It just looks like the autumn one that's already in the game.

\/ are you illiterate or just willfully ignorant
submission* btw

the game is infested with illegal criminals and your concern is team recognition on a warpaint submition that looks bussin.

man what a world

as many others have said, yeah. the colours don't work with blu. my personal solution would be reworking this in some way to make it more neutral to both teams (already a lot of purple on this weapon, but that colour is pretty overused so do with that idea what you will). and while i do agree that there are some MUCH WORSE cases of this out there,
1. team recognition is not the main issue here, i just can't imagine this looking very good on blu with larger weapons
2. while this isn't the biggest part of the problem, it's still part of it. contributing a small amount is still contributing.

honestly this isnt even a problem with team recognition its just ugly to have it clash with ur team color liek that

Has there ever been a community effort to reach valve about the paint region issue though? They've hand altered paints before to make them red coloured, and avoided team recognition issues for effects quite recently, I feel like its entirely in the realm of possibility as long as valve is receives attention for this issue. I would be in full support of that.

I respect this response since it conveys the issue, that being specific loadouts that can abuse this, more specifically the pyro one since its the most intense of the lot. I think the waders and baggies particularly need their paint regions disabled, would be cool to see a bigger push for that. However with that taken into consideration if this were to be added it would be far from the most egregious example of an orange paint that suffers from this issue, it could probably be manipulated in the same way, but for a lot of weapons outside of soldier's rocket launchers, and smaller weapons like demo's launchers and scout's scatterguns (which hide much less), it is mostly balanced by the rest of the colours which aren't orange or red. you could probably replace it with any other non-TC paint that covers enough of the class silhouette's bits and bobs of team recognition and have the same effect. I don't know if this is reasonably avoidable.

orange is a red-leaning color, as it's much closer to red than blue. you can see this on RED Engineer (hard hat, gloves, smaller details). in battle, players will instinctually associate orange with red. this process also applies to yellow and blue (again, look at Engineer, & Cream Spirit). weapons are an extension of the character and team to an extent, there's a reason why weapons are placed where the team color is. applying paint generally doesn't affect gameplay or reignition. but can be abused with certain combinations. For example, Water Waders+Flavorful Baggies+Deity's dress all painted orange for BLU (and Slate for RED) already ruins reignition, but having Autumn.MKII for blue and loads of different paints for RED, just make it unreadable.

maintaining team recognition through warpaints isn't that high of a priority, most combos aren't bad, especially when cosmetics are much more of an issue, but still should be considered.

you might as well look into finding a way to disable all skins at that rate i think it'd do you better, who knows when you'll come across an anodized aloha, autumn mk ii or heck even a dragon slayer skin in the wild brutha

refer to the color wheel, and maybe go back to kindergarden to learn about the colors of the rainbow. it doesnt take a toddler to know that colors can be easily mistaken for another one its adjacent too

i appreciate the response but I don't see how a specific pyro loadout should dictate whether or not orange is still perceived as team neutral colour. that being said, there is so much balancing between different elements of the war paint that I would argue it could not be used in any way to misrepresent someone's team recognition any worse than any other non team coloured war paint ingame. as for making a drastically different blu variant, I already tried with various other colour schemes and decided that it made no sense whatsoever. blue is used as an opposite to red colours, not orange/yellow which are available on both sides. i appreciate the feedback for changing the gradient and magenta to a purple for blu side, and I even desaturated the orange so it is far less intense, but I am not convinced that I need to completely change the colour schemes, especially considering that it would only be a detriment to the war paint with no benefits whatsoever.

JUST DO AN ACTUAL BLU SKIN

with these color scheme, it just kinda impossible to have it be team-neutral without starting over. In a vacuum this is fine, but I can see this being used on an all orange pyro that's on BLU.

ive moved the magenta closer to purple tones and desaturated so they'd be closer to blu's colour palette. what else is there to really change?

these colours lean towards red, you need a blu variant

there is no red

that is not a blu variant

very good btw, always enjoy me some groovy looking paints :)

NOW MAKE THE BLU VARIANT BLUER
DON'T STOP UNTIL IT'S THE COLOR OF WINDEX

BLU Variant update incoming

blu variant is desperately needed

the wavy pattern needs to be changed

Team color.

really damn nice pattern, just needs a blu variant