Smissmas brings Stocking Stuffers for everyone! It also features new community maps, cosmetics, War Paints, taunts, and Unusual effects!

• 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.

TFConnect is back this year and better than ever! They're hosting a 6v6 tournament and an influencer MvM session with some of your favorite creators from across the Team Fortress 2 community in support of SpecialEffect! They'll have interviews with the teams, special guests and more!

Watch the action live on KritzKast's Twitch channel from December 11th - 13th! Take part in the festivities this year and help SpecialEffect put fun and inclusion back into the lives of those with physical impairment!

[Click here] to check out the donation page!

Merry (almost) Smissmas! As a celebration of everything cold and snowy, the Holiday Puncherinos are hosting a Holiday Punch tournament! The Holiday Punch tournament will consist of 8 teams of 7 dueling it out as Heavy on ctf_snowfort. But there's a catch! The only weapon allowed is the Holiday Punch!

Sign ups start on November 25th and end on December 10th! All players of varying skill may join! The tournament will be December 24th - 26th and will be hosted live. Good luck and have fun!

For more information, talk to Josh on their official Discord server.

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!

An update for TFC is now available:

• Fixed viewdemo command crashing for certain demo files
  
• Security fix to client disconnect handling
  
• Security fixes to console command handling
  
• Security fix to client/server communications
  
• Security fix to model loading
  
• Security fixes to BSP and WAD loading

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

An update for TFC is now available:

• Fixed server crash when a medic heals a spy that was infected by an enemy medic while feigning death
  
• Fixed holstered weapon incorrectly showing when using a func_tank
  
• Fixed class/map configs sometimes failing to auto-load
  
• Added support for civilian class config (named civilian.cfg)

• Fixed setting monitor refresh rates through -freq when used with -nofbo
  
• Fixed unnecessary texture rescaling with NPOT textures
  
• Fixed slist command, will now show servers on the local network
  
• Fixed progress bar for individual files in resource download always showing at 100%
  
• Added auto-saving of several cvars (HL #2237)
  
• Fixed missing localizations in spectator UI
  
• Reordered columns in server browser to prevent game descriptions from being used to fake server player count
  
• Fixed sv_cheats being settable by players in a multiplayer game (sv_cheats is now controlled by the server)
  
• Security fixes to console commands
  
• Security fixes to resource loading

This list covers the releases between March 20 and April 15 that are each part of a series of security updates.

Larger changes:

• Added privilege checking to command execution. Commands originating outside of the client are now only able to execute commands that are considered to be safe. Commands such as 'connect', 'bind', 'quit' and certain cvars such as 'cl_filterstuffcmd' are now only executable by trusted sources.
  
• Setting 'cl_filterstuffcmd' to a value greater than zero (e.g. 'cl_filterstuffcmd 1') will set a number of commands that are potentially abusable, such as 'say', 'fps_max', and 'setinfo', to also be only executable by privileged sources.

Fixes:

• Fixed intermittent double weapon firing
  
• Fixed client incorrectly blocking download of custom sprays

Security fixes:

• All custom resources downloaded from a server now have their file name's checked for safety before being allowed to download
  
• Invalid file extensions are now prevented in several commands
  
• Dynamic libraries are no longer searched for in custom resource directories
  
• Added additional file extensions to custom resource blocked extensions list
  
• Fixed buffer overflow in message delta parsing
  
• Fixed RCE in weapon message handling
  
• Fixed RCE in model loading
  
• Fixed buffer overflows in TGA and BMP loading
  
• Fixed buffer overflow in demo playback
  
• Fixed buffer overflows in model name loading
  
• Fixed buffer overflow in detail texture loading
  
• Fixed buffer overflow in console map listing
  
• Fixed command chaining in cvar's that specified config files to be passed to the 'exec' command