Team Fortress 2 Update Topic

hmmmm... If you took the time the listen to the dev's commentary on TF2, it's sad to realize how they put a lot of effort in character and world design to make TF2 highly enjoyable and coherent, and how now they are just ruining all this work. Getting new weapons / skins is good, but hell, not so often ! I still don't have some of the polycount update x_X

 

Content: 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, HL2M)

* Further improved engine handling of server queries.


Team Fortress 2

* Added Rift promotional items
o New items: Sun-On-A-Stick and Sharpened Volcano Fragment.
o New achievement: Riftwalker
* Updated several more models with optimizations and new LODs.
* Fixed seeing a partial health bar in the upper left corner of the spectator menu.
* Fixed the control point progress bar not being aligned properly when using cl_hud_minmode 1.
* Fixed the The Essential Accessories hiding the Scout's hat/headphones.
* Updated sounds for the Brass Beast.
* Updated the Scottish Resistance stickybombs to always glow if they will be detonated by a right-click, including the stickybombs under the Demoman's feet.
* Changed default crosshair to be more opaque, like the custom crosshairs.
* Fixed some missing surfaces on the bottom of the Pyro's mask.
* Fixed the assister's name not being listed in the Fish humiliation and kill notices.
* Fixed the Force-a-Nature not drawing correctly in the character loadout screen.
* Engineers who hit teammate's sentry guns with their wrench now get kill assists from that sentry.
* Made the Jag gift wrappable.
* Fixed seeing a badge on the player when a noisemaker is equipped.
* Fixed particle effects on the Hustler's Hallmark.
* Added FCVAR_DONTRECORD flags to 'bind,' 'bind_mac,' 'unbind,' 'unbind_mac,' and 'unbindall' so they can't be recorded into a demo (fixes having your keys changed when you watch a demo).
* Updated Cp_Granary
o Added a new entrance to the mid Red/Blue ramp rooms.
o Clipping, lighting and perf improvements.
* Tournament mode HUD fixes
o Fixed seeing an empty alert tray under the stopwatch timer.
o Fixed a bug where the time for the tournament mode stopwatch wasn't being displayed.
o Fixed the countdown when both teams are ready always reading "0 seconds"

 

Ffs Valve >_> Releasing promotional weapons as new models for unlockables, instead of the stock weapons. Until this ridiculous promo, I managed to get them all, some of which I'll never use because they're just plain caps that nobody prefers over a hat or vanilla weapons that are deprecated by an unlock. Not the mention the game is more or less a "stranger" and overpriced for such promo. Now all spoiled Pyros with rich parents will be running around with that :|

 

these are the first promo items with actual stats am i rite?

 

yeas, anyway, i just wait, while this items become craftable.

 

I think Robin is on holiday.

 

I think they should just think of some other alt fire for the Backburner because it's like kickzebukkit says, even though it has an increased ammo cost, it's still an upgraded flamethrower in the right hands

 

Hell yeah, more stupid game- and balance-breaking tweaks. And lags, don't forget about lags.

 

It's a plain upgrade now. A skilled pyro doesn't need to spam it and knows where to get his ammo. No need for the regular one any more in the Beta. Only fools use it there.
And the increase is only for the Backburner.

 

I used the new lock and load in the beta and it's really awesome there. 1 hitting scouts and snipers is an awesome thing. With some practice you should be able to get a 7/10 accuracy because it goes faster. Than you can beast with it.

 

yeh, otherwise we would have been testing hats.

 

FINALLY thundermountain might be somewhat balanced when cart is at the tower. Was so easy for dual scout to just pump the cart up to top.