# Team Fortress 2 Team Fortress 2 Update Released

- Product: Team Fortress 2 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/team-fortress-2)
- Vendor: Valve
- Date: 2025-10-14
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/440/view/503965032848031749
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/team-fortress-2/releases/2025-10-14-team-fortress-2-update-released

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- **fixed** — Fixed a problem with LODs on the Mad Drip
- **fixed** — Fixed regression on cp_cowerhouse from the previous update
- **changed** — Changed sand clouds to use a camera depth bias of 0 instead of 5 to prevent dust clouds from unintentionally occluding the player model
- **changed** — Changed idle sand clumps to lock rotation so sand falling is not influenced by camera position
- **changed** — Changed camera depth bias for idle clouds to 5 instead of 10 to prevent occluding player model at unintended angles
- **changed** — Changed Sizzling Unusual effect sequence random value from 4 to 3 to prevent steam sprites from spinning rapidly at random

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 Mad Drip to fix a problem with LODs

- Updated cp_cowerhouse to fix regression from the previous update

- Updated the Sandy Unusual effect

- Movement State

- Changed sand clouds to be a camera depth bias of 0 instead of 5, this will help with the dust clouds unintentionally occluding the player model in some cases

- Idle State

- Changed idle sand clumps to lock rotation, so the sand falling isn't influenced by camera position

- Changed camera depth bias for idle clouds to 5 instead of 10, so that it doesn't occlude player model at unintended angles

- Updated the Sizzling Unusual effect

- Changed sequence random value from 4 to 3, in order to prevent steam sprites from spinning rapidly at random