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 XIV has arrived!

• Featuring 6 new community maps: Soul-Mill, Helltrain, Bonesaw, Crasher, Ghoulpit, and Spookeyridge
  
• Added the Ghoulish Gains Case
  • Contains 22 new community-created cosmetic items that make up the Ghoulish Gains 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 5 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
  • Taunt: The Scaredy-cat!
    
  • Taunt: Texas Twirl 'Em
    
  • Taunt: The Travel Agent
    
  • Taunt: Drunk Mann's Cannon
    
  • Taunt: Shanty Shipmate
• Added 25 new community-created Unusual effects
  • 12 new effects for Unusual hats
    
  • 13 new effects for Unusual taunts
• Added the Scream Fortress XIV War Paint Case
  • Contains 11 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Scream Fortress XIV War Paint Collection
    
  • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
• 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 Ghoulish Gains Case or Scream Fortress XIV War Paint 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 2022 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 XIV runs through November 7th, 2022

General

• Updated several maps to fix localization issues
  
• Updated cp_snakewater_final1
  • Fixed walkable ledge near mid
    
  • Fixed match summary screen for competitive mode
    
  • Created some space between spawn points and door trigger in first forward spawn
    
  • Minor visual fixes

(Image credit: Requim - Typesetting/Compositing/Logo, kevin supermarket - SFM, minesettimi - Map, agrastiOs - Feedback, SubtleCaber - Additional map detailing)

Fortress Faceoffs presents to you a tale as old as time: A crew of mercs fighting for their lives to escape the grasp of Hell!

Happens to the best of us, of course. In a voyage to uncover a cache of hidden treasure within the murky and treacherous waters of Michiganne, a ship of five drunken savages (that's you!) was caught in the eye of a treacherous storm and cast out to sea. This invoked the presence of a being only spoken of in shanties... Having been fed up with the sudden delivery of dead meat on his doorstep, THE DEVIL!!! himself forced these brutes back onto their boats and had them float across the River Styx so that he could be left in peace. After regaining consciousness and adjusting their one good eye, these men realized they weren't alone on their quest! An amassment of ships was on the same track, all with the goal of claiming bounty! Armed with cannons and ready to charge, these scurvy dogs must defeat all the other swashbucklin' sailors and make it to the treasure alone! With the sound of explosions and slurred screams from every direction, THE DEVIL!!! may never get his rest...

Sign up your shipmates today for Fortress Faceoffs' 6th event and become known as the best crew in history! The departure begins Oct. 14th @ 13:00 CEST (for Europe) / Oct. 21st @ 1:00pm EDT (for the Americas) and will last around 3 days each. For more information about event rules, prizes, and more, join the Fortress Faceoffs Discord and double-donk your way out of the deep sea! The top 8 crews will be broadcasted live, so perform your best or get washed up!

Important Links:

• Discord
  
• Twitter
  
• Twitch
  
• YouTube
  
• Steam Group
  
• Challonge Event Page (Tournament Brackets)

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:

• Reverted the +quickswitch bug fix while we evaluate

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:

• Fixed being unable to equip certain valid cosmetic combinations

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:

• Fixed some stability issues
  
• Fixed being able to equip conflicting cosmetic items using +quickswitch
  
• Fixed precached particles not being deleted across map changes
  
• Fixed some hats with drop_type "drop" not being dropped in the world
  
• Fixed headshot animations sometimes playing at map origin
  
• Fixed missing polygon on Pyro's finger
  
• Fixed clipped text in the Mann vs. Machine loot list screen
  
• Fixed missing BLU skin for The Sydney Sleeper
  
• Fixed some attribute descriptions being cut off in the Item Pickup dialog
  
• Fixed duplicate reload sound entries in the tf_weapon_flaregun_revenge weapon script
  
• Fixed players not igniting after being shot when the map has applied the TF_COND_GAS condition
  
• Fixed not preserving the player's current angles when the map has applied the TF_COND_HALLOWEEN_KART condition
  
• Fixed missing variables in the Canteen Crasher tournament medals. This does not affect previous versions of those medals.
  
• Updated func_nobuild entity with a new setting to support destroying buildings within its perimeter when activated
  
• Updated player entity with SetCustomModelWithClassAnimations input to set a custom player model that uses the class animations
  
• Updated the tf_logic_cp_timer entity so it can also be used for team RED
  
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
  
• Updated the localization files
  
• Updated the Hazard Headgear
  • Fixed using the wrong lightwarp
    
  • Updated the backpack image to match the item
• Updated the Fizzy Pharmacist
  • Moved the soda bottle to the other side of the Medic to fix clipping problems
    
  • Fixed the second style not hiding the bottle
• Updated pl_upward
  • Fixed exploit that allowed buildings to be built in an area that is later shut off from both teams
• Updated cp_snakewater_final1
  • Minor visual, clipping/blockbullet, and detailing fixes
    
  • Fixed alignment issues
    
  • Fixed some mirroring issues
    
  • Updated mid slightly to make it more mirrored
    
  • Increased wall heights on mid to allow more jumps
    
  • Updated last spawn room to reduce the randomness of spawnpoints
    
  • Slightly increased cap time on last to account for longer travel time to the point
    
  • Speculative changes to fix some "wallbug" issues
    
  • Added Competitive mode stage

NVIDIA has announced the new Portal with RTX DLC, free to all current and future owners of Portal. Portal with RTX will release in November 2022 and will be compatible with any GPU capable of ray tracing.

The new free DLC, developed by NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios, reimagines Portal’s graphics with full ray tracing, new hi-res textures, and new enhanced models. These enhancements improve immersion, graphical realism, and the overall gameplay experience. With the DLC installed, you'll be able to choose when you launch the game whether to play the original Portal or Portal with RTX.

If you aren’t familiar with ray tracing, it’s a method of graphics rendering that simulates the behavior of light. When playing a ray-tracing capable game on a compatible GPU, lighting, reflections, and optical effects appear much more realistic. With ray tracing, light can even pass through portals.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the technology behind Portal with RTX, you can check out NVIDIA’s announcement.

You can wishlist the Portal with RTX DLC now on Steam to make sure you’re notified when it’s released.

After a month and a half of counting, sorting, and organizing, the folks at TF2Maps are ready to show off the best of this year's 72hr TF2Jam! This is their biggest showcase yet at 140 entries!

This year's event received 908 entries, shattering last year's total of 345 and the previous all-time record of 742 set in 2017! The previous donation record (around $10,000 in donations from 1122 different donors) was also shattered by raising a total of $17,916.40 from 1616 different donors! The money was donated to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international, independent organization that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, and more. Way to go, TF2 Community!

For more information, check out the showcase thread on TF2Maps! You can also join the TF2Maps Discord and follow TF2Maps on Twitter!

Gertrude's Gallery of Garments is a brand new TF2 community costume contest! Submit your best creations to the TF2 Steam Workshop! There will be prizes for the best entries!

Details can be found here! Don't delay! The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 30th, at 11:59 PM EDT!

Important Links:

• Event Website
  
• Workshop Collection
  
• Steam Group

An update has been released for Portal.

- Fixed UI scaling issues when docking the Steam Deck
- Fixed broken control states when external controllers are connected

Team Fortress 2 is returning to Insomnia, with teams from around the world competing for their chance of a £5,000 prize pool and a chance at glory! The event takes place from Friday, August 26th, to Sunday, August 28th. EssentialsTF will be bringing all three days of action live from the Insomnia Gaming Festival hosted at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, UK.

Signups for the tournament are here. The event will be streamed both at the event and online by EssentialsTF over at their Twitch page, so you can watch the event in-person or in the comfort of your own home. For the latest information, be sure to check out https://lan.tf/ and the EssentialsTF Twitter.