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Either sell it or wait and exchange it (assuming the pattern holds up and Crate 50, when it finally shows up, is a Salvaged). Several of the items in the crate are actually worth less than the crate, so you only have a 60% or so chance of making a profit (Huntsman, Sapper, and Unusual). If you're okay with that risk, go for it. Otherwise, I'd keep it, it's still worth a bunch of keys.

Too late, sold it for 3 keys+ 3 genuine stuff that adds up to a bit over 7 keys.

Also crate 40 price dropped because of the festive huntsman tanked the strange huntsman prices. Also, there's still only a 1% chance for an unusual, not 20% ._.

The things in crate 40:

-Sapper
-Huntsman
-Mantreads
-Holiday Punch
-Widowmaker
-And if you're really that lucky, Unusuals

The Sapper is obviously popular, and so is the huntsman. The Widowmaker isn't that bad.

And no one wants the mantreads or holiday punch.

Whoops, you're right. I screwed up my math, or mispriced one of the items or something. I know unusual is always 1%, for some reason I thought there were 3 items over 7 keys in the box or blanked and added 20% for unusual.

So, would anyone be interested in a Team Captain or Troublemaker's Tosslecap?

Whoa, the hats are now like 3-4 keys minimum…

What yo want for the Troublemaker?!!!

Already sold. I picked it up.

Probably like a key? Because it's dirty.

I have a dirty Fancy Fedora, which I'm trying to sell, but no one buys. Anyone here interested??

OK.

Still haven't spent a penny since I bought the key to get premium.

So this exists.

It's a Tumblr that makes stereotypical hipster quote pictures, but with TF2 quotes.

Some highlights:

I just recently found out that if you look straight down and hit yourself with the Boston Basher while airborne, you actually get more air off of that than you get from a jump. Also, a heavy with the Fists of Steel equipped and a Quick-Fix pocket doesn't take damage from mini-sentries.

Also, some funny:

And for those of you who would like to sharpen up on your engineering skills:

Nearly every engineer I see does nothing more than turtle on defense, and spam minis on offense. It's a refreshing change of pace to see that people actually use the shotgun, move buildings, prioritize teleporters, etcetera. This video got me hyped for engie, so I played him the rest of the day. I even got an uber while using the Widowmaker! Rushing an enemy heavy with a shotgun that never reloads is amazing fun.

So I just saw a guy win the game of TF2 by unboxing an Orbiting Fire Charmer's Chapeau. Then he gave out a Pile of Gifts to celebrate, and another guy won the game of TF2 by getting a gifted Secret Saxton. Two winners in five minutes.

The Engineer Bible got me back into playing Team Fortress 2 regularly and also playing to adjust my aim to better mouse settings.

And I recently took a look at Competitive TF2 Gameplay and notice must of the time in public servers I'm playing as Scout, Soldier, and Medic usully getting more points then most people in the server unless the other team had an idea of what they were doing but It was still fun, so for a change of pace I went to TF2 Lobby and played as a medic…

Everyone played a much bigger role then in pup games and you get a very rewarding game for good skill.
Playing as a medic became more fun then it usully is keeping my team alive while doging enemy fire and even get a few kills from my Syringe gun, I felt like a such a badass playing as a competitive Medic.
And now I'm motivated to get good enough aiming skills to play as a competitive Soldier/Scout,
I haven't had this much fun in such a long time.

Iz gud deal

The Distractinator: 374 kills
Silver Botkiller RL Mk I: 377 kills
Festive Buff Banner: 27 banners (it's my low-skybox secondary, I don't use it often)
The Beastly Broiler: 710 kills, 3 dominations (I don't dominate very often as pyro)
Homewrecker: 18 kills
Some Assembly Required: 411 kills, 10 revenges, 1 kill while Ubercharged (just added it yesterday)
Medigun: 23 Ubers, 105 assists
Sniper Rifle: 117 kills

I unboxed a strange once.
It was a Persian's Persuader. ._.

LOL, STILL KICKING ASS WITH IT.

Oh yeah:

Iz gud.

So I've just started playing this game.

WHY THE HELL DID I NOT CONSIDER PLAYING IT EARLIER!?

I started last week. Decided on Medic because he seemed easy to use and I like healing classes. First thing I found was a Quick-Fix, which seems like a gift from God, so that's what I use. And I bought a Crusader's Crossbow, mainly to become a Premium Member. Trying to get an Amputator to get the bonus health regeneration.

Gentlemen, welcome to the Mac Update's Earbuds 2: Electric Boogaloo

grab your popcorn and wait for the butthurt rage, also, looks like those maggots at Mann Co. didn't create another expensive useless Valentine's item, thanks for showing some dignity this time.

You zee vid a good choise komerade

Tip: the quick-fix is a good gun for healing fast, but intermediate players will hate your guts for using it. they don't realize just how useful it is to heal a huge group and all you have to do is give up overheal. Plus, it's great because you can pocket soldiers and rocket-jump with them, bringing the medic to hard-to-reach places.

But seriously, once you get staying alive down, the regular Uber is amazing. It just takes an incredibly long time to charge if everyone is overhealed.

On the bright side, Vets will see its usefulness in certain situations.

First thing I found wa a Rainblower…

Or as I call it, the Trickster Mode gun…

That was pretty much in the first full round I actually played online.

So far, the only thing NOT a weapno that I've fround is a supply crate.

Which I cannot even use as I need a key which I cannot buy.

I just watch the game for the memes.

By the way, have you seen the Goldenrod City map?

I should start a blog with all this crap I see.

You know, since everyone thinks these stupid penguins will be valuable, everyone will get one. That means they will be common as fuck and that really just defeats the purpose.

HOLY SHIT

Wow, you lucky thing.

Best luck I've had was a Triad Trinket as a MvM reward. And a level 69 Killer's Kabuto, which to this day I regret selling, since it was my first hat ever.

Guys, have you tried x10 servers.
They are so much fun.
Like, holy shit.
It's crazy.

If any of you watch Highlander, the NA vs Euro showmatch yesterday (Ginyu Force v SNSD) was pretty good.

I just did my first mix.nahl pug as a medic and OH MY GOD I LOVE COMP MEDIC SO MUCH

My uncle said that he would give some of his hats to me.
He has a Bill's.
I should ask him for that.

Do I win or lose?

Best MVM run ever!

But also hell of a pain and long is that 666 wave.
Has someone tried it? Is not that hard, but there's like 2 impossible parts on all the wave that it's the 4 tanks rush and the 3 tanks one with 80 spies at the same time all behind you.

Which other hats does he have?

No. My teammates are generally terrible.

Yeah… it's also so annoying to wait till a real team appears, i went into one with Sniper and Spy and no Scout and then they started to ask why we're not getting money…

A good team on that event usually has demomen and heavies and pyros and spy, perhaps scout.
But if you have a spy on your team, why in the name of fuck wasn't he/she getting cash?

Scout is the cash grabber, no question. I've started playing scout in MvM and I will vehemently defend how necessary he is. After all, if a class gets an infinite overheal from cash, he just may be built for cash collecting.

In other news, the Steampipe update is today… hope you've copied your custom files.

Well, every class on mvm is good if it gets its job done right.

It really depends on one thing, what mission you're playing. Sometimes a certain class is far less useful on certain maps and missions. (Sniper, I'm looking at you)

"TF2 Update 3/12/13

- Unlocked the "What's in the Portal 2 Soundtrack Box?"
- Added new promo Items
- Removed Salvage Crate #40, Crate #49 and Crate #54 from the drop list
- Added Salvage Crate #50, Crate #56, and Crate #57 to the drop list
- Updated the localization files"

What will be the new Stranges now?

My only guesses are like Normal Sandvich and Buff banner…

Salvaged weapons: The Original. Invis Watch and Splendid Screen

#56: Fire Axe
#57: Fists of Steel, Jarate (There goes down the Jarate price now)

Edit: no wait, there was much more.

#50:
The Original
Invis Watch
Build construction Tool PDA
Strange Bacon Grease (Makes a Frying Pan strange)

#56:
Fire Axe
Flying Guillotine
Beggar's
Strange parts

#57:
Fists of Steel
Neon Annihilator
Jarate
New Paint can

I'm assuming that the watch counts the number of cloaks, but a strange PDA???

What, buildings built? The wrench already counts sentry kills.

Dat move with making pan strange

As much as I like the Invis Watch, I'm not sure I'd care for a strange variant. Definitely happy to see the Fists of Steel and Neon Annihilator get stranges! I don't know what the PDA tracks, but I kind of want one anyway. :V

In other news, I've been thinking about joining a UGC team. I've been practicing up in Highlander on tf2lobby as various classes to see what I enjoy the most before I look for recruiting clans. Spy is still one of the most fun, but there are too many people who main spy, so I'm trying to branch out. Competitive heavies are a bit rare, considering how much harder it is to play than pub heavy, so I've been focusing on that. My tracking has gotten much better, as well as my knowledge of when to push, and when to hold a position, and when to retreat. Also, tanking through an enemy uber with the fists of steel is so fucking satisfying. I even managed to save our engie's buildings a few times by bodyblocking rockets.

Also, I managed to compile some pretty nifty apparel sets.

My Blues Brothers inspired set for heavy:

And my super-villain demo, drawing inspiration mostly from Doctor Doom's aesthetic:

I'm looking into finding a themed set like these for every class I play. Kinda hard considering how few miscellaneous items some of the characters have, but Heavy and Engineer have some really cool possibilities.

I was hoping to get into ugc for few years, and finally got the chance to play in season 8.
Boy, did I get squashed. Anyway, If more people would be interested, maybe we could start our own team. Still better that teaming up with random strangers.

And here's my biggest pride of set-making: Deus Ex inspired, Gunther-Heavy

What is that, Polish? Just curious.

They finally updated the wiki – the Invis Watch ranks up via seconds cloaked, and the PDA tracks sentry kills and health healed with your dispenser, ranking up with kills. I still think buildings built would have been a better choice; after all, most strange wrenches already rank on sentry kills (except for the Southern Hospitality).

This game needs fewer strange items and more item items.

Yes it's Polish. Just recently I've changed to English back, because I couldn't stand some of the translations, and couldn't play Cry of Fear.

Btw. I wanted to know more about these boots:

Wiki doesn't say much and my only hunch is, that they are going with that Chell figurine.