My thoughts on the recent seasonal event.

[the godmaker]

No one asked for it, i don't care here's my review:

Maps:

Of course we all know we didn't needed more maps but Valve is going to keep giving us seasonal half-assed events because F2Ps are asking for anything at all because they're clueless about the game.
Do mapmakers even listen to the developers commentary before making a map? Most of them have actual talent at making maps they just don't follow the TF2 artstyle, listen to the developers commentary before making a map and i'm sure most of yall are going to make masterpieces that actually belong in TF2.
Of course some of the maps were bugged on release when i played them, typical from having to release a map at all cost from the workshop instead of working on one yourself Valve.

- Atom Smash
Literal reskin of Monster Bash and yet it's better than most of the maps that were added (8/10)

- Burghausen
Actual good map, thanks to the one that made the map and to Valve for adding it, it's not buggy, it belongs in TF2, another variety of map for Medieval mode is awesome thanks (9/10)

- Applejack
The map doesn't look like it's from another game but we still don't need new maps for CTF to be honest (6/10)

- Odyssey
Overwatch looking map, absolutely horrendous i'll give you 1 for the effort of actually making that horrendous map and having the courage to put it on the workshop. (2/10)

- Embargo
It's not as bad as Odyssey but it still doesn't respect the TF2 artstyle and new players can get lost pretty easily because of the sheer amount of infos at the screen. (3/10)

- Cachoeira
The helicopter wasn't necessary, except that, it's a good map. Thanks to the mapmaker and to Valve for adding it. (7/10)

- Canaveral
Decent. Feels like a TF2 map. (7/10)

- Hadal
The map looks like a mix of junction and steel but not in a bad way. But you can get lost very easily so that'll be. (6/10)

- Megaton
In a game like TF2? With a broken overpowered infinite range hitscan class nammed Sniper? (1/10)

- Overgrown
Horrendous, barely feels like a TF2 map and once again you'll get lost pretty this is like the first RED spawn on Bread Space. Make a simpler map. Also sightlines are horrendous the Sniper in the enemy team is going to have a good time instantly killing you the second you peak. (1/10)

Taunts:

We don't need new taunts either, stop the massacre. I'm still traumatized with the Neck Snap and Drunk Mann's Cannon taunts. Valve need to stop adding this, it's not Fortnite, stop listening to F2Ps just voting for anything without a care in the world for the TF2 artstyle or design.

- Unleashed Rage
Horrendous, never pick an animation software again, the mercenaries barely look angry what the hell is this? Are they playing a script for a movie? At least with schadenfreude the mercenaries LOOKS LIKE they're actually laughing. (1/10)

- Cremator's Condolences
Despite being an actual taunt it does not fit the Pyro. (5/10)

- Straight Shooter Tutor
Horrible. Plus in what situation would you use that? First you'd have to play Sniper and you don't deserve anything if you do. (3/10)

- CAN IT!
Actual taunt, fits the Soldier personality even though he's still creating an item out of thin air like a god. (8/10)

Unusual Taunts effects:

Who even cares about those. We never needed more Unusual Taunts effects and Valve just added a gazillion of them again for some reasons.
Electrocution allows you to make the funni LowTierGod meme i guess. That's really what TF2 needed wow TF2 is saved guys.

Unusual effects:

More Unusuals as if we didn't have enough! It's unusual effects, of course most of them are going to be bad but wow you didn't need to go that low with Melting Mohawk. It's actually really really bad. You can literally see the amount of Jesters on the Steam Page of the Unusual efffect, no one wanted this absolute scam of a Unusual effect, people are going to break their computer unboxing this.

- Melting Mohawk
I hope the guy gets VAC banned from Steam for making this. (-100000/10)

- Cuban Smoke
It's okay i guess, it's not Melting Mohawk. (6/10)

- Rainbow Reverie
So TF2 design friendly it got a DMCA claim. Congratulations. (6/10)

- Rare Shine
Should've been a bit slower but still okay. (6/10)

- Distant Drift
Pretty good. (6.5/10)

- Loyalist's Coronet
Atypical for an Unusual. (5/10)

- Bewitching Bugs
Bad, but since it's probably going to be a Sniper's nightmare i'll give it a 10000/10. (4/10)

- Psycho-delic
Medic GFs are going to have a good time wearing this. (6/10)

- Butterfly Season V2
Really bad. You could get dizzy from looking at the butterflies just swarming over the player's face. (2/10)

Cosmetics and Hats:

They destroyed it. When we thought they couldn't be worse they made worse TF2 cosmetics. Why did Eric Smith thought some of them were a good idea, i get it you're forced to put anything from the Workshop into TF2 but you should try to limit it look at the disaster.

- The Tropical Explorer Set
THIS IS HORRENDOUS THIS IS MAKING THE MADCAP COSMETIC LOOK LIKE AN ACTUAL GODLIKE COSMETIC IN COMPARAISON WHY DOES SOLDIER LOOKS FAT WHY ERIC WHY ERIC YOU'RE NOT EVEN PUTTING BUGGY COSMETICS THAT ARE OUT OF PLACE IN TF2 ANYMORE YOU'RE NOW DEFORMING THE TF2 MERCENARIES MODELS AS IF THEY WERE BORN DEFECT. THIS SET IS SO BAD IT DOESN'T EVEN BELONG IN HALLOWEEN RESTRICTED ITEMS, MATTER OF FACT YOU COULD UNRESTRICT ALL HALLOWEEN COSMETICS AND THEY WOULD ALL LOOK BETTER THAN THIS SET. THIS SET NEEDS TO BE REMOVED THIS IS AWFUL SOLDIERS FOREARMS ARE BALLOONS YOU CAN POP HIS FOREARM WITH A TOOTHPICK AND SAME FOR HIS LEGS. I WOULD'VE RATHER HAVE SKIBIDI TOILET IN THE GAME THAN THIS SET. (AND I DON'T WANT SKIBIDI TOILET IN THE GAME) (-INFINITE/10)

- The Aqua Aid Gear Set
GOD THIS IS STILL AWFUL THANK GOD THIS SET DOESN'T CHANGE THE MEDIC LEGS, BECAUSE IF THEY TRIED TO MAKE A COSMETICS OVER THE MEDIC DEFAULT MODEL MEDIC WOULD LOOK LIKE AN ACTUAL OBESE PERSON YOU NEED TO STOP UNDRESSING MERCENARIES THIS IS NOT FUNNY ANYMORE YOUR TYPICAL MERCENARY ISN'T LIKELY TO START UNDRESSING WHILE FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE ON THE JOB PLEASE THE WATCHMANN WETSUIT HAS THE SAME ISSUE THAN THE TROPICAL EXPLORER SET MEDIC LOOKS LIKE A BIRTH DEFECT THE COSMETIC IS HORRENDOUS THIS IS THE WORST MODELLING I'VE EVER SEEN THIS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE AN ARM THIS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE ANYTHING YOU'RE PUSHING IT TOO FAR THE TF2 MERCENARIES MODELS AREN'T MADE FOR YOU TO MODEL OVER THEM YOU CAN SEE THE MONSTROSITY THAT IT CREATES. (-INFINITE/10)

- Cover Fire Set
No. Remove those square-shaped shoulders and maybe it would be okay. (5/10)

- Gordon Freeman Set
It's okay, references another Valve game without looking out of place (8/10)

- Airframe
Horrendous, will only be worn by F2P unboxing their only crate in TF2 to be able to be premium. (2/10)

- Vaudeville Visor
MF DOOM reference get it? This is TF2 not Fortnite stop making reference about everything inside the real world. Stop. Still, doesn't look too out of place for the reference. (5/10)

- Desk Engineer
First off it's unlikely to be worn by a mercenary fighting for his life, second off stop trying to sneak pride flags into cosmetics. (-10/10)

- Daring Dell Set
No. The engineer is not a stuntman. The hat looks pretty fine. (5/10)

- The Brand Loyalist
Thanks finally, a simple Hat, for all classes, not expensive and doesn't look out of place.
This is what we need. (8/10)

- Tuxedo Royale
The cosmetic would have been fine without that horrendous paint region. It's not even been one week since the seasonal event and i've already seen lime green spies. (4/10)

- Bottler 2000
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO REALLY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE STOP MAKING PETS THIS IS NOT FORTNITE THIS IS NOT ROBLOX, TF2 WAS A HAT-THEMED WAR SIMULATOR. HORRENDOUS STOP DIGGING THE GAME ORIGINAL DESIGN AND CONCEPT GRAVE PLEASE. (-INFINITE/10)

- Bolshevik Bar Brute
This is really good, looks good on Heavy. I really like it (8/10)

- Commonwealth Commando.
Okay. (5/10)

- Tanker's Top
Another Dead of the Night vest and only the 940032472398473829th Scout's vest! (4/10)

- Sneaky Blinder
Good hat that's apparently not a Peaky Blinder reference, still looks good on Spy. (6/10)

Overall

Another half-assed seasonal event because the community keeps asking for anything but something useful for the game. If you want to help TF2, stop asking for new maps and cosmetics we don't need them, or at least ask for cosmetics that follow TF2 artstyle and design. Same for maps.
And if you REALLY care about TF2 then ask Valve to make an update themselves instead of taking stuff from the Workshop
I've been basing my entire reviews on "Could've been worse" except for the Tropical and Air-Gear Set because this is literally worse than anything.

[rin]

Wow that's alot of words but I probably agree with 85% of this so good job!!!

[rin]

Also sneaky blinder is too old (workshop creation and update date) to be a peaky blinder reference, OMG IT COPIED THE OBSCURE TF2 HAT MADE BEFORE THE SHOW WAS MADE!!!

[the godmaker]

Originally posted by rin:

Also sneaky blinder is too old (workshop creation and update date) to be a peaky blinder reference, OMG IT COPIED THE OBSCURE TF2 HAT MADE BEFORE THE SHOW WAS MADE!!!

Oops my bad.

[Rim Carrey]

Eh I like Botler. It's the robot from the long abandoned robot destruction mode that was in beta 10-11 years ago that could be played on quickplay along with pl_cactuscanyon. Really wish that map and mode had came out, it was some dumb fun.

Also this post reads like a 2fort tweakers video.

[RedReimu]

I agree with half of these.

[rhabdophobia]

Disliking a cosmetic because it's "not something someone would wear on a battlefield" would have to imply that you dislike like 90% of the cosmetics in the game.

[Dakaniva]

Originally posted by ♡Junkyard Dollhouse♡:

Disliking a cosmetic because it's "not something someone would wear on a battlefield" would have to imply that you dislike like 90% of the cosmetics in the game.

Godmaker is a full-time troll.

[the godmaker]

Originally posted by Tetrabite:

Originally posted by ♡Junkyard Dollhouse♡:

Disliking a cosmetic because it's "not something someone would wear on a battlefield" would have to imply that you dislike like 90% of the cosmetics in the game.

Godmaker is a full-time troll.

Just because we have differents opinions does not mean i'm a full time troll...

Originally posted by ♡Junkyard Dollhouse♡:

Disliking a cosmetic because it's "not something someone would wear on a battlefield" would have to imply that you dislike like 90% of the cosmetics in the game.

Some of them are indeed something that would have no reason of being on a battlefield. That doesn't mean i dislike 90% of the cosmetics.

[rhabdophobia]

Originally posted by the godmaker:

Originally posted by ♡Junkyard Dollhouse♡:

Disliking a cosmetic because it's "not something someone would wear on a battlefield" would have to imply that you dislike like 90% of the cosmetics in the game.

Some of them are indeed something that would have no reason of being on a battlefield. That doesn't mean i dislike 90% of the cosmetics.

A majority of them have no place on a battlefield and aren't something a mercenary fighting for their life would be wearing. Why does it only matter specifically with the Desk Engineer?

[the godmaker]

Originally posted by ♡Junkyard Dollhouse♡:

Originally posted by the godmaker:

Some of them are indeed something that would have no reason of being on a battlefield. That doesn't mean i dislike 90% of the cosmetics.

A majority of them have no place on a battlefield and aren't something a mercenary fighting for their life would be wearing. Why does it only matter specifically with the Desk Engineer?

Because if most of the cosmetics are something you would wear because it's practical or useful, a suit for a Desk worker is not something you would wear for anything else than working at a Desk, you wouldn't wear that when fighting for your life.

[Zaokllr]

Rated Odyssey poorly, rated Burghausen nearly perfect. Nothing you say is ever correct.

[Zumo Nacho INC]

I swear to god if i read the sentence "This is not/it does not belong in TF2" one more time im gonna explode.

[the godmaker]

Originally posted by Zaokllr:

Rated Odyssey poorly, rated Burghausen nearly perfect. Nothing you say is ever correct.

We have different opinions.
I think Burghausen is a great addition because it follows TF2 artstyle and add another map for a gamemode that only had one map. They improved the map and made it multi-stage. Overall i think it's a great addition.
Odyssey on the other hand does not look like a TF2 map at all and is pretty poorly designed. Some areas are in favor of Blu and some areas are also horribles sightlines. Not only is Odyssey not following TF2 artstyle but also poorly designed. So i don't think it's a great addition.

[rhabdophobia]

Originally posted by the godmaker:

Originally posted by ♡Junkyard Dollhouse♡:

A majority of them have no place on a battlefield and aren't something a mercenary fighting for their life would be wearing. Why does it only matter specifically with the Desk Engineer?

Because if most of the cosmetics are something you would wear because it's practical or useful, a suit for a Desk worker is not something you would wear for anything else than working at a Desk, you wouldn't wear that when fighting for your life.

Can I ask why it matters if cosmetics don't conform to battlefield-appropriate attire? Spy goes into battle wearing an expensive, tailored suit as his default. Engie himself is just wearing a shirt and some overalls. It doesn't feel like something that's very important.

[the godmaker]

Originally posted by ZumoNacho INC:

I swear to god if i read the sentence "This is not/it does not belong in TF2" one more time im gonna explode.

I'm sorry alright, when i started playing TF2, i was really fascinated by all of the work the original TF2 developers put into making a really unique and overall incredible artstyle for TF2, everything was carefully executed. I think it's something i've never seen in another game, such beautiful execution of unique artstyle. Items nowadays don't even care in the slightest about feeling like it's part of the artstyle.