Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• The Blighted Beak is now a misc slot item.
  
• The Buffalo Steak Sandvich's speed boost no longer stacks with other speed boosts.
  
• The Rocket Jumper and Sticky Jumper now have no max health penalty, and have damage vulnerabilities instead.
  
• Duel fixes:
  
  • Duels can no longer be initiated when the round is not fully running.
    
  • If you challenge someone that has already challenged you, the duel is automatically accepted.
    
  • Fixed an issue where a dueling mini-game item was marked in-use even though the duel was rejected.
    
  • Duels are now refunded if a server plugin forces a participant to switch teams.
    
• Loading screen:
  
  • Only shows the duel leaderboard if you've been dueling, or if your friends have been dueling.
    
  • Shows your personal stats whenever it's not showing the duel leaderboard.
    
• Custom hitsounds:
  
  • Must now be specified by replacing the 'tf/sound/ui/hitsound.wav' file.
    
  • Can now be used under sv_pure 1/2.
    
• Improved performance on Degroot Keep.
  
• The "Fabricate Class Headgear" recipe no longer has a chance of creating all-class hats.
  
• Fixed spectator mode sometimes ending up in a state where you were half-embedded in your spectator target.
  
• Fixed a bug in the Kritzkrieg’s animations.
  
• Fixed round restarts not cleaning up weapons correctly for a frame (fixes a variety of weapon attribute issues, such as players having less health or less ammo than they should)
  
• Fixed painting issues in several of the Australian Christmas hats.
  
• The Sniper scope is now visible when viewing First Person Spectator mode on a zoomed Sniper.
  
• Medieval Mode's auto-roleplay now ignores text beginning with '!' or '/' (so SourceMod commands aren't modified)
  

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

• Fixed an engine crash caused by too many precached models in some community maps.
  

Day of Defeat: Source

• Fixed an exploit where clients could prevent weapons from recoiling properly.
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added several crafting recipes for new weapons.
  
• Added a ton of items to the store.
  
• Added a ton of items to the random drop list.
  
• The following hats are now paintable or have had their paintability improved: Pyromancer's Mask, Detective Noir, Madame Dixie, Buckaroos Hat, German Gonzila, Flipped Trilby, Coupe D'isaster
  
• Fixed a spelling error on the "Pyromancer's Mask".
  
• Corrected the name of the "Claidheamh Mòr" to the joy of our Celtic players.
  
• Made "Le Party Phantom" a misc slot item.
  
• Fixed a client crash caused by custom stats panels.
  
• Fixed a bug where some new items weren't being dropped correctly.
  
• Removed displaying the top 10 players in the leaderboard if you have never won a duel.
  
• Updated the localization files.
  
• Fixed a regression in Tournament Mode item whitelists.
  
  • Also added "mp_tournament_whitelist", a convar that allows servers to specify a whitelist file to use.
    

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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

• Improved sv_pure:
  
  • Materials / Models / Sounds / Animations are more comprehensively protected.
    
  • Switched from CRC to MD5 hashes for stronger per-file validation.
    
  • Fixed some issues between custom files and server whitelists over level changes.
    
• Added HL2:MP to the list of dedicated server games when starting a server via the Tools tab in the Library
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added Medieval Mode, a game mode where players are restricted to using olde weapons.
  
• 'Your Eternal Reward' changes:
  
  • Spies can now change their disguise weapon via 'lastdiguise' while using 'Your Eternal Reward'
    
  • Already-disguised 'Your Eternal Reward' Spies are no longer forced to switch to displaying the melee weapon when they make a kill
    
  • Spies no longer play speech lines when making a kill with 'Your Eternal Reward'
    
  • Sentries no longer track 'Your Eternal Reward' Spies after they backstab someone
    
• 'Natascha' changes:
  
  • Spin-up time increased.
    
  • Slowdown-on-hit effect is reduced over distance.
    
• Added 'The Medi-eval Medic', 'The Hibernating Bear', and 'The Expert's Ordnance' item sets.
  
• Added new weapons: 'The Claidheamohmor', 'The Back Scratcher', 'The Boston Basher', 'The Fists of Steel', 'The Amputator', 'The Crusader's Crossbow', 'The Ullapool Caber', 'The Loch-n-Load', 'The Buffalo Steak Sandvich', 'The Brass Beast', 'The Warrior's Spirit', 'The Candy Cane', and 'The Jag'.
  
• Added 20 new hats.
  
• Added a prototype item testing map, and associated functionality, for contributors to test their work. Further details in an upcoming blog post.
  
• Spies can now see TargetID's of players and objects regardless of their own disguise status.
  
• Fixed some speech lines continuing after the speaker changes class
  
• The Spy 'Sap Auteur' achievement now increments in cases where the Spy was the assister in the building destruction.
  
• Fixed the arrow burning effect getting stuck on if you changed class in a respawn room with your arrow lit.
  
• Fixed a Flamethrower bug that allowed players to rapidly fake the Pyro's airblast effect.
  
• Throwing the Jarate or Milk now returns you to your previous weapon, instead of your Primary.
  
• Added leaderboard to track duel wins.
  
• Added ability for players to donate money directly to the creators of their favorite community maps.
  
• Increased backpack size by 100 slots.
  

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed an issue with the Killing Floor Twisted Christmas items
  

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed first person spectators seeing particle effects on the wearables of the person they're spectating.
  
• Added the Pyro's "Foster's Facade" and "Stockbroker's Scarf" items as part of Tripwire's Twisted Christmas event.
  
  • See http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/ for full details
    

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Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Updated some files, for no reason whatsoever