Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 16, 2017 - 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 ozfortress Season 19, ETF2L 6v6 Mid Season 27, and ETF2L Fresh Meat Challenge tournament medals
- Fixed multiple security issues reported by Justin Taft from One Up Security, LLC
- Updated the localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 3, 2017 - 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 UI not displaying the "Searching..." panel when queued for competitive matchmaking
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 2, 2017 - 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 Arms Race 3 community medals
- Added FBTF Cup 6v6 Season 4 tournament medals
- Players who leave a Casual or MvM match for any reason cannot be re-matched into the match in question for a few minutes
- Players who are vote-kicked from a Casual or MvM match cannot be re-matched into the match in question for several hours
- Fixed Competitive match history sometimes appearing as empty when connection to matchmaking servers is lost
- Fixed a crash when exiting the client
- Fixed teleporters teleporting players that respawn or change team during the teleport animation
- This fixes an exploit possible when playing on some "instant respawn" community servers
- Fixed the Neutron Star unusual effect being occasionally displaced after the player respawns
- Fixed Rescue Ranger bolts healing disposable sentries in MvM
- Fixed some text in the UI only displaying the first character on OS X and Linux
- Updated localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 15, 2017 - 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 Rainy Day Cosmetic Case and Rainy Day Cosmetic Key
- New community cosmetics case with 19 items
- Added the Snack's Summery Ultiduo Siesta tournament medals
- Fixed the vote menu erroneously hiding itself when the main menu is opened
- Updated localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 4, 2017 - 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 client crash on shutdown
- Added The Heartfelt Hug community medal for the hugs.tf charity event
- Updated localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 26, 2017 - 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 Windows XP clients being stuck in insecure mode
- Updated localization files
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 20, 2017 - 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 where players could remain Übercharged beyond the normal time period
- Added The Audio File for the Team Fortress 2 Soundtrack promo
- Added the CappingTV Ultiduo Summer Brawl 2017 tournament medals
- Updated the description for the Short Circuit to match the current behavior
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 14, 2017 - 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 crash when running on systems without AVX support
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 13, 2017 - 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 bug where players could see enemy health indefinitely when playing as Spy or Medic
- Fixed incorrect strings and HUD image for the Reflect powerup in Mannpower mode
- Added tournament medals and community medals
- ETF2L 6v6 Season 24, Season 25 and Season 26; ETF2L Highlander Season 11 and Season 12; ETF2L Ultiduo 6; ETF2L Highlander Open Season 2; RGB LAN; Chapelaria 6v6 Season 2; Chapelaria Ultiduo Season 1; Mappers vs. Machines
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 12, 2017 - 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:
- Internal updates to support future development
- These changes originally shipped to game servers only on March 14th
- Fixed regression from the toolchain beta causing the r_drawclipbrushes command to hang the game
- Fixed regression from the toolchain beta causing OS X players to be unable to join certain servers
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
March 30, 2017 - 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 UGC Highlander Season 19/Season 20, UGC 6vs6 Season 21/Season 22, and UGC 4vs4 Season 8/Season 9 tournament medals
- Added Gamers Assembly 2017 tournament medals
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
March 14, 2017 - 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:
- Internal updates to support future development
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
February 14, 2017 - 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:
- Improved Steam Voice support for servers that have enabled it
- Removed sv_use_steam_voice convar. Steam voice is now selected via "sv_voicecodec steam"
- Fixed demos not properly recording Steam Voice status, resulting in potential corrupt voice in demos with differing default settings
- Will now use the native Steam Voice sampling rate, instead of clamping to 11kHz
- Improved compatibility with Steam client beta
- Fixed OS X voice communication sounding high-pitched when using the default CELT voice codec
- Fixed an animation bug that would cause the client and server hitboxes to become out of sync
- Fixed the Scout not playing the correct animation when using the Shortstop's Alt-Fire to shove someone
- Fixed some missing VO sounds for the Scout when he picks up a baseball
- Fixed Spectators seeing the fake death notices for the Spy when he feigns death
- Fixed the Widowmaker not doing increased damage when the Sentry's target is a building, boss, or tank
- Fixed not earning Crikey meter progress with The Cleaner's Carbine when damaging a building, boss, or tank
- Fixed the Scout not getting assists for shoving players while using the Shortstop
- Fixed not being able to use non-tradable Giftapults
- Fixed powerups sometimes being removed from the game in Mannpower mode
- Fixed a case where the scoreboard would not update properly when players volunteer to switch teams in Casual mode
- Fixed a case where Casual servers would spontaneously terminate with "Server shutting down" upon losing connection with the matchmaking service
- Updated the logic used to pick the maps players can vote on in the end-of-match map vote on Casual servers to help maintain healthier game mode representation across regions
- Casual servers were often rotating to unrelated game modes during votes, resulting in partially filled servers in certain regions
- Updated the player_bodygroups that are hidden when equipping The Dark Falkirk Helm and The Sole Saviors
- Updated the model/materials for The Snowmann to fix some LOD issues
- Updated the localization files
- Added Gift Wrap back to the Mann Co. Store at a reduced price
- Added TF2Maps 72hr TF2Jam Winter Participant 2017 community medal
- Added Rally Call Charity Tournament community medals
- Added ozfortress Season 18 tournament medals
- Added new survey questions to the end-of-match survey for Casual and Competitive modes and fixed a bug where multiple surveys could be displayed at the same time
January 16, 2017 - 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 bug related to changing teams that caused various issues related to weapon projectiles, Engineer buildings and game modes
- Fixed using the wrong thumbnail images for pass_district, pass_timbertown, and pl_swiftwater
- Fixed the developer commentary audio files not being played properly
- Fixed not being able to taunt with the Cleaner's Carbine
- Added the LBTF2 6v6 Season 14 tournament medals
- Added an option to hide the 'View Promotional Codes' button in the main menu
- Can be toggled in the Adv. Options menu under the Miscellaneous Options section
- Updated the models/materials for the Special Snowflake 2016 and the Gift of Giving 2016 community medals
- Updated Mann vs. Machine mode
- Fixed a case where late-joining a Mann Up match during the final wave could result in erroneously receiving a ten minute cooldown
- Fixed a bug causing Invader's buildings to blow up if another Invader building of the same type is destroyed after the Engineer has died
Note missed from the Smissmas update:
- Fixed security issue reported by Amat Cama via GeekPwn
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
December 21, 2016 - 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 Winter 2016 Cosmetics Collection items not being marketable
Note missed from the previous update:
- The CELT voice codec is now the default for all game servers
- Community servers can enable use of the older steam voice codec with sv_use_steam_voice 1
