Community (quality)
Community Wrench
Level 50 Wrench
★ Unusual Effect: Community Sparkle
Given to valuable Community Contributors
( Not Tradable, Marketable, or Usable in Crafting )
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Community quality items are specifically granted by Valve to individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the Team Fortress 2 community or the game itself. For example, Community weapons have been granted to users who help organize competitive and community events (e.g., KritzKast), create certain maps, work extensively within the game's code to report and fix exceptional bugs, and much more. There is no uniform method to acquiring one other than this broad qualifier, and it is ultimately left to individual cases at Valve's discretion; the only current exception being the Wiki Cap (which is awarded by the Team Fortress Wiki staff). Community items have the Community Sparkle particle effect and an additional description string, stating "Given to valuable Community Contributors".
Stock weapons that were awarded the Community quality prior to the introduction of the Name and Description Tags are derived from their original Normal quality variants, making them unable to be altered by either Tag. However, Community quality items are now derived from Unique quality variants and behave as expected.
The hexadecimal color code for the Community quality is #70B04A, a bright, leafy green identical to Self-Made quality.
Contents
Lists
- List of Community item owners
- List of Wiki Cap owners
- List of Weapons using the CommunityWeapon material proxy
Update history
December 17, 2009 Patch (WAR! Update)
- [Undocumented] Added the Community quality.
Unknown Patches:
- [Undocumented] Community quality weapons no longer receive a hidden 10% damage boost.
- [Undocumented] Community quality items can now be named and described.
- [Undocumented] Community quality items are no longer shinier.
Notes
- A small number of items with the Community quality also received an additional boost to their phong shading exponent, resulting in the item having a glossier appearance as if it were polished to a sparkly sheen. The Medi Gun material was one example of such a material. This has since been removed in an unknown patch.
- Community items used to have a hidden item attribute which increased their damage capability by 10 percent; this has since been removed in an unknown patch.
Gallery
In-game example (click to animate).
Phong boost comparison.
Community Medi Gun material file.
(Note: direct.txtfile. May not work on some browsers.)
Community Rocket Launcher, owned by (503) eXtine <3 Citrris .
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