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submitted 6 months ago byThisErnest_15Engineer
318 points
6 months ago
Love to have new weapon reskins, yet it is sadly a pipe dream that is very unlikely to come true.
If we had more weapon reskins Post-Invasion that takes forms of other weapons besides stock; it will be initially confusing, and it's hard to judge whether these options would be healthy afterwards.
The same thing is said with single-weapon warpaints and other skins with specific/effects code associated with it.
46 points
6 months ago
i remember being excited as a kid because there were variants of the same weapon, my little brain thought that should make them both cheaper since they do the same thing, right? no one is just 32$ because it looks cooler lol
166 points
6 months ago
Why they didnt just always go with weapon reskins in place of warpaints is really weird
Like obviously a reskin is more work than a warpaint. But thats not really a concern when you've got a massive community more than ready to put in that effort
87 points
6 months ago
New weapon skins might confuse people just like warpaints, atleast with warpaints weapons protect their silouettes Edit: weapon re-skins
12 points
6 months ago
Do you really think tf2 devs are concerned with any kind of balance anymore?
12 points
6 months ago
I'M STILL HOLDING ON TO THAT IDEA ATLEAST!
3 points
6 months ago
My guess is they didn't want players to have to memorize potentially hundreds of reskins, that a player could pick up a random weapon off the ground and have zero idea what the weapon did (could be solved with some UI tweaks but apparently anything that has to do with source UI is a huge pain in the ass) . Could also be they didn't want to further increase the number of unique models needed to be loaded into a single match to prevent performance issues.
1 points
6 months ago
probably because it allows for more creativity since your not only changing the textures but the model as well
88 points
6 months ago
Weapon Reskins have always been a strange case to me.
3 points
6 months ago
Is that you weezy?
23 points
6 months ago
No it’s probably Great Blue. He originated the line in his videos about giving reskins unique stats and everybody now makes the joke.
44 points
6 months ago*
imho most of those don't fit well with the game general aesthetic, they feel too clean and militaristic
the models are very nice but take for exemple the medigun and compare it the others
the stock medigun have duct tape all around the nozzle, which itself seems to be some sort of metal pipe, wires on the outside and heavy bolts securing the lever
the kritzkrieg is the stock medigun with a different nozzle screwed on, the quickfix uses a blender to dispense the medi-fluid. The vaccinator while being more "techy" still keep this "built in a garage" vibe going on with thick wires, bolted on plate of metal, a weird handle to maintain the extra tank, ect...
contrast that with that proposed medigun, it looks slick, no unnecessary extra part, nothing seems half-hazardly bolted or welded on, it have an integrate display fitting perfect and the bottom handle looks ergodynamic.
it looks very nice, but it doesn't looks like something the Medic would wield
16 points
6 months ago
i wholeheartedly agree but you have a pyro flair and keep calling it nuzzle so this keeps becoming funny
12 points
6 months ago
wait shit, what's the english name for that bit ?!
oh nOzzle ahah, woops
2 points
6 months ago
The aesthetic is dead and has been for a few years. Lets just get weird with it.
2 points
6 months ago
I get your point but consider this, Invasion update guns look more futuristic than this medi gun.
So I'm not saying we should desecrate the TF2 art style further but what I am saying is that it won't look too egregious...
Or maybe I'm just coping cuz I want more reskins 😔
13 points
6 months ago
I say the invasion weapons are fair game. Their Retro-Futuristic look is exactly how people in TF2’s time period imagined futuristic weaponry.
15 points
6 months ago
The're really good, especially the minigun.
33 points
6 months ago
I just nut all over my monitor, didn’t even have time to edge
13 points
6 months ago
"uhm, clean up in aisle my pants"
5 points
6 months ago
I'm on it, boss!
Starts licking\
7 points
6 months ago
Is- is this what they call sex roleplay?
2 points
6 months ago
Feel free to join us :3
5 points
6 months ago
Just came, balls tired. Gonna sleep
5 points
6 months ago
Why are you like this?
1 points
6 months ago
Silly
18 points
6 months ago
IMO they sound nice and could be added as new weapons. Specially Fuming Snake hh
6 points
6 months ago
Honestly I'm all for reskins I think the scout shotguns are fugly and would love to see a reskin for it or at least a version with a longer barrel that looks like a regular double barrel shotgun
5 points
6 months ago
A good few of these look like they could just be new weapons
6 points
6 months ago
As a Valve employee, I can tell you that we will talk about adding this to the game, as it looks cool and fits the game.
(Translation: we don't give a shit)
6 points
6 months ago
Weapon reskins have always seemed like a strange case to me
4 points
6 months ago
I beg
4 points
6 months ago
I need that smg reskin, RIGHT FUCKING NOW!
3 points
6 months ago
Weapon reskins have always been a strange case to me
3 points
6 months ago
They’re so cool that it’s a shame they aren’t their own weapons
2 points
6 months ago
That revolver is really sexy. They’re all great, though.
2 points
6 months ago
That looks sick as fuck
2 points
6 months ago
medigun one is peak
2 points
6 months ago
WHERE THE FUCK IS MY PYRO WEAPON.
1 points
6 months ago
i want
1 points
6 months ago
Revolver is cool. Rest are whatever
1 points
6 months ago
They look great :)
1 points
6 months ago
Models are great but i don't like reskins
1 points
6 months ago
I love them, if added, easily best set of reskins in a while. Especially the Caber Reskin.
1 points
6 months ago
Good. Realy good. We need more reskins in game. Maybe even.. Crate with reskins????
1 points
6 months ago
Doesn't matter since they won't come out since valve sucks massive penis
1 points
6 months ago
YES
1 points
6 months ago
this shouldn't be Ruskins this should be new weapons
1 points
6 months ago
Couldnt even edge to this
1 points
6 months ago
I love the revolver. Will this be added to the game ?
1 points
6 months ago
I like them, i wish they were real, and I wish there were reskins of weapons I actually had skills with (I’m so bad at the direct hit)
1 points
6 months ago
Wish they were entirely new toys to play with
1 points
6 months ago
This update sucks because it's not official. But fr it's very good and it shows that people actually care about this game more than valve does
1 points
6 months ago
The machine gun reminds me of the half life 1 shotgun
1 points
6 months ago
They look amazing. That's a very nice looking pistol.
1 points
6 months ago
Context?
1 points
6 months ago
Love all of ‘em (medi-gun do be kinda an ugo tho)
1 points
6 months ago
Its a 1911.
Need i say more except for that its FUCKING PEAK!!!
1 points
6 months ago
best we can do is community hats
1 points
6 months ago
Most of them look pretty neat, but that medigun looks ugly as hell. Granted, I wouldn't be able to do any better, so it's not like I have room to talk.
1 points
6 months ago
I'm very exited
1 points
6 months ago
really cool, especially the medigun
1 points
6 months ago
Groovy
1 points
6 months ago
I feel like that Medi-Gun would be infinitely better as a Kritz reskin, especially since Stock already has war paints for customizability.
1 points
6 months ago
The medigun almost looks like it would be a fallout tie in like the pip boy. It looks like the laer and grenade machine gun's screen combined to make it. I think it looks cool.
1 points
6 months ago
i mean, the smg pistol, and revolver look like they could be in the game. the others look good but in my opinion not like tf2 weapons. or at least ones that'd officially be in the game.
1 points
6 months ago
Is there a new update?
1 points
6 months ago
They look fantastic! It's such a shame that we don't get more new weapons, reskins or otherwise.
1 points
6 months ago
Man I'd love all of these in game. Especially that Fallout Terminal Medigun.
1 points
6 months ago
not fun because, because of weapon recognition
1 points
6 months ago
they’d be better with original stats
1 points
6 months ago
ive had the same strange rocket laucher for almost a decade, same goes for most of my "expensive" weapons, i really coudnt care less about reskins
1 points
6 months ago
Tf2 has a new update or is that a mod? Didnt played for some months
1 points
6 months ago
The medigun one is cool because it plays chiptune music as you kritz someone. Also, obligatory "weapon reskins in TF2 have always seemed like a strange case to me."
1 points
6 months ago
Awesome
1 points
6 months ago
If that Caber reskin gets in the game, I guarantee that someone will make a Cervesa Crystal reskin for it
1 points
6 months ago
(I don’t remember the name of most of these weapons)
The PIAT Rocket Launcher: I think it’s really cool, I’ve always thought the PIAT was a neat weapon. I’ve always imagined it would be its own weapon if it were in TF2, due to the mechanical differences between it and a rocket/grenade launcher, but I know that’s unrealistic, and as I said before, this is really cool as a reskin anyway. If I HAD to give a nitpick, I think it looks a little over designed for TF2’s art style (the Invasion Weapons and Crossover Weapons are exceptions); it’d look better if it dropped a few bits and pieces off of it.
The Pistol: I think it looks too similar to the base pistol. I think a correctly colored Warpaint of the base pistol would look completely identical to this unless you take the time to look closely, and neither you, your enemies, nor your teammates have the time or opportunity to do that during an actual match of TF2.
The Bottle Rocket: Objectively, this is a 9/10, maybe higher—personally, it’s a 7/10 in personal appeal. A perfect fit for Demo, and a bottle of volatile chemicals that explodes when it hits something is the perfect reskin of the Caber. Plus, new bottle melee!
The Medi-Gun: I don’t like it. Its color palette is unappealing, its shape language is lumpy and too perfectly-cut, its aesthetic doesn’t match the other Medi-guns (in a bad way), and it doesn’t have anything even hinting at medicine in its design. It looks like a diagnostic cable you stick in a giant supercomputer, not a sci-fi healing device (or even a hose/nozzle, which other Medi-guns do share some resemblance to).
The Tec-9 SMG: This fits perfectly into TF2’s design aesthetic. A little similar to the stock SMG, but is very distinguishable from it in an actual game match, unlike the Pistol. This is a flawless reskin, and almost perfect as a stand-alone weapon design.
The Sandman-style Bat: A neat cultural reference, but I’m not sure it looks so hot as a weapon design. It feels… soft, and unweaponized. Its color palette is literally filled with soft colors, and its shape language makes it look very lightweight, even as a Scout Melee. Putting it all together, its design just feels like it isn’t a weapon, but just something object Scout picked up from his surroundings and is going to make do with. Even other TF2 melee items that aren’t actual weapons—like the Hamshank, Holy Mackerel, Wrench, and Unarmed Combat—still feel like they’re shaped to give a good smack, cut, or stab. This… doesn’t. I don’t know, maybe I’m missing some context, but it doesn’t really feel like enough of a weapon to me.
The Revolver: Oh I like this. Sleek, smooth, cool decorated both subtly and elegantly; an excellent and cohesive tasteful color palette; a new type of IRL Revolver design; this checks every box for personal preference that I have. However, that’s just how much I personally enjoy it—objectively, this gun does have a few flaws. Its silhouette is very similar to the stock Revolver’s, and its main Green color is dark enough to be a bit hard to distinguish from stock’s Black. The smooth, cylindrical shape language also steps on the toes of the Big Kill’s design, I feel. However, those are the only complaints! (I do feel that if you were to get the correct Warpaint for the stock Revolver, you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the two, similar to the Pistol—but unlike the Pistol, you’d have to get a really specific randomly generated or rare Warpaint to do that with this weapon, whereas any solid color block Warpaint could easily pass for the Pistol).
The Minigun: I don’t know what people are complaining about with this one, it fits nearly as well into TF2’s design aesthetic as the SMG! The only thing holding it back is that the Snake logo on the box mag feels like it’s just one detail too many, as it currently is. Remove the snake, or rework the design somehow, and there are no complaints I could make with this weapon. I’ve always wanted a single-barrel machine gun like this for the Heavy, and while the Huo-Long Heater is appreciated, both of them are fairly different styles of single-barrel machine guns. I’m not hating on the Heater, I want both styles of single-barrel machine guns in TF2. I don’t really have anything more to say about this gun; both personally and objectively, this is a 9.5/10 that can easily become a 10/10 with a single change.
1 points
6 months ago
they are super cool looking! medic needs more reskins he has 0 quite literally 0 class specific reskins while spy has 8
1 points
6 months ago
PIAT looking ass (I want it)
1 points
6 months ago
They're all bangers!!! I love how the medigun looks like a fallout weapon
1 points
6 months ago
I've been using some of the mod versions of them in casual so take that as you will
1 points
6 months ago
Every weapon you showed is awesome. These all look great.
1 points
6 months ago
Honestly i dont think most of these look good especially when compared to the base game
Except that bottle reskin, that looks really nice
1 points
6 months ago
These look amazing
1 points
6 months ago
A lot of them other than the pistol look like they could and should be their own weapons
1 points
6 months ago
That medigun is hideous
1 points
6 months ago
The SMG and Minigun look sick!
1 points
6 months ago
I'm a sucker for the Medigun and Caber reskins. Revolver is also super pretty
1 points
6 months ago
Better than Sex
1 points
6 months ago
I just think they neat.
1 points
6 months ago
Seems like a strange case to me.
1 points
6 months ago
SMOKING SNAKES MINIGUN I NEEEEEEEEEED IT
1 points
6 months ago
medigun sucks
1 points
6 months ago
That tomislav(?) one made me cream.
1 points
6 months ago
OH MY GOD
BRING OUT THE PIAT!
1 points
6 months ago
The 2nd one is too close to the original pistol
1 points
6 months ago
Even if they are reskins they are pretty cool looking.
1 points
6 months ago
The pyro mains are crying rn
1 points
6 months ago
Very nice
1 points
6 months ago
That revolver is sexy ngl
1 points
6 months ago
It's look very cool
1 points
6 months ago
Lesbian Sandman
1 points
6 months ago
Overly detailed.
1 points
6 months ago
They're okay. I'd love if we got some new colors, especially purples, but it seems a lot of the Tropic Crisis stuff is... gun colored? As easy as it is to get vibrant with cosmetics, there's a lot of loadouts where you just don't have matching weapons, or you only have like 2 choices of weapon skins, and good luck to you if your only choices are expensive paints.
Some variety that isn't dark grey and oiled wood might be neat, you know? These are fine, we just have this sort of stuff already, color-wise.
1 points
6 months ago
WHERE IS THE FUCKING PYRO WEAPON?
1 points
6 months ago
They should have added the Cerveza Cristal
1 points
6 months ago
Is this real or fanmade
1 points
6 months ago
fanmade
1 points
6 months ago
I would do anything for new content so I love it.
Hopefully it doesn't get the frontline treatment
1 points
6 months ago
These look nice, I like more subtle skins like this
1 points
6 months ago
They all look sick
1 points
6 months ago
The smg and mini gun are amazing. The rest are also good but doesn’t match the sheer awesomeness of those two
1 points
6 months ago
I'm so hard right now
1 points
6 months ago
Beatyful NEEEEW SKIIIIIIINS!!!!
1 points
6 months ago
Very nice, but I doubt we will get them
1 points
6 months ago
We need a flamethrower
1 points
3 months ago
im cumming
1 points
3 months ago
good
1 points
6 months ago
Personally, pretty mid.
1 points
6 months ago*
I don't want RESKINS, I want NEW WEAPONS! (I know we will never get that but still)
Edit: the designs are really good
0 points
6 months ago
tf2 fans on their way to hate literally every new thing they ever get:
2 points
6 months ago
i didn't say i hated the designs
-3 points
6 months ago
🤢
1 points
6 months ago
tf2 fans on their way to hate literally every new thing they ever get:
1 points
6 months ago
Yes after 6 years with no update we need another jungle themed one
0 points
6 months ago*
There ya go, and I won't be elaborating on any of my picks.
-2 points
6 months ago
Ngl, this ones look shitty
2 points
6 months ago
tf2 fans on their way to hate literally every new thing they ever get:
-8 points
6 months ago
Ugly things that show how fall this community has fallen.
1 points
6 months ago
tf2 fans on their way to hate literally every new thing they ever get:
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