Yeah, any item that's on the head really aren't an issue when it comes to team-recognition, especially when this item's on par with paintable items that've been available since 2011. People like hats with large paint regions as it offers the most for customisation, and people saying that it's a problem with team recognition are poorly parroting points made by others without understanding what they're talking about.

There's been some offensive items added to TF2 in terms of paint regions (god knows we'll never hear the end about the Water Waders), but 9 times out of 10, workshoppers do strive to make large paint regions on torso items inoffensive, like being an undershirt that can only be seen from the front while still retaining team colouring on the rest of the model that can be seen from all other angles.

Large paint regions on hats aren't the problem. While reserving it to stripes could work, the majority will use paint to make it closer fit their cosmetic set. The real issue comes from large paint regions on body cosmetics, as that is where players will generally look to identify teams.

If anything, I would change the paint region to just the stripes. I think you preserve the black texture.

Because he already has one. As far as I know, Soldier and Demo don't have something similar.

Also, another note that this item can take is its paint region: The airdog did it better by painting the stripe, and not the rest of the helmet. That, or you can make two styles, with one being the details on the goggles and the other being the stripe. The only other fix I can think of is going through the process of layering the paint region so that the saturation and brightness of the paints aren't obnoxious.

This and the Airdog are different enough to be their own things; both of these hats can coexist on the same class.

There's been a tonne of overlap for options in this game over the years and some people like to go with different visual styles over others. Why should Scout miss out on a sweet moped helmet with goggles, just because he has a similar-looking helmet of a completely different aesthetic?

The Airdog is a little bit too similar to the version of this item for the Scout. Give it to Demo and Soldier only, and it'd work a bit better.

Fun hat.

Wooow it looks nice!!

Hadn't seen the original version of this, but I'm happy to see it's been revisited with a new style.

Finally the Goggles can be down.

a classic returns in a new beautiful style, nice :3