Item quality
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Quality is an item property represented in-game by the color of an item's name and (in most cases) by a corresponding title prefix. A dropped item can only have one quality, whereas an unboxed item can have 1 or 2 qualities. Extra qualities can only be added through the use of strangifiers or unusualifiers — excluding rare exceptions from glitches (e.g. "Strange Normal" items) or forced creations by Valve employees.
Quality is a purely cosmetic property. Even visual changes beyond the colored title text are limited to aesthetic changes like particle effects from Self-Made and Community items (which had a since-removed 10% hidden damage boost), Decorated weapon patterns, and some additional on-screen messages (these messages usually relay succeeded operations with an item).
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Qualities
| Color | Name | Example |
|---|---|---|
| #B2B2B2 | Normal | Scattergun |
| #FFD700 | Unique | Degreaser |
| #476291 | Vintage | Natascha |
| #4D7455 | Genuine | Sun-on-a-Stick |
| #CF6A32 | Strange | Shotgun |
| #8650AC | Unusual | Napper's Respite |
| #38F3AB | Haunted | Wrap Battler |
| #AA0000 | Collector's | Original |
| #FAFAFA | Decorated | Rocket Launcher |
| #70B04A | Community | Wrench |
| Self-Made | Dalokohs Bar | |
| #A50F79 | Valve | Rocket Launcher |
Possible weapon qualities
Please see this table.
Possible cosmetic item qualities
Scout item qualities
Soldier item qualities
Pyro item qualities
Demoman item qualities
Heavy item qualities
Engineer item qualities
Medic item qualities
Sniper item qualities
Spy item qualities
All-class item qualities
Update history
- [Undocumented] Added Unique quality.
December 17, 2009 Patch (WAR! Update)
- [Undocumented] Added the Community quality.
March 18, 2010 Patch (First Community Contribution Update)
- [Undocumented] Added Self-Made quality.
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- [Undocumented] Added Vintage quality.
- [Undocumented] Added Unusual quality.
- [Undocumented] Added Genuine quality.
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.
- [Undocumented] Added string for potential new item quality called "Completed".
- Updated the Strange quality color from gold (#CD9B1D) to orange (#CF6A32).
- [Undocumented] Updated the Rarity3 quality color from orange (#CF6A32) to brown (#70550F).
October 27, 2011 Patch (Very Scary Halloween Special)
- [Undocumented] Added Haunted quality.
- [Undocumented] Added "tobor_a" quality.
October 26, 2012 Patch (Spectral Halloween Special)
- [Undocumented] Updated Haunted quality color from #8650AC to #38F3AB.
- [Undocumented] Removed "tobor_a" quality.
- Added "Collector's" item quality. "Collector's" items are created by completing special Chemistry Sets.
- [Undocumented] Updated Collector's quality color from #830000 to #AA0000.
- [Undocumented] Corrected the name of Community items on the web.
May 28, 2015 [Item schema update]
- Added "restriction" and "map" quality.
July 2, 2015 Patch (Gun Mettle Update)
- [Undocumented] Added Decorated quality.
Unused content
- Two unused item qualities referred to as Rarity2 (mentioned as Customized) and Rarity3 (mentioned as Well-Designed and Artisan) are specified in the game's files. Their colors are two shades of brown; #8D834B and #70550F respectively.
- The "Completed" quality is specified in the game's files, and its color is the same as the Unusual quality: #8650AC.
- The source code contains a mention to a possible variant or sub-type of Self-Made quality, called "SelfMadeCustomized".[1]
See also
- Color themes:
- Grade
- Item levels
- Item drop system
- Limited Quantity
References
- ↑ game/shared/econ/econ_item_constraints.cpp, line 91
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