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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:

Added 'No Bullets' style for the Heavy Tourism, the Combat Casual, the Sleeveless in Siberia, and the Siberian Tigerstripe
Fixed point_camera transmit state in multiplayer (GitHub fix from ficool2)
Fixed CVoiceStatus::UpdateServerState not sending the correct vban state from the client (GitHub fix from FlaminSarge)
Updated the Team Cap to fix some clipping problems
Updated/Added some tournament medals
Updated cp_fortezza
- Managed problematic sniper sightline on point A
Updated koth_boardwalk
- Fixed a missing window in Mad Manor
- Restored missing signage along the shoreline boardwalk
- Fixed the funhouse mirrors breaking under extreme circumstances

Aug 1

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:

Added 'No Bullets' styles for the Brute's Braces and the Hunter Heavy to support the new 'bullets' bodygroup
Updated cp_fulgur
- Added an extra dropdown path between B and C
- Fixed particle manifest naming
Updated cp_fortezza
- Managed sniper sightlines on last
- Added new cover object to first point
- Improved clipping in areas
Updated koth_demolition
- Fixed a prop on the RED helipad building being inside a wall
- Fixed two props missing particle effect on the helipad buildings
- Fixed a small bug with the shortcuts where sometimes they stayed closed after players exited them even when other players were on the trigger
- Fixed nav mesh (thanks Katsu for editing it)
- Added missing spectator cameras around the map
- Added the "evil deer" on the boat hanging above the sea, do not touch it
- Raised the water kill trigger slightly
- Changed the type of the water kill trigger from drown to fall so it displays the message " fell to a clumsy and painful death"
- Reduced the damage of the water kill trigger from 9999 to 2000 to avoid issues with physic objects

Notes missed from the previous update:

Fixed the Taunt: Bear Hug not always playing the correct animations

Jul 30

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:

Added missing Engineer audio for the Taunt: The Final Score
Fixed an issue with props and team colors when taunting with Australium weapons
Updated the Le Morne Uniforme to fix some clipping problems
Updated the Kapitan's Kaftan to hide the Heavy's bullets
Updated the Fully Charged and Overcharged Unusual effects to fix a refraction bug
Updated the Esprit De Corps to improve the rigging
Updated the Blindin' Bonnett and Shady Shelby to adjust their team colors
Updated/Added some tournament medals
Updated the Fat Friar
- Improved rig
- Adjusted mesh to compensate for lack of bullets bodygroup
- Removed misplaced ambient occlusion and light generators from the texture
- Removed normal map artifacts
- Updated backpack icon to represent above changes
Updated pl_citadel
- Adjusted payload collision
- Reduced radius of payload spawn exit explosion
- Updated various decorative particles to not render on low graphics settings
Updated pl_odyssey
- Added 60 seconds to the round timer when the final control point is activated
- Fixed some projectiles colliding with the bounding box of func_brush entities
- Visual fixes and adjustments
Updated koth_blowout
- Added Experimental Cage around the maps central Blowout Preventer
  - This change aims to make the cover around the point feel more consistent and prevents players from shooting through small gaps or from behind unfair cover
- Improved Optimization
- Fixed kill trigger delay in finale sequence
- Fixed some Unintended Sightlines
- Improved Detailing and Visual Clarity in some areas
Updated koth_boardwalk
- Fixed being able to smuggle enemy Spies into spawn
- Reduced ambient soundscape music
- Added new voice lines for the Barker
- Fixed a visible hall-of-mirrors error in the water by the Sawmill of Love
- Fixed visible nodraw under the shoreline boardwalk
Updated cp_cargo
- Added bullet block to prevent Red from being able to shoot into blue spawn
- Added bullet block to the last point wires
- Fixed the setupgoal text
- Extended the fence next to red spawn slightly
Updated cp_fortezza
- Added more cover to Last
- Added defensive hold for Engineer's holding valley between A and B
- Rebalanced pickups in some areas
- Lighting improvements
- Reduced file size of the map
Updated koth_demolition
- Replaced pillars under the crane using the red texture with ones using the yellow texture
- Fixed the HDR to allow so lights aren't super bright
- Replaced the helicopters with ones not using the Yeti Park logo
- Replaced the Coaltown frames with new ones using newspapers talking about story of the oilrig
- Added a decal showing the oilrig name (Fort Water Rig No. 2) next to the spawns
- Updated the luxel scale in multiple places of the map
- Replaced old blockbullets with new blockbullets for better footsteps sfx
- Replaced the health and ammo pack stands with new ones, metal for outdoors and wooden for indoors
- Added a mini ammo on the furnace rooms
- Added new clipping on top of the furnace rooms to avoid demos and soldiers spamming the point from far away
- Improved the clipping on the spawn platforms to not allow stickies to stick mid air
- Added a wooden sign pointing to the shortcut and long path
- Added new signs that toggle depending on the state of the shortcut to help players navigate the map
- Reworked the art pass inside the helipad platform
- Added a new catwalk behind the furnace buildings to give players more routes on the map
- Adjusted the stairs inside the office building
- Clipped the open window inside the office building so demos can lob pipes through it
- Moved a prop on BLU spawn to prevent it from clipping inside a floor light
- Changed the lights on the shortcuts to be more vibrant and have better illumination and fading

Jul 26

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:

Reverted the change to the Taunt: Texan Trickshot
Updated koth_boardwalk
- Fixed players being able to spam the Barker's voice lines when approaching the shooting galleries
- Fixed a set of missing handrails
- Improved ambient lighting
- Fixed missing shoreline visible from the far end of the pier

Jul 25

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 Wrangler shield not moving with parented Sentry Gun (GitHub fix from ficool2)
Fixed missing sounds for Taunt: The Final Score
Fixed sound effect being clipped for the Taunt: Bear Hug
Reduced the taunt attack range for the Taunt: Texan Trickshot
Updated the Esprit De Corps to fix a clipping issue on the shoulder
Updated the Short Fuse to fix an issue with the normal map
Updated the in-game item importer to support the new 'bullets' bodygroup
Updated the Fully Charged and Overcharged Unusual effects to fix problems with DirectX80
Updated the Iconic Outline and Subtle Silhouette Unusual effects
- Added path to fallback material for refract texture to prevent rendering issues for dx80 users
- Lowered depth bias value of refraction to mitigate rendering issues on taunts that do not move their default control point with the model
Updated pl_aquarius
- Fixed skybox
- Updated soundscapes
Updated cp_conifer
- Fixed missing poster texture
- Fixed outdated loading screen pictures
Updated cp_fulgur
- Fixed clipping in the exterior area
- Replaced one of the outdated spytech assets with newer version
Updated pl_citadel
- VScript stability improvements

Jul 24

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 2025!

Featuring 10 new community maps: Citadel, Aquarius, Fulgur, Cargo, Conifer, Boardwalk, Blowout, Mannhole, Demolition, and Pressure
Added the Summer 2025 Cosmetic Case
- Contains 23 new community-contributed items
Added 4 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
- Taunt: The Final Score
- Taunt: Bear Hug
- Taunt: Texan Trickshot
- Taunt: Flying Colors
Added 14 new community-created Unusual effects
- 7 new effects for Unusual hats
- 7 new effects for Unusual taunts
All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Summer 2025 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the Summer event. This does not include crates.
The Summer event runs through September 15th, 2025

General

Fixed the Frontline Field Recorder not using its normal map
Fixed The Texas Half-Pants not fully using rimlight
Fixed the Das Hazmattenhatten's materials not using its normal map
Fixed The Bazaar Bargain's scope being painted when using the Saccharine Striped, Team Detail, Gobi Glazed, and Team Charged war paints
Fixed some outdated in-game tips
Reduced default value for ConVar 'tf_mm_next_map_vote_time' from 30s to 15s
Updated materials for The Candy Cane to fix consistency issues
Updated lightwarptexture setting for the blood version of the Half-Zatoichi
Updated the Strasbourg Scholar to improve clipping
Updated the Heavy's model to add a 'bullets' bodygroup for cosmetics
Updated/Added some tournament medals
Updated cp_fortezza
- Reworked routes between Point A and Last
- Improved lighting and visuals across the map
- Clipping fixes
Updated vsh_distillery, vsh_maul, vsh_nucleus, vsh_outburst, vsh_skirmish, and vsh_tinyrock
- Big thanks to Whurr, Starfall and Bradasparky for reporting bugs and suggesting changes.
- Balance changes
  - Consecutive Wall Climbs no longer cut your preexisting speed
  - Mini-Sentries now deal 80% damage (up from 50%)
  - Crit-boosted Miniguns now deal 70% damage (up from 60%)
  - Reduced the Mighty Slam's damage at point-blank range
  - Rebalanced Hale's damage against buildings
    - Level 1 buildings are destroyed with a single punch
    - Level 2 and 3 buildings now require two punches
    - The Wrangler Shield adds an additional punch to the required count
    - Ability-based damage to buildings is unchanged
- Bugfixes
  - Fixed a crash caused by the string pool overflowing over time
  - Fixed Hale's attacks applying knockback in the wrong direction
  - Fixed dead players being flagged as AFK and kicked for idling during long rounds
  - Fixed the round timer resetting to 60 seconds if it was lower when the number of alive Mercs dropped to 5
  - Fixed Hale being able to punch immediately as the Sweeping Charge ends.
  - Fixed Hale's punch knockback being too strong against Demoman, Heavy, and Medic
  - Fixed healing effects from the Warrior's Spirit and the Powerjack erasing overheal
  - Fixed the Quick-Fix occasionally failing to mirror the patient's Wall Climbing
  - Fixed a rare bug at the start of a round where Hale couldn't move
  - Fixed being able to Wall Climb off of projectiles

May 13

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 some players not being able to start Friends Only servers

May 13

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:

Re-enabled all players to be able to use voice commands and party chat
Added more detailed options for server visibility and privacy when creating a server
- The "Use Steam Networking" checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown, allowing the creation of Local, Friends Only, Unlisted and Listed servers -- defaulting to Unlisted
- Using map command by default will no longer create a join-able game
Fixed a crash on exit under Linux

May 12

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 HUD scope animation exploit (GitHub fix from mastercoms)
Fixed case where the door model for Match Status HUD wasn't initialized before setting the submodel (GitHub fix from rabscootle)
Fixed money not automatically being collected in Mann vs. Machine respawn rooms (GitHub fix from mastercoms)
Fixed stuck Mann vs. Machine bots sometimes causing spawn softlocks (GitHub fix from Mentrillum)
Fixed Mann vs. Machine ammo canteens not affecting energy weapons (GitHub fix from Mentrillum)
Fixed 'Shell Extension' achiemevent not working for energy weapons (GitHub fix from Mentrillum)
Fixed not being able to deploy parachute after landing and becoming airborne without jump button (GitHub fix from FlaminSarge)
Fixed some heap allocated KeyValues leaks (GitHub fix from Dmitry Tsarevich)
Relaxed in-game chat restrictions for certain accounts

May 1

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:

Added missing string for the PNG filter when using the Decal Tool
Added missing newline to the 'Unable to initialize sound capture' console message
Added IsNextBot() method (GitHub fix from Bitl)
Added support for custom mission briefings in vsh and zi game modes (GitHub fix from Gamer_X)
Added convar to control max Mann vs. Machine robots (GitHub fix from ficool2)
Added prediction for Thermal Thruster + self-stun (GitHub fix from wgetJane)
Fixed crash with game_round_win in KOTH (GitHub fix from doclic)
Fixed Mann vs. Machine status HUD not using the mini boss background for enemies in the Support group
Fixed Medieval Mode Auto-RP not matching lowercase input unless it begins with an 'a'
Fixed backpack page buttons putting the 'New' label behind the button
Fixed character info panel not being positioned correctly
Fixed The Front Runner using the wrong team color for the headset on the Stylin' style
Fixed Announcer VO with static at the end of the sound (community fix from Lindon)
Fixed missing lightwarp setting for the Conniver's Kunai and The Half-Zatoichi (community fix from Lindon)
Fixed The Bazaar Bargain's scope being painted when using the Elfin Enamel war paint
Fixed commentary text not displaying
Fixed TFBot VScript methods SetBehaviorFlag, ClearBehaviorFlag, IsBehaviorFlagSet, SetMission, SetPrevMission, GetMission, GetPrevMission, and HasMission using 'unsigned int' by mistake
Fixed overlapping internal font names causing one font to overwrite the other for Linux clients (GitHub fix from RoseyLemonz)
Fixed Casual late-joiners seeing Competitive logo on Match Status HUD doors (GitHub fix from rabscootle)
Fixed Spy bots using human voice lines in Mann vs. Machine (GitHub fix from John Kvalevog)
Fixed crash on VGUI menu bar button cursor entrance (GitHub fix from RGBACatlord)
Fixed Mann vs. Machine bomb carrier voice line playing during normal CTF with bots (GitHub fix from mastercoms)
Fixed organ props spawning from non-Vita-Saw damage (GitHub fix from Thomas Kain)
Fixed uninitialized field use in CParticleEffectBinding (GitHub fix from Thomas Kain)
Fixed type cast warning caused by pointer size mismatch (GitHub fix from SanyaSho)
Fixed typo in Mann vs. Machine score calculation (GitHub fix from HalfMatt)
Fixed missed break in logging character field save data causing incorrect logging (GitHub fix from Dmitry Tsarevich)
Fixed Engineer bots soft locking on CTF maps (GitHub fix from AwfulRanger)
Fixed middle mouse kicking you in PASS Time (GitHub fix from ficool2)
Fixed radial fog not being enabled in 3D sky on official maps (GitHub fix from ficool2)
Fixed PLAYER_FLAG_BITS truncating m_fFlags sent to clients (GitHub fix from copperpixel)
Fixed prediction for jumping when The Huntsman is charged/released (GitHub fix from wgetJane)
Fixed prediction for Force-A-Nature jumps (GitHub fix from wgetJane)
Increased PLAYER_FLAG_BITS to 32
Removed temporary player jingle files if tf_delete_temp_files (GitHub fix from AndrewBetson)
Removed MFC dependency in the launcher exe (GitHub fix from Slartibarty)
Updated the ConTracker 'Back' button to accommodate longer localization strings
Updated plr_hacksaw_event
- Fixed erroneous and asymmetric clipping across the map
- Fixed pumpkin bomb quota being too low

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