December 20, 2013 - TF2 Team

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 2013!

All Players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Gift-Stuffed Stocking! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.

Added community-contributed winter event items

Added the Giftapult, which can be used to launch gift items to randomly-chosen online players

Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. Store

Premium Players will receive a Secret Saxton to give to another player

Item grants from previous events (including the Spirit of Giving and the Winter Holiday noise maker) have been re-enabled for all players, including those who deleted their earlier grants

Battalion's Backup Added +20 max HP passive for the wearer

Concheror Added +2 health per second passive for the wearer

Crit-a-Cola Reduced consumption penalty from +25% extra damage to +10%

Diamondback Now also gains a critical attack on successful backstab kills

Flying Guillotine Alt-Attack now also throws the Guillotine when active

Short Circuit Attack sped up greatly Ammunition cost has been lowered to 5 metal per attack Players and Buildings are only targeted if in range and in front of attacking player Improved visual effects

Soda Popper Hype no longer grants mini-crits Added Hypemode which grants up to 5 extra air jumps when active Hypemode is triggered by Alt-Attack when hype is full

The Beggar's Bazooka has been updated to use the same taunt as The Direct Hit

Professional Killstreak Mantreads, Splendid Screen and The Chargin' Targe now generate proper effects when on a killstreak. These effects do not stack if another killstreak effect weapon is active.

"Head" and "Misc" slots for player loadouts have been converted to Cosmetic slots. All items that were previously Head- or Misc-slot-specific can now be equipped in any Cosmetic slot.

Unusual effect positioning can now be adjusted for all Cosmetic-slot items

Unusual Circling Effects have been given a new origin

Unusual effects for all Cosmetic-slot items are now visible in the loadout panel and character HUD

Fixed the Wiki Cap clipping with the Demoman's head

Fixed being able to inspect Blue-team bots

Fixed the mission victory screen not always showing the correct information for each player

Fixed some clipping issues with the stats in the scoreboard