Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 8, 2011 - 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
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 3, 2011 - 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
- 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
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 31, 2011 - 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 Magicka promotional item
- Fixed the targetID panel not drawing in first-person spectator mode
- Fixed the main menu showing through the shopping cart menu when running at 2500x1600
- Updated some of the tips that are displayed while the server is changing maps
- Updated the webapi output to include the names of the attached particles
- Updated the gamehaptics.txt file
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released
May 25, 2011 - Valve
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, HL2:DM)
- Fixed a client crash when disconnecting from servers with sv_pure set to 1
- Fixed a client crash in the material system
- Fixed a client crash caused by using alt-tab while playing
Team Fortress 2
- Added the Concheror and the Fishcake to the list of weapons allowed in Medieval mode
- Fixed a few server crashes caused by the replay system
- Fixed a server crash caused by the vote system
- Fixed the notification text being clipped when you receive items
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released
May 19, 2011 - Valve
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, HL2:DM)
- Fixed another case where the $ignorez material flag could be used as a cheat
Team Fortress 2
- Extended the Saxxy contest deadline to 11:59:59 PM GMT, Friday, May 20th, 2011
- Fixed the third-person camera options dialog not displaying correctly in the Replay performance editor
- Fixed a rare case where users running Service Pack 3 on Windows 7 64-bit with graphics driver version 12.42 saw a graphical glitch on the main menu Options button
- Updated the Three-Rune Blade, Hero's Tail, and Sign of the Wolf's School items so they can be crafted and traded
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released
May 18, 2011 - Valve
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:
Important notes
- If you were previously crashing on startup, please have Steam verify the integrity of your game cache
- Update your game to the most current version
- Right-click on the game and select "Properties"
- Click on the "Local Files" tab
- Click on the "Verify Integrity of Game Cache" button
- If you were previously crashing when connecting to a server, please run once with "-autoconfig" to reset your graphics state
- Update your game to the most current version
- Right-click on the game and select "Properties"
- Click on the "General" tab
- Click on the "Set Launch Options..." button
- Add "-autoconfig" to the launch options and click OK
- Restart your game
- After doing this, you should remove -autoconfig from your launch options
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Fixed several client crashes on game startup, shutdown, and replay interaction
- Updated the materials used on models to ignore the $ignorez flag, to make it harder to create wallhacks on sv_pure 0 servers
Team Fortress 2
- Added an Advanced Options button to the main menu to allow tweaking of many gameplay options
- Fixed server crashes related to replays and new items
- Added "per_class_loadout_slots" and "attribute_controlled_attached_particles" sections to the GetSchema WebAPI call
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 13, 2011 - 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:
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- Fixed a server crash caused by a mismatched items schema
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 12, 2011 - 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 a “Show in Backpack Order” setting to the loadout slot select screen
- This flag also affects the Quickswitch dialog
- Updated the Furious Fukaamigasa, the Hero's Hachimaki and the Connoisseur's Cap to be craftable
- Updated the localization files
- Replay
- Added a new command line parameter “-replay” that will increase maxplayers by 1 at startup and automatically execute replay.cfg for the server
- Fixed another bug that caused Mac replay renders to be blurry
- Fixed a bug where Replay FTP offloading was not using "replay_fileserver_offload_port"
- Improved detection of Replay server config problems
- Replay is automatically disabled on servers if the Replay publish test fails
- Saved Replay movies that were exported as TGA's/WAV will report more descriptive errors if YouTube(TM) upload or "Export" is attempted
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 10, 2011 - 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
- Removed the ability to delete the craft count attribute from items
- Made the "Hottie's Hoodie" craftable
- Replay
- Fixed a server lockup during data cleanup
- Fixed a viewmodel fov bug during rendering
- Renamed the ConVar "replay_demolifespan" to "replay_data_lifespan"
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released
May 9, 2011 - Valve
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, HL2:DM)
- Fixed a client crash in the material system
Team Fortress 2
- Replay publishing system will try to do a rename for local HTTP mode but will manually copy and delete the file if the rename fails, which can happen if the source and destination are on different volumes.
- Fixed threading issues on Linux, which was causing major lag spikes.
- Fixed replay data cleanup system, which cleans up stale data at the end of each round. This asynchronous operation can be explicitly invoked by executing a replay_docleanup command on the server.
- Removed unused convar, replay_cleanup_time.
- Saxxy fanfare music wasn't playing on music channel. Music will only play once per launch now and will not play on a changelevel
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released
May 6, 2011 - Valve
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, HL2:DM)
- Fixed more crashes related to Alt-Tab in fullscreen mode on Windows
- Removed ConVars "r_portalscloseall" and "r_flashlight_version2" to fix a wallhack exploit
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed a server crash caused by players committing suicide
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a bug that caused Mac replay renders to be blurry
- Fixed a client crashed caused by using custom main menu resource files
- Fixed a bug when crafting class tokens
- Fixed a paint bug on the Aperture Labs Hard Hatz
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 5, 2011 - 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:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Fixed an OpenGL crash for Mac players
- Fixed several crashes related to Alt-Tab in fullscreen mode on Windows
- Fixed client crash caused by invalid mesh
- Updated shared interfaces to support the new Replay feature in TF2
Counter-Strike: Source
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2
- Added the Replay feature: http://www.teamfortress.com/replayupdate
- Known issue with Mac replay rendering being blurry will be fixed in the next update
- Launched the First Annual Saxxy Awards: http://www.teamfortress.com/saxxyawards
- Added 8 new Replay achievements
- Added 10 new hats
- Added The Director's Vision, an item that provides you with a new taunt
- Fixed a problem with certain equippable items rendering incorrectly on the loadout screen
- Fixed a problem causing the Mann Co. store previews to render incorrectly
- Crafted items will now remember/display who crafted them
- Added a reward for the early crafters of new items
- Added a new style to the Aperture Labs Hard Hat
- Added a new style to the Blighted Beak
- Fixed bugs with the refurbish items interface so that some properties will no longer be un-removable under certain circumstances
- Fixed the briefcase not being drawn on players when it's being carried in CTF maps
- Fixed the Gloves of Running Urgently not using the correct skin in the character loadout screen
- Fixed the Kritzkrieg not drawing the correct model in the character loadout screen
- Fixed the Horseless Headless Horsemann displaying the burning material in DirectX8
- Fixed the Aperture Labs Hard Hat displaying the burning material in DirectX8
- Fixed removing the burning/jarated conditions on players who are being critboosted by a Medic using the Kritzkrieg
- Added Mad Milk to the conditions that are cleared when players are made invulnerable by a Medic with an ÜberCharge
- For web developers: added tool and capability information to the IEconItems_440/GetSchema Web API
April 28, 2011 - 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 content for upcoming promotions
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 20, 2011 - 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
- Fixed a crash on startup for Mac clients
- Fixed class names/descriptions not showing up on the class menu
- Fixed a bug that allowed the Crit-a-Cola to be used repeatedly with no cooldown
- Fixed the character loadout panel not animating at the correct rate
- Fixed the Sticky Jumper and the Stickybomb Launcher using the wrong skins
- Updated the Grimm Hatte and the Pyromancer's Mask with changes from the community creators
- Added more instructions to the Engineer training regarding metal resources
- Added new styles to the Troublemaker's Tossle Cap
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 18, 2011 - 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
- Fixed a server crash that could occur if TFBots were used across map changes
- Fixed a client crash caused by weapons with attached models
- Fixed a material system crash
- Fixed a client crash with dynamic model loading
- Fixed a few backpack images not drawing correctly
- Fixed listen servers sometimes not authenticating with Steam (not being able to use Offline Practice)
- Fixed the "itemtest" command
- Fixed players not being able to access their backpack loadout
- Updated the localization files
