Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released

[tf2.com]

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2M)

• Fixed a problem that allowed malicious clients to disable the "ping" and "status" commands for other connected clients

Team Fortress 2

• Added The Toss-Proof Towel
• Fixed a bug that caused many avatar images to not show up in the scoreboard
• Fixed the Sharpened Volcano Fragment not igniting players
• Fixed damage to buildings applying on-hit effects such as the Übersaw charge
• Fixed Sticky Jumper stickybombs changing team when air-blasted
• Fixed large floating point values getting truncated in WebAPI responses
• s?l?? uo?????z?l??o? p???pd?
• Community request
  • Added SetForcedTauntCam player input for map makers to place the player into third-person

Source: TF2.com

 

[Fruity Snacks]

New Item

 

[LeSwordfish]

There is not a single hitch-hikers guide reference in that towel. I mean, really.

 

[Sel]

• Fixed a bug that caused many avatar images to not show up in the scoreboard

woo~

 

[Pocket]

• Fixed a bug that caused many avatar images to not show up in the scoreboard

Finally! I figured it was just me, somehow, since nobody else was ever reporting it. I wonder if they also fixed the problem of those users not showing up in Current Players in the Steam overlay. Because, according to a recent SPUF thread, that was affecting Garry's Mod players as well.

Noticed the Sharpened Volcano Fragment bug the other day too. I wonder what recent update caused that.

• s?l?? uo?????z?l??o? p???pd?

This is supposed to be "Updated Localization Files" upside down in Unicode. Funnily enough, even Steam's own browser doesn't have the symbol it's using for an upside-down "F".

 

[Melvin D Engineere]

• Fixed a problem that allowed malicious clients to disable the "ping" and "status" commands for other connected clients

Team Fortress 2

Hopefully, this fix will be enough to deter name spoofers who tell pornographic stories over the microphone as well as hackers.

• Added SetForcedTauntCam player input for map makers to place the player into third-person

Source: TF2.com

I'm not sure if I understand this correctly: is this a new feature when editing demos?

 

[The Asylum]

IF you go into thirdprson to run around your map with and taunt, it'll put you back in first person. I assume that this command forces the game to keep you in thirdperson

 

[Sel]

who tell pornographic stories over the microphone .

uhhhhhhh

listening to pornographic stories narrated by tf2 players is my favourite past time though

 

[henke37]

This is supposed to be "Updated Localization Files" upside down in Unicode. Funnily enough, even Steam's own browser doesn't have the symbol it's using for an upside-down "F".

It is also backwards.

 

[Pocket]

I figure that goes without saying since if it weren't, it would be backwards when you turn your head to read it.