Team Fortress 2 Update Released
October 2, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Updated the timing of the Static Shock and Veno Shock unusual effects
- Updated the Seared Sorcerer to add a missing style
- Updated the Eye-See-You to add a missing style
- Updated the Handsome Devil to fix an issue with the materials
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
- Updated koth_megalo
- Fixed minor out of bounds teleporter exploit
- Added pumpkin bombs
- Updated pl_bloodwater
- Fixed misaligned textures
- Sealed displacement hole to the skybox near BLU spawn
- Brightened up point A
- Brightened up ambient lighting
- Fixed pumpkin bombs not spawning at point C and D
- Brightened up lighting behind point B
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
October 1, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
Scream Fortress XII has arrived!
- Featuring 4 new community maps: Megalo, Bloodwater, Hassle Castle, and Moldergrove
- Added the Wicked Windfall Case
- Contains 22 new community-created cosmetic items that make up the Wicked Windfall Collection
- Has a chance to give one of 6 new community-created Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item
- Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
- Added 19 new community-created Unusual effects
- 8 new effects for Unusual hats
- 11 new effects for Unusual taunts
- Added the Scream Fortress XII War Paint Case
- Contains 15 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Scream Fortress XII War Paint Collection
- Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
- All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they don't already have one
- Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations
- Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected
- All Halloween Contracts have been reset, allowing them to be completed again
- Added new Contracts for this year's featured community maps
- Completing a Halloween Contract will give players a classic Halloween item and the chance for a Wicked Windfall Case or Scream Fortress XII War Paint Case
- Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for your Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting the Soul Gargoyles that spawn in the maps
- All cosmetic and taunt Cases will grant Halloween 2020 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event. This does not include Crates.
- Join Halloween matches by using the Special Events category in Casual
- Scream Fortress XII runs through November 7th, 2020
General
- Added support for Steam Text Filtering for persona names and chat. This is enabled by default.
- You can update your settings in the Adv. Options dialog
- You can also update your settings by opting into the Steam Lab
- Updated The Cuban Bristle Crisis to add the smoke effect
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Mannpower Update
- Map Changes
- ctf_hellfire and ctf_gorge
- Flag return time increased from 15 to 30 seconds
- ctf_thundermountain
- Flag return time increased from 15 to 30 seconds
- Removed a fence top ledge that snipers could exploit
- Gameplay Changes
- Flag carrier grapple movement speed reduced
- Scout with no powerup or with Agility powerup – reduced to 0.8x regular grapple movement speed (down from regular grapple movement speed in previous version)
- Scout with any other powerup - 0.65x normal grapple movement speed (no change from previous version)
- Any other class without a powerup or with Agility powerup - reduced to 0.65x normal grapple movement speed (down from 0.8x in previous version)
- Any other class with a powerup - reduced to 0.5x normal grapple movement speed (down from 0.65x in previous version)
- Critical hit damage rules changed
- Weapons that score critical hit boosts on airborne targets will no longer do so in Mannpower since being airborne is a far more important and commonly utilized movement style than in the base game
- Melee weapons that score mini-crit damage no longer have their base Mannpower 1.3x damage boost
- Medic
- Free ride removed. Previously when healing a target, you’d be pulled along with them when they moved by grappling hook.
- Reduced heal rate and ubercharge build rate when carrying a powerup or healing someone with a powerup
- Medics carrying Haste or Agility are exempt from medic powerup checks
- If medic has no powerup and target has no powerup – regular heal and uber build rate
- If only one of the medic and the target has a powerup - half heal and uber build rate
- If both medic and target have powerups - quarter heal and uber build rate
- Removed overheal from targets carrying powerups
- Heavy
- Removed the jump up boost when grappling. You can still jump to disconnect the hook, but the Heavy no longer gets the height boost when doing so.
- Soldier
- Battalion’s Backup rage build rate reduced by 2.5x to counter the additional benefits of an extra 20hp and critical hit immunity when compared to the Buff Banner
- Engineer
- Carried buildings will now deploy instantly
- Scout
- Spy
- Backstabs disallowed if you’re connected to an enemy by the grappling hook. This applies if you’re hooked into someone or if they’re hooked into you.
- Knife deploy time is no longer instant when switching between weapons, even when carrying Agility
- Conniver’s Kunai no longer considers the victim’s powerup boosted health when taking damage dealt as health
- Haste buffs
- Reload speed increased from 2x normal to 4x normal
- Pyro flare gun re-fire rate increased from 2x normal to 5x normal
- Vampire changes
- Fixed a bug where the Vampire carrier wouldn’t receive health from damage dealt by an explosion that also caused self-damage
- Increased blast weapon clip size 1.5x
- Resistance changes
- Vampire no longer gets a 25% boost to their health received on melee attacks against a player carrying resistance
- Fixed bug where grapple would auto disconnect after a couple of seconds if the hook embedded in geometry behind clip volumes
- Game Balance Changes
- When the game detects a skill imbalance between teams, select players will be moved between teams to address the imbalance
- If a player is dominating the game for long enough (kills count is very high relative to the rest of the players in the game), they’ll enter a dominant state for a period of time. This state has these effects:
- Marked for Death
- Powerup modifications
- Reflect – maximum health reduced 400 to 320. Reflect damage reduced from 80% to 50%
- Vampire – damage resistance removed. No blast weapon clip size increase
- Strength – game multiplier reduced from 2x to 1.4x
- Regeneration – health regenerates at 70% of the regular rate
- Haste – weapon firing rate increase reduced from 2x to 1.5x.Weapon reload speed increase reduced from 4x to 2x
- Knockout – melee damage increase reduced from 1.9x to 1.4x
- King – max health increase reduced from 100 to 20
- Plague – damage resistance to infected players reduced from 50% to 20%
- Precision
- Sniper rifle - Scope speed increase reduced from 2x from 1.5x. Shot charge speed increase reduced from 3x to 2x. Damage bonus reduced from 2x to1.5x
- Blast weapons - Regular blast radius falloff. No clip size increase
- Resistance – damage resistance reduced from 50% to 35%
- Server variables associated with this feature:
- tf_powerup_mode_dominant_multiplier – the multiple over the server median that a player’s kill count needs to be in order to be determined dominant
- tf_powerup_mode_killcount_timer_length – the time interval to wait between tests for dominant players
August 27, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed bsp-embedded models caching rules to allow for reloading the correct model when transitioning to a different map
- Fixed a couple instances that were not correctly checking for anti-aliasing being disabled
- Fixed the name of the Replica Titanium Tank 2020 medal
- Updated The Flatliner to fix a problem when taunting
- Updated the Hazard Headgear to fix a problem with the material
- Updated the Crabe de Chapeau to add the smoke effect
- Updated The Sophisticated Smoker
- Fixed some clipping issues
- Added the smoke effect
- Updated the backpack image
- Updated the Hypno-eyes
- Added a style that was not included in the original release
- Updated the equip_region
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
August 21, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Added the Summer 2020 Cosmetic Case
- Contains 22 new community-contributed items
- Adds 4 new community-created Unusual effects
- Fixed an issue where values computed from server bounded ConVars could be incorrect on the client and therefore possibly exploitable
- Fixed Australium Medigun/Wrench items not dropping for the Mann vs. Machine rewards
- Fixed the chat window not always being restored to the appropriate place
- Fixed Competitive badges not displaying correctly
- Increased the default caps_per_round for Mannpower mode
- Updated the Watch Streams dialog to open the Twitch page
- Updated cp_granary with a permanent Soldier statue
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 3, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Accounts that are unable to chat in matchmaking are now also restricted from sending voice chat
- Fixed a bug where cosmetic items in the second and third equip slots would be un-equipped
- Fixed matchmaking badges not displaying the correct tier in the scoreboard and other dialogs
- Added matchmaking badge and time connected to the Report Player dialog
- Updated the vote kick process to automatically vote Yes for anyone who hasn't already voted if the target for the vote leaves the server
- Updated the Mute Player dialog to have the same information as the Report Player dialog
- Updated item schema with community fixes from Andrés S. (rabscootle)
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 24, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Added rate limit checks for in-game text chat
- Accounts that are unable to chat in matchmaking can no longer update their in-game name while connected to the server
- Fixed being able to update team name while in matchmaking games
- Fixed seeing the RED team skin for the TF2VRH while on the BLU team
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 16, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Restricted certain new accounts from using chat in official matchmaking modes
- Work is ongoing to mitigate the use of new and free accounts for abusive purposes
- Added "Enable text chat" and "Enable voice chat" options to the top of the Advanced Options dialog to disable in-game text and voice chat
- Updated the Report Player dialog to include more details so players can make informed decisions about who they're reporting
- Fixed getting the "Incoming message..." quest HUD notification when you've already completed all available quests
- Fixed the OnDestroyed output not getting fired when an object is destroyed by the Red-Tape Recorder
- Updated The Telefragger Toque to fix swapped materials
- Updated The TF2VRH headset to include on/off styles
- Updated the PASS Time Federation medals to fix issues with them not drawing correctly
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 1, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Added a tribute to Rick May, voice of the Soldier
- Fixed a client crash related to malformed custom spray files
- Fixed an exploit where sentry guns could fire through thin walls
- Fixed confirm dialog showing the error model for some items when using paint cans
- Updated the Aim Assistant and Telefragger Toque to fix jigglebones issues
- Updated the ConTracker font to fix missing characters in some languages
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 27, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed Heavy exploit related to infinite overheal
- Updated localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 7, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed a server crash exploit
- Updated localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
January 18, 2020 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed an exploit related to the Heavy being invisible
- Fixed an LOD problem with the Citizen Cane
- Fixed a materials problem with the Glittering Garland
- Fixed the Mislaid Sweater hiding the hat
- Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
December 19, 2019 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Updated Pebbles the Penguin to fix a problem with the Heavy's version of the model
- Updated Discovision to fix a paint problem
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
December 16, 2019 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
Happy Smissmas 2019!
- All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.
- Event runs through January 7th, 2020
- Added the Winter 2019 Cosmetic Case
- Contains 18 new community-contributed items
- The Festivizer can be found as a bonus drop when opening the case
- Added the Winter 2019 War Paint Case
- Contains 10 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Winter 2019 Collection
- Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
- Added 17 new community-created Unusual effects
- 11 new effects for Unusual hats
- 6 new effects for Unusual taunts
- Mann Co. Store winter sale!
General
- Updated several maps to fix localization issues
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
November 21, 2019 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Updated several maps to fix localization issues
- Updated/Added some tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
October 24, 2019 - TF2 Team
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed seams in the Halloween skybox
- Added European Bball League Season 3 tournament medals
- Updated the localization files
- Updated pl_precipice_event_final
- Adjusted prop fade distances for improved performance near control point A and control point B
- Adjusted flank route direction between control point C and control point D
- Lowered the high-ground flank at control point A to make it accessible for Scouts
- Changed the small health kits to medium sized near the cliff edge choke path
- Updated koth_bagel_event
- Fixed an instance where a player with incredibly unlucky timing could become trapped inside the underworld exit room
