Game Not Starting After Patches

So, after these Wintersday updates are being applied automatically, I can no longer run the game. It started with the patch for the snowball glitch where none of your skills would change, and the wrong map would be loaded. I re-installed and the game ran perfectly. Now, there was another and it wont run again. I've re-installed twice, and I'm fed up and don't want to deal with it again. Anyone else having this problem? It seems like no one is, which is making this even more frustrating.

Thanks for reading, hope you can help me out here. First post, long time lurker.

Did you try the "-image" feature to force-download all the updates manually?

i get this too, restarting your comp should fix it

Thanks, restarting worked!