Team Comtress 2 Update - March 10, 2026

General

• Fixed outdated servers showing up on Quickplay
• HTML MOTDs are now always restricted, rather than just for quickplay and matchmaking joins
• Fixed The Classic not working with the Hold to Zoom setting
• Enabled trade request pop-ups in Casual games, disabled trade requests in all competitive games, rather than the prior behavior of blocking trade requests in matchmaking games
• Fixed a case of FPS being restricted to 30 when in game
• Possibly fixed another case of game crash upon launch through the launcher on Windows
• Reduced the frequency of dropped packets during large teamfights
• Brought in the latest TF2 changes
• Fixed large edict spikes during round restart in some cases
• Fixed flames lingering after round restart
• Minor stability and performance improvements

Main Menu / HUD

• Added Main menu FPS limit to settings, 120 by default
• Fixed objective status sometimes disappearing upon settings change
• Added close button to modals on the main menu
• Added hover styling to the settings menu
• Fixed a case of the main menu not initializing properly on load
• Fixed a case of the main menu not appearing while in game
• Fixed transitions lingering when escaping from the main menu
• Made main menu more responsive to in-game state changes

Bots

• Fine-tuned Pyro projectile reflect behavior to be based upon reaction time rather than random chance
• Fixed some issues with how bots searched for health packs
• Fixed issues with how bots selected classes in large teams
• Fixed an issue where bots would not spawn when certain class limits were active
• Optimized performance issues with bots, especially in high player count scenarios

Visual

• Enhanced blood FX to be more reactive to damage
• Added ability to disable fading props entirely for high quality graphics

Competitive

• Adjusted the pre-match warmup death cam to be less disorienting and not cancel too early
• Added label for pre-round phases (Strategy Phase & Roll-Out Phase) during the 10 second countdown in competitive matches, to be more clear
• Fixed projectiles being deleted during end of roll-out phase, which messed up some Stickybomb jumps
• Fixed pre-match warmup health on kill overhealing above max overheal
• Fixed competitive games not properly ending/restarting at match end
• Fixed a case where players could get stuck in respawn during pre-match warmup
• Fixed various cases of team-based tournament mode not being handled properly in competitive systems, causing pre-match and round running states to not be handled correctly, for example, for Administrator voice lines, Demo Support, chat notifications, and more
• Fixed being able to cancel a ready game by disconnecting
• Fixed player-based ready up not finalizing correctly in community competitive
• Added win conditions display to competitive matches
• Fixed ready up, stopwatch and win conditions intersecting with the match HUD
• Fixed match HUD not fully updating when toggled
• Fixed item whitelist not loading automatically when set
• Fixed desync when enabling mp_tournament and mp_tournament_readymode after loading a map
• Fixed mp_tournament_restart not fully restarting the map
  • mp_tournament_stop_and_refresh is available for the legacy behavior
• Fixed ready up not working properly in self-hosted listen servers
• Fixed competitive ready up voice lines not playing in community competitive
• Fixed 6s voice lines not playing for community 6s tournaments
• Fixed a few more cases of rendering glitching out after leaving the match summary stage prematurely
• Fixed pre-round push from damage being enabled in asymmetric games
• Added an cfg/emptymapcycle.txt to assist server owners that do not wish to switch maps automatically
• Fixed mp_tournament_readymode_min considering people in spectator
• Reverted post-match time change for Competitive mode (back to 90 seconds)
• Fixed glitches with timer and countdown displays
• Fixed issues with Demo Support logic during game start and end
• Added mp_timelimit_added_winlimit and mp_roundtime_override to support community competitive rulesets