Did anyone have the mod for this? since mods.tf is down permanently

Honestly, I've been thinking of the paint region on hat/mak cosmetics and if it really is a problem or not.

Paint region sucks, it's a pop culture reference, and one of the styles does literally nothing when painted team colours. No.

Came across this again while browsing the workshop. Shame this still hasn’t been added, even with its paint issues. Would have loved seeing this instead of that Bare Bear Bones dogshit.

doesnt need to be paintable

@NeoDement I think regardless the team color idea for the full masks should be taken into consideration. I think it would look a lot nicer and lend to the game visually. Again the Well Rounded Rifleman is a good hat to take notes from so you get dark browns on red and dark navy blues on blue team. It's a great looking mask, but I hate full paint region items with a passion as they just look really distracting and ugly especially for lime green, pink, and white

Spy's entire body is made of team colour, I do not believe this is an issue. The fully paintable "Pom-Pommed Provocateur" and "Ninja Cowl" have both been in-game for over a decade without any issue.

I agree with Auro this just looks like an eyesore when fully paintable. Paint saturation needs to be toned down a lot and the second style should be the only one paintable. I'm normally not super pissy about team recognition, but this combined with other fully paintable misc items would make it very hard for the enemy team to know what team you are on at a glance. The first style should be non-painable low saturation team colors and style 2 should be low saturation paints. Good inspirations would be the Well Rounded Rifleman's team coloring with a dark brown on red team and dark blue on blue team.

OPEN FORTRESS ! !

open fortress merc?

that cloaker is a spy !


jokes aside, that is fucking amazing, i love it

I would love if this was also able to be worn on Sniper.

listen man i just want IRA spy

the art style has already been covered in shit with fucking meme stuff and paintables. i say give it the green light. because if you won't give people 1 thing. they'll find another. paintability also gives it more votes to be in the game i think. i'm a normal person and probably would leave it as it is or paint it balaclavas are forever. but trying to preserve the art-style is trying to ride a dead horse. its far gone now.

indeed, he makes a great point. nothing is stopping you from having only one of the styles as paintable. it would be great to get even one cosmetic which isn't ruined with paint spam

Agree with Auroboros. The cosmetic itself is great! Giving people the chance to make spy's entire head be lime green? Not so great. I honestly can't find many reasons to paint this anything other than Balaclavas are Forever, which could rather easily be turned into an alternative style.

The vast majority of cosmetics? Yes, definitely. Do the vast majority of cosmetics have FULL paint regions? No, that's absurd. Do mask cosmetics have full paint regions? Yes, but only something like 2 of them pull it off well. Name a single paintable Spy balaclava replacement/mask that looks good when painted. Ninja Cowl? Awful. Gruesome Gourd? Even worse. Dead Head? Great cosmetic, bad when painted. I truly think this item would be better than the Dead Head, as long as the second style cannot be painted. It's not a big ask, and any step in preserving the art-style is a good one. Seeing hot pink or lime headed Spies would just look terrible.

It’s superfluous to deny people the ability to paint a balaclava whatever colour they wish, when the vast majority of cosmetics in the game allow for customisability.

Yet most people will. And it will be an eye-sore. Paint wouldn't even be that bad if the paint color would be heavily desaturated. Not everything needs to be paintable.

You don’t have to paint it

Well the seperate styles notion was meant to coincide with the non-paintable notion. A new actually good looking mask for Spy would be phenomenal, it’s just that the paintable aspect ruins it.

Just look at the Pom-Pommed Provacatuer, a Spy mask no one uses because it’s just not that great looking and painting it makes it even worse. The Horror style for your cosmetic works fine when painted since it’s not the entire mask being painted. Another pink/lime eye-sore mask would just be a major disappointment for this banger of a cosmetic.

TL;DR paintable Spy mask doesn’t look good, make the other style the only one that’s paintable.

You can paint it “balaclavas are forever”

Would be so much better if the Heist style wasn't paintable. And maybe a style for both that swaps the black color for Spy's base balaclava color. Other than that, solid cosmetic.

good misc for a lot of potential loadouts

You can't go five seconds in Britain without seeing one of these dudes

This honestly looks great I hope it gets added, tons of cool combinations I can already think of.

Finally, Open Fortress