Team Fortress 2 Gets A Massive Summer Update, Which Includes A Nuclear Bomb

It’s been a good year for Team Fortress 2 fans. From bot defeats to comic revivals, it has been a refreshing and rejuvenating 2024.

And now the annual Summer Update has arrived, and shocking everyone it is packed to the brim with actual content. Fixes for the game, balance changes, a slew of new maps to play and of course – a plethora of cosmetic goodies. It’s enough to bring a tear to the eye of even the most hardened mercenary.

Team Fortress 2 Update Releases Notes https://t.co/zSz9uRJR9U pic.twitter.com/g5YrT4PPOV

— Wario64 (@Wario64) July 18, 2024

Players of the embattled game were happy enough that Valve had seemingly made real progress on fixing the bot problem – many were happy to simply accept a game that was playable, but many of the changes in the Summer Update are there to make the experience even better. One example is a new option that will allow players to block the display of custom decals – essentially custom player textures – to finally solve the issue of people injecting porn into the game, of both the pedestrian and outright illegal variety.

Added “Hide Custom Decals” checkbox to the Advanced Options dialog in the Miscellaneous Options category

There is also a rapid deployment of a fix to remove the recently discovered ability to outright legally cheat within the game, with some YouTubers having detailed the process as being insanely easy to pull off. People technically had the ability to legally peer through walls in the game, and this fix has been deployed in record speed.

Fixed Workshop sv_cheats exploit

Then there are the maps. A whopping 10 maps have been added from community creators, including Embargo, Odyssey, Megaton, Cachoeira, Overgrown, Hadal, Applejack, Atom Smash, Canaveral, and Burghausen.

Now, that one named Megaton, I wonder if it …oh you bet it does. It explodes.

Get a load of that BOOM:

Check out the finale I created for @aeonbollig 's newest official TF2 map, Megaton!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM pic.twitter.com/eskF80s0vO

— Diva Dan 🏳️‍🌈 (@LiamMoffitt) July 18, 2024

It is a truly magnificent update, but there is still a taste of activism within the community.

The players of Team Fortress 2 are long scorned, and deeply worried that Valve has only made the efforts to repair the goodwill of their game to push sales for the newest update’s cosmetic library. So with that in mind, many are calling for wallets to remain firmly shut until Valve offers some kind of statement on their ongoing efforts to keep the game free of bots. While many actions have been taken, and the game has categorically improved –  a promise of commitment is what people crave most.

So by all means, jump in and enjoy the bounty of fixes and maps within the Summer Update – but maybe consider saving a few pennies in the hopes that Gaben drops us all a line.

Are you keen to jump back in to Team Fortress 2 and enjoy some summer fun? Let us know in the comments, or on social media.