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Get ready for the coldest war under the red sun! — TF2 (Un)Official Blog

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The Red Sons was a two-class patch and the *** major content pack released for Team Fortress 2. It introduced features such as the ability to toggle player items and ajustments to the Unusual effects drop pool including allowing older Crates to be unboxed with newer effects.

The Update features a BLU team Soldier and a RED team Heavy facing off against each other in the promotional art, as the rest of the members of both teams have ended up taking different sides between the two (a RED Demoman taking Soldier's side being a reference to the WAR! update).

The Update was first announced on Jan 2, 202x, and was released in the March 1st, 202x patch.

Announcements

The Red Sons Update page officially began on February 23rd, 202x, as announced on the Official Blog post. The update was released on March 1st.

• Day 1: The community-made Attack/Defend maps Fulgur and Furnace Creek, and 2 new king of the hill maps, Kemptown and Brine, were announced.
• Day 2: The Assault Cannon and the Sub-Sandvich were announced.
• Day 3: The weapons Havoc Attack and the Call to Arms were announced.
• Day 4: The Lardvich and the Wing Clipper were announced.
• Day 5: The community-made map Subzero was announced.
• Day 6: Announced 38 new community contributed cosmetic items, 14 new war paints, 16 new Unusual effects, and 10 new Taunts.
• Day 7: The Red Sons update was officially released.

Additions

Maps

Main article: List of maps

Name	Picture	Game mode	File name
Fulgur		Attack/Defend	cp_fulgur
Furnace Creek		Attack/Defend	cp_furnacecreek
Kemptown		King of the hill	koth_kemptown
Brine		King of the hill	koth_brine
Subzero		Payload	pl_subzero

Weapons

Main article: Weapons

Tweaked Weapons

Class	Weapon		Changes
Engineer	Pomson 6000		Removed: All stats except damage penalty have been reworked.
			Changed: Firing speed + projectile speed + clip size now match the Shotgun.
Pyro	Gas Passer		Removed: All stats except damage penalty have been reworked.
			Changed: Lowered recharge time by 50%
			Added: Enemies soaked in the gas are now count as wet.
			Added: Flamethrower damage now mini-crits on enemies soaked in the gas.
			Removed: Can extinguish burning teammates.
			Changed: Can no longer clip through walls.
	Dragon's Fury		Changed: Flame particles now properly show.
			Changed: Changed repressurization rate on Alt-Fire from 50% to 35%.
	Degreaser		Changed: Weapon switch speed glitch has now been resolved.
			Changed: Extinguishing burning teammates gives 10+ extra health back.
	Third Degree		Changed: All players connected via the dispenser beams are hit.
	Manmelter		Added: Alt-Fire vacuum can now remove debuff effects from Jarate, Mad Milk, and Gas Passer.
	Homewrecker		Removed: Decreased building damage from +100 to +50
			Added: +50 damage vs burning players
Sniper		Classic	Changed: Can now fire underwater and when launched by an explosive.
Demoman		Ullapool Caber	Changed: Bomb restores when picking up a large ammo pack.
			Changed: Improved explosion accuracy upon hitting enemies.
			Changed: Deploy speed increased by 25%.

Cosmetics

Main article: Cosmetic items

Strange Parts

Main article: Strange part

Added Strange Parts: Saxton Hales Killed, Zombies Killed, Boss Kills, Summer Kills, Smissmas Kills, Bleeding Enemy Kills, Bleeds Survived, Victory Times Survived, Robots Destroyed During Summer and Robots Destroyed During Smissmas.

War Paints

Main article: War Paint

War Time Collection

Patriotic Parade
Royal Arms
Nuclear Prone
Death by Navy
Chrome Team
Working Class
Gear Shifted
Industrialized Tread-Plate
Conceptual Grit
Team Favored Camo
Mannifest Destiny
Bedazzlement
Stormin' Eagle
Mercenary

Unusual Effects

Thermocline Hat Detector
Star Shell
Star Nova
Bullet Storm
Eternal Rivalry
Radioactive
Economy Boost
Bullet Crown

Gravel Rush
Firecracker Frenzy
Mechanical Meltdown
Bomb-Bomb Battlefild
Smoking Warfare
Patriotic Dream
Tricky Infiltration
Wildland Fire

Taunts

Main article: Taunts

Achievements

Thirteen new achievements were introduced in this update.

Bloody War
Kill 20 enemies while you are bleeding.

Fly High!
Kill an enemy while you are being shot at by a Sentry Gun while also in the air.

Failure to Launch
Kill a Pyro before they are able to take off using their Thermal Thruster's boost.

Crocket-toa!
Kill 1883 total enemies with crit rockets.

Soldier Milestone 4
Achieve 22 of the achievements in the Soldier pack.

• Reward: Air Strike

Mosc0wned
Kill 25 Scouts, 25 Engineers, and 25 Soldiers with the Minigun.

I Second That!
Eat 100 Second Bananas.

Buffalo Kill
Kill 3 enemies after eating the Buffalo Steak Sandvich in a single life.

Put Dispenser Down
Destroy 5 Dispensers in a single life.

Heavy Milestone 4
Achieve 22 of the achievements in the Heavy pack.

• Reward: Tomislav

Kempt Up
Win 64 rounds on Kemptown.

Power Strike
Win a round on Powerhouse without giving up a capture.

2fortified
Capture the intelligence 10 times on 2fort.

Contracts

Several contracts relating to the new weapons and maps were added to the ConTracker.