Team Fortress 2 Update Released

[Brick Tamland]

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:

 

Mann vs. Machine

• Operation Two Cities
  • Two new maps: mvm_mannhattan and mvm_rottenburg

  • New advanced tour featuring four missions

  • Two extra Boot Camp-only missions
• Added 14 new achievements

• Tour of Duty badge levels are no longer limited to 200

• Players can earn a "Refund Upgrades" credit by collecting money during waves
  • The amount required is listed in the scoreboard, and varies per-mission

  • Any money collected whether winning or losing will count toward earning a credit

  • To redeem, visit an Upgrades station and click the "Refund Upgrades" button

  • Any money spent on buy-backs and Canteen charges will not be refunded
• Detailed player performance stats added to the scoreboard
  • Damage and Tank. Total damage done to Gray Mann's forces.

  • Healing. Direct healing done to other players.

  • Support. A composite value that reflects anything a player has done to help their team:
    • Examples: reset a bomb, stun or slow an enemy, provide increased damage, block damage with invulnerability or shield, and lots more.
  • Money. The amount each player has collected.
• Players can inspect upgrades on teammates via the "Inspect" key ("I" by default)

• Fixed the Romevision tank not animating

• Medic
  • Revive (no upgrade required)
    • Teammates leave behind a revive marker when they die

    • Target the marker with your medigun to revive them
  • Projectile Shield Upgrade
    • Build Energy by healing teammates, reviving and preventing damage via Invuln ÃœberCharge.

    • Press ATTACK3 to activate when Energy meter is full (mouse3 by default)

    • While active:
      • Blocks all enemy projectiles

      • Damages enemies on touch
  • Mad Milk Syringes Upgrade
    • Syringe Gun needles apply Mad Milk (heal-on-hit for teammates) on contact
  • Healing Mastery Upgrade (previously two separate upgrades)
    • +25% heal rate per point

    • +25% revive rate per point

    • +25% self-regen rate per point
  • Overheal Expert Upgrade (previously two separate upgrades)
    • +25% more overheal per point

    • +50% duration per point
  • Canteen Specialist Upgrade
    • Shares canteen charge effects with heal target

    • +1 second charge duration per point

    • -10 canteen charge price per point
• Soldier
  • Rocket Specialist Upgrade
    • +15% rocket speed per point

    • On direct hits
      • Stuns target (duration increases per point)

      • +15% increased blast radius per point

      • No range-based falloff damage
• Heavy
  • Attack Projectiles Upgrade
    • Now has two levels
      • Level one is less effective than before

      • Level two is more effective than level one used to be
    • Price reduced from 600 to 400 per point
  • Rage Pushback upgrade activation moved to ATTACK3 (mouse3 by default)

General

• Added a new community map cp_snakewater_final1
  • Added new map stamp and strange filter to the Mann Co. Store
• Added new achievements for Snakewater, Process, and Standin

• Older event crates no longer expire on login, but have been updated to indicate they can no longer be opened

• about:blank should now be a legal URL and won't get blocked for MOTD

• Fixed bots using the Phlogistinator being able to airblast enemies

• Fixed the stock Shotgun not appearing in the backpack with "Show stock items" option turned on

• Fixed a problem causing map stamp leaderboards to not update under certain circumstances

• Weapons
  • Baby Faces Blaster
    • Speed penalty changed to -10% (From -35%)

    • Boost is now only partially lost on air jumps instead of all jumps

    • Reduced Clip Size to 4

    • Removed 40% more accurate attribute

    • Removed Damage Penalty attribute

    • Speed at max boost is same as before (520)
  • Amputator
    • Added -20% damage penalty

    • Added +3 health per second when Weapon is Active bonus
  • Crusaders Crossbow
    • Updated damage over distance: bolts now do a maximum of 75 damage (+variance) at max distance
  • Liberty Launcher
    • Added 25% reduced self damage from rocket jumps
  • Eyelander
    • Moved the eye glow position to Demomans eye patch. Changed the color to Cursed green.
• VR Mode
  • Now supports resolutions other than 1280x800

  • Now supports cloning the main display (instead of using the Rift as an extended display)

  • Sharpness of the output has been significantly improved

  • Head-and-neck model has been fixed to remove unnecessary translation

 

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