Team Fortress 2 Update Released
November 21, 2013 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
Mann vs. Machine
- Operation Two Cities
- Two new maps: mvm_mannhattan and mvm_rottenburg
- New advanced tour featuring four missions
- Two extra Boot Camp-only missions
- Added 14 new achievements
- Tour of Duty badge levels are no longer limited to 200
- Players can earn a "Refund Upgrades" credit by collecting money during waves
- The amount required is listed in the scoreboard, and varies per-mission
- Any money collected – whether winning or losing – will count toward earning a credit
- To redeem, visit an Upgrades station and click the "Refund Upgrades" button
- Any money spent on buy-backs and Canteen charges will not be refunded
- Detailed player performance stats added to the scoreboard
- Damage and Tank. Total damage done to Gray Mann's forces.
- Healing. Direct healing done to other players.
- Support. A composite value that reflects anything a player has done to help their team:
- Examples: reset a bomb, stun or slow an enemy, provide increased damage, block damage with invulnerability or shield, and lots more.
- Money. The amount each player has collected.
- Players can inspect upgrades on teammates via the "Inspect" key ("I" by default)
- Fixed the Romevision tank not animating
- Medic
- Revive (no upgrade required)
- Teammates leave behind a revive marker when they die
- Target the marker with your medigun to revive them
- Projectile Shield Upgrade
- Build Energy by healing teammates, reviving and preventing damage via Invuln ÜberCharge.
- Press ATTACK3 to activate when Energy meter is full (mouse3 by default)
- While active:
- Blocks all enemy projectiles
- Damages enemies on touch
- Mad Milk Syringes Upgrade
- Syringe Gun needles apply Mad Milk (heal-on-hit for teammates) on contact
- Healing Mastery Upgrade (previously two separate upgrades)
- +25% heal rate per point
- +25% revive rate per point
- +25% self-regen rate per point
- Overheal Expert Upgrade (previously two separate upgrades)
- +25% more overheal per point
- +50% duration per point
- Canteen Specialist Upgrade
- Shares canteen charge effects with heal target
- +1 second charge duration per point
- -10 canteen charge price per point
- Soldier
- Rocket Specialist Upgrade
- +15% rocket speed per point
- On direct hits
- Stuns target (duration increases per point)
- +15% increased blast radius per point
- No range-based falloff damage
- Heavy
- Attack Projectiles Upgrade
- Now has two levels
- Level one is less effective than before
- Level two is more effective than level one used to be
- Price reduced from 600 to 400 per point
- Rage Pushback upgrade activation moved to ATTACK3 (mouse3 by default)
General
- Added a new community map cp_snakewater_final1
- Added new map stamp and strange filter to the Mann Co. Store
- Added new achievements for Snakewater, Process, and Standin
- Older event crates no longer expire on login, but have been updated to indicate they can no longer be opened
- about:blank should now be a legal URL and won't get blocked for MOTD
- Fixed bots using the Phlogistinator being able to airblast enemies
- Fixed the stock Shotgun not appearing in the backpack with "Show stock items" option turned on
- Fixed a problem causing map stamp leaderboards to not update under certain circumstances
- Weapons
- Baby Face’s Blaster
- Speed penalty changed to -10% (From -35%)
- Boost is now only partially lost on air jumps instead of all jumps
- Reduced Clip Size to 4
- Removed 40% more accurate attribute
- Removed Damage Penalty attribute
- Speed at max boost is same as before (520)
- Amputator
- Added -20% damage penalty
- Added +3 health per second when Weapon is Active bonus
- Crusader’s Crossbow
- Updated damage over distance: bolts now do a maximum of 75 damage (+variance) at max distance
- Liberty Launcher
- Added 25% reduced self damage from rocket jumps
- Eyelander
- Moved the eye glow position to Demoman’s eye patch. Changed the color to Cursed green.
- VR Mode
- Now supports resolutions other than 1280x800
- Now supports cloning the main display (instead of using the Rift as an extended display)
- Sharpness of the output has been significantly improved
- Head-and-neck model has been fixed to remove unnecessary translation
