How exactly does the new unlock system in Team Fortress 2 work?



The new system appears to be designed to incentivize people to continue playing with the assurance of new "plunder" gained through normal game-play, or using idle servers or an idle app. This is in contradiction to the old system which tied items gains to arbitrary achievements, requiring the players to perform a set amount of specific tasks to free tf2 hats, which in turn made some players feel "compelled" to go to specially designed servers and maps to try to unlock the tf2 hats they wanted.

I suppose, but since most people playing the game have the unlock-ables. Why would they want to unlock a Axtinguisher 4 times in a row? Possibly for the new steam cloud trading system. Which valve has been working on for awhile now. Which should be out some time soon, so we all hope. Let the tf2 hats trading frenzy begin.

Apparently, from what Valve's said, you just get randomly given each new tf2 hats through regular game-play. They have also re-introduced the achievements, and milestones for tf2 hats unlocks. Steam allows idlers the ability to get tf2 hats during this random weapon drops, which happens to be around every 25 min's or so. Although you only have about a 30-50% chance of getting a tf2 hats that 25 Min's of play.

There is a team fortress 2 idler app i have mentioned a few times. It does not require tf2 to be opened, which many have been doing. Leaving tf2 open, in an idle server, and shift tabbing out of game in hopes of getting some tf2 hats. This app takes less resources since it does not require tf2 to be open, just steam connected. It is not considered a hack either, since valve allows idlers to achieve tf2 hats. It also connects to a fake private server, which is not VAC secure. This app has a settings file, which allows to to manage a few options. Such as logging of tf2 hats received, Items people in the private server have acquired that minute, and duplicate item drop. Myself, and a lot of other tf2 players i have met, have racked up over 2000 hours allowing this to run at night while we sleep. I have gotten almost all the tf2 hats, except the heavy's, not by playing, but by using this idler, since there is about a 0.000001% chance of getting tf2 hats, best to have as many chances as possible.

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