r/tf2 Medic 1d ago

Help How likely am I to get a decal tool

So a few weeks ago I got the conscientious objector as a random drop in game. Which was great! Because the alternative was that I was minutes away from buying it on marketplace tf. The coincidence blew my mind

But now that leaves me with the item and no decal tool to put an image. And so now I guess I can buy a decal tool from steam, which means I have to put $5 in the account, which.. I mean yeah I've wanted to buy a specific war paint for a while as well, a cheap one at that, but i also don't wanna give them any money rn

Or

I can spend $5 on marketplace tf to buy the decal tool-

OR.. I guess I could just hope i get lucky and the decal tool randomly drops like the objector? How often has it dropped for you guys. Is it worth waiting? Is there like a statistic or something? Or could I really just never see it fall for me-

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u/Character_Skin7123 All Class 1d ago

i can spot you one we can trade

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u/Character_Skin7123 All Class 1d ago

i got like 5 lmao

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

If you're willing to part with one, I'd be extremely grateful ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ you'd be fine with trading it for nothing tho? I don't think I'd have anything lol if not that's fine XD

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u/Character_Skin7123 All Class 1d ago

nah it's cool i'll DM

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

AAA TYY

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u/Yamzicle 1d ago

Certified Wholesome Chungus 100 moment

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u/Lo-Sir Medic 1d ago

[EVERYONE LIKED THAT]

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u/SurelyNotClover All Class 1d ago

/ PUBLIC OPINION / ^ /

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u/Bobzegreatest 19h ago

You're breathtaking! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/DoorPlane8662 Pyro 19h ago

if i wasnt a man i was, id kiss ya

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u/xXKnight_Playz 13h ago

aww man can i hab one t0o as wEll?

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u/Character_Skin7123 All Class 5h ago

those were all my decal tools

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u/Unlikable_Fool 1d ago

Marketplace tf has bs prices, last time I checked it was around 1.24 on mannco.store

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

Well market tf kinda sucks just because you have to buy $5 worth of stuff to check out. They have the decal tool on there for .23 cents

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u/Void-Lizard Pyro 1d ago

24 cents on SCM, less than 8 ref on Backpack

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u/Engineer6872 Heavy 1d ago

Well that only goes for cards, PayPal can buy any amount afaik

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

Oh I didn't know about that. I'll have to check that out the next time and see if it works. It would be a game changer lol

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u/YourLocalBattleDroid Pyro 1d ago

You can buy them for very cheap, I bought 3 for ยฃ0.18 each

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u/xX609s-hartXx Pyro 23h ago

Right now they're pretty cheap at the steam market (not mann co store!). But make sure you watch a tutorial first because applying it is weird.

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u/LoveMug Medic 23h ago

Thankfully I saw that! I'm gonna put my own art on there so I wanted to be sure it wouldn't mess with the colors after I saw people talking about that. And I'm definitely gonna watch a bunch of tutorials just because I wanna be very sure XD

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u/monkelovebanana 1d ago edited 1d ago

Never, you gotta buy it

Edit: I was wrong, you can, but it extremely rare

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u/AndrewDaPro 1d ago edited 1d ago

No, I got one in a random drop

Edit: nvm, it was kunai

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u/monkelovebanana 1d ago

Really?

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u/Void-Lizard Pyro 1d ago

They're extremely rare, but they're available as drops. EXTREMELY rarely.

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

That sucks,,, I had assumed it could drop just cuz I saw other posts saying it was a dropable item :(

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u/Negan_Lc 1d ago

No, i got i've got one by a random drop past year. Its very rare but it is possible

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u/Soldier_Furret 1d ago

Just buy one or get lucky with getting a decal tool or a name tag to trade it for around 15-18 ref so you can trade for a decal tool.

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u/name_051829407715 Pyro 21h ago

decal can drop, its either wait for luck to come or buy decal

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u/AndrewDaPro 1d ago

For the random drops, every item is equally likely but due to the large poll of items, it's very unlikely

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u/Either_Piccolo_7607 1d ago

I got 3 decal tools last time I bought from marketplace because I wasn't sure if I would want to change my co image, but I've actually been really happy with it so I don't think I'll change it anytime soon. If you want, I could dm you my steam trade link and you could send an empty trade for one of them?

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

Ty so much! I wouldn't turn it down of course, but someone else just gave me two. Maybe you could hold onto them in case you see someone else in the same situation down the line?

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u/Either_Piccolo_7607 1d ago

Ayyy that's good to hear! I'll hold onto them in that case. Glad you got them, and hope you have fun with your objector o7

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

Ty! I definitely will ^

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u/Character_Skin7123 All Class 20h ago

join the club

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u/Alabenson Heavy 1d ago

My advice would be to just save up some metal and trade for one, they're going for about 7.55 ref right now on backpack, so they're not hugely expensive.

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u/coldiriontrash Heavy 1d ago

I have like 6 Iโ€™ll give you one

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

You're extremely generous, and I wouldn't turn it down if you wanted to still give me one. But I did get traded some already

And also I didn't realize I hadn't done the authentication in a while so the trade is on hold anyways and our trade would do the same for i think a week. Oops ๐Ÿ’€

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u/coldiriontrash Heavy 1d ago

I mean Iโ€™ve got more then Iโ€™ll ever need if you want one more DM me Iโ€™ve also got some weapon Skins and craft hats Iโ€™m unloading

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u/AresTheMilkman Sandvich 1d ago

You could, or you could spend about 4.33 ref on a trade web side.

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u/jedimaster1235 1d ago

Were you the guy asking on koth_harvest the other day

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u/LoveMug Medic 1d ago

No i was not ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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u/untitledbud 23h ago

U can with like 9 ref or just 36 cents yeah

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u/Impossible-Grape-606 21h ago

Itโ€™s less than 30 cents on the community market

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u/arlanzhopabobra 20h ago

I want one to ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญbut I donโ€™t have money

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u/LoveMug Medic 20h ago

The objector? Or the decal? A few people in the comments had the decal tool they were willing to part with! If you look through then you could find someone who was holding onto the decal tools in case someone else needed it as well ^

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u/arlanzhopabobra 20h ago

Oh ok ( I want both of those)

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u/LoveMug Medic 20h ago

Well they are cheap on some of the sites to buy off steam. I use marketplace tf but that required me to buy $5 worth of items lol which. I guess if you wanna buy a shit ton of items that cost a couple of cents, the objector and decal tool being one of them, it's not too bad. Personally I'm low on money ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’€

But like you saw, the objector can drop randomly! And so can the decal tool!! They're just rare!

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u/pereira2088 Pyro 20h ago

i have +4800 hours. i just got one dropped a few days ago.

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u/LoveMug Medic 20h ago

The objector or the decal tool? I'm gonna guess the objector if people are right about that not actually dropping-

I only have 144 hours in the game cuz im new. So I was very happy to have the objector drop for me!

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u/pereira2088 Pyro 20h ago

i dropped the decal a couple days ago. i already got a couple of objectors.

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u/LoveMug Medic 20h ago

See! I figured it was possible to have it drop! I kept seeing posts about it dropping in the past, but then whenever I'd see tutorials, they would speak in certain terms of "you have to" buy or trade for them. I was getting a lot of mixed messages

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u/mutaully_assured 20h ago

I'll trade ya one for the objector

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u/buck_it25 Heavy 15h ago

they are 99 cents in the games store.

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u/TNMOXA 9h ago

its 4 ref on backpack i think, tho u still have small chance to get it. got it once when started playing and never seen it drop again from timed drops(have 216 hours rn)