- Role selection has been disabled for very high-rank games, to improve match quality and matchmaking time.

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:

• Updated Pebbles the Penguin to fix a problem with the Heavy's version of the model
  
• Updated Discovision to fix a paint problem
  

* Added the Strict Solo Matchmaking option back for fast queue games
* For players with large spreads between their core and support MMRs, there is now a one medal (5 stars) max delta clamp. When the ranks for these players are maximally apart, the two ranks will fall and rise together.
* Increased the variety of party combinations that are valid, to help improve matchmaking quality and queue times in some cases, in part as a result of the strict solo queue addition (for example this means that makeups like 2-2-1 will valid)

An update has been released for Portal 2.

- Fixed a potential RCE exploit when processing voice data. Reported via HackerOne.
- Fixed some controller input bugs in authoring tools.
- Updated localization strings.

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 2019!

• All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
  • Event runs through January 7th, 2020
• Added the Winter 2019 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 18 new community-contributed items
    
  • The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case
• Added the Winter 2019 War Paint Case
  • Contains 10 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Winter 2019 Collection
    
  • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
• Added 17 new community-created Unusual effects
  • 11 new effects for Unusual hats
    
  • 6 new effects for Unusual taunts
• Mann Co. Store winter sale!
  

General

• Updated several maps to fix localization issues
  
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
  
• Updated the localization files
  

* Bounty Runes are now locked to 5 minute intervals in terms of their gold values (so getting a 6 minute bounty isn't higher than a 5 minute one).

Void Spirit
* Aether Remnant damage reduced from 90/150/210/270 to 80/130/180/230
* Dissimilate damage reduced from 120/200/280/360 to 100/180/260/340
* Resonant Pulse base shield absorption reduced from 50/100/150/200 to 40/80/120/160
* Resonant Pulse damage reduced from 70/130/190/250 to 70/120/170/220

Snapfire
* Firesnap Cookie now works on rooted targets

Snapfire
- Lil' Shredder mana cost increased from 75 to 90
- Lil' Shredder damage reduced from 45/60/75/90 to 40/55/70/85
- Lil' Shredder attack speed slow per stack reduced from 20/25/30/35 to 15/20/25/30
- Firesnap Cookie cooldown reduced from 24/22/20/18 to 24/21/18/15
- Firesnap Cookie projectile speed increased from 800 to 1000
- Firesnap Cookie cast point reduced when used on self from 0.4 to 0.3

- fixed Rubick Arcana cape not changing color when stealing spells from Void Spirit or Snapfire

Void Spirit
* Dissimilate damage reduced from 140/220/300/380 to 120/200/280/360
* Resonant Pulse cooldown increased from 14 to 16
* Resonant Pulse mana cost increased from 90/100/110/120 to 100/110/120/130
* Level 15 Talent reduced from +150 Resonant Pulse Damage to +100 Resonant Pulse Damage

Snapfire
* Fixed Lil' Shredder charges not being consumed when Snapfire's passives were disabled

* Fixed various cases where Cooldown Reduction was not stacking multiplicatively
* Fixed a case where Outposts could give XP to a team twice