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:

Mannpower update

1. Dominant players are now marked for death only when carrying a powerup
   
2. Shield charge meter passive refill rate reduced. Reduction is greater when carrying a powerup
   
3. Items or actions that add to the shield charge meter now add less when carrying a powerup
   
4. Carried buildings now deploy faster than default, but not instant
   
5. Decapitating swords no longer get the base melee damage boost other melee weapons get in Mannpower
   
6. Strength powerup no longer multiplies critical damage
   
7. Medic
   
   1. Powered up medics with unpowered up targets get a less reduced heal rate (50% -> 75% of default rate)
      
   2. Reduced ubercharge gain on Ubersaw hit in Mannpower. 40% of regular rate if not powered up, 20% of regular rate if powered up

Complete a new round of Merasmissions! Play four new community created Halloween maps along with your favorites! Check out the new community cosmetic items and Unusual effects!

People always talk about what a great musician Mozart was. But you know who never updated any of his albums with free music? Go ahead, guess.


Did you guess Team Fortress 2? Bzzt. Wrong. Because we're adding three new numbers from our Jungle Inferno update to the TF2 Fight Songs album. If you bought Fight Songs on Steam, you don't have to do anything, because the songs have automatically been added to your account.


If you bought Fight Songs somewhere else, or even if you didn’t buy Fight Songs, or even if you stole Fight Songs, or did any of those things and then later sold Fight Songs, or bought a recording studio out of spite and recorded a competing version of Fight Songs… look, you’re not on trial here. Download all three songs for free and we’ll forget the whole thing ever happened.


Anyway, did you guess yet? Did you guess Mozart? Because that’s what we guessed, too. Except we looked him up while you were reading and it turns out he’s famous for updating all his hit albums. But you know what he hasn’t done yet? Make his sheet music and Sibelius files available for free, like we’re doing literally right now: Sheet music. Sibelius files. Checkmate, Mozart. See you in hell.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/629330/Fight_Songs_The_Music_Of_Team_Fortress_2/

• Featuring 2 new community maps: Laughter and Precipice
• Added the Spooky Spoils Case
  • Contains 22 new community-created cosmetic items that make-up the Spooky Spoils Collection
  • Has a chance to give one of 5 new community-created Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item
  • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
• Added 20 new community-created Unusual effects
  • 12 new effects for Unusual hats
  • 8 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
• Completing a Halloween Contract will give players a classic Halloween item and the chance for a Spooky Spoils 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 cases will grant Halloween 2019 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event
• Join Halloween matches by using the Special Events category in Casual
• Scream Fortress XI runs through November 7th, 2019

Play the all-new Jungle Inferno Campaign!

• 1 new official map: Mercenary Park
  
• 5 featured community maps: Mossrock, Lazarus, Brazil, Enclosure, and Banana Bay
  
• 2 new official taunts: Yeti Punch and Yeti Smash
  
• 5 new community taunts: The Dueling Banjo, The Jumping Jack, The Soviet Strongarm, The Russian Arms Race, and The Headcase
  
• 2 community cosmetic cases with 20 items each
  
• 2 new War Paint collections made up of community-made War Paints and official War Paints
  
• 2 new War Paint collections filled with classic weapon skins being brought back for another tour
  
• 4 new Pyro items: The Dragon's Fury, The Thermal Thruster (with a new kill taunt: The Gas Blast), The Gas Passer, and the Hot Hand
  
• 1 new Heavy item: The Second Banana
  
• Free contracts to earn the new Pyro and Heavy items
  
• 36 campaign contracts

Play the all-new Jungle Inferno Campaign!

• 1 new official map: Mercenary Park
  
• 5 featured community maps: Mossrock, Lazarus, Brazil, Enclosure, and Banana Bay
  
• 2 new official taunts: Yeti Punch and Yeti Smash
  
• 5 new community taunts: The Dueling Banjo, The Jumping Jack, The Soviet Strongarm, The Russian Arms Race, and The Headcase
  
• 2 community cosmetic cases with 20 items each
  
• 2 new War Paint collections made up of community-made War Paints and official War Paints
  
• 2 new War Paint collections filled with classic weapon skins being brought back for another tour
  
• 4 new Pyro items: The Dragon's Fury, The Thermal Thruster (with a new kill taunt: The Gas Blast), The Gas Passer, and the Hot Hand
  
• 1 new Heavy item: The Second Banana
  
• Free contracts to earn the new Pyro and Heavy items
  
• 36 campaign contracts

It's live!

It's live!

http://www.teamfortress.com/gunmettle

Introducing the Gun Mettle Campaign, new to TF2 and releasing tomorrow, which succeeds in every area where the army fails: Rare guns! Mystery boxes! Skill-based prizes! Buying a $5.99 Campaign Pass lets you test your TF mettle against a series of weekly challenges, and gives you the chance to earn <b>one-of-a-kind weapons</b> to keep or trade with your friends. A portion of the sales from Campaign Passes will go towards our hardworking TF2 community mapmakers. Find out more about the new campaign here, and don't forget to read the comic!

Now, say you're the sort of person who's thinking, "You know what's more exciting to me than the Gun Mettle Campaign? Having six dollars." Don't worry, frugal guy, we've got you covered too! A new Valve map! Three new community maps! Taunts! A new way to equip new weapons in-game for free! Loads of class and weapon changes! Check out the details here. You guys, this is a big update. And it lands tomorrow, so check back.

http://www.teamfortress.com/gunmettle

Introducing the Gun Mettle Campaign, new to TF2 and releasing tomorrow, which succeeds in every area where the army fails: Rare guns! Mystery boxes! Skill-based prizes! Buying a $5.99 Campaign Pass lets you test your TF mettle against a series of weekly challenges, and gives you the chance to earn <b>one-of-a-kind weapons</b> to keep or trade with your friends. A portion of the sales from Campaign Passes will go towards our hardworking TF2 community mapmakers. Find out more about the new campaign here, and don't forget to read the comic!

Now, say you're the sort of person who's thinking, "You know what's more exciting to me than the Gun Mettle Campaign? Having six dollars." Don't worry, frugal guy, we've got you covered too! A new Valve map! Three new community maps! Taunts! A new way to equip new weapons in-game for free! Loads of class and weapon changes! Check out the details here. You guys, this is a big update. And it lands tomorrow, so check back.