Contract Ordnance

Contract Ordnance is an umbrella term to refer to a number of weapons and items designed for specific gamemodes and events. They first appeared in the Great Wish Fundraiser Streams. Since then, they commonly appear in the hands of admins and are planned to appear in Void & Collect.

Some weapons use a mechanic known as Heat. Heat is generated upon firing a shot, and accumulates while firing. Accumulating enough Heat for weapons that accumulate it causes the weapon to Overheat. Overheating temporarily makes the weapon inert for 4 seconds before removing all Heat. After 5 seconds of not firing the weapon, all Heat accumulated dissipates, setting that weapon's Heat to 0.

In the Great Wish map Collapsed Zone, all weapons that appeared had a random chance of disappearing upon firing to keep loadouts dynamic.

Trivia

 * Every ordnance has flavor text in its descriptions that refer to an unknown person, often performing some vague action.
 * The internal names for every ordnance uses the prefix Swep. This is a reference to Scripted Weapons, a mechanic for creating new weapons in Garry's Mod. The ordnance that appear in the Great Wish used the prefix ZWep to remain separate for their random disappearance mechanic.
 * All rare ordnance lack the "The" prefix found on the common ones.