TF2 Update: 9/25/14
Posted on: September 25th, 2014 by Obey
By the way, have you played the beta maps Asteroid or Cactus Canyon lately? They’re really coming along, and much more fun than when they were first launched. Today’s patch doesn’t change their terrain at all, but does add a few wrinkles to the play style for Asteroid.
The short version for this patch:
- Don’t forget to vote for your favorite TF2 short for the Saxxy Awards! Voting ends 11:59 pm PDT on Monday, Sept. 29th.
- You can now buy Limited Late Summer Crate Keys (the usual US$2.49), to unlock #86 crates of the same name.
- About half of the contents will be Strange, and all of the contents will be Limited (unable to be crafted or bought in the future).
- Crates cannot be opened after October 13, 2014.
- See the crate drop list below. There is one cosmetic for each class, and one all-class cosmetic: the Pocket Heavy.
- Items you have received now carry a “NEW!” banner in your inventory, until you mouse over them.
- In the middle of a match that is attempting to rebalance the server population, you will immediately respawn if you are either auto-balanced, or if you voluntarily change sides.
- Of course, this doesn’t work in modes like Arena or MvM.
- Limited Items (i.e. items that cannot be dropped, crafted, or bought from the Mann Co. Store, but could be uncrated):
- Now the entire text line is colored bright yellow, as opposed to just the word Limited, in the item’s text line.
- For example: “Limited Level 53 Hat“.
- Retired hats are now properly identified as Limited items.
- Asteroid has added sounds, adjusted return time for stolen reactor cores, and a 45-second Overtime to allow the enemy to attempt to steal the winning team’s core.
Full Patch Notes: Patch 1
- Added Limited Late Summer Crate Key to the Mann Co. Store. Available until October 13, 2014.[1]
- Fixed the Limited label not being displayed for items on the Steam Community Market or in the Steam backpack
- Fixed colorization of item level description line for Limited items
- Added tournament medals for BETA LAN 2014
- Added a NEW! label to new items in your backpack until you mouse over them
- Fixed a case where cosmetic items would be orphaned in the world
- R.I.P. Captain Canteen[2]
- Fixed not being able to open the Taunt menu during the bonus time on an Arena map
- Fixed a dedicated server crash related to bot Spies
- Fixed item level not displaying correctly in the Mann vs. Machine lobby
- Updated the auto-balance code to immediately respawn players that are automatically switched, or that voluntarily switch, during a balancing period
- Updated the
removeid command to support Steam2 and Steam3 ID formats
- Updated the materials for The Atomic Accolade
- Updated the
equip_region for The Special Eyes
- Updated
rd_asteroid
- Added a 45 second overtime when a team reaches max points
- Added placeholder pickup ship and robot worker to indicate a team has reached max points
- Added a sound to captured and returned points as they fill the progress bar
- Captured and returned points now fill the progress bar faster
- Progress bar escrow indicator now stays in place as points are added
- Touching the reactor core no longer fully resets the return timer. Every second the reactor core is held will add a second to the return timer.
- Virtual Reality Mode
- Fixed selecting the wrong refresh rate when running on a display that does not use the desktop refresh rate
Undocumented changes
Patch 2
- Fixed a client crash caused by using custom HUD files
[N] Obey
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