Happy Birthday!Īs far as future game-modes go, we’re working on things internally, but we aren’t ready to release any future plans or a road map yet. Everything else shown today is just a little taste of our mod's future. Let’s be clear, again, the only content being added with this anniversary update is Night-Time Badwater. Do you love Four-Team, but find you’ve grown numb to Hydro and Flask? Then we’ve got bad news: between its freezing temperatures and its broken, mercenary-sized air duct system, this Antarctic map will probably leave you numb to the core! Here’s an album of sly teaser pictures, as if to say, “We promise we're working on stuff, please don't leave!”Īnd don’t worry, we’re still working on maps. With our next update, you’ll be seeing some proper new weapons and overdue quality-of-life features. We know this isn’t much on its own, and we can tell you’re eager for more content. Below are example comparisons of each version, in order of when they were changed. But with help from Savva (one of our community contributors), we’ve lit Badwater up enough to make players stand out, without ruining what made it look special. Happy Birthday, Team Fortress 2 Classic! We sure hope you weren't celebrating the anniversary of anything else today, because the official release of TF2Classic, along with The Death & Taxes Update, dropped exactly one year ago! It’s been a long year for all of us, and while we’re still hard at work on future content, we appreciate that so many of you have stuck around since release, and that so many more have trickled in this past year.Īs a show of appreciation, we’ve gone back on the only unpopular update we’ve ever released: changing the VIP variant of Badwater from night to day! That’s right, Badwater is night time once again! Originally, we brought back daytime to address visibility issues some parts of the map, especially outdoors and under cliffs and balconies, were too dark and muddy without a strong source of natural light, and players’ team colors could get lost in the shadows.