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Way back in the day, when we first shipped Team Fortress 2 as part of The Orange Box, we'd always planned on it being an ongoing project. But even we had no idea that, four years later, we'd be over two hundred updates strong, with a growing community of collaborators and no signs of stopping. Take a scroll down memory lane at the many tweaks, fixes and epic improvements that have made TF2 the world's #1 war-themed hat simulator.
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788

updates since release

Patches are updates to the game that fix known bugs, glitches, or exploits within the game, and often add new features or balance changes to weapons, maps, or other game elements.

Many major patches, called updates, add new weapons, game modes or maps. In the past, most of the updates had been focused on one or two particular classes, releasing new content specifically for these classes. However, since the Engineer Update, all of the classes have been updated. Other major updates have been centered around a particular theme or holiday celebration. These range from Halloween to film-making to economics.

As both Windows and Mac OS X versions use the same code, updates exclusive to either platform are not released. They are released to both players and server owners via Steam, and must be downloaded and applied before the game can be launched again. Patches to the Xbox version, however, are fairly scarce, due to restrictions imposed on game developers by Template:W. To date, there have been only 4 patches to Xbox version (the last released in 2009), versus 217 patches released for PC since 2007.

Although each patch is usually paired with notes detailing what has been altered, some alterations are not mentioned. These undocumented changes rely on the community to notice their existence and therefore report them to others. As such, the exact date of undocumented change implementation will be an estimate.

Major updates

Official Updates

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Über Update
June 23, 2011
Replay Update
May 5, 2011
Hatless Update
April 14, 2011
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Australian Christmas
December 17, 2010
Scream Fortress Update
October 27, 2010
The Mann-Conomy Update
September 30, 2010
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The Mac Update
June 10, 2010
The Engineer Update
July 8, 2010
119th Update
April 29, 2010
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WAR! Update
December 17, 2009
Haunted Hallowe'en Special
October 29, 2009
Classless Update
August 13, 2009
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The Sniper vs. Spy Update
May 21, 2009
The Scout Update
February 24, 2009
A Heavy Update
August 19, 2008
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The Pyro Update
June 19, 2008
The Gold Rush Update
April 29, 2008

Community Updates

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Third Community Contribution Update
April 7, 2011
Japan Charity Bundle
March 23, 2011
Shogun Pack
March 10, 2011
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Community Map Pack Update
February 24, 2011
Second Community Contribution Update
May 20, 2010
First Community Contribution Update
March 18, 2010

Full list of Team Fortress 2 patches

Patches are listed (in reverse-chronological order) for the Windows and Mac OS X version unless otherwise noted. Patches in bold indicate a major content update (see above).

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2007 Beta patches

Xbox 360 Patches





See also

External Links