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Published on December 06, 2025

Update 10/26/25: It's so over. The day after issuing this fix, and scant hours after this article [[link]] was published, the Valve janitor sprang into action. for Team Fortress 2 has "reverted BLU Scout pants fix because it conflicts with too many existing cosmetics."


The update's notes "Fixed BLU Scout using the incorrect team color pants." The news that [[link]] one of Team Fortress 2's characters has apparently been running around in the wrong trousers for such a long time has, needless to say, caused consternation, shock and awe around one of the most excitable-slash-resigned fanbases out there. It also has amusing implications about Scout's ability to get himself dressed.

The change can be seen in the below comparison image:

"Honestly the fact that most pants cosmetics are now gonna be mismatched forever is hilarious," , though I'm pretty sure it's not him.

Much other reaction runs along the memey lines of "TF2 is finally playable!" and "game is saved!" alongside expressions of the opposite, and a general underlying disquiet that everyone's been playing with the wrong color pants for this long without noticing. Except one: YouTuber Shounic posted a video last year titled "Scout's pants is the wrong color" in which he shows that the Photoshop file for the Scout's textures has the BLU team pants layer disabled.

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So credit where it's due: Scout's pants was the wrong color. Shounic uploaded another short video in response to the change showing a few of the cosmetic issues changing this texture has caused, though amusingly enough he also notes that the zombie Scout model was accurately updated.

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Needless to say it's the subject of all the top posts on the , with MrCheggersPartyQuiz that "almost 20 years later, this game still fixes things that I never thought were broken in the first place."

The line of the day though goes to Mx. Bean: "Bug so old it could have enlisted with parental consent."

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Finally, the TF2 community has further outdone itself: The Scout having the wrong trousers for 17 years is now the subject of a from WelfareGorilla. Excerpt: "Them pants is meant for Red team scouts, [[link]] you're supposed to be wearin' a pair of dandy blue ones!"

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