt.
Appearance(s):	Manhunt Manhunt 2 [CUT]
Weapon class:	Blue
HUD icon
Manhunt

The Blackjack is a blue class weapon in Manhunt and one of many Baseball Bat variants. It was scrapped during the development of Manhunt 2.

Description

The Blackjack, along with the Wooden Baseball Bat, is one of the primary weapons of the Hoods and is the first Blue Class Weapon introduced to the player. Outside of combat, execution, and knocking on walls to produce sound, it has no unique abilities. However...

Because of its length and weight, the player can swing a Blackjack around a corner (whether they're standing or crouching) while pressed against cover to attack an incoming hunter. The move can only be done at the edge of a corner where the player's weapon will be raised up when facing left or held at chest level if facing right, both of which have no effect on gameplay. If the attack successfully lands on a hunter, it will stun them for approximately 3 seconds. Doing this on a low health hunter will knock them to the floor for approx. 5 seconds if they survive the hit. While stunned in the idle or suspicious states, the hunter may be briefly locked on to for a quick execution, but in the alerted state, they cannot be locked on to for executions (the player will simply assume a combat stance instead as if the player were still spotted) until this brief interval after they stand up and recover from the stun before spotting the player if they aren't hiding. The player can only exploit this if they stand away from them in a certain distance.

They are used only in early scenes of the game and during the bonus scene "Time 2 Die".

Executions

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Note: The Blackjack shares execution animations with the Nightstick.

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Type	Execution	Description
Hasty		The player grabs the target's shoulder and turns them towards him, exposing their front side that he can hit the windpipe with the blackjack. This causes the target to choke and slowly fall to their knees as the player kills them by bludgeoning their head thrice.
Violent		The player whips the blackjack down on the target's occiput, forcing them to their knees. The player then strangles them using the blackjack while planting his knee on their back before pulling it back to break their neck.
Gruesome		The player smacks at the target's occiput twice, the second hit forcing them to face him. The player then strangles the target with a guillotine choke before pulling their body up to break their neck.

Appearances

Manhunt

• Doorway Into Hell (Wielded and dropped by most of the Hoods)
• Road to Ruin (Starting weapon, if kept from Doorway Into Hell. Wielded and dropped by most of the Hoods)
• Time 2 Die (Starting weapon. Wielded and dropped by most of the Hoods)

Manhunt 2

• Red Light (Prototype Version 0.01; wielded by the Watchdog in the Velvet Glove shop.)

Gallery

Official Screenshots

Manhunt

Trivia

Unused Blackjack icon in Manhunt 2.

• Blackjack textures can be found inside the Manhunt 2 game files, but was cut before the final release.
  • The PSP 0.01 build features the weapon during Red Light, but the HUD icon is missing (displaying a neon green square), reuses its Manhunt audio, while using the Manhunt 2's nightstick animations.
• In real life, a blackjack is a small and concealable bludgeoning weapon made of wood, rubber, plastic, or leather. It is filled with weights that can be just about anything that may fit in it, from lead fillings to loose change.