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TF2 Update August 17th 2009

Acid Caribou — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:14:07 +0000

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

Team Fortress 2

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

TF2 Update August 14th 2009

Acid Caribou — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:28:00 +0000

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

Community requests

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

Massive TF2 Update Aug 13th 2009

Acid Caribou — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:31:00 +0000

August 13, 2009, 10:56 am – 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:
New Content

Added King Of The Hill game mode
Added custom animations played by the losing team during the post-win state. They are moved into third person camera to enjoy them
Added lots of new hats

Additions / Changes

Added "Auto Reload" option to the multiplayer advanced options
- Clip-based weapons that reload a full clip at a time can now have their reloads aborted by firing
Pistol now fires at a fixed rate, not based on the speed at which you press the firing button
Added a color blind option to add a Jarate icon above enemies who are busy accepting a terrifying existence where they have no dignity
Significantly reduced the amount of network traffic being sent
Capturing the flag in a CTF game mode gives the entire capturing team 10 seconds of critboost
Sappers attached to a teleporter automatically place another Sapper on the other end of the teleporter, if it exists
- Engineers wrenching a teleporter will repair the other end as well, and remove Sappers from both if they exist
Disguised Spies no longer trigger On-Hit effects (like the Blutsauger’s heal)
Removed self-inflicted minicrits. Fixes Jarate’d Soldiers/Demomen having ineffective rocket/grenade jumps
Added an item panel to the spectator cam that shows non-standard items being carried by the player you’re spectating
Added an "Inspect" key that allows you to look at items being carried by your team mates
Backpack improvements:
- Added drag & drop to move items around. Item positions are maintained on the backend
- Added multi-select, allowing you to delete multiple items at once
- Added a new key to the key binding page that opens your inventory directly to your backpack
- Fixed mouseover panel being incorrectly position when the backpack first appears
Cloaked Spies standing in valid backstab positions no longer raise their knife
Added current map name and gametype to the bottom right of scoreboard
Added class icons to tips on the loadout and loading screens
Improved visuals around flags when they’re being carried by a player
Improved critboosted visuals, making it much clearer when an enemy has critboost
Updated the loading panel to show the game type under the map name during level transition
In-game chat dialog now supports full Unicode characters
Added BLU main menu background
Added response caching for some server queries to help reduce the CPU load from DOS attacks
Teammates no longer block friendly radius damage. Prevents nearby teammates causing rocket/grenade jumps to fail

Map Changes

Update PLR_Pipeline
- Increased the starting advantage in the third round if a team has won the first two rounds
- Fixed carts not continuing to the second round if they’re capped at the same time in the first round
- Fixed being able to shoot pipebombs over the starting gates in the first round
- Fixed being able to open the doors in the first round before the setup time was finished
- Fixed players getting stuck in some doors
- Fixed players being able to get onto rooftops and out of the map boundaries
- Fixed other minor bugs and exploits
Added community map Arena_Offblast
Added community map Cp_Yukon
Update Arena_Sawmill
- Fixed DirectX8 bug where some models would not be visible
- Fixed exploit with building teleporters outside of the map
Updated CP_Granary
- Made a few changes to improve balance based on competitive community feedback

Item Reworks

The Force of Nature
- The enemy knockback now only works in close range and behaves more like the Pyro’s air blast
- Enemies cannot be juggled by the FaN’s effect
- The self-knockback has also changed to respect the firer’s view angle. Looking up while shooting will no longer propel the enemy upwards
- Knockback is now scaled by damage done
The Sandman
- A Scout will receive 1 point for stunning an enemy and 2 points for a long range stun
- Stunned players now take 75% of all incoming damage instead of 50%
- Ubercharged players can no longer be stunned
- Heavies spinning their mini-guns will continue to spin when stunned (whether the left or right mouse button is pressed)
- The minimum distance to stun a target has been reduced
- The negative attribute has changed from "no double jump" to "-25 max health"

Fixes

Fixed various issues around layout & presentation of items inside the Backpack and "X is carrying" item dialogs
Fixed an exploit that allowed players to work around sv_pure
Particle files are now protected by sv_pure
Fixed critboost effect getting stuck on when you die while critboosted
Fixed Timer HUD element backgrounds not being the correct color if you change teams during waiting for players
Fixed a couple of issues with the way critboosts affected The Huntsman and the Spy’s knife
Fixed an exploit where you could reload The Huntsman faster than intended
Fixed Heavy "civilian" exploit
Fixed a set of exploits using the DXSupport config files
Fixed r_screenfademinsize and r_screenfademaxsize exploits
Fixed sentries firing at a fully cloaked Spy if they’re still the closest target

Community requests

Added a HUD element for hybrid CTF & CP maps
- Supports 1 or 2 flags, and any number of CPs
- Mapmakers need to place a "tf_logic_hybrid_ctf_cp" entity in their map to enable it
Added custom kill server log text "train" and "saw" for deaths caused by these environmental hazards
- Format: "%s<%i><%s><%s>" committed suicide with "world" (customkill "%s") (attacker_position "%d %d %d")
Added new "medic_death" event for server logs
- Format: "%s<%i><%s><%s>" triggered "medic_death" against "%s<%i><%s><%s>" (healing "%d") (ubercharge "%s")
  - healing is the amount the Medic healed in that life
  - ubercharge (1/0) is whether they died with a full charge
Added "func_respawnflag" trigger entity. It will remove & return the flag if a flag carrier touches it, or if the flag falls into it

TF2 Updated Released: June 23rd, 2009

Matt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:39:45 +0000

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2, and Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2, Episode 1 & 2, and Portal

Added support for the Novint Falcon

General

Added an option to the advanced multiplayer menu to select left or right handed view models
Fixed a bug where a spectator’s wearable items could be seen floating around the player they were spectating
Fixed a bug where a fake Spy hand would appear on the screen of other players
Custom death animations now only play 25% of the time
Fixed teleporters not being build-able in some places where they should be (such as within the pit at the end of Badwater Basin)
Fixed rare client crash on connection and level change
Removed refract from water ripples caused by bullet impacts for performance reasons
Added log entries for player extinguished events using the medigun, jarate, flamethrower and dispenser
Started tracking localization settings to help make decisions regarding localization in the future
Fixed the blank progress bar in the upper-left of the screen when the client scheme is reloaded

Mapmaker requests

Added spawn flag to func_respawnroomvisualizer that allows it be non-solid to players
Added SetSolid input to func_respawnroomvisualizer to change solidity to players dynamically
Added OnWonByTeam1 and OnWonByTeam2 outputs to the TFGamerulesProxy

Sniper

Fixed a bad detection case in the “Friendship is Golden” achievement
Changed the description of the “Triple Prey” achievement so it better describes how to get it
Critical arrows now have a trail and correctly deal enhanced damage
The Huntsman now defaults to be right handed
Friendly arrows will no longer trigger the near miss sound on you
Fixed several sources of floating arrows

Spy

Fixed disguised Spies occasionally looking like they have invulnerability, instead of the correct fake Spy mask
Disguised spies will no longer lose their disguise weapon when they interact with a weapon locker
Fixed a bug where the spy’s watch would randomly change models during play
Fixed uncloaked spies flickering in and out of the cloak effect when taking damage
The Cloak and Dagger now always regenerates at its intended rate. Previously it only regenerated at the correct rate when the spy was cloaked
Increased the Cloak and Dagger regeneration rate slightly
Capped the rate of energy loss from moving faster than run speed (falling / air toss) while cloaked with the Cloak and Dagger
The Dead Ringer’s cloak consume rate has been slightly reduced, giving about an extra second of cloak time on a full meter
Emerging from the Dead Ringer’s cloak now drains up to 40% of the cloak meter instead of 100%. This drain only happens if the meter is at least 60% full
The Dead Ringer’s cloak meter can now be regenerated from ammo sources
The Ambassador now only crits when fully accurate and no longer penetrates enemies
The Spy can no longer change weapons from the knife while shocked by the Razorback
Force-A-Nature & Flamethrower air blast knockback effects no longer work on disguised spies
Fixed disguised Spies showing the wrong teleporter effects when using an enemy teleporter

AGN’s First Look at the New L4D Patch

Matt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:44:31 +0000

Add-Ons

Are Third Party Campaign (Made by the community), that will allow content authors to package their maps, movie posters, models, and textures into a single .VLK file. Installation of these add-ons are a simple double click to download and install.

If preferred you can download and then drag the file into the add-ons folder that will be added to your steam client in the next update. The Add-Ons option will be selected from the Extra’s menu on the Menu Main (See Below).

For the full first look head on over to Absolute Left 4 Dead