TF2 Thread, now featuring HALLOWEEN!

Monoculous levels up now upon each successful defeat. Highest I've seen was level 17. Not sure exactly what the purpose of it asides is asides from increase of difficulty variance. Apparently it isn't a static change either; sometimes it is a faster rate of attack, others more teleports, and others still higher health. The changes can go both ways so that a particular level will specialize in a certain trait.

 Also had a first hand experience of the balances of fortune, maybe akin to karma

Yesterday I spent a great deal of time unsuccessfully trying to farm gifts on various servers since I'm OCD about collectables as long as money is NOT involved. People were often being jerks about it and not respecting the people who found it in the first place even when the server title often said "Gift Farming". Only ever found one, but I did not intend to get it during my try farming yesterday. Someone from the opposing team was there first, and my teammates killed him, so I jumped onto it as well. I chose to give it to the guy who was there first since I thought it the right thing to do.

Flash 3 hours and 6 servers later, still no gifts found and I'm on a random Trading/Idling server. The only thing I had mentioned was trading out one costume for any piece of others since it was a duplicate I received while I was in one excellent order based gift farming server which had not been open since Halloween. Some random guy trades me asking for a Machina. I tell him I only have one and that it wasn't for sale; sorry, look for someone else. He insists I sell it to him and starts showing me some fairly valuable stuff (relative). I try and tell him that the weapon isn't even worth half of one of those items I'm assuming are a selection from which to choose for it. He begs, and I put it up, but then he goes and agrees to the trade with all the items there. I try to tell him this isn't worth all that once again, but he insists.

Final Trade Result:
Give -
1 Machina

Receive -
1 Crate
1 Scrap
1 Force of Nature
1 Strange Eyelander
1 Ol' Snaggletooth

And let me just say, being immune to head-shots is better than I expected by far.

Also, not 30 minutes later I get a hat drop which was my first in months.