Team Fortress 2 is a memorable experience for most PC gamers in an era that the variety of multiplayer titles were not as many as today. Hopefully, the game still has a huge community, and the developers still care about the game. Let's have a look at the latest TF2 Summer 2021 update.
Originally launched back in 2007, Team Fortress 2 is a source of inspiration for most of today's successful hero-based shooters.
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In a recent effort to make Team Fortress 2 a much better experience, Valve deployed a Summer 2021 update, delivering some quality-of-life improvements, adding 18 community-contributed items as the new Cosmetic Case, and fixing a number of bugs.
TF2 Summer 2021 Update - Patch Notes
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Added the Summer 2021 Cosmetic Case
- Contains 18 new community-contributed items
- Adds 6 new community-created Unusual effects
- Numerous security and stability improvements
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Added a cooldown before a player can create a vote when they join a match already in-progress
- sv_vote_late_join_time controls the grace period after the match starts before the cooldown is applied: default 90 secs
- sv_vote_late_join_cooldown controls the length of the cooldown: default 5 min
- Kick votes will end early and automatically pass if the vote target leaves the match during the vote
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Added a ConVar to control players changing their name during a match
- tf_allow_player_name_change: default is 1
- Matchmaking servers will set this to 0
- Updated the player list in the vote-kick dialog to show the time each player has been connected to the server
- Removed the disconnect reason from the message when players leave the server
- Updated the Mann vs. Machine "inspect" command to only work for players in your party or in your Friends list
- Moved materials for community particle effects into the Effects/workshop sub-folder to distinguish them from Valve materials
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
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Updated cp_snakewater_final1
- Fixed clipping throughout map
- Fixed explosion splash being caught by objects throughout map
- Made movement smoother throughout map
- Reworked some problematic areas like the kitchen
- Minor visual enhancements throughout the map
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Updated cp_process
- Fixed incorrect skin for the Red radio tower
- Fixed players not being able to download large custom maps from servers
- Added check to prevent players without admin access using the dump_all_caches server command
Team Fortress 2 is now available for free on Steam.