After years of neglect, Valve is preparing to release a major update for Team Fortress 2. This week, the studio published a rare blog entry in the (through ), requesting the game community to submit new content to the Steam Workshop before May 1st. “The last team strength Summer events have only been item updates. But this year [Valve’s emphasis], we’re planning to ship a full update-sized update, complete with items, maps, taunts, unusual effects, war paints, and who knows what else? Valve said.
By our count, the “still unnamed, unthemed, but still very exciting summer-set (but not summer-themed)” update that Valve has planned will be released as TF2 first major content release since the company released the in 2017 for the game’s 10th anniversary. The valve has released since then, mostly to address what was making the game unplayable, but new content additions have been few and far between.
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