Massive brown stain on demo's body and a massive paint region makes this cosmetic not only ugly, but abusable with other cosmetics to screw with team recognition.

Make the coat more team colored and remove the paint region and then it might be passable.

I don't have much problem with the brown BLU vest but I'd much prefer a dark blue shade as well.
Think like Scout's pants blue basically(a mistake that Valve should of fixed at the beginning of the game cause it led to discussions like this, Brown should of been a RED only color! minus hats of course)

yeh the blu variant's vest should be some blu shade

I like the idea and execution of it, but the light brown colour on the BLU demoman looks really off-putting to me and I think I know why.

Brown, especially light brown, tends to be a warmer looking colour, alongside orange and RED. BLUE on the other hand falls under the cool colour category, along with dark blue, purple, etc.

The reason why blacks and grays from Demoman's original vest are acceptable while this isn't is that monochrome colours (whites, grays, blacks) tend to be very neutral, which allows them to be very complimentary to other colours.

The problem is that the warm colours of brown and the cool colours of blue are contrasting with each other, making it harder for teams to identify someone at a glance.

If you were to change the colour of the bomber jacket on BLU's side to a darker colour, or make a "blue-r" variation of the light brown, I think it could go a long way!

~ Flame

Out of any cosmetics submitted in the workshop, this one deserves to get in.

Oh my god, this is perfect

besides that, i love this

i don't really care about team recognition, i just think there not being a darker color for the leather on blu looks weird

I love this, but i feel like removing the grenades and the class emblem makes the Demoman lose a lot of his personality. Maybe if you kept the class emblem, or made a new one that still fit what he is as a character this item would be near perfect.

please I actually need this to be in the game

Looks really nice but I recommend making the vest on blu side more blue instead of reddish brown

I can't put my finger on it, but this doesn't feel very demo-y. It's well modeled, but feels a bit bland. Maybe if there was more color it would help

I fail to see how some people think this has an issue for team recognition. Demoman's regular vest already didn't have team color.

Anyways, this is a great looking cosmetic. love its detail and desgin. woudn't mind seeing this being added.

i do think it looks a bit weird, but it works. For demo, the sleeves are the most important part regarding team recognition, so this is completely fine.

But why is this coat being the same colour suddenly an issue for team recognition when Demo's default vest has been black since this game's release? Why's that been totally fine for 15 years but this isn't? It just seems like weird nitpicking more than anything.

As others have pointed out, the blu coat has to be more team appropriate. It'd be basically perfect if that one nitpick is addressed.

I think a either a Kobicha brown or black leather tone would work better for the BLU recoloration for visibility's sake, with the wool lining being changed to black .

@Expand ding - It actually isn't the same shade, if you take a closer look at the second pic you can see how the leather for BLU team is a bit more yellow-ish than the brown-ish for RED team

other than that it looks great!

I really dislike how blue is the same shade of warmish brown, makes it hard for team recognition atleast in my eyes. Maybe it could be a faded more washed out brown for blue team?

Demo already has a bulky vest and this is still just a bulky vest so you can still very much tell it's Demoman, maybe a slight team tone would be nice though otherwise looks fantastic

i don't really like how you can't tell it's demoman anymore, but holy shit this cosmetic is amazing and i hope it's added despite the complaint i mention

oh damn this is really fuckin good

love it

Excellent work! Super cozy looking. If this gets in, I'm absolutely using it in my demo loadouts.

Good shit

"is nice"
- Heavy TF2

great

I have just one query; "Wanna Festive Bonk?"

This looks damn good! Great work, not much I can say about this other than that I want it.

Edit: The only suggestion I'd give for this item, on reflection, is having it be different tones of leather for team recognition. Darker for red, lighter for blue. Other than that, good work.

This is pretty amazing

this is fucking cool