Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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 2025!

• All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.

• Featuring 6 new community maps: Nutcracker, Sidewinder, Abbey, Winter Ridge, Matterhorn, and Gavle (pronounced yeah-vleh)

• Added the Winter 2025 Cosmetic Case

  • Contains 23 new community-contributed items

  • The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case

• Added 3 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store

  • Taunt: The Critical Fail

  • Taunt: Dead Mann's Drink

  • Taunt: Chairholder

• Added 20 new community-created Unusual effects

  • 11 new effects for Unusual hats

  • 9 new effects for Unusual taunts

• Added lots of weapons to the list that can be Festivized (community-created changes!)

• Added community-created Smissmas material for the beach ball

• All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Smissmas 2025 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 7th, 2026

General

• Added 'No Bullets' style for The Gift Bringer

• Fixed The Accursed Apparition hiding the Scout's headphones

• Updated the Sizzling Aroma and Toxic Aroma Unusual effects to fix problems with DirectX80

• Updated the Backbiter's Billycock backpack icon to reflect RED team version

• Updated the El Gigante's Gunbelt to fix a problem with the LODs

• Updated the Seamann's Stubble to fix an issue with the materials

• Updated/Added some tournament medals

• Updated cp_cowerhouse

  • Updated some custom props with further optimizations

  • Added playerclip "ladder" to both trucks' rear bed to make climbing more consistent/predictable

• Updated ctf_doublecross_event

  • Fixed out of bounds bug (Thanks Dr.TwentyTwo!)

  • Fixed a few minor visual glitches

• Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy

  • Added a screenshake effect to the laser gun finale

  • Adjusted holiday events to reduce edict count

• Fixed model panels not encoding pose parameter values (community fix from copperpixel)

• Fixed Halloween spell projectiles not adjusting to flipped view models (community fix from copperpixel)

• Network player's handedness preference to spectators (community fix from copperpixel)

• Fixed Ullapool Caber explosions not counting as melee kills and ignoring damage/radius attributes (community fix from Bitl)

• Fixed disposable sentries playing denial sound for useful wrench hits (community fix from AJMickey)

• Fixed Armageddon Pyro taunt not properly cleaning up all particle systems (community fix from Churkinator)

• Fixed logo spinner from breaking after prolonged rotation (community fix from Horiuchi)

• Fixed Minigun not spinning, or spinning very slowly, outside of first-person (community fix from wget)

• Fixed broken view model after switching from the Medi Gun while healing someone (community fix from Vlad)

• Allow server admins to change powerup mode convars without forcing cheats to be enabled (community fix from Pieter Bijl)

• Replaced bitwise or operator in CHealthAmmoKit (community fix from CosminPerRam)

• Fixed MoveableSubPanel showing in Sentry targetID panel while dead (community fix from Horiuchi)

• Fixed tracer rounds from rifles not being affected by cl_flipviewmodels (community fix from birchish)

• Fixed Pyrovision nullifying other voice pitch attributes (community fix from LizardOfOz)

• Fixed being able to throw the Gas Passer through walls (community fix from Bakugo)

• Fixed IncrementAmmo removing ammo if m_iClip1 was already at Max capacity (community fix from kingofings)

• Added TF-specific search path tags to TF mod gameinfo (community fix from Thomas Kain)

• Fixed view punch not being interpolated (community fix from ficool2)

• Fixed disguise_on_backstab not functioning