Team Fortress 2 News

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:

• Added the Summer 2022 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 25 new community-contributed items
    
  • Adds 11 new community-created Unusual effects (29 variants total)
• Fixed a server crash caused by Sniper trying to eat his gun (switching to Sniper while Heavy is eating a Sandvich)
  
• Fixed an occasional lag spike when showing the kill cam for some players
  
• Fixed a regression where spotlights and spawns could not be parented
  
• Fixed a regression with incorrect prop lighting on some maps such as Barnblitz
  
• Fixed incorrect team colors for the default style of The Caped Crusader when using the itemtest command
  
• Fixed missing materials for some Strange Filters in the Mann Co. Store
  
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
  
• Updated the localization files
  

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:

• Added the Summer 2022 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 25 new community-contributed items
    
  • Adds 11 new community-created Unusual effects (29 variants total)
• Fixed a server crash caused by Sniper trying to eat his gun (switching to Sniper while Heavy is eating a Sandvich)
  
• Fixed an occasional lag spike when showing the kill cam for some players
  
• Fixed a regression where spotlights and spawns could not be parented
  
• Fixed a regression with incorrect prop lighting on some maps such as Barnblitz
  
• Fixed incorrect team colors for the default style of The Caped Crusader when using the itemtest command
  
• Fixed missing materials for some Strange Filters in the Mann Co. Store
  
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
  
• Updated the localization files
  

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:

• Added the Summer 2022 Cosmetic Case
  
  
  • Contains 25 new community-contributed items
    
  • Adds 11 new community-created Unusual effects (29 variants total)
  
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by Sniper trying to eat his gun (switching to Sniper while Heavy is eating a Sandvich)
  
• Fixed an occasional lag spike when showing the kill cam for some players
  
• Fixed a regression where spotlights and spawns could not be parented
  
• Fixed a regression with incorrect prop lighting on some maps such as Barnblitz
  
• Fixed incorrect team colors for the default style of The Caped Crusader when using the itemtest command
  
• Fixed missing materials for some Strange Filters in the Mann Co. Store
  
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
  
• Updated the localization files
  

The avocados are going on vacation this year! BlapBash is officially back for 2022 raising money for SpecialEffect to put fun and inclusion back into the lives of people with physical disabilities by helping them to play video games!

The two-day livestream event will take place on July 30th and 31st starting at 12pm CEST / 6am EDT for 12 hours each day and will feature many familiar TF2 personalities & communities. They’ve got an avocado-jam-packed schedule featuring a variety of events inside and outside of TF2, including their largest ever TF2 crate unboxing and giveaway yet! Catch all the action on the EssentialsTF Twitch channel.

And of course, the famous BlapBash medals are back once again to be claimed starting with a minimum $10 donation. They've also brought back their original medal, now the BlapBash Advocator, as a new reward tier! To donate, head over to the BlapBash donation page and find more info about the event!