Part of my problem with this case is not that all the cosmetics are "bad" per-say, but there is a lot of retreading old ground. We already have a criminal Spy, a jester scout, a stickybomb hat for demo, 1 million wizard hats, and a demon skull on the mercs head. If you combined all the recycled items with the "bad" items, then you start to realize how little this case offers.

My main issue is that there’s absolutely tons of objectively fantastic cosmetics on the workshop that fit the mercenary and the artstyle of the game, and instead we get, this stuff

I just don’t understand why Valve seem to actively ignore great cosmetic sets and give us these trade-up/market fodder every single halloween.

I just hope we keep getting summer updates otherwise there are only Christmas and Halloween-themed cosmetics

The thing is, Old school players should know that Scream Fortress was never about adding new content for base TF2. It was always about the halloween restricted maps and items. Its more of a vibe than a full content update. I couldnt really care less about the cosmetics. Those are just a bonus.

If you put the Dead Heat and the Splitting Headache together it does make for a really good look. I get your rating tho a cosmetic should be able to stand on it's own.

the splitting headache honestly looks decent with the dead heat. i got an unusual one with the sapping effect and its honestly a vibe

the items last update were better imo. just more casual and usuable year-around. but overall its definitely not the worst case we got

As long as the cosmetics still make each team distinguishable from one another, i really don't mind.

Here is the thing- all of the cosmetics have something to dislike. The halloween cosmetics (like Ogre Heavy and Spy head) are way too halloweeny. Yeah- they look good- but you can add an insanely detailed skin for the game (like a reaper reskin for spy if you want) and it will still suck because it just sicks out as a sore thumb. The ones that are less Halloweeny are more generic or just "we had this years ago". The spy criminal hat from before is the exact same as Le Criminal. People want something that is unique but not a joke with how "spooky" it is. Something that is high quality, well done, thoughtful, and fits in the style but not too out there isn't a huge request I think. The artstyle has been "dead for long" isn't a good argument. That's like pouring gasoline on a burn victim because "they've been burned before". If you can stop the bleeding- then stop it. As for me - I think certain items are good but most are middle of the road or just awful. The ogre heavy is repulsive and I despise it- but I am one of the rare few who thinks the Elite Grade all class is actually good. It's out there - sure - but that's why its elite. Honestly- the main reason I like it is because it makes me feel like Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat. My proposal - Make the common, kind of rare, and rare stuff fit the art style. Make the Pinks out there, but nothing insane (think the Payday mask- perfect example). And, finally, make the elite tier either insanely badass or insanely out of style- make elite tier FEEL like elite tier. A good example of that would be the banana hat for silly and the dead head for badass. I'd give the case a 5. It's mid. Theres some high highs (Payday Mask stands out a lot and Madcap for real), and low lows (Heavy, Spyder, Sawblade pyro). I hope we can have a discussion on this, it's a very interesting topic!

Putting the Splitting Headache with the Creatures Grin for pyro kinda works plus adding the Eye See You eyes makes it even more cursed for my Halloween loadout this year

I would love to see more weapon extensions like the neon lights. My favorite way to make my weapons feel special is of course already with warpaints and festivizers, but what is there were just more festivizers so you could make your weapons extra special.

You cant imagine how great i feel for having the shortness of breath, amazing of valve adding this cosmetic to the game.

honestly, if you ask me, it aint a bad selection to me, i will admit a couple of them are misses, like the Ogre Heavy Head and engies set (though i grew to that one cause i see it as Turbo-Man), but for hte most part, im really okay with waht we got this year. If im being honest, the Clown's Coverup sold me on the cosmetics this year, but that may be bias. The Six eyed Specs i didn't like either until i got the idea of using it for a sorta Cyberpunk Hat, wearing it with some kinda hat and the second style of Le Professional.

In my opinion if they would had looked at the workshop during at anytime in September and not just 1 day before the update and would had spent more than 10 minutes picking the items, they would have seen the ghostbuster medic set or the captain america soldier set for example or any cosmetics on the first 5 pages would had been better than what we got. Those are still around the first few pages, while the likes of what we got are not even in the first 30 after a few days. It's like they picked the least liked cosmetics and ignored the good ones on purpose, I haven't seen half of the cosmetics and I'm voting on items everyday. Most of the cosmetics we got are just either poorly made, boring or straight up just doesn't fit the artstyle. I especially dislike the medic goku hair and bandages set. That ogre head and saw inside pyro's head too are ugly and soulless and the fact that they are not even restricted is ridiculous. Looking back 2017 and 2018 had awesome cosmetics and I think I know why. Tf2 still had like 12 people working on it and they probably decided together and someone in the tf2 team clearly cared about the artstyle, too bad he is not coming back to pick the cosmetics anymore. In the summer update I thought they finally knew what most people want, not wacky, only allclass or remakes/variants of old cosmetics. I just hope they only did the wacky stuff for Halloween and the smissmass case will have winter cosmetics instead of more reindeer, elf, gift, random object or santa hats. Wacky is fine as long as it's ~10% of a case, not 90% bruh

nah man this crate just aint it.

lunon fedora is one that I really wish didnt get added, not to discredit the person who made it, it just looks so ugly

The answer: no, because The Last Laugh is a reference to Dimentio from Super Paper Mario. None of the other cosmetics matter now.

Nah the cosmetics are alright. Some should have been halloween only but who cares if you don't like em don't wear then

For the splitting headache hat at 2:26 I feel that maybe they could have at least added more by maybe making pyros head into a wooden replica of pyros head, so it looks like the saw is cutting through wood, and that could even make it kinda look like it’s referencing the sawmill map.

For me the cosmetics weren’t a hit but I gotta say other than spy’s new emote all the other emotes are great!

3:48 Actually when you think about it you can use that goat head model to dressed up a tf2 character look like Krampus ☠🎄🐐

I thought the Clown Cover Up was the PayDay 2 reference ._.

Halloween crates always have goofy cosmetics

If you think of the splitting headache as a Sawblade Mohawk it's alot better. And also, may I recommend combing it with the treehugger?

The TF2 emporium has been a disaster for the game.

ngl the blue spy prison jacket kinda reminds me of certain uniforms from ww2

I'm pretty sure the Clowns Cover Up masks are a reference to Payday as PD3 just came out

Wow u're a machine of posting videos keep it up!

I love the Jester mask for scout, went for a Darkest Dungeon Jester for my cosmetic loadout.

6:00 Medic's hair might be referencing Akuma

I fucking love the last laugh, fuck anyone dissing that

they're good with many being some I wanted though im still a lil dissapointed cause many of the ones I wanted the most werent added(like that knight helmet with an eye inside)

I hope we get more Demo cosmetics like the Stunt Suit and Mad Lad. Also I agree with you on most of the cosmetics, but I do kinda like the Demonic Dome, but hey you do you! (I’m sorry if this sounded like I was being douchey)

This case fits the bill of the intentions of case design after sf 2014, mostly unrestricted halloween costumes to wear for halloween that you can wear offseason if need be. But the bigger issue was the fact that the update was rushed worse than expected and I like to theorize that it was due to Counter Strike 2 having a very buggy release and the focus to make sure it is running okay.

Yes they are legit horrendous

The war cloak, the mean captain, the dead heat, the power spike and the shortness od breath freaking slap

I walked i talked. . . And BAM! You've been backstabbed.

Honestly the biggest offender is the stuntman/biker helmet thing, there are way too many of essentially the same exact hat, and its arguably just... Bad, both uniquely and for unusual-wise.

I quite like the Dead heat and the new spy set.

The only cosmetics I like is probably that new demo set, not the biggest fan of the mad lad due to how huge it is, I don’t really like the other cosmetics.

Also goblineer can be excused as a costume piece. The Goblin Heavy cannot as it's literal flesh.

I personally only like the shortness of breath out of all the cosmetics that were added, because uh, guys look, it's that guy from the funny lambda game spinoff, isn't that crazy. and maybe that one soldier cape, but it doesn't fit into my loadouts so it's going in the trash can but overall this case is fine I think

I like the splitting headache, though I might be biased since I got an unusual version😂

5:06 IF WE CAN PAIR THIS WITH THE IRON LUNGS WE CAN MAKE A FREEMAN REFERENCE!!! H.E.V. SUIT BRO!!!

The MAKE OGRE is fantastic now i can dress my heavy as an ORC

Dead heat is literally PY-40 but not Halloween restricted. Its so stupid. Make ogre workshop page SAYS "INTENDED TO BE HALLOWEEN RESTRICTED" and power spike is just horrible.

I just hope ,for the creator, valve put the neon festivizer in this smimas

its so cool they made a half life refrence

Just because the game has a lot of bad cosmetics it doesn't mean that we should keep adding them and not Halloween restrict very Halloween restrictable items, this cosmetics are bad except for the demo one.

100% sure power strike was inspired by Yujiro Hanma. Especially with the Burly Beast next to it

I dont really care for any of the cosmetics but dead heat for pyro just looks so nice to me

i liked some of the cosmetics for this update to be honest, considering how they inproved compared to the hats from previous updates, lets hope for more good hats for the smissmass yay!

Personally i absolutely love the goat cosmetic but that's because ive dealt with goats for a while and think their adorable

I can atleast agree with this video partner, although I won’t like none of the cosmetics in this case. To be particularly specific the Goku medic hair just seems off for some reason, looks very clunky like a giant rock like carving. The org head for heavy should really just be Halloween restricted like a lot of cosmetics. The saw blade for pyro, it’s just lazy. The demo goat head, I hate it. But that’s not to say there are a few gems. Particularly the demo set looks nice, same with the scout jester set and even the wizard theme set for sniper.

WHAT IS MERASMUS DOING WITH BAD COPPER???

Mister dispenser tell me. Where is mister sentry and mister teleporter?

I really like these cosmetics but the problem is some of them should've been halloween restricted

I personally like the bare bear, the orge and the pd2 refrence

I wish The Heart Breaker and Thrill seeker made it for this years Scream Fortress for demo, would've worn it forever!

I think there is reasonable grounds to dislike artstyle breaking cosmetics like the Dead Heat, even though we have things like the Filamental etc. This case has mostly decent-good hats, I agree, but we still get trash items or items that don't fit the artstyle. I think taking the time to understand the game's artstyle would help you see why people dislike some of these hats. (Yes the LLL hat sucks, I blame valve for not adding the neon lights tool to combo with it.)

not gonna lie, i like the classic criminal the only issue is the painting, witch can turn this cosmetic into a way for blending in the enemies without team recognition, and the body set should be halloween only

ay Clown`s cover-up is heavy reference to Payday games! im concept artist of each class masks

9:27 I like to have more slots for my game XD

Y’know, I was ready to skip these, but they kinda grew on me.

I think the splitting headache would go really well with voodoo soul pyro

Honestly I think the hecu mask looked great

Blastphomet is my personal favorite animal head cosmetic, it is a reference to Baphomet, a figure often associated with Satanism. Fits the halloween theme incredibly well, the design is just creepy not overly edgy and it's not just any animal head for no apparent reason. Also it's halloween restricted like it should be.

I love the wizard cuz it combine the two worst personal game enemies, snipers and wizards lmao

As a Warcraft enjoyer I like the orc heavy

3:28 ... This is what i think it is?

The only thing I hate about the update so far is the Goku Medic hair. It looks too off in my opinion. Jojo hats atleast felt a bit fitting while doesn’t felt out of place. Compare to Goku Medics I think it would be better if the eye’s doesn’t glow with the hair. As it is looks alright with other cosmetic combos. But in terms of the eyes glowing is doesn’t looks right at all.

I think Make Ogre fits well with latest body cosmetic for Heavy "Heavy Metal" and with some hair cosmetics like Merc's Mohawk, Mediterranean Mercenary Style 1 or even Mo'Horn then you have such World of Warcraft or Shrek Character after wearing this set of cosmetics.

0:28 you know it's because of the chose of valve for adding it because as you can see there is a lot of hilarious and perfect stuff and community, but they're at some of the few I'm not saying yeah all of them bad but yeah a lot of people hate it (also why I'm talking about this, I'm free to play!)

as i like to say at least it ain't like winter 2020 and 2021

There some outfits I like but I don’t like and we didn’t get even war paint . My favorite is soldier mask. Pay day mask .

6:57 yeah! why we're doing this the game has been revived from long death, why we react so badly for it?

The sniper cosmetics are good, they just don’t really go with anything

People are getting too dramatic over these. Only bad ones I see is the orc, the saw-hawk for pyro and probably the neon tube fedora being modeled poorly, but still a nice concept and not too stupid like... train on head or cardboard. I get that some complaints are that it's all just too halloween themed. But it's not like all the cosmetics are only fitting for halloween. Demo's set looks fantastic over all. Soldier's mask is a good filler for plenty of military sets. Soldier' cape and the jester outfit may be halloween af but still fit regularly imo. They look badass. I do hope we get cosmetics from all seasons, maybe easter update? So we get plenty of basic cosmetics as well.

People complain about Halloween cosmetics that they can only use during a holiday whose prime tradition consists of people wearing a costume that only fits during said holiday. This logic is ludicrous. Of course Halloween cosmetics are going to look out of place during the rest of the year BECAUSE THEY’RE HALLOWEEN-THEMED.

the last mask you shown for all classes. Ill gona say its creppy af,. I play DR alot and ther is player with this on. Men he giveing me creeps everytime hes around me.,

why didn't you start with this video besides the crate unboxing

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrm no.

Mind if i call ya Spencer?

Adriwn Shepard

Do you know what I believe we need more of? Brimmed Hats. Specifically, more Brimmed hats from Halloween that Aren’t Halloween Restricted. Like, for example: The Trial By Fire Hat. It was Supposed to be in Scream Fortress, but it isn’t, and it’s now very Unlikely that It ever will be in TF2 now. I mean, it’s such a Good hat, and yet, No one Cares. All Hats like Top Hats, Bowler Hats, Capotain hats, and all other brimmed hats of the sort are Great, but now a days, people just don’t care. That’s why there are Terrible Cosmetics. It’s because Good Hats are being outshined by terrible cosmetics that for some reason gain more traction.

Only the animated one are good, the rest is meh to me. So many of the cosmetics are remastered version of the existed one.

I mean not all of them are that bad

I like medic ones

I feel like most of the cosmetics are simply either really bad or have no place in TF2 at all.. or, of course.. should be halloween restricted at least. And well.. in this video you did not even touch on the unusual effects, cause oh boy, they picked some stinkers (except nightmarish storm, that one I do tolerate).

I don't have any problems with this case. I think people are over reacting.

Yes. Yes they are

“not fitting on tf2 style” on the fedora yet u think having yujiro hanma on tf2 that isnt halloween restricted is good lmao

Hey i like the pug mug :( (9:00)

I ain't blame zesty tho cause he got solod points about game cosmetics and warpaints no offense but most aren't in tf2 vibe they like off and off track and such

I like the Ogre

I'd say the only good ones are the spyder loadout, the carry-van, for sure the mean captain and that's about it.

yes, yes they are

i say to hell with sniper players :/ let us have goofy cosmetics, who cares if a class that instakills from infinite range

there was also some talk about how the demonic dome “looks too much like the onimann” and like… i guess. i don’t think it’s as much of a big deal as they think it is. it’s like a team captain vs. mean captain sorta thing imo. there has been a really comically negative energy plaguing this community for a while now, usually festering in r/tf2 or twitter and propagated by certain community figures. but man, they is just grasping at straws rn.