i agree with knusperfroschs first message

Grr why didn't we get this?

that is mental, hope it will get selected this year.

I love this effect, especially considering how realistic the skull is. Reasons I love stormy 13th and other skull effects the skull is rather scary due to how realistic it looks. Love it!

make a new skull that looks cooler. this is basically another misty skull. we dont need more cloned effects. no thanks.

Think the changes are too minor personally from already existing effects.

Good luck, anyway.

Thanks for your opinion. I understand your concern with the similarity, but I have to disagree. I'm happy with the way it turned out and so are many others.

Far too much like the existing skull/skull+cloud effects (Misty Skull, Stormy 13th Hour, Secret to Everybody). Basically you just replaced the white mist of Misty Skull with dark smoke, and added a bit of dripping blood.

Reasons why this won't be added:
a) It's basically Misty Skull/Secret to Everybody 2.0, which would de-value the existing skull effects.
b) In the past, Valve always put a theme for each year's Halloween Unusual effects: Halloween 2011 (Mann Manor map) had flaming pumpkins, cauldron bubbles and full moon + cloud. Halloween 2012 (Ghost Fort map/Skull Island) gave us lots of skulls and more clouds. Scream Fortress 2013 (Helltower) had a "magic" theme with pentagrams, magic sparkles and bats. Scream Fortress 2014 (Carnival) had a demon maw spitting out bones, ghosts, and shapeless things with glowing eyes in the dark, all things you saw in Carnival's underworld.
c) The dripping blood isn't even visible except from really up close.

The 'Bag of Nope' (this needs to be in tf2)

TF2 Workshop Halloween 2015 content in a Nutshell's

i've always thought that skull sprite was too realistic and spooky for tf2, now it's even more spookier

This looks really great. I hope it gets into the game!

Coco approves

Absolutely amazing effect. LOVE what you were able to do with Misty!