Anybody found any hats yet?

[chipbuster69]

It's based on both. It used to be achievements only, but as you can guess, some people went into games with the idea to do nothing but get achivements. This is turn really screwed up valve's stats system (some people out there have 2,000 pts and a 20:00 longest life), so Valve decided to make a time-based unlocks system. This was so horribly unpopular that valve went back to the acheivemnt system, but they kept the random unlocks for the hats.

I believe that I have now answered two of your questions. It's always nice to have someone inquisitive on these forums, so keep asking!

EDIT: It's still possible to find weapons through random unlocks, but now that valve has a handle on what achievements should be (medic pack was a disaster), it's probably faster just to go to that class and play for an hour or so to get all the achievements you need.

[STLZACH]

It's based on both. It used to be achievements only, but as you can guess, some people went into games with the idea to do nothing but get achivements. This is turn really screwed up valve's stats system (some people out there have 2,000 pts and a 20:00 longest life), so Valve decided to make a time-based unlocks system. This was so horribly unpopular that valve went back to the acheivemnt system, but they kept the random unlocks for the hats.

I believe that I have now answered two of your questions. It's always nice to have someone inquisitive on these forums, so keep asking!

EDIT: It's still possible to find weapons through random unlocks, but now that valve has a handle on what achievements should be (medic pack was a disaster), it's probably faster just to go to that class and play for an hour or so to get all the achievements you need.

i googled this already, but what achieves do i need for each unlock?

[jasonz777z]

You can do any achievement that is logically for 'medic' or any class that you want achievie/unlocks for. Look at the milestones to see how many achievements you need for a certain milestone. You can theoretically do ANY achievement as long as it does not include using an unlockable weapon that you do not have.

[ZoliEsq]

I found the pyro brigade hat last night.

[chipbuster69]

whoo. I still have nothing. And with the trade system rumored to be coming out with the soldier update....
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Well, hats are going to become the currency of TF2, and I'm going to be flat broke.

[Emannikufesin]

Have I found any hats? No. But I do have countless dead ringers, Cloak + Daggers and Ambassadors...

[STLZACH]

Have I found any hats? No. But I do have countless dead ringers, Cloak + Daggers and Ambassadors...

i have 8 fucking huntsmans

[Still Learning]

I have the soldier's secret stash ( <3 ) and the stainless pot ( Ahem. Stupid ). Nothing else, though.

I've read somewhere that some guy found out the chance to get a hat rises with the ammount of different unlocks You delete at once in one life. Could be a hoax, though, and I haven't gotten a hat like that yet (I tend to delete the unlocks I already have on sight, so I didn't try it more often than once )

[Grimgrin\\NyN]

*sigh*

Right now I would kill for a hat... oh wait.
I have found, aside from hundreds of weapons, still zero hats, I think that is becoming a feat on itself.

''You have gained an Achievement: ZERO HATTER!''

And you said the stainless steel cookingpot of the soldier is stupid? currently I could live with anything! (anything except the sniper's toothbelt thingy that is, and I bet you on all other hats I find(zero) that that toothbelt thingy will be the hat I come across) Can't wait for the trading system or crafting system or whatever way it works, I just want a hat .
On the bright side, I have of course gotten the cheater's lament ''halo''.
*crosses fingers and continues hoping a hat will drop... eventually*
Grim (prospects) out.

PS: will post asap when I find a hat.

[9Squirrels]

I seem to be picking up a few spy related items, which is frustrating as it's the class I play the least. I reckon that they should skew it towards what class you play the most, or at least what class you are playing when you get an unlock.
Hats, I don't think I've got anythign beyond the halo... though I did get a couple of items this weekend, but haven't had a chance to look at what they were, I think I might have got the Blutsauger...

[Pie21]

I seem to be picking up a few spy related items, which is frustrating as it's the class I play the least. I reckon that they should skew it towards what class you play the most, or at least what class you are playing when you get an unlock.

Oh for sure, they even said they were going to. It wouldn't even be difficult... Valve seems to be dropping the ball on the whole item drop system, which is a pain because they brought it in as a solution to what they thought was an inferior system. Skewing + trading would make it great fun, and they said all that stuff was coming soon at some point, I forget when.

It'd better be in the Soldier update, or heads will roll... I really want a hat

[Softskin]

I got the bald head for the Engy.. so technically no hat.

[Aaron]

Well, ever since "Idlecaust", I've gained 4 hats (Never lost my Batter's Helm, got a dupe of it, actually found a Stovepipe, and idled for a Pickelhaube and Brigade Helmet). That's 11 hats total if you count my lost hats.

inb4rage.

[DosPassos]

*sigh* no hats yet

[Luftwaffe]

Pie when the trading thing starts i'll give you my only hat.....Stupid Tyrants Helmet