Team Fortress 2 December 7 Update Out Now, Patch Notes

Tuna Han

December 8, 2023

Team Fortress 2 is a 2007 multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It’s the sequel to the 1996 Team Fortress mod for Quake and its 1999 remake, Team Fortress Classic. A while ago, a new update showed up, which brings many fixes to the game. Here are the details about the Team Fortress 2 December 7 update.

Team Fortress 2 December 7 Update Patch Notes

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:

Happy Smissmas 2023!

• All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
• Featuring 10 new community maps: Snowtower, Krampus, Haarp, Brew, Hacksaw, Turbine Center, Carrier, Galleria, Emerge, and Camber
• Added the Winter 2023 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 23 new community-contributed items
  • The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case
• Added 3 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
  • Taunt: Cheers!
  • Taunt: Mourning Mercs
  • Taunt: Foul Play
• Added 31 new community-created Unusual effects
  • 17 new effects for Unusual hats
  • 14 new effects for Unusual taunts
• All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Smissmas 2023 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event. This does not include crates.
• Mann Co. Store winter sale!
• Smissmas runs through January 7th, 2024

General

• Fixed missing normal map and variables for Festivized weapons (community fix from Woshee)
• Fixed broken lighting for viewmodels in tight spaces (community fix from Stuffy360)
• Fixed missing BLU team skin for the B.A.S.E. Jumper
• Fixed Taunt: Roar O’War removing health after taunting with an honor bound melee weapon equipped
• Fixed not always hiding floating health bars when the player has the hide_enemy_health attribute
• Updated pl_corruption to fix trigger_teleports not enabling correctly
• Updated koth_sawmill_event to fix missing material
• Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy to improve performance
• Updated several maps to fix localization issues