The Hammer is a melee weapon appearing in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, and due to appear in Grand Theft Auto VI.
The weapon was intended to appear in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories but was cut during the development of both titles.
Design
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
The Hammer in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has a red/black handle with a grey head. Tommy Vercetti will wield and use it in a similar manner to the Baseball Bat and the Nightstick.
Grand Theft Auto V and Online
The Hammer reappears in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online with a wooden handle and a black head. Aside from these details, the Hammer remains identical to the 3D Universe iteration.
The weapon is used in a similar way to most club-type weapons like the Crowbar, being wielded with a single hand.
Performance
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
The Hammer is the worst weapon in its class, being unable to knock the enemy down with a single hit unlike most other blunt weapons, while also knocking them out of its rather short range. It is, however, cheap, readily available and lightweight, although outclassed by the Screwdriver in every sense except for the fact it is able to smash cars.
GTA Vice City Overview
| Damage | Fire Rate [?][?]In the files, each value equals a millisecond | Range (m / ft) |
Ammo Specifications/ Capacity |
Reload Mechanism | Reload Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 250 | 1.5 / 4.9 | 1000 | N/A | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | Cannot be determined | N/A | N/A | 0.1 second |
Grand Theft Auto V and Online
The Hammer is fairly powerful, being comparable to the Crowbar, but it can be swung much faster and the longer range allows the player (if timed right) to hit a sprinting person, which makes it useful in a number of scenarios. If swung from the correct range, the Hammer may connect with the victim's face, knocking them out instantly or even killing them. It is also capable of denting and removing parts of vehicles, and, if swung enough times, has the ability to damage a vehicle to the point of it igniting.
Being a single-handed weapon, it can be used while on a motorcycle, albeit only in Grand Theft Auto Online.
GTA V and Online Overview
| Damage (per shot) [?][?]GTA V PED HEALTH POINTS: Strong: 200 ; Average: 175 ; Weak: 150 ; Animal: 150 ; Armour: 200 ; Gull: 10 ; Fish: 10 ; Rat: 10 ; Shark: 200 |
Fire Rate [?][?]In the files, the millisecond is the thousandth number (0.001) | Range (m / ft) [?][?]Also measured in-game through GPS waypoint (GTA V) or other players in the map menu (GTA Online) |
Ammo Specifications/ Capacity |
Reload Mechanism | Reload Speed [?][?]In the files, the millisecond is the thousandth number (0.001) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0 | 1.6 / 5.2 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 |
Damage | 10% 10% | |||
| Fire Rate/Speed | 15% 15% | ||||
| Accuracy | |||||
| Range | 1% 1% | ||||
| Clip Size | |||||
Gallery
In-game model
HUD icon
First Person View
Locations
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
The Hammer, along with the Screwdriver and the MP5, are the only weapons that do not have a spawn point in the city and have to be purchased.
- Washington Beach, Vice Beach – Available to buy from Bunch of Tools for $20.
- North Point Mall, Vice Point, Vice Beach – Available to buy from Tooled Up for $20.
- Little Havana, Vice City Mainland – Available to buy from Screw This after completion of Phnom Penh '86 for $20.
- Dropped by a worker at the start of Jury Fury, and used by a worker in the yard during The Fastest Boat.
Grand Theft Auto V
- An unusable Hammer can be found in Maintenance Tunnel.
- Original version
- Available in Ammu-Nation for free if the player has the Special/Collector's Edition.
- Enhanced Version
- The Hammer is available for $500 in Ammu-Nation, after the mission Repossession.
- Returning Special/Collector's edition players will not have to pay for it.
Grand Theft Auto Online
- The Hammer is available for $500 in Ammu-Nation regardless of rank.
- Returning Special/Collector's edition players will not have to pay for it.
- In the mission First Dose 2 - Designated Driver, the player can pick up the Hammer from the corpse of one of the two workers who are not far from the Packer parked (if it spawns) on the east side of Terminal.
Beta Content
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The Hammer was intended to return in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and had three defined spawn points on the San Andreas map at some point in development, which are mentioned in the developer notes in the uncompiled initial.sc script file accidentally left in the files for The Definitive Edition:
CREATE_PICKUP_WITH_AMMO MOLOTOV PICKUP_ON_STREET_SLOW 10 2197.0 -2475.0 14.0 pickup_weapon[61] // - Hammer //Ocean docks, under industrial looking building
CREATE_PICKUP_WITH_AMMO GRENADE PICKUP_ON_STREET_SLOW 20 2441.0 -1013.0 54.0 pickup_weapon[67] // - Hammer//in yard of Las Colinas shack
CREATE_PICKUP chnsaw PICKUP_ON_STREET_SLOW -2083.0 298.0 42.0 pickup_weapon[89] // - Hammer //Unfinished roadway in King's
While the model itself is no longer found in the files, the texture image used for the Hammer is still present in the gun_melee texture image shared between multiple melee weapons, also reused from GTA Vice City.
Spawn point in Ocean Docks, Los Santos, replaced with Molotov Cocktails (Reproduction using the GTA Vice City model).
Spawn point in Las Colinas, Los Santos, replaced with Grenades (Reproduction using the GTA Vice City model).
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
The Hammer was intended to return in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, reusing the same model from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, although using the textures from the Hand Axe. As there is no HUD icon available in its texture container, this is likely a very early removed weapon.
Leftovers can be found in Lucid Games' mobile port of the game, which uses an earlier version of the GTA3.IMG file.
The Hammer model. [1]
Trivia
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- The appearance of the Hammer seems to be inspired by the hammers found on several artworks for the Pink Floyd album The Wall.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- The Hammer is listed alongside other intentionally disabled GTA Vice City items on the
default.ide. The weapon was not planned to make a return whatsoever.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- A few models from the PlayStation 2 version of GTA Vice City, including the Hammer, the Ruger, the Tear Gas and the MP5, are left unused in the files for Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Grand Theft Auto IV
- The Hammer also appears as a pedestrian prop for construction worker animations in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Grand Theft Auto Online
- If the Hammer is picked up, it will be stored in the player's inventory permanently.
References
- ↑
\GTA3.IMG\hammer.mdl(Mobile version)