My Prayers Have Been (Partially) Answered!

I really like these, too bad they'll be expensive forever

Yes, yes, yes. After about a month or so of worrying, Valve has answered my prayers. Yes, we have received an update for Team Fortress 2. Here's a list of the major updates:

• The Scrap Pack is now tradable, giftable, and craftable.

• Added the Texas Half-Pants (leather pants for Engineer) and the Bolt Action Blitzer (all class achievement item hat, looks like the Heavy's Football helmet with bolts on it)

• The Teufort Tooth Kicker can now be equipped by the Engineer
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• The crate number of crates is now displayed in the corner of your backpack (no more hovering, kids)
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• The ability to reset the kill counters on strange weapons by using the “restore” button in the backpack, along with the ability to remove Strange Parts with the same button.

With this update comes what I’ve been waiting for: the chance to sell the Scrap Pack I got for ooey-gooey amounts of money, however, I must say that I was quickly disappointed. I went to Team Fortress 2 Trade Post (TF2TP) to see what offers I could get. Now, I know that hoping to get a straight out Bills Hat for it was close to nil, seeing that a good 2.4% of the community owned one, and at least 25% of those would be on the market on day one, but this is when the demand would be at its highest, during its first week or so, so I decided to go with the highest bidder: 5 refined and a keys, equaling out to a nice 3 or so keys.

I know this may seem like little to some of you, but I see it like this: in around a month, the Genuine Scrap Pack will most likely have dropped, as most items do as the demand dies down after the initial rush (as I’m seeing people asking for 5 keys, but nobody getting that, and 4 being the absolute most, which would be the approximate value of Shoot Many Robots anyway) so when the price drops to 2 or 1 key, I’ll jump in and get another one, it’s a nice miscellaneous item to have, and I have to admit, I became somewhat accustomed to it being perched on my Pyro’s back.

I also heard that the Sharpened Volcano Fragment has been screwed up by Valve so it now doesn’t ignite people on hit. I hope this isn’t true, even though I usually use an Axestinguisher, I can’t deny the love I have for the V. Fragment sitting in my backpack.

--Santa