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SyntaxTheFourth

/r/tf2, I really need some advice

Okay, here's the shit that's gone down. This is a bit of a long-winded explanation, but you can skip to the TL;DR if you want and see if it's any use.

So at some point in my distant, nooby past, I crafted a few achievement weapons into scrap. Wasn't really aware of the consequences at the time. A bit later, I got some more metal together and crafted some rec (using the achievement metal) and then a ref. At this point, I realised that the ref was untradeable, and hurriedly smelted it back into scrap, hoping to salvage some metal.

I fucked up royally, guys. I now have 9 non-tradeable scrap sitting in my inventory. I can't craft it into anything without that item also being non-tradeable.

What am I going to do? Is there any way to salvage this mess, or should I just give up and try to make craft hats before condemning it to oblivion?

TL;DR: I have a ref's worth of scrap that I can't trade. Should I remove this poison or is there some way to get around the trading restriction?

Posted Feb 10, 2012, 2:30 PM UTC

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aresius•

Get another ref and craft the UHHH, that's going to end up untradeable anyways because of the haunted metal scrap. Plus, it's cool.

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DarthPops•

I was in the same boat, except I didn't smelt back down. I don't know if it is good advice, but I took my untradable ref along with a class token and tried my luck at crafting something. I ended up with a cremator's concience (which was exactly what I wanted, lucky me!), so all's well that ends well... I would humbly suggest trying your hand at crafting a hat or misc for a class you play. Worst case, you get something you don't want, if so, just keep re-crafting it until you get something you do want. Good luck, and I hope that helps! Better to get something from it rather than deleting it all together.

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ValueSeeker•

Well. I'd just craft some weapons. You could craft three of the new ones.

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HugoRune1965•

To put this in perspective, if keys are trading for aroung $1.50 or 2.66 ref, the cash value of your 1 refined is less than $0.65.

So if I were you I wouldn't loose too much sleep over your mistake, just craft it into something you might want to keep or dump it if you are concerned about contaminating other items.

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SyntaxTheFourthOP•

I think I might as well just try making hats. At the very least, my Medic won't have to run around with the Cheater's Lament equipped. ಠ_ಠ

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4fxsake•

I did the same thing and it pissed me off, lol. There's no way to get around the trading restriction as far as I know, so the only way I knew to really make use of it was to make it into something you want at the moment until you get it dropped or something (I think I used mine to craft a diamondback at the time). Once it dropped, I pretty much deleted the old item.

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Swayhaven•

If you ever plan on crafting the Headless Horseless Horseman's Axe use it for that, because the haunted metal you need to craft that is untradable anyway, so using tradable ref would be a waste. :D

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chriscrafty•

use it with your haunted scrap?

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Odzs•

You could get your hands on some haunted metal and craft the Headtaker or a halloween hat; both of those will be untradeable due to the nature of the haunted metal, so using untradeable refined with it isn't a big deal.

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Fremen13•

Get more and then once you are at 3 ref make a random hat.

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[deleted]•

Not a catastrophic mistake, I and many others have done the same thing. Just save the metal until the next big update and use it to craft the new weapons. Or craft the UHHH as aresius said

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Japzack•

Craft it with the Haunted Metal to get Axe or Hat it would be untradeable anyway. Win win.

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