The Secret Meaning of TF2 Item Colours

Think you know your Vintage from your Genuine? Your Community quality from your Self-Made? Here's pretty much every detail about TF2 item qualities and their differences.
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🎬 Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Normal
1:00 - Unique
1:55 - Genuine
2:47 - Haunted
3:36 - Vintage
5:14 - Decorated
5:46 - Strange
7:16 - Unusual
8:04 - Collector's
9:22 - Community
10:29 - Self-Made
11:49 - Valve

[@Casperr]

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[@Dabadi4834]

casperrlicious

[@kkotheracountnstuff8209]

I was looking in my backpack unboxing my Halloween goodies when it was still Halloween and i got a strange haunted claws and infect , not two separate , one strange , one haunted it was a singular claws and infect with both properties , is that normal?

[@tripplordofinconvenience9953]

We need a TF2 character to be playable in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Please spread the word throughout the TF2 and Smash communities.

[@vice.-]

How did u get that crosshair?

[@squidgetissmall]

5:40 nice

[@NikoFromOneShot]

Hear me out: Self-made Jarate

[@Casperr]

What about some Self-Made Mad Milk? 😏

[@NikoFromOneShot]

😳

[@bobbyferg9173]

@@Casperr Hol up

[@MykeGG]

@@Casperr no.. mad milk isn't related to sex.. *maybe..?*

[@MykeGG]

@@Casperr How about Self-Made gas passer?

[@FantasmaNaranja]

i still remember seeing a dude with a self made heavy misc and half of the server circling them in awe at the little sparklies

[@Casperr]

Those rare "omg I didn't even know this existed!" moments are one of the reasons I love TF2 so much

[@KRUSH-R]

I was in a match with the BINOCULOUS! creator, he had the self made item covered with the TF2VRH misc tho

[@tyefal]

A bit ago I saw someone who had the unusual cap on a mvm server

[@SlewedBoot25934]

Gabe Newell has self-made stock items

[@stalatarindustries5650]

I was there.... Halloween 2020 :D

[@UncleDane]

I cover my mouth to resist the urge to smile at Casperr's Elite Grade Specialized Killstreak informative videos and leave a Legendary Field-Tested Strange meme in the comments

[@True-man0124]

So... You want the Valve Wrench?

[@theblutsauger903]

It’s the funny sentry man

[@thealmightyone9817]

Hey Dane! Love ur stuff!

[@ToasterOfBred]

Uncle Dane the engine main

[@imfine.3792]

uncle dane daddy

[@luke_0605]

Fun fact: The Bat-Outta-Hell is available in Haunted quality, making it the only weapon you can actually get in Haunted quality

[@luuc4sflp]

That is indeed, a fun fact.

[@luuc4sflp]

@Bunneer Thanks m8

[@PK-Radio]

*where do I get one*

[@luke_0605]

@@PK-Radio On the Steam Community Market, for like 2 dollars. Not that expensive.

[@PK-Radio]

@@luke_0605 *perfect*

[@cliche3521]

Ok you know what: Community Jarate

[@mochabean5042]

"alright boys let's fill up this jar"

[@oraandrip5266]

Community mad milk

[@cliche3521]

@@oraandrip5266 nah man too much jizz

[@elvis5384]

Community dolakoos bar!

[@jack6478]

So everyone just pisses in a jar?

[@arka7603]

I have a problem in tf2, I litteraly cannot play without my weapons being strange. Something about every kill being counted, and me seeing how much I use a weapon, makes me wet.

[@Casperr]

UwU

[@neoniathefox9804]

Same, it’s getting bad, I bought a strange baby faces blaster... I’m down bad man

[@hellnaw7921]

the problems of the p2p...

[@thecannedslap]

You’re lucky most common weapon stranges are a few ref only.

[@LD-sx9pr]

I wish strangifiers and colector sets still drop or at least obtainable in MvM tours to give them purpose instead of grinding twin cities

[@Toofty]

Been playing the game for years and I still didn't know half of this great video!

[@SillierExtra]

Hi

[@EternallyDoomed]

Same lol

[@dapperblaze2]

fun fact; while playing on a community server I met someone with a valve weapon, he accidentally suicided and all I can say is I became a god for a short while

[@the_knightcatTTv]

"I am inevitable"

[@dapperblaze2]

@Sans the Skeleton • 13 years ago maybe

[@ampoule1878]

some servers can have custom weapons for admins i think, so that might be possible

[@C.A._Old]

i miss Robin Walker Valve Rocket Launcher 10 Years Ago Clips make me cry... if i have this weapon , firstly i kill all bots and everyone proud me and than : i updated Vac System. ! +1

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

@@dapperblaze2 you couldn't pick up weapons 13 years ago

[@Wertercat]

Fun fact: There’s one item with Community Sparkle that isn’t Self-Made. Valve originally gave Self-Made Community Sparkle Lugermorphs to the developers of Sam and Max, but when Poker Night at the Inventory came out, they were accidentally turned into Vintage quality items, making them tradable!

[@mewmew8932]

I hope the devs didn't actually trade them away

[@Wertercat]

@@mewmew8932 At least one was traded away, and then cloned.

[@mewmew8932]

@@Wertercat sheeet

[@R41ph3a7b6]

Damn, how sad.

[@IInferno]

This video was not dry at all casperr. It was incredibly interesting and intriguing! Keep them coming!

[@Flamme-Sanabi]

This video has drip.

[@munkeyofdajungle6006]

Zero drip video

[@MedicMainDave]

I approve 👌

[@ShorK]

Awesome to have a guide like this, ill definitely be showing this to friends getting into tf2!

[@Casperr]

Thanks ShorK, and thanks so much again for letting me use your footage!

[@MedicalBag]

pog

[@casuallyuncalm9488]

Piss man

[@Realproturkishpro]

@@casuallyuncalm9488 true

[@Anarqism]

how much did it take you for the 200 christmas piss

[@justarandomdood]

A shame you didn't talk about mixing qualities btw. You mentioned the Double Vintage items, but that was a quirk from name changes and stuff. For example, I've got a Strange Genuine Widowmaker. Genuine at first, and then it got a Strangifier applied to it. Oh well, solid video overall bro! :D

[@giulianaandreolli6836]

With strangifiers you can combine literally any quality except normals! Even collectors items

[@justarandomdood]

@@giulianaandreolli6836 yes, but just adding that info would've been a nice touch. It takes literally a max of one sentence, is interesting, and explains it to new players who might not understand/know about it

[@Groaker]

As an owner of a Strange Collector's Professional Killstreak Widowmaker, I was looking forward to that too!

[@somefries3101]

He's going to talk about it in another video.

[@justarandomdood]

@@somefries3101 I didn't know if it was weird enough to be included in the other video (since talking about the glitch of Normal weapons might've taken a decent amount of time anyways), but you're probably right

[@mudstick]

i remember once i managed to get a really clean kill on a scout who had a community scattergun. they typed "nice" in chat and then proceeded to wipe the floor with me every time i ran into them after that lmao

[@jldragon7855]

having a collector’s quality item has always stood out to me as being especially cool... because, well, im a collector of things (such as hotwheels, and now, of australiums). something about that bold, bright strong crimson that kind of demands your attention more than any of the other colours just feels really cool

[@Casperr]

It really stands out doesn't it! Shout out to collectors 🤘

[@RIP2UALL]

I have 2, I need more!

[@zzyxxyzz5442]

​@@RIP2UALL there's currently a collector's Boston Basher on backpack for a few dozen keys I think

[@Casperr]

*Minor correction* Whilst item contributors _do_ get a Self-Made key if their item is in a crate collection, they typically only get a Self-Made crate if that crate series is keyless such as the "Unlocked" series of class-specific crates (wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Mann_Co._Supply_Crate/Seriesless_crates ). Thanks Muhai for pointing this out! Thanks for watching! This video is a bit "drier" than usual. I really wanted to mention some of the interesting facts, but felt that the boring bits needed to be there for the interesting ones to make sense... Hence "The Complete Guide" as opposed to "some random interesting facts" Anyway, see you in the next one, whatever it may be!

[@walrusgiraffe3440]

A lot of these were very interesting epic video

[@Scythe3.11]

Casperr you missed one quality and that is the strange unique quality

[@maddieb4384]

was the hales own shotgun supposed to say "Hal's Own" in its description box?

[@maddieb4384]

casperr how does it feel knowing bots deem you popular enough to invade your comments

[@tripplordofinconvenience9953]

Heavy for Smash Ultimate

[@Nepuutunes]

You forgot to point out that there's one Unusual hat that you can obtain without unboxing! The map stamp hat (Which you can buy one map stamp for $1) is the only cosmetic that has a unique unusual effect that isn't present in other items.

[@the-hd5cx]

I'm gonna need your profile picture pronto, boss

[@percher4824]

@@the-hd5cx horni man of horni land, what is your wisdom

[@the-hd5cx]

@@percher4824 i want to beat it

[@MarlowPreston]

@@the-hd5cx It's Purple Heart (Neptune) from Neptunia. But anything more specific probably isn't that easy to find. She's kind of popular so there's no shortage of pictures of her with the only few tags I could think of like blush and open mouth, and I can't really reverse image search a close crop like that. Though if you want sexy art of her in general there's no shortage of it, just use any booru site of your choice line Gelbooru, Sankaku, Danbooru, ect.

[@the-hd5cx]

@@MarlowPreston I love you

[@ryanphillips4123]

This information is actually difficult for new players to understand, even after reading the wiki. Thank you for makeing this video and explaining it so completely and concisely!

[@gibustheinfamous]

Hilarious how the item REQUIRED to MAKE Collector's items is practically a Collector's item itself. They should really allow it to drop again.

[@Casperr]

The weird thing about the chemistry sets is that they were silently disabled. No patch notes, nothing. People just noticed they were no longer dropping one day and by process of elimination worked out what patch it probably happened in. It's not entirely impossible that this was a mistake and they were some how accidentally disabled as something similar happened to hat drops a few years prior which Valve eventually reversed. But chances are we'll never really know either way!

[@clay8930]

Collector's Unusual would be interesting, to say the very least. Imagine having to not only get 200 of the same hat in unusual quality, but also get those 200 unusuals to have the same exact effect on them. I don't think this is possible. Even if it was, it would take a whole lot of time, money and for sure a fuck ton of RNG for getting the same effect.

[@Usinghealer099]

And money

[@cralo2569]

200 is obviously overkill, reduce it to 20 or 10 and it could become something somewhat sought-after

[@itspoiler]

I’ve been playing TF2 for years and I never understood most of the qualities meaning or like origin, but now I know! Thanks man!

[@TitaniumBurst]

12:26 a wild Ster appears

[@pecanbear]

I actually met Robin on a community server. His account had the valve employee badge. He was chill. The server was celebrating 12 years of being online

[@thebreadbringer9522]

I love how much effort you put into everything, my man. Makes me think of old-style TF2. Keep up the good work!

[@xx_insert_cool_username_he6876]

The amount of Hale's own quality stuff I've seen is uncountable

[@alejoyugar]

Items that counts, just normal prices. Items that are strange and does not count, is truly expensive.

[@ookami1846]

I have ONCE played in aserver with a valve grenade launcher, and if my memory doesn't fail me, when the guy shot it, it also applied jarate

[@idotspy1458]

this would have been really helpful 1 year ago when I first wasn't a f2p

[@lelmorelel8972]

Fun fact: There is something known as a stock frying pan Also I should point that there’s only **one digit number** of these that exist

[@evinghostwrite7265]

A KZbin by the name Koneko Kitten actually has one

[@spaceship9602]

@@evinghostwrite7265 doesn't he make roblox videos or something

[@evinghostwrite7265]

@@spaceship9602 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aobEqZqni7hgnJI

[@evinghostwrite7265]

@@spaceship9602 guess this video was an exception

[@spaceship9602]

@@evinghostwrite7265 mk

[@Mutaburasaurus]

You should have mentioned how Haunted items were first added to the game, during Scream Fortress 2011. When Halloween gifts were still not individual, and you had to fight the entire server for them, all gifts picked up in the underworld on Eyeaduct were guaranteed Haunted items. (And as a result, there would be Dalokoh's Bar heavies chilling out in the underworld, to be able to snatch gifts even when Monoculus wasn't present.)

[@waddledeeboi9975]

As a matter of fact The headtaker does have an unusual effect It's just extremely difficult to see The farther up you go on the blade The more transparent it becomes!

[@buzzsburner.8286]

Nobody: Casperr: *J A I B U S*

[@tamim9266]

5:55 The strange section got the Bully preps theme. Nice one.

[@azurabbit12]

12:15 well it doesn't have random crits so I would say it's pretty balanced

[@poncho5984]

This video made me realize that vintage is just cheaper collectors

[@Ducktor]

If a weapon has the dragonslayer skin option, then I'll be using that weapon

[@eurobeatintensifies5840]

Im surprised someone hasn't made a video like this yet, it should help alot of new players learn the ropes of their item quality and rarity, great video!

[@HOTD108_]

Most long time TF2 players are extremely exclusionary ellites who consider even talking to new players as beneath them, which is why a lot of this information has been hard to come by until now.

[@naidenyordanov985]

You make one of the most interesting TF2 (and outher games included) content. I think like that for a few reason: The quet voice you have (or use) is making me relax and is ceeping me interested. Part of how interesting you are (in my opinion) is how you say the information and so on. I love deep analisys/information videos (especially) if they are for topic I like or interested in. I like videos that make me feel like I m part of the thing that is talked about (but not in a way that is only for a video but rather way that is eternal (if I can say it like that)) I know you are going to kepo the good work... and i m thankfull for every youtuber who makes these kinds of videos.

[@dayminder7414]

"An unusual hat was rewarded to a make a wish patient" Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!

[@doescolder24]

As an F2P I found this video very useful..the game doesn't bother teaching new players about item qualities whatsoever..when I first played this game I was very confused..What are these cosmetics with stranger/unusual affixes? What is item level? Does it increase damage? What are keys and what they're used for? Which is higher unusual or strange? How to get bot killer or festival weapons? The game doesn't explain any of this stuff to new players that's why I was little to not interested in cosmetics in this game

[@kamez1049]

9:23 I once played in the same server as Agro from Kritzkast, he owns a Community Degreaser

[@Wavianite]

I met and added someone named "Sparkwire" On Killing floor 2 in 2015 and apparently he is a big community creator, with multiple community/selfmade items

[@doescolder24]

Kinda hilarious how we went from being outraged over a $5 horse armor to completely cool with a multi thousand dollars "golden pan" 😅

[@aprofessionalgamer5355]

You can trade the pan for money, you don't buy it from valve.

[@mewmew8932]

I LOVE GOOOOLD

[@jasperhopland8913]

This was very useful, I was very confused on why my items had different colours.

[@Subliminal-qh3qb]

6:02 yoooo, thats the prep-fighting theme in Bully, nostalgia hits hard

[@AverageSynth]

damn, my vintage sandvich is older than i thought

[@seriamon]

Love that u go trough the trouble of makin timestamps The blue paper fade is also really cool Almost official looking Did u make it yourself?

[@simoster2943]

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[@stupidlyhanna162]

Naaaah, to be honest, this video is interesting than dry! Will be waiting for the next video! :3

[@MsQuadMan]

Kudos for a very well made video! Interesting facts I as an old tf2-player had never heard of!! Thanks again for an awesome video, keep it up.

[@joannes4321]

Bro I love your background music. 100% did not expect the Vendetta Preps theme from Bully.

[@sandwichh_]

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[@Casperr]

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[@jdizzle4522]

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[@teandeekay]

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[@jdizzle4522]

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[@iddsmedingus]

Unique actually comes from dungeon crawler terminology, if I remember correctly, with Uniques being well, Unique items that have specific qualities in contrast to Rares which are randomly generated permutations of normal weapons.

[@failurefiend]

Unusual headless horseless horsemens headtaker has a particle effect, it just happens to be the same one the eyelander grants you

[@trikyoo]

Finally, someone who explains the item qualities accurately in one video. I pray for my countless hours I spent explaining to my friends what they are.

[@PFSnypr]

I wanna become a valve employee for the sole purpose of making a Vintagr Valve Self Made Unusual Strange Collectors Golden Wrench

[@demogaming8895]

As a f2p I don't even dream about getting one of these but the video is still cool and informative nonetheless

[@i_hate_tuesdays170]

Hey that spy you killed at 5:18 was disguised as me! Thanks for putting that imposter down.

[@Darkray800]

I've ran in to a few self made/ community quality items. I ran into the creator of the yule log who was wearing the self made yule log and it turns out he's made a bunch of others cosmetics in the game too. I can't remember exactly what it was but I think I have ran into atleast one other self made in the past too I also ran into one of the people who worked on agent gunn and had a saxxy which was pretty cool.

[@noskin7290]

12:10 just imagine that rocket launcher against bots

[@CanonOverseer]

Robin, rather than going to fix the game just starts server hopping to kill all the bots and ascends to godhood

[@noskin7290]

@@CanonOverseer it would be crazy

[@spaceship9602]

i would love to see that

[@MowseChao]

Well, that was super interesting! I always learn something new when I watch this stuff. :D

[@therealeikichionizuka]

Great vid, Casperr! I've been playing tf2 for almost 5 yrs, and my dumba** had no idea what haunted items were!

[@theblutsauger903]

5:45 Funny number. Laugh

[@BlackTungsten]

Nice

[@PootisSpencerHeeyah]

Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahaahahhaah

[@phgumerr646]

That glitched varient video better come out soon, or ill double unsub, when I press the subscribed button twice!

[@Casperr]

*sweats profusely*

[@Novistador96]

@@Casperr 🤔🤔🤔

[@2rare79]

Been a while since I played tf2 about 3 months but this is just amazingly made, despite me not playing it as much as I used to this was extremely enjoyable to watch

[@Casperr]

Thank you ☺️

[@2rare79]

@@Casperr not a problem and the narration and sound quality was phenomenal

[@SirFreelanders35]

I have this faint memory back in the control point podcast days when the community items and weapons came out. That some of the guns had cool effects like a trail particle effect on the Rockets

[@Luigiofthegods]

I love the item quality names so much; I probably would have never gotten into trading if 12 year old me hadn't been so inexplicably curious and mystified by the purple "Unusual" and what it meant

[@markchumanov8478]

5:38 He committed 69 kills on this kill counter.

[@TotallySegi]

Really informative! I play tf2 for very long time, I still havent knew what are actually collectors items. Thanks!

[@grummdoesstuff2983]

Secondary thing with self made. If a self made stamp is used on the world travelers hat, the hat will have the partial effect, despite not being unusual or self made. It will also stack with the particle effect that the world travelers hat gets for using enough map stamps on it.

[@dogsap2761]

amazing channel and amazing editing,

[@demex4548]

1:50 jarate NFT

[@harvey_antlers]

Although I know all this,but it is very cool that you educate new players! And from my stories I will tell you how I saw a man, with self-made Dead Head and duck cap. It's a nice feeling to see people doing things for this game. And of course I like to dig deeper into other people's inventory and find out who did what things.

[@cheesepop7175]

if someone kills robin i think the rocket launcher drops and it is able to be picked up

[@SteamAPunk]

Great vid, been playing since 2011 and still learned something new :)

[@Your_local_jojo_fan]

I remember selling my hats and other things to get a box and I got a bat outta hell

[@angusmcfootball]

Huh, never thought my random jar of sniper piss was essentially an nft.

[@normboy8376]

yes god casperr just what i needed

[@Jokervision744]

Community and self-made must be the best.👌 After unboxing unusual, only thing left is to have strange popped to the Hale's own level.

[@25bitgamerx36]

I feel like just about every long time TF2 player owns a strange shotgun..

[@NotASpyReally]

I did see a player with a self-made item a while ago. It was cool.

[@nickmedadd]

haunted could also been obtained from the underworld in koth_viaduct_event, back from 2011, to the year the halloween gift where replaced with the soul giving thing

[@eykan_ow]

First video i see from you and im intrigued :o

[@Casperr]

Welcome! Check out the TF Trivia playlist linked in the description for more of my videos like this ☺️

[@coda71]

My favorite part of this video is the use of the Preppies Vendetta song from the Bully OST in the entire strange part of the video.

[@bananaspice1967]

I'm still happy about the strange Upgrade i got out of a random cosmetic case 1 year ago.

[@litkale6329]

I heard the preppies theme during the strange part, absolutely epic

[@zeeubernoob]

Ngl the community Spine chilling skull was both "Aww" and amazingly funny. Like they were going "Heyyyy! Nice one kid! this is how you would have turned out"

[@highaf111]

12:38 imagine someone new to the game join in pub match and see this

[@RRPL337]

I Love that no matter where I go, I can hear this Bully soundtrack from Rockstar! It is amazing that people still love that theme and use it. 6:04

[@parkere669]

I met the guy who owns the community back burner on some random server a few years back It was pretty funny because he never actually talked or vc'd, he sort of just confusedly walked around for 10 minutes

[@LudiKryz]

This video reminds me of the cosmetics I want to make for pyro cause I love the character but have no clue how to model or even where to start on the workplace

[@nyrand8249]

Also of note is that using a name tag or a description tag on a normal item makes it unique.

[@syntax2679]

Subbed. Great video!!

[@Chivibro]

I actually did get to see Robin Walker and his crazy Valve Rocket Launcher!!! I forget what year it was, but it must've been around 2012ish. It was on Upward, he was flying around the map and raining fire from the sky! Somehow, we did still manage to win the round (he joined half way in). Then he switched teams and terrorized his old team for a bit. After that, the match was over and he left. I'll never forget the time I met a Valve legend :D

[@MoonatikYT]

Robin Walker is the final boss of TF2

[@werewolfkirby9767]

Ive looked all over the place for a collector's baby face blasters kit but no luck at all. I guess thats just a fever dream now

[@guymanguy]

surprised you didnt mention double qualities. If an item that comes in any other quality (collectors, genuine, vintage) has a strangifier, you can apply that to that and get a double quality. Strange vintage, strange genuine, and strange collectors exist and some are very expensive. Some examples are strange genuine righteous bison, strange vintage stockbroker's Scarf, and strange collectors widowmaker. Of course unusuals can also come in strange quality, even the headtaker with its strangifier.

[@ludwigsmedicalclinic1867]

Legit seen an Aussie minigun with the dragon unusual effect. He was named Pan and he had a god complex for a good reason.

[@Casperr]

Was it in a community server by any chance? You can't get unusual Australiums

[@pauldammit2201]

very helpful and entertaining !

[@Casperr]

Thanks Paul ☺️ that's the exact combination I'm aiming for!

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

Hay man welcome back!

[@Sundance967]

I remember seeing a guy with a Triclops and a Community comp badge, which was pretty nutso

[@sgt.zaitsev287]

The Bonedelier, a non Halloween restricted item, can be unboxed as haunted