August 31, 2009 - Team Fortress 2 Update Released

[MrAlBobo]

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


Added "tf_allow_player_use" server ConVar to control players executing +use while playing (defaults to 0)

Fixed a bug where full backpacks resulted in an item being repeatedly found each time the game is started

Fixed being able to burn players/buildings that are in the water while standing outside the water

Fixed teleporting Spies getting stuck in enemy players standing on the exit

Fixed server log not listing telefrag kills as weapon "telefrag"

Fixed the Pyro's airblast pushing Spectators in free-look mode

Fixed Pyro's Hadouken killing Scouts that have used Bonk! and are phasing

Fixed freezecam screenshots sometimes being saved outside the Screenshots folder

Fixed deathnotice and server log entries not using the unique item names/icons when buildings are destroyed

Fixed a case where the weapon selection menu wasn't drawing the images of non-standard items if the player was using hud_fastswitch 1 and using slot7-10 to view the panel

Fixed CTF HUD not centering the flag panel if there is only one active flag


Community requests

Added the ability to set a parent for the item_teamflag entity

Added OnPickUpTeam1 and OnPickUpTeam2 outputs to the item_teamflag entity

Added intro movie .mp3 files to the sound/misc folder

update

Fixed a bug where full backpacks resulted in an item being repeatedly found each time the game is started

anyone else dissapointed they missed out on this?

Fixed the Pyro's airblast pushing Spectators in free-look mode

...what

 

[The Political Gamer]

Same old same old, but at lest they fixed the CTF stuff.

EDIT: I went to bed too soon! >_>

 

[ChickenHunter]

from the tf_english file

"TF_CheatDetected_Title" "WARNING"
"TF_CheatDetectedMinor" "Your account has been flagged for circumventing the item distribution system. We have removed the items that were illegally obtained.\n\nFuture violations will result in the loss of all your items."
"TF_CheatDetectedMajor" "Your account has been flagged for circumventing the item distribution system. We have removed all items in your inventory.\n\nFuture violations may result in your account being disabled."

 

[Icarus]

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8:50 PM - Nine: Will we be seeing a blog post from The Announcer in the near future that will clear up this Cheat Detection mess for the large amount of angry and confused players?
8:50 PM - ErikJ: Who are the angry and confused players
8:50 PM - Nine: Pretty much anyone who used the idle program, it seems
8:51 PM - ErikJ: That would be cheating the item system, so yeah, they will lose their items.
8:51 PM - ErikJ: But we're going to post tomrrow.
8:52 PM - Nine: ...and what's with the tf_wearable_item associated with cheating?
8:53 PM - ErikJ: It will give people a message letting them know that their items they got using the idling program are gone.

 

[Nineaxis]

8:50 PM - Nine: Will we be seeing a blog post from The Announcer in the near future that will clear up this Cheat Detection mess for the large amount of angry and confused players?
8:50 PM - ErikJ: Who are the angry and confused players
8:50 PM - Nine: Pretty much anyone who used the idle program, it seems
8:51 PM - ErikJ: That would be cheating the item system, so yeah, they will lose their items.
8:51 PM - ErikJ: But we're going to post tomrrow.
8:52 PM - Nine: ...and what's with the tf_wearable_item associated with cheating?
8:53 PM - ErikJ: It will give people a message letting them know that their items they got using the idling program are gone.
8:54 PM - Nine: Okay. Thanks for clearing that up.

Using idler is for naughty people!

 

[A Boojum Snark]

eh. heh. heh.

 

[uma plata]

AHAHAHAH!

That shit is win. I'm going to troll the steam forums so hard tomorrow

 

[Shmitz]

I really wish they'd stop wasting time trying to enforce a stupid system rather than looking at what their player base obviously wants and giving it to them.

 

[NovaSilisko]

I really wish they'd stop wasting time trying to enforce a stupid system rather than looking at what their player base obviously wants and giving it to them.

This.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

I really doubt things like this take up much of their time at all.

 

[Shmitz]

Way to completely miss the point, Sherlock

 

[Artesia]

I think shmitz would have them just give everyone all the hats...?

I would hate that, hats would be lame with everyone running around with them.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

No, I just chose to comment on the minor point instead of the major point because I hate hearing people talk about valve "wasting time", while I have no opinion whatsoever on just handing them all out.

 

[owly-oop]

I like how valve spends their time adding useless bandaids to their broken system instead of fixing IMPORTANT REAL ISSUES. like the lowering fps each update

They should add 99 hats and then give everybody 1 hat per class.

 

[Artesia]

I like how valve spends their time adding useless bandaids to their broken system instead of fixing IMPORTANT REAL ISSUES. like the lowering fps each update

They should add 99 hats and then give everybody 1 hat per class.

I disagree... don't turn TF2 into a game of dress-up... the majority of players shouldn't have a hat... otherwise they're not special. I don't have a hat... Do I want one? Depends on what it is... Do I need one? No.

 

[owly-oop]

I disagree... don't turn TF2 into a game of dress-up... the majority of players shouldn't have a hat... otherwise they're not special. I don't have a hat... Do I want one? Depends on what it is... Do I need one? No.

Fine then. everyone gets 1 random hate out of 99


They'll still be special

 

[Artesia]

how about make a series of achievements for 1 random hat, can only be done on vac servers or some other way to prevent farming. after that... small chance of ever finding one

 

[JoshuaC]

And the particle bug still goes unfixed. Good to see they've got their priorities straight.

 

[DarthNinja]

As John Stewart we say: "Uhh, 2 Things..."

One being that if they wanted to block the SteamStats program all they'd have to is block item drops on non-VAC servers. The SteamStats servers don't connect to the VAC servers.

The other thing I'd like to point out is that this could just be another "MMO Fortress" hoax the TF2 team's cooked up. Remember This?

 

[Artesia]

lol just had an idea, it would be awesome and possibly effective if valve gave everyone who DIDN'T use the idler a badge or medal or something similar...