Team Fortress 2 Update, Pyro Nerfed

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 - Medic Achievements get dumbed down

One of the (supposedly) VALVe employees, Tim Dorr, has revealed some additional details about the upcoming medic unlocks in his Flickr photo stream. If the pictures are to be believed, many achievements have been dumbed down. These include:

Medical Breakthrough:

Assist in destroying 8 enemy engineer buildings with a single uber-charge on a Demoman.

The number of buildings has been toned down to 5.

You’ll Feel A Little Prick:

Assist in killing 4 enemies with single uber-charge on a scout.

The number of kills has been toned down to 3 enemies.

Big Pharma:

Assist a heavy in killing 30 enemies where neither of you die.

The number has now been toned down to 20.

Blunt Trauma:

Assist in punching out 4 enemies with a single uber-charge on a heavy.

The number of enemies to punch has been toned down to 2.

Chief of Staff:

Accumulate 10 million total heal points.

The number of heal points required has been dumbed down to 1million. 9 million decrease.

It’s rather unfortunate that Valve decided to tone some challenging achievements down just so they can please masses. Check out the Flickr image gallery for Team Fortress 2 related images (including playtesting and pics of Valve’s office).