Crafting so far

Jack Riguel

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Jul 19, 2009
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Messed around with the 2 hats = 1 random hat thing earlier.

Put a Trophy Belt and a Football Helmet in and got a Professional's Panama.
Put the Panama and Mining Light in and got a Football Helmet.

So yea, got rid of a Mining Light to get a hat that I had before I even started. Oh well, still have a Tyrant's Helm that I got last night during the spam of items.

Sounds like me. Two sniper bandanas made a medic's mirror. A mirror and a headless sniper made (gasp!) another mirror. I got lucky with the last sniper bandana and it turned into the gregory bonnet. Now I only have two hats left that I really want.
 

Flying Chicken

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Nov 26, 2009
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Me and Psy are in agreement there, neither of us ever get drops. :[.
 

Icarus

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Crafting is such a lie. It just gives you the illusion of having any more control over your items as the random drop system.
 

grazr

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Two hats (barring Gibus and possibly other 'special' hats) gets you a random hat.

I turned my bonk helm and hatless scout into a tyrant's helm.

Best. Day. Ever.

I got tyrant's helm last night from random drop :O
 

Jack Riguel

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Jul 19, 2009
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Crafting is such a lie. It just gives you the illusion of having any more control over your items as the random drop system.

True. However the Two unwanted hats ---> New Random hat makes the entire thing worthwhile. It's a gamble, but if you really don't much care for the hats... you've got nothing to lose.
 

Flying Chicken

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Nov 26, 2009
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True. However the Two unwanted hats ---> New Random hat makes the entire thing worthwhile. It's a gamble, but if you really don't much care for the hats... you've got nothing to lose.

But, it's useless if you've never gotten a real hat in your entire 500-600 hours of playing TF2.
 
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I'd like to get (a) new demoman items, (b) engineer hat. I can't craft either, as I haven't got 4 demoman unlocks to craft a demo class token, and no engineer unlocks exist yet, so you can't craft engineer items. I can only do the random hat and hope it's an engineer one.

The crafting is poorly thought out.
 

Tapp

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Jan 26, 2009
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I'm starting to wish I had 81 useless items to smelt. Right now crafting seems as useless as ever. Oh well, I guess I'll just play the game and forget about my hat fantasies.
 

Penguin

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In other news, I smelted 3 KGBs and got scrap metal.

I guess his fists really were made of steel.
 

gamemaster1996

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Sep 30, 2009
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Special weapons do not do anything. Damn i have so many dead ringers.
 

J4CK8

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Special weapons do not do anything. Damn i have so many dead ringers.

You can use them along with the ambasador and Cloak and DAggers. I crafted 4 of my 5 DR's and 3 of my 4 C+D's plus 1 of my 2 Ambasadors :)
 

Terr

Cranky Coder
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Jul 31, 2009
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IMO the best short-term fix they could do is to alter the "Class Token" recipe to take only two or three items from that class instead of four.

That way it's much easier to craft "that one missing unlock".
 

Penguin

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^

A thousand times that.
 

Nineaxis

Quack Doctor
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Or fix it so two gunboats and two buff banners do count as four soldier weapons.





Grph.
 

Masakari

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May 14, 2008
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After playing hundreds of hours without a hat, I finally managed to get 81 items and decided to gamble to get a hat. The result? Fancy Fedora.

While I don't play spy at all, at least it'll go well with the two Camera Beards I got on Thursday. :p
 

KaiserFate

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Dec 9, 2009
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It's amazing how many items you think you have only to find that after combining it into metal, you really didn't have a lot at all.
Amusingly I managed to obtain a pile of scrap metal out of three sandviches. I guess that's all the Soviet Union had to ration back then.
 

Locutus

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Nov 3, 2009
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Any clue what the new recipes are?