Valve Software vient de faire une grosse mise à jour pour Team Fortress 2 à l'occasion de Noël. Baptisée « The Australian Christmas update », celle-ci este gratuit et ajoute notamment :

• Un nouveau mode de jeu (où l’on ne peut utiliser que les armes de mêlée pour combattre)
• 3 packs d’armes : pour le Medic, le Heavy et le Demoman (plus besoin de porter un chapeau pour avoir le bonus de set complet)
• 13 nouvelles armes
• 20 nouveaux chapeaux
• 100 slots supplémentaire pour le backpack
• un système qui permet de soutenir les créateurs de maps customs. Si vous achetez au moins un "timbre" vous aurez un hat, et celui-ci aura un effet seulement si vous jouez sur la map en question.

La liste complète des changements :

* Added Medieval Mode, a game mode where players are restricted to using olde weapons.
* 'Your Eternal Reward' changes:
o Spies can now change their disguise weapon via 'lastdiguise' while using 'Your Eternal Reward'
o Already-disguised 'Your Eternal Reward' Spies are no longer forced to switch to displaying the melee weapon when
o they make a kill
o Spies no longer play speech lines when making a kill with 'Your Eternal Reward'
o Sentries no longer track 'Your Eternal Reward' Spies after they backstab someone
* 'Natascha' changes:
o Spin-up time increased.
o Slowdown-on-hit effect is reduced over distance.
* Added 'The Medi-eval Medic', 'The Hibernating Bear', and 'The Expert's Ordnance' item sets.
* Added new weapons: 'The Claidheamohmor', 'The Back Scratcher', 'The Boston Basher', 'The Fists of Steel', 'The Amputator', 'The Crusader's Crossbow', 'The Ullapool Caber', 'The Loch-n-Load', 'The Buffalo Steak Sandvich', 'The Brass Beast', 'The Warrior's Spirit', 'The Candy Cane', and 'The Jag'.
* Added 20 new hats.
* Added a prototype item testing map, and associated functionality, for contributors to test their work. Further details in an upcoming blog post.
* Spies can now see TargetID's of players and objects regardless of their own disguise status.
* Fixed some speech lines continuing after the speaker changes class
* The Spy 'Sap Auteur' achievement now increments in cases where the Spy was the assister in the building destruction.
* Fixed the arrow burning effect getting stuck on if you changed class in a respawn room with your arrow lit.
* Fixed a Flamethrower bug that allowed players to rapidly fake the Pyro's airblast effect.
* Throwing the Jarate or Milk now returns you to your previous weapon, instead of your Primary.
* Added leaderboard to track duel wins.
* Added ability for players to donate money directly to the creators of their favorite community maps.
* Increased backpack size by 100 slots.