December 20, 2013 Patch

Happy Smissmas 2013!

  - All Players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Gift-Stuffed Stocking! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
  - Added community-contributed winter event items
  - Added the Giftapult, which can be used to launch gift items to randomly-chosen online players
  - Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. Store
  - Premium Players will receive a Secret Saxton to give to another player
  - Item grants from previous events (including the Spirit of Giving and the Winter Holiday noise maker) have been re-enabled for all players, including those who deleted their earlier grants

Weapons - Battalion's Backup:

   - Added +20 max HP passive for the wearer

- Concheror:

   - Added +2 health per second passive for the wearer

- Crit-a-Cola:

   - Reduced consumption penalty from +25% extra damage to +10%

- Diamondback:

   - Now also gains a critical attack on successful backstab kills

- Flying Guillotine

   - Alt-Attack now also throws the Guillotine when active

- Short Circuit:

   - Attack sped up greatly
   - Ammunition cost has been lowered to 5 metal per attack
   - Players and Buildings are only targeted if in range and in front of attacking player
   - Improved visual effects

- Soda Popper:

   - Hype no longer grants mini-crits
   - Added Hypemode which grants up to 5 extra air jumps when active
   - Hypemode is triggered by Alt-Attack when hype is full

- The Beggar's Bazooka has been updated to use the same taunt as The Direct Hit - Professional Killstreak Mantreads, Splendid Screen and The Chargin' Targe now generate proper effects when on a killstreak. These effects do not stack if another killstreak effect weapon is active.

Cosmetics

  - "Head" and "Misc" slots for player loadouts have been converted to Cosmetic slots. All items that were previously Head- or Misc-slot-specific can now be equipped in any Cosmetic slot. 
  - Unusual effect positioning can now be adjusted for all Cosmetic-slot items
  - Unusual Circling Effects have been given a new origin
  - Unusual effects for all Cosmetic-slot items are now visible in the loadout panel and character HUD
  - Fixed the Wiki Cap clipping with the Demoman's head

Mann vs. Machine

  - Fixed being able to inspect Blue-team bots
  - Fixed the mission victory screen not always showing the correct information for each player
  - Fixed some clipping issues with the stats in the scoreboard

General - Fixed an exploit where players could move around while using a taunt to attack enemies - Fixed an exploit related to the Rocket Jumper and the Soldier's grenade taunt - Fixed killstreaks attained via healing not being considered for round-end win panel - Fixed the killstreak hud indicator position in minmode - Fixed Taunt Kills strange scores not incrementing properly for the Strange Scorch Shot - Fixed strange scores on cosmetic items sometimes failing to increment - Fixed gift-wrapped items not showing their interior item to the wrapping player in some conditions - Fixed Steam Sale items granted from Snow Globe crafting not being listable on the Steam Community Market - Improved bot navigation in cp_gorge - Improved bot navigation in pl_upward - Updated several materials to fix issues caused by mat_picmip - Updated the backpack to filter to automatically filter for valid items when using a tool