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Team Fortress 2 Update Released

November 2, 2009, 6:47 pm - Valve - Product Update

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 Bill's Hat for players who pre-purchase Left 4 Dead 2
  
• Fixed client-side perf problem after changing levels on Koth_Harvest_Event
  

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

October 29, 2009, 6:20 pm - Valve - Product Update

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 community map: Koth_Harvest
  
• Added a Halloween edition called Koth_Harvest_Event
  
  • Contains a variety of Halloween related features: New hats, achievements, exploding pumpkins, ghosts, and more!
    
• Updated the CTF, Arena, and KOTH versions of Sawmill
  
  • Fixed Engineer exploit
    
• Added check to prevent clients from sending empty or all whitespace names to the server
  
• Fixed "item_found" announcements coloring the player names if the player has :: in their name
  
• QuickSwitch improvements
  
  • Added key input so you can cycle through it using the slot input keys
    
  • Added all loadout slots (not just primary, secondary, and melee)
    
  • Removed duplicate entries (should only see 1 flaregun, etc.)
    
  • Fixed a few small layout & empty slot bugs
    
  
  Community requests
  
  • Updated item_teamflag with flags to toggle the trail effects: 0 none, 1 all, 2 paper only, 3 color only
    
  • Added a "both" selection to the invalid winners field for team_control_point_master and team_control_point_round entities
    

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

October 14, 2009, 2:00 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Added "+quickswitch" command, which brings up a small panel allowing you to rapidly change the loadout of your current class & active weapon slot
  
• Added server ConVar "tf_teamtalk" to allow alive/dead teammates to talk with each other during a match (default is 0)
  
• Added 1/2 Bonus Point for healing a teammate with a dropped sandvich
  
• Updated the class menu to show the local player's current class
  
• Updated server ConVar "tf_playergib" to have 3 settings for player gibs: 0: never, 1: normal, 2: always (default is 1)
  
• Updated "player_hurt" game event to include "damageamount" and "crit" values
  
• Fixed a rare crash in particle system
  
• Fixed being able to eat your sandvich (via taunt) and drop it in the same frame
  
• Fixed not correctly remembering the last weapon if you're using "remember active weapon" and the last weapon was the weapon in slot 0
  
• Fixed Medic not being able to release his UberCharge if his team won the previous round and the Medigun was his last active weapon (while using "remember last active weapon")
  
• Fixed not remembering the last active weapon correctly if the player didn't die before the next round restart
  
• Prevented servers from using steam:// commands in their MOTD text
  
• Fixed using the regen cabinets to get more health than you should when you switch between weapons with/without max health reduction attributes
  
• Fixed friendly-fire/spectator exploit using projectiles
  
• Fixed disguised spies not getting ammo from enemy dispensers
  
• Fixed thrown sandvich traveling through players before being activated
  
• Fixed sandviches sometimes spawning inside walls, or being thrown through thin walls
  
• Fixed fire overlay drawing on hats in DX80
  
• Fixed an exploit that allowed servers to corrupt client's item database
  
• Fixed full packet updates showing cloaked Spies for an instant
  
• Fixed a prediction error resulting in mis-predictions of crits
  

• Added new "func_flag_alert" entity that fires an alert when a player carrying a flag starts touching the entity
  
• Added server ConVar "bot_crouch" to make bots crouch
  
• Added model override for item_teamflag entity
  
• Added ability to turn off particle trail for players carrying the item_teamflag entity
  
• Updated team_train_watcher to support 8 cp/track links (was previously 4)
  

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

September 15, 2009, 3:21 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Engine

• If the installation is an HLTV relay we allow clients to connect as HLTV clients even if tv_enable is set to false. A recent exploit fix made it such that we ignore the flag indicating that the client is an HLTV client if tv_enable is false, but it is possible that relays won't have this ConVar set
  

• Backpack improvement
  
  • Added support for 100 slots in the backpack
    
  • Backpack can now be sorted by type
    
  • Multi-selection in the backpack is now done by holding down the Ctrl key
    
• Alt-fire on the Sandvich now drops sandviches
  
  • A single sandvich can be dropped at a time. Dropping the sandvich removes it from the Heavy
    
  • A Heavy can regain his sandvich by collecting a healthkit while already being at full health
    
  • Eating a sandvich using the taunt method now heals a Heavy to full health
    
  • Dropped sandviches heal 50% of the collector's health
    
• Medic regen changes
  
  • Base regen amount increased from 1/sec to 3/sec
    
  • Regen amount increase since time of last damage decreased from 3x to 2x
    
  • End result of above: Old healing scaled from 1/sec to 3/sec based on time since being damaged (maxed out at 10 seconds). New healing scales from 3/sec to 6/sec
    
• Blutsauger
  
  • Replaced "No critical hits" negative attribute with "-2 health drained per second on wearer"
    
  • Health drain stacks on top of the above Medic regen changes, lowering the base regen by 2h/sec
    
• Added "mp_windifference" server ConVar (default to 0)
  
  • When set to X, matches will be considered won if a team gets X points ahead of the other team
    
• Added a "Remember the active weapon between lives" option to the Multiplayer->Advanced options dialog
  
• Added "Disable weather effects" option to the Multiplayer->Advanced options dialog
  
• Added "Show non-standard items on spectated player" option to the Multiplayer->Advanced options dialog
  
  • If set (default), it'll show non-standard items being carried by the player you're spectating
    
• Tournament mode changes
  
  • New item whitelist allowing tournaments to control what items can be used by players
    
  • Added "item_whitelist_example.txt"
    
  • Added "item_show_whitelistable_definitions" command to get a list of whitelistable items
    
• Added Tournament mode Spectator HUD
  
  • Added "Use advanced spectator HUD in tournament mode" option to the Multiplayer->Advanced options dialog
    
  • Shows all the members of your team (or both if you're a spectator) at the top of the screen, along with class/health/respawn time/charge level
    
  • Spectator indices are now shown on the team members, and hitting the corresponding weapon selection key (slot1-slot12 commands) will spectate them
    
• Changed idle player check to include spectators & players who haven't chosen a team
  

• Fixed explosive radius detection using an axially aligned box instead of a sphere
  
  • Compensated by increasing the radius of grenades, pipes, and rockets to 50% of what they lost at the corners of the OBB
    
  • Grenades/Pipes radius change: 132->159
    
  • Rocket radius change: 121->146
    
  • End result of above: Explosives have had their radius reduced at some angles, and increased at others. Radius is now consistent, angles are now irrelevant
    
• Fixed Sniper using the reference pose if he has the Huntsman deployed when his team loses
  
• Fixed Spies speaking their response rules lines after killing a player as the class they were disguised as
  
• Fixed Medics getting MedicCallerPanels in their HUD for cloaked enemy Spies disguised as their team
  
• Fixed the Huntsman not firing crit arrows when the Sniper is being CritBoosted
  
• Fixed being able to fire the Huntsman under water if you jump into the water with the arrow charged
  
• Added check to prevent clients using the "firstperson" command to get out of thirdperson view while they're phasing, taunting or control stunned
  
• Fixed Halo glow effect not being hidden for cloak/disguised enemy Spies
  
• Fixed wearables not destroying their attached particles when they're removed
  
• Fixed several player & viewmodel simulation issues that occurred when the game was paused
  
• Fixed a DX8-based exploit that allowed modified particle effects to work under sv_pure 2
  

• Added the entindex() of the object being built to the "player_builtobject" game event
  
• Added flag to allow CTF map authors to turn off the Overtime mode when timers expire
  
• Added IgnitePlayer input to TFPlayer
  

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

September 2, 2009, 2:10 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed "not on camera object" particle effects appearing while spectating in-eyes, and not appearing when in thirdperson
  
• Fixed inventory bug that caused some item pickups not to be shown
  
• Added support for client explanations of backend inventory manipulation
  

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

August 31, 2009, 3:01 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Added "tf_allow_player_use" server ConVar to control players executing +use while playing (defaults to 0)
  
• Fixed a bug where full backpacks resulted in an item being repeatedly found each time the game is started
  
• Fixed being able to burn players/buildings that are in the water while standing outside the water
  
• Fixed teleporting Spies getting stuck in enemy players standing on the exit
  
• Fixed server log not listing telefrag kills as weapon "telefrag"
  
• Fixed the Pyro's airblast pushing Spectators in free-look mode
  
• Fixed Pyro's Hadouken killing Scouts that have used Bonk! and are phasing
  
• Fixed freezecam screenshots sometimes being saved outside the Screenshots folder
  
• Fixed deathnotice and server log entries not using the unique item names/icons when buildings are destroyed
  
• Fixed a case where the weapon selection menu wasn't drawing the images of non-standard items if the player was using hud_fastswitch 1 and using slot7-10 to view the panel
  
• Fixed CTF HUD not centering the flag panel if there is only one active flag
  

• Added the ability to set a parent for the item_teamflag entity
  
• Added OnPickUpTeam1 and OnPickUpTeam2 outputs to the item_teamflag entity
  
• Added intro movie .mp3 files to the sound/misc folder
  

Team Fortress 2/Day of Defeat: Source Update Released

August 21, 2009, 1:39 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Orange Box Engine

• Fixed an exploit that allowed files to be uploaded to the server at arbitrary locations in the file system
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by a client packet claiming to be an HLTV client when HLTV is disabled on the server
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by spoofing a client disconnect message
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by sending malformed reliable subchannel data
  
• Fixed a server crash related to unbounded settings on some convars
  

• Bullet spread algorithm changed to fire a bullet right down the crosshair under these circumstances:
  
  • The first bullet of a spread weapon (except for rapid fire spread weapons like the minigun)
    
  • The first bullet of a non-spread weapon if it's been >1.25 seconds since firing
    
• Added a "Disable HTML MOTDs" option to the multiplayer->advanced dialog
  
  • Added "motdfile_text" convar to servers, which allows them to specify a text file that’s shown instead of the HTML MOTD to clients who've turned on this option
    
• Fixed radius damage not tracing out of enemies when the explosion occurs within them
  
  • Fixes rockets & grenades doing no splash damage when fired point blank into enemies
    
• Added missing snowpuff particles for DX8 players (honest)
  
• Restored LOD for the Demoman player model
  
• Fixed being able to alt-fire with the fists while stunned as a Heavy
  
• Fixed CTF_Sawmill not ending the map when mp_timelimit hits during the middle of a round
  
• Fixed the "The Big Hurt" achievement not being awarded for players who already have the required count
  
• Fixed sv_pure not reloading the map's custom particle file
  
  • Custom particle effects contained within maps must now be placed in the \particles directory
    
• Fixed another case where items weren't being validated properly in class loadout slots
  

• Removed centerprint texts for TF_FLAGTYPE_INVADE CTF game mode
  
• Changed TF_FLAGTYPE_INVADE CTF game mode capture reward from 10 kills to 1 capture
  
• Added OnCapTeam1 and OnCapTeam2 outputs to the item_teamflag and func_capturezone entities
  
• Fixed HUD "carried" image for the TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND and TF_FLAGTYPE_INVADE CTF game modes using the wrong team color
  
• Fixed dropped flag for the TF_FLAGTYPE_INVADE CTF game mode using the wrong skin
  

Team Fortress 2/Day of Defeat: Source Update Released

August 17, 2009, 3:56 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Day of Defeat: Source

• Fixed an engine crash
  

• Updated PL_Hoodoo. Changes from community mapmaker Tim Johnson:
  
  • "Added a balcony at 2-1 that I've rotated and cleaned up so it's a much better point, it attracts less sentry spam but is still holdable. 2-2 has a bit more breathing room and the one way route between BLU/RED spawn in stage 3 has gone and in its place some stairs up to the second level accessible from BLU's side."
    
• Added "tf_ctf_bonus_time" ConVar to set the CritBoost bonus time for capturing the intelligence (0 to disable it)
  
• Added "tf_arena_first_blood" ConVar to toggle the first blood feature in Arena mode (0 to disable it)
  
• Added missing snowpuff particles for DX8 players
  
• Fixed rocket jumping
  
• Fixed sticky bomb attachment to props. They will now only ignore the saws in sawmill
  
• Fixed Scouts going into reference pose in double jumps
  
• Fixed the Ubersaw not displaying team colors
  
• Fixed Spies disguised as RED Scouts not cloaking properly
  
• Removed two more text messages for TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND CTF game mode
  

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

August 14, 2009, 4:40 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed "r_rootlod" being marked as a cheat, which prevented it from being changed and caused a significant performance loss for some GPUs
  
• Changed "The Big Hurt" Scout achievement to be "Stun 2 Medics that are ready to deploy an UberCharge."
  
• Fixed Announcer overtime bug on KOTH servers using mp_timelimit
  
  • Due to many requests, added server ConVar "tf_overtime_nag". When set to 1, it keeps the broken announcer behavior
    
• Fixed tournament stopwatch not displaying the time in the HUD
  
• Fixed a bug with cloak meter regen and drain rates
  
• Fixed Spies not being able to go invis while reloading
  
• Fixed pipebombs sticking to saw blades
  
• Fixed weapons not being hidden properly during loser state anims
  
• Fixed a case where radius damage didn't reduce damage to self
  
  • Fixes Demomen taking too much damage from their pipebombs
    
• Fixed a case where items would never show up in the backpack, even though they were available to equip
  
• Fixed a case where items weren't being validated properly in class loadout slots
  

• Removed centerprint texts for TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND CTF game mode
  
• Changed TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND capture reward from 30 kills to 1 capture
  

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

August 13, 2009, 10:56 am - Valve - Product Update