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
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 07, 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:
Summer 2026!
Added 4 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store Taunt: The Circuit Breaker
Taunt: Buffoon's Bivouac
Taunt: Faux-calization
Taunt: Friendly Fire
Added 12 new community-created Unusual effects 7 new effects for Unusual hats
5 new effects for Unusual taunts
Added the Summer 2026 War Paint Case Contains 10 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Summer 2026 Collection
Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Summer 2026 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the Summer event. This does not include crates.
The Summer event runs through September 15th, 2026
General
Fixed effects flooding the screen when spectating a dead teammate in first person with an unusual weapon (community fix from RGBACatlord)
Fixed missing coin effect for HOUWAR's second style (community fix from DiskIntegrity)
Fixed outdated description for the Splendid Screen (community fix from Grampa Swood)
Trimmed delay at the start of the sound file for the Panic Attack's shooting sound
Fixed the Engineer not being able to move for a few seconds after using Taunt: Cheers!
Updated cp_powerhouse to fix collision problem with crates on final control points
Updated cp_fortezza Reworked interior of shack building next to Point A
Rebalanced ammo packs around Point A
Improved visuals across the map
Made rotation for shortcut path shorter
Updated koth_blowout Prevent sentry guns from being built inside a prop under the stairs in the maintenance room
Visual changes to improve clarity and consistency
Summer 2026!
- Featuring 6 new community maps: Dryfield, Camp Saxton, Shorelight, Redwood, Premuda, and Mojave
- Added the Summer 2026 Cosmetic Case
- Contains 24 new community-contributed items
- Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
General
- Security and stability improvements
- Fixed bad alpha channel for The Creature's Grin, Rocket Operator, The Bountiful Bow, The Alternative Medicine Mann, and The Candyman's Cap (community fix from Chickenman456)
- Fixed the "Neo Tokyo" warpaint on the BLU team not matching the RED team because the alpha channel was incorrect (community fix from Whurrhurr)
- Fixed bad alpha channel for the Pile of End of the Line Key Gifts' backpack icon (community fix from Grampa Swood)
- Fixed Stat Clock model attaching incorrectly on dropped weapons (community fix from rabscootle)
- Fixed Stat Clock values always displaying '0' on world models (community fix from rabscootle)
- Fixed intel carrier glow disappearing when Spy cloaks (community fix from shockpast)
- Fixed bad alpha channel for Voodoo Juju's backpack icon (community fix from DiskIntegrity)
- Fixed Silver Botkiller Mk.I having cubemapping in the wrong area due to a VMT error (community fix from Whurrhurr)
- Fixed misspelling on cp_well's BLU rocket clamp texture (community fix from DiskIntegrity)
- Fixed wrong paths in soundscript events for some taunts (community fix from robbilookatme)
- Fixed Spy control point response rules lines playing when disguised/invisible (community fix from Churkinator)
- Fixed weapon Unusual effects (community fix from Cipherlock and rune)
- Fixed particles being orphaned after death
- Fixed the Energy Orb Unusual effect desyncing from the weapon when the player moves too sharply