Are we gonna start doing these now? The bot-killers are neat because they were pretty hard to get and have more value owning them depending on the tour. And the festiviser was a small bonus you got from a crate. Both are far less obtrusive and didn't drastically alter the overall shape of the weapon. I wouldn't be able to tell what the Scout or Engie is holding as the colour would blend in with their clothing. The size of the muzzle covers the weapon from the front view

You could argue the C.A.P.P.E.R exists and falls into that trap, thing is it's an item from a retired crate series, you'll hardly find someone using it unless they were playing during the invasion update or they sunk £30 into it. The general shape still looks like a pistol from all angles

We should just stick to warpaints or skins for weapons, we already got a taunt kill, no doubt that'll cause a ripple effect on the workshop. And People have already complained about a lot of items messing up the design of the game.

Don't need more gaudy trash slapped onto the weapon models.

Found this again, if festivizers are in the game and enjoyed by players this can be too, its way more fitting than ugly christmas lights

just looks ugly as shit and is extremely out of place.

Also the concern about this making it difficult to make out what weapon this is I feel like is a bit of a stretch; even if the characters are moving around a bunch, Scout & Engineer have very unique animations and stances when it comes to how they're holding their secondary pistols that you'd immediately be able to recognise what they're equipping during a battle.

Scout's got a very noticeable double-handed grip when he holds just about any pistol that stays consistent when he's running around and Engineer strongarms it one-handed.

It's a bigass attachment, but it's not going to negate the animations attached to these weapons and the characters who use it. If a giant, orange muzzle attachment somehow makes you forget that Scout's got a default pistol equipped as he's running back and while both hands are on the grip, then that's a you problem.

I think this thing being intentionally massive & awkward is kinda the point? An oil filter as a silencer is meant to be an improvised attachment for a weapon, and so many of the weapons the mercs use are improvised in some sort of way.

TF2 is absolutely not meant to be some tacticool shooter, so the idea of attachments for the stock pistol being this is just a great idea; making it smaller or making it a regular suppressor kinda ends up defeating the concept of what this is meant to be, which is intentionally awkward for an improvised attachment.

i like the idea and probably the only weapon accessory i'm not a fan of. maybe if you found a smaller can from the game.

i would love if there was one where it was just a regular silencer, would be cool.

budget suppressor

The TIN CAN update

@Zaku II (Alias WatcherZigzagoon)

It's an improvised suppressor/silencer.

I doubt valve would add this anytime, they have to code weapon cosmetics.
I love the idea tho.

yeah mine too thats why i made it

Way too big.

@Cope, Cannibalistic rooster THAT'S A BIG SILENCER!

doctor stink

It's a silencer

Like, what does it do irl?

I don't even know what the point of this thing is

Of course you can tell in a still, close promo image. Don't forget this goes in game with differences in lighting and people constantly moving around.

i would put this on my guns

i personally can tell it's a pistol by looking at it and recognizing it's a pistol, dunno about you Delila

@Stogie From a design perspective, it's fucking massive and brightly colored. That's not exactly the thing you want in the middle of your screen as you're trying to shoot someone. I also really dislike the concept of weapon accessories. They don't fit into TF2 and on top of that it shits on easy weapon identification more than war paints do. We don't need that many things tacked onto a gun, especially small ones like the pistol. Put on a dark war paint and a festivizer with this thing and there's no way in hell you're going to be able to tell what you're dealing with.

Would be cool if we had also somekind of tool like festivizer that aplies this weapon accecories.

I'm genuinely confused by folks' reaction to this item. The colour and design is perfectly in-line with the game's style and it's quite well-made to boot. And yes, while it isn't technically PRACTICAL, since when was THAT the TF2 community's top priority!?

What pray tell is "practical" about having a glowing beacon on your head, or wrapping your weapon in holiday lights? Do you think players are concerned with tactical advantage when they put on hats so tall you can spot them behind cover? Do you think the Conscientious Objector is as popular as it is because it's a practical weapon? Of course not!

This is a SOLID addition to the community's Weapon Accessory proposal. And if you disagree, the least you could do is actually EXPLAIN your thought-process, instead of just mumbling "it looks like shit" before toddling off.

Oil Can suppressors seems like a very mann co thing to do

I am a professional mouse catcher so I must know

does this weapon have custom firing sounds

Looks too bright, but i do like having an oversized silencer on my pistol.

what the fuck

I think that this doesn't look too bad if it was a skin.

thank you my friend

This definitely doesn't look like shit, this is just pretty impractical because of reasons given below. I wouldn't use it in-game because of that, but I definitely can see the effort put into this and I can only respect that.

not my problem

I will actively choose not to.

i have brain damage please understand

This looks like shit

niiiice

And yes, I do smell like cheese

tight bro

Too goofy for my liking. This would be a nightmare in first person and reloading. This doubles the pistol's length, so trying to sneak around will deem more difficult with this out.