Ah, the ever generous Valve, churning out content update and fixes like there’s no tomorrow! Well pre-pubescent boys and fat girls in their mid 20s, Valve has released a special Halloween update for Team Fortress 2 — including two custom maps and goody Halloween-exclusive stuff! Put that razor blade away and read on, here are the interesting changes:

  1. Mountain Lab
  2. Mann Manor
  • Significantly improved engine vertex compression (large reduction in per-model memory usage)

Halloween 2010 Event -

  • Mann Manor is haunted by the Horseless Headless Horsemann.
  • Random gift drop in Mann Manor.
  • 4 new Halloween achievements.
  • Added new Halloween hats.
  • Added a new Halloween weapon.
  • Added Gift Wrapping of gifts to the store.
  • Added a health penalty to the Rocket Jumper.
  • Added the Sticky Jumper for Demomen to practice jumping.

CP_Coldfront also gets a slight facelift with some tweaks from the creator, Icarus.

A complete changelog can be read here. As always, launch Steam to acquire the update.

- Abhorrence