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TF2 Glitched Items: Quality Glitches

By Toxins 🐑

This guide is part of a series on glitched items in TF2. For the purposes of these guides, the term 'glitch' will refer to an item that:
Has a quality/attribute/level that is different from that normally possible; and/or
Has a quality/attribute/level that is not normally possible; and/or
Is missing an attribute that is not normally present; and/or
Has only be seen as a result of Steam Support mistakenly (or purposefully) granting it

At the time of writing I know of 3 different glitches that effected item quality. They are (1) Normal Bats, (2) Gun Mettle Schema Mistake, (3) Support Granted Quality Glitch.

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Guide Index

Overview

Normal Bats

Gun Mettle Schema Mistake

CD Key Genuines

Steam Support - Rare Normals

Steam Support - Rare Vintages

Steam Support - Rare Uniques

Comments

Normal Bats

One of the first Quality Glitched items to exist was the Normal (sometimes called Stock) Bat. How exactly they came to exist is still a bit of a mystery, but we can speculate based on the attributes of the item.

Attribute

Value

Explanation

defindex

All TF2 items have a unique index number called the defindex, and for Bats the defindex is 0

quality

All item qualities have a numerical ID, the ID for Normal quality is 0.

level

All items in TF2 can have a level from 0-255, the Normal Bats are all level 0.

origin

All items in TF2 have a numerical origin ID, for Normal Bats it is always 0 (Timed-Drop).

We can speculate based on the seemingly default values that these bats were the result of an item server glitch or exploit. There are ~5 of these glitched bats.

Gun Mettle Schema Mistake

In the Gun Mettle Update the attributes of a lot of weapons were changed. One of the background changes was to assign 'prefabs' to several of the stock strange weapons, but in an oversight a few of those weapons were made to default to 'Normal' quality. The glitch lasted for ~23 hours and during that time frame any of the affected weapons unboxed or awarded in MvM were Normal Quality. The following table lists all affected weapons.

Weapon

Name

Notes

Strange Normal Scattergun

Uncommon, <100 exist

Normal Australium Scattergun

Extremely rare, <5 exist (possibly 0)

Strange Normal Sniper Rifle

Uncommon, <100 exist

Normal Australium Sniper Rifle

Extremely rare, <5 exist (possibly 0)

Strange Normal Minigun

Uncommon, <100 exist

Normal Australium Minigun

Extremely rare, <5 exist

Strange Normal Grenade Launcher

Uncommon, <100 exist

Normal Australium Grenade Launcher

Extremely rare, <5 exist

Strange Normal Stickybomb Launcher

Uncommon, <100 exist

Normal Australium Stickybomb Launcher

Extremely rare, <5 exist

Strange Normal Flamethrower

Uncommon, <100 exist

Normal Australium Flamethrower

Extremely rare, <5 exist

Strange Normal Medigun

Uncommon, <100 exist

Normal Australium Medigun

Extremely rare, <5 exist

CD Key Genuines

Genuine items are usually given out as pre-order bonuses for certain games. While they are not usually rare or glitched there are a small number of items that I do consider to be glitch items.

The Sleeping Dogs Pre-order Bonus Items

For reasons unknown each of the Sleeping Dogs promotional items was given 2 entries in the item schema. For example, the Neon Annihilator has the defindex 813 and 834. The first entry seems to be for Unique, Strange, and Collector's quality items, while the second entry is for the Genuine quality items. In a small number of cases genuine items (with the origin 'CD Key') exist with the lower defindex.

Item

Name

Notes

Triad Trinket

3+ exist

Champ Stamp

3+ exist

Marxman

3+ exist

Human Cannonball

3+ exist

Neon Annihilator

3+ exist

Flying Guillotine

3+ exist

Hou-Long Heater

3+ exist

Red-Tape Recorder

3+ exist

Steam Support - Rare Normals

Steam Support occasionally makes mistakes by assigning incorrect values to an item returned/given to a player. A lot of rare glitched items have the origin 'Support Granted', while others granted some time ago might have the origin 'Traded'. Examples of Quality Glitched items created by Steam Support are listed below. Several others exist (or have existed at some point), but I have decided not to include them because either they exist only in Valve employee backpacks, or simply because listing them all would not add anything to this guide.

Item

Name

Notes

Normal Black Rose

Usually Unique Quality, 3+ exist.

Normal Key

Usually Unique Quality, 2+ exist.

Normal Ellis' Cap

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Normal Master's Yellow Belt

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Normal Purity Fist

Usually Genuine Quality, 1+ exist.

Normal Deus Specs

Usually Genuine Quality, 1+ exist.

Normal Frying Pan

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Normal Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Normal Professor Speks

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Steam Support - Rare Vintages

Item

Name

Notes

Vintage Bills' Hat

Usually Unique Quality, 1700+ exist.

Vintage Lumbricus Lid

Usually Unique Quality, 35+ exist.

Vintage Ghastlierest Gibus

Usually Unique Quality, 25+ exist.

Vintage Earbuds

Usually Unique Quality, 7+ exist (but highly duped).

Vintage Big Kill

Usually Unique Quality, 9+ exist (but highly duped).

Vintage Max's Severed Head

Usually Unique Quality, 9+ exist (but highly duped).

Vintage Alien Swarm Parasite

Usually Unique Quality, 7+ exist (but highly duped).

Vintage Gentlemann's Service Medal

Usually Unique Quality, 3+ exist (but highly duped).

Vintage Refined Metal

Usually Unique Quality, 2+ exist.

Vintage Reclaimed Metal

Usually Unique Quality, 3+ exist.

Vintage Scrap Metal

Usually Unique Quality, 9+ exist.

Vintage Class Token - Pyro

Usually Unique Quality, 3+ exist.

Vintage Class Token - Spy

Usually Unique Quality, 3+ exist.

Vintage Class Token - Heavy

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Vintage Class Token - Medic

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Vintage Class Token - Soldier

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Vintage Class Token - Scout

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Vintage Class Token - Sniper

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Vintage Slot Token - Secondary

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Vintage Slot Token - PDA2

Usually Unique Quality, 2+ exist.

Vintage Shortstop

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist (but highly duped).

Vintage Cheater's Lament

Usually Unique Quality, 21+ exist.

Vintage Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask

Usually Unique Quality, 5+ exist.

Vintage Mercenary

Usually Unique Quality, 18+ exist.

Vintage Soldier of Fortune

Usually Unique Quality, 6+ exist.

Vintage Grizzled Veteran

Usually Unique Quality, 7+ exist.

Vintage Primeval Warrior

Usually Unique Quality, 1+ exist.

Steam Support - Rare Uniques

Item

Name

Notes

Unique Aperture Labs Hard Hat

Usually Genuine Quality, 1+ exist.

Unique Diamond Botkiller Rocket Launcher

Usually Strange Quality, 1+ exist.

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Stormii 13 Jan, 2024 @ 1:43am

i had a level 0 stock bat but it just dissapeared

Old Waldorf 23 Feb, 2023 @ 7:44am

strange corpse carrier isn't exactly glitched, it was turned unique + halloween restricted after the case came out, so it was fully intended to exist it just isn't unboxable anymore

wut? 17 Oct, 2021 @ 7:28pm

There's a Strange Corpse Carrier

PuppySnackTheAndTheAteAGirl 5 Jul, 2021 @ 8:02am

If anyone has any oddities or glitches, feel free to let me know on my profile.

P4ft 21 Oct, 2020 @ 12:34pm

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Mitannian God-Emperor 9 Mar, 2020 @ 8:37am

how to find strange normal items on steam makret? its looks like valve sometime ago deleted selfmade and normal one on search menu

Impractical 4 Mar, 2020 @ 5:58pm

i dont know if this would count, but the infamous killstreak rocket jumpers/sticky jumpers are my favorite bugged items. I dont know about the sticky jumper, but the rocket jumper still has a sheen despite not usually having killstreaks.

P4ft 5 Dec, 2019 @ 6:41pm

Great guide

krapek 7 Aug, 2019 @ 2:15pm

this should be updated, great guide tho!

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