Valve - You're playing with/against a Valve employee.

Self-Made - Given by Valve to the weapon creators who submitted the weapon idea on the Steam Workshop Strange Parts can be individually removed from a weapon using the Restore button in the backpack, allowing the player to remove a strange part of their choosing however, a part which has been removed will not be returned to the player, and instead will be permanently lost.

Community - Hand-given by Valve to users who have contributed to the TF2 Community - these weapons have a unique particle effect.Decorated - Uniquely skinned items with rarity-based colours, obtained from completing contracts introduced in the Gunmettle Update (or from unlocking them from Weapons cases).Collector's - Weapons that were crafted after collecting 200 unique versions of that weapon (along with the 'Chemistry Set' item that creates the 'collector's' weapon).We think this is fair, due to the fact that we are taking risk for every item we trade (values can crash). Haunted - Items released for Halloween updates, which can (generally) only be used/seen on Halloween/Full Moons) When trading items in the same type(key to key) the price will differ with 5-10.(Until now, mostly cosmetics and new also weapons) Unusual - Items that have unique particle effects when worn.These are mostly cosmetics but also some weapons. purchasing another game whilst it offers TF2 items as a bonus). Genuine - Items obtained through cross-game promotions (i.e.Vintage - Most commonly, these are items that were Unique, but created before Valve released the 'Mann-conomy' update and made crafting easier.Click on the square that says 'Any Quality' and choose 'Only Strange' so you only. Unique - Unlocked from Achievements, Trading, Random Drops and bought from the TF2 Store Do you need to complete the kit with 200 strange items, or with atleast one, or how. Be sure to check this pricelist so you see the price of what Strange you wanna get.Normal - The stock weapons each class starts with.The qualities that items (not just weapons) can have are:

Strange is one of many ' Qualities' that a weapon can have - all of which are purely cosmetic - 'levelling up' a Strange quality weapon does not make that weapon better, it's purely flavour.

be awarded 'ranks' as the recorded count increases, with the rank affixed to the beginning of the item's name.Įach time the player achieves a new rank, it is announced to all players on the server with a message in the chat box A notification pop-up also appears only for the player the strange item belongs to.

track kills or other various events, (such as kill assists or earned points), and record them as an attribute of the item.

Most likely the 'level up' you're seeing is that the weapon is of Strange Quality.

How to get strange items in tf2