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People always talk about what a great musician Mozart was. But you know who never updated any of his albums with free music? Go ahead, guess.
Did you guess Team Fortress 2? Bzzt. Wrong. Because we're adding three new numbers from our Jungle Inferno update to the TF2 Fight Songs album. If you bought Fight Songs on Steam , you don't have to do anything, because the songs have automatically been added to your account.
If you bought Fight Songs somewhere else, or even if you didn’t buy Fight Songs, or even if you stole Fight Songs, or did any of those things and then later sold Fight Songs, or bought a recording studio out of spite and recorded a competing version of Fight Songs… look, you’re not on trial here. Download all three songs for free and we’ll forget the whole thing ever happened.
Anyway, did you guess yet? Did you guess Mozart? Because that’s what we guessed, too. Except we looked him up while you were reading and it turns out he’s famous for updating all his hit albums. But you know what he hasn’t done yet? Make his sheet music and Sibelius files available for free, like we’re doing literally right now: Sheet music. Sibelius files. Checkmate, Mozart. See you in hell.
Rick May, the inimitable voice of the Soldier for thirteen years, many shorts and countless updates, passed away this April at age 79. We were lucky enough to work with Rick many times in the studio over the past decade. A quick-witted and kind-hearted collaborator, Rick endowed the character with a trademark bellow and bootfulls of idiotic charm. The Soldier wouldn’t be the Soldier without him.
We are honoring Rick during the month of May with an in-game Soldier statue that will play some of Rick’s signature lines. He will be missed by the Team Fortress dev team and community, and remembered for the indelible character he helped bring to life for so many years.
It's that time of the year again! Merry Smissmas!
We've added 18 new community cosmetics, 10 new community War Paints, and 17 new community Unusual effects! Plus, the Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the Winter 2019 Cosmetic Case, and the taunt Unusualifier can be found as a bonus drop when opening the Winter 2019 War Paint Case!
It wouldn't be Smissmas without the Spirit of Practically Giving. Look for 50% off tons of items, taunts, and tools in the Mann Co. Store through January 7th, 2020.
And last but not least... Stocking stuffers for everyone! Merry Smissmas! See you in 2020!
The biggest event on the Competitive TF2 calendar is back again! Teams and players from around the entire world will be heading to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, to the Insomnia Gaming Festival for their chance at glory and a share of the prize pool. Taking place from Friday, August 23rd, to Sunday, August 25th, the event will feature three days of non-stop action and the highest level of competition the game has to offer.
If you wish to support the event there is an ongoing fundraiser where you can donate money or purchase a range of items; money raised goes towards the production, prize pool, and supporting the North American team, Ascent.NA, attending to represent their region.
Signups for the tournament are here . However, if you can’t make it, the event will be streamed both at the event and online by EssentialsTF over at their Twitch page . For the latest information, be sure to check out LAN.TF to follow the tournament live.
On the evening of Thursday, July 25th, a bug was introduced that allowed some older crates to grant an Unusual hat on every opening. We fixed the bug the following morning and decided to trade-lock the hats from the bugged crates while we evaluated the situation.
Over the past week, we have been discussing ways to address this situation with the goal of minimizing the impact on the TF2 community as a whole, while preserving the experience of customers who had simply opened a crate, made a trade, or purchased from the market on the 25th, unaware that a bug produced their item.
During our investigation we discovered that a small number of accounts acquired these hats and a smaller portion of those accounts acquired an exceedingly large number of them. Based on this, we've decided that if you currently own one of these Unusual hats, the first one added to your account will be made tradable. Any other Unusual you have received due to the bug will remain permanently trade locked. If you decide that you would rather not have these trade-locked hats on your account, you may instead elect a full refund on any number of them.
The number of Unusual items being made tradable represents about one month of the regular Unusual drop rate.
A few of you were concerned that you had done something wrong by opening a bugged crate, and proceeded to delete your hats. While we appreciate the concern, you didn't do anything wrong, so hats from bugged crates deleted before the tradable date will be restored to your accounts with the same restrictions described above.
Item tradability, restoration, and the refund support page will be made available in about a week's time. Refunds will be the full price paid for any hats, crates or keys bought on the Steam Community Market or Mann Co. store. We will post an update when that exact date becomes available.
We apologize for the inconvenience of this incident, and we’ve added safeguards to prevent incidents like this in the future.
Update Aug 16: One unusual per account has been made tradable as described above. Affected users should visit the following support page for information about affected items and to submit refund requests if eligible: https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithItemBug

Which team reigns supreme? The Overwatch crew or the boys from TF2?
Ever wonder what would happen if the Overwatch roster fought the boys from Team Fortress 2 ? Well, this absolutely incredible fan video gives us our best look yet at how that showdown would go down.
Source Filmmaker animator The Winglet took on the unenviable task of looking at what would happen when the titans of these two team-based shooters finally do battle. The result is a glorious eight-minute video packed with more Easter eggs than even massive fans of both games can possibly process.
However, there are a few highlights peppered throughout the video that we have to share. Widow and the Sniper doing battle with each other while completely ignoring the other teams is a pretty meta take on how those battles typically go. Mei arriving on the scene like a horror movie slasher only to be backstabbed by the spy’s icicle is just a brilliant piece of characterization. Watching the scout and Tracer finally do battle helps to solve that age-old question. The same goes for the battle between Mercy and the Medic. Elsewhere, the showdown between Heavy and Zarya, which features both recognizing their shared Russian heritage, is oddly beautiful.
In fact, this is such a good representation of what would happen if the Team Fortress 2 roster did battle with the Overwatch squad that we’d almost be fooled into believing that Valve and Blizzard worked on it. Just be sure to stick around for the all-too-accurate post-credits play of the game sequence.
While there is no real beef between Overwatch and TF2 – at least not one that extends beyond pockets of each game’s hardcore fanbase – there were many who questioned Overwatch ‘s ability to succeed when it was first launched given that it resembled TF2 in some key ways. Both featured over-the-top characters, both emphasized team play, and some characters (like Mercy/Medic, Scout/Tracer, and Torb/Engineer) were eerily similar.
Sure, Overwatch went on to greatly surpass the current popularity of TF2 , but as this video proves, there’s enough room in the world for the motley crews of both games.

Matthew Byrd is a freelance writer and entertainment enthusiast living in Brooklyn. When he's not exploring the culture of video games, he's wishing he had a…
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Blizzard's new IP is a derivative of Valve's class-based shooter, and that's exactly what the gaming world needs.
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Hey, did you hear about Overwatch ? It is Blizzard making Team Fortress 2.
I've heard that statement a lot over the last few days, and after watching the cinematic and gameplay trailers of Blizzard's upcoming first-person shooter I can't say it's wrong. Colorful characters, unique classes, and gameplay that depends heavily on multi-role cooperation reeks of Valve's venerable Source-based shooter. The cinematics and style seem much more Blizzard-y (and Pixar-y) than Team Fortress 2, but it's hard to get past a playfulness and aspirations to variety that resonate with the mixed-up class-based mayem of TF2.
More than great, it's actually pretty unique. Yes, if it's a ripoff, it's unique. Relatively speaking.

Team Fortress 2 was and still is one of the best multiplayer first-person shooters ever made. It's polished, tweaked, fast-paced, satisfying, and varied, and over eight years after it came out I can still jump back in and find a lively community, fresh content, and a fun time. Whatever your mood or play style, you can find a way to enjoy the game with one of the nine classes. They all play completely unique, have completely different roles, and ultimately no single class or player can carry a team without the cooperation of other players on it. It's a game of variety, choice, and teamwork.
With very few exceptions, this hasn't really been seen in any other shooters. Look at all of the other major shooters out there. Titanfall . Destiny ($19.85 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) . Call of Duty. Battlefield. Sure, you have different classes, but ultimately it's all about swapping guns and filling needs on the fly. The roles are so fluid and similar that anyone can do nearly anything, or just respawn with slightly different equipment and do the job.
The idea of unique, specific classes with unique, specific roles was ceded by shooters in favor of more universal action and lip service to classes. Instead, those concepts were embraced by a completely different genre: multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBAs). These games, like the huge hits DOTA2 and League of Legends (and Blizzard's upcoming Heroes of the Storm, and Smite, and several others) aren't shooters. They're closer to real-time strategy games, but in each case the character you play has a set of skills that makes him or her useful in specific situations. The characters are also colorful, have lots of personality, and are basically everything the TF2 classes are except you control them with hotkeys and an eye on the mini-map, not down a set of sights.
So here we are in 2014, where there really aren't any shooters that rip off TF2. Everything is grey, vaguely futuristic, hands out double-jumps and jetpacks like candy, and puts an assault rifle in everyone's hands. It's fine, but it's so same-y. There are tweaks and variations and different spins, but from fighting the Darkness to waiting for mechs to spawn to being creeped out by Kevin Spacey , ultimately you're the same thing in every case: a soldier ready to fill a tactical need. You're just Guy with Gun (and Maybe Robot and Jetpack).
Let's see some of that MOBA variety in shooters again. Monday Night Combat tinkered with the idea, but sadly petered out with Super Monday Night Combat and its attempt to do too much, too fast in a still-developing free-to-play market. Besides Riot Games' laudable attempt, all we've really had is Team Fortress 2 or over-head click-frenzy MOBAs.
I'm optimistic about Overwatch, and hope it'll show promise when it goes into beta next year. Team Fortress 2 is still excellent, but we're ready for a new take on it. After seeing so many shooters riff on the same tired military and sci-fi themes for years, let's embrace these derivative cartoony hijinx. At the very least, it's a welcome and varied change from derivative double-jumping rifle-toting drama. A fresh rip-off is a welcome change from the same slowly tweaked formulae we've seen in the last serveral years.
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