Team Fortress 2 Update Released (8/19/2008)
August 19, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Added 3 Heavy unlockables
- Natascha, The Sandvich, The Killing Gloves of Boxing
- Added 35 new Heavy achievements
Added Arena game mode
- 5 arenas: Lumberyard, Ravine, Well, Granary, Badlands
Added 2 new maps
- Badwater Basin, a new payload map
- cp_steel, a community map by Jamie "Fishbus" Manson
Changes
- Added server map timeleft to upper right of scoreboard
- Added new firing sounds to The Backburner
- Removed the Custom Tab in the serverbrowser, and added the Tags field to the base Internet Tab
- Increased The Kritzkrieg's uber-charge rate bonus from 10% to 25%
- 32 player servers can now support an extra slot of SourceTV
- Made the freezecam item panel description easier to read
- Players now broadcast whether they chose a team directly or use autoteam
- Added proper handling of cart blocking recognition to Payload maps
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where switching from flaregun-wielding Pyro to another class meant you didn't get a full ammo loadout on first spawn
- Fixed Spy watch arm not using team skins
- Fixed weapon switching preventing you from using secondary attacks for a 0.2s window after the primary became available
- Fixed players getting stuck in a bad animation state when class switching while spinning the minigun
- Fixed a loophole that allowed players to pickup weapons of other classes
- Fixed a bug that resulted in players earning more crit chance bonus in large, single damage events than they are supposed to
- Fixed an issue with the floating HUD +X health indicators that resulted in them appearing incorrectly
- Fixed a bug which caused the minigun spinning & firing sounds to occasionally stop while the Heavy was still firing
- Fixes the Loadout player model panel causing the in-game player facial animation to perform incorrectly
- Fixed spectators not having the target ID labels display correctly
- Fixed the cart alarm sound occasionally getting stuck on in Payload maps
August 4, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed _resetgamestats command causing server crash.
- Fixed clients earning achievements when a player they've recently damaged suicides
Team Fortress 2 Update Released (7/29/2008)
July 29, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed team switches on Attack/Defense maps spamming the console
- Fixed the Kritzkrieg not working on servers with crits turned off
- Fixed some clipped localized strings in various in-game dialogs
- Fixed several cases where files were synchronously loaded while the game was running
- Fixed a shutdown crash in the material system
- Cached rendering of item model panels to improve performance, in particular while weapon selection was visible
- Added a gear symbol behind the health bar for Engineer buildings, in both target IDs and freeze panels
- Players killing themselves will now give a kill credit to the last enemy who damaged them
- Fixed grenades, rockets, and flamethrower being able to fire through grates at round starts
- Fixed players being killed and creating ragdolls during team switches
- Fixed various exploits and performance problems in CP_Badlands, CP_Well, and CP_Fastlane
- Removed health bonus from the Backburner
Team Fortress 2 Update Released (7/8/2008)
July 8, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed rcon crash caused by too many incorrect password attempts
- Fixed clients experiencing connection problems during round restarts
- Fixed flares not always being removed on impact
- Fixed 32 player servers not working correctly with SourceTV enabled
- Fixed dropped flags sometimes falling through the world
- Fixed number key menu input sending 2 key events
- Fixed PING field being clipped in the scoreboard at 800x600 resolution
- Fixed broken Medigun taunt
- Changed mat_showmiplevels to only be allowed when cheats are on
Team Fortress 2 Update Released (7/3/2008)
July 3, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed a memory leak affecting both clients and servers
- Fixed a malicious packet exploit
Team Fortress 2 Update Released (7/1/2008)
July 1, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed backburner's flame critical hits not being recalculated after collision. This meant that it would check if the target was looking away once and after that the flame could score a critical hit again even if the orientation changed
- Added back some damage falloff to the Pyro's flamethrower. Not nearly as extreme as it was before the Pyro class pack
- Fixed bug that caused Demomen to take a small amount of extra damage from their own grenades and fly farther using them
- Fixed spy getting stuck in players after removing his disguise
- Fixed spy stabbing and being able to go invisible instantly
- Fixed spy disguised as enemy medic being able to spam voice commands
- Fixed buffed health not decaying properly after being healed by a dispenser
- Selectable menus can now be operated with number keys even if they are not bound to slot1, slot2, etc.
- Removed the remaining speed adjustments for carrying intelligence (a couple of game modes still reduced your maxspeed)
- Fixed a buildable item placement bug where the object would not rotate after the user tried to place in an invalid location
June 23, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Reduced Medic's unlockable requirements to match that of the Pyro's. Medic players now meeting the requirements will receive their unlockables shortly after joining a server
- Fixed Spy sapper viewmodel animation popping
- Fixed another issue with the Hot on your Heels achievement
- Incorporated the new Russian fonts into the base Team Fortress 2 fonts. Fixes the missing fonts problem when running in Russian with English VO
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 20, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed "Hot on your Heels" counting non-flamethrower based kills
- Fixed some Pyro achievements not working on some servers
- Fixed Compression Blast and Flare Gun trail particles on DX8
- Fixed Spy cloaked as Scout in response rules for all classes
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 20, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed "Hot on your Heels" counting non-flamethrower based kills
- Fixed some Pyro achievements not working on some servers
- Fixed Compression Blast and Flare Gun trail particles on DX8
- Fixed Spy cloaked as Scout in response rules for all classes
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 19, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
- Added 2 community maps: cp_fastlane and ctf_turbine
Pyro
- Added alt-fire compression blast to the basic flamethrower
- Added The Axtinguisher, The Backburner, and The Flare Gun
- Hadouken taunt now kills people it hits
- Tuned the flamethrower hit detection to improve detection versus retreating opponents
- Removed Flamethrower's damage falloff (was falling off to 25% by the end)
cp_well
- Added a route from the forward central foyer up to the battlements
- Redistributed health and ammunition throughout the bases
ctf_well
- Added a route from the forward central foyer up to the battlements
- Removed central building, reduced overall map length
- Redistributed health and ammunition throughout the bases
Other Notes
- Removed Soldier's 40% damage reduction from his own rockets. Does not affect rocket jumps
- In-game avatar images will now have a badge around them if the player is your friend
- Fixed bug that allowed players to move around in a reference pose
- Added custom death icons for unlockable weapons
- The player join team message now specifies whether the player used the auto team option
- Payload maps now support four control points per stage
- Achievement dialog will stay open when you're moving in & out of the game and the main menu
- Added full Russian localization, with both fonts & speech
- Returned the "Report a Bug" option to the main menu
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 11, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Allow Mods to set which ConVars control the sv_tags settings
- Support custom Russian TF2 fonts
- Particle rendering/simulation performance increase (missed from the previous update)
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 9, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Particle rendering/simulation performance increase
- Changed video options initialization to fix some HUD resolution problems in mods
- Fixed crash issuing the last disguise command when not connected to a server
- Fixed rare crash on exit
- Fixed a couple of issues with gamestats reporting incorrect values
- Fixed an exploit that allowed clients to crash servers
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 21, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed mat_queue_mode crash during level transitions
- Fixed rapid weapon switching allowing Medics to prevent deployed UberCharges from draining
- Improved prediction of Spy's speed changes when disguising
- Fixed Stopwatch panel not updating if level designer ends round by hand instead of letting the gamerules end it
- Optimized particle traces on multi-core machines
- Fixed tracers sometimes firing with the wrong team color
- Fixed rapid-fire weaponry critical hit checks getting out of synch between the server and client
- Fixed map exploits in Gold Rush
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 9, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed several issues with the Family Practice achievement. Players with 10/10 progress that have not been awarded the achievement will get the achievement the next time they UberCharge any Steam friend
- Fixed toggle-fire option for the Medigun preventing players from earning the Second Opinion achievement
- Fixed The Kritzkrieg not charging faster than the Medigun
- Fixed issue that was preventing players from using their new Medic items on some servers
- Fixed melee weapons not being affected by The Kritzkrieg's critboost
- Fixed Server Browser sometimes refreshing in the background on startup when it wasn't visible
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 7, 2008 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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- Fixed clients getting the "Reliable snapshot overflow" error
- Fixed another unlimited UberCharge exploit
- Fixed elevators not working in user maps
- Networking optimizations
