One of the biggest festivities of the year is right around the corner!
As the gift-giving starts, we've got lots of stuff of our own prepared for all of you!

We have plenty in the works, but with our busy personal lives, our original plans to release a huge Winter Update have had to be postponed.
Don't you worry, though, because we've still got plenty for you to enjoy in a festive update, releasing right now!


We're temporarily giving away extra gifts to those who are generous enough to donate and support our cause to keep DFS up and going whilst bringing in new goodies as well as content to the servers for players to enjoy!

Starting now and for 3 weeks only, donating to DFS will have you receive the following gifts:

• A Platinum/Gold Voucher
  
• The DFS Xmas Tree or 10,000 credits
  
• A custom tag as well as custom tag and chat colors of your choice in both servers

Click here to visit the DFS donation page, your support means a lot for us!

== Christmas Present ==
Login at least once during the Christmas Event duration to earn a Christmas Gift Box!
The contents of the Gift Box are determined by your DFS Level. Only one Gift Box is distributed per player.

== The Christmas Gift Grab ==
Login every day to earn a new reward for 14 days!


== Season of Giving & Receiving ==
The month of Sharing is upon us and what better time to share with others?
Use Mystery Gifts to give to others, while also earning yourself rewards! The more you give, the more you receive!



As with every Christmas Event, pets obtained from Pods have special winter-themed effects to them!
To add more variety to it, we've updated the list of obtainable winter effects with 10 brand new effects!


To get everyone into the festive spirit, we're adding a sleigh-full of wintry maps into the map rotation!
From official Christmas maps to snowy community maps, a White Christmas is coming!
Yes, this also includes Wutville:

• cp_coldfront
  
• cp_snowplow
  
• ctf_snowfall_event
  
• koth_viaduct
  
• pd_snowville_event
  
• pl_barnblitz
  
• pl_pier
  
• pl_snowycoast
  
• pl_wutville_event (Replaced with our old version)

It wouldn't be Christmas if there weren't gifts involved.
For the duration of the Christmas Event you can earn Winter Gifts from Quests!
In addition, Mystery Gifts are now appearing on Stadium for you to find and share!
These can be collected by everyone, so help your fellow players find them and spread the generosity!


In addition, we've been working on some overall Quality of Life changes for several aspects of the server:

Deathrun Changes
Updated Deathrun weapon attributes:

General:
• Hopefully fixed some issues with weapons that give movement speed bonus when active
  
  Winger:
  
• Removed active speed boost attribute because DR is weird and Scout randomly runs at 320hu/s or 400hu/s
  
• Increased damage bonus from 15% to 20%
  
  Disciplinary Action:
  
• Added 50% fire rate penalty
  
  Homewrecker/Maul:
  
• Nerfed damage bonus from 300% to 100%
  
• Dmg penalty to players changed to match that of the OG homewrecker
  
• Dmg bonus to buildings changed for the same reason
  
• Added a 5% move speed penalty
  
  Powerjack:
  
• Fixed a bug where your health would be eaten away when switching weapons
  
  Back Scratcher:
  
• Added a 50% fire rate penalty due to speed buff on teammate hit attribute
  
• Added a 25% damage penalty
  
• Added a 15% move speed penalty
  
  L'Etranger:
  
• Cloak duration rate reduced from 25% to 20%
  
  Conniver's Kunai:
  
• Max health penalty changed back from 75 to 55
  
• Reduced active speed boost from 10% to 5%

Map Fixes

dr_psykopat_fix:
• Round start trigger_push speed increased from 500 to 750, fixed push direction a bit
  
• Reworked one of the screamer traps: Reduced sound volume, replaced epileptic images with lots of blood
  
• Time left before round end is now announced by the announcer
  
  dr_psykopat2_v2:
  
• Round start trigger_push speed increased from 500 to 750
  
• Added a melee filter to the runner sacrifice button (ranged weapons were able to bypass the trap before)
  
  gm_fork:
  
• Removed broken invisible latches from the tunnel
  
  sb_icee_day:
  
• Added more ice to the frozen water to fix a broken spot

TF2Projectiles & Building Hats Additions

Added 10 new projectile models:

• Birthday Gift
  
• Holiday Gift
  
• Banana
  
• Duck
  
• Dove
  
• Macaw Parrot
  
• Frog
  
• Handy Thing
  
• Soda Can
  
• Monitor

Added 16 new building hats:

• Frontline Field Recorder
  
• A Well Wrapped Hat
  
• Manniversary Paper Hat
  
• All Hallows Hatte
  
• info_player_start
  
• Hong Kong Cone
  
• Team Captain
  
• Finder's Fee
  
• The Cotton Head
  
• Hat With No Name
  
• Cone
  
• Mann Co Cap
  
• Mann Co Online Cap
  
• Sydney Straw Boat
  
• Fruit Shoot (Dangerous style)
  
• Provisions Cap

The gift-giving doesn't stop outside of TF2, as we're giving away free multiple Gold and Platinum Membership Vouchers in our Discord Server !
In addition, our Discord Server keeps you up-to-date with our newest updates & news around the clock.


As for the huge update that is in the works, you can expect it to hit in early 2021.
This update will be more centered towards the non-competitive aspects of our server!
Stay tuned! And as with every year...


- The DFS Staff

Hello everyone!

I am happy to announce the first update to the website since it's 'release' with the Jack of all Trades update.

We might have released our most recent major update just in the beginning of this month, but that doesn't mean we've forgotten about our annual Halloween Update. Two major updates in one month is quite the record, isn't it?

We've been hard at work to bring you a spooky update just in time for Halloween. Granted, it might not be as big as our previous Halloween Updates since we've released a massive update just a few weeks ago, but we still hope you'll enjoy the treats we've prepared for you!

Another year passes and a new DFS anniversary comes to pass as well.
This year has been especially difficult in more ways than one, hopefully you all and your loved ones are doing well during this historic pandemic we're still struggling with in our day-to-day lives.

Even with the uncertainty this year brings, we're still happy we can count on people to still swing by our servers and have fun hanging out with each other.
TF2's future at this point may be uncertain as well, but if there's one thing we're certain about, it's that we'll always be eager to provide you all with amazing new content, gamemodes & maps you want to play on, fun commands, and DFS items that help enhance the experience all around.

Welcome back to Day 2 of the Jack of all Trades Update: Mastering Mercenaries!

As the name might suggest, one of the biggest things under the spotlight today is the Mercenary Guild and the Quest system, but there's plenty more to chew on besides that!

Hey all, and welcome to the big news we've been teasing for some time!

While we were all locked up inside, we've been really busy, pouring blood, sweat and tears into crafting one of DFS' biggest updates yet that's bursting at the seams with lots of reworks, improvements and so much new content that we have to take it step by step, one subject at a time!
Without further ado, we hope you enjoy the Jack of all Trades Update!

Hi everyone! If you took part in the survey we put together last September, you'll be happy to know that we've got some big changes coming real soon based on all your feedback, along with a heap of new content to look forward to!

In the meantime, however, we've put together another survey to see what you guys think of the work we've done based on that feedback so far. We'd really appreciate it if you could take the time to fill it out, and doing so will reward you with a Community Box, as well as giving you the chance to win a Rainbow Paintbrush which is being given away to one lucky respondent!

Hey all

After enough time of thinking, I've finally come to a conclusion that I am no longer in the condition or a proper state of mind to be able to keep managing and continuing working on DFS.