AA-AA

The AA-AA is a weapon in Ravenfield.

## Unlocking

Pre-EA 11, the AA-AA was a secret weapon hidden in the Eclipse Fortress custom map, located on a large flat-topped tower in the centre-bottom of the map. The weapon is now a default part of the player's inventory.

It is a joke/secret weapon introduced in close relation to the Hydra, and therefore shares the red color scheme and icon with that weapon.

## Usage

The "Anti-Air-Automatico-Akimbo" – based on the Automatico Akimbo– fires the same explosive rounds used by the AA turret at a devastating rate, lightly damaging all light-medium armor caught inside their area of effect, and laying waste to infantry by the same hand. It has very high recoil and an untamable scatter, but compensates with very high ammo reserves.

## Strengths

While valuable as an impromptu defense against aircraft, it can also be used to devastating effect against infantry. While the proximity-fuze projectiles will not react to infantry, the deluge of explosives can still be put to great use if the user can find an elevated position from which to detonate the rounds against the ground.

## Weaknesses

The AA-AA can only be used effectively at mid-range. Its extremely low accuracy and high recoil prevents it from reliably hitting enemies behind cover or at awkward terrain angles. The range limit on the AA rounds also prevents the gun from being employed at long range, and the highly unpredictable scatter makes close-range use extremely inadvisable for risk of friendly fire or self-damage.

As an Anti-Air and Anti-Armor device, the AA-AA somehow finds itself awkwardly competing with the AA Turret, once again because of its own lack of accuracy. Despite being able to drown nearby aircraft in flak, it offers no additional options versus fast or distant targets, and finds itself wasting dozens of rounds on what should otherwise be easy shots at midrange. It also cannot damage the Tank and the APC to a satisfactory degree. The result is that this gun with it's comical level of excess, finds itself quite awkwardly suited to a quite a variety of common scenarios.

## Gallery

Firing the AA-AA.Third-person model with the weapon. Note the bugged model lacking a second weapon.Automatico Akimbo Animation SetAnimationsThe AA-AA.Aiming The AA-AA At nothing.The AA-AA's Blast particles.
## Trivia

* Despite being an official weapon, it was at one point made available only on a user-created custom map. The story behind this is a curious one:
	+ The custom map "Eclipse fortress" – still available on the steam workshop – was published by steam user KronaSamu on the 10th of August, 2017. Both the user and map had no prior relation to the AA-AA.
	+ Not long after this, Developer SteelRaven7 took notice of the map, and eventually went about implementing the gun's pickup item into one of the towers. It is not clear whether KronaSamu was made aware of this before hand.
	+ After the guns secret implementation, SteelRaven went about teasing various riddles in the game's official discord channel, ranging from cryptic images of fortresses, towers, eclipses, and the the Sweedish currency Krona. After the better part of a day, the map was found on the steam workshop, and the guns located in their hiding spot.
	+ As is freqently the case whenever SteelRaven would host a riddle-solving session, the AA-AAs may very well have been an excuse for him to test a new function of the game. In this case, it is likely that he was testing methods of adding specific items to custom maps during runtime, without making changes to the map's source file. If true, then this method would later be expanded upon in Haunted Mode.
* The AA-AA's third person model doesn't show the second weapon when used by the player, as bots are not supposed to use the weapon.

 *Italics* | This item is, or was, a Secret Item.