Holiday
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Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask
Level 10 Holiday Hat
Holiday Restriction: Halloween / Full Moon
Brown paper never looked so mildly disturbing.
Holiday restrictions are used on items to enable players to equip them only for a specific holiday period. Holidays are special events in Team Fortress 2, commonly coinciding with a cultural holiday or birthday celebration.
Items with holiday restrictions will have the restriction denoted in their attributes as "Holiday Restriction: [name]". The restricting of items was first implemented with the Haunted Halloween Special Update in 2009.
Equipping an item with a Holiday restriction while that Holiday is not active will result in the item simply not appearing in the game world.
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Halloween
The first holiday introduced to Team Fortress 2, the Halloween Holiday has historically taken place in the last two weeks of October and the first week of November. When the Halloween Holiday is in effect, Haunted Halloween Gifts will spawn on Mann Manor, Eyeaduct, Ghost Fort, and Helltower.
Past Halloween Dates
- 2009: October 29 - November 9
- 2010: October 27 - November 8
- 2011: October 27 - November 6
- 2012: October 26 - November 8
- 2013: October 29 - November 11
- 2014: October 29 - November 12
Full Moon
The Full Moon restriction was introduced with the 2011 Very Scary Halloween Special. All previous items that were restricted to just Halloween were updated to be equippable during both Halloween and Full Moon. The items will be available for use during Full Moons according to a formula that closely approximates the lunar calendar, or servers running Halloween mode.
Items restricted to Halloween and Full Moon
TF Birthday
The TF Birthday celebrates the original release of the Team Fortress mod, and is activated on August 24th of every year. This Holiday can be enabled on other days on a per server basis by setting tf_birthday 1 in the server.cfg file.
Restricted items
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Noise Maker - TF Birthday |
Winter
The Australian Christmas 2011 Update introduced the Winter holiday restriction.
Winter Historical Dates:
- 2011: December 15th - December 31
- 2012: December 20th - December 31
- 2013: December 20th - December 31
Restricted items
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Noise Maker - Winter Holiday |
