When they reconnect, the server will simply respond to their new position. While their connection is disrupted but before the server detects it, the player can move to a different location or fire weapons. A player can manipulate their connection to the servers to exploit the timing window needed to detect a disconnect. There are a couple possibilities I can think of:Īrtificial lag or "lag switching". Am I crazy, or is it possible to hack the xbox version of the game? AnswerĬheating unfortunately does exist even in console versions of games. I've played with people that were moving way too fast to be legit. See also: The Quality article on the Team Fortress wiki. Ghastly Gibus).įunnily enough, the Vintage item's rarity will increase over time, as people use them up in crafting. Otherwise they are identical.Īdditionally, a couple items are excluded, such as badges, promotional items (eg.
Since you can no longer create them (only the items converted at the update become them) Vintage items are very rare, which gives them a higher value in trade. Therefore they converted every existing item in people's inventories to Vintage items.
This way, those older rare items remain rare (in fact, they're even rarer, because they're limited editions now).īasically, Valve decided that making items available for money devalued the items, since it is less impressive to buy an item then it is to craft/find it. So we decided to perform a one-time conversion of all the old items into "Vintage" versions, which will never be attainable in the future. We wanted to give players this option, but still recognize people who obtained those items “the old-fashioned way” in the past. Q: Why have all my items switched to "Vintage" items?Ī: Some items that used to be rare will become more common when they are available for purchase. Also, as pointed out in the comments, the "Vintage Tyrolean" and the "Vintage Merryweather" are renamed to "Vintage Vintage Tyrolean" and "Vintage Vintage Merryweather" respectively. You can recognise them by their blue name only, since people could also just rename their items Vintage. They can no longer be acquired in any way except trade. The main difference between normal and Vintage items is that Vintage items are all the items people obtained before the Mann-conomy update. What's different about these items? How can I acquire more? Answer In playing Team Fortress 2 after the most recent update I've noticed a lot of "Vintage" items.