What do weapon prefixes like "Botkiller" and "Killstreak" mean?
When playing TF2, I sometimes see people with weapons such as "Botkiller Killstreak Black Box" and then a number of kills that this person has with this particular weapon. How do I enable killcounts on my weapons, and what do the "names" (i.e. Botkiller, server-clearing etc) mean?
Best Answer
The prefixes only show a difference of a weapon compared to its normal counterpart. There are many that exist and most of the time, they boost the price of items.
- Strange is given to weapons that have been uncrated or modified (e.g. strange bacon grease). These show the amount of kills you got with the weapon and changes to other words/phrases when different goals have been reached. Strange Weapons also can have Strange parts added onto them. Vintage was added to items that were crafted with 'too expensive' recipes after they became cheaper.
- Genuine are given through participation in specific events.
- Australium/Golden and Killstreak: Australium weapons are obtains through a rare chance of completing the two cities tour.
- These can also give you killstreak kit which can change the weapons into killstreak weapons. Specialised and Professional killstreak qualities are gotten through fabricators which give the kit for the specific quality and item. Those are very expensive.
- Killstreak gives cool effects (specialised or professional only) and a killstreak counter. Also Increases price.
- Botkiller can be done similar to the previous one but with the other tours.
- Collector's quality is gotten through Chemistry Sets gotten from random drops. Those sets must then be used with other specific items to get the item to be collector's quality.
- Haunted is given to items obtained from Halloween events.
- Unusual is given to hats that can be uncrated, unusual hats are extremely rare.
- Festive given to weapons uncrated from Smissmas crates.
- Decorated is given to unique weapons skins obtainable from the Gun Mettle Update. This quality comes in six grades of rarity and is further modified by five levels of wear.
There are other qualities that generally aren't obtainable outside of a few specific cases as well:
- Valve means the wearer of the item is a Valve employee.
- Community means they have contributed a lot to TF2.
- Self-Made means the wearer created that item through the Steam workshop
In conclusion: Strange, Festive, Vintage, Genuine, Collector's, Unusual, Haunted, Botkiller or Australium increase price.
More info on: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Quality
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What does Killstreak mean in tf2?
When a Killstreak weapon is equipped, a kill counter appears in the player's HUD, tracking the number of kills made with any Killstreak weapon equipped and resetting upon death.What is a professional Killstreak weapon?
Professional Killstreak Kits are weapon specific and will count killstreaks, apply a weapon sheen, and they will emit particle effects from your players eyes which gets stronger the higher your killstreak gets. The particle effect and sheen will be displayed on the tooltip of the Killstreak Kit.Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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