Tour of Duty
A Tour of Duty is a collection of missions that may span multiple maps in Mann vs. Machine official servers [1] . Released in the relative update , they are available only on servers which run Mann Up Mode; a Tour of Duty Ticket is required to participate in a Tour of Duty. Squad Surplus Vouchers can be used as well.
Depending on the tour, completing one mission grants a player an Operation badge : starting at level 1, these badges track in their description the stat of the subsequent missions completed which belong to their Tour of Duty. Once a Tour of Duty is completed, its level increases by 1, to complete a full Tour of Duty a player must complete all missions under the same specific Operation.
Also, completing a Tour of Duty grants a player tour-specific rewards, usually in the form of Botkiller weapons : Rust and Blood are granted from Operation Oil Spill, Silver and Gold Mk.I weapons are granted from Operation Steel Trap, Silver and Gold Mk.II weapons are granted from Operation Mecha Engine, and Carbonado and Diamond are granted from Operation Gear Grinder. The Blood , Gold , and Diamond Botkiller weapons are less likely to drop than their counterparts. Australium weapons are granted from any Advanced or Expert tour (Operation Steel Trap, Operation Mecha Engine, Operation Two Cities, Operation Gear Grinder), while Killstreak Kits and Killstreak Kit Fabricators are only rewarded in Operation Two Cities. All Australium weapons received are Strange quality.
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Available Tours of Duty
† Only rewarded once, its level goes up by 1 after every subsequent tour.
Update history
August 15, 2012 Patch ( Mann vs. Machine Update )
- [Undocumented] Added Tour of Duty Operation Steel Trap.
October 9, 2012 Patch
- [Undocumented] Added Tours of Duty Operation Oil Spill and Operation Gear Grinder.
December 20, 2012 Patch ( Mecha Update )
- Added Tour of Duty Operation Mecha Engine.
November 21, 2013 Patch ( Two Cities Update )
- Added Tour of Duty Operation Two Cities.
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- Each time you complete an unfinished Mission on your Tour of Duty in Mann Up Mode, you'll earn an item. This will consume the Tour of Duty Ticket you presented to enter Mann Up Mode.
- When you complete all of the Missions on a Tour of Duty, you’ll earn a random rare item. These rare items can only be obtained by completing ALL Missions in a Tour of Duty.
- You can also obtain items using Squad Surplus Vouchers (see below).
- You leave a game while playing a Mann Up game on an official server; and
- You have not played through a single wave to completion or failure; and
- There are 5 or more players currently connected to the server (including you).
Tour of Duty Ticket
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The Tour of Duty Ticket is an item that allows entry onto an official Mann Up server. This item can only be redeemed in Mann Up Mode and is only consumed upon successful completion of a mission. If the mission is not beaten for any reason, the ticket will not be consumed and can be used again later. Tour of duty tickets are not consumed if the player plays a already-completed mission, and otherwise are only "usable" once. Tour of duty tickets are bought from the Mann.co Store or from certain crates.
After finishing a Mann Up mission, the player will be awarded a random drop. This can be either a normal item or one of the special robot-themed cosmetic items only obtainable by playing Mann Up Mode. A ticket is given to the player after completely defeating a mission for the botkiller weapons.
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Team Fortress 2 Mann vs. Machine “Tour of Duty” ticket explained
Thrax did a flowchart explaining Mann Vs. Machine’s slightly confusing “Tour of Duty” ticket system.
To clear up any confusion: You do not need to pay to play Mann Vs. Machine.
If you want to participate in a “Tour of Duty”, a multi-map campaign similar to the way campaigns work in Left 4 Dead, you need a ticket to play each mission on the official Mann Co. servers (Valve servers). This ticket buys you into a single mission . If you complete it, you get a special reward, and your ticket is consumed. If you want to play the same mission again, you do not have to pay for it. If you want to play the next mission in a Tour, you’ll need to buy another ticket.
A Tour of Duty in the Mann Up (paid) mode consists of six missions:
You get a random item drop at the end of each mission. If you buy a Squad Surplus ticket ($1.99), every member of the squad gets an addition extra random item at the end.
This is all subject to change while we’re figure all of this stuff out. The Valve servers are slammed right now, and as I write this, I saw queues of over 10,000 players with 40+ minute wait times.
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This is all subject to change while we’re figure all of this stuff out. The Valve servers are slammed right now, and as I write this, I saw queues of over 10,000 players with 40+ minute wait times.
Anyone want to put together a group for tomorrow evening / night? After @primesuspect rejected me, I think I'll just try out CS:GO for the evening.
You can easily play without paying. Our dudes just want #hats.
So when u win the mvm your ticket us gonna be conumed right and u say that we could still play the mission but will we still receive an item?
You only get an item if the ticket is consumed. It's the reason why Squad Surplus tickets exist.
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Originally posted by Ellipses Have Three Periods. : You need to play each individual mission once to complete a tour. Doing the same mission multiple times won't consume your ticket but won't give you any loot (Aside from Surplus Vouchers and random drops) nor count towards tour completion.
Originally posted by BG| Content : Before you play 2 cities, for the love of god please read guides. Then go to bootcamp. Once you mastered bootcamp then go try two cities.
Originally posted by Bryan TopHat : Originally posted by Ellipses Have Three Periods. : You need to play each individual mission once to complete a tour. Doing the same mission multiple times won't consume your ticket but won't give you any loot (Aside from Surplus Vouchers and random drops) nor count towards tour completion.
Originally posted by Ellipses Have Three Periods. : Originally posted by Bryan TopHat : So I'd only need 2 to complete a tour?
Originally posted by Bryan TopHat : Originally posted by Ellipses Have Three Periods. : If the tour has two missions (Which it doesn't; no tour has less than three missions), yes.
Originally posted by Sym2-COMr. Martyr.CC : Originally posted by Bryan TopHat : Uhh I'm confused. Can you refrase that. Do I only need 2 tickets for "Two Cities" or not?
Originally posted by Sirrockyqo : Cmon, is it really that hard to count how many missions are in the tour?
Originally posted by Bryan TopHat : Originally posted by Sym2-COMr. Martyr.CC : 1 mission=1 ticket 1 tour (two cities) 4 tickets 1. ticket 0.75 cents
Originally posted by CAR_ : Originally posted by BG| Content : Before you play 2 cities, for the love of god please read guides. Then go to bootcamp. Once you mastered bootcamp then go try two cities.
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The Tour of Duty Ticket is a tool item. It is represented as a ticket featuring a drawing of Saxton Hale on the center, with "Mann Co." written on the right side and "Admission" and "Mann Up" on the left side. This item allows entry onto an official Mann Up server. This item can only be redeemed in Mann Up Mode and is only consumed upon ...
A Tour of Duty is a collection of missions that may span multiple maps in Mann vs. Machine official servers.Released in the relative update, they are available only on servers which run Mann Up Mode; a Tour of Duty Ticket is required to participate in a Tour of Duty. Squad Surplus Vouchers can be used as well.. Depending on the tour, completing one mission grants a player an Operation badge ...
Classic_Enthusiast. •. I haven't played a lot of mvm but you need 1 ticket per match (only gets used if you win) so an average of 4ish per tour. I'm not sure what a squad surplus ticket does though. Reply. SaltyPeter3434. •. Squad surplus voucher gives everyone an extra item as a reward after finishing a mission.
Each mission of a tour requires a tour of duty ticket to be played, which is used up after that mission and mission loot is dropped. So for a 4 mission tour, like Two Cities, 4 tour of duty tickets will need to be purchased and used up before the tour is completed. Also, if you start say mission 3 but have to leave before finishing it for ...
To clarify, each *tour* has *3 to 6* missions in it and will therefore require *2 to 5* more tickets to complete. Each mission has 3 to 8 waves in it and will take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour for a competent team depending on the length. The upper limit to how long it can take is determined by the tenacity of bad players willing to stay ...
A Tour of Duty Ticket gives you access to any Tour of Duty in Mann Up Mode, and can be purchased from the Mann Co. Store for $0.99. You do not need a Tour of Duty Ticket to play Mann vs. Machine on unofficial servers (i.e.: not in Mann Up Mode).
The Tour of Duty Ticket is an item that allows entry onto an official Mann Up server. This item can only be redeemed in Mann Up Mode and is only consumed upon successful completion of a mission. If the mission is not beaten for any reason, the ticket will not be consumed and can be used again later. Tour of duty tickets are not consumed if the player plays a already-completed mission, and ...
Name defined as Tour of Duty Ticket. Definition index defined as 725. Item class defined as craft_item. Item type name defined as Ticket. Item name defined as Tour of Duty Ticket. Item description defined as Present this ticket in Mann vs. Machine to play Mann Up Mode on an official server to earn rare items and track progress on your Tour of ...
This means Valve will be getting $6 per person for a Tour of Duty; $36 per game. This is fascinating from a game monetization standpoint. You get a random item drop at the end of each mission. If you buy a Squad Surplus ticket ($1.99), every member of the squad gets an addition extra random item at the end. This is all subject to change while ...
Some need 6 tickets to complete, some 3-4. From what i understand, you can craft them, buy them from various places, or trade for them. Sometimes there might be a rare giveaway which you can get them. Otherwise maybe if you have a friend who takes pity on you they could purchase them on your behalf.
Prices and stats for Tour of Duty Ticket, an item in Team Fortress 2. Toggle navigation. Team Fortress 2. Dota 2. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Forums Pricing . Community Pricing Pricegrid ... ⚡Selling Tour of Duty Ticket for 38.44 ref stock = 14 | 50 ⚡ Send me a trade offer or add me send !buy Tour of Duty Ticket ⚡ ...
It's either you sell it to get some items ingame such as cheap weapons, or try to get more mvm tickets (3-4) to complete a tour for a small chance to get a robo weapon, or even a rarer chance an austrailium gun. I'd say you could sell the ticket on scrap.tf or backpack.tf to get you some refined metal, to which you could buy a majority of the ...
Team Fortress 2 > General Discussions > Topic Details. Barack the Rock. Mar 25, 2018 @ 5:23pm Are tour of duty and Squad duty tickets permanent or do i only get one mission per ticket? Need help < > Showing 1-15 of 15 comments . King Arthur Mar 25, 2018 @ 5:25pm ...
Yeah, don't try to get Australiums through MVM. It's the equivalent of buying scratcher tickets. There's no way to get free tickets. You can buy them for ref metals from trading sites. I just finished my very first tour from the tickets a friend gave me and got a hit and heat maker kill streak and a lock and load kill streak….
Buy and sell Team Fortress 2 items on the Steam Community Market for Steam Wallet funds. ... Team Fortress 2 > Tour of Duty Ticket. This item is a commodity, where all the individual items are effectively identical. Individual listings aren't accessible; you can instead issue orders to buy at a specific price, with the cheapest listing getting ...
You can do an infinite amount of tours, but being about $4 per tour, and on average $1 return, it isn't worth it. For reference on the cosmetics, they are really cheap to buy each, but there is a chance that the game will drop one at the end of every mission (two cities has 4 missions per tour). I have 28 tours in two cities, which is 112 missions.
each person needs one if it's an uncompleted mission for them. Last edited by Karam ; Feb 17, 2020 @ 7:42am. #1. Rando MacArthur, Crit Horologist Feb 17, 2020 @ 7:50am. Every person needs one per mission, so every person needs 4 to 6 tickets per tour depending on the tour you're doing. #2. Showing 1 - 2 of 2 comments.
All you will experience is pain and frustration. If loot is your goal, you'd be better off saving your money and just buying whatever you want outright. Only buy Tour of Duty tickets if you want to play the mode for fun and can accept your lottery ticket probably isn't a winner. Now is one of the best times to buy TF2 stuff.
Team Fortress 2. All Discussions ... Like all consumable items, a tour of duty tick is a single use item. Well, they should've put "This item has limited uses. ... But, anyway, your ticket is one use but only gets used when you successfully complete all the waves in a mission. shall you quit the server before winning, your ticket is waiting to ...
1 mission=1 ticket. 1 tour (two cities) 4 tickets. 1. ticket 0.75 cents. #7. Juno Brier Nov 9, 2014 @ 12:43pm. Originally posted by Bryan TopHat: Originally posted by Ellipses Have Three Periods.: If the tour has two missions (Which it doesn't; no tour has less than three missions), yes.
It's a lot safer and you get what you want. tickets are usually about 3.66 ref. 2 for a key is reasonable. Tickets are also about a dollar; you can buy them without the intervention of steam money from marketplace.tf. I buy mine from there, when I can.