Although I do agree with the people below that paint absolutely sucks, I still think it's not coolchou's fault that it is a problem and not his responsibility to make a very lightly paintable or straight up unpaintable hat just because the lime and pink paint cans exist. Other paintable hats already have the ability to take up a ton of space for each of the classes heads, adding this hat to the game will bring basically no effect on whether or not people decide to paint their cosmetics annoying colors.

paintabilty takes more work, I only do paints if i really want to do it, not all people share your opinion unfortunately

1. Mods are hell to download.
2. Motherfucker, cant you just do this extra 20 minutes of work? Paintability wont help your cosmetic get in the game. (at least not that much) It just looks fucking ugly

I think the issue with having such a massive paint region on this is that it covers a majority of the head. It would be very easy to pair this with more big paint region cosmetics that can mess with recognition, especially as an all-class hat. It's a really nice cosmetic, but I don't think people want this added if it's going to be used to mess with people in game.

if you guys hate paint so much then its best if you just download a mod that removes them. Im not one that lets a coupel of bad paints to dictates my entire view on a cosmetic, there are bad paints but thats just what we have to deal with
I like to focus on the good a cosmetic that can bring along with the majority of paints that look good instead of the few that's bad.

My argument would be same as gras's

would that mean it's also okay to fill TF2 with garbage hats because "well ugh people have free will we workshoppers too we add whatever we want you have no right to judge us weeeeuh"?
no. those "people with free will" are ruining this game, silently approving this kind of behavior in one way or another. grow responsibility of the game i hope you are actually trying to put effort into making items for. make an ACTUAL argument than sounding like you're from a soyjak meme.

people have free will

why
those are the people consistently upvoting(or not) and most likely PRAYING for hats that are like this to get in so they can get more hats to add on to their vomit loadout they endore so much in a game that is so stylized, even the good hats look awful with those paints.

let them be

never said i "cared"? idgaf what you wear in-game as long as it's not horrendus or fucking up team/class recognition
giving a hat the ability to be painted almost fully lime/pink is just like i said, giving a kid candy and just tell the kid "dont eat it lol", you really think the kid will care? no. they will eat it regardless. same with the lime/pink simps. your choice to make this able to become a pile of saturated paint bomb has no excuse.

why do you care what other people wear

"dont paint it"
"hey kids, *drops 5 gumdrops on a plate* don't eat this!"
literally the same fucking argument.

Maybe i wont, but that dumbass soldier with his medic girlfriend dressed in pink shoving a medi beam up his ass will

dont paint it

Paintability ruins yet another great cosmetic. Im not saying it should be unpaintable, altough i would like to see that happen, but JESUS those paint regions are massive

This actually work pretty well with most of the existing winter cosmetics we have in the game.

And props for making an alt style that removes the mask part.