October 21, 2016 - 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:

Scream Fortress VIII has arrived!

Featuring 3 new community maps: Brimstone, Pit of Death, and Maple Ridge Event

Added the Creepy Crawly Case Contains 21 new community-created items that make-up the Creepy Crawly Collection Has a chance to give one of 3 community-created Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item

Added a taunt Unusualifier A new tool that will Unusualify the specified taunt with the Unusual effect listed in the tool's description Can be found as a random bonus item when opening a Creepy Crawly Case

Added two new taunts to the Mann Co. Store Taunt: The Victory Lap Taunt: Second Rate Sorcery (community-created)

Added 8 new community-created Unusual effects 4 new effects for Unusual hats 4 new effects for Unusual taunts

Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for your Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting the Soul Gargoyles that spawn in the maps

Join Halloween matches by selecting the "Halloween" category in Casual

Scream Fortress VIII runs through November 9th, 2016

All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they don't already have one from last year's event Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected

Added 3 new Merasmissions for the featured maps Completing a Merasmission will give players a classic Halloween item and the chance for a Creepy Crawly Case

The chance to receive an Unusual item from a case opening has been increased during the event

All cases and Mann Co. Supply Crates will grant Halloween 2016 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects

The Competitive maps list has been updated Added pl_badwater and ctf_turbine Disabled cp_granary and cp_badlands Maps will continue to enter and exit this list over time

Added "Load Saved Settings" and "Save Current Settings" buttons to the Casual mode Map Selection menu Search criteria is now manually saved to give players more control over the default settings when the game is launched

XP earned in Casual matches has been adjusted to reward players more for their personal contribution to the match XP per point has returned to 6.5 XP per point XP earned for match completion and objective completion now scales based on your score relative to total amount of points scored by everyone in the match

Increased the matchmaker's priority of matches with imbalanced teams This should reduce the occurrence of extended imbalanced matches when multiple players leave

