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Lizard Of Oz
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Yes, I made VS Saxton Hale. Which one? Both!
NOT a Valve employee.
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The Mobster is at it again!

Snowswept drops you into a frostbitten industrial complex in this #TeamFortress2 VIP gamemode.
Protect or pursue The Mobster as snowdrifts rise and tensions boil over.

Upvote, favorite and subscribe on Steam Workshop: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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To chime in on #TeamFortress2 malfunctions conversation:

Most community-made maps and gamemodes go through extensive testing during development... using the community server infrastructure, and with the creators having full control over the compiled result

Yes, TF2 breaks and here's how to fix it
Arena_afterlife was working on community servers flawlessly, even with 100 players! I’ve spent weeks making sure the tech is stable, but the discrepancies between Community and Casual, something I had no way to test for, caused things to break. Same was with VSH. If Casual is here to stay, I wish the community creators had access to testing things in advance under the Casual ecosystem. Sure, the community is taking notes on how Casual probably works post-mortem, but if we’d be able to test and debug things as they’ll run in Casual before the update goes live, things would be much more stable! Perhaps, maybe Valve could give the update participants access to a test build of the game before the update goes live, so that we could ensure everything is good to go. On an adjacent topic, modern TF2 maps are made using community-made tools, which Valve, for understandable security reasons, can’t use. We could, hypothetically, bypass many of the engine limits using those tools while remaining compatible with the game, but since Valve insist on compiling TF2 maps on their end, we have to keep our maps compatible with the outdated tools Valve haven’t touched for over a decade. There’s also a handful of engine bugs that could be bypassed if a map could be compiled using community-made tools, but alas. This means that if the community mappers could send Valve the compiled result after testing it on the Casual infrastructure, rather than Valve having to compile the map out of the source files on their end, we’d have higher quality, more optimised, and more stable maps. In fact, this is how it was handled for CS:GO. And it’d also avoid the bummers like missing textures, missing payload carts, or mp3 audio cache getting corrupted. You have no idea how vigorously mappers polish and double check their work after being selected but before the update goes live. In addition to that, Casual sv_pure settings introduce asset loading related bugs on community servers they do not happen.
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#TeamFortress2 has around 400MB of dead weight files (*.sw.vtx) containing model data for software rendering. A feature so outdated, it was deprecated by the time TF2 came out.

And if TF2 would drop DX8 support, we could delete *.dx80.vtx files too and double the storage gains.
September 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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MvM Motherland is OUT! #TeamFortress2 #MannVsMachine

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August 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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#TeamFortress2 #MannVsMachine soon...
August 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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July 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Today is the 2nd anniversary of #VSSaxtonHale being added into #TeamFortress2!

Happy to see the gamemode still being popular, despite being hidden in the Misc section.
July 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The Mobster needs guns, but he doesn't feel like paying for them. So, he has brought a bunch of goons to raid a munitions depot.

A new Mobster #TF2 map is available on Steam Workshop
If you'd like to see this added to Casual, make sure to like and fav on Workshop

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...
May 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The first #TeamFortress2 Mobster VIP map is out!

Steam Workshop: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...
April 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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#TeamFortress2
April 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Happy to see #VSSaxtonHale still being enjoyed by #TeamFortress2 players 1.5 years after its initial Casual release.
It's barely an afternoon in Central Russia, and yet, the queue times for vsh_maul are less than a minute long.
December 26, 2024 at 9:53 AM