Crafting so far

[Dr. KillPatient]

Haven't seen any new ones. I wonder if you can craft two hats together plus a class token and get a hat of that class...

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

I thought all the "rebuild class token" and "rebuild slot token" recipes were the new ones.

 

[J4CK8]

I thought all the "rebuild class token" and "rebuild slot token" recipes were the new ones.

Rebuild...?

I kind of wasted a scrap metal, a slot token and a spy token to get a dead ringer...no idea why I did that

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

The rebuild recipes are:
One class A token + one weapon from class B = class B token.
One slot A token + one weapon from slot B = slot B token.

I built a spy token (out of my endless watches) and threw my direct hit at it to get a soldier token, then used that with a slot 2 token and a scrap metal to try and get gunboats. I got the buff banner instead, but that was also new to me, so it's all good.

 

[Terr]

Wait, rebuild class token?

Those look like an awesomely-better way to get "missing" unlocks.

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

Well, definitely better, but still far from awesome. For example, I used four watches to make a spy token, then used those together with one Direct Hit to make a soldier token; that and a secondary token and a scrap metal gave me the buff banner (I wanted gunboats).

So, 12 weapons to get one. Crafting is still incredibly wasteful.

 

[Fraz]

just 105 more weapons to smelt until my demoman hat...

(I'm willing to make sacrifices, like making a class token for sniper, then rebuilding that with my Scottish Resistance so I have my demo token ready, or making all my soldier unlocks into scrap metal, then finding the gunboats)

 

[Vander]

Here is an interesting take on how to fix crafting: http://www.firstpersonshouter.com/?p=656

 

[Dr. KillPatient]

You know what, that's a really great idea. Someone should e-mail that page to Valve and see what they think about it. They're quite prone to listening to the community so I'd say we may have a fair chance =p

 

[littleedge]

Pentadact has also spoke of Crafting and TF2 Updates in general. Here's the two links: http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-12-23-team-fortress-2-updates-in-perspective http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-12-24-whats-wrong-with-team-fortress-2s-unlocks

 

[Trotim]

Guys, you can now combine three items used by the same class to produce 1 Scrap Metal. Even things like A + A + B work.

Sudden surge in metal here I come

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

Indeed, I can confirm that works. And you can now also craft watches; I just crafted 3 DRs, then 2 DRs and a CnD to get two more metal. Now at 10/27 scrap metal.

 

[Nutomic]

Finally, time to get my 5 dead ringers away D:

 

[Pocket]

Crafting is still incredibly wasteful.

I get the feeling crafting in general was created less to give people all the items they wanted and more to give people who had accumulated a ridiculous number of duplicate items a way to get rid of them all and still get some consolation prize in return.

Still, 81 weapons for one hat, or 112 for a class-specific hat, is so over the top it's insane. People don't even have that many slots available, total. Much less the right combination of items.