The TF2 Item you only get ONCE 

I was SO close to deleting my gibus, but thankfully, I had a bunch of crates that got nuked instead .

I remember, back in 2019, I first started this game. In 2021, I was told by a guy in a community server that if I deleted my Mercenary Badge he'd give me a really cool weapon as part of a video he was doing. I obliged, and he sent me a Gas Passer, at the time I thought it was such a good idea, and now I can't even hunt the user down because upon learning how bad the item was I used it to craft a pyro token and made the Rainblower lmao

"This is my hat, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Without me, my hat is useless. Without my hat, I am useless."

The same thing happened to me. I also deleted my mercenary badge a long time ago. Yeah, it's a bummer, but there are alternative ways to know when you first booted up TF2. One way you could do it is to find your earliest achievement and go by that. For me, it was the achievement you get for completing the "tutorial," which I unlocked December 5th of 2014.

I went through the same thing, really upset steam didnt do anything about it. Especially how special these items were because a friend helped me buy them for me

I still miss my pyrovision goggles to this day

This is how I feel with literally every achievement hat, I deleted all of them like a moron, only thing that I "got back" was a gibus, since you buy the upgraded ones.

Man, I love my mercenary badge :D I hope one day valve gives everyone s chance to regain their merc badge or gibus in case of deletion

i deleted my gibus :crying :

Even if I deleted my Gibus, Pyrovision Goggles and Mercenary Badge, I can't agree with the 6:22 section more, once I realized the mistake I have done I started treating every single TF2 item of mine as a holy possession, like that one time one guy saw me getting his Scattergun, asked me why I did it and I replied with "Yeah, I have it because it makes me feel rich", and he just straight up gave me a Night Terror Scattergun and my first 3 cosmetics which I'll never get rid off. Who could imagine that a silly hat game would create so much memories.

i still regret deleting my gibus to this day

Sentimental value is considered mostly in my loadout. A lot of my items my mum bought for me. I wear my Mann co hat, my mercenary badge, and that's it. Those are sentimental in the way my mum did not buy them for me.

I lost my entire first steam account that I had from 2011 in 2014 to a scammer and this video just makes me feel so nostalgic

I remember during a Halloween event of some sort, I had the option to trade in some cosmetics in exchange for a better cosmetic (or something big along those lines) and I sent away my gibus and mercenary badge. I never got anything in return

2:44 such a coward in the gameplay.

2:22 i was there once too i went crazy when i got that message thankfully i didn't lose my backpack despite it not having many expensive things at the time

Litteraly my whole backpack feels like this badge to me. I spent thousand of hours trading as a f2p just to get one hat on every class, and I was so proud of finding the paint colors that would make everything suit so nicely to my miscs. And every year some random strangers would add me to trade me those items with rare halloween spells for 1/4 of the actual value, but they'll never get that money can't buy memories. Thx for the video

This is why you have to treasure items, don’t just have your first cosmetic not have value to you F2Ps must be acknowledged

I luckily still have the mercenary badge, but my gibus wasn't as lucky :(

I put my gibus and directors vision and pyrovision goggles in a halloween transmute and now they're all gone forever

my favorite part of the bronze shitter badge, it its description "Even though you were late to the party, you were still the life of it." which means that I (and only I) am the coolest tf2 player of all time

Valve actually gave me my mercanary back, and i think it was after their no recovering items policy. They also gave me back my iron curtain minigun, when i wanted to make it a specialized killstreak, and accidentaly put it into the kit, not knowing how they work.

My most treasured item in my backpack is The Black Rose knife. I just so happen to have it even though I really didn't play TF2 a lot until a couple years back just because as a kid my brother got me to play TF2 with him once and I was an addict when it came to free to play steam games. So i played both games (dont even remember which game gave you the knife) and when I logged back in I realized I had it. Idk how rare it is and its untradeable, but just the feeling of owning an item that is no longer obtainable or at least very hard to obtain through underhanded means is so cool to me. I dont even play Spy either. It's something, like my medal, that has been in my backpack since the beginning.

I started playing TF2 recently, but the Mercenary Badge thing is now reminding me of how in Club Penguin, I don't know how long I played it. There was a tab you could open which showed the exact date and time you started playing Club Penguin, like with the Mercenary Badge. I took a few screenshots of my house and puffles before it shutdown but never got round to opening that tab. I know it was roughly 2010ish, but that's still gonna haunt me for years that I never looked at it lol.

I feel you man. I’m a f2p and I accidentally deleted my haunted metal without knowing what it did because I was new to the game at that point 😐 Now my Demoman may never have his horseless headless horsemann’s headtaker

Can relate to this. I deleted my badge and gibus hat around 2015 due to not having inventory space. Thankfully steam support has allowed me to get my gibus hat again but the mercenary badge was gone forever.

"Ugh, i hate having a 50 slot only backpack, id rather have weapons instead of this tophat" "I can get more space eventually?"

4:20 exactly my thinking when I deleted my Gibus and PyroVision, I miss them so much...

I actually had the proof of purchase and i had the soldier of fortune badge. Unfortunately i lost the email to my account and had to use a new account. Cool video man.

I started playing tf2 (On my own steam account) around 2010-11ish. I decided in about October of last year to get into trading as it was always something I wanted to do. I started with 1 refined metal working my way up. I had a decent little inventory before this but because almost every item I had I liked to using, I decided to start scrap banking instead of selling those items. I starting with 1 or 2 refined that I had in my backpack. I own several unusuals now and the main items I love to collect are spelled items since I had about 3 or 4 back in the day younger me traded off for practically nothing. I also deleted my Mercenary Badge as a F2P to make room for all those 'cool new item drops.' that and my Gibus, Seal mask, and ALMOST my Vintage Pyro goggles. I believe people who have deleted there badge are in the same group of people who have gone through a lobotomy, they seem to be missing something. Valve really needs to add that deleted item ticket into the game.

Hey! Amazing video, brings back nostalgia for all those... Deleted old items :(

I remember the first day I played TF2 like a few years ago I booted up an official Valve server and got gifted a Dalokohs Bar by a continuously traunting Heavy before the round began and they proceeded to aimbot me through the walls and then I got kicked for “Trying to kill someone” in a game where the point is to kill people. I didn’t play for a while after that, and now I basically just play singleplayer with Bot Overhaul installed because even if they aren’t very nice at least they don’t hack in the casual lobby for fun.

i just wanna say i love the effort you put in this video. the editing and the subtitles are are all wonderfully done. you have gained a sub. and also you gave me some advice on why i shouldnt delete my stuff, i am a new player haha

I was f2p for 2 years and I have destroyed mine gibus and pyro goggles, so when I bought premium, message the support staff and they added me a new one :) Thanks Valve

Imagine scamming someone so badly he starts being disappointed in humanity

As someone who has to deal with a similar experience, it makes me wish we could just make the W+M1 pyros real along with Miss Pauling so we could have them melt the people who think it is funny to swipe items and accounts

anyone know or can link the mod for the drawn on class icon things at 0:05 pls? thanks

I did the exact same thing with it and my gibus. I wrote to steam one day many years later and they actually gave it to me saying that they dont usually do it but they were going to make an exception and felt special. Maybe it has to do with how much money you have spend or maybe the time playing the gsme (i started right after tf2 became f2p) or maybe just the person reading the steam support requests. I would say you should keep trying

This is a certified Breadmann moment, I bet if this man had 99 problems (impossible) surely an uber aint one

*After he said “and that's just something that can't be deleted” I expected him to say “oh wait” and then Everywhere At The End Of Time begins playing.*

I've since regreted in deleting my mercenary badge, but I'm glad to know that my Steam Badge "Years of Service" also mean the day I first started playing TF2!

My second ever hat drop was a Towering Pillar of Hats. I traded it for a Direct Hit I scrapped like a week later.

You got to love channels that make custom subtitles.

god, i fell for the "i accidentally reported your steam account" too, same reasons bro

My most prized possession in TF2 is a field tested (I think) civic duty strange kill streak panic attack with a description edit. It’s basically the dictionary example of “there are many like it but this one is mine”

i'll trade you 5 achievements for my mercanary badge

Backstory for your class loadout is realy needed. I love to give any meaning to my loadout without conficting with tf2 lore

Hey just saw you from brad man just want to say, I love this kind of content you do and the editing style is so good that it made me question my ability to edit💀, anyways keep it up and your pfp is funny

Maybe the real mercenary badge was the friends we made along the way

*7:08**: You should have written in the 2010s because at that time, Steam support overvalued all players. Why are the stupid steam supporters ignoring them now? MONEY*

This is so relatable, I remember I deleted my mercenary badge cause at the time I was a F2P and I needed to make space in my inventory for some item drop. Even though I joined in late 2021 I still made so many memories with TF2 even till now, but I look back everyday and still regret deleting that thing

“Me looking at my Gibus in my inventory” I knew keeping you was a good idea!

I love my mercenary badge so much. Wear it proudly on all of my classes

Luckily for me, I was given a replacement version of my achievement items back. As soon as they gave me my gibus back I strangified it.

When I was a kid I remember deleting or scrapping like half of my backpack to try and get some specific scout weapons. I think the one thing I regret getting rid of the most was my fortified compound, which isn't impossible to get back but damn, I wonder why I even did that. And I also remember trading away my frying pan for a Soda Popper cause I really loved the way it looked, only to never use it outside of community servers. This was when you could build hype just by running around so I used it in those places a lot.

Now this is high quality content m8 Also, who ever did the subtitles *french kiss* perfection

I dunno if I was really expecting something surprising lol... I won't get those eight minutes of entertainment back

i have sufered even worse, 5 years ago... i was a newbie and with no backpack space i deleted my badge, my gibus, my pyrogoogles, and any existent free cosmetic i had, they didnt meant too much in those times, now everytime i see a paint bucket i just want to use it on my gibus, but well, it isnt anymore with me so...

I always celebrate my joined date, I stripped all down my cosmetics, taunts, and even stopped using voice commands and chats and wear my badge and gibus, so I can reenact and remember I was back then on HOW FUCKING DIFFICULT TO *voice communication is not available for this account*

“Like actual people in my personal life, and *not* from the gamer world” Considering I’ve *created* a group of friends, not joined, created a group all the way back in 2019 and we’ve been playing ever since, that hurts man

"there has to be at least one item that means the world to you" The spy stock revolver reskin thats named "Hello N(eighbor)" i bought off the steam market:

A saving grace I personally can fall back on is the fact that Steam will keep track of your account's purchase history, all the way back to its' first purchase. Somehow or another, as a kid I'd managed to coerce my mother in getting me some unlocks off the Mann Co. Store (obviously stupid in hindsight). To this day I still use my first purchase as a metric for figuring out when I started playing, sure it's not as accurate as the badge itself, there's a 16 day gap between the date on my Steam's "Years of Service" badge compared to my first purchase, but at least it accounts for something.

once i went to a server and it said "write !items for free items" and it gave me all of the achievements, but i didnt know how many items i would get so i had to free some space, i deleted gibus, goggles and mercenery badge and others just to have all the weapons unlocked

Lost many things to a hackusation, the most sentimental being an unusual large luchadore

GOD bless the fact TF2 gives you those backpack extenders on Smissmas, i feel as though a _lot_ of my favorite items would just never have been or would have been wiped instead. Speaking of a few sentimental items i have... - Spiral Sallet. It just looks so _cool_ and i wish it was colorable. Also it's something other than the gibus. - Smissmas Sweater Panic Attack. I swear i genuinely cannot look at a normal Panic Attack without it looking wrong. - Indubitably Green Gibus. And, FINALLY... - The Director's Vision Taunt. It's literally the only F2P taunt possible and i hold it dear to my heart along with all the other items. (There's also a few others, but these are the most relevant to me.)

the lil backstory for the pyro and slime fella!! thats really cool :] sorry you lost em :C

going to your steam library main page, and setting the my games shelf to sort by added to library will show you the date you started, even if its not the exact minute. Assuming you got and first played TF2 in the same day

this is the first video i've seen by this guy, and my first time acknowledging that this guy exists, and i love how he speaks in riddles (kind of). "dookamahickies" "shebang"

one of my notable items is a SMG with a pretty cool warpaint and a killstreak with matching sheen. i traded it from a person in a community server for not too much, but i just kinda remembered it and it feels nice having that item. i also have a sun-on-a-stick that some guy gave me trough a gift-a-pult a very long time ago, since then, every time i get a gift-a-pult on christmass, i immiedetely get sun-on-a-stick and send it to some random guy lol

For me, that badge would be my first (and only) australium - i got it on my very first MvM tour - it was a knife for Spy. i sold it on the steam market, and used the money to buy GTA5 which was on sale at that time. but about 2 years later i realized that i actually sold it for much less than it was worth, nowadays i'd either kept it, or sold it for keys. im still very pissed about it, and remember it everytime i play mvm i was a pretty new player back then, i didnt *really* know about trading yet, i just sold it on the steam market ...

I did this with the Gibus hat.... i cant even pretend to be a free to play anymore...

Funny cosmetics are my favorite. Example? My go-to cosmetics are the gibus, pyrovision goggles, and the mercenary badge, even though I’ve been playing for months now. I just love the nostalgia I have with them.

Bro, this happened to me twice. The first one being like yours, and the second was that steam thought I stole items, but both accounts had awesome shit. So trust me when I say, I understand.

Starts video talking about not wanting to use the liberty launcher, proceeds to use the liberty launcher for like half the footage lol

and this is why "the lost and found ticket" should be added, would just be nice to get those back, even after steam stopped letting you get them back

Good warning about the merc badge. I always thought it was one of those things you couldnt really delete, that you would get a new one every time you opened up tf2. I used my pyro vision goggles as a transmute my very first Scream fortress. I also use the free drop birthday Party Hat every year in a transmute. Luckily you do get a new party hat every year:)

Wow… I had just been in a coma for 3 years straight and I was almost marked as unrecoverable. I had my youtube on auto play this whole time until I landed on this very video. After your outro I awoke out of my coma! So… Thanks?

"Primeval Warrior: Hire Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007" "A true warrior's medal, given to those who fought before the battle even started." ;)

I saw a first time play of tf2 on youtube and the guy didnt know what the merc badge was and just straight up deleted it without a second thought

I remember deleting a few items and thankfully I got them back before steam said no more given items.

This is my engi Loadout with out me is nothing me with out my engi Loadout makes me a sitting duck for more backstabs and headshots

There is a fan made workshop creation made for you to be able to get those items you deleted back

At least I still have my pan. It's the original one I got from having L4D2. I love it. I even put Bacon Grease on it to make it strange(back when it was cheap). That's mine and only mine.

Twice i gave away all my items when I thought I'd stop playing for good. Once in 2012 and in 2014. All those items are now classic vintage hats. Regret And all those cool legacy items like the gibus and the ww2 helmet I combined to make a new hat.

I kid you not, I got recommended this video just in time. Someone tried to scam me, and I’m new to steam in general, and wouldn’t have known, at all. What a good day to watch tf2 videos.

this video hit close to home because when the Halloween 2015 update came out with the soul gargoyle trading for Halloween hats and I traded my gibus and all the halloween hats for shitty locked halloween hats and every halloween i get a reminder of a tf2 sin a committed

I love that demon days referance

2:17 I also got a scam message exactly like that in 2019 on a horrible day. Lost over 180 dollars worth of items and steam support didn't give anything back to me even though they do it to others. I lost many valuable items like my first taunt, the square dance that I got from a giveaway from a twitch streamer who's a great friend of mine but the scammer did leave my unique quality weapons behind, that included my ham shank I got from that friend. I still have that ham and use it. Somehow the steam market trade hold saved two of my stranges, at the time knowing that I still had something was great because the day I lost all my items was and still is the worst and most stressful day of my life. Btw, I didn't delete any of my items like the badge, but the game deleted my achievement item force a nature for no reason and steam support didn't give it back even though it's a UNTRADABLE item that has no value :( I've tried to get my stolen items back but I've only been able to get one cosmetic back out of like 30. Most of them have been wiped off of backpack,tf so I can't even find their current owners.

I was falling back asleep and was going to be late for class if it wasn’t for the wake up at the end of the video so thankyou

I own a Wintery Wisp Runner's Rhythm that I only got after an insane journey through tf2 trading, getting scammed, and getting help from an absolute god-tier trader. To others, it's only worth 15 keys. But to me, it's priceless.

Great video!

Unfortunately had the same experience here. Middle school me thought it smart to delete my gibbus, badge and pyrovision goggles as I started playing since I needed more space in my backpack and “I was never going to use them anyways”

I think one of the only one-time items I accidentally deleted was my Achievement Wrangler, which I accidentally destroyed while smelting-away my excess weapons and mindlessly clicked through the 'are you sure' prompt before I realized what I did.

A salute for my mercenary badge. On haloween, i transmuted it & got a haunted beep man

I deleted both my first survival and creative minecraft world. After that, I never really cared until I watched a video mentioning deleting your first world as a mistake. After that, I knew there was still no actual reason to mourn it, but it still hurt so much.

I ended up deleting my Gibus on my original account, and after a while, I started to miss it, despite not wearing it whatsoever, but the support group also denied my request to get it back. Now, I have a new account, starting off fresh with new items, new hats/cosmetics & taunts. I’m actually happy that I have these ‘newbie’ items in my backpack, and in every single one of my classes, my D loadout is always the Gibus, Pyrovision googles, and mercenary badge.

such a underrated tf2 channel!

I've also fell for that scam but luckily I got my uncle to message steam support since he's had a steam account for over a decade and I got it back. I do remember in my early days of playing deleting my gibus and my haunted scrap. Till this day I wish I still had the scrap.

I have two items that I hold most dear. A pebbles the penguin cosmetic that marked when I was no longer free to play and a scount jacket that I got as a random item drop.

i did a same thing, started to play again 2 years ago and sadly saw that my free hats where gone from my f2p time as a child, or i deleted them for space then or they just vanished