Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 16, 2026
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:
Updated/Added some tournament medals
Updated koth_dryfield Fixed the teleporter prison exploit
Fixed the broken geometry of the RED hut near the point
Attempt to fix a flying RED roof spotted from afar
Fixed the watercooler facing the wall
Improved access to the balcony section to make jumping easier
Added many missing player clip
- Updated Taxi Cabbed war paint
- Fixed mip settings on the stickers
- Fixed using the incorrect wear texture
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 16, 2026
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:
- Updated Taxi Cabbed war paint
- Fixed mip settings on the stickers
- Fixed using the incorrect wear texture
- Fixed mip settings on the stickers
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated koth_dryfield
- Fixed the teleporter prison exploit
- Fixed the broken geometry of the RED hut near the point
- Attempt to fix a flying RED roof spotted from afar
- Fixed the watercooler facing the wall
- Improved access to the balcony section to make jumping easier
- Added many missing player clip
- Fixed the teleporter prison exploit
LAN Downunder 2026
July 15, 2026

Ten years ago, CappingTV started casting Team Fortress 2 matches to whoever would watch. This July, the last decade comes full circle at Fortress Arena in Melbourne, where LAN Downunder 2026 will crown Australia's next TF2 champion on July 18-19th!
Eight teams will make the trip, and the storylines write themselves. BLG and j*b, last year's grand finalists, are both back and neither is interested in settling for second again! Around them sits a mix of veterans with years on LAN stages and rookies who'll be walking onto one for the first time!
There's another reason this year's event carries extra weight. Alongside the tournament, CappingTV will be taking time across the weekend to look back on ten years of broadcasts, rivalries, and the community that got everyone to this point! It's a tournament and an anniversary sharing the same stage!
Tune in from 12pm AEST both days via Twitch, or grab a seat at Fortress Arena in person! Tickets and full event details are available at the Event Hub!
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 14, 2026
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:
Updated the Surgical Shroud Fixed vertex normal issue on coat
Adjusted Phongfresnelranges on mirror to improve envmap effect
Reduced texture size of mirror
Updated/Added some tournament medals
Updated koth_dusker to globally improve lighting in outdoor areas for better team recognition
Updated cp_premuda Fixed conflicting files leading to crashes
Fixed several spawn room errors
Adjusted respawn-times to make capping easier
Adjusted sound timings and volume
Brightened up dark spaces and tunnels
Smaller changes all around the map to improve game flow
Miscellaneous visual and clipping bugs fixed
- Fixed missing sound for Taunt: Circuit Breaker
- Renamed "Northern Nights" Summer 2026 Unusual effect to "Polar Prism"
- Updated the Floral Growth Unusual effect to fix orientation/position problems
- Updated the Bald Spotter
- Adjusted vertex normals and diffuse on head
- Adjusted normals and specular on head mirror
- Reduced mesh size slightly toward the front and back of the head
- Fixed some facial flexes
- Reduced texture size of lens
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 14, 2026
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 missing sound for Taunt: Circuit Breaker
- Renamed "Northern Nights" Summer 2026 Unusual effect to "Polar Prism"
- Updated the Floral Growth Unusual effect to fix orientation/position problems
- Updated the Bald Spotter
- Adjusted vertex normals and diffuse on head
- Adjusted normals and specular on head mirror
- Reduced mesh size slightly toward the front and back of the head
- Fixed some facial flexes
- Reduced texture size of lens
- Adjusted vertex normals and diffuse on head
- Updated the Surgical Shroud
- Fixed vertex normal issue on coat
- Adjusted Phongfresnelranges on mirror to improve envmap effect
- Reduced texture size of mirror
- Fixed vertex normal issue on coat
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated koth_dusker to globally improve lighting in outdoor areas for better team recognition
- Updated cp_premuda
- Fixed conflicting files leading to crashes
- Fixed several spawn room errors
- Adjusted respawn-times to make capping easier
- Adjusted sound timings and volume
- Brightened up dark spaces and tunnels
- Smaller changes all around the map to improve game flow
- Miscellaneous visual and clipping bugs fixed
- Fixed conflicting files leading to crashes
RGL.gg Season 20 LAN Playoffs (Philadelphia, PA)
July 14, 2026

(Image credit: MetalCloud)
On July 24-26th, the top four teams in RGL will be flying out to Philadelphia, PA, for the Season 20 LAN Playoffs and a chance to prove who is the best team in North America!
Come watch in person or catch all of the action live on the RGL.gg Twitch Stream. Below are the match schedules for July 25th - 26th (July 24th is an optional preparation day for PC time, player and spectator pre-registration, media/interview time, and more).
Schedule - Day 1 (Saturday, July 25th)
1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time - Round 1 Match
4:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time - Semi-Finals
Schedule - Day 2 (Sunday, July 26th)
12:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time - Lower Bracket Finals
4:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time - GRAND FINAL
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 10, 2026
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:
Updated the Inglorious Patriot Adjusted the normal map and refined the colors
Improved the weighting on the bottom pockets
Updated the backpack icon
Updated pl_redwood Fixed various lighting issues
Zipline dismount jump speed now ramps up from 1.1x base class speed to 1.8x
Decreased delay before a player can dismount a zipline by jumping from 0.6s to 0.25s
Decreased delay before a player can dismount a zipline by crouching from 0.3s to 0.1s
Fixed players who dismount a zipline in mid-air not receiving mini-crits from the Direct Hit and Reserve Shooter
Fixed the B.A.S.E. Jumper's parachute deploying while using a zipline
Updated koth_camp_saxton Vastly improved optimization. Further investigation is ongoing.
Tweaked log-and-netting walls along the central shore for clearer definition
Fixed several instances of minor prop clipping
Fixed players getting stuck on the wood-carved Saxtons
Improved clipping throughout
- Updated the Beachcomber's Brim to fix an incorrect material
- Updated Taunt: The Circuit Breaker
- Fixed incorrect team color on prop
- Fixed orphaned particles
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 10, 2026
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:
- Updated the Beachcomber's Brim to fix an incorrect material
- Updated Taunt: The Circuit Breaker
- Fixed incorrect team color on prop
- Fixed orphaned particles
- Fixed incorrect team color on prop
- Updated the Inglorious Patriot
- Adjusted the normal map and refined the colors
- Improved the weighting on the bottom pockets
- Updated the backpack icon
- Adjusted the normal map and refined the colors
- Updated pl_redwood
- Fixed various lighting issues
- Zipline dismount jump speed now ramps up from 1.1x base class speed to 1.8x
- Decreased delay before a player can dismount a zipline by jumping from 0.6s to 0.25s
- Decreased delay before a player can dismount a zipline by crouching from 0.3s to 0.1s
- Fixed players who dismount a zipline in mid-air not receiving mini-crits from the Direct Hit and Reserve Shooter
- Fixed the B.A.S.E. Jumper's parachute deploying while using a zipline
- Fixed various lighting issues
- Updated koth_camp_saxton
- Vastly improved optimization. Further investigation is ongoing.
- Tweaked log-and-netting walls along the central shore for clearer definition
- Fixed several instances of minor prop clipping
- Fixed players getting stuck on the wood-carved Saxtons
- Improved clipping throughout
- Vastly improved optimization. Further investigation is ongoing.
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 09, 2026
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:
- Updated the Beachcomber's Brim to add a second style that was originally missed
- Updated the Northern Nights, Umbral Lights, and Solar Singed Unusual effects to fix a naming conflict
- Updated the Blissful Butterflies and Wispful Wings Unusual effects to fix visibility issues
- Updated the Hard Hearing to fix truncated style names
- Updated backpack image for the Pyro's Overalls to fix the alpha channel
- Updated the Sandwich Diner and Sideshow war paints to fix the alpha channels
- Updated the Team Union war paint to remove a few rogue pixels
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 09, 2026
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:
- Updated the Beachcomber's Brim to add a second style that was originally missed
- Updated the Northern Nights, Umbral Lights, and Solar Singed Unusual effects to fix a naming conflict
- Updated the Blissful Butterflies and Wispful Wings Unusual effects to fix visibility issues
- Updated the Hard Hearing to fix truncated style names
- Updated backpack image for the Pyro's Overalls to fix the alpha channel
- Updated the Sandwich Diner and Sideshow war paints to fix the alpha channels
- Updated the Team Union war paint to remove a few rogue pixels