Unusual

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

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Whoohoohoo! Click to listen — The Scout after unboxing his first Unusual item

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Unusual quality is an item quality used on hats and some miscellaneous items with a special attached particle effect. There are currently 301 items that can have one of 31 total effects. Nine of these effects (Cloudy Moon, Eerie Orbiting Fire, Flaming Lantern, Cauldron Bubbles, Knifestorm, Misty Skull, Harvest Moon, It's A Secret To Everybody and Stormy 13th Hour) are limited Halloween effects that will not be obtainable again until further notice. The only methods of obtaining an Unusual item are by potentially unlocking a Mann Co. Supply Crate with a Mann Co. Supply Crate Key or via trading. The chances of uncrating an Unusual item are about one in one hundred, or 1%. Unlike regular items which can only obtained from specific crates, any Unusual item with any particle effect can be randomly obtained from any given crate of any Series.

Due to their unique particle effect decorations and their extremely low probability of being obtained from crates, Unusual items are considered to be some of the rarest items in TF2.

The hexadecimal color code for Unusual items is #8650AC.

Other Unusual items

Two special items of Unusual quality were introduced with the Scream Fortress update: the Haunted Metal Scrap, and the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker. However, unlike regular Unusual items, the Unusual Metal Scrap is dropped for any player who has taken part in defeating the Horseless Headless Horsemann, while the Headtaker can be obtained by crafting it from a blueprint that includes the Unusual Metal Scrap. Besides bearing the Unusual quality, the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker is statistically identical to the Eyelander. In addition, neither of these items has an attached particle effect. Due to these characteristics, these two Unusual items are not considered as valuable as regular Unusual items.

Gallery of Unusual effects

See also: Particle effects

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  Green Confetti

• Unusual purple Confetti.png

  Purple Confetti

• Unusual Ghost.png

  Haunted Ghosts

• Unusual green energy glow.png

  Green Energy

• Unusual purple energy.png

  Purple Energy

• Unusual tf2logo.png

  Circling TF Logo

• Unusual Flies.png

  Massed Flies

• Unusual Chieftain's Challenge normal burning fire effect.png

  Burning Flames

• Unusual Green Flame Effect.png

  Scorching Flames

• Unusual plasma effect 2.png

  Searing Plasma

• Vivid Plasma.png

  Vivid Plasma

• Unusual sunbeam.png

  Sunbeams

• Unusual Peace.png

  Circling Peace Sign

• Unusual Heart Effect.png

  Circling Heart

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  Bubbles

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  Steaming

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  Orbiting Fire

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  Orbiting Planets

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  Nuts n' Bolts

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  Smoking

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  Stormy Storm

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  Blizzardy Storm

• Unusual Cloudy Full Moon.png

  Cloudy Moon

• Unusual Orbiting Dark Fire.png

  Eerie Orbiting Fire

• Unusual Orbiting Jack O' Lantern.png

  Flaming Lantern

• Unusual Green Bubbles.png

  Cauldron Bubbles

• Cloudy knives.PNG

  Knifestorm

• Misty skull.PNG

  Misty Skull

• Cloudy green.PNG

  Harvest Moon

• Cloud skull.PNG

  It's A Secret To Everybody

• Purple cloud skull.PNG

  Stormy 13th Hour

Unused effects

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  Orbiting Cloudy Full Moon

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  Orbiting Shells

• Unusual sparkles.png

  Sparkles

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  Blood Rain

• Unusual baloon.png

  Balloon

• Unusual orbit.png

  Orbit

• Unusual orbit lantern nofire.png

  Orbiting Lantern

• Unusual spark green.png

  Green Sparks

• Unusual spark orange.png

  Orange Sparks

• Unusual zap.png

  Zap

Update history

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)

• [Undocumented] Added Unusual quality.

August 18, 2011 Patch (Manno-Technology Bundle)

• [Undocumented] Added Stormy Storm, Blizzardy Storm, Nuts n' Bolts, Orbiting Planets, Orbiting Fire, Bubbling, Smoking, and Steaming unusual effects.

August 23, 2011 Patch

• Fixed sunbeams effect.

October 27, 2011 Patch (Very Scary Halloween Special)

• [Undocumented] Added Cloudy Moon, Eerie Orbiting Fire, Flaming Lantern, and Cauldron Bubbles unusual effects.

October 26, 2012 Patch (Spectral Halloween Special)

• [Undocumented] Added Knifestorm, Misty Skull, Harvest Moon, It's A Secret To Everybody and Stormy 13th Hour unusual effects.

Trivia

• The effect named "It's A Secret To Everybody" is a reference to a popular phrase in the video game series The Legend of Zelda.

See also

• Hats
• Particle effects