Team Fortress 2 News

TF2 Coaching Central is back with their sixth North American Newbie 6s Cup, a learning experience and friendly competition for people who are new to competitive 6v6.

Players with no to minimal competitive experience will sign up to be placed on a team of six, led by a coach who will teach the basics of how to play the 6v6 format and help you learn the maps. Teams have three weeks to learn and train together before facing off in a tournament with a prize pool of 18 keys for the winners and runners up. Their previous Newbie Cup events have successfully prepared many players and teams to continue competitive play in RGL, the biggest North American TF2 league.

Sign-ups are open now, and the deadline to apply to be placed on a team is Monday, December 11. Team and coach assignments will be made by Friday, December 15. Tournament matches will be the weekend of January 6-7, 2024.

Check out their Discord for more info. Whether you're looking to dip your toes in competitive TF2, a more experienced player looking to mentor newbies, or even a fresh install, feel free to join the community - all skill levels are welcome!

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:

Happy Smissmas 2023!

• All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
  
• Featuring 10 new community maps: Snowtower, Krampus, Haarp, Brew, Hacksaw, Turbine Center, Carrier, Galleria, Emerge, and Camber
  
• Added the Winter 2023 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 23 new community-contributed items
    
  • The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case
• Added 3 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
  • Taunt: Cheers!
    
  • Taunt: Mourning Mercs
    
  • Taunt: Foul Play
• Added 31 new community-created Unusual effects
  • 17 new effects for Unusual hats
    
  • 14 new effects for Unusual taunts
• All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Smissmas 2023 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, 2024
  

General

• Fixed missing normal map and variables for Festivized weapons (community fix from Woshee)
  
• Fixed broken lighting for viewmodels in tight spaces (community fix from Stuffy360)
  
• Fixed missing BLU team skin for the B.A.S.E. Jumper
  
• Fixed Taunt: Roar O'War removing health after taunting with an honor bound melee weapon equipped
  
• Fixed not always hiding floating health bars when the player has the hide_enemy_health attribute
  
• Updated pl_corruption to fix trigger_teleports not enabling correctly
  
• Updated koth_sawmill_event to fix missing material
  
• Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy to improve performance
  
• Updated several maps to fix localization issues
  

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:



Happy Smissmas 2023!

• All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
  
• Featuring 10 new community maps: Snowtower, Krampus, Haarp, Brew, Hacksaw, Turbine Center, Carrier, Galleria, Emerge, and Camber
  
• Added the Winter 2023 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 23 new community-contributed items
    
  • The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case
• Added 3 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
  • Taunt: Cheers!
    
  • Taunt: Mourning Mercs
    
  • Taunt: Foul Play
• Added 31 new community-created Unusual effects
  • 17 new effects for Unusual hats
    
  • 14 new effects for Unusual taunts
• All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Smissmas 2023 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, 2024
  

General

• Fixed missing normal map and variables for Festivized weapons (community fix from Woshee)
  
• Fixed broken lighting for viewmodels in tight spaces (community fix from Stuffy360)
  
• Fixed missing BLU team skin for the B.A.S.E. Jumper
  
• Fixed Taunt: Roar O'War removing health after taunting with an honor bound melee weapon equipped
  
• Fixed not always hiding floating health bars when the player has the hide_enemy_health attribute
  
• Updated pl_corruption to fix trigger_teleports not enabling correctly
  
• Updated koth_sawmill_event to fix missing material
  
• Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy to improve performance
  
• Updated several maps to fix localization issues
  

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:



Happy Smissmas 2023!

• All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
  
• Featuring 10 new community maps: Snowtower, Krampus, Haarp, Brew, Hacksaw, Turbine Center, Carrier, Galleria, Emerge, and Camber
  
• Added the Winter 2023 Cosmetic Case
  
  
  • Contains 23 new community-contributed items
    
  • The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case
  
  
• Added 3 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
  
  
  • Taunt: Cheers!
    
  • Taunt: Mourning Mercs
    
  • Taunt: Foul Play
  
  
• Added 31 new community-created Unusual effects
  
  
  • 17 new effects for Unusual hats
    
  • 14 new effects for Unusual taunts
  
  
• All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Smissmas 2023 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, 2024
  

General

• Fixed missing normal map and variables for Festivized weapons (community fix from Woshee)
  
• Fixed broken lighting for viewmodels in tight spaces (community fix from Stuffy360)
  
• Fixed missing BLU team skin for the B.A.S.E. Jumper
  
• Fixed Taunt: Roar O'War removing health after taunting with an honor bound melee weapon equipped
  
• Fixed not always hiding floating health bars when the player has the hide_enemy_health attribute
  
• Updated pl_corruption to fix trigger_teleports not enabling correctly
  
• Updated koth_sawmill_event to fix missing material
  
• Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy to improve performance
  
• Updated several maps to fix localization issues
  

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TFConnect returns this snowy December 16th-17th!

Since 2018, TFConnect has raised over $80,000 for charities including this year’s cause, SpecialEffect. This charity has a profoundly positive impact on quality of life, confidence and rehabilitation of disabled gamers. TFConnect is back with a live, in-person event bringing all kinds of streamers, content creators and cosplayers together. There will be TF2 themed game-shows, Tabletop games, hot-sauce challenges, painting and gaming, and more giveaways than ever in the Smissmas spirit. Participating online are some big personalities, voice actors and content creators!

The event stream on December 16th-17th will start at 12pm CET (11am GMT / 6am ET), and will be live on the KritzKast channel!

You can join in on the giving as donations are open now on the TFConnect website. Be sure to enter the sweepstakes, too!

The event will be streamed live on KritzKast’s Twitch channel, and you can keep up to date with the team by following TFConnect and KritzKast on Twitter / X.

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