Certain uncomfortable international treaties have expired allowing us to bring you a WEEKEND PAINT SALE that's sure to enrage the Bavarian anti-paint lobby. It's going on now inside Team Fortress 2. During this New Year's weekend you can get most hat paints for half off, black and white paint is available on the store for a limited time, and name tags and description tags are also on sale!

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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You demanded a <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/australianchristmas">Holiday update</a>, and by gad, you're going to get it and like it, pal. We've cooked up a fine feast of new weapons, garnished it with more headgear than you have heads, and left it simmering overnight in a new game mode. What are you waiting for?! Get over to the Update Page and chow down!

To celebrate we're running a big sale in the Mann Co. Store THIS WEEKEND ONLY!

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You demanded a Holiday update, and by gad, you're going to get it and like it, pal. We've cooked up a fine feast of new weapons, garnished it with more headgear than you have heads, and left it simmering overnight in a new game mode. What are you waiting for?! Get over to the Update Page and chow down!

To celebrate we're running a big sale in the Mann Co. Store THIS WEEKEND ONLY!

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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