We knew something strange was going on in Team Fortress 2. Well now the hat’s out of the crate: Robotic Boogaloo introduces 57 new robotic-themed hats into TF2, and every single one of them was crafted by the community.
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While you were fast asleep in bed, a jittering flock of homicidal mechanical men infiltrated Team Fortress 2, signalling the beginning of the Mann vs Machine co-op update. Of course they did. The latest and final Valve post on the matter discusses some of the finer details behind the game's Mann Up mode: a semi-premium version of Mann vs Machine that rewards robot-smashing players with exclusive new hats and accessories.
Normally when there’s a Team Fortress 2 promotional tie in, it’s just a few hats. If you’re lucky you might get an extra gun or two, but for the most part it’s just more hats for you to carefully place in your dedicated Hatdrobe, sorted by size, prestige and dashingness. Square Enix, publishers of Sleeping Dogs, have gone a step further to present you with The Triad Pack, all but a whole new update for Team Fortress 2. Our Spotlight units plug content our journalists have made, that our advertisers want to promote. Sometimes the promotion is paid for, but the content they go to is always independent with no client oversight or approval.
So, you’ve been playing Team fortress 2 for a while and you quite fancy one of those fetching hats that everyone seems to be wearing on the public servers. Yet you don’t have 500 hours to spare in the hope of finding one (at random) and have lots of crap sitting in your inventory. Rather than playing til your thumbs bleed, why not have a go at crafting one for yourself? We’ve designed a simple yet comprehensive starter guide to help you learn how to do just that. I present to you the Official PC Games N Beginners’ Guide To Crafting Hats!
