And if you doubt this try it on loadout.tf

there are already full mask items that can be painted this would make no difference, look at the ninja cowl for example. its not going to ruin the game if this one item is added, even though I do agree that with some paints it doesn't look great, I still think it should be fine if its added.

@HECU General Bluhu I ain't reading all that.

Cool!

also the paint region critiques are super dumb, why does everyone hate customisation? I like that the mask is paintable

I really hope this gets added

Judging my item based on a non-existent fully-paintable Spy suit is ridiculous and I hope you know that

Now, imagine if they bring in a suit for spy that allows most of the spy's body to be painted. They only have to add ONE of them. And if your cosmetic also gets added then the "it causes no gameplay issues" is going to age like fine trash. I mean, don't get me wrong, it still is, but that is besides the point. You already don't seem to take critisism well, then imagine people tossing this sentence at you.

What can you do? Maybe finally instead of hissing at anyone who have more brain cells then you, try to actually listen to the feedback. We do this because we love tf2 and because we want good items. And this one is very well made, but it has an issue that can later on break the game. You would honestly redeem yourself if you just made this simple switch to most of your items that has similar issues similar to this one. And it's sad that such a quality item has such a notable flaw.

So, please fix it before it gets added.

Spy only recently got a whole paintale mask. I tested it out and I only got close to what pyro is capabale of. Currently there are two items that can replace tha balaklava and allow you to paint the whole thing: the Classic Criminal, and the Ninja Cowl. I could switch off these two and if I paint if to "a color similar to slate" then bingo. Now I added the breakneck baggies, painted it into the same. Spy thankfully only has suits with very generous paint regions, the only one that covered the most space was the Dead of Night, also painted into slate. This alone is not enough as not all of spy's team color is covered. But if you add a GIGANTIC blue unusual effect on it, then it will be convincing enough to fool people for at least a split second, which can be enough to take advantage of players. Because of that, a fully painted balaklava is not acceptabale. And while yes, ONE fully paintable balaklava has been in the game for a long while now, that doesn't justfy it.

the paintable mask sucks ass

case in point, Medimedes

if you want to be able to have the mask be black and team coloured make it a style its better with only the mask as paintable

please remove the paintable mask the googles are great but the whole mask is a bit much

People really be throwing around paint region critiques like it means anything anymore.

cool mask, would probably wear this ingame

the full mask paint region is ugly but it's fine. Great cosmetic otherwise

people really watch one youtube video about tf2's art style and start thinking they know shit and start throwing around words like class recognition, like brother, look at the suit

is this a fortnite reffrence?

If you can't tell what team or class a Spy is, just because his head is a different colour, I don't know what to tell you

Spy has had paintable mask cosmetics for 11 years, it has caused no gameplay issues

Don't make the majority of the mask paintable. I want to be able to tell people apart. If you kept it to only the goggles, I would reconsider, but for now this is a hard pass.

funny fortnite guy

It has multiple paint styles, please actually look at the submission before commenting

NO
NO
GOD DAMNIT
WHY IS IT ENTIRELY MASK PAINTABLE
JUST MAKE THE GOGGLES PAINTABLE

Oh boy! Another awesome cosmetic, time to bitch about the paint region being large enough to see at a distance thus complain how this will make the game unplayable because there is no way to discern a spies class outside his mask. Seriously folk, nothing less than a full body cosmetic that's near fully paintable like the Water Waders is going to break class recognition. If you are seriously complaining about class recognition from a paintable spy mask, you have fallen for a meme, sorry.

tacticool!

Only the goggles should be paintable

I love it so much but I hate stile1

Could you please make a style to remove the headset?

this thing is AWESOME, bonus points for being able to use it with hats
a real shame the whole paint debate is still going on, but i'll chuck in my two cents

the Ninja Cowl, the Pom-Pommed Provocateur and the Classic Criminal are all fully-paintable spy balaclavas which-- if you can believe it-- have NOT compromised team/class recognition
(don't even get me STARTED on multiclass/all-class head coverings)

the head, contrary to popular belief, is not the most integral part of the class's design. spy's most notable area of team color is everywhere below his neck.

to think we've gone 15 odd years doing what we please with cosmetics and now if your paint region is even slightly off-course from the mercenaries' stock design you'll be eaten alive.
alas.
hope this gets in!

i think the goggles are enough to not make it break team recognition, very nice looking

Honestly the discourse over Spy having a paintable balaclava is honestly the biggest non-issue, regardless how many hypothetical situations people try to make up as to how it could be team-recognition breaking.

You're very rarely going to be seeing someone's full Spy loadout during a match, because they're either going to be invisible or disguised as another player - and disguising totally disables all cosmetics a spy has equipped and reverts the playermodel to the default look.

And even if someone makes a team-recognition breaking loadout, do you know how hard an undisguised Spy sticks out like a sore thumb, regardless what team he's on? If you're not doing Spychecks already on the undisguised Spy on your team, even if his colours look even a little bit weird, you've lost that cointoss.

i like this but i think the paint should only be on the goggles

winter gaming amongus

sexy as fuck, i hope that if valve adds this it's in head_skin so you can wear it with face region items

Nice work on the details but the paint region run it

Very good. I hope it gets added.

The model looks great, but I can't get over the fact that my bitch of an ex-wife cheated on me with my step brother Bradley in 1993.

the mask being paintable may hurt team recognition

I am shocked that this isn't already in the game well done!

It looks good, it's hard to see some fancy tactical cosmetics nowadays!

It is really difficult to take the comment section on this cosmetic seriously at this point.

Eitherway, really great cosmetic. looks like something i could see Spy wearing, and goes well with some of his existing cosmetics.

très cool.

We've really reached a point in the TF2 workshop circlewank that we're making stupid thing son purpose huh

THE SPY ISNT MEANT TO LOOK LIKE THE OTHER TEAM!!! HIS WHOLE POINT IS TO DISGUISE!!! BEING ABLE TO PAINT THE HEAD RUINS THIS!!

the model looks great but i really don't like that Palestine isn't free.

the model looks great but I really like the fact that the mask is paintable

the model looks great but I really don't like the fact that the mask is paintable

Paintable mask ouch

I'm keeping the paint region as-is but thanks for the criticism!