Valve don’t usually make announcements of this sort for their seasonal Halloween and Christmas updates, and players have been starved for new updates - aside from ones that fight exploits - so excitement from TF2 fans was inevitable.

The Team Fortress 2 community are doing the heavy lifting when it comes to exciting additions to the hero shooter - if these Titanfall 2 parkour mods are any indication - and they’ll likely continue when this update drops in the summer. Originally, the blog post teased additions like items and maps along with “who knows what else?!” Well, we now know what else, as Valve replaced the tease with “and other community-contributed fixes for the game,” clarifying the update would be mainly community sourced, par for the course when it comes to TF2 updates.

Much of Valve’s “bleeding-edge” blog post is the same, but they’ve rephrased some key parts, like the mention of a “full-on update-sized update” is now referred to as a “full-on holiday-sized update.” Many fans were excited that “update-sized” pointed to more Valve-developed content, like new maps and skins, akin to the Jungle Inferno update or something similar.

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