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The Manage Items menu as it appears in game.

The Manage items area of the game allows you to perform a wide range of functions pertaining to the in-game Items. Primarily it consists of the Loadout, Backpack, Crafting, the Mann Co. Catalog and Trading sub-menus. It also allows the player to look at their personal statistics. It is primarily available from the main menu, however there are key bindings that allow the player to be taken directly to it at the press of a button whilst in-game, by default m.

Function Breakdown

By clicking any of the nine class portraits the player is taken directly to their Loadout of the respective class. The four icons along the bottom Backpack, Crafting, the Mann Co. Catalog and Trading will take the player to those sub-menus.

Loadout

An example of the Demoman loadout screen.

The Loadout is the primary usage of any Items you unlock or obtain. For all of the nine classes you can selected the equppied weapons, cosmetics (hats and misc items) and Action items.

Generally the weapons on the loadout are broken down into three slots on the left of the screen, Primary, Secondary and Melee. The Spy does, however, have a PDA slot for the watches instead of a secondary slot. The order that weapons take in their loadout slots is not always the same as when playing as that class, most notably the Demoman's primary and secondary slots are switched. The right three slots are for headgear, miscellaneous items and an action item.

The action item will perform its function when are playing as that class and press the bound Action Button, by default H. Action items can include duelling mini games, noisemakers or special taunts.

On mouse over any of your currently equipped items a small window will appear containing the statistics and description of the item, similarly whilst in the Backpack. This information can be seen at any time in the Mann Co. Catalog. Below the class the net player attributes from all your equipped items is shown for a quick overview.

Backpack

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Main article: Backpack

This Backpack is the player's personal inventory of unlocked and obtained items in the game, stored on Valve's severs. Using a click and drag system within a grid and multiple pages players can arrange, manage and edit items to their liking depending upon what contents they have within it. The items stored in the backpack can also be used in Trading and Crafting.

Crafting

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Main article: Crafting

Crafting is the process that allows player's to combine items they have in their backpacks to create new items. Using crafting blueprints more desired outcomes can be obtained, such as to craft a specific weapon. It should be noted that not all items can be crafted.

Mann Co. Catalog

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Main article: Mann Co. Catalog

The Mann Co. Catalog contains a listing of almost every item in the game allowing a quick lookup of item appearances, statistics and descriptions. It will also allow a quick link to the listing of an item in the Mann Co. Store if available additionally a link to the respective page on the Team Fortress Wiki (through the "Community Comments" button).

Trading

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Main article: Trading

The Trading sub-menu will allow a player to exchange items with other players directly through Steam friends, current server player or a Steam Community ID url. Some items are unobtainable through trading.

Stats

An example of the statistics screen.

The Statistics tab opens up the best records and playtimes of the player. Statistics tracked includes:

Drop down boxes will allow you to look at statistics for specific classes and to rank them as vertical bar charts. A random tip will also be displayed on this screen, a new one can be forced by clicking the next tip button. These statistics can be reset by the button on the right, be aware that this will also erase progress in achievements with progress bars, but not resetting any unlocked achievements.

Update History

April 29, 2008 Patch (Gold Rush Update)

  • Added Character Info and Loadout to the main menu
  • The backpack was introduced.

December 17, 2009 Patch (WAR! Update)

  • Added item crafting

April 28, 2010 Patch

  • Backpack changes
    • Moved Crafting button out to the root class/backpack selection panel.

June 10, 2010 Patch (Mac Update)

July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)

  • [Undocumented] Added a second Misc. item slot in the loadout.

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)

  • Added the Mann-Conomy.
  • Added the Mann Co. Store & Catalog.
  • Added Trading.
  • Added Item customization.
  • [Undocumented] The on-wearer attribute area was added to the loadout.

April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)

  • [Undocumented] Added option to hide duplicate items on loadout screen.
  • [Undocumented] Class models presented in the loadout screen are now static and do not play idle animations.

May 5, 2011 Patch (Replay Update)

  • Fixed the Gloves of Running Urgently not using the correct skin in the character loadout screen
  • Fixed the Kritzkrieg not drawing the correct model in the character loadout screen
  • [Undocumented] Idle animations restored to class loadout screens

Bugs

  • The Demoman holds the Half-Zatoichi incorrectly.
  • Some items will become semi-transparent on the Loadout screen.