Invasion Community Update

This article is for content released in the update. For the patch itself, see October 6, 2015 Patch.

This article is about an official update. For information on the scrapped game concept, see Invasion.

The Invasion Community Update was a major community-created update and event added on October 6, 2015. Announced with a community-created Source Filmmaker video, it added four new maps, one of them a themed version of 2Fort, 16 new Cosmetic items, 4 weapon reskins, 9 new Invasion-themed Unusual effects, and a new taunt. Also included in the update was the Invasion Community Update Pass, which allowed players to directly support the team behind the update and also granted them access to special crate drops and to the Invasion Community Update Coin, which counted kills during the event.

Video

Additions

Maps

Main article: List of maps

Name	Game mode	File name
2Fort Invasion	Capture the Flag	`ctf_2fort_invasion`
Watergate	Player Destruction	`pd_watergate`
Probed	King of the Hill	`koth_probed`
Byre	Arena	`arena_byre`

Reskins

Main article: Reskins

Scout		Batsaber (Bat)
Engineer		Giger Counter (Wrangler)
Sniper		Shooting Star (Machina)
Scout Engineer		C.A.P.P.E.R (Pistol)

Cosmetics

Main article: Cosmetic items

Scout		Cadet Visor
Pyro		A Head Full of Hot Air
		Jupiter Jetpack
		Phobos Filter
		Space Diver
Heavy		Sucker Slug
Engineer		Life Support System
Engineer		Rocket Operator
Sniper		Corona Australis
		Final Frontiersman
		Starduster
Spy		Graylien
All classes		Captain Space Mann
		Invasion Community Update Medal
		Phononaut
		Space Hamster Hammy
		Universal Translator

Taunts

Main article: Taunts

All classes		Burstchester

Tools

Main article: Tools

	Invasion Community Update Pass
	Invasion Community Update Coin
	Quarantined Collection Case
	Confidential Collection Case
	Invasion Community Update Key

Unusual effects

Main article: Unusual

Invasion Community Update Unusual effects
Cosmetic effects
	Abduction	Atomic	Subatomic	Electric Hat Protector	Magnetic Hat Protector	Voltaic Hat Protector

	Galactic Codex	Ancient Codex	Nebula

Trivia

The alien movie in the Invasion Update video is based on a cheesy 1950s film.
The update was teased months before hand by the Team Fortress 2 Podcast KritzKast.
- On the KritzKast Meet Your Makers page, there is a blurry image of a saucer.
- The page contains an X Ray image of the Pyro with a Triboniophorus Tyrannus on his head.
- Clicking the binary monitor on the main page leads to a secret page with a lone monitor that says "They're watching..." This message is a reference to The X-Files series.
On Sep 13th, the update was teased on Brett Kennedy's channel in a video titled midnight showing.
- During the video, a message in Morse code is played. The message translated reads: "Poopy Joe was an inside job."
- A radio is playing in the background of the video. The static broadcast it is playing is the news intro from the KritzKast radio skit KKBC: No one would have believed.
- There is a split second frame of an alien glyph. The glyph forms a crop circle pattern seen in the release trailer, only with the Team Fortress 2 logo in it.
- August Loolam is an uncredited animator.

Teaser video

KritzKast Skits

To promote the update, the Team Fortress 2 Podcast KritzKast created a series of humorous radio skits portraying a radio news station broadcasting the events of the alien invasion.