The TF2 Glitched Item Iceberg

[@tomperp7573]

Hi rangod (pin me)

[@SkrubsTheNeko]

Hi rangod (unpin him)

[@tomperp7573]

@@SkrubsTheNeko I was asking because I play TF2 with him

[@SkrubsTheNeko]

@@tomperp7573 it was but joke

[@tomperp7573]

@@SkrubsTheNeko oh sorry i didn’t know there is a lot of hate on KZbin sometimes

[@thatonerotom8999]

@@tomperp7573 It’s common, might wanna get used to it

[@horse_dog]

the top notch exists because notch tweeted at valve saying that no one actually believed it was him in-game, so valve gave him his own one of a kind hat

[@itscode3931]

fun fact: the top notch also has a hidden stat that makes him 25% more vulnerable to damage, and valve never told notch this

[@KIgaming.]

@@itscode3931 I'm pretty sure one of the devs said that as a joke but we'll never know if it was actually true, unless there was enough footage of notch playing to analyse

[@itscode3931]

@@KIgaming. i really like to believe that the devs weren't joking haha

[@VollkinSea]

@@KIgaming. it could easily be checked by looking at the item schema.

[@FozTf2]

fun fact: notch played briefly for the swedish national 9v9 team in etf2l back in 2012

[@timjamesthrowawayaccount]

Fun Fact: If a specialized or professional killstreak kit is applied to a bonk helm, the cans on the helmet have the respective sheen

[@KINGBublepop]

That's sick af!

[@Capdukeymomoman]

@Pintlebert Seems like the cans are actually the bonk atomic punch cans just slapped onto the bonk helm

[@JohnnyJoez]

Finally, an iceberg that isnt 90% stuff that the creator made up

[@stan637]

no zealot, no wamo, good shit, entertaining.

[@R41ph3a7b6]

Does that actually happen a lot?

[@СНІМР]

fun fact: the very first few strange southern hospitalities did not have the "sentry kills" part equipped. this was later patched after ~150+ were discovered, but the glitched ones continued to lack said strange part.

[@spoozufy3359]

I have one of these :D

[@harry2041]

Do you have any more information about it?

[@СНІМР]

@@harry2041 I don't, but I've seen these specimens mentioned in one or two "glitched item" forums. you could probably find more info in a few minutes.

[@Fatsaver]

Ive seen many of those before. that number cannot be real

[@apheatf2]

This is nice since I haven't bothered to look some of these up myself! Maybe the Top Notch isnt really a "glitched" item? Also the end of the line unusual miscs would have been nice to see, like the Unusual Coldfront Curbstompers and Sleeveless in Siberia.

[@crikeybaguette4564]

It's not glitched, the thumbnail says glitched and rare.

[@D3m0manTF2]

There are actually 2 items I think deserved to be on here, which were the tradeable Self-Made Max's Head with C. Sparkle and the Self-Made Big Kill with C. sparkle. Saw them up for sale for 5000 and 2000-something dollars.

[@FoulUnderworldCreature]

@@D3m0manTF2 C, sparkle Max's, Lugermorph, Big Kill, etc. are not glitched. They were given to Telltale Games employees before the release of Poker Night at the Inventory and for some reason were made tradable. Some were duped, though, and those are technically glitched items.

[@D3m0manTF2]

@@FoulUnderworldCreature They are not tradeable afaik, the one I've seen for sale was gift wrapped and sold for 9000 for the max head and 3000 for the big kill. Also community sparkle is not the same as self made.

[@VrOOm1337]

There's actually another Randolph the Blood Nosed Caribou, but it has been in a private account for almost all of its existence. I can't recall if legacy spells ever existed for real, however for a period of time after the 2013 Halloween Update, spells were still tradable and usable as long as the person whose spells were being traded to had the game open and used the spell before closing the game. I actually knew about all of these items except the invalid particle Burstchester. I also own a glitched item which I believe might be the only one of its kind which is a renamed and redescribed Competitive Matchmaking Beta Pass (you can't normally use a name or description tag on it).

[@TheMarioBrothers1985]

you got one of the rarest items, nice

[@nadi8218]

Spells applied after they were removed are called post lifes and you would obtain them originally by trading a non updated tf2 account's spells to an updated one. This was fixed in 2016 when spells were made untradrable, with the last items released that you were able to spell being Halloween 2015

[@RealLagu]

The rarest item I've seen in tf2 (official server) was the unusual sunbeams double spelled max's head. Saw it a few months ago on casual harvest :D

[@LunarDoor]

it became a flaming max severed head

[@PLASBEZ]

The rarest item that I seen (and bought) is a rotten orange footprint burning flame ye olde baker boy

[@blacktreath0172]

We definitely need more videos talking about this topic,

[@tangyorange6509]

Yes

[@MazShy0]

My favorite rare item that I knew of is the "death-defying skull" aka the unusual spine-chilling skull given to a make a wish kid back in the day, who beat cancer, which just gives the item a so much more legendary status

[@Jonskipvp]

imagine if the invalid particle just made the massive red X explosion

[@andrewrenowitzky]

There was a paint spell glitch that got patched out back in the day, but there existed hats that had paint spells that were active all year round rather than only through Halloween/Full Moon/Eternaween.

[@GummoAU]

Yeah i had one, unfortunately when halloween rolled around it fixed it

[@andrewrenowitzky]

@@GummoAU I had a putrescent pigmentation procedure mask that I luckily traded for a low tier unusual before it was patched

[@deroplat]

Great job man. This video was great quality and I'm happy to see a player that actually knows about these. Also, for context on the normal batsaber, I actually watched my friend unbox one from a invasion case when the crates dropped. From what I can tell there was some sort of mistake where if you got a batsaber early in the update it would be normal in quality. That's why there are a handful of them.

[@jinso9365]

I remember getting a glitched unusual taunt. It was the Burstchester with an invalid particle. A guy from Valve, his name was Mike Ambinder, sent me an email about it to see if I wanted it fixed. Me being stupid and not seeing the worth in it decided to take the deal. I sold it at some point. He said there were only twelve, though now only eleven if you subtract mine, but I have no idea if anyone else took the deal.

[@sevitaral]

he stole yours and gave you a normal one

[@thepenguin9]

The sheer chaos one must be experiencing in the moment to open the blank crate

[@KLienne]

It would likely reveal to us the secrets of the universe, akin to traveling inside a black hole.

[@thepenguin9]

​@@KLiennefinally, the true source of mad milk will be revealed

[@apapeje]

If you go to the last page of the tf2 community market you will see "Vintage Refined Metal"

[@emperor9615]

I remember it being joked in an oldddd team fortress 2 competitive match with some internet popular people by one of the dudes who worked on tf2 that the notch hat actually gave 25% more damage and they gave it to notch as a prank. Dont know if there's any validity to that but thought it was interesting

[@alexanderharrison7421]

As the owner of a Gifted Untradable Iron Curtain (making me an owner of two) I have always been interested in Rare and Glitched Items

[@rangoated]

I’d like to get one of those

[@zweboi1094]

I also have a gifted achievement Black rose

[@Joe-tu5qw]

1. The painted Vita-Saw: last I remember it lies in a banned account/backpack. 2. The Mythical Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime Green Painted Cow Mangler 5000: The Painted C.W. Community denies its existence, but only a few long gone circles knew of it. I remember the days when the painted Manglers actually shot the colored beams it was painted, and when it shot 5 projectiles not 4. I had the liberty of witnessing it in a round of KOTH Badlands back in 2012.

[@ShorK]

amazing video!

[@AzzieEquinox]

The extended item name exploit has been patched silently since sometime mid August after I reported it to the TF2 Team. I never wanted it to be a big thing, but it kind of spread like wildfire after I told a few friends about what I had found. This was only the latest variation of an extended name exploit, as others existed in the past. The old one only worked on Name Tags, and only extended the character limit to 80 characters. This one worked on both Name and Description tags, extended name tags to 125 characters, and extended description tags to 253 characters. It also allowed you to use linebreaks inside the name and description, along with certain control characters. One thing I never shared with anyone was the fact that typing past the new character limit would actually store the data you type, but not display it on Steam or in TF2. I know this because viewing said items on a trading site will actually display the text you typed on the item, even though it's completely missing everywhere else. I own the only items with that quirk.

[@eltiolavara9]

holy shit

[@eresoup7229]

Backpack.tf link?

[@Rune.]

for a very short time when unusual creators are granted their unusual caps, they have no unusual effect, and then the item is modified to add the effect. so theoretically if whichever employee is granting them were to miss one, the unusual creator would be left with a self made unusual cap with no effect (except the community sparkle which is hard-coded to apply to self-made and community quality)

[@woansien1985]

Fun fact: kenoko kitten is the owner of the normal quality pan

[@C.A._Old]

7:33 One Day Notch did played Team Fortress 2 and then Droping and post to Twitter And Says : '' i played Team Fortress 2 So much fun and awesome ! :D '' Some like that twitt. And Then Valve see that These Post Message. And Then Robin Walker

[@realryushiro]

"Knife doesn't have long range" Me who plays on servers with RTD and long melee: *Laugh track*

[@UnsavedChanges]

When the black rose got mentioned, I recalled using one once, despite never completing any obscure task to unlock it. And lo and behold, I still have it. Gifted to me by someone named "Lebowkski" on June 18th, 2014, 12:37:04GMT (I got this when I was bloody 13 years old apparently). It's marked as untradable, which obviously contradicts the line above it. It's quite insane to realize I own such a rare thing, yet I never used it. Younger-me always felt other knives were better to show off with, and I subsequently forgot it existed at all. Well, now I know what knife I'm using next I play this game. I feel like I've won a lottery now, even though I can't "cash-out".

[@Fatsaver]

That red paint missing is so incredibly rare. I'd pay good money to ever get one god.

[@kozakpolv]

6:32 team paint images are one image, game just applies color filter on each half separately

[@markfungus]

Notch got the hat because he said on twitter that no one believed that hes the real notch so valve went ang got him the hat

[@lunaryanrvpist]

Ngl tiering of the Ice-berg is bit off. I bet my liver that most people know about Top Notch or Caribou then about Universal KS kits for example.

[@SosaVT]

You forgot the non-strange bot killer rocket launcher

[@rangoated]

Good for a part 2

[@SosaVT]

Also there is a Gentle Manne's Service Medal, without the #number

[@SosaVT]

ALSO.. old halloween items that cant be paint but got painted like the bird heads and other non paintable items.

[@havoc3-243]

@@SosaVT Those are for devs.

[@SneakiestChameleon]

How have I not seen this iceberg sooner? I am the only TF2 player in the world with a Crafted Pro KS Giger Counter (to my knowledge). This item was the result of both the Gun Mettle Update and the Invasion Update. I think I purchased the Pro KS kit when that was about $50 on the market and I held onto it for some time when I wasn't sure what was the right item to put it on. Then there came the craftable reskins of Invasion, and I crafted a Giger Counter. The reason that I knew it was able to display the sheen was by checking the item schema first (and the same must apply to the Wrangler also). It only counts kills if a killstreak wrench is also equipped.

[@Toasted1337]

Pretty jealous of the guy who got a deflector

[@antthegord9411]

IIRC the deflector/any item glitch involved making an item set as "default" or "stock" so it would always spawn with the players inventory when they booted the game up. You could change any item to be "stock" and therefore spawn it into the game.

[@skeletorthebest7204]

Wasn’t it renaming a “fake” item obtained through modifying the game’s files, which resulted in getting a real one?

[@pabroah6434]

7:35 cuz players didn't believe it's the real notch playing with them

[@thewave-qz9lt]

i was looking at my inventory histoy and i found out i had actually deleted my spine-chilling skull hat,after i sent an email to steam support i actually got it back so i guess they do restore items but it was still untradeable.

[@Duf.]

FYI: I just bought an item on the Steam market with the "loaner" tag and it disappeared once the item was in my inventory. Pretty upsetting.

[@rangoated]

you just have to wait until the steam trade hold goes away, for some reason it gets covered up by that

[@kai_jin]

video starts: windows noise: vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmm

[@MarkStillPlays]

the windows notification sound already did it for me

[@chokamilk272]

In addition to the mentioned unpaintable painted items, there are a few instances of painted Chicken Kiev's. Aside from that, it is also known that Horsemann's Hand-Me-Down could also be painted for a short period of time. The paint would change the color of the patch on the cape.

[@thatonenon-uniqueindividual]

It's 1:30 a.m. and I'm playing Minecraft and listening to a guy talk about things I didn't need to know but I'm glad I'm here

[@Jc-cj8jb]

I actually have 2 of the haunted metal items because you used to be able to gift wrap the HHHH as well as the metal. I have the HHHH as well as the Spine-Cooling Skull. This is on the description of my Headtaker: Unusual Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker Level 5 Axe This Weapon has a large melee range and deploys and holsters slower No random critical hits -25 max health on wearer Cursed by dark spirits similar to those that dwell within the Eyelander. Gift from: n12Xp Date Received: Saturday, November 2, 2013 (4:39:55) GMT All you had to do was gift wrap the item and trade it that way. I had the Bounty Hat too, it was tradable in the same way. All the different Bounty Hats were.

[@zweboi1094]

Same my Black rose was gifted as well

[@Tadyszok51]

It seems like the loaner tagged items do not appear on steam community market Either valve changed something or someone just bought them all lol

[@rcadegaming9123]

I have a painted Chicken Kiev, which is a glitched item, as it's an unpaintable hat. It's 1 of 2 unique Kiev's

[@markdave2456]

There used to be a painted brown Vita Saw that was on sale on tf2 outpost years and years ago. The dude's username was Billy Mays. I don't think the vita saw had a visible difference from other vita saws.

[@leem420]

wtf really? that billy guy is still around and has trade bots i wonder if he still has it

[@GNew0]

@@leem420 hey, is he still around? what i found is trhat he deleted his old accont, do you have his new account link please?

[@Phabokin]

Do more of these its really interesting to watch

[@l4nes]

im pretty sure you could consider this a glitch, not that I know much about it. but there are some items which have spells on them that (like the strange parts) should've have been able to been applied. a friend of mine has a gunslinger with pumpkin bombs, and obviously that doesn't make any sense. I'm pretty sure you weren't allowed to have pumpkin bombs on it, even though it is a wrench.

[@00coolman1]

I mean I own a strange professional killstreak gunslinger with exorcism. So they do exist

[@undestony2669]

cant wait to get my "professional dueling minigame killstreak kit fabricator" killstreak kit

[@Chiefspartan117.]

I came across the guy with the nebula Summer hat recently

[@Beginnerss]

The gift wrapped untradable items simply were untradeable items that were able to be gift wrapped before valve removed the ability to do so. That’s why i got two items crafted from haunted scrap and that’s also how I got the Demopan hat before it was made tradable.

[@notpumkin]

The sunbeams cheater's lament was never actually traded. Driller is a valve employee so I guess the item was created in his inventory.

[@RumpIeForeskln]

Actually I got a bunch of my achievement/untradable items back earlier this year when I made a support ticket. I specifically asked for my mercenary badge but I was asked to go through my item history and list every item I wanted back that was deleted. Funnily enough there was a Vintage mercenary badge there right next to my normal one and I was hoping to get it back in vintage. Sadly that didn't happen. I do have 2 black roses since I gift wrapped one from an alt account before I got my old one back from support.

[@BritishRailClass47]

Hey youuuu give me your other black rose

[@RumpIeForeskln]

Impossible.

[@Jun.Suzuki]

nice pfp

[@Kontsus]

holy shit that windows earrape sound stop with that

[@mikka409]

Yooooo, really cool video! Half that was in it i don't really know that ever existed :o. (i'm playing from 2015) In my opinion, you should make a video, that can tell about special items, like duck journal. lucky no.42. and so on. I'll be looking forward for it! :D

[@gasousnebule7932]

Fun fact: the paint splotch is actually one image, there's internal code that controls how the splotches are rendered with which colors

[@kanderion5685]

feels bad how valve murdered innocent and cool looking series of robo gatebot lights which would actually look mega cool as normal hats, but that's valve for ya i guess.

[@alexanderharrison7421]

I think I knew the guy who had the Nebula Summer Hat and to my knowledge he really hated when people asked about it

[@happyraintf]

Man, I want to unbox that serieless crate...

[@sankdom4598]

You are correct on the post life spells The reason their are no spells left in in a that aren’t applied to hats is because valve patched the gift wrapped ones

[@trelalo-t2m]

as far as i know up until like very late 2015, spells were still purchasable and appliable. i've got inventory and market history of me buying the pyro's muffled moan spell after gun mettle released and applying it to a mishap mercenary

[@banderse77]

I crafted my manniversary paper hat. For a short time it was possible, has the "crafted by my name" message on it. Couple times a year someone inquires if im interested in selling but id rather just keep it.

[@fazzyfreddyfazzy5768]

Welp since I wasn't using earphones and had at least 70 volume that window sound scared the shit out of me

[@TechPriestFred]

As an owner of Untradeable Vintage Loch n Load I must say that this topic deeply intrigued me! Great video!

[@havoc3-243]

I accidentally discovered the specialized ks gun mettle campaign pass while searching for gun mettle keys in the steam marketplace

[@Alexander_Shy]

6:59 probably you can kill from long distance on servers with rtd

[@tangyorange6509]

OKAY I have honestly never been so excited. I love TF2 items, icebergs, and RARE things Instant sub Edit: little disappointed with the lack of research on some things that are pretty known with some searches, but good compilation

[@justvacuumingaround9309]

I remember seeing a tradable “sometging special for someone special” ring in a backpack once

[@chaImers]

strange uniques were actually introduced by a bug in meet your match, one year after strange normals and universal killstreak kits

[@Hotdog564-jl7jr]

They gave the top notch to knowledge because Notch was tired of people not believing him on TF two to be the real match

[@KoobyKarasu]

I think I remember there used to be more Randolph The Blood Nosed Caribous back when the event happened (like 3?), but two of them got deleted at some point for some reason.

[@Aysentaro]

i just saw one in someones inventory like 2 weeks ago, there is definitely more than one

[@yamatoclassbattleship]

@@Aysentaro There is only two Randolph The Blood Nosed Caribous in existance.

[@Aysentaro]

@@yamatoclassbattleship maybe 2 logged but i definitely saw a lot more on casual

[@yamatoclassbattleship]

@@Aysentaro That might have been the regular one, but the blood nosed one is only 2 ever in existance.

[@Aysentaro]

@@yamatoclassbattleship do you honestly think every time someone unboxes a hat its getting logged even if the person never even used a third party site LOL

[@charlesmartin1972]

Fun fact; the "red attribute missing" is a bug in the section of the code commented with "my hope is that this code is so god-awful that I'm never allowed to write UI code again"

[@caehh]

painted cow manglers are sick B)

[@abicto]

the glitched upgrade to premium from what i remember was a test item that ended up in the drop system wich later got patched might be completely wrong tho so dont count on me

[@DeadintheDark]

Fun fact: There are two glitched upgrade to premium, I use to own one of them as well as another collector named Toxic.

[@lem0nadina]

I don't know why I love this style of videos it just reminds me of old KZbin

[@czfclone6929]

Finally as a glitch collector I've been waiting for this for a while, also if you see my comment Gibson whats poppin my man!

[@RandomnessX9]

Long ago when Poker Night at the Inventory came out or was about to, the Iron Kurtain was craftable and I managed to get it. Unfortunately it was never tradable but it does have the neat difference of not being listed as an achievement item. No idea if it has any worth but I’ve always wondered and loved it ever since

[@Xyreqa]

The gift wrap just used to work on untradable items, there was no trick to it, it just worked

[@MyILoveMinecraft]

The colored cowmangler has been a dream item for me so long. Im slowly trading myself up to one

[@yspear_]

The top Notch was given to Notch because he complain that no one believe that he is the real notch when in game

[@vapor404]

the sunbeams ghibus was a hat given to a bug finder the bug was being able to use a giftapult as a key so yeah i think the reward is fair for the bug and chaos they probably prevented

[@lamp9478]

i have 2 directors vision taunts because of the gift glitch (got gifted it back in 2015 and i have my achievement one aswell) I also got into the game with the guy who has the sunbeams gibus during halloween last year.

[@5SpeedKingWHITESNAKE]

I swear I remember deleting a seriesless crate years back thinking nothing of it. Good to know how big of a fuckup that was.

[@thepingfromanotherworld9637]

I have two unusual hats which I have unboxed with semi-glitch or glitch unusual region. One my unusual Haunted Ghosts Prehistoric Pullover effect is in the waist. Second is my Blizzardy Storm Prehistoric Pullover where the effect is in the chest. My friend also unboxed one and his Blizzardy Storm Hat Outta Hell is also in the chest. People have commented on my profile saying you can do the glitch with the unusual effect, but I've tried it and never worked.

[@Dumb_Daft_Dim_Lafoole]

me when i wanted to craft scrap metal but got valve deflector instead: 💀

[@Peeper117]

7:33 he said on Twitter that no one would believe him that he was notch

[@cdi2638]

I'm not sure if anyone said this yet, but gift wrap worked on any untradable item for a long time, that's how the sunbeams cheaters was traded away.

[@Karma_Miguel]

I remember unboxing like 7 strange normal scattergun, and then trying to buy a strange Normal Aussie scattergun

[@GNew0]

no fucking way lol

[@Karma_Miguel]

@@GNew0 yup, this was “I think” the invasion update. I offered like 200 keys to the Aussie scattergun guy, but he sold it for 400, and people said it was worth 2k+

[@jananoga]

The top notch was given cause noone believed notch was the real notch.

[@abeardedperson105]

the intro is fucking perfect oh my god

[@Sethilliano]

The ellis cap and frying pan is when you have l4d2 i think

[@Llucmenork]

There are also those two Dota 2 hats that some Dota 2 Pro players got but never used because they never played TF2.

[@BruceKira]

huh, valve gave me my haunted scrap metal back this year.

[@gaymare6236]

The Villanous Violet Head prize is still the pride of my collection

[@xxitjixx]

If there's ever gonna be a glitched item I want, I don't want a gold frying pan. I want an unusual or strange HHH's head. Not even the headtaker.

[@MRDarkman]

I own a few off levelled Vintage weapons and a gift wrapped Iron Curtain, Enthusiast Timepiece and Lugermorph.

[@SosaVT]

In the good old days you could gift wrap anything. But it was pstched later on. Thats how i got two of some non tradeable items like the HHH pumpkin head

[@StealtheX64]

I actually saw the Top notch ingame way back somewhere between 2011 - 2013 on a player conveniently named "notch"

[@krzem]

you saw the real mine crap

[@boihand]

Fun fact: the owner of the normal frying pan is actually a popular roblox youtuber called Konekokitten, he also made a video about it and how he got it.