Invasion Community Update

This article is for content released in the update. For the patch itself, see October 6, 2015 Patch.

This article is about an official update. For information on the scrapped game concept, see Invasion.

The Invasion Community Update is a major community-created update added on October 6, 2015. Announced with a community-created Source Filmmaker video, it added four new maps, one of them a themed version of 2Fort, 16 new cosmetic items, 4 weapon reskins, 9 new Invasion-themed unusual effects, and a new taunt. Also included in the update was the Invasion Community Update Pass, which allows players to directly support the team behind the update.

Additions

Reskins

Main article: Reskins

Cosmetics

Main article: Cosmetic items

Taunts

All Classes

Burstchester

Tools

Main article: Tools

Unusual effects

Main article: Unusual effects

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  Abduction

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  Atomic

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  Subatomic

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  Electric Hat Protector

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  Magnetic Hat Protector

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  Voltaic Hat Protector

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  Galactic Codex

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  Ancient Codex

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  Nebula

Maps

Name	Picture	Game mode	File name
2Fort Invasion	160px	Capture the Flag	ctf_2fort_invasion
Watergate		Player Destruction	pd_watergate
Probed		King of the Hill	koth_probed
Byre		Arena	arena_byre

Trivia

• The alien movie in the Invasion Update video is based on a cheesy 1950s film.
• The update was teased months before hand by the Team Fortress 2 Podcast KritzKast.
  • On the KritzKast Meet Your Makers page, there is a blurry image of a Saucer.
  • The page contains an X Ray image of the Pyro with a Triboniophorus Tyrannus or possibly a Sucker Slug on his head.
  • Clicking the binary monitor on the main page leads to a secret page with a lone monitor that says "They're watching..." This message is a reference to The X-Files series.
• On Sep 13th, the update was teased on Brett Kennedy's channel in a video titled midnight showing.
  • During the video, a message in morse code is played. The message translated reads: "Poopy Joe was an inside job."
  • A radio is playing in the background of the video. The static broadcast it is playing is the news intro from the KritzKast radio skit KKBC: No one would have believed.
  • There is a split second frame of an alien glyph. The glyph forms a crop circle pattern seen in the release trailer, only with the Team Fortress 2 logo in it.

KritzKast Skits

To promote the update, the Team Fortress 2 Podcast KritzKast created a series of humorous radio skits portraying a radio news station broadcasting the events of the alien invasion.

Gallery

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  The KritzKast Meet Your Makers page that contains the saucer & x ray image.

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  The secret page on the Meet Your Makers page.

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  The Captain Space Mann as seen in the SFM.

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  The C.A.P.P.E.R as it appears in the SFM.

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  The alien glyph in the midnight showing teaser.

External links

• Get Ready For The Invasion
• Invasion update page
• Invasion update credits
• Kritzkast Meet Your Makers
• Kritzkast Secret Page