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Apparently Team Fortress 2 will be receiving a major update tomorrow, changing everything from specific map details to releasing a new map titled "Badlands". The update, which is stated to be the largest since its release last year, is to be released tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM EST. The update will be available for all Team Fortress 2 PC players, and can be retrieved by simply restarting your Steam Client.
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While the major release for Team Fortress 2 may have come and gone, don't think for a second the developers aren't hard at work thinking up new ways to annihilate our enemies. In fact, a new update is already in the works that will focus on tweaking the Soldier, Demoman, Pyro, and the Engineer classes. According to an email response to Fortress fans, we can expect to see some great new changes and tweaks that should breathe more new life into the game.
The highly anticipated Team Fortress 2 update was released by Valve this evening. The update features loads of new features including the new capture the flag map CTF_Well. As always simply restart your Steam client for the updates to take effect.
Valve announced yesterday that they have made the beta version of the SDK available for Orange Box modders (Episode 2, TF2, Portal). You can launch the SDK by adding -beta srcsdk0122 to your command line when you start Steam. For more information, head on over to the Valve developer wiki.
As early as tomorrow, January 24th, PC gamers may be seeing an official CTF version of the Well map for Team Fortress 2. PC Gamer reports: So that bumps the upcoming number of official maps up to three so far, who knows what else Valve has up their sleeves.
Originally posted here, there are some more exciting things coming for TF2. The medic will be getting two new weapons accessed via a new Loadout menu. One weapon will be the Overhealer which will be capable of doubling a friendly target's health and will be unlocked by acheiving half of the new medic achievements. The second weapon will be another healing weapon but more information is not available. There will be a new map called Goldrush and will feature a new escort gameplay mode where one team must escort a mining cart across the map. The more blue players surrounding the cart, the faster it goes, but any nearby red players will cause the cart to stop. Shacknews reports that the new gameplay mode and medic abilities will be available some time within the next month, with Badlands and Goldrush following shortly after. Valve has not said whether these features will be available on console versions of TF2.
Team Fortress 2 has received two updates in the last two days. The first one adding some nice features to both servers and clients, and the second one seeming to fix a couple things broke by the first update.
January 14th Update:
* Added new option for medigun beam to the Multiplayer->Advanced dialog. If on, the medigun beam will stay attached to the current target without the need to hold down the fire button
* Added new option for the sniper rifle to the Multiplayer->Advanced dialog. If disabled, the sniper rifle won't re-zoom after firing a zoomed shot
* Added "nextlevel" server cvar. If set to a valid map name, server will change to that map during the next changelevel
* Fixed PerfUI being used as a type of wall-hack on servers without sv_cheats set to 1
* Reduced Granary spawn advantage for capping the middle point
* Fixed players turning into "Scout" model after lagouts (and a variety of related issues, such as disappearing doors)
* Fixed obscure crash related to resolution changing
January 15th Update:
* Fixed medigun effect not being removed if the medic changed class while healing
* Fixed being able to zoom too quickly after firing a zoomed shot
According to this post, it seems as though Valve's Robin Walker has spilled the beans on some upcoming changes to the Pyro and Soldier classes in TF2!
Get ready for some big changes to the Team Fortress 2 game you have come to know and love. Valve's Robin Walker has verified that there will be 2 new maps released for the PC version in the next 2 months, emphasizing more on a new arena and vertical game play. As for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions, it remains unclear whether the new updates will make it to these platforms. You can check out Robin's full statement below, and keep checking back for more on this and all updates pertaining to Team Fortress 2.
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- Refactored how lightmaps are downloaded to the graphics card at level load. On some hardware configurations this can lower level load times significantly
- Optimized some particle systems to improve performance on some hardware configurations
- Player stats are now sent up as they change, rather than when the player dies
- Improved playback of sub-frame sounds
- Fixed a crash caused by alt-tabs during map load
- Eliminated unnecessary temporary memory allocation in scenefilecache
Team Fortress 2
- Badlands released
- Changes to Dustbowl
- Added a new access point to the stage2 attacker gates (drop-down left from spawn), allowing attackers a way to reach the left route without being subjected to the spam and sentry gun fire
- Fixed a gap in stage 3, cap 1 that allowed a player with to wiggle above the "ceiling" clip
- Fixed a gap behind stage 1, cap 1 house
- Fixed a high perch on stage1 cap1 house roof
- Fixed a perch offering view of nodraw textures and the skybox (stage1 cap2 rock barrier)
- Fixed a few places where rockets/demoman pipes could pass through non-solid models
- Sealed up a gap over stage1 lower startgate
o Clipped off tall windows in stage 3 to prevent sentry guns from behind built behind them
* Changes to Capture the Flag Well
- Fixed trains not starting on map spawn
- Removed cap association from red spawns that were spamming console
- Changes to Granary
- Removed spawn timing advantage from the middle (from -3 to 0)
- Fixed several model perch exploits (red, blue cp1 gate and blue cp2 gate pipe)
- Fixed a few places where players could get stuck between containers and silos
- Adjusted playerclips on red container that made it appear like players were floating
- Added a small delay (200 ms) before a zoomed sniper shot can get a critical hit
- Added server side convar mp_fadetoblack. Same functionality as Counter-Strike, used mainly during in-person tournaments and LAN events
- Added flamethrower "sizzle" sound when the Pyro is hitting a target
- Updated explosion debris to be a bit darker
- Fixed idle players not being kicked from the server if mp_allowspectators was set to 0
- Added ctf_well to the default mapcycle.txt file
- Added ctf_well to the default motd.txt file
- Fixed floor tile material type
- Fixed some weapon damage info missing from TF2 game stats
- Made some small changes to the Demoman viewmodel that were causing performance problems
- Added exec'ing a .cfg file on the client when you select a class to play.
- Added a new timer to the HUD to show the value of mp_timelimit. This is useful if you're playing a timed match on 2Fort, where you only set a timelimit on the server and no other win conditions.
- Added server log entry for buildings destroyed by their owner
- Fixed sentry gun shadows being clipped
- Updated glass material
SourceTV
- SourceTV now uses a hidden slot on the game server. This allows for 24 player servers to also have a SourceTV proxy connected to it
- Fixed Pyro's flamethrower flames not showing up in SourceTV"