last night, tf2 got its first content update in like 7 months. a single new case and some bug fixes, the tf team probably expecting to throw a minor cosmetic update to keep the game at least a little fresh. in doing so, they did something to the drop rates of crates, and inadvertently added a new bug: certain crates now have a 100% chance of dropping unusuals, generally considered the most expensive items in the game. people inevitably figured this out and, well, made the most out of it.
for further context, one of the most exclusive items in the game is the Burning Team Captain, with only around 5 ever having been unboxed before this all went down. since the update dropped last night, 3 more have been unboxed.
so far valve has not said, let alone done, anything about this and nobody has any idea how they’re going to resolve this. it would be a financial and logistical nightmare to roll back all the unboxes and community market purchases, but at the same time if it isn’t reverted it’ll utterly shatter the ingame economy since unusuals are such a large part of it. people have spent years building up inventories full of tens of thousands of dollars worth of unusuals that are becoming near-worthless with every hour. the tf2 subreddit is on total lockdown until valve releases a statement. it’s total chaos and i’m loving it
