I'm very glad you keep up your critique of the terrible quality of recent additions. The artstyle has been bleeding out for ages and we must draw the line at these terrible, lazy submissions that just keep getting added.
I don't even think a lot of people would mind that these textures don't fit, if they actually looked good. We shouldn't let laziness be tolerated in the skins added, there are fantastic skins in the workshop that Valve could use.
Creator 1: *Puts time and effort making good content.* Valve: *Ignores it* Creator 2: *Opens ass-cheeks and dumps out garbage with no time and effort* Valve: *Accepts Creator 2's submission* See the problem?
@@yapflipthegrunt4687 It was never going to be a proper update; that requires putting Valve's money where Valve's mouth is, which they're famous for not doing. Epic profit motive moments compilation.
@@ZoofyZoof Adding more lenguage options is also an update, doesn't mean it's an important update tha impacts the game, except obviously making it uglier.
@@limonero8757 I mean, when the creator themselves have came out and said what they fully intended with making the pattern as it is, it indeed is a problem. You're basically saying the creator had no intention of making the pattern like that when he explicitly said that he has. Cause if he didn't say his intention was using the v0re pride colors, I'd have no problems with the skin whatsoever and chalked it up as an awkward coincidence.
@@limonero8757 Yeah, you deadass have to look at the side-by-side comparison that Zesty so lovingly provided in-video for more than 5 seconds to see that shit doesn't actually match up at all While the vore flag has a dark blue>purple>cyan mirrored pattern, Aurora has violet>indigo>blue/cyan, and the indigo's borderline nonexistent compared to the violet and blue Y'know Like the end of a rainbow color spectrum All of which are cool colors and thus make sense on something theming itself after the cold and auroras Like this shit is basically tinfoil conspiracy, Christ almighty
@@TacticalOmelette i mean that it simply does not matter. No one would've noticed if the creator didn't say that they specifically used those colors because of the vore flag.
I mean it helps people who have no talent in a certain field, yk, saves mannpower, but I don't really considering it "art" as there's no intention behind it
That one bizarre image of a guy roundhouse kicking a crocodile for how absurd it is. That's about it. The absurdity is the only thing I find fascinating about it but I hate any attempts it's had to try make money.
People shocked by the fact that there's a Vore flag as a skin in the game, while I'm just baffled by the fact that there's a flag about it in the first place.
Yea pride flags are all about you know gender and stuff, how the fuck is digesting a whole fucking person aka cannibalism considered a pride flag, theres a difference between coming out as a homo and confessing that you ate a fucking toddler like a pitbull, one gets you different reactions depending on person and the other gets you straight into the goddamn death row, no matter the situation
@@SyntaxGacha Altough my weird fantasy is not about vore, I do agree on the completely unnecessary action of going the extra mile to do this kind of stuff. Like, for fuck sake, just have a wank and call it a day. People making their sexuality a pride is embarassing to see nowdays.
the decay of quality control is what forces me to use a mod that removes all hats and skins from the game so I don't have to look at them anymore. it also improves my fps since it doesn't render those stupid unusual effects.
And no one should disagree with you. But they will, because it’s you. It’s very unfortunate how emotions and bias gets in the way of legitimate disagreement, and worse AGREEMENT. We should ALL want good tf2-themed warpaints. We should all call out stuff that isn’t as high effort as it could have been. We should all want the absolute best for the game we love. No one wants to hear that what they made was bad. But everyone should want the stuff that has thought put into it to be accepted as good. We can have cooler and more special skins in the game if we all agree that only the good stuff deserves it.
I mean I don't really mind, skins are skins and honestly unless they make my eyes bleed with pure neon I don't mind if it's a bit tacky, I mean have you seen some of the cosmetics?
Who cares about integrity or pushing for our corporate overlords to do the bare minimum, when joining what's effectively a cult in worship of said overlords is _so_ much easier?
As soon as you mentioned pride flags, I was thinking "This guy is going to address the drama about him isn't he-" and then I found out THAT was in the game. Great video all around, as I'm one for covering underdiscussed issues. Bonus points for not randomly doing "The Funny Voice."
There was definitely a drop in quality when they switched to using tiling textures for all the guns instead of unique ones for a select few. Obviously it's way easier to just make one tiling texture and slap it on any gun, but you lose any kind of unique detail or character because of it. Quantity over quality, etc.
If I really had to say why warpaint hasn't caught on like hats is because of the following reasons: 1. Not only are hats far more iconic ('TF2 is a hat game'), but warpaints came around right as TF2 was entering its dark age in the wake of Love and War while hats have been around since nearly the beginning. 2. While both hats and paints are tradable, hats can also be crafted if you get enough stuff to make 3 refined. Warpaints (as far as I'm aware) are only earned with money (contract passes, crate keys, etc.), so that only furthers their lack of hitting power compared to what hats have. 3. It seems like only paint cases drop now and not regular weapons, and those cases demand you buy a key, which probably turns some of people off from the concept of warpaints as a whole. Besides, why buy a paint case when you're probably just going to spend your time with that shiny new gun getting your head taken off by a sniper bot or get vaporized by a random crit? 4. Paints have kind of become symbolic of what TF2 is now alongside sniper bots, broken matchmaking, and mediocre maps. Plus, many of the warpaints we've seen in the holiday updates have been mediocre at best and ugly at worst. Of course, all this is coming from a guy who's gotten completely burned on TF2 by the bot crisis and Valve's neglect and has purged, scrapped and sold most of his inventory. I still don't expect any lasting changes to come from the next update.
I'd be way more into skins if they weren't tied to shitty gambling mechanics. It is the reason most of the skins I own are Mk. 2 Civic Duty war paints, since those were the only ones you could reliably obtain at Factory New en masse. Financially supporting Valve's "efforts" in TF2 is a hard sell with how little there is in comparison to how much they charge. With the gambling, Valve is just pissing in the empty glass they promised would contain wine.
I know, I hate it too. I'd be much more excited for """content""" updates if it wasn't fucking gambling. Unfortunately, kids will keep donating their allowance to Valve and RUclipsrs will try riding the algorithm with 50 case unboxings, perpetuating this garbage.
@@ZestyJesus Wait dude, why dont you do what 3kliksphilip does and interview the creators of accepted warpaints on the method/thoughts behind accepted skins. That'd be amazing and fun
@@ZestyJesus oh shoot. So you went asking if some good creators would want to appear on your video since then, and many declined? Oof, well, good luck out there
The problem of Valve time and time again picking the same creators in general is getting worse and worse. Just look at this Christmas update - ICS got another one of his chokepoint maps into the game despite it having like 20 votes on it. Meanwhile, stuff like Christmas Turbine goes ignored because it's from a less known creator despite how much hype surrounded it. And even when Valve do pick new creators, they somehow manage to go for the worst submissions (as evidenced by Health and Hell).
Everyone PLEASE, Send your positive votes on the workshop links that have been posted in the description! We need any of these works of art to be implemented into the game ... or at least one of them! Because I realized how criminally the war paint and skins in TF2 in general have been buried and how this is another major screw-up on valve's end because it feels like we are walking on dirt with a sea of treasure buried underneath
That bit at the end by Josh Strife Hayes, man, its wild how many points that many people wouldn't give much thought or care about (aesthetic and artstyle) that he was on point about and how its integrity can be compromised without direction or care. As an artist, I have always been fond of game artstyles, they give so much personality to a game, and its sad whenever I see artstyle decay like this.
A similar issue is going on with Call of Duty. Not with community made stuff but quality control of camos in the base game. Cod used to go out of their way to make some really cool and iconic camos for completing challenges. However, lately they've been "copy/paste"-ing camos from past games, or giving us just a basic ugly camos, in order to sell more stuff in the shop. No one really complains about it because we got other issues, but Call of Duty sold a mastery skin from a different game in the shop. A skin that demands you to unlock every single camo in the entire game, a very time consuming one to unlock, usually taking months to do so, and just sold it for like $25. That on it's own is really bad, but then they restrict it to only 2 individual weapons. So people who wanted to spend money may not even get to use it on a weapon they enjoy using. It's awful.
Gold camo back in Black Ops or the red or blue digital/stripes from Modern Warfare 2/3 were amazing. Time consuming to acquire but the only way to get them was to grind, and it was worth it, a point of pride even. They were very simple yet nice to use, nowadays you get seizure/vomit stains of a skin and theres no way you can put emotional value upon it. Too much is a common issue, but in terms of aesthetics having things that distract from the main theme ruins it, or just assaults your eyes.
Oddly the basic camos tend to look better than some of the premium ones. And the mastery camos aren't quite as nice this year. Platinum and Orion are nice but Gold and Polyatomic look kinda bad depending on what gun you use.
Good video. I’ve worked on one warpaint for the summer update so far, and I’m starting another one now (themed after the gravity gun from half life). Looking at the work shop, it’s clear just how far the bar has dropped. There’s an alarming number of creators who are flooding the workshop with 2 or more warpaint submissions every day, all of them using the same base, the same promo images, and just cycling through random colour combinations. It would be a shame for one of these warpaints, which some of the creators have admitted only took them an hour or two to make (which I’d still say is generous given the overall quality but whatever), rather than one of the warpaints you showed in the video.
Worth mentioning - the teir system incentives some bad warpaints to be added to the game. If all warpaints were good there'd be no reason for gambling addicts to keep unboxing for better ones
This is a problem that plagues a lot of microtransaction-enabled games. The model creates a very unsound incentive to create bad, low-effort, or at the very least boring, content to make the 'good stuff' stand out in comparison.
TF2's current war paints feel like Fortnite's weapon wraps nowadays not saying that it's a bad thing, most wraps in FN rock, it's just that in FN players can get away with using colorful, eloquent wraps because the majority of players skins are just as equally flashy but in TF2 there is a long established art style, and lots of players agree that as time passes, some of content that gets added to the game feels divergent to it
Besides the obvious artstyle defecation the tile image paints provide there's also the fact they just... don't go with anything? With stuff like bomber soul and warhawk you can at least pair them with your tryhard military loadouts and look decent but what do I pair a weapon with a low res tiled image of candy corn with?
TF2 is inherently ridiculous, but... in like a subdued sly kind of way, like a hat with a spy mask of another hat on it, not "uuuuuuuh fuck it rubber ducky minigun two skeletons dancing under the moonlight with 18 paraplegic ducks doing the conga unusual effect on a banana hat."
Literally as you were showing bad warpaints on the workshop, a decent one called “sober stripes” popped into view. It’s like even the good warpaint makers know how insane and lazy the newer warpaints have gotten.
Being someone whose been critiqued by you in the workshop by (via comments,) I agree and understand. If fact, the piece that you critiqued was a joke warpaint I created to learn how to make warpaints. Even with that joke one, I still spent at least 3 days on. There are then a couple other ones I did having a little more passion and effort poured it them, coming out as garbage, but only way to get better is to do. I did collab with a couple friends on a couple before, but after learning that the same creators get selected more often was a heavy discouragement. Criticism is the thing that doesn't bother me personally. Its the feeling of not being given a chance. Ive dropped warpaints to learn how to create other stuff in TF2, but all that was dropped because of that plus other factors that fell into my efforts. For the sake other artists & creators, we need a better moderation system & selection system in the workshop.
"pride flags" now hold on a minute, maybe they don't fit the look of tf2, but I feel like singling them out is a bit... "vore pride flag" ... okay, yeah, fair enough. That singling out is completely justified.
@@Technotoadnotafrog it’s more about not supporting what those colors represent even if they are pretty. Look at what happened to the rainbow. It’s been ruined for many people
I gotta say your have really been expressing your opinions on war paints and the game as a whole a lot better lately, used to a blind zesty hater but you have changed me with the recent videos. Love what you are doing with trying to get better war paints and cosmetics.
Majority of Twitter and Reddit freaks in general hate on Zesty because he has a passion for being outspoken about things when other people are otherwise too afraid to be as such. Yeah he's had moments which are really questionable but any time he unleashes even 1% of negative energy towards something, everyone just paints him as a laughing stock no matter what.
never been a fan of warpaints, the VERY select few painted weapons I own I selected very nitpickily because I just think clean weapons tend to look better regardless. I would fucking love to have more warpaints that actually make me consider "hmmm maybe I should get this version instead of the clean base weapon", because like fucking hell I'm ever putting christmas garbo on any of my nice looking clean weapons
I agree with almost every point in this video except your classification of Spectrum Splattered as an “over saturated, trash warpaint.” I love it. It’s my favorite skin for my crossbow
I will concede that its texture work is of far higher quality than most warpaints we have in game. But my god, the colors have no business being in TF2
@@ZestyJesus I see your point, I’d actually much prefer if spectrum splattered were a high quality, yet saturated exception similar to pink elephant, the pyroland rainbow ones, etc. among a sea of much more traditionally fitting skins But it was a great video, and I hope valve listens like i think they saw your review for christmas 2022. We will see
I used to believe valve had at least a semblance of quality control, that was until they literally added the same warpaint twice just with different colors pallets
I really hope pamp gets some of their warpaints added to the new update, because then they'll have their foot in the door, and stuff they make later, or stuff they've made before is more likely to get chosen because they'll already have warpaints in the game by that point.
@@tearex8688 That's fair, it's all up to opinion, but pamp's war paints are *definitely* closer to the style and consistency of the original war paints and even decorated weapons compared to some of the over saturated lazy submissions that have gotten into the game as of late, and that's worth a lot, it's good to set an example
Heh, I realized something. What is happening to TF2 is also happening to other media and many western nations. The spirit of the thing in question is getting destroyed by those who never really cared for it in the first place. Also, bonus points for the metroid music.
@@nigeladams8321 The observation that people don't put in much effort to understand the media they use, are too passive when things get changed, or worse, are actively trying to use that media for their own goals. For example, TF2. A lot of people don't seem to understand the art style TF2 has and many of the creators are just pumping out stuff for the money. Thus we get a lot of lackluster hats and war paints. And it got so bad that some furry got a pride flag through Valve. Another example is with 343 and Halo. Bungie made halo to be a military scifi shooter, but 343 turned it into a weird cape shit fanfiction story because of the head writers for 343 was wanting to tell his own story instead of sticking to the rest of Bungie's story. Then for the other worse motivation, you have IPs like star wars, Halo, Fallout, the whole anime dub fiasco, and so on. Here many of the creators were more interested in promoting their ideologies rather then to tell a good story. Star Wars had the Disney trilogy and similar media. Halo has the halo show and even the games. And for the anime dubs, there are many reported cases where the lines were changed to be fitting for "modern audiences." There are also many other examples, but these were the first to pop into my mind. Thankfully, it appears that TF2 is only suffering from the first part and not the latter, however, I am aware that a lot of the popular TF2 people are part of identity politics or agree with it to a degree. I've ran into such things myself, like how Array7 shut down his discord server because he found it too "toxic."
13:20 to 13:40 I don't think I've had my heart broken more times over the course of 20 seconds than I've had in my entire time playing TF2. Amazing paints getting buried under mountains of garbage. I'ld pay good money to have ANY of those in the game.
My favorite thing to do on the TF2 workshop is to tell warpaint makers who make shit skins that they look like clipart, it causes them to melt down every fuckin time
Valve has done the little fella extremely dirty, even weapons almost no one uses like the stock bat and fire axe got festive versions years ago and the syringe gun is still sitting in the corner catching dust.
Well, the Summer Update's skins all look pretty good. Like, all of them look good on at least a few weapons; there's no obvious duds. War paint redemption arc?
@mugger4696 true, but that goes the other way around as well, without zesty, the community would have continued to gobble up shitty ass war paints lile its fine dining
I'm so glad this video exists. Your opinion on what does and does not fit the games artstyle has been so murky for so long, I'm glad this video clears that up
This video feels like a big coincidence for me, has i did a poll on reddit ( thats still going) to which type of warpaint people would like to have in the summer cases (which also in the poll is winning the warpaint relegated to a single or specific weapon like the old weapon skins, has you said, they where more in tone with the game style and had unique pattern that blended with the weapon and class perfectly) I hope this video blows up like the map maker letter, so whoever this contractor is (yes copium i know), see it and does something about it, great video has always and you hit the nail perfectly in one swing. Fun fact: most if the warpaint you showed during the part dedicated to good warpaint, i actually voted them.
I kinda have been avoiding watching your videos due to all of the drama that has surrounded you, however, I feel like having a dissenting voice willing to express what they think is wrong in a community helps to keep it healthy and most importantly, improve. I have always liked the concept of war paints, I have seen some cool ones but never had the money to buy them, last year I finally started working and spent some of that money on war paints and opening some cases just to realize that... Every single one is Halloween or Christmas? And the designs are also not that good? I felt like I was alone on this, luckily you mentioned it, most old war paints are so cool and great, the uranium one being one of my favorites, and recent ones are just kinda tiring to look at or just flat out ugly. Great video, I hope Valve does something about this and actually adds high quality skins
the drama around zesty is overhyped honestly. what he brings to light about the game, be it skins or mechanics, are often ignored or mocked because he had a 'bad' twitter take and got mad on stream but to be fair he could have taken steps to calm down or just not take the game that seriously once people better than him started steamrolling but hey even i've gotten mouse throwing mad before.
btw most of the decorated weapons have like 3-4 patterns that are applied in different regions and thats why same iteration of a weapon might have a slightly different look -- the way pattern lands on a weapon is random. however, there are some skins that have flat weapon-specific textures. (like warhawk grenade launcher)
@@tearex8688 no it doesn't. A lot of random seasonal bs with 4 favs is being added to the game, while the most upvoted and popular stuff getting ignored
to this day i have mixed opinions on war paints. The reason I don't like them, is that it made the actual weapon reskins like festive weapons and australiums even more special; there were so few of them, they were expensive, and mostly everyone had the same looking weapons otherwise, so you really stood out for having a strange festive weapon. Then they added festivizers and largely destroyed the purpose and value of real festive reskins. What I do like is how sick some of the war paints look, but now everyone and their mother has a strange war painted skin.
@@at0m1c2 I think it goes without saying that adding them would clash with the artstyle and setting of the game and also strip it of the last shreds of what makes it different from the mainstream stuff.
@@punisheranimations6807 dude... tf2's artstyle has been broken for most of its lifetime with pretty much all cosmetics, every character in the game is from a different country, pyro is an implied gay man, miss pauling is a lesbian, if it came out today you'd probably think its "woke" anyways 😂
21:16 "And when you're entire existence becomes wrapped and distorted and selling whatever looks nice, you've become a war-themed hat simulator." What was once the quintessential gag of the game has now become the reality.
16:30 I've been thinking about whether TF2 workshop is some kind of money making scheme, I mean there are couple of authors with 20-30 item submissions accepted into the game with 1-2 items OR item sets guaranteed to get added each update (since Valve seems to favor the same item creators). Over the span of say, 10 years, that's a lot of money made via item submissions. Perhaps not enough to quit a job but enough for a nice side income, just imagine how much money was made on this silly little multiplayer game by the top workshop creators... crazy. And consider that even if certain top-of-the-game artist hasn't created the now accepted item, he still could be marked as contributor. And this is the case with maps, if you look at the most recent ~50 maps you can see the same names accredited over and over again, some people literally make a single texture or custom prop for the map and get added as map contributor and get the right to earn money.
Honestly I never liked them in the first place. Back during the Gun Mettle days it was because I hated Counter-Strike, and never wanted TF2 to be mimicking it's more successful brother. But now I simply prefer buying vanilla weapons, or stuff like The Original. Like, no Tomislav skin looks better than the original one. Sure, if you want a strange Tomislav but don't have 1.5 keys (or whatever) to buy it, sure, go ahead! (Nutcracker looks similar to the vanilla one, and is pretty good in it's own way) Although I don't like The Maul too, I think that Homewrecker feels more cartoony/TF2-like, and also it doesn't have the strange variant (I love playing Pybro, so I'm a bit biased here). Strange Black Rose when?
Does anyone else experience frustration with finding a skin with texture mapping that "makes sense?" In terms of which sectors of the weapon (barrel, stock, etc.) certain materials are chosen to occupy?? Maybe the Medigun gets the worst of this. Bonk Varnished, for example, could instead include a yellow barrel, wrapped in red bandages, which would more closely resemble the design of the can, then, in turn, transforming the Medigun into something more closely resembling a giant mobile BONK! dispenser. That paired with the Medic's Soda Jerk cosmetics would look excellent, and it would MAKE SENSE seeing that in TF2's universe.
its probably because the original texture templates were made with specific patterns in mind that made sense for their placements/visual composistion, it was bound to happen when new textures representing different themes/concepts were being applied onto them
Zesty is the hero we need that the community hates and wants to get rid off. The fact that he as the balls to face the hatred of thousands of players to tell the blatant factual truth to us is something I can respect. I used to think the skins we got were good, but looking back. He's right, most are trash. Part of me wishes I could gp back in time and tell my younger self to play tf2 when gun mettle came out so I can experience peak TF2
Yes. Make change with likes and dislikes. Type your disapprovel of it in the comments we can't just be silent and let no disapproval happen or nothing changes.
FINE, FINE, I'll cover the bob a bit
Buff women enjoyers are truly the most oppressed race
let them be free
You better not
1984
This is fucked up
>AI generated warpaints
It's over.
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AI becoming available to everyone is such a fucking mistake
It's over. The workshop has fallen, billions must update
we are so back*
@@isitonathroneofmethadone6563 "More freedom is a bad thing"
"The longer Zesty Jesus is provoked and hated, the bigger Zess's honkers become." - Dr. Samuel Hayden
so P cups?
I don't hate his opinion. Its valid.
@@toxictoast9947 on warpaints. Absolutely.
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this is the best way to combat hate
> there's a vore pride flag in TF2 as a war paint
Pull that info back out of my brain you absolute monster.
I would recommend it to put it back in his ass after that
What
WAIT UNTILL zippy fox is in the game lmfao
@@TF2tw3rk it didnt get in last scream fortress so were safe
Furries and degens are a cancerous tumor in this game
The thumbnail drove me to drink.
Same
Drink in celebration of booba 🐸
Yeah yeah yeah
Is that… baiken??
@@yukaroj I want baiken to step on my face barefoot
I'm very glad you keep up your critique of the terrible quality of recent additions. The artstyle has been bleeding out for ages and we must draw the line at these terrible, lazy submissions that just keep getting added.
I don't even think a lot of people would mind that these textures don't fit, if they actually looked good. We shouldn't let laziness be tolerated in the skins added, there are fantastic skins in the workshop that Valve could use.
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFirelazy skins that clog the item servers with shitty varients nobody wants.
Only other youtuber to address this issue has been Funke, but he's too concerned with avoiding controversy to actually push for a difference.
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire Exactly. There are SO MANY good cosmetics and yet they keep adding the bottom of the barrel options.
"Let that digest" Oh Zesty
Creator 1: *Puts time and effort making good content.*
Valve: *Ignores it*
Creator 2: *Opens ass-cheeks and dumps out garbage with no time and effort*
Valve: *Accepts Creator 2's submission*
See the problem?
The whole reason Valve is doing a summer "update" is to monetize warpaints and cosmetics. They want another Scream Fortress
Why is update in quotes?
@@ZoofyZoof because that bastard janitor changed it to holiday-sized update
@@yapflipthegrunt4687 It was never going to be a proper update; that requires putting Valve's money where Valve's mouth is, which they're famous for not doing.
Epic profit motive moments compilation.
@@yapflipthegrunt4687 That's still an update. I swear TF2 player's brains have been fried to the point where they don't understand what an update is.
@@ZoofyZoof Adding more lenguage options is also an update, doesn't mean it's an important update tha impacts the game, except obviously making it uglier.
9:40 did you just try to sap... The payload?
It didn't work
...I never knew about the Frozen Aurora skin resembling... what it does. And that just disappoints me on a level that cannot be quantified
Wow!!!! A warpaint has 3 colors that are extremely common to see in that pattern!!!! What a problem!!!!!
@@limonero8757 I mean, when the creator themselves have came out and said what they fully intended with making the pattern as it is, it indeed is a problem. You're basically saying the creator had no intention of making the pattern like that when he explicitly said that he has. Cause if he didn't say his intention was using the v0re pride colors, I'd have no problems with the skin whatsoever and chalked it up as an awkward coincidence.
@@limonero8757
Yeah, you deadass have to look at the side-by-side comparison that Zesty so lovingly provided in-video for more than 5 seconds to see that shit doesn't actually match up at all
While the vore flag has a dark blue>purple>cyan mirrored pattern, Aurora has violet>indigo>blue/cyan, and the indigo's borderline nonexistent compared to the violet and blue
Y'know
Like the end of a rainbow color spectrum
All of which are cool colors and thus make sense on something theming itself after the cold and auroras
Like this shit is basically tinfoil conspiracy, Christ almighty
@@TacticalOmelette i mean that it simply does not matter. No one would've noticed if the creator didn't say that they specifically used those colors because of the vore flag.
@@WhimsicottFanatic yup
"people are ai generating warpaints now" is therre a single good thing ai art has brought us since its inception
Yes but not that.
I mean it helps people who have no talent in a certain field, yk, saves mannpower, but I don't really considering it "art" as there's no intention behind it
That one bizarre image of a guy roundhouse kicking a crocodile for how absurd it is. That's about it. The absurdity is the only thing I find fascinating about it but I hate any attempts it's had to try make money.
its lack of humanity makes it unsettling
@@caldw615 which is why we should encourage more artists to make more absurd things themselves tbh
the Coffin Nail skin still stands head and shoulders above 90% of the war paints to come out since Tough Break
Agreed.
That whole collection exemplifies what I want skins to be.
It's a shame there's only like 10 weapons it can be on.
I love my cancer stick skins
I own a strange factory new cofiin nail scattergun and have to say it is a amazing skin
People shocked by the fact that there's a Vore flag as a skin in the game, while I'm just baffled by the fact that there's a flag about it in the first place.
Yea pride flags are all about you know gender and stuff, how the fuck is digesting a whole fucking person aka cannibalism considered a pride flag, theres a difference between coming out as a homo and confessing that you ate a fucking toddler like a pitbull, one gets you different reactions depending on person and the other gets you straight into the goddamn death row, no matter the situation
i don't even know what it is and it makes me want to die
@@HuonPiper-ir4yj Pornography.
i enjoy vore myself, but i think the community should not have pride over this interest, let alone a pride flag
@@SyntaxGacha Altough my weird fantasy is not about vore, I do agree on the completely unnecessary action of going the extra mile to do this kind of stuff.
Like, for fuck sake, just have a wank and call it a day. People making their sexuality a pride is embarassing to see nowdays.
the decay of quality control is what forces me to use a mod that removes all hats and skins from the game so I don't have to look at them anymore. it also improves my fps since it doesn't render those stupid unusual effects.
Link it. Link that shit. I wanna remove warpaints for my modded weapon reskins.
@@tearex8688 I got it on gamebanana, I think the name of the mod is 'no hats mod' or something. I dont have the original link
@@tearex8688bgum replaces everything with default models
as God intended
STOP LOOKING AT THE THUMBNAIL SON, THERE'S A RED SPY ON THE BASE
Dont care
@@Guccifish-ik5ni YOU SON, WILL BE LEFT BEHIND IN THE COLD AND HARSH CLIMATES OF WAR YOU MAGGOT!!
A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE?
@@scrowlerhouse WE NEED TO PROTECT THE WARPAINTS
Hay, a little help here
At first I figured “why does zesty not like frozen aurora? It looks fine to me” now I realize I got to find a different medigun skin >:(
I always wondered why the aurora warpaint didn't have any natural green. Well now I know and I wish I didn't.
And now the workshop has AI making war paints?
The bots are everywhere...
And no one should disagree with you. But they will, because it’s you. It’s very unfortunate how emotions and bias gets in the way of legitimate disagreement, and worse AGREEMENT. We should ALL want good tf2-themed warpaints. We should all call out stuff that isn’t as high effort as it could have been. We should all want the absolute best for the game we love.
No one wants to hear that what they made was bad. But everyone should want the stuff that has thought put into it to be accepted as good. We can have cooler and more special skins in the game if we all agree that only the good stuff deserves it.
I mean I don't really mind, skins are skins and honestly unless they make my eyes bleed with pure neon I don't mind if it's a bit tacky, I mean have you seen some of the cosmetics?
@@noahncaban9987 I certainly have 😬
Who cares about integrity or pushing for our corporate overlords to do the bare minimum, when joining what's effectively a cult in worship of said overlords is _so_ much easier?
@@thisismyusernow they’re only human. The atrocity comes when they defend their work and pretend they don’t deserve the backlash.
so true technically a sex offender
As soon as you mentioned pride flags, I was thinking "This guy is going to address the drama about him isn't he-" and then I found out THAT was in the game.
Great video all around, as I'm one for covering underdiscussed issues. Bonus points for not randomly doing "The Funny Voice."
Who's that "him" you're referring to?
What the fuck they added pride flags as warpaints?? ☠️☠️
Who’s him?
@@master_miller probably zesty after he had said some distasteful things about trans people on Twitter or something
@@needstoast"he's going to talk about himself, isn't he?" doesn't make any sense at all in context
There was definitely a drop in quality when they switched to using tiling textures for all the guns instead of unique ones for a select few. Obviously it's way easier to just make one tiling texture and slap it on any gun, but you lose any kind of unique detail or character because of it. Quantity over quality, etc.
hmmmfmfmfmfmrrrr
Pamp's work not getting in the game is legitimately tragic. I would use all of it.
Most of it sort of sucks. Only a few good ones.
@@tearex8688 Any other creators you prefer?
He has a SIZABLE collection of real nice ones, and while not all are my cup of tea, there are many, many good choices.
@@The_Great_Butler I can only think of like 3-4 of Pamp's work that I'm meh on.
Are those... bazongas?
They're probably silicon.
... do you have proof @@curtisleblanc5897?
If I really had to say why warpaint hasn't caught on like hats is because of the following reasons:
1. Not only are hats far more iconic ('TF2 is a hat game'), but warpaints came around right as TF2 was entering its dark age in the wake of Love and War while hats have been around since nearly the beginning.
2. While both hats and paints are tradable, hats can also be crafted if you get enough stuff to make 3 refined. Warpaints (as far as I'm aware) are only earned with money (contract passes, crate keys, etc.), so that only furthers their lack of hitting power compared to what hats have.
3. It seems like only paint cases drop now and not regular weapons, and those cases demand you buy a key, which probably turns some of people off from the concept of warpaints as a whole. Besides, why buy a paint case when you're probably just going to spend your time with that shiny new gun getting your head taken off by a sniper bot or get vaporized by a random crit?
4. Paints have kind of become symbolic of what TF2 is now alongside sniper bots, broken matchmaking, and mediocre maps. Plus, many of the warpaints we've seen in the holiday updates have been mediocre at best and ugly at worst.
Of course, all this is coming from a guy who's gotten completely burned on TF2 by the bot crisis and Valve's neglect and has purged, scrapped and sold most of his inventory. I still don't expect any lasting changes to come from the next update.
Just play Uncletopia. It's still fun there.
I'd be way more into skins if they weren't tied to shitty gambling mechanics. It is the reason most of the skins I own are Mk. 2 Civic Duty war paints, since those were the only ones you could reliably obtain at Factory New en masse. Financially supporting Valve's "efforts" in TF2 is a hard sell with how little there is in comparison to how much they charge. With the gambling, Valve is just pissing in the empty glass they promised would contain wine.
I know, I hate it too. I'd be much more excited for """content""" updates if it wasn't fucking gambling. Unfortunately, kids will keep donating their allowance to Valve and RUclipsrs will try riding the algorithm with 50 case unboxings, perpetuating this garbage.
>skins are gambling
>i love hat simulator
choose one
You should make a video series where you browse and showcase some of the really good warpaints in the workshop
Soon
@@ZestyJesus Very soon
@@ZestyJesus Wait dude, why dont you do what 3kliksphilip does and interview the creators of accepted warpaints on the method/thoughts behind accepted skins. That'd be amazing and fun
Trust me, that would be very fun and informative, but 95% of workshop creators hate my guts and want nothing to do with me lol
@@ZestyJesus oh shoot. So you went asking if some good creators would want to appear on your video since then, and many declined? Oof, well, good luck out there
thanks for still putting up a good fight against the lack of quality in items and warpaints
Vote with your like and dislike options. We need to be harder on the standard of a war paint.
The problem of Valve time and time again picking the same creators in general is getting worse and worse. Just look at this Christmas update - ICS got another one of his chokepoint maps into the game despite it having like 20 votes on it. Meanwhile, stuff like Christmas Turbine goes ignored because it's from a less known creator despite how much hype surrounded it. And even when Valve do pick new creators, they somehow manage to go for the worst submissions (as evidenced by Health and Hell).
Eye catching thumbnail to say the least
Everyone PLEASE, Send your positive votes on the workshop links that have been posted in the description! We need any of these works of art to be implemented into the game ... or at least one of them!
Because I realized how criminally the war paint and skins in TF2 in general have been buried and how this is another major screw-up on valve's end because it feels like we are walking on dirt with a sea of treasure buried underneath
Yes. We have power. With our votes and dislikes.
@@tearex8688 Unlimited...POWERRRRRRR!!!!!!
That bit at the end by Josh Strife Hayes, man, its wild how many points that many people wouldn't give much thought or care about (aesthetic and artstyle) that he was on point about and how its integrity can be compromised without direction or care. As an artist, I have always been fond of game artstyles, they give so much personality to a game, and its sad whenever I see artstyle decay like this.
A similar issue is going on with Call of Duty. Not with community made stuff but quality control of camos in the base game. Cod used to go out of their way to make some really cool and iconic camos for completing challenges. However, lately they've been "copy/paste"-ing camos from past games, or giving us just a basic ugly camos, in order to sell more stuff in the shop.
No one really complains about it because we got other issues, but Call of Duty sold a mastery skin from a different game in the shop. A skin that demands you to unlock every single camo in the entire game, a very time consuming one to unlock, usually taking months to do so, and just sold it for like $25. That on it's own is really bad, but then they restrict it to only 2 individual weapons. So people who wanted to spend money may not even get to use it on a weapon they enjoy using.
It's awful.
Gold camo back in Black Ops or the red or blue digital/stripes from Modern Warfare 2/3 were amazing. Time consuming to acquire but the only way to get them was to grind, and it was worth it, a point of pride even. They were very simple yet nice to use, nowadays you get seizure/vomit stains of a skin and theres no way you can put emotional value upon it. Too much is a common issue, but in terms of aesthetics having things that distract from the main theme ruins it, or just assaults your eyes.
Oddly the basic camos tend to look better than some of the premium ones. And the mastery camos aren't quite as nice this year. Platinum and Orion are nice but Gold and Polyatomic look kinda bad depending on what gun you use.
what happened we used to hate cod 5 years ago
im loving how the message is getting sent across the community, but there's little to no action by valve sadly
profit motive moments ☠
Good video. I’ve worked on one warpaint for the summer update so far, and I’m starting another one now (themed after the gravity gun from half life). Looking at the work shop, it’s clear just how far the bar has dropped. There’s an alarming number of creators who are flooding the workshop with 2 or more warpaint submissions every day, all of them using the same base, the same promo images, and just cycling through random colour combinations. It would be a shame for one of these warpaints, which some of the creators have admitted only took them an hour or two to make (which I’d still say is generous given the overall quality but whatever), rather than one of the warpaints you showed in the video.
It needs to be stopped. Enough is eough.
Worth mentioning - the teir system incentives some bad warpaints to be added to the game. If all warpaints were good there'd be no reason for gambling addicts to keep unboxing for better ones
This is a problem that plagues a lot of microtransaction-enabled games. The model creates a very unsound incentive to create bad, low-effort, or at the very least boring, content to make the 'good stuff' stand out in comparison.
That thumbnail is something, i guess. Not my fav style. Good vid.
TF2's current war paints feel like Fortnite's weapon wraps nowadays
not saying that it's a bad thing, most wraps in FN rock, it's just that in FN players can get away with using colorful, eloquent wraps because the majority of players skins are just as equally flashy
but in TF2 there is a long established art style, and lots of players agree that as time passes, some of content that gets added to the game feels divergent to it
Besides the obvious artstyle defecation the tile image paints provide there's also the fact they just... don't go with anything? With stuff like bomber soul and warhawk you can at least pair them with your tryhard military loadouts and look decent but what do I pair a weapon with a low res tiled image of candy corn with?
7:11 That flower skin is actually my favorite pour paint in the game, especially field tested quality
TF2 is inherently ridiculous, but... in like a subdued sly kind of way, like a hat with a spy mask of another hat on it, not "uuuuuuuh fuck it rubber ducky minigun two skeletons dancing under the moonlight with 18 paraplegic ducks doing the conga unusual effect on a banana hat."
Literally as you were showing bad warpaints on the workshop, a decent one called “sober stripes” popped into view. It’s like even the good warpaint makers know how insane and lazy the newer warpaints have gotten.
Being someone whose been critiqued by you in the workshop by (via comments,) I agree and understand. If fact, the piece that you critiqued was a joke warpaint I created to learn how to make warpaints. Even with that joke one, I still spent at least 3 days on. There are then a couple other ones I did having a little more passion and effort poured it them, coming out as garbage, but only way to get better is to do. I did collab with a couple friends on a couple before, but after learning that the same creators get selected more often was a heavy discouragement. Criticism is the thing that doesn't bother me personally. Its the feeling of not being given a chance. Ive dropped warpaints to learn how to create other stuff in TF2, but all that was dropped because of that plus other factors that fell into my efforts. For the sake other artists & creators, we need a better moderation system & selection system in the workshop.
"pride flags"
now hold on a minute, maybe they don't fit the look of tf2, but I feel like singling them out is a bit...
"vore pride flag"
...
okay, yeah, fair enough. That singling out is completely justified.
war paints of other pride flags would be cool, though
trans, nonbinary, and lesbian color schemes are really pretty
@@Technotoadnotafrog it’s more about not supporting what those colors represent even if they are pretty. Look at what happened to the rainbow. It’s been ruined for many people
jesus christ this is rage bait and yall are falling for it so hard because of your internalized biases against LGBT people
@@meat.If the rainbow has been ruined by people using colors on flags for you then the rainbow would have been ruined a long time ago. Grow up
@@meat.i cant beleive gays stole the rainbow from autists 😾😾😾
Hats
yeah
Hats
Indeed
Fun fact about the gaudy, colorful warpaints, many of them are made by cheaters.
I gotta say your have really been expressing your opinions on war paints and the game as a whole a lot better lately, used to a blind zesty hater but you have changed me with the recent videos. Love what you are doing with trying to get better war paints and cosmetics.
Majority of Twitter and Reddit freaks in general hate on Zesty because he has a passion for being outspoken about things when other people are otherwise too afraid to be as such. Yeah he's had moments which are really questionable but any time he unleashes even 1% of negative energy towards something, everyone just paints him as a laughing stock no matter what.
never been a fan of warpaints, the VERY select few painted weapons I own I selected very nitpickily because I just think clean weapons tend to look better regardless. I would fucking love to have more warpaints that actually make me consider "hmmm maybe I should get this version instead of the clean base weapon", because like fucking hell I'm ever putting christmas garbo on any of my nice looking clean weapons
Agree. Agree. Agree.
I agree with almost every point in this video except your classification of Spectrum Splattered as an “over saturated, trash warpaint.” I love it. It’s my favorite skin for my crossbow
I will concede that its texture work is of far higher quality than most warpaints we have in game.
But my god, the colors have no business being in TF2
@@ZestyJesus I see your point, I’d actually much prefer if spectrum splattered were a high quality, yet saturated exception similar to pink elephant, the pyroland rainbow ones, etc. among a sea of much more traditionally fitting skins
But it was a great video, and I hope valve listens like i think they saw your review for christmas 2022. We will see
those are some huge honkers in the thumbnail
The Josh Strife Hayes at the end made me think autoplay messed up
Why am i getting major deja vu from this video?
Am i just slowly losing it?
yeah the background gameplay video i have seen before no doubt, are we both insane?
I have it too, I saw this one before
I used to believe valve had at least a semblance of quality control, that was until they literally added the same warpaint twice just with different colors pallets
I really hope pamp gets some of their warpaints added to the new update, because then they'll have their foot in the door, and stuff they make later, or stuff they've made before is more likely to get chosen because they'll already have warpaints in the game by that point.
Not a fan of most of pamps stuff.
@@tearex8688 That's fair, it's all up to opinion, but pamp's war paints are *definitely* closer to the style and consistency of the original war paints and even decorated weapons compared to some of the over saturated lazy submissions that have gotten into the game as of late, and that's worth a lot, it's good to set an example
thanks for letting me know what warpaints can be! i thought that the warpaints we get now are fine, but after watching this, this shit gotta go man
Its scary how that last bit mimics whats been going on to tf2 so perfectly
It is an industry-wide phenomenon.
Zesty's oc has me acting funny
Heh, I realized something. What is happening to TF2 is also happening to other media and many western nations. The spirit of the thing in question is getting destroyed by those who never really cared for it in the first place. Also, bonus points for the metroid music.
Uh oh, careful comrade, don't question the regime. You don't want to be called a far-right ist phobe and get fired from your job, do you?
What the hell are you talking about
@@nigeladams8321 The observation that people don't put in much effort to understand the media they use, are too passive when things get changed, or worse, are actively trying to use that media for their own goals.
For example, TF2. A lot of people don't seem to understand the art style TF2 has and many of the creators are just pumping out stuff for the money. Thus we get a lot of lackluster hats and war paints. And it got so bad that some furry got a pride flag through Valve. Another example is with 343 and Halo. Bungie made halo to be a military scifi shooter, but 343 turned it into a weird cape shit fanfiction story because of the head writers for 343 was wanting to tell his own story instead of sticking to the rest of Bungie's story.
Then for the other worse motivation, you have IPs like star wars, Halo, Fallout, the whole anime dub fiasco, and so on. Here many of the creators were more interested in promoting their ideologies rather then to tell a good story. Star Wars had the Disney trilogy and similar media. Halo has the halo show and even the games. And for the anime dubs, there are many reported cases where the lines were changed to be fitting for "modern audiences." There are also many other examples, but these were the first to pop into my mind.
Thankfully, it appears that TF2 is only suffering from the first part and not the latter, however, I am aware that a lot of the popular TF2 people are part of identity politics or agree with it to a degree. I've ran into such things myself, like how Array7 shut down his discord server because he found it too "toxic."
Tourists
8:20 🫒🧙♀️
glad we still have a voice of reason.
13:20 to 13:40
I don't think I've had my heart broken more times over the course of 20 seconds than I've had in my entire time playing TF2. Amazing paints getting buried under mountains of garbage. I'ld pay good money to have ANY of those in the game.
My favorite thing to do on the TF2 workshop is to tell warpaint makers who make shit skins that they look like clipart, it causes them to melt down every fuckin time
Man I just want the Stock Syringe Gun to have warpaints on it.
I’m glad I’m not the only one
Me 4 or uh... me as well agree with you fellas.
Overdose would be a better choice
Valve has done the little fella extremely dirty, even weapons almost no one uses like the stock bat and fire axe got festive versions years ago and the syringe gun is still sitting in the corner catching dust.
that moment, that split second, where i went "what's wrong with pride flags? you can do them tastefully, righ- OH MY GOD"
"And even pride flags!"
What, it's just a celebration of human diversi-
*OH MY GOODNESS*
VALVE!!!
No, you can't, they all look atrocious.
@@SangwiSigilindeed.
JESUS CHRIST ITS NOT A REFERENCE TO A JOKE PRIDE FLAG ITS AN ANALOGOUS COLOR COMBO THAT IS EXTREMELY COMMON
@@SangwiSigilsure buddy, it's just that a lot of people disagree with you
8:47 Ah, Zesty is a madness combat appreciator
If Valve kept weapon Skins instead of Warpaints I'd say people would be more interested in owning these weapons.
Yes. Indeed.
le booba?!!!!
edit: watched the video just had to comment for the thumbnail lol, but fr warpaints fell off *HARD*
> there's a vore pride flag in TF2 as a war paint
Excuse me, whuuu...
The angrier Zesty gets, the bigger the bobs are.
NGL this is a good balance.
Well, the Summer Update's skins all look pretty good. Like, all of them look good on at least a few weapons; there's no obvious duds.
War paint redemption arc?
Y e s
Hopefully
Yes, and it's all thanks to zesty jesus
@@Exorbulla thanks to the community that came together, zesty did a lot, but without community he wouldn't have achieved anything.
@mugger4696 true, but that goes the other way around as well, without zesty, the community would have continued to gobble up shitty ass war paints lile its fine dining
this honestly pisses me off, the fact that there are an abundance of amazing looking skins and warpaints that are being ignored by valve is abysmal.
I'm so glad this video exists. Your opinion on what does and does not fit the games artstyle has been so murky for so long, I'm glad this video clears that up
This video feels like a big coincidence for me, has i did a poll on reddit ( thats still going) to which type of warpaint people would like to have in the summer cases (which also in the poll is winning the warpaint relegated to a single or specific weapon like the old weapon skins, has you said, they where more in tone with the game style and had unique pattern that blended with the weapon and class perfectly)
I hope this video blows up like the map maker letter, so whoever this contractor is (yes copium i know), see it and does something about it, great video has always and you hit the nail perfectly in one swing.
Fun fact: most if the warpaint you showed during the part dedicated to good warpaint, i actually voted them.
I'm so proud of my Smalltown Bringdown rocket launcher (the skin one, not the warpaint) it may be bland and simple, but sometimes, minus is more.
@@thisismyusernowi want simple and humble that looks good.
Zesty Jesus at it again, nobody could have said it better
I kinda have been avoiding watching your videos due to all of the drama that has surrounded you, however, I feel like having a dissenting voice willing to express what they think is wrong in a community helps to keep it healthy and most importantly, improve.
I have always liked the concept of war paints, I have seen some cool ones but never had the money to buy them, last year I finally started working and spent some of that money on war paints and opening some cases just to realize that... Every single one is Halloween or Christmas? And the designs are also not that good? I felt like I was alone on this, luckily you mentioned it, most old war paints are so cool and great, the uranium one being one of my favorites, and recent ones are just kinda tiring to look at or just flat out ugly.
Great video, I hope Valve does something about this and actually adds high quality skins
Vote. Vote. And vote on the workshop. Raise the bar.
the drama around zesty is overhyped honestly. what he brings to light about the game, be it skins or mechanics, are often ignored or mocked because he had a 'bad' twitter take and got mad on stream but to be fair he could have taken steps to calm down or just not take the game that seriously once people better than him started steamrolling but hey even i've gotten mouse throwing mad before.
That fucking hexagon warpaint is everything wrong with modern warpaints.
13:35 That looks *so* clean wtf
btw most of the decorated weapons have like 3-4 patterns that are applied in different regions and thats why same iteration of a weapon might have a slightly different look -- the way pattern lands on a weapon is random. however, there are some skins that have flat weapon-specific textures. (like warhawk grenade launcher)
I wish the vote button in the workshop would actually affect anything...
It does. A bot picks most voted. We need to be harsher on what we want. If you think somethings ugly as hell. Put it in the comments.
@@tearex8688 no it does not
@@tearex8688 no it doesn't. A lot of random seasonal bs with 4 favs is being added to the game, while the most upvoted and popular stuff getting ignored
@@arcade4650 ok. What else can you do then. Then do that. Without valve intervention.
to this day i have mixed opinions on war paints. The reason I don't like them, is that it made the actual weapon reskins like festive weapons and australiums even more special; there were so few of them, they were expensive, and mostly everyone had the same looking weapons otherwise, so you really stood out for having a strange festive weapon.
Then they added festivizers and largely destroyed the purpose and value of real festive reskins.
What I do like is how sick some of the war paints look, but now everyone and their mother has a strange war painted skin.
The day tf2 adds pride flags, I’ll fucking uninstall the game.
Why?
@@at0m1c2 I think it goes without saying that adding them would clash with the artstyle and setting of the game and also strip it of the last shreds of what makes it different from the mainstream stuff.
@@punisheranimations6807 dude... tf2's artstyle has been broken for most of its lifetime with pretty much all cosmetics, every character in the game is from a different country, pyro is an implied gay man, miss pauling is a lesbian, if it came out today you'd probably think its "woke" anyways 😂
@@SHANKONME Neither are true. Fanfictions by "game theorists" and VAs don't count as canon.
@@okaychud i said pyro is an IMPLIED gay man idiot, and look it up, one of the writers confirmed miss pauling is a lesbian.
19:54 Thanks for the cursed knowledge I really didn't want to know about.
Based Josh Strife Says reference.
And, yes, of course I agree because why wouldn't I agree with the truth?
I now want to make a couple high quality war paints, then like 1 or 2 low quality ones and see which ones valve approves first
-dxlevel 81 in launch options
nothing personell, warpaints....
I like war paints.
Males dirt cheap stranges obtainable
21:16 "And when you're entire existence becomes wrapped and distorted and selling whatever looks nice, you've become a war-themed hat simulator."
What was once the quintessential gag of the game has now become the reality.
Skins/warpaints are such an after thought I didnt even know any were released after jungle inferno
I don't care about warpaints, only hats, I'm a hat guy
EXACTLY
me just want good game, hat is cherry on top, simple as
Love the exaggerated showmanship starting at 10:15
they hated him because he spoke the truth
16:30 I've been thinking about whether TF2 workshop is some kind of money making scheme, I mean there are couple of authors with 20-30 item submissions accepted into the game with 1-2 items OR item sets guaranteed to get added each update (since Valve seems to favor the same item creators).
Over the span of say, 10 years, that's a lot of money made via item submissions. Perhaps not enough to quit a job but enough for a nice side income, just imagine how much money was made on this silly little multiplayer game by the top workshop creators... crazy.
And consider that even if certain top-of-the-game artist hasn't created the now accepted item, he still could be marked as contributor. And this is the case with maps, if you look at the most recent ~50 maps you can see the same names accredited over and over again, some people literally make a single texture or custom prop for the map and get added as map contributor and get the right to earn money.
not gonna lie, went into this video expecting a bad take, was all good throughout, only W takes in sight
Kind of funny that Dangeresque was a controversial add to tf2 back in the day when there's the whole smissmass 2021 case
Honestly I never liked them in the first place. Back during the Gun Mettle days it was because I hated Counter-Strike, and never wanted TF2 to be mimicking it's more successful brother. But now I simply prefer buying vanilla weapons, or stuff like The Original.
Like, no Tomislav skin looks better than the original one. Sure, if you want a strange Tomislav but don't have 1.5 keys (or whatever) to buy it, sure, go ahead! (Nutcracker looks similar to the vanilla one, and is pretty good in it's own way)
Although I don't like The Maul too, I think that Homewrecker feels more cartoony/TF2-like, and also it doesn't have the strange variant (I love playing Pybro, so I'm a bit biased here).
Strange Black Rose when?
Does anyone else experience frustration with finding a skin with texture mapping that "makes sense?" In terms of which sectors of the weapon (barrel, stock, etc.) certain materials are chosen to occupy??
Maybe the Medigun gets the worst of this. Bonk Varnished, for example, could instead include a yellow barrel, wrapped in red bandages, which would more closely resemble the design of the can, then, in turn, transforming the Medigun into something more closely resembling a giant mobile BONK! dispenser. That paired with the Medic's Soda Jerk cosmetics would look excellent, and it would MAKE SENSE seeing that in TF2's universe.
its probably because the original texture templates were made with specific patterns in mind that made sense for their placements/visual composistion, it was bound to happen when new textures representing different themes/concepts were being applied onto them
bro that roman mosaic war paint looks sick asf that needs to get into the game!!!
Based as always, bonus points for le big booba
Zesty is the hero we need that the community hates and wants to get rid off. The fact that he as the balls to face the hatred of thousands of players to tell the blatant factual truth to us is something I can respect. I used to think the skins we got were good, but looking back. He's right, most are trash. Part of me wishes I could gp back in time and tell my younger self to play tf2 when gun mettle came out so I can experience peak TF2
Yes. Make change with likes and dislikes. Type your disapprovel of it in the comments we can't just be silent and let no disapproval happen or nothing changes.
TF2 was basically a shell of it's former self by the time gun mettle game out. The real peak was 2010-2013