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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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!"
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
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.
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?!?!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
I remember in 2013 i was a f2p and I deleted some unique achievement items some halloween related, one of them being the HHH head. I regreted it so much I created a brand new account and bought backpack expanders and farmed achievement items with my friend on some empty maps.
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
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
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.
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.
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 ...
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...
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!
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
*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.*
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
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
*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.*
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”
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
*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*
the saddest fact that you can follow back the interactions in your inventory like a craft, trade or delete. I just saw what I sold, trade for, and craft, I started crying.
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.
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
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.
When I was a kid I remember deleting or scrapping like half of my backpack to try and get some specific scout weapons. I think the one thing I regret getting rid of the most was my fortified compound, which isn't impossible to get back but damn, I wonder why I even did that. And I also remember trading away my frying pan for a Soda Popper cause I really loved the way it looked, only to never use it outside of community servers. This was when you could build hype just by running around so I used it in those places a lot.
I remember accidentally deleting my Headless Horseman's headwear when i was younger. That silly mistake still makes me sad to this day, because it was part of my childhood and favorite in-game boss.
I haven't played TF2 for that long, only like 4 years, but I still remember the day I had my inventory full as a F2P and I decided to sell the mercenary badge. At the time I didn't think much of it, but now I regret it a lot and seeing this video in my recommended makes me feel a bit better knowing I wasn't the only naive person to delete the badge.
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.
It's a shame Valve support stopped giving items back. I asked for my Gibus and badge back, and they did! But then realized ive had multiple other items ive also deleted and never asked back. Like the headless horseman hat or the monoculus. It's a shame theyre gone forever.
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.
@@angiovanni7356 I regret it so much, man! Especially since I also know the historical significance of the Brodie helmet. I just thought it was a random ugly hat.
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.
I totally relate to this. I thought I had mine up until watching this very video. I was like "dang that does suck, but I have mine thankfully", then I go to look at it and I don't have it. I have a Dueling Badge. I also know I've gotten rid of a lot of my other untradeable items as well. I have around $400 in items in that I have vowed to never get rid of for any circumstance, but not having my untradeable items almost feels like a bigger loss.
i deleted everything i could in like 2012 thinking id never return owner hat, badge, halloween axe, alien swarm hat. idk what else, still hurts to this day
I started playing around 2015 or something and my first drop was the mann melter and despite it being terrible i cant bring myself to get rid of it. I feel like its what got me into the game through pyro, and now I dont play pyro much but I'll keep it with me forever.
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
![[TF2] the worst weapon for every slot](/img/n.gif)
I was SO close to deleting my gibus, but thankfully, I had a bunch of crates that got nuked instead .
very lucky, I deleted mine :(
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.
@@CF-or3ci I personally achievement servered my gibus and all the weapons that come in achievements.
I'm depressed, on both of my tf2 accounts I deleted my gibus
Good
"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."
why are you everywhere rraaaaahhhhh 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
“My hat is my friend. It helps me keep calm.”
Where is this quote from? Just curious
@@infinitecrafterYT full-metal jacket.
@@infinitecrafterYT one of the best movies in existence😚
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
My condolences.
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.
hey mate, i'll be willing to give you mine. I don't really play the game anymore.
@@Bulldozer0330 unfortunately it's not tradeable
I started playing back in 2014 and I deleted my mercenary badge :(
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.
Dude, thatd actually... sad.
same here, its a shame to see how iconic some of these hats can be and not have them
wait you can't earn back achievement hats? like the hats earned from killing Halloween bosses?
@@lightningclonetrooperprodu3110 nope.
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.
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
@@whoisanarnbtick tock heavy like a brinks truck
im very glad i still have my merc badge to tell when i joined because i accidently reset my achievements with SAM lol
@@whoisanarnb Same. I had to learn on my own when I was about 7.
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
I put my gibus and directors vision and pyrovision goggles in a halloween transmute and now they're all gone forever
Same thing happened to me, i literally can't live without thinking about that mistake.
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
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.
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.
2:44 such a coward in the gameplay.
Dir,youve killedd a child
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
maybe if they add the damn refund ticket or whatever its called
i hope so, i miss my mercenary badge ;(
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
i will try
@@Kynetik724
@Kynetik724 steam support no longer restore deleted items is due to some people abusing the systems.
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
I still miss my pyrovision goggles to this day
I miss my goggles and merc badge too :(
you can buy vintage ones, that's what I did
I miss my gibus
@@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.
I miss my gibus,
Up to this day I still haven't forgiven myself
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.
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.
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
i did the exact same thing :/
Me too :(
same man...
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!"
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
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.
i still regret deleting my gibus to this day
I just asked Valve for mine back and it worked
@@ZoofyZoof wait really? I need to try that then, its really the only item im missing because I deleted it
@@Blucario90 People are saying it doesnt work anymore
@@ZoofyZoof what year did you do it?
@@Blucario90 like two years ago
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?!?!
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.
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.
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.
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
how do u trade as a f2p?
idk for now but trade offer used to be for everybody even f2p players @@kandyerzy
@@kandyerzy Steam trading isn't bound by having a premium account.
Same question here, how do you trade as an F2p?!
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.
This is why you have to treasure items, don’t just have your first cosmetic not have value to you F2Ps must be acknowledged
I still own the gibus, the mercenary badge, and the pro vision goggles
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
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.
god, i fell for the "i accidentally reported your steam account" too, same reasons bro
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.
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.
2:47 You are such a meanie OMG
4:20
exactly my thinking when I deleted my Gibus and PyroVision, I miss them so much...
I luckily still have the mercenary badge, but my gibus wasn't as lucky :(
same :(
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
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
love how the message from steam support is just
"Hey there, *NO ! !!* "
0:40 Well semantics
It's all gravel in the end
2:44 this was a war crime
Imagine scamming someone so badly he starts being disappointed in humanity
I remember in 2013 i was a f2p and I deleted some unique achievement items some halloween related, one of them being the HHH head. I regreted it so much I created a brand new account and bought backpack expanders and farmed achievement items with my friend on some empty maps.
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
i did the same thing, atleast you can buy the headless horsemanns horseless headtaker for like $1000 expensive as shit, but still possible
And then you would've been in my position where you felt bad about wasting the metal scrap on an untradeable eyelander reskin instead of the skull.
I still don't know what the haunted metal does but it's still in my backpack for now
@@tarquinioprisco8459 You use it to craft the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker
@@user-wj6jh1cd5n skull hat costs around 20$ and hhh is worth around 1000$ if tradeable
my dumbass unboxed a unusual on my first crate and then turned it into a Halloween cosmetic with my provision googles :)
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
i'll never forget the day i accidently deleted my black rose..
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.
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.
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 ...
i deleted my gibus :crying :
@@hellnaw7812
Yeah I get that to and I can't be back so I sad
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...
anyone know or can link the mod for the drawn on class icon things at 0:05 pls? thanks
i didnt find it but the closest thing is "bub pack" on gamebanana
@@0pt0utYT bro might be still waiting
deleted haunted metal scrap, one of the achievement map top hats, and mann co cap. i do not know why.
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!
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
My second ever hat drop was a Towering Pillar of Hats. I traded it for a Direct Hit I scrapped like a week later.
I like the video BUT IT MADE ME SO FUCKIN HAPPY SEEN THE SHELLNUT TF2 DRAWINGS!!!!!
Haha :D
I've used a shellnut hud off game bannana for a while now cos those drawings are just pure tf2 for me
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.
*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.*
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
0:10 "or a new player deciding what item to sacrifice to keep their newly found Boston Basher,"
too relatable bro 😔
I like how he’s wearing the gibus and pyrovison goggles
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
*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.*
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”
Backstory for your class loadout is realy needed. I love to give any meaning to my loadout without conficting with tf2 lore
Can someone please help me to figure out what's the map on 5:00 called? I've been looking for it for ages now
dm_duel!
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
i'll trade you 5 achievements for my mercanary badge
I deleted my Gibus thinking it was lame and I won't need it, I regret it daily
Maybe the real mercenary badge was the friends we made along the way
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
What map is he playing at 5:12 please tell me i remember playing it back in 2014 in a local server .
dm_duel, its a childhood map for me as well :)
Thank you so much
Traded my gibus away years ago, but recently managed to track it down and get it back after all those years, is nice
*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*
the saddest fact that you can follow back the interactions in your inventory like a craft, trade or delete. I just saw what I sold, trade for, and craft, I started crying.
Rip my gibus and merc badge
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.
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
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.
Even though you were late to the party, you were still the life of it
When I was a kid I remember deleting or scrapping like half of my backpack to try and get some specific scout weapons. I think the one thing I regret getting rid of the most was my fortified compound, which isn't impossible to get back but damn, I wonder why I even did that. And I also remember trading away my frying pan for a Soda Popper cause I really loved the way it looked, only to never use it outside of community servers. This was when you could build hype just by running around so I used it in those places a lot.
I remember accidentally deleting my Headless Horseman's headwear when i was younger. That silly mistake still makes me sad to this day, because it was part of my childhood and favorite in-game boss.
I scraped my gimbus....
Worst mistake of my life
5:40 hardest watch of the century
I haven't played TF2 for that long, only like 4 years, but I still remember the day I had my inventory full as a F2P and I decided to sell the mercenary badge. At the time I didn't think much of it, but now I regret it a lot and seeing this video in my recommended makes me feel a bit better knowing I wasn't the only naive person to delete the badge.
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.
It's a shame Valve support stopped giving items back.
I asked for my Gibus and badge back, and they did!
But then realized ive had multiple other items ive also deleted and never asked back. Like the headless horseman hat or the monoculus. It's a shame theyre gone forever.
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
Very great video, and GREAT subtitles to go along with it! Seriously its been really long since i've seen such high quality ones :]❤
I got 3 panic attacks gun
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.
There is nothing I regret more in TF2 than using my Proof of Purchase in a Halloween transmute before understanding its significance.
You what?
Did I read this right
my condolences man rip that proof of purchase
@@angiovanni7356 I regret it so much, man! Especially since I also know the historical significance of the Brodie helmet. I just thought it was a random ugly hat.
Got rid of my Gibus, Pyrovision goggles, Mercenary badge, and I think pretty much everything you get
sad , I deleted mine pyrovision and gibus , f2p , I was making more back pack space
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.
I’m glad I watched this before playing tf2 for the first time so now I know to never make that mistake
maybe the true mercenary badge was the friends we made along the way...
I totally relate to this. I thought I had mine up until watching this very video. I was like "dang that does suck, but I have mine thankfully", then I go to look at it and I don't have it. I have a Dueling Badge. I also know I've gotten rid of a lot of my other untradeable items as well.
I have around $400 in items in that I have vowed to never get rid of for any circumstance, but not having my untradeable items almost feels like a bigger loss.
i deleted everything i could in like 2012 thinking id never return
owner hat, badge, halloween axe, alien swarm hat. idk what else, still hurts to this day
0:00 how did you change the color of the text?
I started playing around 2015 or something and my first drop was the mann melter and despite it being terrible i cant bring myself to get rid of it. I feel like its what got me into the game through pyro, and now I dont play pyro much but I'll keep it with me forever.
I remember deleting a few items and thankfully I got them back before steam said no more given items.
I did this with the Gibus hat.... i cant even pretend to be a free to play anymore...
I’m pretty sure one can buy a Gibus hat from external sites.
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
Before I found out about the inventory exploit I used to only delete weapons I thought I'd never use.