Valve releases “Classless” TF2 update

Yesterday Valve released the “Classless” Team Fortress 2 update, bring all sorts of new goodies.

Featuring 18 new collectible hats, a new community map, a redesigned version of Sawmill made specifically for Capture the Flag, and a new King of the Hill mode.

The community map CP_Yukon is described as: “This abandoned mountaintop coalmine was repurposed by shadowy operatives into a top secret surveillance outpost–one which also, so nobody gets wise, insidiously continues to mine coal. There is also a log hanging in the center of the map–possibly as an example to other logs. Logs that said too much.”

For the full patch notes, hit the jump.New Content

• Added King Of The Hill game mode
• Added custom animations played by the losing team during the post-win state. They are moved into third person camera to enjoy them
• Added lots of new hats

Additions / Changes

• Added “Auto Reload” option to the multiplayer advanced options
• Clip-based weapons that reload a full clip at a time can now have their reloads aborted by firing
• Pistol now fires at a fixed rate, not based on the speed at which you press the firing button
• Added a color blind option to add a Jarate icon above enemies who are busy accepting a terrifying existence where they have no dignity
• Significantly reduced the amount of network traffic being sent
• Capturing the flag in a CTF game mode gives the entire capturing team 10 seconds of critboost
• Sappers attached to a teleporter automatically place another Sapper on the other end of the teleporter, if it exists
• Engineers wrenching a teleporter will repair the other end as well, and remove Sappers from both if they exist
• Disguised Spies no longer trigger On-Hit effects (like the Blutsauger’s heal)
• Removed self-inflicted minicrits. Fixes Jarate’d Soldiers/Demomen having ineffective rocket/grenade jumps
• Added an item panel to the spectator cam that shows non-standard items being carried by the player you’re spectating
• Added an “Inspect” key that allows you to look at items being carried by your team mates

Backpack improvements:

• Added drag & drop to move items around. Item positions are maintained on the backend
• Added multi-select, allowing you to delete multiple items at once
• Added a new key to the key binding page that opens your inventory directly to your backpack
• Fixed mouseover panel being incorrectly position when the backpack first appears
• Cloaked Spies standing in valid backstab positions no longer raise their knife
• Added current map name and gametype to the bottom right of scoreboard
• Added class icons to tips on the loadout and loading screens
• Improved visuals around flags when they’re being carried by a player
• Improved critboosted visuals, making it much clearer when an enemy has critboost
• Updated the loading panel to show the game type under the map name during level transition
• In-game chat dialog now supports full Unicode characters
• Added BLU main menu background
• Added response caching for some server queries to help reduce the CPU load from DOS attacks
• Teammates no longer block friendly radius damage. Prevents nearby teammates causing rocket/grenade jumps to fail

Map Changes

• Update PLR_Pipeline
• Increased the starting advantage in the third round if a team has won the first two rounds
• Fixed carts not continuing to the second round if they’re capped at the same time in the first round
• Fixed being able to shoot pipebombs over the starting gates in the first round
• Fixed being able to open the doors in the first round before the setup time was finished
• Fixed players getting stuck in some doors
• Fixed players being able to get onto rooftops and out of the map boundaries
• Fixed other minor bugs and exploits
• Added community map Arena_Offblast
• Added community map Cp_Yukon
• Update Arena_Sawmill
• Fixed DirectX8 bug where some models would not be visible
• Fixed exploit with building teleporters outside of the map
• Updated CP_Granary
• Made a few changes to improve balance based on competitive community feedback

Item Reworks

The Force of Nature

• The enemy knockback now only works in close range and behaves more like the Pyro’s air blast
• Enemies cannot be juggled by the FaN’s effect
• The self-knockback has also changed to respect the firer’s view angle. Looking up while shooting will no longer propel the enemy upwards
• Knockback is now scaled by damage done

The Sandman

• A Scout will receive 1 point for stunning an enemy and 2 points for a long range stun
• Stunned players now take 75% of all incoming damage instead of 50%
• Ubercharged players can no longer be stunned
• Heavies spinning their mini-guns will continue to spin when stunned (whether the left or right mouse button is pressed)
• The minimum distance to stun a target has been reduced
• The negative attribute has changed from “no double jump” to “-25 max health”

Fixes

• Fixed various issues around layout & presentation of items inside the Backpack and “X is carrying” item dialogs
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to work around sv_pure
• Particle files are now protected by sv_pure
• Fixed critboost effect getting stuck on when you die while critboosted
• Fixed Timer HUD element backgrounds not being the correct color if you change teams during waiting for players
• Fixed a couple of issues with the way critboosts affected The Huntsman and the Spy’s knife
• Fixed an exploit where you could reload The Huntsman faster than intended
• Fixed Heavy “civilian” exploit
• Fixed a set of exploits using the DXSupport config files
• Fixed r_screenfademinsize and r_screenfademaxsize exploits
• Fixed sentries firing at a fully cloaked Spy if they’re still the closest target

Community requests

• Added a HUD element for hybrid CTF & CP maps
• Supports 1 or 2 flags, and any number of CPs
• Mapmakers need to place a “tf_logic_hybrid_ctf_cp” entity in their map to enable it
• Added custom kill server log text “train” and “saw” for deaths caused by these environmental hazards
• Format: “%s<%i><%s><%s>” committed suicide with “world” (customkill “%s”) (attacker_position “%d %d %d”)
• Added new “medic_death” event for server logs
• Format: “%s<%i><%s><%s>” triggered “medic_death” against “%s<%i><%s><%s>” (healing “%d”) (ubercharge “%s”)
• healing is the amount the Medic healed in that life
• ubercharge (1/0) is whether they died with a full charge
• Added “func_respawnflag” trigger entity. It will remove & return the flag if a flag carrier touches it, or if the flag falls into it

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