Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 18, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Added a music clip from Meet the Medic to the menu startup music list.
- Fixed a case where stickybombs could sometimes damage enemies on the other side of a wall.
- Updated duels to apply a short duel ban to the loser if they team switched or disconnected during the duel.
- Updated The Private Eye so it can be equipped by the Medic and Demoman.
- Updated Crafting:
- Added a new "Custom Blueprint" option to the Special blueprints
- Made these items craftable: Copper's Hard Top, Security Shades, Tam O'Shanter, Stately Steel Toe, Nessie's Nine Iron, Rogue's Col Roule, Prairie Heel Biters, and The Big Steel Jaw of Summer Fun
- Removed the redundant Smelt Primary/Secondary/Melee/Misc item blueprints.
- Updated Matchmaking:
- Added a progress bar and server count during the matchmaking search
- Added more filtering on the master server to avoid pinging non-matching servers
- Community Requests:
- Mod makers:
- Added inputs to the player:
- "SetCustomModelRotation": Parameter is a string that specifies the angle rotation (Pitch, Yaw, Roll)
- "ClearCustomModelRotation". No parameter. Will return the model rotation to following the player view yaw.
- Restarted the player's animation cycle whenever the custom model changes.
- Movie makers:
- Added "tf_clientsideeye_lookats" convar. Set it to zero to disable TF players automatic clientside pupil focusing on nearby players.
July 7, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Added FCVAR_NOT_CONNECTED back to the ConVar fps_max to prevent client cheats
- Fixed a bug with playback of SourceTV demos
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a bug where Medics using the Quick-Fix could easily identify disguised Spies
- Fixed a bug where healing a Scout while they change class in the spawn room would allow the Medic to keep the Scout speed
- Fixed a bug with honorbound weapons allowing themselves to be holstered before getting a kill
- Improved matchmaking logic
- Fixed a case where players were being matched to full servers
- Updated the localization files
- Updated Pl_Barnblitz
- Reduced Blue respawn time at cap 1
- Fixed cart not allowing overtime when it has to stop at the turn table
- Fixed players getting stuck in spawn doors when blue captures a point
- Fixed spawn doors staying open when points are captured
- Various clipping and exploit fixes
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released
July 5, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Fixed a Linux dedicated server crash in vphysics.so
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 1, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Fixed a case where servers would accumulate ghost players
- Fixed bug with SourceTV and Replay causing player count to be off by one.
Team Fortress 2
- Added lots of new Summer items, including the Refreshing Summer Cooler Key
- Added a new achievement: Escape the Heat
- Fixed a case where the client-side voting dialog would have an incorrect list of items
- Fixed a bug where some items would not update their team colors correctly
- Fixed a client backpack crash
- Updated the Lo-Fi Longwave to be paintable
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 28, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a case where CritBoost effects were being removed from players being healed.
- Fixed a problem with Arena mode first blood CritBoost not removing itself at the correct time.
- Fixed a bug where Demomen kept their leftover charge amount when self-aborting charges (you'll still keep leftovers when stopped by enemy airblasts)
- Fixed the problem that was causing Strange Demoman shields to not accumulate kills.
- Fixed a bug where the Reserve Shooter would minicrit against swimming targets.
- Tomislav spin-up reduction has been reduced from 75% to %40 (so it now spins-up slower)
- Made the Jumper's Jeepcap and Pocket Medic craft-able.
- Updated the bot navigation files for several maps.
- Added an entry for "Call Vote" to the Options->Keyboard Settings, so you can bind a key to it.
- Updated the gamehaptics file:
- Added/Refined recoil/draw/crit/reload forces for all of the new weapons in the Uber Update.
- Refined all Rocket Launcher Forces recoil forces to feel more true to recoil animation.
- Tuned Brass Beast recoil to have less of an impact on your aiming reticle.
June 27, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Reduced CPU usage for idle servers
Team Fortress 2
- Added the Splendid Screen, Ali Baba's Wee Booties, and the Mantreads to the whitelist for Medieval mode
- Added a server console message when a player is sent to the server via the matchmaking system
- Fixed the cl_gameserver_list output
- Fixed the Quick-Fix showing the fire overlay when running in DX8
- Fixed a problem with team paints not being displayed properly when playing
- Fixed a display problem with Hatless hats
- Fixed a problem that prevented the new Scout items from being used in crafting recipes
- Fixed a problem with clients seeing the incorrect vote options after changing servers
- Fixed the backpack image for the Schadenfreude not being disabled when using paint
- Updated the Planeswalker Goggles to not hide the Scout's hat/headset
- Updated the taunt items to be nameable
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 24, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Added the Splendid Screen, Ali Baba's Wee Booties, and the Mantreads to the whitelist for Medieval mode
- Added a server console message when a player is sent to the server via the matchmaking system
- Fixed the cl_gameserver_list output
- Fixed the Quick-Fix showing the fire overlay when running in DX8
- Fixed a display problem with Hatless hats.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the new Scout items from being used in crafting recipes
- Updated the Planeswalker Goggles to not hide the Scout's hat/headset
- Updated the taunt items to be nameable
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released
June 23, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Updated the shared interfaces for the TF2 Free To Play update
- Updated the shared localization files
Team Fortress 2
- TF2 is now Free To Play
- Added the Uber Update: http://www.teamfortress.com/uberupdate/
- Added PL_Barnblitz, a new Payload map
- Added all kinds of new goodies!
- The Main menu now has a "Start Playing" option which presents users with various game modes to choose from. Once selected, the game matches the player into the best available server for that mode.
- The Crafting interface has been redesigned to accommodate the fact that crafting blueprints are always known to players now.
- The Item selection screen in Loadouts has been redesigned to support selection among a larger number of items.
- Training improvements:
- New training user interface
- Added "A,W,S,D" movement instruction to Soldier training
- Added ammo instruction to Engineer training
- Clarified many instructional strings
- Added new voting sounds
- Fixed various Coaching bugs
- Fixed various gameplay bugs
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 17, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Added a new command line option: -strictportbind
- If you launch the game with this option it will quit with an error message if it can't bind to the default or specified port
- Fixed a server crash caused by the replay system
- Fixed a server crash caused by disguising spies
- Fixed a server crash on startup caused by writing to the console
- Fixed a server crash triggered during entity cleanup
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 15, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed some server replay publishing bugs
- Added a new ConVar “replay_fileserver_offload_aborttime”
- Any replay publishing thread that takes longer than replay_fileserver_offload_aborttime seconds will be killed
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 14, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Added the Spiral Knights promotional hat
- Updated The Superfan, The Essential Accessories, and The Hero's Hachimaki so they can be painted
- Updated The Conjurer's Cowl and The Maul so they can be crafted and traded
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 10, 2011 - Valve
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a problem related to spawning multiple entities unnecessarily between mini-rounds
- Fixed a bug that caused players to see the wrong backpacks on some classes
- Fixed a problem with honorbound weapons not allowing themselves to be holstered after killing a Spy using the Dead Ringer
- Fixed the Ubersaw and the Vita-Saw not displaying the Medic's ÜberCharge progress
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 8, 2011 - Valve
Team Fortress 2
- Added the Saxxy
- Updated the kill icons
- Updated the vote system
- Added a convar to prevent voting on the next level if one has already been set (sv_vote_issue_nextlevel_prevent_change)
- Fixed scrambleteams resetting how many rounds have been played
- Updated mp_scrambleteams to support a parameter of 2, which prevents resetting the number of rounds that have been played
- Fixed the server automatically creating votes while in training or using itemtest
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 3, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Added the Red Faction promo item
- Added upcoming promo items for Magic: The Gathering
- Added additional community submitted response rules
- Doubled the item drop rate for the next week
- Updated the Conjurer's Cowl to be paintable
- Updated the webapi output to include the names of the drop_type and holiday_restriction fields
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 31, 2011 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Added the Magicka promotional item
- Fixed the targetID panel not drawing in first-person spectator mode
- Fixed the main menu showing through the shopping cart menu when running at 2500x1600
- Updated some of the tips that are displayed while the server is changing maps
- Updated the webapi output to include the names of the attached particles
- Updated the gamehaptics.txt file
