Team Fortress 2 News

The festive season has truly kicked off in Team Fortress 2 as the Smissmas event is live for 2020. Valve posted an update to the Steam game's website detailing all the goodies that are available to players who take part.

You're getting four new community maps called Pier, Snowfall, SnowVille, and Wutville alongside a Stuffed Stocking that contains "goodies for good little Mercenaries". There's also a bundle of cosmetics that includes 20 new community-contributed items, and the Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case. It's not all in the spirit of friendliness, though, as there are heaps of new community-contributed taunts. You can find eight of them in the Mann Co. Store alongside 19 new unusual effects that have also been made by TF2 players.

The game's Smissmass event runs until January 7, 2021, so there's plenty of time to jump in and see what's new. The recent update also comes with a bunch of general fixes. An exploit allowing players to use "retry" in the console to reset the MvM timer has been fixed, and lots of items have been updated, too.

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Along with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive seeing it's 10th operation with Operation Broken Fang, Valve's other popular first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 is doing a new Smissmas 2020 event.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/smissmas-2020-is-live-for-team-fortress-2-with-new-maps

• All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
  
• Featuring 4 new community maps: Pier, Snowfall, SnowVille, and Wutville
  
• Added the Winter 2020 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 20 new community-contributed items
    
  • The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case
• Added the Winter 2020 War Paint Case
  • Contains 13 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Winter 2020 Collection
    
  • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
• Added 8 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
  • Taunt: The Pooped Deck
    
  • Taunt: Time Out Therapy
    
  • Taunt: Rocket Jockey
    
  • Taunt: The Boston Boarder
    
  • Taunt: Scorcher's Solo
    
  • Taunt: Texas Truckin'
    
  • Taunt: Spin-to-Win
    
  • Taunt: The Fist Bump
• Added 19 new community-created Unusual effects
  • 12 new effects for Unusual hats
    
  • 7 new effects for Unusual taunts
• All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Smissmas 2020 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event. This does not include crates.
  
• Mann Co. Store winter sale!
  
• Smissmas runs through January 7, 2021.
  

• All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
  
• Featuring 4 new community maps: Pier, Snowfall, SnowVille, and Wutville
  
• Added the Winter 2020 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 20 new community-contributed items
    
  • The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case
• Added the Winter 2020 War Paint Case
  • Contains 13 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Winter 2020 Collection
    
  • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
• Added 8 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
  • Taunt: The Pooped Deck
    
  • Taunt: Time Out Therapy
    
  • Taunt: Rocket Jockey
    
  • Taunt: The Boston Boarder
    
  • Taunt: Scorcher's Solo
    
  • Taunt: Texas Truckin'
    
  • Taunt: Spin-to-Win
    
  • Taunt: The Fist Bump
• Added 19 new community-created Unusual effects
  • 12 new effects for Unusual hats
    
  • 7 new effects for Unusual taunts
• All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Smissmas 2020 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event. This does not include crates.
  
• Mann Co. Store winter sale!
  
• Smissmas runs through January 7th, 2021
  

• Fixed exploit where players could use "retry" in the console to reset the MvM timer and prevent the wave from starting
  
• Updated item schema with community fixes from Andrés S. (rabscootle)
  
• Updated web page with community fixes from Liam Stone (boba)
  
• Updated Spy invis materials with community fixes from Liam Stone (boba)
  
• Updated materials with community fixes from Andrés S. (rabscootle) and NeoDement to fix broken Jarate effect
  
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
  
• Updated the localization files