Item quality

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Item rarity is a "quality" of items in Team Fortress 2.

Standard items

Also called 'stock' items, these are the standard non-unlockable weapons that first shipped with the game, e.g. the Scattergun and the Rocket Launcher. These weapons are available to all players. Since the Polycount Update, these items can now be viewed in the backpack by checking the box "Show Stock Items."

Unique items

Also known as unlockables. These are standard unlockable items. They can be purchased from the Mann. Co Store, sometimes dropped randomly through gameplay, some of them can be obtained through the achievements, and can also be crafted and traded.

Vintage items

Vintage items are most of items that were obtained before the release of the Mann-Conomy Update. All existing items were changed from standard unique items to Vintage items to increase their appeal in trading, however, they bear no difference from regular weapons other than their blue name and new "Vintage" prefix. Some items were excluded and not changed to Vintage, such as badges, promotional items such as Bill's Hat, and Holiday items such as the Ghastly Gibus. Other items such as the Vintage Tyrolean keep both their original name and the new prefix, resulting in the muddled title "Vintage Vintage Tyrolean". It remains to be seen if this is fixed by Valve.

Vintage items act the same as standard unique items, and can be crafted normally. As the number of Vintage items decreases over time by crafting and trading, their individual value will increase. Renamed vintage items keep their original name color.

Unusual items

Unusual items are items that have special particle effects attached to them. Currently, the only way to obtain these items is by unlocking a Mann Co. Supply Crate with its corresponding key. There are 1022 possible combinations between hats and unusual item particle effects. The different particle effects are viewable in this animation, and below as they appear in-game.

Gallery

Screenshots

• Unusual Ghost.png

  Ghost Particle Effect, Effect # 1090519040

• Unusual green energy glow.png

  Green Energy Glow

• Purple Energy.png

  Purple Energy Glow

• Unusual tf2.jpg

  Circling Team Fortress 2 Logo Particles

• Massedflies.jpg

  Flies Particle Effect, Effect # 1094713344

• Massedflies2.png

  Flies Particle Effect

• Ctf2fort0011.jpg

  Normal Fire Burning Effect

• User Cotozic-Killers Kabuto Unusual!.png

  Green Flame Effect, Effect # 1096810496

• Plasma Effect.jpg

  Plasma #1 Effect

• Plasma 2.png

  Plasma #2 Effect

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  Green Confetti Effect, Effect # 1086324736

• Sandvichparty.jpg

  Purple Confetti Effect

• Unusual sunbeam.png

  Sunbeam Effect

• Peace hallmark.jpg

  Peace Sign Particle Effect

• Unusual Ye Olde Baker Boy.jpg

  Heart Particle Effect

Backpack description

Unusual Napper's Respite
1 - 100
Effect: Circling Heart
After a long day of burning scouts.

Colors

Colour	Rarity Name	Example
B2B2B2	Standard	Template:Show item name
476291	Vintage	Template:Show item name
FFD800	Unique	Template:Show item name
70B04A	Community Self-made	Template:Show item name Template:Show item name
A50F79	Developer	Template:Show item name
874FAD	Unusual	Template:Show item name

See also

• Item levels
• Item drop system