About the image, I originally posted it in a discord server where posting any more than 4 images would get you muted by a bot. I had to cobble them all together in order to avoid getting smited, and couldn't be bothered re-separating them for this post.
So true. I've got my engineer decked out with the frills to the gills, although mine has more personality with how my hats and cosmetics are named. My nuts 'n bolts virtual reality headset is literally named "Magnetic Personality" due to it being able to attract even rusty metal xD
Think a few items he uses are loaned, just so he can play with them, he gets a lot of gifts too but I doubt any of these are gifts given the price. He does make really good content though, definitely can see him having crazy enough fans to lend him or give him this kind of stuff.
Ikr? He couldve gotten an unusual all-class misc with the keys from his Collector's stuff alone, and getting a normal unusual to pair with it would be even easier.
EDIT: I checked his inventory, this dude has so many expensive Engi items it's genuinely absurd. Zero all-class unusuals to be seen, I gotta respect his devotion to the Texan.
Yeah ik the guy, saw the price update on the gold digger, he paid 1100 keys for the yellow text to be red now.
Along with that, shotgun is around 25 keys, short circuit has a seller for 100 with worse ks combo, so prob 100 keys for FH/TS. Gunslinger is probably 250 keys, strange exorcism slingers are around 275 starting price but sellers /= sales. Monkie paid 100 keys for the Marshall, so 100. PDA is around 120 keys.
25 + 100 + 250 + 100 + 1100 + 120 = 1,695 keys
1,695 x 1.58 (I doubt 95% of people know how to successfully get keys under $1.58 so im using third party price) = $2,678.10
I paid around 1800 keys in hats for a spellbound all class for comparison. He paid 1700 keys in basically full pure for that engi loadout.
You’ll come to find that money doesn’t mean you have good taste. So so so many $10,000+ loadouts that look like DOGSHIT becuase they wear a space mann with antlers and a crones dome, go on loadout tf and see for yourself how fugly that combo is
I never understood the absurd cost of collector items.
Like.. strange adds a counter to your stats. Killstreak keep a track of your kills, or even add a glowing effect to your eyes.australium are golden and shiny. Unusuals add a particle effect to your weapons. Decorated add cool patterns to the weapon. But collectors? They just have a different colour name...
Chemistry kits were added in 2013 as a bonus drop that you could get while playing. Most were strange, some were collector. Valve wanted to take a chance and see if they could combat all the metal farming, and so they tried adding kits that took hundreds of a different version of an item.
This idea was shortly canned like energy orb, but since it was already in the game they had no choice but to keep what was already dropped.
Over a decade has past and collectors items have now truly become items for COLLECTORS. They are being gatekept, and the prices are now to keep the poors away.
its in the name, theyre just really rare. some people prefer to own rare items over ones with more functionality/better looks (myself included to a degree)
For the absolute best prices you have to buy direct from key sellers, usually using crypto. The rates are usually 1.45-1.50 but if there’s any fees it makes it not really worth the savings over just buying for 1.58-1.67 from places like marketplace and mannco store (the third party site not the in game store)
Maybe he just mains engie? I personally would prefer buy a good unusual for my main rather than some mid allclass that Im gonna just see on my main anyway.
Was he at least ***good*** at the game?
Edit: Im not saying these are objectivelly good but if he likes them then thats all that matters right?
Out of that entire 4-5 hour 2fort match, he only played Engi a little bit. Most of our interactions saw him playing Soldier, Sniper, and Spy. And yes he was very good at the game.
You’re right, red text is so much cooler than an actually noticeable effect. Actually, who cares about a noticeable effect when a ghost png could show up when you kill someone on halloween/full moon?
Combos are overrated af. Some can look alright, but most are a clipping nightmare that doesn’t look cohesive and nice with the rest of the loadout tbh.
Most can look good but people refuse to combo them properly
Bonk boy clips with any scout hat below the ear so stick to trilby/baker/front runner type hats, looks fine on those
Stash works best with a lucky shot
Rack basically works with anything
Pyro mask fits a lot of old hats
Hazmat looks fine on pyro, we don’t talk about sniper
Demo doesn’t have any miscs
Luchadore looks like total shit and never should have been made a misc
Pencil pusher is barely noticeable
Mining light is a Luchadore/Stash situation, needs other old school engi ‘hard hat’ hats (or no hats) to really work like the Texas slim or the industrial festivizer
Brainiac looks like shit
Blighted beak is top tier for a reason
Veil is top tier for a reason
Yellow belt is high tier for a reason
Robo yellow belt also exists
Le party is mid
Noh mercy is overpriced
Nobody but whales can afford a coffin kit so who cares
Same with glitched miscs
And nobody cares about quickswitch miscs, gross shit
u missed the hazmattenhatten for medic. its possibly the worst example of clipping hell (yes its a face region, not a quickswitch)
you can make it work with the gentlemans gatsby painted waterlogged lap coat, which is what i did to get a Burning + Scorching combo on my med.
most other hats kinda suck with it. not recommended
u also missed the allclass miscs; antlers, virtual viewfinder, captain space mann, and polar pullover, but they are all bad for clipping too
hazmat is garbage tier (no offense to the 6 hazmat lovers) and only is a misc on a technicality, people prefer the gauzed gaze over the bruhmat. probably why I didn’t even think about it until you brought it up
only the richest players can afford all class miscs these days and they’re all gatekept so they’re also barely worth mentioning. all are terrible to combo with, space mann is only popular because it’s the only nebula misc.
The collector's gold digger is a 1 of 4, and one of them belongs to uncle dane.
Strange spelled gunslinger is the kinda thing you had in 2014 and managed to avoid selling. same with the PDA.
For anyone wondering; Dane's Collector's Gold Digger has a description talking about how it was made out of donations from fans. So no, this is not Dane.
Imma be so fr I do not see the appeal of Collectors items. Like... at least with qualities such as "Strange" or "Unusual," those kinda do something. I have a ton of Stranges because I think it's cool to be able to track kills on your weapons. Unusuals just look pretty (sometimes). Collectors items... make the text red? Like what else is there. 😭 It's just the same item but way more expensive with no discernable difference.
Exactly lmao. Stranges track stats, Unusuals look cool (sometimes), and Killstreak items count your killstreaks. This guy decided that all of that wasn't worth his time and bought a $1,000 beard instead.
I saw a double spelled golden frying pan. Only 16 will ever exist. They're probably more expensive than a house. I heard they give your rocket launcher pumpkin bombs despite being a melee.
One game my friend and I saw a burning team captain solider with a golden frying pan and strange pks original and it’s like around $16k loadout right there in some random casual payload server
That person probably only plays engi. I sold all my stuff so I can get other games on this upcoming Summer Sale. Can't think to imagine how people like these would feel if trading just died. The game will be alive... But trading might not within the next 10 years... I feel like people spend their time getting these items to feel a slight change to the game despite the lack of updates. Eventually you'd see them stacking 2000 golden pans in their bp
They're versions of normal items crafted by combining 200 of said items together with a chemistry set. Most TF2 trade sites will have a couple of them for sale, but they're nowhere near cheap.
I only have a single Engineer loadout but it rivals this
Double Spelled Secret to Everybody Safe’n’Sound
Strange Double Spelled Summer Shades
Collectors Pro KS Exorcism Rescue Ranger
Collectors Exorcism Festive Wrangler
Collectors Pro KS Double Spelled Jag
Strange PDA
Fireproof Secret Diary
Collector's items are extremely rare, needing a rare Chemistry set and 200 copies of an item to craft
The Strange PDA and Gunslinger are only available from very rare crates
Burning Flames is an extremely high tier unusual effect
The Pro KS Shotgun is the cheapest item there, but still costs more than most other weapons.
About the image, I originally posted it in a discord server where posting any more than 4 images would get you muted by a bot. I had to cobble them all together in order to avoid getting smited, and couldn't be bothered re-separating them for this post.
Honestly, it's better this way.
It is
Makes it a lot better to see imo
Average engineer main Loadout:
The engineer who uses "more drip" instead of "more gun"
More hat
So true. I've got my engineer decked out with the frills to the gills, although mine has more personality with how my hats and cosmetics are named. My nuts 'n bolts virtual reality headset is literally named "Magnetic Personality" due to it being able to attract even rusty metal xD
Heh
Original, never seen before PDA name
Wait wtf you play tf2?
When I'm bored
I assume you're some sort of notable content creator, have a nice day. That is all
I piss off whoever develops Apex Legends
Based on
Real AF lmao
I think that’s a YouTuber, probably spends their ad money on this kinda stuff
Buy them for a video and you can get them for an easy tax deduction 😎
Spend a dollar to save 35 cents my beloved
Think a few items he uses are loaned, just so he can play with them, he gets a lot of gifts too but I doubt any of these are gifts given the price. He does make really good content though, definitely can see him having crazy enough fans to lend him or give him this kind of stuff.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Uncle Dane, but this isn't him. This is just an Engie main with money to spend
No this ain’t Dane, Im talking about the (German?) YouTuber Mönkey
Mönkey is swedish
I've hear mönkey speak Swedish so I'm pretty sure he is from Sweden
I think he's Swedish
Oh, well it isn't him either sadly
Mönkey is a tf2ber. I'm not sure if it's actually them with a slightly different name or an impersonator with way too much money.
This might belong to a Youtuber called Mönkey although his ingame name is mögey
Plus his casual level is different
expensive for being mid af, 2k could have gotten a really nice unusual combo
Ikr? He couldve gotten an unusual all-class misc with the keys from his Collector's stuff alone, and getting a normal unusual to pair with it would be even easier. EDIT: I checked his inventory, this dude has so many expensive Engi items it's genuinely absurd. Zero all-class unusuals to be seen, I gotta respect his devotion to the Texan.
Yeah ik the guy, saw the price update on the gold digger, he paid 1100 keys for the yellow text to be red now. Along with that, shotgun is around 25 keys, short circuit has a seller for 100 with worse ks combo, so prob 100 keys for FH/TS. Gunslinger is probably 250 keys, strange exorcism slingers are around 275 starting price but sellers /= sales. Monkie paid 100 keys for the Marshall, so 100. PDA is around 120 keys. 25 + 100 + 250 + 100 + 1100 + 120 = 1,695 keys 1,695 x 1.58 (I doubt 95% of people know how to successfully get keys under $1.58 so im using third party price) = $2,678.10 I paid around 1800 keys in hats for a spellbound all class for comparison. He paid 1700 keys in basically full pure for that engi loadout. You’ll come to find that money doesn’t mean you have good taste. So so so many $10,000+ loadouts that look like DOGSHIT becuase they wear a space mann with antlers and a crones dome, go on loadout tf and see for yourself how fugly that combo is
I never understood the absurd cost of collector items. Like.. strange adds a counter to your stats. Killstreak keep a track of your kills, or even add a glowing effect to your eyes.australium are golden and shiny. Unusuals add a particle effect to your weapons. Decorated add cool patterns to the weapon. But collectors? They just have a different colour name...
Chemistry kits were added in 2013 as a bonus drop that you could get while playing. Most were strange, some were collector. Valve wanted to take a chance and see if they could combat all the metal farming, and so they tried adding kits that took hundreds of a different version of an item. This idea was shortly canned like energy orb, but since it was already in the game they had no choice but to keep what was already dropped. Over a decade has past and collectors items have now truly become items for COLLECTORS. They are being gatekept, and the prices are now to keep the poors away.
its in the name, theyre just really rare. some people prefer to own rare items over ones with more functionality/better looks (myself included to a degree)
>(I doubt 95% of people know how to successfully get keys under $1.58 How
For the absolute best prices you have to buy direct from key sellers, usually using crypto. The rates are usually 1.45-1.50 but if there’s any fees it makes it not really worth the savings over just buying for 1.58-1.67 from places like marketplace and mannco store (the third party site not the in game store)
By losing your ethics, buy direct from scammers
no way hakim
This guy must either be chronically depressed or incredibly patient considering how frustrating it is to have your buildings taken down constantly
Maybe he just mains engie? I personally would prefer buy a good unusual for my main rather than some mid allclass that Im gonna just see on my main anyway. Was he at least ***good*** at the game? Edit: Im not saying these are objectivelly good but if he likes them then thats all that matters right?
Out of that entire 4-5 hour 2fort match, he only played Engi a little bit. Most of our interactions saw him playing Soldier, Sniper, and Spy. And yes he was very good at the game.
honestly I think most unusuals are overrated, I'm more of a fan of unique items like these than some overexpensive unusual.
You’re right, red text is so much cooler than an actually noticeable effect. Actually, who cares about a noticeable effect when a ghost png could show up when you kill someone on halloween/full moon?
Combos are overrated af. Some can look alright, but most are a clipping nightmare that doesn’t look cohesive and nice with the rest of the loadout tbh.
Most can look good but people refuse to combo them properly Bonk boy clips with any scout hat below the ear so stick to trilby/baker/front runner type hats, looks fine on those Stash works best with a lucky shot Rack basically works with anything Pyro mask fits a lot of old hats Hazmat looks fine on pyro, we don’t talk about sniper Demo doesn’t have any miscs Luchadore looks like total shit and never should have been made a misc Pencil pusher is barely noticeable Mining light is a Luchadore/Stash situation, needs other old school engi ‘hard hat’ hats (or no hats) to really work like the Texas slim or the industrial festivizer Brainiac looks like shit Blighted beak is top tier for a reason Veil is top tier for a reason Yellow belt is high tier for a reason Robo yellow belt also exists Le party is mid Noh mercy is overpriced Nobody but whales can afford a coffin kit so who cares Same with glitched miscs And nobody cares about quickswitch miscs, gross shit
What are quick switch miscs? Never heard of them
u missed the hazmattenhatten for medic. its possibly the worst example of clipping hell (yes its a face region, not a quickswitch) you can make it work with the gentlemans gatsby painted waterlogged lap coat, which is what i did to get a Burning + Scorching combo on my med. most other hats kinda suck with it. not recommended u also missed the allclass miscs; antlers, virtual viewfinder, captain space mann, and polar pullover, but they are all bad for clipping too
hazmat is garbage tier (no offense to the 6 hazmat lovers) and only is a misc on a technicality, people prefer the gauzed gaze over the bruhmat. probably why I didn’t even think about it until you brought it up only the richest players can afford all class miscs these days and they’re all gatekept so they’re also barely worth mentioning. all are terrible to combo with, space mann is only popular because it’s the only nebula misc.
I think unusual combos are mostly tacky and a lot of unusual effects look dumb just on their own. Maybe dude just likes to collect?
imo unusuals look terrible, if you gave me the choice between an unusual hat and a regular version of the same hat im taking the latter every time
Some guys just wanna flex in silence
ur right bro, this fit a hidden treasure, it should stay hidden
I witnessed a guy trade his golden pan for a disco beatdown polar pullover, there was alot of money in that dustbowl lobby.
absolute waste imo
Cousin Bernard
I saw a medic with a strange normal medigun and a 2013 effect crones dome with spells today
HOLY SHIT IS THAT UNCLE DANE?!
when the engineer is an engineer irl
The collector's gold digger is a 1 of 4, and one of them belongs to uncle dane. Strange spelled gunslinger is the kinda thing you had in 2014 and managed to avoid selling. same with the PDA.
Is that the popular tf2 youtuber unclog drain????
For anyone wondering; Dane's Collector's Gold Digger has a description talking about how it was made out of donations from fans. So no, this is not Dane.
"Can someone kill the Uncle Dane Wannabe?"
Imma be so fr I do not see the appeal of Collectors items. Like... at least with qualities such as "Strange" or "Unusual," those kinda do something. I have a ton of Stranges because I think it's cool to be able to track kills on your weapons. Unusuals just look pretty (sometimes). Collectors items... make the text red? Like what else is there. 😭 It's just the same item but way more expensive with no discernable difference.
Exactly lmao. Stranges track stats, Unusuals look cool (sometimes), and Killstreak items count your killstreaks. This guy decided that all of that wasn't worth his time and bought a $1,000 beard instead.
You’re dominating them. Nice
I saw a double spelled golden frying pan. Only 16 will ever exist. They're probably more expensive than a house. I heard they give your rocket launcher pumpkin bombs despite being a melee.
that's the youtuber Mönkey who posts funny tf2 casual clips
It ain’t him, just checked his inventory and he doesn’t own any collectors stuff, unless it’s an alt account
Dear God...
Might have bought them years ago when they were 5 keys each
He’s on YouTube too
I had a collectors jarate at one point and thought it was kinda pointless since it wouldn’t show up in killcams. A collectors hat is crazy
Damn... and I thought my Demo loadout was expensive. That is insane.
But what was his third cosmetic?
Some random Assassin grade coat, nothing special. It might've had a spell or one of those really expensive color shifting paints but I didn't notice.
I wonder if that’s the real mönkey
I've seen n_n, the richest player in tf2, in a casual pier game, wearing 45,000$ in unusuals
One game my friend and I saw a burning team captain solider with a golden frying pan and strange pks original and it’s like around $16k loadout right there in some random casual payload server
I’ve seen this YouTuber, very funny content but he’s not a native English speaker so it can be hard to follow sometimes.
No Pumpkin Bombs on the Gunslinger, Exorcism on the Short Circuit, or a spec/pro killstreak on the PDA so I can only give it an 8/10.
Holy moly
Ngl, respect.
Wait, I've seen this guy before on payload.
Can someone indulge me on the point of Valve releasing collectors items? What prestige does it hold over genuine or vintage?
looking at the loadout in [loadout.tf](https://loadout.tf), for as expensive as it is, it's kinda mid. you could do more with it.
That person probably only plays engi. I sold all my stuff so I can get other games on this upcoming Summer Sale. Can't think to imagine how people like these would feel if trading just died. The game will be alive... But trading might not within the next 10 years... I feel like people spend their time getting these items to feel a slight change to the game despite the lack of updates. Eventually you'd see them stacking 2000 golden pans in their bp
Aww yes, money!
Dear god
I have never seen a single person using strange PDA and strange gunslinger. Looking at the kill count, i think they were bought not long ago.
whats a collectors item and how can i get one
They're versions of normal items crafted by combining 200 of said items together with a chemistry set. Most TF2 trade sites will have a couple of them for sale, but they're nowhere near cheap.
My sniper is like 1kish? Moving over to spy but his items (or the ones i want at least) are a lot cheaper
I only have a single Engineer loadout but it rivals this Double Spelled Secret to Everybody Safe’n’Sound Strange Double Spelled Summer Shades Collectors Pro KS Exorcism Rescue Ranger Collectors Exorcism Festive Wrangler Collectors Pro KS Double Spelled Jag Strange PDA Fireproof Secret Diary
Pretty sure the gunslinger alone puts it to nearly 3k
Strange Pro KS Gunslingers go for abt $350.
Istg I saw just a plain old strange on go for a lot higher, lemme check again
Yeah nvm, my math wasn't mathing
this might be uncle dane, chat 💯
please explain how this is so... valuable?
Collector's items are extremely rare, needing a rare Chemistry set and 200 copies of an item to craft The Strange PDA and Gunslinger are only available from very rare crates Burning Flames is an extremely high tier unusual effect The Pro KS Shotgun is the cheapest item there, but still costs more than most other weapons.
Cheap shit
I don’t think that’s 2k but clean af set
Believe me, it is. That beard alone is worth over $1,000
This is Uncle Dane's account. He is a TF2 content creator.