Team Fortress 2 Update Released

[tf2.com]

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Players will now be randomly selected to participate in a survey at the end of Casual and Competitive matches
• Ongoing improvements to the matchmaking backend to improve match quality and reduce wait times
• Fixed air-blasts sometimes sending deflected projectiles in random directions when the Pyro is close to enemy players
• Fixed a case where players joining community bootcamp servers via the server-browser could not select a team
• Reduced the rate at which players can earn bonus points for extinguishing teammates
• Fixed a case where players could use the Halloween teleport spell to get outside the map
• Updated the localization files
• Community requests
  • Fixed Merasmus not being stunned by bomb-head players on community Halloween maps
  • Added the ability for community Halloween maps to call a truce during a Monoculus or Merasmus fight
    • Can be set via the game rules entity using the SetMapForcedTruceDuringBossFight input
  • Fixed energy weapons not hitting pumpkin bombs, Merasmus props, and RD robots
• Mann vs. Machine update
  • Fixed the Sentry Buster sound being orphaned if the Sentry Buster detonates while invulnerable
  • Fixed zombies not using the correct skin in Ghost Town
• Updated cp_snakewater_final1
  • Changes based on community feedback
• Updated pl_millstone_event
  • Updated bot navigation file, bots now use all routes, won't get stuck so easily and are smarter
  • Fixed woodpile spot where HHH could get stuck
  • Improved clipping on wood piles
  • Fixed missing rooftop texture
  • Fixed a few props flashing at certain angles
  • Fixed a spot in the last area where you could place stickies underground
  • Fixed Monoculus not getting stunned when hit by players exiting purgatory
• Updated cp_sunshine
  • Blockbulleted spiral staircase on the back of second
  • Added medium ammo to mid near choke
  • Removed clipping over wooden arch going into second from valley
  • Reduced the size of the wooden arch
  • Blockbulleted a few undersides of staircases on last that could catch projectiles
  • Removed a ladder on last

Read on the TF2 Blog...

 

[Kube]

• Community requests
  • Fixed Merasmus not being stunned by bomb-head players on community Halloween maps
  • Added the ability for community Halloween maps to call a truce during a Monoculus or Merasmus fight
    • Can be set via the game rules entity using the SetMapForcedTruceDuringBossFight input
  • Fixed energy weapons not hitting pumpkin bombs, Merasmus props, and RD robots

Awesome Halloween prep.

 

[nickybakes]

For those wondering what the survey at the end of a match is, apparently all it asks is for you to rate the match you played "Horrible, Bad, Neutral, Good, or Great".

 

[sooshey]

Apparently sourcemod is incompatible with this update
Nice

 

[Mikroscopic]

• Fixed a case where players joining community bootcamp servers via the server-browser could not select a team

FINALLY, I was so confused by this bug.

 

[Werewolf]

Seems they updated the error messages too. I just got this message when my TF2 crashed on my testing laptop:

Before it just used to say "Out of Memory"

 

[MaccyF]

They also added a bot name "Glorified Toaster with Legs" in reference to this reddit post.

Valve god-tier shitposters confirmed

 

[PevWolf]

Thank goodness they didn't fix this.

They kinda did but whatever.

 

[nᵗʰSonata]

Thank goodness they didn't fix this.

Reduced the rate at which players can earn bonus points for extinguishing teammates

It seems they did, to a degree.

 

[PevWolf]

Darn. Why must Valve watch Delfy?

-It's a joke chill you 5

 

[Muddy]

How dare Valve fix exploits in their game