Jun 10, 2011
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Team Fortress 2 - 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
Jun 8, 2011
The Best Team Fortress 2 Players Can Now Sell Their Names For Advertising
Team Fortress 2

Danish advertising firm Uncle Grey, in an effort to hire the kind of people they were looking for, decided against paying magazines and newspapers and websites for job ads, and instead paid some Team Fortress 2 players instead.


Those players had to change their names to that of the company, and while playing had to run around putting up posters advertising the vacant positions.


It's a neat idea as a one-off, sure, but I have to avoid enough spruikers as it is when I go out in the real world. If i have to put up with them in Team Fortress 2 as well, I will not be pleased.


[thanks Gaetan!]


Jun 8, 2011
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Team Fortress 2 - 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
Jun 8, 2011
The Saxxy Awards Are Almost Here!
Team Fortress 2 - SZ
<a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/saxxyawards/winners.php"><img src="http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/spy_saxxy.png" height="273" width="420" border="0"></a><br /><br />

Hot damn! We're just minutes away from live-feeding the First Annual Saxxy Awards, and the anticipation is thick here at TF headquarters. Why? Because tonight, <strong>we are going to announce a contest winner every five minutes until someone dies!</strong> Hold on, there's somebody at the door. Keep rereading this paragraph until we get back.

Okay, we're back! Valve's lawyers said we need to make it clear that absolutely nobody is going to die as a result of these awards, and that we should erase that last paragraph. But guess what? We can't! We're live-feeding this blog post too! There's no going back! We're working without a net here. Literally anything could happen! Except for us claiming someone will die as a result of these awards, because we had to sign a pretty serious-looking stack of papers just now guaranteeing we will not mention it again.

What we can tell you is that all twenty of tonight's winners are going home with a <strong>handsome 100% Australium-plated Saxton Hale statuette</strong>, which'll look great on your virtual mantle, and even better buried waist-deep in the skull of one of your enemies, since it's also an in-game melee weapon. So technically we were right, and someone IS going to die as a result of these awards. Hold on, there's someone at the door again. While we go see who it is, why not settle in with a bowl of popcorn and <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/saxxyawards/winners.php">click on over to the awards</a>, which by the time you finish reading this might have already started.
Jun 8, 2011
The Saxxy Awards Are Almost Here!
Team Fortress 2 - SZ




Hot damn! We're just minutes away from live-feeding the First Annual Saxxy Awards, and the anticipation is thick here at TF headquarters. Why? Because tonight, we are going to announce a contest winner every five minutes until someone dies! Hold on, there's somebody at the door. Keep rereading this paragraph until we get back.

Okay, we're back! Valve's lawyers said we need to make it clear that absolutely nobody is going to die as a result of these awards, and that we should erase that last paragraph. But guess what? We can't! We're live-feeding this blog post too! There's no going back! We're working without a net here. Literally anything could happen! Except for us claiming someone will die as a result of these awards, because we had to sign a pretty serious-looking stack of papers just now guaranteeing we will not mention it again.

What we can tell you is that all twenty of tonight's winners are going home with a handsome 100% Australium-plated Saxton Hale statuette, which'll look great on your virtual mantle, and even better buried waist-deep in the skull of one of your enemies, since it's also an in-game melee weapon. So technically we were right, and someone IS going to die as a result of these awards. Hold on, there's someone at the door again. While we go see who it is, why not settle in with a bowl of popcorn and click on over to the awards, which by the time you finish reading this might have already started.
Jun 8, 2011
The Saxxy Awards Are Here!
Team Fortress 2


Hot damn! We're just minutes away from live-feeding the First Annual Saxxy Awards, and the anticipation is thick here at TF headquarters. Why? Because tonight, we are going to announce a contest winner every five minutes until someone dies! Hold on, there's somebody at the door. Keep rereading this paragraph until we get back.
Jun 6, 2011
Saxxy Awards Show - LIVE! Wednesday, June 8th @ 3:00PM PDT
Team Fortress 2 - SZ
<img src="http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/the_awards_show.png" height="182" width="420" border="0">

Tune in for the First Annual Saxxy Awards Show <strong>LIVE at 3:00PM PDT this Wednesday, June 8th</strong>! We'll be revealing a new category winner every five minutes! That's one hundred frantic, furious minutes of award-bestowing! As far as we know, nobody has ever attempted to hand out this many awards in so short a time.
Jun 6, 2011
Saxxy Awards Show - LIVE! Wednesday, June 8th @ 3:00PM PDT
Team Fortress 2 - SZ


Tune in for the First Annual Saxxy Awards Show LIVE at 3:00PM PDT this Wednesday, June 8th! We'll be revealing a new category winner every five minutes! That's one hundred frantic, furious minutes of award-bestowing! As far as we know, nobody has ever attempted to hand out this many awards in so short a time.
Jun 6, 2011
Saxxy Awards Show - LIVE! Wednesday, June 8th @ 3:00PM PDT
Team Fortress 2
Jun 3, 2011
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Team Fortress 2 - 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
    • The Maul
  • 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
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