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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:

• Added TF2Maps.net Art-pass contest winners:

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

A heads-up up to everybody, the latest Team Fortress 2 update has finally fixed the age-old annoying Sniper scope bug. Furthermore, the update adds additional compatibility for demo playback and fixes the crashing. Here are the juicy bits from the changelog -

• Fixed an issue that caused some old demos to crash.
• The server browser now sorts by ping by default.
• The Sydney Sleeper no longer penetrates targets.
• Fixed spectator bug where spectating a Sniper looking through scope didn’t zoom fov
• Added Remove Name and Remove Paint features.

Read the full update-log here.

- Abhorrence