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Raiko Mar 22, 2018 @ 11:01pm
Weapon strangifier problem
Why can't I use Strangifier on a War Painted weapon?
I have a few War Painted Airstrikes, and I can't use Airstrike Strangifier on them. Is this normal? If so, why there is nothing about it on a official wiki page?
Last edited by Raiko; Mar 22, 2018 @ 11:10pm
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(っ● ‿ ●)っ Mar 22, 2018 @ 11:09pm 
That's either a bug, or it's on purpose to make strange paints more valuable

I vote bug tho
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spengie the strange engie Mar 22, 2018 @ 11:16pm 
January 4, 2018 - TF2 Team

Updated Strangifiers so they can no longer be applied to War Paint items
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Raiko Mar 22, 2018 @ 11:18pm 
Originally posted by spengi the strange engi:
January 4, 2018 - TF2 Team

Updated Strangifiers so they can no longer be applied to War Paint items

This is bad(((
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Rumpus Mar 22, 2018 @ 11:19pm 
It's to push the ridiculously high market on stat clocks.
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Charlie5L Mar 22, 2018 @ 11:19pm 
Let me try to explain this.

During the first month of the War Paints, as we know, we can put them Air Strikes. Now people knew that there were Strange War Paints that could be unboxed. HOWEVER... The Air Strike was the only weapon in the acceptable weapons that had a Strangifier.

When word got out, the Air Strike Strangifiers suddenly rose in prices. Everyone was going everyone on trading sites, Steam Market, and Marketplace.tf to buy as many Air Strike strangifiers, as well as sell them for profit. Reason? If you got an Elite skin (Red text) that was in Factory New, and then put it on the Air Strike, and then put on the Strangifier, you would have a Strange FN Air Strike.

KEEP IN MIND: This would NOT be StatTrak, which is still Strange but a different name and look-- as it has the stat clock attached-- so it's value would be worth even more than a StatClock attached.

Eventually, the TF2 Dev team got feedback from members and had patched this I believe a week after it was discovered. So now there are people out there that have Strange FN-BS Air Strikes, while everyone else will get FN-BS Air Strikes with StatClocks attached.
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淵 La+ Darknesss Mar 22, 2018 @ 11:21pm 
To push artifical rarity
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RockSolidWood Jun 1, 2020 @ 4:33pm 
Just had to look this up now because I was offered a strange dead reckoner mkii air strike some time ago... Since then I had been thinking about how that'd even work, and how valuable that skin could be. It still might be worth a bit, but the skin itself is ugly anyways.
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