A Team Fortress 2 update (but temper your expectations)

Remember Team Fortress 2? A lot of folks do. That’s why more than a few TF2 fans got excited when word came that Valve was going to issue “a full-on update-sized update — with items, maps, taunts, unusual effects, war paints, and who knows what else?!” for the game. Well, that’s what it said…before trying to temper expectations based on some overly enthusiastic responses.

It’s that “who knows what else” part that might’ve been a little too much, as Valve walked it back a bit, issuing a change to the blog that announced the update. While the blog still says we ought to expect an update, the update has seemingly been downgraded from “update-sized update” to “full-on holiday-sized update.”

The open-ended and admittedly exciting “who knows what else?!” that likely gave someone at Valve a heart attack was swapped with “other community-contributed fixes for the game.” That language helps remind us of the reality that Valve is turning to community and Steam Workshop content to play a central role in this update. But it also genuinely means that, yes, an update for Team Fortress 2 is on the way. It’s just maybe not as big as you thought or hoped it would be.