Hero's Hachimaki

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The Hero's Hachimaki is a promotional headwear item for the Soldier. It is a team-colored headband featuring a white circle and star design in the center. The Soldier wears the Hero's Hachimaki over his eyes, a design styled after the feature character of the game Homefront.

Players who pre-purchased Homefront on Steam before March 15, 2011, were awarded with a Genuine quality version of this item. Further availability of this item is unknown at this time.

Homefront was unavailable for pre-purchase on Steam in the United Kingdom. Any attempt to pre-purchase it displayed an error.[1] According to an e-mail from Robin Walker, Valve was considering ways to ensure players from the UK could obtain the item.[2] However, nothing was ultimately done and the item remained region specific. It is possible they will add the Hachimaki as a regular Non-Genuine item in the future, much like the RIFT items. But there have been no signs of this happening yet.

Update history

February 28, 2011 Patch

  • Added the Hero's Hachimaki for pre-ordering Homefront.

Trivia

  • A Template:W (鉢巻, lit. "helmet-scarf") is a stylized headband in Japanese culture, usually made of red or white cloth. It was worn as a symbol of perseverance or effort by the wearer. Japanese kamikaze pilots in World War II would often wear hachimakis before flying to their deaths.
  • The design features the red star of Communism from the Template:W, the main antagonist in Homefront.

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