December 22, 2009 - Team Fortress 2 Update

[The Political Gamer]

Team Fortress 2


Added an "equipped" tag to currently equipped items in the Backpack and Crafting screens

Fixed the TFBots not reacting correctly to stun effects

Fixed the Heavy picking up his own thrown sandvich if it was thrown while running forward

Fixed Pyros not getting the proper kill icon for kills with deflected Direct Hit rockets

Fixed the player keeping their rage setting when the Buff Banner isn't equipped

Fixed resupply cabinet not clearing the rage and the buff status effect

Fixed the Buff Banner not working when +reload has been forced in console

Fixed the motion blur on charging Demomen not always drawing

Fixed the Direct Hit mini-critting enemies submerged in water

Fixed the Chargin' Targe's crit not working on servers with tf_weapon_criticals 0

Capped the amount of overhealing from taking heads to the player's max buffed health

Updated the Gunboats to absorb damage from any self-inflicted rocket blast that doesn't hurt another player

Updated the Scottish Resistance to detonate bombs near the player's feet (in addition to what it normally detonates). This enables sticky jumping with this weapon

Updated the Baseball and Jarate HUD indicators to stay on screen when full


Crafting improvements

Spy's unlockable PDAs can now be smelted into scrap metal

Recipes can no longer produce items matching any of the items used in the crafting

Added some new recipes


Achievement fixes

Fixed the "Ride of the Valkartie" Soldier achievement being earned by Soldiers on the defending team

Fixed the "Gorky Parked" Heavy achievement being incremented by committing suicide on a control point

Fixed several Scout achievements that were broken by the new type of bat stun

Fixed the "Ghastly Gibus Grab" achievement not awarding the hat correctly

Updated the "Big Pharma" (Medic) and "Division of Labor" (Heavy) achievements to be 10 kills in a single life

Updated the "Ubi concordia, ibi victoria" Medic achievement to only be 3 assists

The update update update.

 

[Trotim]

Well that was quick. Looks like they're fixing lots of small things now.

 

[Dr. KillPatient]

It'd be great if the camera beard could be crafted as a hat, (ie with another hat to form a new one) since it has the same drop rate as other hats even though it's a misc item.

 

[drp]

the gunboats r useful now

 

[The Political Gamer]

Thank you tf_english~

"RI_Hi"	 "of the same piece of headwear"
"RI_Hp"	 "pieces of headwear"
"RI_H"	 "piece of headwear"
"RD_RND"	 "random"
"RI_Cw"	 "class weapons"
"RI_Ch"	 "class headgear"
"RI_Hg"	 "headgear"
"CI_T_S_8"	 "Slot Token - Head"

 

[A Boojum Snark]

I was experimenting to see if you could change your community weapon via crafting now... I turned my medigun and heavy token into a medic token. :facepalm:

/heads off to email robin with suggestion and restoration request.

 

[drp]

I was experimenting to see if you could change your community weapon via crafting now... I turned my medigun and heavy token into a medic token. :facepalm:

/heads off to email robin with suggestion and restoration request.

well atleast you took the plunge for the rest of us.

 

[Daedryon]

They didn't fix the broken Equalizer achievements ;o

 

[Flame]

they need to let me craft my gibus

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

I have two gibuses that I wouldn't mind crafting. Also, somehow with this update I lost one of my two refined metal. 27 weapons, gone just like that D:

 

[Daedryon]

But they didn't fix the bugged Soldier achievements :O

 

[General_Norris]

Updated the "Big Pharma" (Medic) and "Division of Labor" (Heavy) achievements to be 10 kills in a single life

They ruined that achivement! It was fun because it was hard, killing 10 players is easy =/

 

[grazr]

Yea, i like the huge achievements, like heal 10,000 heal points as medic. do 1 million fire damage/explosive damage.

I healed 10,000 as engi in one life as engi several months before i did it as medic for real as well. I prefer not to farm achievements because then they're actually achievements.

killing that many people IS an achievement. Whether lots of people get it or not. It's not as fun if everyone just gets the achievements easily.

 

[KaiserFate]

'Rode Hard, Put Away Wet', 'Saturation Bombing', 'Sniper Milestone 3'.
I earned all three of these at once today with a single Jarate throw. Felt so good.

 

[Trotim]

Losing all your rage on resupply is pretty ridiculous. Instead, Demos should lose all their heads on resupply.

 

[KaiserFate]

Losing all your rage on resupply is pretty ridiculous. Instead, Demos should lose all their heads on resupply.

I was in a game today and a demo who had four heads spent about half the game unkilled. None of us could take the S.O.B. down, he was too fast and had too much health. Shit's broken as.

 

[The Political Gamer]

 

[Dr. Spud]

Anyone notice that despite what the update says, you still can't smelt spy watches into scrap metal?

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

Yep, since I have 6 dead ringers and 3 c&ds waiting to be smelted. I certainly noticed.

 

[Nutomic]

Same for me, thats really annoying. I hope they will fix that, in the third or so patch for the update D: