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:

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• Fixed some outdated in-game tips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