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An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Improved matchmaking performance
- Improved matchmaker behavior for users with less-than-ideal ping levels. The matchmaker should now be quicker to put you in the best available region.
- Improved matchmaker decision making for cross-region parties
- Added error messages when being ejected from the matchmaking queue due to connectivity or authentication failures, rather than the queue simply silently vanishing
- Fixed the matchmaking settings dialog frequently failing to display any datacenters
- Fixed multiple cases of in-progress casual matches abruptly terminating or failing to be assigned any new players if the game server ever loses connection to Steam
- Updated the Mountebank’s Masque, Courtier’s Collar, and Harlequin’s Hooves cosmetic items to fix issues with their paint regions
- Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy
- Fixed a script issue
- Improved performance
- Improved clipping