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  • Опубліковано 17 сер 2024
  • Team Fortress 2 is a memory generator, from clippable frags to funny 2fort taunt moments, but something lies even deeper: Items. You might not think it, but we assign a lot of emotional value in TF2 items! I share some stories with you of items that mean a lot to me, past and present!
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  • @Oul362
    @Oul362 11 місяців тому +1887

    I was SO close to deleting my gibus, but thankfully, I had a bunch of crates that got nuked instead .

    • @Blucario90
      @Blucario90 11 місяців тому +123

      very lucky, I deleted mine :(

    • @CF-or3ci
      @CF-or3ci 11 місяців тому +42

      Even if one day I will pay for cosmetics and crates I will never throw gibus hat and bombonomicon away. I am so used to them and it felt so good because of EARNING these cosmetics.

    • @Oul362
      @Oul362 11 місяців тому +21

      @@CF-or3ci I personally achievement servered my gibus and all the weapons that come in achievements.

    • @theeggineer
      @theeggineer 11 місяців тому +5

      I'm depressed, on both of my tf2 accounts I deleted my gibus

    • @gibusgaming5866
      @gibusgaming5866 11 місяців тому +2

      Good

  • @commodorex
    @commodorex 11 місяців тому +836

    I remember, back in 2019, I first started this game.
    In 2021, I was told by a guy in a community server that if I deleted my Mercenary Badge he'd give me a really cool weapon as part of a video he was doing. I obliged, and he sent me a Gas Passer, at the time I thought it was such a good idea, and now I can't even hunt the user down because upon learning how bad the item was I used it to craft a pyro token and made the Rainblower lmao

    • @thenotoriousnreal
      @thenotoriousnreal 11 місяців тому +65

      My condolences.

    • @noodles.is.awayyy
      @noodles.is.awayyy 11 місяців тому +37

      if you really insist on getting it back to some degree, purchase a steam account that was made like 5 years ago. perhaps you can check if the account had TF2 and the mercenary badge.
      of course, it isnt the exact same thing. but it's something.

    • @Bulldozer0330
      @Bulldozer0330 11 місяців тому +6

      hey mate, i'll be willing to give you mine. I don't really play the game anymore.

    • @JangoLibre
      @JangoLibre 11 місяців тому +22

      @@Bulldozer0330 unfortunately it's not tradeable

    • @dafuqjukerx
      @dafuqjukerx 11 місяців тому

      I started playing back in 2014 and I deleted my mercenary badge :(

  • @Pudding404
    @Pudding404 11 місяців тому +495

    "This is my hat, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Without me, my hat is useless. Without my hat, I am useless."

    • @Jakey726
      @Jakey726 11 місяців тому +1

      why are you everywhere rraaaaahhhhh 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

    • @victorvirgili4447
      @victorvirgili4447 11 місяців тому +7

      “My hat is my friend. It helps me keep calm.”

    • @infinitecrafterYT
      @infinitecrafterYT 6 місяців тому

      Where is this quote from? Just curious

    • @Pudding404
      @Pudding404 6 місяців тому +3

      @@infinitecrafterYT full-metal jacket.

    • @Haventgonefar
      @Haventgonefar 6 місяців тому +1

      @@infinitecrafterYT one of the best movies in existence😚

  • @mr.silver1614
    @mr.silver1614 11 місяців тому +682

    The same thing happened to me. I also deleted my mercenary badge a long time ago. Yeah, it's a bummer, but there are alternative ways to know when you first booted up TF2. One way you could do it is to find your earliest achievement and go by that. For me, it was the achievement you get for completing the "tutorial," which I unlocked December 5th of 2014.

    • @whoisanarnb
      @whoisanarnb 11 місяців тому +28

      The tutorial is permanently glitched for some people tho, personally I use my years of service because I joined Steam same day I first opened tf2

    • @seva7500
      @seva7500 11 місяців тому +11

      @@whoisanarnbtick tock heavy like a brinks truck

    • @user-bkey
      @user-bkey 11 місяців тому +6

      im very glad i still have my merc badge to tell when i joined because i accidently reset my achievements with SAM lol

    • @blackmegalogan307
      @blackmegalogan307 11 місяців тому

      @@whoisanarnb Same. I had to learn on my own when I was about 7.

    • @potats5916
      @potats5916 11 місяців тому +2

      I deleted mine about a few months into playing, but I managed to find it in my inventory history with all the stats. Check your inventory history for it! mine says I started playing in 2015

  • @genderlessgoon_9292
    @genderlessgoon_9292 11 місяців тому +328

    I went through the same thing, really upset steam didnt do anything about it. Especially how special these items were because a friend helped me buy them for me

    • @BaaBBaBaI
      @BaaBBaBaI 11 місяців тому +13

      I got the same scam guy apparently, and it was the most hilarious thing I had ever done: He was like "I accidentally reported your steam account", and I was like "yeah, no worries bro". He tried to explain to me, that I need to proceed with the link to discord, and I didn't know he was trying to scam me, I was just super chill with him. I was like no worries, if I get banned, I will unban myself via official steam support.

    • @wetzel4806
      @wetzel4806 8 місяців тому +2

      Just a theory, but I heard somewhere that tf2 items have a "serial number" of sorts, down to the individual. That may be why it can't be recovered, as I'd think they wouldn't just have a bin of deleted items, especially one years old.

  • @xxitjixx
    @xxitjixx 11 місяців тому +155

    This is how I feel with literally every achievement hat, I deleted all of them like a moron, only thing that I "got back" was a gibus, since you buy the upgraded ones.

    • @mememann_
      @mememann_ 11 місяців тому +1

      Dude, thatd actually... sad.

  • @hotaru44
    @hotaru44 11 місяців тому +440

    I still miss my pyrovision goggles to this day

    • @whoisanarnb
      @whoisanarnb 11 місяців тому +10

      I miss my goggles and merc badge too :(

    • @Blucario90
      @Blucario90 11 місяців тому +38

      you can buy vintage ones, that's what I did

    • @snakyYT
      @snakyYT 11 місяців тому +7

      I miss my gibus

    • @Techhunter_Talon
      @Techhunter_Talon 11 місяців тому +2

      @@Blucario90 Same and I just so happened that I had a Vintage version to begin with because I was around when the Pyro Update dropped.

    • @Deadccfffffffff
      @Deadccfffffffff 11 місяців тому +3

      I miss my gibus,
      Up to this day I still haven't forgiven myself

  • @GavenJr
    @GavenJr 11 місяців тому +233

    Man, I love my mercenary badge :D
    I hope one day valve gives everyone s chance to regain their merc badge or gibus in case of deletion

    • @ironprince72
      @ironprince72 11 місяців тому +21

      maybe if they add the damn refund ticket or whatever its called

    • @zacharythe1st
      @zacharythe1st 11 місяців тому +1

      i hope so, i miss my mercenary badge ;(

    • @Kynetik724
      @Kynetik724 11 місяців тому +8

      Oh! I actually you can send in a report to Steam Support, and in cases of "Deletion" specifically, you can have them undo things like that. But ONLY for Deleted items

    • @zacharythe1st
      @zacharythe1st 11 місяців тому

      i will try
      @@Kynetik724

    • @minionhalo499
      @minionhalo499 11 місяців тому +13

      ​@Kynetik724 steam support no longer restore deleted items is due to some people abusing the systems.

  • @TheMoron12
    @TheMoron12 11 місяців тому +26

    Sentimental value is considered mostly in my loadout. A lot of my items my mum bought for me. I wear my Mann co hat, my mercenary badge, and that's it. Those are sentimental in the way my mum did not buy them for me.

    • @mthzb
      @mthzb 8 місяців тому +1

      If u see you in game rockin that Ima Uber you

  • @rasmi13_
    @rasmi13_ 11 місяців тому +16

    2:44 such a coward in the gameplay.

  • @ilovevictorianne
    @ilovevictorianne 10 місяців тому +8

    I put my gibus and directors vision and pyrovision goggles in a halloween transmute and now they're all gone forever

  • @nobody5333
    @nobody5333 11 місяців тому +129

    I remember during a Halloween event of some sort, I had the option to trade in some cosmetics in exchange for a better cosmetic (or something big along those lines) and I sent away my gibus and mercenary badge.
    I never got anything in return

    • @carson5664
      @carson5664 11 місяців тому +9

      i did the exact same thing :/

    • @stevanusandreasgozali312
      @stevanusandreasgozali312 11 місяців тому +6

      Me too :(

    • @wojtek7520
      @wojtek7520 11 місяців тому +4

      same man...

    • @Cob-Kay
      @Cob-Kay 11 місяців тому +9

      I did the same with my Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head and I've regretted it since
      Not only because it'd complete one of my demoknight loadouts, but also because it makes you immune to the Horsemann's "Boo!"

    • @rickolade1381
      @rickolade1381 11 місяців тому +3

      I almost did it too thank god i have been playing for long enough to understand the value of the gibus but i sat there for a long time deciding if sacrificing it is worth it or not
      I did delete my huntsman once thinking i can just craft a new one

  • @moves9574
    @moves9574 11 місяців тому +62

    I lost my entire first steam account that I had from 2011 in 2014 to a scammer and this video just makes me feel so nostalgic

  • @WangelHL2
    @WangelHL2 11 місяців тому +55

    i still regret deleting my gibus to this day

    • @ZoofyZoof
      @ZoofyZoof 11 місяців тому

      I just asked Valve for mine back and it worked

    • @Blucario90
      @Blucario90 11 місяців тому

      @@ZoofyZoof wait really? I need to try that then, its really the only item im missing because I deleted it

    • @ZoofyZoof
      @ZoofyZoof 11 місяців тому +1

      @@Blucario90 People are saying it doesnt work anymore

    • @Blucario90
      @Blucario90 11 місяців тому

      @@ZoofyZoof what year did you do it?

    • @ZoofyZoof
      @ZoofyZoof 11 місяців тому

      @@Blucario90 like two years ago

  • @kiranova68
    @kiranova68 11 місяців тому +13

    Litteraly my whole backpack feels like this badge to me.
    I spent thousand of hours trading as a f2p just to get one hat on every class, and I was so proud of finding the paint colors that would make everything suit so nicely to my miscs.
    And every year some random strangers would add me to trade me those items with rare halloween spells for 1/4 of the actual value, but they'll never get that money can't buy memories.
    Thx for the video

    • @kandyerzy
      @kandyerzy 9 місяців тому +2

      how do u trade as a f2p?

    • @kiranova68
      @kiranova68 9 місяців тому

      idk for now but trade offer used to be for everybody even f2p players @@kandyerzy

    • @TwiliPaladin
      @TwiliPaladin 15 днів тому

      @@kandyerzy Steam trading isn't bound by having a premium account.

    • @Gravity_studioss
      @Gravity_studioss 6 днів тому

      Same question here, how do you trade as an F2p?!

  • @Xx_SuperPenis_xX
    @Xx_SuperPenis_xX 11 місяців тому +12

    2:22 i was there once too i went crazy when i got that message thankfully i didn't lose my backpack despite it not having many expensive things at the time

  • @soldier1913
    @soldier1913 11 місяців тому +7

    This is why you have to treasure items, don’t just have your first cosmetic not have value to you F2Ps must be acknowledged

  • @Raxacoricofallapatorius
    @Raxacoricofallapatorius 9 місяців тому +3

    I started playing TF2 recently, but the Mercenary Badge thing is now reminding me of how in Club Penguin, I don't know how long I played it. There was a tab you could open which showed the exact date and time you started playing Club Penguin, like with the Mercenary Badge. I took a few screenshots of my house and puffles before it shutdown but never got round to opening that tab.
    I know it was roughly 2010ish, but that's still gonna haunt me for years that I never looked at it lol.

  • @fedethegreat88
    @fedethegreat88 11 місяців тому +43

    I luckily still have the mercenary badge, but my gibus wasn't as lucky :(

  • @future8772
    @future8772 11 місяців тому +8

    I actually had the proof of purchase and i had the soldier of fortune badge. Unfortunately i lost the email to my account and had to use a new account. Cool video man.

    • @Stump85
      @Stump85 11 місяців тому

      For what it's worth, if you purchase the Orange Box on your new account, it'll give you the Proof of Purchase. I'm pretty sure the SoF is gone forever though.

  • @Themrlol2
    @Themrlol2 8 місяців тому +3

    2:47 You are such a meanie OMG

  • @FloppinhaGamerinho2242
    @FloppinhaGamerinho2242 11 місяців тому +9

    Even if I deleted my Gibus, Pyrovision Goggles and Mercenary Badge, I can't agree with the 6:22 section more, once I realized the mistake I have done I started treating every single TF2 item of mine as a holy possession, like that one time one guy saw me getting his Scattergun, asked me why I did it and I replied with "Yeah, I have it because it makes me feel rich", and he just straight up gave me a Night Terror Scattergun and my first 3 cosmetics which I'll never get rid off. Who could imagine that a silly hat game would create so much memories.

  • @username5155
    @username5155 5 місяців тому +1

    I remember the first day I played TF2 like a few years ago I booted up an official Valve server and got gifted a Dalokohs Bar by a continuously traunting Heavy before the round began and they proceeded to aimbot me through the walls and then I got kicked for “Trying to kill someone” in a game where the point is to kill people. I didn’t play for a while after that, and now I basically just play singleplayer with Bot Overhaul installed because even if they aren’t very nice at least they don’t hack in the casual lobby for fun.

  • @krisjanisnoviks120
    @krisjanisnoviks120 11 місяців тому +1

    once i went to a server and it said "write !items for free items" and it gave me all of the achievements, but i didnt know how many items i would get so i had to free some space, i deleted gibus, goggles and mercenery badge and others just to have all the weapons unlocked

  • @UberSpah
    @UberSpah 11 місяців тому +3

    Imagine scamming someone so badly he starts being disappointed in humanity

  • @blastoise3568
    @blastoise3568 11 місяців тому +7

    I feel you man. I’m a f2p and I accidentally deleted my haunted metal without knowing what it did because I was new to the game at that point 😐
    Now my Demoman may never have his horseless headless horsemann’s headtaker

    • @MeezyPlayz
      @MeezyPlayz 10 місяців тому +1

      i did the same thing, atleast you can buy the headless horsemanns horseless headtaker for like $1000 expensive as shit, but still possible

    • @user-wj6jh1cd5n
      @user-wj6jh1cd5n 10 місяців тому

      And then you would've been in my position where you felt bad about wasting the metal scrap on an untradeable eyelander reskin instead of the skull.

    • @tarquinioprisco8459
      @tarquinioprisco8459 8 місяців тому

      I still don't know what the haunted metal does but it's still in my backpack for now

    • @MeezyPlayz
      @MeezyPlayz 8 місяців тому

      ​@@tarquinioprisco8459 You use it to craft the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker

    • @Someone_s_nick2
      @Someone_s_nick2 5 місяців тому

      ​​@@user-wj6jh1cd5n skull hat costs around 20$ and hhh is worth around 1000$ if tradeable

  • @zethekobold
    @zethekobold 17 днів тому

    When I started playing TF2 back in 2013, I originally did delete my Gibus as backpack space was limited, however, I reached out to valve and simply asked for its return, and up until 2015 I believe they did this, they happily returned it to me with a “thank you” for playing our game message all with it, I only regret not asking for my monoculous and horseless headless horseman’s head back at the same time, but I’m glad the Gibus is back in my inv

  • @anthonyoliver418
    @anthonyoliver418 3 місяці тому +1

    As someone who has to deal with a similar experience, it makes me wish we could just make the W+M1 pyros real along with Miss Pauling so we could have them melt the people who think it is funny to swipe items and accounts

  • @AzazelTV18
    @AzazelTV18 11 місяців тому +12

    Valve actually gave me my mercanary back, and i think it was after their no recovering items policy. They also gave me back my iron curtain minigun, when i wanted to make it a specialized killstreak, and accidentaly put it into the kit, not knowing how they work.

  • @birdroll
    @birdroll 11 місяців тому +8

    my favorite part of the bronze shitter badge, it its description
    "Even though you were late to the party, you were still the life of it." which means that I (and only I) am the coolest tf2 player of all time

  • @danolantern6030
    @danolantern6030 8 місяців тому

    GOD bless the fact TF2 gives you those backpack extenders on Smissmas, i feel as though a _lot_ of my favorite items would just never have been or would have been wiped instead.
    Speaking of a few sentimental items i have...
    - Spiral Sallet. It just looks so _cool_ and i wish it was colorable. Also it's something other than the gibus.
    - Smissmas Sweater Panic Attack. I swear i genuinely cannot look at a normal Panic Attack without it looking wrong.
    - Indubitably Green Gibus.
    And, FINALLY...
    - The Director's Vision Taunt. It's literally the only F2P taunt possible and i hold it dear to my heart along with all the other items.
    (There's also a few others, but these are the most relevant to me.)

  • @noble_trash2917
    @noble_trash2917 5 місяців тому +1

    I own a Wintery Wisp Runner's Rhythm that I only got after an insane journey through tf2 trading, getting scammed, and getting help from an absolute god-tier trader.
    To others, it's only worth 15 keys.
    But to me, it's priceless.

    • @noble_trash2917
      @noble_trash2917 5 місяців тому +1

      Side note: I got scammed by trading for what a guy claimed was a strange festive scattergun but was in fact a strange festiVIZED scattergun. Years later, I still use it and have racked up over 1000 kills out of pure spite.

  • @hellnaw7812
    @hellnaw7812 11 місяців тому +9

    i deleted my gibus :crying :

    • @Effciaf
      @Effciaf 18 днів тому

      @@hellnaw7812
      Yeah I get that to and I can't be back so I sad

  • @MordecaiBL1
    @MordecaiBL1 11 місяців тому +23

    I started playing tf2 (On my own steam account) around 2010-11ish.
    I decided in about October of last year to get into trading as it was always something I wanted to do. I started with 1 refined metal working my way up. I had a decent little inventory before this but because almost every item I had I liked to using, I decided to start scrap banking instead of selling those items. I starting with 1 or 2 refined that I had in my backpack. I own several unusuals now and the main items I love to collect are spelled items since I had about 3 or 4 back in the day younger me traded off for practically nothing. I also deleted my Mercenary Badge as a F2P to make room for all those 'cool new item drops.' that and my Gibus, Seal mask, and ALMOST my Vintage Pyro goggles. I believe people who have deleted there badge are in the same group of people who have gone through a lobotomy, they seem to be missing something. Valve really needs to add that deleted item ticket into the game.

  • @bakabaka73
    @bakabaka73 6 місяців тому +1

    My most treasured item in my backpack is The Black Rose knife. I just so happen to have it even though I really didn't play TF2 a lot until a couple years back just because as a kid my brother got me to play TF2 with him once and I was an addict when it came to free to play steam games. So i played both games (dont even remember which game gave you the knife) and when I logged back in I realized I had it. Idk how rare it is and its untradeable, but just the feeling of owning an item that is no longer obtainable or at least very hard to obtain through underhanded means is so cool to me. I dont even play Spy either. It's something, like my medal, that has been in my backpack since the beginning.

  • @wojtekpolska1013
    @wojtekpolska1013 10 місяців тому +1

    For me, that badge would be my first (and only) australium - i got it on my very first MvM tour - it was a knife for Spy.
    i sold it on the steam market, and used the money to buy GTA5 which was on sale at that time.
    but about 2 years later i realized that i actually sold it for much less than it was worth, nowadays i'd either kept it, or sold it for keys. im still very pissed about it, and remember it everytime i play mvm
    i was a pretty new player back then, i didnt *really* know about trading yet, i just sold it on the steam market ...

  • @gogoveca
    @gogoveca 11 місяців тому +3

    I was f2p for 2 years and I have destroyed mine gibus and pyro goggles, so when I bought premium, message the support staff and they added me a new one :) Thanks Valve

  • @Swimpz
    @Swimpz 11 місяців тому +15

    Can relate to this. I deleted my badge and gibus hat around 2015 due to not having inventory space. Thankfully steam support has allowed me to get my gibus hat again but the mercenary badge was gone forever.

  • @luthfihar3211
    @luthfihar3211 27 днів тому

    i deleted my gibus to free up space thinking to myself "hey this silly hat is a sign of being a noob and it seems i can get a cooler upgraded version of it later anyway, so might as well delete it to free up space" not being aware it's basically a personal item you can only ever get once. i remember regretting it so much when that SiN's G.E.W.P. trend came out and i can't play around as a gibus engineer

  • @blacklight683
    @blacklight683 8 місяців тому +2

    I hate how some steam support tell you "you cant resotre it"like i know you can dont lie to me does it really cost you anything to give me my gibus back?!?!

  • @C.A._Old
    @C.A._Old 11 місяців тому +3

    *7:08**: You should have written in the 2010s because at that time, Steam support overvalued all players. Why are the stupid steam supporters ignoring them now? MONEY*

  • @jayallman3120
    @jayallman3120 11 місяців тому +3

    What map is he playing at 5:12 please tell me i remember playing it back in 2014 in a local server .

    • @_indii
      @_indii  11 місяців тому +1

      dm_duel, its a childhood map for me as well :)

    • @jayallman3120
      @jayallman3120 11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much

  • @UnbyHoundredTwenty
    @UnbyHoundredTwenty 11 місяців тому +1

    i have sufered even worse, 5 years ago... i was a newbie and with no backpack space i deleted my badge, my gibus, my pyrogoogles, and any existent free cosmetic i had, they didnt meant too much in those times, now everytime i see a paint bucket i just want to use it on my gibus, but well, it isnt anymore with me so...

  • @ieatsoap6389
    @ieatsoap6389 3 місяці тому +1

    I always celebrate my joined date, I stripped all down my cosmetics, taunts, and even stopped using voice commands and chats and wear my badge and gibus, so I can reenact and remember I was back then on HOW FUCKING DIFFICULT TO *voice communication is not available for this account*

  • @0pt0utYT
    @0pt0utYT 11 місяців тому +8

    anyone know or can link the mod for the drawn on class icon things at 0:05 pls? thanks

    • @DavidGaming69
      @DavidGaming69 7 місяців тому

      i didnt find it but the closest thing is "bub pack" on gamebanana

    • @4o8ic37
      @4o8ic37 День тому +2

      @@0pt0utYT bro might be still waiting

  • @PSIkid
    @PSIkid 11 місяців тому +2

    0:25 There it is! There's my favourite made up word!

  • @GreenStoneKnight
    @GreenStoneKnight 3 дні тому

    I feel like losing your entire tf2 backpack is a canon event for every player

  • @wubilicious4158
    @wubilicious4158 10 місяців тому

    A saving grace I personally can fall back on is the fact that Steam will keep track of your account's purchase history, all the way back to its' first purchase. Somehow or another, as a kid I'd managed to coerce my mother in getting me some unlocks off the Mann Co. Store (obviously stupid in hindsight).
    To this day I still use my first purchase as a metric for figuring out when I started playing, sure it's not as accurate as the badge itself, there's a 16 day gap between the date on my Steam's "Years of Service" badge compared to my first purchase, but at least it accounts for something.

  • @walterpasion4952
    @walterpasion4952 11 місяців тому +5

    I've since regreted in deleting my mercenary badge, but I'm glad to know that my Steam Badge "Years of Service" also mean the day I first started playing TF2!

  • @SarujinieUras
    @SarujinieUras 11 місяців тому +7

    My second ever hat drop was a Towering Pillar of Hats. I traded it for a Direct Hit I scrapped like a week later.

  • @TuxedoNova
    @TuxedoNova 10 місяців тому +2

    This is so relatable, I remember I deleted my mercenary badge cause at the time I was a F2P and I needed to make space in my inventory for some item drop. Even though I joined in late 2021 I still made so many memories with TF2 even till now, but I look back everyday and still regret deleting that thing

  • @PK-Sparrow
    @PK-Sparrow 2 місяці тому

    There are only 2 things I regret more than anything in my TF2 career.
    -Giving my first unusual unbox away for a strange knife of all things (I was young and thought Spy was the best class ever, and I really wanted one)
    -Gifting my Black Rose to a friend... safe to say we are not friends anymore. I don't even know what he's doing now, he still has it in his inventory with the gift tag on it so Maybe that means something? Idk, could just be to flaunt the worth it has since that method of giving untradable items to others was patched.

  • @hamsi1792
    @hamsi1792 11 місяців тому +6

    i just wanna say i love the effort you put in this video. the editing and the subtitles are are all wonderfully done. you have gained a sub.
    and also you gave me some advice on why i shouldnt delete my stuff, i am a new player haha

  • @bluedreemurr9515
    @bluedreemurr9515 11 місяців тому +5

    My most prized possession in TF2 is a field tested (I think) civic duty strange kill streak panic attack with a description edit. It’s basically the dictionary example of “there are many like it but this one is mine”

  • @unseentask
    @unseentask Місяць тому

    Obligatory “so much of life is outside of our control. there is only so much that is within our control. although things didn’t go they way I wanted, I knew that I did the best I could with all the limited resources and capabilities that I had. It’s not my fault that things didn’t go my way, shit just happens. So if I understand what is in my control and what isn’t, it frees up my worry. I can then devote my energy into something positive that I do have control over.”

  • @Hayonhead
    @Hayonhead 9 місяців тому +2

    4:20
    exactly my thinking when I deleted my Gibus and PyroVision, I miss them so much...

  • @PartyPugTV
    @PartyPugTV 11 місяців тому +4

    i'll trade you 5 achievements for my mercanary badge

  • @Karma_Miguel
    @Karma_Miguel 11 місяців тому +4

    Luckily for me, I was given a replacement version of my achievement items back. As soon as they gave me my gibus back I strangified it.

  • @tacollab0924
    @tacollab0924 11 місяців тому

    and this is why "the lost and found ticket" should be added, would just be nice to get those back, even after steam stopped letting you get them back

  • @Bixen_Bings
    @Bixen_Bings 19 днів тому +1

    Even though you were late to the party, you were still the life of it

  • @Spoingus_BarnApple
    @Spoingus_BarnApple 11 місяців тому +4

    Maybe the real mercenary badge was the friends we made along the way

  • @CrispyTurtl3
    @CrispyTurtl3 11 місяців тому +3

    I love my mercenary badge so much. Wear it proudly on all of my classes

  • @TheWanderer1000000
    @TheWanderer1000000 2 місяці тому +1

    At least I still have my pan. It's the original one I got from having L4D2. I love it. I even put Bacon Grease on it to make it strange(back when it was cheap). That's mine and only mine.

  • @nightcore_vibez
    @nightcore_vibez 6 місяців тому

    I ended up deleting my Gibus on my original account, and after a while, I started to miss it, despite not wearing it whatsoever, but the support group also denied my request to get it back. Now, I have a new account, starting off fresh with new items, new hats/cosmetics & taunts. I’m actually happy that I have these ‘newbie’ items in my backpack, and in every single one of my classes, my D loadout is always the Gibus, Pyrovision googles, and mercenary badge.

  • @Elrealsodapop200
    @Elrealsodapop200 11 місяців тому +3

    I did the exact same thing with it and my gibus. I wrote to steam one day many years later and they actually gave it to me saying that they dont usually do it but they were going to make an exception and felt special. Maybe it has to do with how much money you have spend or maybe the time playing the gsme (i started right after tf2 became f2p) or maybe just the person reading the steam support requests. I would say you should keep trying

  • @pokedude6004
    @pokedude6004 11 місяців тому

    I kid you not, I got recommended this video just in time. Someone tried to scam me, and I’m new to steam in general, and wouldn’t have known, at all. What a good day to watch tf2 videos.

  • @Ricksdetrix
    @Ricksdetrix 11 місяців тому

    Twice i gave away all my items when I thought I'd stop playing for good. Once in 2012 and in 2014. All those items are now classic vintage hats. Regret
    And all those cool legacy items like the gibus and the ww2 helmet I combined to make a new hat.

  • @UberNovaful
    @UberNovaful 29 днів тому +1

    I deleted my Gibus thinking it was lame and I won't need it, I regret it daily

  • @ComicallyDumb
    @ComicallyDumb 11 місяців тому +1

    god, i fell for the "i accidentally reported your steam account" too, same reasons bro

  • @bobo.nicolaetrifan670
    @bobo.nicolaetrifan670 3 місяці тому +1

    This is my engi Loadout with out me is nothing me with out my engi Loadout makes me a sitting duck for more backstabs and headshots

  • @sassyimps
    @sassyimps 5 місяців тому

    I started playing in 2011 or 2012. I deleted that merc badge around 2016-ish. I started gravitating towards Overwatch such that TF2 wasn't helping anymore. Combine that with the depression I was going through seriously clouding my judgement and I went on a spree. I sold any item I could sell and deleted anything I couldn't. I even sold my Genuine Alien: Isolation items. I hope they're still out there somewhere, being worn by an Alien enthusiast.
    I would go on a shorter deletion spree sometime after, but I came to my senses and vowed to never do it again.
    Valve took mercy on me, and a rep granted me three deleted items of my choosing. I went with the crafting materials for the Headtaker, along with one additional item that I can't actually recall at the moment. I'm thankful for that.

  • @Saunis
    @Saunis 8 місяців тому

    "Primeval Warrior: Hire Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007"
    "A true warrior's medal, given to those who fought before the battle even started." ;)

  • @time_pug
    @time_pug 11 місяців тому +1

    2:17 I also got a scam message exactly like that in 2019 on a horrible day. Lost over 180 dollars worth of items and steam support didn't give anything back to me even though they do it to others. I lost many valuable items like my first taunt, the square dance that I got from a giveaway from a twitch streamer who's a great friend of mine but the scammer did leave my unique quality weapons behind, that included my ham shank I got from that friend. I still have that ham and use it. Somehow the steam market trade hold saved two of my stranges, at the time knowing that I still had something was great because the day I lost all my items was and still is the worst and most stressful day of my life.
    Btw, I didn't delete any of my items like the badge, but the game deleted my achievement item force a nature for no reason and steam support didn't give it back even though it's a UNTRADABLE item that has no value :(
    I've tried to get my stolen items back but I've only been able to get one cosmetic back out of like 30. Most of them have been wiped off of backpack,tf so I can't even find their current owners.

  • @retrobat1631
    @retrobat1631 11 місяців тому +1

    I've also fell for that scam but luckily I got my uncle to message steam support since he's had a steam account for over a decade and I got it back. I do remember in my early days of playing deleting my gibus and my haunted scrap. Till this day I wish I still had the scrap.

  • @Rekosumi
    @Rekosumi 11 місяців тому

    "there has to be at least one item that means the world to you" The spy stock revolver reskin thats named "Hello N(eighbor)" i bought off the steam market:

  • @tiospy
    @tiospy 10 днів тому

    Started playing in 2014, bc i was a f2p (child) with no money, i deleted some cosmetics and even transmuted some, and now i have +5 empty backpacks that miss having a gibus there... even the HHH hat is gonne, even some old achievements items that are almost impossible to get legir now, are gone. I even remember a bearded guy from support saying that he was sorry, but they couldn't help me.

  • @Koogun
    @Koogun 5 місяців тому +1

    *After he said “and that's just something that can't be deleted” I expected him to say “oh wait” and then Everywhere At The End Of Time begins playing.*

  • @Puppeteer_in_the_Void
    @Puppeteer_in_the_Void 3 місяці тому

    I deleted both my first survival and creative minecraft world. After that, I never really cared until I watched a video mentioning deleting your first world as a mistake. After that, I knew there was still no actual reason to mourn it, but it still hurt so much.

  • @clairerose4997
    @clairerose4997 3 місяці тому

    I did this with my gibus...I still cry about it
    My sentimental items are a spiky viking with an unusual christmas effect, that one thing that makes pyro's head a shark as well as that shark cap he wears, and the balloonicorn mount

  • @eae_gay_Ta_tao_serio_pq
    @eae_gay_Ta_tao_serio_pq 10 місяців тому +1

    0:10 "or a new player deciding what item to sacrifice to keep their newly found Boston Basher,"
    too relatable bro 😔

    • @k.2167
      @k.2167 4 місяці тому

      I like how he’s wearing the gibus and pyrovison goggles

  • @wojtekpolska1013
    @wojtekpolska1013 10 місяців тому +1

    one of my notable items is a SMG with a pretty cool warpaint and a killstreak with matching sheen.
    i traded it from a person in a community server for not too much, but i just kinda remembered it and it feels nice having that item.
    i also have a sun-on-a-stick that some guy gave me trough a gift-a-pult a very long time ago, since then, every time i get a gift-a-pult on christmass, i immiedetely get sun-on-a-stick and send it to some random guy lol

  • @R41ph3a7b6
    @R41ph3a7b6 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm glad that I snuck a picture of my Mercenary Badge. Yeah, it might be crummy, but I still wear it. Also, I'm sad about yoyr story man. That some TWERP CONNIVED AND CONNERER you into give him your items, so as to not lose your entire account in the process. Or at least I think that's what indeed happened, right.

  • @shelbybunny
    @shelbybunny 7 місяців тому

    a few months ago, i got hacked and lost all my cosmetics and special weapons. the only cosmetics i didnt lose were the halloween-only ones, and my mercenary badge, my gibus, my pyrovision, and my mann co cap. i literally breathed a sigh of relief when i saw i still had them

  • @XanderNiles
    @XanderNiles 10 місяців тому

    Steam actually restores deleted items if you request them politely through a support ticket. I got 5 deleted items out of 9 and thankfully one of them was the mercenary badge. However, the date that is shown is the date when I created my Steam account instead of displaying the date when I started playing TF2 but still, I got it back and that's what matters the most.

  • @racctoons
    @racctoons 11 місяців тому +1

    5:40 hardest watch of the century

  • @illoh5126
    @illoh5126 6 місяців тому

    this video hit close to home because when the Halloween 2015 update came out with the soul gargoyle trading for Halloween hats and I traded my gibus and all the halloween hats for shitty locked halloween hats
    and every halloween i get a reminder of a tf2 sin a committed

  • @HazardPay35
    @HazardPay35 14 днів тому

    I'm actually one of the OG Gibus owners that found the hidden link and thought i got something rare like the soldier medal, little did i know i was patient 0 of the Gibus viral item. I was the 58th one to earn it and i'll wear that pride forever with my 2 Gibus hats!

  • @ScoutOW2
    @ScoutOW2 3 місяці тому +1

    I did this with the Gibus hat.... i cant even pretend to be a free to play anymore...

    • @aycc-nbh7289
      @aycc-nbh7289 2 місяці тому

      I’m pretty sure one can buy a Gibus hat from external sites.

  • @chaosnicx5691
    @chaosnicx5691 22 дні тому

    I actually lost my first steam account to a scam like that. It's the same type of message from someone I was starting to regularly play tf2 with and boom backstab. I remember not wanting to do anything on my computer for ages. Then, I built up the courage to start a new account and get back on tf2. Though that experience has made it rather hard to make friends with randoms in pubs, just in fear of being backstab again.

  • @greeblothegoblin
    @greeblothegoblin 11 місяців тому

    Wow… I had just been in a coma for 3 years straight and I was almost marked as unrecoverable. I had my youtube on auto play this whole time until I landed on this very video. After your outro I awoke out of my coma! So… Thanks?

  • @thecursed_1lordofcats738
    @thecursed_1lordofcats738 11 місяців тому

    My friend fell for that exact same scam just last month. Lost his entire steam account as a result. So life lesson everyone! If someone says they "accidentally" reported your steam account, its almost definitely a scammer wnd you should cut all communication with them immediately. It requires way too many coordinated clicks to "accidentally" report a steam account.

  • @sh3ikel
    @sh3ikel 11 місяців тому

    for my 12th birthday my cousin who got me into the game gifted me my first hat, a killers kabuto painted green, it meant so much to me, later the same year i got a random drop schadenfreude, i had no idea how crazy that was until years down the line.
    I traded both of them back to the same cousin for an Apparatchik's Apparel
    I also traded away the genuine respectless rubber glove i redeemed from my pyro action figure.
    I've spent the last week or so trying to track them down, but there's little progress, here's hoping i find that killers kabuto

  • @zozo420lmao
    @zozo420lmao 5 місяців тому

    I accidentally deleted my Gibus when I first started the game, and I sent valve a support ticket basically politely explaining I was a noob and didn't realize it was a one time item, and deleted it to make room for some random tf2 item, and they actually gave me my Gibus back!! They basically said "Sure thing, have your Gibus, but don't delete it again."
    Be polite, Be efficient, have a plan to be grateful when valve employees show kindness.

  • @obskate8075
    @obskate8075 11 місяців тому +1

    i actually swear to god, in all like 7 years of youtube watching hes the first relatable ytber ive ever watched

  • @Yushe_
    @Yushe_ 16 днів тому

    UA-cam recommended this video late but I still hope Valve listens to that community suggestion that would allow you to retrieve achievement items like the badge and gibus if you had deleted them.

  • @user-pk2ev2fe9t
    @user-pk2ev2fe9t 11 місяців тому

    I started playing TF2 recently even though I’ve been watching TF2 content for years. I was recently considering deleting my Gibus to make space in my inventory before stumbling upon this video.

  • @C.A._Old
    @C.A._Old 11 місяців тому +1

    *that true.... now these days so rare man. Here's what I'm saying, you wouldn't miss anything if you started when the game came out. Senior player's advice, or you'll regret it.*

  • @comprehensivecomparison
    @comprehensivecomparison 29 днів тому

    i used my unusual haunted metals to craft the hat instead of the headtaker, i almost looked up if the hat would be unusual, but i decided it would make no sense not to be, i’ve never held a horseless headless horsemann’s headtaker on my own account

  • @fizz7710
    @fizz7710 11 місяців тому +1

    0:35 well if valve decides to take my back pack I will go to the leaderships offices/homes and hurt them bad really bad

  • @awzp918
    @awzp918 11 місяців тому

    I deleted my merc badge, a few months after I started playing I think. I really regret doing that, but not for the reason of checking when I first joined TF2, because I actually downloaded the game literally at the start of the year, January 1st, 2021. I didn't realise that a few years later it would be quite sentimental to look back upon, as a token of my first exposure to TF2.