OK, I'm just going to throw this out, just to see how popular or, more likely, unpopular, this oft-put forward idea is.
I'd like an option that would revert all hats back to their original colour schemes, client side.
Now, I don't know about anyone else, but most painted hats are abominations. Green top hats. Pink hairdos. Yellow firehelmets. They don't fit the style of TF2 in the slightest. Then again, neither have most of the hats introduced since the classless update, but it doesn't look like they're going to improve.
Some people may like parading around with a head of green hair, or a bright purple fedora, but it's ruining the classic TF2 look. All I ask is that there be an option to keep hats looking as they were intended, no more, no less.
Is this just an option only old fuddy-duddies like me want, or am I in a minority, beset by people happy to have their TF2 filled with pink hats, racist weapon names and (quite possibly) green miniguns?
Send an e-mail to Robin.
Direct X 8.1 doesn't allow them. If you're desperate, you can use that.
Team Fortress 2's style was ruined within the first few major updates. Get over it, or run Direct X 8.
Or you could just replace the textures with default ones. Really what's so wrong with the painted hats, is it that they arn't Red or Blue, because that's dumb.
Even though I feel like a horrible person, sometimes I get a laugh out of those racist weapons, like the time I saw a grenade launcher called "The Negrotiator"
There are far too many shades of sickly green
Just because TF2's style was ruined at one point doesn't mean it's Ok to shrug and go 'What the fuck right, let's make it look even worse and give people pink direct hits'.
Well, as much as sacrificing the look of the game in order to sacrifice the look of the game is sound and logical, I would prefer there to be a better option.
And it is because the colours just don't fit. The targe is about the only weapon in game with a different colour scheme that's really visible (Crit-a-Cola doesn't really count), and it's beause orange is a fairly neutral colour, and within the colour palette.
Green, for example, does not fit. My crosshair is green purely because it [B]stands out[/B] from everything, making aiming easier. Green hats stick out like sore thumbs, and it's just ugly.
I apologize for making anyone angry. I'm not trying to be provocative folks, I'd just rather have more constructive thoughts than 'deal with it'.
[QUOTE=Lijitsu;25293165]Direct X 8.1 doesn't allow them. If you're desperate, you can use that.[/QUOTE]
This right here. I'm on Direct X 8.1 so my eyes have been spared
stop bitching about it. I think it's fine, and it gives TF2 player's a sense of originality in their items.
If the paints have their own tex, why cant we liven them up with a design?
I was mad when I saw the entire hat goes to 1 color without even adding any texture.
[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;25293374]If the paints have their own tex, why cant we liven them up with a design?
I was mad when I saw the entire hat goes to 1 color without even adding any texture.[/QUOTE]
Designs and stamps I would be happy with. TF2 isn't going back to the beautiful art style it once had, but the damage can be reduced. A fitting set of interchangable logos that replace paint cans, much like the ones on the Scout's Whoopee cap, would have been a much better idea.
Then people could have had that 'originality' they so crave.
You guys think I just made it easier for snipers to headshot me? Because I surely do feel that way.
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Another problem I have is: You can only paint hats.
I wanted painted wep's
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Then maybe shitty gold skins would end, as idiots paint them gold :downs:
Instead of crying you could try and edit the paint maps yourself so the paint isn't shown anymore. No need for valve to bother with your laments.
[QUOTE=Don Knotts;25293223]Even though I feel like a horrible person, sometimes I get a laugh out of those racist weapons, like the time I saw a grenade launcher called "The Negrotiator"[/QUOTE]
You sure it wasnt a typo?
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late automerge breaks. perfect.
[QUOTE=TerabyteS;25293458]Instead of crying you could try and edit the paint maps yourself so the paint isn't shown anymore. No need for valve to bother with your laments.[/QUOTE]
while you're at it find a way of making shitty hats not visible
like what people did to the halo
I think it would be better if the coloured hats still matched the teams, for instance purple could be either more red or more blue depending on the team associated with it.
An advice here: DON'T waste your paint on Engie's Cap....the difference is not noticeable.
I think most people are fine with item customization. I highly doubt people actually are offended by the racist stuff.
I agree that painted items look like shit 99% of the time.
I also agree that TF2's style got ruined back when they introduced the second wave of hats (the first wave of hats actually looked decent. I like the mining light and the tooth belt because they're subtle).
Not much we can do except ask valve to allow us to toggle the custom colors/particle effects, which probably won't happen because it's making them a buttload of cash.
I am fully enjoying my White Baker Boy and White Billycock. It makes me feel classy.
Coloring hair is stupid, unless you make the Hound Dog yellow to make the Heavy be Johnny Bravo.
Purple Hustler's Hallmark.
'Nuff Said.
[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;25301015]Coloring hair is stupid, unless you make the Hound Dog yellow to make the Heavy be Johnny Bravo.[/QUOTE]
I painted mine white :iia:
Grandpa Heavy says, "GET OFF MY CONTROL POINT YOU DARN KIDS."
I like my black fedora thank you.
And I love my white Merryweather & green Baker Boy.
Ideally there should be an option to disable painted hats completely, only make your own painted hats visible (because most of us at least like our own horrible color choices, right?) and be able to quickly enable painted hats completely in case the whole server starts talking about something you don't see.
Sounds like way too much work I'd rather like Valve to spend on bug-fixing and polishing, new taunts etc.
I think painted hats add more variety to the already bright cast of hats in TF2.
Like today, I met a soldier with a golden tyrant's like me, so we proceeded to be golden-tyrant-helm-bros.
Then I met a pyro with a purple brainslug, imo that looks pretty cool.
And me, the most badass of them all, THE BLACK HALLMARK.
(To be honest, it's just "SLIGHTLY DARKER HALLMARK" but Valve needs to make the black paint actually make hats BLACK.)
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