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Cower, peasants! Flee, terrified ronin! Crap in your ancient Japanese bamboo underpants, feudal warlords! For something approaches unlike anything you have ever seen! The Shogun Pack -- a collaboration between Team Fortress 2, the TF community, and Total War: Shogun 2 -- descends upon you like a rising sun! (But in reverse.)

That's right, Japan fans! Unlike other updates, <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/shogunpack/">The Shogun Pack</a> represents a three-way partnership of feudal clans to depose a crooked emperor (the emperor being played in this case by "a lack of updates" for this metaphor to work). The awe-inspiring result? Eight all-new, Shogun-themed items for your head-wearing and/or neck-cleaving pleasure. And, in keeping with the three-way theme, you've got three ways to get your hands on them:<ul>
<li><strong>1.</strong> <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/34330/">Pre-order Total War: Shogun 2</a> from Steam and get all eight items free. (You: "THAT'S INCREDIBLE!")</li>
<li><strong>2.</strong> Buy all eight items in Team Fortress 2's Mann Co. Store. (You: "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I <strong>WON'T</strong> BELIEVE IT!")</li>
<li><strong>3.</strong> Collect all eight items through in-game item drops or crafting. (You: "SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE! I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK! FROM JOY!")</li>
</ul>Pick any one of the three to get your items! Heck, pick ALL three! (Don't actually do this. -Legal Dept.) Whatever your choice, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/shogunpack/">The Shogun Pack!</a>

Cower, peasants! Flee, terrified ronin! Crap in your ancient Japanese bamboo underpants, feudal warlords! For something approaches unlike anything you have ever seen! The Shogun Pack -- a collaboration between Team Fortress 2, the TF community, and Total War: Shogun 2 -- descends upon you like a rising sun! (But in reverse.)

That's right, Japan fans! Unlike other updates, The Shogun Pack represents a three-way partnership of feudal clans to depose a crooked emperor (the emperor being played in this case by "a lack of updates" for this metaphor to work). The awe-inspiring result? Eight all-new, Shogun-themed items for your head-wearing and/or neck-cleaving pleasure. And, in keeping with the three-way theme, you've got three ways to get your hands on them:

• 1. Pre-order Total War: Shogun 2 from Steam and get all eight items free. (You: "THAT'S INCREDIBLE!")
  
• 2. Buy all eight items in Team Fortress 2's Mann Co. Store. (You: "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I WON'T BELIEVE IT!")
  
• 3. Collect all eight items through in-game item drops or crafting. (You: "SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE! I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK! FROM JOY!")
  

Pick any one of the three to get your items! Heck, pick ALL three! (Don't actually do this. -Legal Dept.) Whatever your choice, be sure to check out The Shogun Pack!

Updates to Team Fortress 2 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)

• Added check to prevent multiplayer servers from transmitting 1 as their maxplayers value to connecting clients
  
• Fixed clients being able to use particle exploits on sv_pure servers
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added The Shogun Pack items
  
• Fixed the "Best Little Slaughterhouse in Texas" Engineer achievement not counting Wranger and Mini-Sentry kills
  
• Updated several more models with optimizations and new LODs
  
• Updated the Blighted Beak with a creator submitted fix
  

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 a problem with the DirectX8 cloud shader
  

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 the Sharpened Volcano Fragment and the Sun-on-a-Stick so they can be traded
  

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

• Added the Hero's Hachimaki for pre-ordering Homefront
  

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We've been listening to our community's famished cries for content, and damn it, we decided to do something about it. Unfortunately, the button that bans everybody in the community at once doesn't seem to be working (every time we press it we just get sparks and the smell of burnt fur). So we went with our tried-and-true Plan B: an <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/communitymappack">all-new map pack</a>, featuring some community favorites including a new map from the guy behind cp_mountainlab, the winner of <a href="http://tf2maps.net/">TF2Maps.net</a>'s <a href="http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Art_Pass_Contest">Art Pass Contest</a>.

Don't forget you can always purchase Map Stamps in the Mann-Co store to show support for your favorite community maps, all proceeds (minus any taxes) go directly to the hardworking map creators.

We've been listening to our community's famished cries for content, and damn it, we decided to do something about it. Unfortunately, the button that bans everybody in the community at once doesn't seem to be working (every time we press it we just get sparks and the smell of burnt fur). So we went with our tried-and-true Plan B: an all-new map pack, featuring some community favorites including a new map from the guy behind cp_mountainlab, the winner of TF2Maps.net's Art Pass Contest.

Don't forget you can always purchase Map Stamps in the Mann-Co store to show support for your favorite community maps, all proceeds (minus any taxes) go directly to the hardworking map creators.

Updates to Team Fortress 2 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 another server crash exploit caused by malformed network packets
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added three new community maps:
  
  • Koth_Lakeside
    
  • PL_Frontier
    
  • PLR_Nightfall
    

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 a server crash exploit caused by malformed network packets
  

Counter-Strike: Source

• Updated De_Inferno
  
  • Community fixes
    

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed the Amputator and the Crusader's Crossbow healing teammates that have the Equalizer as their active weapon
  
• Updated the Red team skin for the Fists of Steel