The Golden Wrench

[JohnTomorrow]

69 found.

31 remain.

I wish to acquire such a rare item in Team Fortress 2, that wacky shoot-em-up game. However, in order to achieve it, you must play for several hours straight, gain a new item every half-hour to an hour, then combine a number of the items in the crafting area in order to obtain a very very very rare item.

It infuriates me that i will never be able to get this thing. I still have no idea how to craft properly, i don't want to craft gear i enjoy using in risk of going back to the vanilla weapons (i spent a lot of time getting the specific gear i use, and the last time i fiddled with the crafting i lost my sandvich!)

Anybody else playing this game for hours on end for the chance to win an shiny yet immaterial object?

 

[Benefactor]

Can't say I am. It's something monumental to achieve, but don't let it bug you. It's just a cosmetic change.

And personally, I think I'd rather not have everyone shooting at "That one guy who got a golden wrench" instead of me. Why do you think I never use my earbuds when I could play TF2 on my mac as well as on my PC?

 

[Player 2]

I feel your pain, I lost my sandvich too.

 

[Armored Prayer]

I'm playing a lot but not for achieving the golden wrench.

I like the plain old look of the wrench just fine. Besides I'm not good at crafting.

 

[Delusibeta]

Tip: place all your unwanted and crafting items (metal, tokens etc.) in the bottom of the second page of your backpack. Then, the items are easily assessable on pages 3 and 4 of the crafting menu.

 

[Audio]

*rolleyes*
Everyone wants to be special.

 

[Kollega]

I don't even hope on getting the golden wrench. The phenomenon known as "luck" is completely alien to me. So i said: "screw that, i'll be a realist and just accumulate some metal". But i don't even get much in terms of normal items.

Oh, and i still don't have a single hat.

 

[Rednog]

You can play all you want but as soon as you hit the item drop cap there really is no point to play anymore, I think I invested like 10 hours this week got like 6-7 items, nothing has dropped in the 3-4 hours I've played today and nothing will probably drop because I'm at the item drop limit.

 

[Twilight_guy]

No. There are 100 wrenches to be distributed among thousands of people desperately trying to get them. The chances of getting anything are miniscle so I really am not bothering. I do know the guy who got wrench #1 though so that's cool.

 

[Ekit]

69 found.

100 remain.

Wait... What?

Do you mean 31 remain?

 

[Deofuta]

I will hold my opinion until they release the golden sandvich...

Kidding, it sounds like fun, but I have relatively few items to start going combine-crazy. What is it you have to combine? Is it anything?

 

[RanD00M]

I'm not trying to get it.I don't use the wrench as a weapon.And I like the old metallic wrench look.

 

[Davey Woo]

Apparently it's a totally random thing you can get whilst crafting, so you don't need to worry about losing useful items.

 

[Sephychu]

69 found.

100 remain.

Wait... What?

Do you mean 31 remain?

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

Seriously though, I thought you just had to die in mid craft. Has it been confirmed that this is not correct?

 

[Grifflez]

Honestly if these were just cosmetic changes I wouldn't care for it; It's the effect has on people it is used to kill.

It turns thier corpses into gold/austrailium statues

On the plus side, the prospect of a remote control sentry gun greatly improves my mood on the situation as my metal supply goes up while my item supply rapidly diminishes.

 

[Ekit]

69 found.

100 remain.

Wait... What?

Do you mean 31 remain?

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

Seriously though, I thought you just had to die in mid craft. Has it been confirmed that this is not correct?

I think you get it randomly whenever you craft something.

 

[Sephychu]

69 found.

100 remain.

Wait... What?

Do you mean 31 remain?

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

Seriously though, I thought you just had to die in mid craft. Has it been confirmed that this is not correct?

I think you get it randomly whenever you craft something.

Huh, darn.

 

[JohnTomorrow]

69 found.

100 remain.

Wait... What?

Do you mean 31 remain?

HA! Whoops! I'd posted at 2.30am at night, after playing TF2 for about 8 hours straight. My brain was pretty fried. (Jebus, 8 hours! Wow...)

 

[BoxCutter]

The phenomenon known as "luck" is completely alien to me.

But i don't even get much in terms of normal items.

Oh, and i still don't have a single hat.

Story of my life.

 

[Doctor VonSexMachine]

How do you accidentally craft something? I mean, don't you have to place the items on the side of the screen designated for that and hit craft?


I've finally crafted a hat, and I luckily got the engineer mining hat although I did not use a class token.

I've crafted everything I have and reached my item cap, so no golden wrench for me. Although someone who was playing on a server with me was lucky enough to get one.