I just had a look and damn, you're right, all the first three pages of threads in that section are all mine. Whew.

I know you jest in a way, though I would be doing people a bit of a disservice if I didn't say that I'm honestly beginning to question maintaining CS2 service here beyond the end of 2026/early 2027, especially given the mass consolidation of its esports scene into it functionally being tier 1 only, with T2/T3 basically left in absolute shambles (Valve killing off CS:GO Lounge's gambling did quite a number on T2/T3 viewership). I mean, yes, ESEA still exists technically speaking, but in name only, because FACEIT owns it, overshadows it, and all the infrastructure is on FACEIT nowadays. CEVO is gone. T2/T3 largely continues to thrive mainly outside of NA, but in NA, is basically on life support, and even it may not have long for the world. I'll look to provide sufficient advance notice if I do decide to retire TFTV service for CS2, just like I did with Spiral Knights everywhere back in mid-2022 (that game was under my wing mainly because it was one of the few that was blessed with using Steam's inventory service when it was hot and new, but they divorced from it in May 2019, and then entered a long period of inactivity beyond seasonal server-side content switches that Grey Havens is seemingly only starting to thaw out of this year).

I will say though that TF2 service here, despite the game itself obviously being in super-long-term maintenance mode nowadays, is secure for the foreseeable future for as long as I keep on doing the news.

That said, I'm at a bit of a critical juncture overall. My Ivy Bridge system is continuing to run well past its useful service life on more and more layers of figurative duct tape and hopes and dreams. Deadlock's release cadence tends to be largely incompatible with my available time nowadays, never mind attempting to run it or another Source 2 title given that Dota 2 has actually tripped my power supply's OCP on occasion. I've still got an AMD 5950X system to put together which I'll hope to have accomplished before the end of the year...but I said in /r/Dota2 that I hoped to have it all taken care of by Canada Day in 2025. And here we are in 2026 almost in 2027...you know those layers of duct tape and hopes and dreams? Takes quite a while to get that all reconciled. Not to mention other occurrences in the meantime, like xPaw deciding to hand off long-term SteamDB maintenance to Nexus Mods (I can't fault him and am inclined to trust his better judgement despite a lot of people seemingly having very valid reservations about Nexus - for me, it's a wait-and-see sort of affair), reddit slowly but surely enshittifying itself in plenty of ways to the point where the "old" site's days are almost certainly now numbered (and are, if you aren't already using it), and our premier Wab Kinew deciding to put his signature on punting Manitoba to permanent CDT/EST with a grand total of 6 weeks' notice rather than it having functional effect in April 2027. I was already giving some thought to how timing will work going forward, given that I have been eyeing the possibility of some greener pastures in Genshin and/or HSR to avoid collision with the other CST, and the eventuality that I'll definitely need a sovereign toolchain of my own, but man...

I'm tired. :/

Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- Size is close to 70 MB (with Workshop Tools installed)

Via the Steam store and HLDS:

Rumor has it:

- Size is ~25 MB

Part 3, again, bloody character limit:

Rumor has it:

- Tournament medal additions are as follows:
- UBERFEST 2026 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant, Staff, Spectator)
- Particle Mayhem 1 (First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant, Staff)
- Particle Mayhem 2 (First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant, Staff)
- Moscow LAN Summer 2026 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant, Helper
- Australian Hightower Highjinx 2026 (Royalty, Participant, Donor, Helper)
- ozfortress Premier Season 46 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ozfortress High Season 46 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ozfortress Intermediate Season 46 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ozfortress Open Season 46 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ozfortress Highlander Premier Season 13 (First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- ozfortress Highlander Intermediate Season 13 (First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- ozfortress Highlander Open Season 13 (First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)

- Size is close to 700 MB - data capped users should be prepared to take action

Part 2, because of the character limit:

Via the Steam store and HLDS:

This update has been rolled back for the time being due to widespread instantaneous crashing to desktop mentioned in RHI below. Size for the rollback is close to 775 MB (with Workshop Tools installed).

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Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- WARNING: It appears that CS2 will immediately crash to desktop on launch with a Steamworks SDK error about the ConnectToGlobalUser function failing after installing this update. While the game should automatically prevent the Steam client from updating if you have a ranked game in progress, ensure that you don't take this update for the time being if you have a ranked match in progress.
- A second update has been released which has fixed this crash (size is a bit over 800 MB, with Workshop Tools installed)

- Size is close to 800 MB (with Workshop Tools installed)

Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- Size is ~525 MB (with Workshop Tools installed)

Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- Size is ~525 MB (with Workshop Tools installed)

Via the Steam Community:

Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- Have leftover tokens from IEM Cologne 2026? Valve has dropped a just-under-one-week warning to use them by or before September 29th or lose them

- Size is ~555 MB (with Workshop Tools installed)

Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- Size is close to 5 GB (with Workshop Tools installed) - data capped users should take action now

Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- Size is close to 150 MB (with Workshop Tools installed)

Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- Size is close to 2 GB (with Workshop Tools installed)

Via the Steam Community:

Rumor has it:

- Size is ~1.5 GB (with Workshop Tools installed)