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Team Fortress 2 - Valve

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 Taxi Cabbed war paint
- Fixed mip settings on the stickers
- Fixed using the incorrect wear texture
Updated/Added some tournament medals
Updated koth_dryfield
- Fixed the teleporter prison exploit
- Fixed the broken geometry of the RED hut near the point
- Attempt to fix a flying RED roof spotted from afar
- Fixed the watercooler facing the wall
- Improved access to the balcony section to make jumping easier
- Added many missing player clip

Jul 14

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Team Fortress 2 - Valve

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 missing sound for Taunt: Circuit Breaker
Renamed "Northern Nights" Summer 2026 Unusual effect to "Polar Prism"
Updated the Floral Growth Unusual effect to fix orientation/position problems
Updated the Bald Spotter
- Adjusted vertex normals and diffuse on head
- Adjusted normals and specular on head mirror
- Reduced mesh size slightly toward the front and back of the head
- Fixed some facial flexes
- Reduced texture size of lens
Updated the Surgical Shroud
- Fixed vertex normal issue on coat
- Adjusted Phongfresnelranges on mirror to improve envmap effect
- Reduced texture size of mirror
Updated/Added some tournament medals
Updated koth_dusker to globally improve lighting in outdoor areas for better team recognition
Updated cp_premuda
- Fixed conflicting files leading to crashes
- Fixed several spawn room errors
- Adjusted respawn-times to make capping easier
- Adjusted sound timings and volume
- Brightened up dark spaces and tunnels
- Smaller changes all around the map to improve game flow
- Miscellaneous visual and clipping bugs fixed

Jul 13

Steam Social Deduction Fest is here

Steam News - kaci

Steam Social Deduction Fest is packed with discounts on games that ask you to really look at everyone around you and ask "friend, or foe?"

As you'll see demonstrated in our trailer above, it's not always obvious who to trust. But that's the fun of it when you're grabbing deals on games that require your best judgment of character, whether that's in the form of murder mysteries, hide-and-seek, and even just good old-fashioned paranoia in general.

Join us now for Steam Social Deduction Fest, on through July 16th at 10 am Pacific. See you there! (Or will we? Can you trust us?*)

*Yes, yes you can.

Jul 11

Now Available on Steam - Angels Fall First, 10% off!

Angels Fall First - Valve

Angels Fall First is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!*

From commanding the battle standing on the bridge of your flagship all the way down to tactical infantry firefights - AFF brings together all the combat you ever loved in a rich science fiction setting. Boarding, pilotable capital ships, deep weapon customization and full Bot support included!

*Offer ends July 18 at 10AM Pacific Time

Jul 10

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Team Fortress 2 - Valve

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 the Beachcomber's Brim to fix an incorrect material
Updated Taunt: The Circuit Breaker
- Fixed incorrect team color on prop
- Fixed orphaned particles
Updated the Inglorious Patriot
- Adjusted the normal map and refined the colors
- Improved the weighting on the bottom pockets
- Updated the backpack icon
Updated pl_redwood
- Fixed various lighting issues
- Zipline dismount jump speed now ramps up from 1.1x base class speed to 1.8x
- Decreased delay before a player can dismount a zipline by jumping from 0.6s to 0.25s
- Decreased delay before a player can dismount a zipline by crouching from 0.3s to 0.1s
- Fixed players who dismount a zipline in mid-air not receiving mini-crits from the Direct Hit and Reserve Shooter
- Fixed the B.A.S.E. Jumper's parachute deploying while using a zipline
Updated koth_camp_saxton
- Vastly improved optimization. Further investigation is ongoing.
- Tweaked log-and-netting walls along the central shore for clearer definition
- Fixed several instances of minor prop clipping
- Fixed players getting stuck on the wood-carved Saxtons
- Improved clipping throughout

Jul 8

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Team Fortress 2 - Valve

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 the Beachcomber's Brim to add a second style that was originally missed
Updated the Northern Nights, Umbral Lights, and Solar Singed Unusual effects to fix a naming conflict
Updated the Blissful Butterflies and Wispful Wings Unusual effects to fix visibility issues
Updated the Hard Hearing to fix truncated style names
Updated backpack image for the Pyro's Overalls to fix the alpha channel
Updated the Sandwich Diner and Sideshow war paints to fix the alpha channels
Updated the Team Union war paint to remove a few rogue pixels

Jul 7

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Team Fortress 2 - Valve

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:

Summer 2026!

Featuring 6 new community maps: Dryfield, Camp Saxton, Shorelight, Redwood, Premuda, and Mojave
Added the Summer 2026 Cosmetic Case
- Contains 24 new community-contributed items
- Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
Added 4 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
- Taunt: The Circuit Breaker
- Taunt: Buffoon's Bivouac
- Taunt: Faux-calization
- Taunt: Friendly Fire
Added 12 new community-created Unusual effects
- 7 new effects for Unusual hats
- 5 new effects for Unusual taunts
Added the Summer 2026 War Paint Case
- Contains 10 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Summer 2026 Collection
- Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Summer 2026 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the Summer event. This does not include crates.
The Summer event runs through September 15th, 2026

General

Security and stability improvements
Fixed bad alpha channel for The Creature's Grin, Rocket Operator, The Bountiful Bow, The Alternative Medicine Mann, and The Candyman's Cap (community fix from Chickenman456)
Fixed the "Neo Tokyo" warpaint on the BLU team not matching the RED team because the alpha channel was incorrect (community fix from Whurrhurr)
Fixed bad alpha channel for the Pile of End of the Line Key Gifts' backpack icon (community fix from Grampa Swood)
Fixed Stat Clock model attaching incorrectly on dropped weapons (community fix from rabscootle)
Fixed Stat Clock values always displaying '0' on world models (community fix from rabscootle)
Fixed intel carrier glow disappearing when Spy cloaks (community fix from shockpast)
Fixed bad alpha channel for Voodoo Juju's backpack icon (community fix from DiskIntegrity)
Fixed Silver Botkiller Mk.I having cubemapping in the wrong area due to a VMT error (community fix from Whurrhurr)
Fixed misspelling on cp_well's BLU rocket clamp texture (community fix from DiskIntegrity)
Fixed wrong paths in soundscript events for some taunts (community fix from robbilookatme)
Fixed Spy control point response rules lines playing when disguised/invisible (community fix from Churkinator)
Fixed weapon Unusual effects (community fix from Cipherlock and rune)
- Fixed particles being orphaned after death
- Fixed the Energy Orb Unusual effect desyncing from the weapon when the player moves too sharply
Fixed effects flooding the screen when spectating a dead teammate in first person with an unusual weapon (community fix from RGBACatlord)
Fixed missing coin effect for HOUWAR's second style (community fix from DiskIntegrity)
Fixed outdated description for the Splendid Screen (community fix from Grampa Swood)
Trimmed delay at the start of the sound file for the Panic Attack's shooting sound
Fixed the Engineer not being able to move for a few seconds after using Taunt: Cheers!
Updated cp_powerhouse to fix collision problem with crates on final control points
Updated cp_fortezza
- Reworked interior of shack building next to Point A
- Rebalanced ammo packs around Point A
- Improved visuals across the map
- Made rotation for shortcut path shorter
Updated koth_blowout
- Prevent sentry guns from being built inside a prop under the stairs in the maintenance room
- Visual changes to improve clarity and consistency

Jun 25

The Summer Sale has begun!

Steam News - kaci

Greetings to everyone who loves good deals on great games (everyone, we hope?)!

The Steam Summer Sale means the entire Steam Store is filled with deals upon deals upon deals, as our official trailer above will attest. From now through July 9th at 10 a.m. Pacific (it's a long one, friends) you can pick literally any genre of gaming you love and find all sorts of sales.

Cooking battles, universe exploration, fighting with swords/guns/your fists, cozy games, football and basketball games, zombies, and more. Wait, we should list the "more", it's so good: there are even all-time greats that are on deep discounts throughout the sale.

The Steam Summer Sale is yours to explore in the shade of the summer (or in the warmth of the winter for our southern hemisphere friends): Now through July 9th at 10 a.m. Pacific. See you there!

Jun 15

The June edition of Steam Next Fest is on now!

Steam News - kaci

The June edition of Steam Next Fest is live, with developers all over the world sharing their upcoming releases with you before they even launch! Peep our trailer (above) for a taste.

All week you'll find free demos to play across all genres, plus livestreams and developer chats throughout the week. Don't forget to wishlist your favorites to stay in-the-know as those games get ready for their official debut.

Steam Next Fest is on now through June 22nd at 10 a.m. Pacific. See you there!

Jun 8

Steam Bullet Fest is here!

Steam News - jennyj

Steam Bullet Fest is on now through June 15th at 10 am PT. As you can see from our trailer, there are all kinds of shoot-'em-ups offering discounts all week long!

You'll find hack-n-slashes, anime side scrollers, incremental bullet hells, and more. Join us now for Steam Bullet Fest, on through June 15th at 10 am Pacific!

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