The fact it looks like a Tribal mask is pretty sweet i'm telling ya.

I could see this being used in tribal loadouts, honestly won't be too mad if this gets in.

does it protect you from facestabs

Thank u for being so much more reasonable than most commenters, it's honestly so refreshing lol

Unfortunately nothing exists in a bubble by itself. TF2 is a community driven game which is a good and bad thing because there's nice people and not so nice people.

FWIW cosmetics go through a lot of filters, the Valve filter, creator's filter, and the communities' filter (and communities, community filter e.g., the ZeistyJesus Zealots.) I think in the long run it's a matter of balancing "Those that mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind" and aligning your expectations with your goals and reality.

The comments for this submission are appreciative/ supportive with this (hopefully it keeps up!)

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I don't think creativity flourishes by dwelling too long on a single idea. If your approach is to make a lot of things to see what sticks, then honestly, I probably have voted yes on a bunch of your previous works already. (Sniper blindfold, Ghost cap, the Scout Pauling off the top of my head)

Ty4 your time.

With ratings so low these days its hard to find the energy to spend on fancy stuff like that, and I wish it wasn't the case... if it "looks really nice" it can just be left at that surely, why complain about a good time? Because of the influx of ppl that think like this, the ratings get wimpy and its hard to find a reason to really tweak an item into perfection when the result can never seem to please everyone anyway. My best rated item this year is a cartoon pyro head that completely goes against art style! The lesson being taught to me probably isn't what a lot of people intend TBH

"This is just resized DDS mesh with eyeholes cut out." I can see why a lot of people think like this, but I actually created the whole model and texture from scratch, adding some more detail here and there + paintability. It may not look like it but its actually a lot of work to make stuff like this even if it's based off an existing idea by valve, especially the texture.

I could spend a week designing multiple styles and unique mask patterns and all of that, and that would be great, it would be a better item because of it! But whats the point when a bunch of comments are just gonna call it "another object on the head" and downvote anyway? I submit a large variety of items and some are extremely high effort, one of which being a hat with 2 unique texture styles for every single class, and they tend to get the same treatment no matter what. Measly votes.

This fits quite well. I like it.

This isn't a bad idea, but there are real-life examples of a mid-20th Century Queensland Rainforest tribal mask to pull inspiration from. This is just resized DDS mesh with eyeholes cut out.

It looks really nice but I would attribute that to the TF2 artist that originally designed the model.

Please if you're planning on creating more masks like this a spin off from the DDS with tasteful use of motifs from Indigenous/Aboriginal peoples would be really cool to see.

ty kaim!!!

DAN this is jeanous,,,,