3.0.9

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3.0.9 was a minor update for Team Fortress 2 Classic. It was released on May 4, 2026. The patch notes were initially released on the steam page. It featured some general changes, and bug fixes.

Changes

General Changes

• Added a custom 2D skybox renderer:
  • Fixed sky faces being visibly culled on high FOVs
  • Fixed issues with loading skies that don't provide materials for all faces
  • Added a fallback texture for when a face is missing
  • Engine renderer can be toggled using r_skybox_use_new_renderer 0
• Added support for adjusting each player's voice volume independently in the Mute Players menu
• Fixed players being able to mute themselves
• Fixed "An Experienced World Traveler" achievement not tracking progress on Steam
• Added an option to toggle classic shading
  • Turning off classic shading will restore live TF2 shading for players, buildings, and weapons
• Added ConVarEx, a new material proxy
• Disabled texture streaming by default
  • It can instead be re-enabled by passing in the -texture_stream command-line parameter
• Re-added voice pitch adjustments for tranquilized and hastened players
  • Configurable with tf2c_voice_pitch_tranq and tf2c_voice_pitch_vip_haste ConVars respectively
• Fixed reflected darts not tranquilizing players
• Fixed muffled ambience not playing when tranquilized
• Re-added audio cue for when the Shock Therapy is fully charged
• Fixed Rejuvenator's Übercharge not awarding Übercharges score
• Fixed a crash related to custom projectile trail effects
• Fixed an issue where switching to a disguise's weapon that has an extra_wearables attribute would cause an edict to leak
• Fixed on-hit attributes working strangely with disguised Spies in Multi-Team modes
• Fixed materials using the no_decal surface property showing concrete decals
• Linux binaries are now built using Steam Runtime 3 "sniper"
  • This fixes startup issues on older Linux distributions
• Updated localization files

UI Changes

• Updated the main menu:
  • Reworked links panel and added a donation button
  • Opening external links will now conditionally use the Steam overlay or your system's default browser, depending on fullscreen mode
  • Removed hardcoded game version in favor of %gameversion%
  • Fixed building kills with the Shock Therapy displaying the wrong kill icon
  • Added missing SVG kill icons for the Shock Therapy and Admiralty Anchor
  • Fixed various SVG kill icons not being used
  • Removed requirement for color class on SVG kill icons
  • Fixed gradients on SVG kill icons ignoring colors
  • Improved detection of style tags on SVGs

Particle Changes

• Fixed Medi Gun marker setting causing Medi Gun beams to disappear
  • Medi Gun markers will be changed in a future patch

Material Changes

• Updated player, building, and weapon materials to support classic shading toggle
• Updated building gib materials to use Patch shader
• Updated pickup truck textures