Team Fortress 2 Update Released

[Brick Tamland]

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. The major changes include:

• Love & War Update
  • Added 5 new weapons, 15 new taunts, and 43 cosmetic items for the Love & War update

  • Partner Taunts can now be performed with the opposing team

  • Added a new Taunt Loadout with 8 slots so multiple taunts can be equipped at the same time
    • Taunts are no longer equipped in the Action Slot

    • Pressing the Taunt key in game now brings up the new Taunt Selection menu

    • Pressing the taunt key while the Taunt Selection menu is open performs a weapon taunt, or joins a partner taunt
• Mann Co. Store
  • Added 15 new taunts and a taunt bundle

  • Added 5 new weapons and a weapon bundle

  • Added 44 new cosmetics and a cosmetic bundle

  • Added "Taunt" category into the store

  • Added Mann Co. Stockpile Crate Key

  • The "Hats" and "Misc" categories have been merged into "Cosmetics"
• Items
  • Added the Mann Co. Stockpile Crate to the droplist
    • Each Mann Co. Stockpile Crate can be repeatedly shuffled to contain a set of 4 possible items
  • Added the Mann Co. Audition Reel. Contains taunts and a rare chance at an unusual taunt

  • Updated Mann Co. Crates to display which Unusual Series they can potentially output

  • Added Bread Box Special Crafting Recipe. This recipe will no longer be available after July 9th, 2014. Items from the Bread box have a chance to be strange.

  • Added crafting recipes for newly added weapons

  • Added Killstreak Kits to MvM for newly added weapons

  • Added OzFortress Season 11 tournament medals
• Weapon changes and updates
  • With The Hitman's Heatmaker, pressing reload now activates focus when it is full

  • The Axtinguisher now does mini-crit damage from the front and full crit damage from behind to burning targets

  • The Bushwacka can no longer randomly crit

  • All mini-guns now have damage and accuracy ramp up after they start firing. Full accuracy and damage is reached 1 second after firing.

  • All Demoman stickybombs now have damage ramp up. Full damage is reached 2 seconds after firing.

  • Updated Loch-n-Load reload animation

  • Sentry bullets are now affected by damage falloff outside of sentry scan range

  • Sentry bullet damage has been changed so it calculates damage based on the sentry's position, not the Engineer's
• Misc Changes
  • Updated the Halloween holiday to automatically be enabled when the server runs an _event map

  • Added a check to prevent achievement announcement spam

  • Converted several weapon models to use the c_models system

  • Updated the localization files
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an exploit where charging Demoman could turn more than allowed

  • Fixed a bug where Halloween spellbooks were overriding PDAs and Disguise Kits

  • Fixed The Director's Vision taunt not playing both variations for the Pyro

  • Fixed the Pyro's spell audio not sounding like the rest of the Pyro's audio

  • Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause items to unequip themselves

  • Fixed a dedicated server crash related to using 'mp_forcecamera 0' with one player on the server

  • Fixed a regression with the trigger_gravity entity not correctly applying its settings

  • Fixed another exploit where Engineer buildings could build up a large amount of health

  • Fixed a server performance issue related to the item_teamflag entity

  • Fixed the itemtest command
    • Fixed cosmetics shared between multiple classes not rendering correctly

    • Updated the cosmetic item list to sort by name
• Map Fixes
  • Updated cp_granary
    • Removed collision from lights and small props protruding from walls

    • Fixed collision on fences

    • Fixed the tire props near Blu's forward spawn so players may no longer jump up to the spawn door platform

    • Fixed players shooting through gaps around forward spawn doors

    • Fixed door protruding through roof on Red's forward spawn

    • Fixed a collision bug that gave players access to the roof above Red's spawn door

    • Prevented players from building inside spawn room doors

    • Adjusted area portals to improve rendering and performance
  • Updated koth_harvest_final
    • Added metal panel prop to Blu building, which now mirrors the jump up on the Red side

    • Small performance increase through prop fade adjustments

    • Players can no longer build inside spawn doors
  • Updated pl_upward
    • Fixed physics debris triggering the payload carts finale explosion

 

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