# Team Fortress 2 Team Fortress 2 Update Released

- Product: Team Fortress 2 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/team-fortress-2)
- Vendor: Valve
- Date: 2025-12-09
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/440/view/505095376722724645
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/team-fortress-2/releases/2025-12-09-team-fortress-2-update-released

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- **added** — All players receive a Stuffed Stocking gift containing goodies during the event
- **added** — Added 6 new community maps: Nutcracker, Sidewinder, Abbey, Winter Ridge, Matterhorn, and Gavle
- **added** — Added Winter 2025 Cosmetic Case with 23 new community-contributed items
- **added** — Added Festivizer as bonus drop when opening the Winter 2025 case
- **added** — Added 3 new community-contributed taunts: The Critical Fail, Dead Mann's Drink, and Chairholder
- **added** — Added 20 new community-created Unusual effects (11 for hats, 9 for taunts)
- **added** — Added weapons to the Festivizer list
- **added** — Added 'No Bullets' style for The Gift Bringer
- **changed** — All cosmetic and taunt cases grant Smissmas 2025 Unusual effects instead of normal Unusual effects during the event
- **changed** — Updated cp_cowerhouse map
- **changed** — Updated ctf_doublecross_event map
- **changed** — Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy with screenshake effect for laser gun finale
- **changed** — Updated Sizzling Aroma and Toxic Aroma Unusual effects to fix DirectX80 compatibility
- **changed** — Updated Backbiter's Billycock backpack icon to reflect RED team version
- **changed** — Updated El Gigante's Gunbelt to fix LOD problems
- **changed** — Updated Seamann's Stubble to fix material issues
- **fixed** — Fixed The Accursed Apparition hiding Scout's headphones
- **fixed** — Fixed Ullapool Caber explosions not counting as melee kills and ignoring damage/radius attributes
- **fixed** — Fixed Minigun not spinning or spinning very slowly outside of first-person
- **fixed** — Fixed broken view model after switching from Medi Gun while healing someone

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 2025!**

- All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.

- Featuring 6 new community maps: Nutcracker, Sidewinder, Abbey, Winter Ridge, Matterhorn, and Gavle (pronounced yeah-vleh)

- Added the Winter 2025 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: The Critical Fail

- Taunt: Dead Mann's Drink

- Taunt: Chairholder

- Added 20 new community-created Unusual effects

- 11 new effects for Unusual hats

- 9 new effects for Unusual taunts

- Added lots of weapons to the list that can be Festivized (community-created changes!)

- Added community-created Smissmas material for the beach ball

- All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Smissmas 2025 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, 2026

**General**

- Added 'No Bullets' style for The Gift Bringer

- Fixed The Accursed Apparition hiding the Scout's headphones

- Updated the Sizzling Aroma and Toxic Aroma Unusual effects to fix problems with DirectX80

- Updated the Backbiter's Billycock backpack icon to reflect RED team version

- Updated the El Gigante's Gunbelt to fix a problem with the LODs

- Updated the Seamann's Stubble to fix an issue with the materials

- Updated/Added some tournament medals

- Updated cp_cowerhouse

- Updated some custom props with further optimizations

- Added playerclip "ladder" to both trucks' rear bed to make climbing more consistent/predictable

- Updated ctf_doublecross_event

- Fixed out of bounds bug (Thanks Dr.TwentyTwo!)

- Fixed a few minor visual glitches

- Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy

- Added a screenshake effect to the laser gun finale

- Adjusted holiday events to reduce edict count

- Fixed model panels not encoding pose parameter values (community fix from copperpixel)

- Fixed Halloween spell projectiles not adjusting to flipped view models (community fix from copperpixel)

- Network player's handedness preference to spectators (community fix from copperpixel)

- Fixed Ullapool Caber explosions not counting as melee kills and ignoring damage/radius attributes (community fix from Bitl)

- Fixed disposable sentries playing denial sound for useful wrench hits (community fix from AJMickey)

- Fixed Armageddon Pyro taunt not properly cleaning up all particle systems (community fix from Churkinator)

- Fixed logo spinner from breaking after prolonged rotation (community fix from Horiuchi)

- Fixed Minigun not spinning, or spinning very slowly, outside of first-person (community fix from wget)

- Fixed broken view model after switching from the Medi Gun while healing someone (community fix from Vlad)

- Allow server admins to change powerup mode convars without forcing cheats to be enabled (community fix from Pieter Bijl)

- Replaced bitwise or operator in CHealthAmmoKit (community fix from CosminPerRam)

- Fixed MoveableSubPanel showing in Sentry targetID panel while dead (community fix from Horiuchi)

- Fixed tracer rounds from rifles not being affected by cl_flipviewmodels (community fix from birchish)

- Fixed Pyrovision nullifying other voice pitch attributes (community fix from LizardOfOz)

- Fixed being able to throw the Gas Passer through walls (community fix from Bakugo)

- Fixed IncrementAmmo removing ammo if m_iClip1 was already at Max capacity (community fix from kingofings)

- Added TF-specific search path tags to TF mod gameinfo (community fix from Thomas Kain)

- Fixed view punch not being interpolated (community fix from ficool2)

- Fixed disguise_on_backstab not functioning for

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