This goes so hard!

It needs more red on the back

Best demoman cosmetic ever.

I dont think so, if you blur your eyes (or look at it far away) theres always at least a bit of bright red visible, and that + the context of the match will likely be enough

The jacket has way too much black, it will make it hard to tell what team he's on

Could you make the arm bands bigger?

while the coat itself looks good, its pretty busy and the gloves are also too much imo

no grenades style pls

building around demo’s blast jacket to form a greatcoat is SO brilliant and i love it!! are there plans for a grenadeless style? i think it would be super nice to have, it could let this be used as a formalwear option as well as a military one.

spongebob

Who is this?

wow this is noicy and very cool, looks like tsar platinum but bigger and for demo

Why does that coat gives some jojo vibes?

wow nice, Id definitely use it for the steampunk kinda loadouts I try to make

via checking every angle in loadout.tf I can confidently say team recognition is fine on this item set, yes even with paint. People seem to forget darker parts and colors help draw the eye to the brighter proper team color parts of an item.

team recognition: lost
armbands: insufficient

ah, the dark parts are team colored, subtly.

Overall model becomes too dark.

I need this

Wait wait wait wait... is that the Rimmed Raincatcher colors when you paint that hat in Lack of Hue? Yooo, dude, I need to see it with that.

As for other comments, yeah, I was going to comment about the colors. I think it would be important to see him in every weapon stance available in the game (primary, secondary, melee, melee_allclass, and if you want, passtime), and see how it looks like.

Heavy Lifter sorta does this with the armbands too, though it leaves more team-color at the center of Heavy (which, his default model, it only has his armbands as team-colors and a bit of his shirt behind the vest).

The black causes no issues because of the armbands. You don't need the entirety of the sleeves to be black, only the portion the player pays attention to. It's still instantly recognizeable

There's too much black that covers too much of Demo's color, it looks off just not being a lot of red or blue, the only one that I think also takes away colors is the Heavy Heating and even then that one uses Waterlogged Lab Coat's colors for both teams, this one is just black for both teams

why not paint the whole turtleneck? only the sleeves being a different color just looks wrong, and countless other demo miscs have a paintable neck/collarbone region. the coat has plenty of team color in other places to remedy the loss of color from a painted sweater
that aside, this is nice :) i love when demo shirts try and make his vest something new