Via the Steam store:
ValveScream Fortress XI has arrived!
- Featuring 2 new community maps: Laughter and Precipice
- Added the Spooky Spoils Case
- Contains 22 new community-created cosmetic items that make-up the Spooky Spoils Collection
- Has a chance to give one of 5 new community-created Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item
- Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
- Added 20 new community-created Unusual effects
- 12 new effects for Unusual hats
- 8 new effects for Unusual taunts
- All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they don't already have one
- Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations
- Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected
- All Halloween Contracts have been reset, allowing them to be completed again
- Completing a Halloween Contract will give players a classic Halloween item and the chance for a Spooky Spoils Case
- Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for your Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting the Soul Gargoyles that spawn in the maps
- All cases will grant Halloween 2019 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event
- Join Halloween matches by using the Special Events category in Casual
- Scream Fortress XI runs through November 7th, 2019
General
- Fixed an overheal bug related to players teleporting to the underworld on Halloween maps
- Fixed being able to attack players with the Short Circuit during a truce
- Fixed the Snack Attack not playing a timer sound while attached to buildings
- Updated Carnival of Carnage to fix an area where Engineers could build outside of the world
- Updated several maps to fix localization issues
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Rumor has it:
- No relief is in sight for macOS users looking to upgrade to Catalina as the game remains 32-bit
- The 12 new unusual effects are: Fifth Dimension, Vicious Vortex, Menacing Miasma, Abyssal Aura, Wicked Wood, Ghastly Grove, Mystical Medley, Ethereal Essence, Twisted Radiance, Violet Vortex, Verdant Vortex, and Valiant Vortex
- Tournament medal additions include (♻ indicates re-used assets from a previous season/year/league):
- Respawn League ASIA Highlander Season 3 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- Respawn League APAC 4v4 Season 3 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- Respawn League AUS/NZ Highlander Season 4 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- Brazil Fortress 6v6 Invite Season 4 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- Brazil Fortress 6v6 Division 1 Season 4 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- Brazil Fortress 6v6 Division 2 Season 4 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- Brazil Fortress 6v6 Academy Season 4 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- ♻ Brazil Fortress 6v6 Qualified Stage Champions Season 4
- ♻ Brazil Fortress 6v6 Helper Season 4
- Brazil Fortress JumpCup Soldier Division 1 Season 2 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- Brazil Fortress JumpCup Soldier Division 2 Season 2 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- Brazil Fortress JumpCup Demoman Division 1 Season 2 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- Brazil Fortress JumpCup Demoman Division 2 Season 2 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- ♻ Brazil Fortress JumpCup Helper Season 2
- On an unrelated note to the list above, did you know that Tip of the Hats is this weekend (AKA tomorrow)? Did you also know that their contributor medals are already in-game with the last set of medal additions? That's right! It's the perfect event to lead up to Thanksgiving, at least in Canada. Go over to https://tipofthehats.org/ to make a donation right now (if you're stream-shy), or to learn more
- Localization file updates, made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You, and other goodies can be viewed here: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-TF2/commit/7df7d39ac1f7f756324b67d04c1b17c6b9979564
- Size is close to 500 MB - data capped users should be aware