Team Fortress 2 Update Released
December 20, 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:
Happy Smissmas 2013!
- All Players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Gift-Stuffed Stocking! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
- Added community-contributed winter event items
- Added the Giftapult, which can be used to launch gift items to randomly-chosen online players
- Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. Store
- Premium Players will receive a Secret Saxton to give to another player
- Item grants from previous events (including the Spirit of Giving and the Winter Holiday noise maker) have been re-enabled for all players, including those who deleted their earlier grants
Weapons
- Battalion's Backup
- Added +20 max HP passive for the wearer
- Concheror
- Added +2 health per second passive for the wearer
- Crit-a-Cola
- Reduced consumption penalty from +25% extra damage to +10%
- Diamondback
- Now also gains a critical attack on successful backstab kills
- Flying Guillotine
- Alt-Attack now also throws the Guillotine when active
- Short Circuit
- Attack sped up greatly
- Ammunition cost has been lowered to 5 metal per attack
- Players and Buildings are only targeted if in range and in front of attacking player
- Improved visual effects
- Soda Popper
- Hype no longer grants mini-crits
- Added Hypemode which grants up to 5 extra air jumps when active
- Hypemode is triggered by Alt-Attack when hype is full
- The Beggar's Bazooka has been updated to use the same taunt as The Direct Hit
- Professional Killstreak Mantreads, Splendid Screen and The Chargin' Targe now generate proper effects when on a killstreak. These effects do not stack if another killstreak effect weapon is active.
Cosmetics
- "Head" and "Misc" slots for player loadouts have been converted to Cosmetic slots. All items that were previously Head- or Misc-slot-specific can now be equipped in any Cosmetic slot.
- Unusual effect positioning can now be adjusted for all Cosmetic-slot items
- Unusual Circling Effects have been given a new origin
- Unusual effects for all Cosmetic-slot items are now visible in the loadout panel and character HUD
- Fixed the Wiki Cap clipping with the Demoman's head
Mann vs. Machine
- Fixed being able to inspect Blue-team bots
- Fixed the mission victory screen not always showing the correct information for each player
- Fixed some clipping issues with the stats in the scoreboard
General
- Fixed an exploit where players could move around while using a taunt to attack enemies
- Fixed an exploit related to the Rocket Jumper and the Soldier's grenade taunt
- Fixed killstreaks attained via healing not being considered for round-end win panel
- Fixed the killstreak hud indicator position in minmode
- Fixed Taunt Kills strange scores not incrementing properly for the Strange Scorch Shot
- Fixed strange scores on cosmetic items sometimes failing to increment
- Fixed gift-wrapped items not showing their interior item to the wrapping player in some conditions
- Fixed Steam Sale items granted from Snow Globe crafting not being listable on the Steam Community Market
- Improved bot navigation in cp_gorge
- Improved bot navigation in pl_upward
- Updated several materials to fix issues caused by mat_picmip
- Updated the backpack to filter to automatically filter for valid items when using a tool
