10/13 - Big TF2 Update

[FadedOasis]

Required updates for Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch are now available. Counter-Strike: Source has also been moved to use its own engine and dedicated server depots. Because of this, dedicated server files for Counter-Strike: Source will now be under a 'css' folder.

The specific changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Fixed an issue with the multi-threaded renderer which could cause a crash on map change
- Adjusted whitespace to improve formatting in status command output
- Changed stats output to show KB/s instead of bytes/sec, added a connections column, and changed the users column to "Map changes"
- Fixed game servers not being able to execute the retry command due to the dependence on the connect command (which is not executable by game servers)
- Made sndplaydelay executable by servers
- Server frame rate is now based on the tickrate of the active Source mod, not the fps_max convar
- Server processing delays have been reduced, especially for servers on modern Linux kernels
- Entity processing logic has been optimized to significantly reduce CPU usage on full servers
- Multi-threaded server code is now enabled by default under Linux (already enabled on Windows)
- An exploit with non-printable characters causing lag on Windows servers has been fixed
- CPU is fully yielded back to the system whenever the server is running faster than the tickrate
- Dramatic increase in performance for low-level math libraries

Day of Defeat: Source
- Removed tickrate command line parameter
- Updated the localization files

Counter-Strike: Source
- Prevent AWP cycle time exploit using quick switch
- Fixed bug causing HUD History to display item pickups from nearby players
- Increased sized of HUD History resource to prevent clipping
- Changed grenade damage so that it always hits HITGROUP_GENERIC and takes into account armor for damage calculations
- Reduced standing and moving accuracy for pistols
- Decreased accuracy while moving with sniper rifles
- Added additional legacy mode (3) to cl_dynamiccrosshair
- Updated the localization files

Team Fortress 2
Manniversary:
- Experimenting with a new store interface with a subset of players
- Added several dozen community items in celebration of the Manniversary
- Added loadout presets -- each class can now store four complete loadouts, including weapons and cosmetic items, and change between them with the press of a button.
- Added a new item type that can accept user-applied decals. Take any image off your hard drive, put it on a stick, and then smash people with it! (See the Decal Tool in the store!)
- Added new co-operative high five taunt
- Class select menu now shows the active loadout for each class
- Characters can now equip two misc-slot items at once
- Added a new in-game abuse-reporting system (see "Capture abuse report data" under "Miscellaneous" controls)
- Non-newly-released weapons in the store can now be tried out for free once per week! This will give you a fully-functional version of the weapon to be used in-game for no cost. If you decide you like it, you can purchase it for a discount during the trial period.
- All items purchased in the store can be used for crafting and can be traded after a few days
- Added a new startup music track from Meet The Medic
- Integrated with the new Steam Workshop to enable the publication and management of community contributed content

Maps:
- Added new community control point map Gullywash. Stamps are available in the store to support community map authors!
- Barnblitz is now available for offline practice
- Frontier: various geometry fixes
- Gorge/5Gorge: added team-specific func_nobuild brushes in elevated forward spawn areas

Replay:
- New camera shake functionality added for replays that are not sufficiently dramatic
- New slow-motion functionality added for replays where even camera shake does not provide sufficient drama
- Added support for recording voice chat into replays

Items:
- Pocket Medic can now be equipped by the Soldier in addition to the Heavy
- World Traveler's Hat and the Connoisseur's Cap are now paintable
- Bonk Boy and Foster's Facade are now misc slot items
- Fixed The Director's Vision not playing animations correctly for all classes in the loadout screen
- The Killer Exclusive is now paintable
- When sorting the backpack, otherwise-equivalent items will sort by strange weapon rank and crate series number if possible
- When selecting items from the loadout, weapons with different kill eater ranks will all show up
- Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect animations have been added. Really.
- LOD models added to several older cosmetic items

Response Rules:
- Reduced the chance of many response lines occurring
- Responses related to cart progress no longer play when disguised
- Players will now always call for a medic when low on health or when on fire when a medic is under the crosshair, whereas previously the character would ask the medic to follow them
- Named base items will no longer trigger responses that were supposed to be for new item variants
- Added additional Jarate hit responses
- Demoman:
__- Added achievement award response
__- Removed "I didn't need your help y'know" line if being healed by a Medic
__- Saxxy kills will use the same lines as kills from the frying pan
__- Taunting with The Pain Train or the Saxxy now plays the same taunt as the grenade launcher
__- Added a taunt for The Ullapool Caber
- Engineer:
__- Fixed a problem that caused him not to say thanks after exiting a teleporter
__- Saxxy kills will use the same lines as kills from The Golden Wrench
__- Added a previously unused golden wrench kill line
__- Added an occasional response when swinging The Gunslinger
__- Wrangler taunt now performs the pistol taunt animation
- Heavy:
__- Added a previously unused fist swing line
- Medic:
__- Added a line to the response that occurs when doing a battle cry while looking at an enemy while holding a melee weapon
__- Taunting with a Saxxy plays the medigun taunt
__- Taunting with the Solemn Vow or the Crusader's Crossbow now plays the same taunt as the syringe gun
- Scout:
__- Removed the response when killing an enemy Scout or Pyro and moved the lines to the dominating Pyro/Scout response
__- Added a rare response to double jumping after getting a recent kill
- Sniper:
__- Reduced chattiness when getting many sequential kills
__- Added a missing line to the scoped revenge response
__- Taunting with a Saxxy no longer play lines that reference a knife
- Soldier:
__- Added a line to the getting übercharged response
__- Taunting with the Righteous Bison, Battalion's Backup, or the Saxxy now play the Buff Banner taunt

Bots:
- TFBots have a percentage chance of noticing weapon fire based on their difficulty level. Easy bots are fairly oblivious, and Expert bots notice pretty much everything.
- TFBots now treat certain weapon attacks as "quiet" (Spy knife, cloaking/uncloaking, some melee weapons, fists, etc). "Quiet" weapons can only be heard by TFBots when nearby, and their chance of being noticed is halved if the environment is "noisy" (ie., lots of non-quiet gunfire going on in the area). This greatly improves Spies ability to backstab TFBots without the entire team immediately turning on them.
- Spy bot improvements:
__- Spy bots are much better about circling around and backstabbing their victims now
__- Improved Spy bot target selection in some situations (ie: clusters of sentries and enemy players)
__- Spy bots will give up on an attack and retreat if an enemy sentry gun aims at them
__- Spy bots now avoid nearby enemies while disguised and/or cloaked so they don't bump into them and give themselves away
__- Spy bots now have a simple notion of when their "cover is blown" now
__- Spy bots lead their target's position as they chase them down for a backstab now
__- Spy bots don't go after victims until setup time has elapsed
__- Hard and Expert Spy bots avoid looking at their prey until they get close and go for the stab
__- Easy Spy bots don't avoid enemies, or try to get behind before stabbing
__- Normal Spy bots don't avoid enemies
__- Fixed bug where Spy bots would jump against the enemy spawn gates during setup time
- Medic bot improvements:
__- Medic bots stick much closer to running patients now
__- Medic bots stick much closer to their patient if they have an Ubercharge ready, or are deploying their Uber
__- Medic bots hide from Sentryguns now, too
- Pyro bot improvements:
__- Pyro bots are less "pushy" with their compression blast, but will use it against Ubers and to get enemies off of a capture point

Other:
- Razer Hydra support can be enabled via "sixense_enabled 1" in the console. See sixense.com/tf2 for details.
- Added "tf_allow_taunt_switch". Set to 0 for disallowed (default behavior), 1 for old bug behavior, or 2 to allow weapon switching any time during the taunt.
- Screenshots can now be hooked up to the Steam Community automatically. There is a new option to control this under "Miscellaneous" in the Advanced Options page.
- Fixed gold ragdolls playing custom death animations when they should be locked in a pose
- Fixed Buffalo Steak Sandvich not having a cooldown if the Heavy is at full health.
- Fixed touching a cabinet while under the effects of the Buffalo Steak Sandvich removing the mini-crits but not removing the melee weapon restriction
- Fixed particle effects not showing up on spy disguise items
- Fixed spies never using genuine, community, or self-made items as disguise weapons
- Fixed demoman weapons primary/secondary being backwards in the loadout screen
- Fixed effects on Sticky Jumper grenades
- Fixed net_graph not updating server framerate when FPS is greater than 1000
- Fixed game servers not being able to execute the retry command
- Renamed tf_show_voice_icons to mp_show_voice_icons
- Updated the localization files

[Edison W.]

Undocumented Changes

Weapons:
- The Reserve Shooter can now be equipped by the Pyro
- The Widowmaker now takes 30 metal per shot, down from 60
- The Shortstop reload time has been slowed down by 50%
- The Dead Ringer now plays a tone if cloak is fully recharged
- The Persian Persuader can no longer receive ammo from dispensers or the cart; in addition the amount of health received from fallen weapons and destroyed buildings has been reduced significantly

Items:
- Added promotional items for Football Manager 2012.
- Added crate #30 and #31
- Added Manniversary Package
- Added Misc-slot Flair!, Photo Badge and Clan Pride items supporting Decal Tool
- Moved the Noh Mercy, Large Luchadore and the Sniper's Snipin' Glass to the Misc slot
- Athletic Supporter and Superfan are now craftable
- Strange weapon ranking notifications no longer appear as a toast popup on screen; they are still present in the chat window
- Summer Shades and Professor Speks now fall off the ragdoll at death
- Meet the Medic and Schadenfreude can now be found in random drops.
- Fixed the Deus Specs having fire overlay in DX8

Menus:
- Updated class images on the main menu to be wearing cosmetic items
- Action slot taunt previews on the loadout screen now play sound
- Fixed some all-class hats shown duplicated in incorrect positions in the loadout menu
- The class select screen now shows the proper team colors of the team the player is currently on
- Removed "Close" button from the loadout and stats menu

Other:
- Small health kits now heal 20% of a class' health (previously 20.5%)
- Added new bot names
- The public IP is now displayed in the console when creating a local server, and the output for the exec command has been altered
- Added support for "Show off an Item" responses to the response rule system
- Updated many all-class hats to use an independent model per class (previously one model with multiple animations.)

[FadedOasis]

Aaaaaand server's up. Sorry that took so long, I was on the road, about an hour and a half from home, and then the update itself took nearly an hour.

[Doctor Wheeze]

Some words from a Valveman about the decals:

You buy a decal tool and skin the photo/medal/badge with whatever texture you like. Don't put porn on it, because some dude can just report it.

Yeah, you can own multiple badges with multiple skins. Also, your spray is temporary and admins can handle their own servers. Admins can turn off sprays, for example. Your decal is saved and is textured onto an item. Nobody can turn off your item.

Oct 13, 2011 18:54:59 GMT -5 FadedOasis said:

- Demoman:
__- Removed "I didn't need your help y'know" line if being healed by a Medic

Best part of the update right there ^^

[FadedOasis]

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


- Fixed a problem with the Foster's Facade not correctly hiding the pyro's head.
- Fixed a problem where loadouts would get reset under certain conditions if the item server couldn't be reached.
- Fixed a common client crash when displaying items.
- Items purchased from the store are no longer craftable.
- Updated localization files.

[Edison W.]

Undocumented changes updated.

[elacordeonachi]

So, who's going to come up with a official Faded Oasis approved MKWEA badge? So we can wear it on our Flair, or beat people on other servers over the head with it?

[FadedOasis]

MKWEA CVAR CHANGE!

tf_allow_taunt_switch now set to 2. You can change your weapons while taunting. There is no reason for this, other than it's silly.

[rhench]

Yes! Good change.