When do items drop in tf2

Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts. Change language. Install Steam. Store Page. Team Fortress 2 Store Page. Global Achievements. Global Leaderboards. After about two weeks of amazing item and cosmetic drops, I have stopped getting any item drops, not even mann co.

I am not a F2P, and I understand that crates and items drop on timers, but after playing about 2 hours a day for almost 2 weeks, I have completley stopped reciving item drops. Is there a mechanic I don't know about? Maybe somebody with a little more expirence could help me out here The item drop system is the process of item distribution within Team Fortress 2. It distributes a random item to players on a regular basis until a weekly time-cap is reached.

This system was first introduced with the Sniper vs. Spy Update to change distribution from being dependent upon achievements. Its purpose was to improve accessibility to the expanding quantity of items within the game, while negating the need to achievement farm meaning to perform out of context actions to gain achievements or use third-party tools to falsify the obtaining of achievements. However, this system created another way of farming to obtain new items called idling.

Right now, the item finding rate is about minutes for one item. In the June 10, patch, the system was changed so that you had to accept the item before moving on, to prevent other ways of idleing.

The max gameplay that will be counted for item drops is about 20 hours a week, the rest will be carried into the next week. Scorched Crates and the Summer Coolers were exceptions as they were not dropped. Scorched Crates could have been the only item inside a Pile of Ash, and the Coolers could only be obtained through Summer Claim Checks. Standard is one every months, assuming you play at least 6 hours a week. Hat drop rates vary wildly. Mann Co. Supply Crates and other usable items drop on a separate timer, meaning that these items do not affect the interval between regular drops.

I am referring to different types of crates too, not just normal ones.