Another small update

[The Political Gamer]

Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Product Update - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Engine
Fixed crash in SourceTV relay

Team Fortress 2
Fixed blood splashes not appearing on bullet hits
Fixed Achievement dialog text being cut off for certain resolutions
TFBot Changes
Medics now respond when nearby humans call for Medic
If a Medic Bot is healing you and has an ÜberCharge ready, use the voice commands "Go go go!" or "Activate Charge!" to force the Bot to activate the ÜberCharge

meh

 

[Trotim]

Medic bots are now useful for humans! And even then I finished cp_dustbowl as BLU on Hard without that!!

 

[YM]

finally, two very much needed additions for medi-bots. now they just need to make them not uber you if you take fall damage or self damage from rockets.

 

[lucky]

I wish the medic bots could have kritz

 

[Trotim]

I like to take a lot of screenshots from the killcams/freezecams. For a long time now they had been ruined by HUD type items such as "You have been killed by...", and the HUD display for what weapon they were carrying. I had sent in a request to the Team Fortress 2 team for an option to disable all HUD items when taking screenshots. Today I had gotten an email stating this very feature had been implemented!

So far anyone who does not want HUD displayed in their screeshots, just put this in your console/autoexec.cfg:
hud_freezecamhide 1

In my opinion this is a very good feature, I will now be using many of my screenshots as wallpapers.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1311584

 

[JoshuaC]

Nice! It's about time they did this, however, a custom hud I used once did exactly that.

 

[Pc_Madness]

Who was it that was offering to compare what files were changing between updates? Can someone find out what it is that is causing some of us to download 900mb -> 3.5gb. :\

 

[lucky]

If they change a map even slightly, then you have to redownload the entire map again.
That and a bunch of other engine code - but I think you're exaggerating the file size a bit.

Unless we're talking major updates, in which case it would be expected.

 

[Terr]

Who was it that was offering to compare what files were changing between updates? Can someone find out what it is that is causing some of us to download 900mb -> 3.5gb. :\

They seem a little high for me too, but I'll need to code something a little different up if the goal is calculating the total byte-age altered or added.

 

[Nineaxis]

If they change a map even slightly, then you have to redownload the entire map again.

Except you don't, you just download lump files, making map updates small.

 

[TheBladeRoden]

now they need to update uberee AI. So I don't activate an Ubercharge and end up running in by myself.

 

[Tapp]

Hmm... force an entire team of medics and spam shift. Would it be possible to kill such a creation?

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Except you don't, you just download lump files, making map updates small.

Well, that really only works if it's entity changes. Anything affecting geometry is going to cascade into so many lump they wouldn't bother. Most of the recent changes have been of that variety.

 

[lucky]

:cool1: what he said ^

 

[CapellanCitizen]

Although the bots taking info from voice commands was something that dissipointed me for not being in L4D2, I can't see it working in TF2 if there are several players players on the server. That is to say:

1. Go spy
2. Go near bot medics
3. Press E to makee them heal you
4. "Activate the charge, doctor"
5. ???
6. Überspy profit.
7. Get banned