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Team Fortress 2 Update Released

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:



Scream Fortress XV has arrived!

  • Featuring 12 new community maps: Perks, Slime, Lava Pit, Mannsylvania, Sandcastle, Spineyard, Corruption, Murky, Atoll, Woods, Sanitarium, and Devastation
  • Added the Bone-Chilling Bonanza Case

    • Contains 25 new community-created cosmetic items that make up the Bone-Chilling Bonanza Collection
    • Has a chance to give one of 4 new community-created Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item
    • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item

  • Added 4 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store

    • Taunt: The Crypt Creeper
    • Taunt: Roar O'War
    • Taunt: Neck Snap
    • Taunt: Borrowed Bones

  • Added 20 new community-created Unusual effects

    • 13 new effects for Unusual hats
    • 7 new effects for Unusual taunts

  • All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they don't already have one

    • Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations
    • Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected

  • All Halloween Contracts have been reset, allowing them to be completed again
  • Added new Contracts for this year's featured community maps
  • Completing a Halloween Contract will give players a classic Halloween item and the chance for a Bone-Chilling Bonanza Case
  • Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for your Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting the Soul Gargoyles that spawn in the maps
  • All cosmetic and taunt Cases will grant Halloween 2023 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event. This does not include Crates.
  • Join Halloween matches by using the Special Events category in Casual
  • Scream Fortress XV runs through November 7th, 2023

General

  • Changes to help improve load times
  • Fixed ghost_pumpkin effect not playing correctly for the Horseless Headless Horsemann
  • Updated the Horror Shawl's second style to fix a problem with the materials
  • Fixed missing outro sequence for the Taunt: Surgeon's Squeezebox
  • Updated pd_farmageddon to fix blood particles for the scarecrows
  • Updated vsh_distillery and koth_cascade with localization fixes
  • Updated arena_lumberyard_event and plr_hacksaw_event to fix problems with the materials

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:



Scream Fortress XV has arrived!
  • Featuring 12 new community maps: Perks, Slime, Lava Pit, Mannsylvania, Sandcastle, Spineyard, Corruption, Murky, Atoll, Woods, Sanitarium, and Devastation
  • Added the Bone-Chilling Bonanza Case
    • Contains 25 new community-created cosmetic items that make up the Bone-Chilling Bonanza Collection
    • Has a chance to give one of 4 new community-created Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item
    • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
  • Added 4 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
    • Taunt: The Crypt Creeper
    • Taunt: Roar O'War
    • Taunt: Neck Snap
    • Taunt: Borrowed Bones
  • Added 20 new community-created Unusual effects
    • 13 new effects for Unusual hats
    • 7 new effects for Unusual taunts
  • All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they don't already have one
    • Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations
    • Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected
  • All Halloween Contracts have been reset, allowing them to be completed again
  • Added new Contracts for this year's featured community maps
  • Completing a Halloween Contract will give players a classic Halloween item and the chance for a Bone-Chilling Bonanza Case
  • Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for your Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting the Soul Gargoyles that spawn in the maps
  • All cosmetic and taunt Cases will grant Halloween 2023 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event. This does not include Crates.
  • Join Halloween matches by using the Special Events category in Casual
  • Scream Fortress XV runs through November 7th, 2023
General
  • Changes to help improve load times
  • Fixed ghost_pumpkin effect not playing correctly for the Horseless Headless Horsemann
  • Updated the Horror Shawl's second style to fix a problem with the materials
  • Fixed missing outro sequence for the Taunt: Surgeon's Squeezebox
  • Updated pd_farmageddon to fix blood particles for the scarecrows
  • Updated vsh_distillery and koth_cascade with localization fixes
  • Updated arena_lumberyard_event and plr_hacksaw_event to fix problems with the materials

Particle Mayhem 2


(Image credit: LazerSofa, Mr. Light, Feksil, Overlord Lettuce, boba)

The Particle Mayhem contest is BACK this year with a shocking twist: they're going beyond time and space! The best part is... they want YOU to create all sorts of particles, cosmetics, and war paints for the event! The starting prize pool will be 100 keys, with more being contributed as the event progresses!

Do you think you have what it takes to travel throughout history or venture into the vast regions of space? The Particle Mayhem 2 contest runs through December 31st, 2023, at 12am UTC, so get cracking on those creations!

Visit the Particle Mayhem 2 website for more information!

Particle Mayhem 2


(Image credit: LazerSofa, Mr. Light, Feksil, Overlord Lettuce, boba)



The Particle Mayhem contest is BACK this year with a shocking twist: they're going beyond time and space! The best part is... they want YOU to create all sorts of particles, cosmetics, and war paints for the event! The starting prize pool will be 100 keys, with more being contributed as the event progresses!




Do you think you have what it takes to travel throughout history or venture into the vast regions of space? The Particle Mayhem 2 contest runs through December 31st, 2023, at 12am UTC, so get cracking on those creations!




Visit the Particle Mayhem 2 website for more information!


Team Fortress 2 voice actors go for the Oscars with recreation of its most iconic fan skit




Valve may have its eyes elsewhere at the moment but, for some, the attention never shifts from 2007's Team Fortress 2. While its developer continues to support the game, with an update as recently as March, that and everything for the last few years has been largely community authored and the game's ongoing vibrancy is entirely down to the dedicated fans that keep making Steam Workshop mods, silly videos, and endless memes (most recently about a plump and lovely seal)...
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