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Team Fortress 2 Update Released


Brick Tamland
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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 2013!

  • All Players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Gift-Stuffed Stocking! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries.

  • Added community-contributed winter event items

  • Added the Giftapult, which can be used to launch gift items to randomly-chosen online players

  • Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. Store

  • Premium Players will receive a Secret Saxton to give to another player

  • Item grants from previous events (including the Spirit of Giving and the Winter Holiday noise maker) have been re-enabled for all players, including those who deleted their earlier grants
Weapons
  • Battalion's Backup
    • Added +20 max HP passive for the wearer
  • Concheror
    • Added +2 health per second passive for the wearer
  • Crit-a-Cola
    • Reduced consumption penalty from +25% extra damage to +10%
  • Diamondback
    • Now also gains a critical attack on successful backstab kills
  • Flying Guillotine
    • Alt-Attack now also throws the Guillotine when active
  • Short Circuit
    • Attack sped up greatly

    • Ammunition cost has been lowered to 5 metal per attack

    • Players and Buildings are only targeted if in range and in front of attacking player

    • Improved visual effects
  • Soda Popper
    • Hype no longer grants mini-crits

    • Added Hypemode which grants up to 5 extra air jumps when active

    • Hypemode is triggered by Alt-Attack when hype is full
  • The Beggar's Bazooka has been updated to use the same taunt as The Direct Hit

  • Professional Killstreak Mantreads, Splendid Screen and The Chargin' Targe now generate proper effects when on a killstreak. These effects do not stack if another killstreak effect weapon is active.
Cosmetics
  • "Head" and "Misc" slots for player loadouts have been converted to Cosmetic slots. All items that were previously Head- or Misc-slot-specific can now be equipped in any Cosmetic slot.

  • Unusual effect positioning can now be adjusted for all Cosmetic-slot items

  • Unusual Circling Effects have been given a new origin

  • Unusual effects for all Cosmetic-slot items are now visible in the loadout panel and character HUD

  • Fixed the Wiki Cap clipping with the Demoman's head
Mann vs. Machine
  • Fixed being able to inspect Blue-team bots

  • Fixed the mission victory screen not always showing the correct information for each player

  • Fixed some clipping issues with the stats in the scoreboard
General
  • Fixed an exploit where players could move around while using a taunt to attack enemies

  • Fixed an exploit related to the Rocket Jumper and the Soldier's grenade taunt

  • Fixed killstreaks attained via healing not being considered for round-end win panel

  • Fixed the killstreak hud indicator position in minmode

  • Fixed Taunt Kills strange scores not incrementing properly for the Strange Scorch Shot

  • Fixed strange scores on cosmetic items sometimes failing to increment

  • Fixed gift-wrapped items not showing their interior item to the wrapping player in some conditions

  • Fixed Steam Sale items granted from Snow Globe crafting not being listable on the Steam Community Market

  • Improved bot navigation in cp_gorge

  • Improved bot navigation in pl_upward

  • Updated several materials to fix issues caused by mat_picmip

  • Updated the backpack to filter to automatically filter for valid items when using a tool

 

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