Sorry for doing the lame "guess what festive stranges" thing, but I wanted this written down somewhere so I could see how many (if any) I get correct. Every year, I always spend too much time thinking about what strange festives we'll see.
The existing ones we have:
Scout - 2 primaries, 2 melees
Soldier - 2 primaries, 1 secondary
Pyro - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Demo - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Heavy - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Engineer - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Medic - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Sniper - 2 primaries, 1 secondary
Spy - 1 primary, 1 melee, 1 PDA
Based on those slots, I'd expect the following:
Scout - secondary
Soldier - melee
Pyro - primary
Demo - primary or secondary
Heavy - primary
Engineer - primary
Medic - secondary
Spy - primary or melee
This does assume that they'd want to more or less evenly distribute primary/secondary/melee festives.
Scout recently got a Mad Milk in the form of Mutated Milk, so I'd expect one of the pistol variants or the Flying Guilotine.
Soldier has no melees, so I'm confident they'll fix that this year. Either Escape Plan or Displinary Action. Though they could give us a loser weapon in the form of a festive default shovel.
Pyro is evenly distributed, but since most classes get more primaries than other slots, I'd say Degreaser or Backburner.
Demo is also evenly distibuted, but both stickies and pills can be considered main weapons for him. I'd say Loose Cannon or Loch'n'Load.
Heavy's similar to above. Lot of primary miniguns to pick from, but I think either the Tomislav or the Huo-Long Heater.
I don't really see them doing a multiclass shotgun (as much as I'd love that), so for Engineer, I feel like Rescue Ranger or Widowmaker are the best bets.
Medic's main focus is healing, so if it's not a medigun, I'd be surprised. Kritzkreig seems unlikely due to the existing strange one, so I'd say Quick Fix or Vaccinator.
Sniper also is overdue for a melee. I'm guessing stock Kukri or Bushwacka.
Spy is a bit of a wildcard. Backstabbing is of course his focus, but the only reasonable choice would be Your Eternal Reward or Kunai (Spycicle is already effectively a "festive"). Stock Revolver or Enforcer are also strong possibilities. All things being equal, I think they'd default to stock over unlocks in this case.
Overall, I also feel they're less likely to pick multi-class weapons over single class ones, so shotguns and pistols don't feel likely to me.
So in summary, my picks for Festives 2014:
The existing ones we have:
Scout - 2 primaries, 2 melees
Soldier - 2 primaries, 1 secondary
Pyro - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Demo - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Heavy - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Engineer - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Medic - 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 melee
Sniper - 2 primaries, 1 secondary
Spy - 1 primary, 1 melee, 1 PDA
Based on those slots, I'd expect the following:
Scout - secondary
Soldier - melee
Pyro - primary
Demo - primary or secondary
Heavy - primary
Engineer - primary
Medic - secondary
Spy - primary or melee
This does assume that they'd want to more or less evenly distribute primary/secondary/melee festives.
Scout recently got a Mad Milk in the form of Mutated Milk, so I'd expect one of the pistol variants or the Flying Guilotine.
Soldier has no melees, so I'm confident they'll fix that this year. Either Escape Plan or Displinary Action. Though they could give us a loser weapon in the form of a festive default shovel.
Pyro is evenly distributed, but since most classes get more primaries than other slots, I'd say Degreaser or Backburner.
Demo is also evenly distibuted, but both stickies and pills can be considered main weapons for him. I'd say Loose Cannon or Loch'n'Load.
Heavy's similar to above. Lot of primary miniguns to pick from, but I think either the Tomislav or the Huo-Long Heater.
I don't really see them doing a multiclass shotgun (as much as I'd love that), so for Engineer, I feel like Rescue Ranger or Widowmaker are the best bets.
Medic's main focus is healing, so if it's not a medigun, I'd be surprised. Kritzkreig seems unlikely due to the existing strange one, so I'd say Quick Fix or Vaccinator.
Sniper also is overdue for a melee. I'm guessing stock Kukri or Bushwacka.
Spy is a bit of a wildcard. Backstabbing is of course his focus, but the only reasonable choice would be Your Eternal Reward or Kunai (Spycicle is already effectively a "festive"). Stock Revolver or Enforcer are also strong possibilities. All things being equal, I think they'd default to stock over unlocks in this case.
Overall, I also feel they're less likely to pick multi-class weapons over single class ones, so shotguns and pistols don't feel likely to me.
So in summary, my picks for Festives 2014:
- Scout - Flying Guilotine
- Soldier - Escape Plan
- Pyro - Degreaser
- Demo - Loose Cannon
- Heavy - Tomislav
- Engineer - Rescue Ranger
- Medic - Quick Fix
- Sniper - Kukri
- Spy - Revolver
