Team Fortress 2 - Heavy Update, New Maps, New Mode are all live now!

[Geese_Pants]

Holiday update…

Team Fortress 2
Added Medieval Mode, a game mode where players are restricted to using olde weapons.

‘Your Eternal Reward’ changes:
Spies can now change their disguise weapon via ‘lastdiguise’ while using 'Your Eternal Reward’
Already-disguised ‘Your Eternal Reward’ Spies are no longer forced to switch to displaying the melee weapon when they make a kill
Spies no longer play speech lines when making a kill with 'Your Eternal Reward’
Sentries no longer track ‘Your Eternal Reward’ Spies after they backstab someone

‘Natascha’ changes:
Spin-up time increased.
Slowdown-on-hit effect is reduced over distance.

Added ‘The Medi-eval Medic’, ‘The Hibernating Bear’, and ‘The Expert’s Ordnance’ item sets.
Added new weapons: ‘The Claidheamohmor’, ‘The Back Scratcher’, ‘The Boston Basher’, ‘The Fists of Steel’, ‘The Amputator’, ‘The Crusader’s Crossbow’, ‘The Ullapool Caber’, ‘The Loch-n-Load’, ‘The Buffalo Steak Sandvich’, ‘The Brass Beast’, ‘The Warrior’s Spirit’, ‘The Candy Cane’, and ‘The Jag’.

Added 20 new hats.

Added a prototype item testing map, and associated functionality, for contributors to test their work. Further details in an upcoming blog post.

Spies can now see TargetID’s of players and objects regardless of their own disguise status.
Fixed some speech lines continuing after the speaker changes class
The Spy ‘Sap Auteur’ achievement now increments in cases where the Spy was the assister in the building destruction.
Fixed the arrow burning effect getting stuck on if you changed class in a respawn room with your arrow lit.
Fixed a Flamethrower bug that allowed players to rapidly fake the Pyro’s airblast effect.
Throwing the Jarate or Milk now returns you to your previous weapon, instead of your Primary.
Added leaderboard to track duel wins.
Added ability for players to donate money directly to the creators of their favorite community maps.
Increased backpack size by 100 slots.

[just_prime]

Since the update, I’ve crashed three times in a row when a server was changing maps, and I doubt it’s something on my end.

edit: doesn’t seem to be happening anymore.

[JAMMAR]

Anyone have either Crate #6 (Festive) or #9 they would be willing to give me? I’m doing a huge crate opening soon.

[MaDWaK]

I have crates 4, 5, 8, and 9 ill trade for something, theyre not festive though. I had the worst luck with festive I bought 2 keys and got 2 back scratchers fml.

[just_prime]

I have about three festive. Let me know if you still need them.

[JAMMAR]

Yeah man bring them over. Are you on my flist? http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960276894/

[Pimp_Willy]

Damn how much are you planning on spending on keys? I’ve bought like 4 keys, but I did buy the polycount pack for $50 : O

[Geese_Pants]

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

Team Fortress 2
The Blighted Beak is now a misc slot item.
The Buffalo Steak Sandvich’s speed boost no longer stacks with other speed boosts.
The Rocket Jumper and Sticky Jumper now have no max health penalty, and have damage vulnerabilities instead.
Duel fixes:
Duels can no longer be initiated when the round is not fully running.
If you challenge someone that has already challenged you, the duel is automatically accepted.
Fixed an issue where a dueling mini-game item was marked in-use even though the duel was rejected.
Duels are now refunded if a server plugin forces a participant to switch teams.
Loading screen:
Only shows the duel leaderboard if you’ve been dueling, or if your friends have been dueling.
Shows your personal stats whenever it’s not showing the duel leaderboard.
Custom hitsounds:
Must now be specified by replacing the ‘tf/sound/ui/hitsound.wav’ file.
Can now be used under sv_pure 1/2.
Improved performance on Degroot Keep.
The “Fabricate Class Headgear” recipe no longer has a chance of creating all-class hats.
Fixed spectator mode sometimes ending up in a state where you were half-embedded in your spectator target.
Fixed a bug in the Kritzkrieg?s animations.
Fixed round restarts not cleaning up weapons correctly for a frame (fixes a variety of weapon attribute issues, such as players having less health or less ammo than they should)
Fixed painting issues in several of the Australian Christmas hats.
The Sniper scope is now visible when viewing First Person Spectator mode on a zoomed Sniper.
Medieval Mode’s auto-roleplay now ignores text beginning with ‘!’ or ‘/’ (so SourceMod commands aren’t modified)

And Drop rate is doubled until Dec. 30th…

[JAMMAR]

Damn how much are you planning on spending on keys? I’ve bought like 4 keys, but I did buy the polycount pack for $50 : O

Last time I checked I have a little over 40 crates, but I’m not sure if I will open all of them haha

[BIGWORM]

I got a Madame Dixie today (feminine pyro hat). Peeps are saying it’s worth AT LEAST 3 keys/crates. I wanna get rid of it.

[JAMMAR]

Well definitely don’t trade it for crates. Three keys seem nice.

[Pimp_Willy]

I’ll offer you 2 refined you can use towards crafting another random hat

I think that hat’s pretty cool. Of course I still haven’t gotten a pyro brainslug which is my main goal.

If anybody has a brainslug and is willing to trade it hit me up

[MaDWaK]

ok who has festive crates and what do people want? ill trade 3 reg. crates. or something else. i have a lotta stuff.

[Irennicus]

I ended up with a Milkman, Dr. Dapper’s Topper, and a Towering Pillar of Hats on Christmas. Goddamn.

[Pimp_Willy]

Was that from crates? Or did the hat drop rate skyrocket on xmas?

[Fudd]

I got about three festive crates if anyone wants them.

[MaDWaK]

letme get em. ill trade you some paint or decent weapons or something. hit me up

Steam Community :: ID :: Madwak:.

[JAMMAR]

After opening twenty crates, I only got a couple of hats, nothing unusual. I’ll start the gambling again next year.

[BIGWORM]

Traded the Madame Dixie for 5 keys. :lol:

[Pimp_Willy]

Why would people make that trade? It’d be cheaper to buy the hat directly than to buy the 5 keys, and even at 1 key = 1 refined you’d think you could find a cheaper trade. Wow I don’t understand the hat trading economy lol