Team Fortress 2: 15 Stupidest Additions So Far
2. Australium Weapons
Gold is about the most aggressively disgusting colour to ever paint something, in video games or otherwise. It’s not big and it’s not clever, but it’s supposed to evoke a feeling of opulence and wealth. Team Fortress 2 has its own version of this: strange weapons that are bright gold (they call it “Australium”, but it’s pretty much gold). Just like normal stranges, they are identical to normal weapons, except they keep count of your kills, and are also eye-sores.
To obtain an Australium weapon requires money and luck; a very dangerous mix. You need to purchase Tour of Duty tickets from the Store and then play through Mann Vs Machine, the co-op robot killing mode that TF2 offers. Once you’ve beaten all of the waves (which could take a while depending on how good you and your team are) you get awarded with some random garbage. But maybe, just maybe, you’ll find one of the illusive Australium weapons at the end of it all (but probably not). And if you’re really lucky and find an Australium Frying Pan you can sell it on the Steam Market for about $5,500.
That is no word of a lie. Someone found a virtual representation of a golden frying pan in a video-game and sold it for $5,500. Wow. These weapons offend the eyes AND insult people’s intelligence.