Team Fortress 2 Update, Pyro Nerfed
July 30, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Patches, Steam
Valve’s team based shooter has recieved a brand new update and would you know it, the update nerfed the game. Pyro’s bonus HP gained by backburner weapon has been removed.
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed team switches on Attack/Defense maps spamming the console
- Fixed the Kritzkrieg not working on servers with crits turned off
- Fixed some clipped localized strings in various in-game dialogs
- Fixed several cases where files were synchronously loaded while the game was running
- Fixed a shutdown crash in the material system
- Cached rendering of item model panels to improve performance, in particular while weapon selection was visible
- Added a gear symbol behind the health bar for Engineer buildings, in both target IDs and freeze panels
- Players killing themselves will now give a kill credit to the last enemy who damaged them
- Fixed grenades, rockets, and flamethrower being able to fire through grates at round starts
- Fixed players being killed and creating ragdolls during team switches
- Fixed various exploits and performance problems in CP_Badlands, CP_Well, and CP_Fastlane
- Removed health bonus from the Backburner
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
March 21, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Digital Distribution, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Patches, Steam
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Team Fortress 2
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- Updated versions of CP_Dustbowl, CP_Badlands, and CTF_Well with several exploit fixes
- Fixed Linux build not handling FCVAR_REPLICATED and FCVAR_NOTIFY cvars correctly
- Plugged an exploit where the server could send executable code to the client
- Fix client crash on exit while processing game stats
- Updated the Stats Summary screen to remember your previous selections each time you open the menu and while changing levels
- Added mp_stalemate_at_timelimit ConVar for server admin to allow SuddenDeath when mp_timelimit hits on non-Valve maps
- Updated CTF mode to remember the player who stole the intelligence from the enemy base and reward that player if the flag is captured by someone else
- Replace underscores in map names with spaces so custom maps with names like cp_gravel_pit will show as “GRAVEL PIT”
- Hitting F4 while the tournament mode “Ready” countdown is active won’t automatically set a team to “Not Ready”
- Fixed auto-screenshots not being taken at the end of the map during tournament mode
- Fixed gates being closed during the pre-round time during tournament mode
- Fixed GetDynamicBaseline crash
- Fixed rare animation triggered sound crash

