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#11 TF2 update for 3/28/18 in TF2 General Discussion

Part two:

ValveGameplay Fixes
- Fixed the "-40% health from healers" penalty on The Fists of Steel (it wasn't active)
- Fixed an issue with The Gloves of Running Urgently and Eviction Notice where players that were missing health would not be properly restored when touching a resupply cabinet
- Fixed the Cow Mangler 5000's charged shot so that afterburn lasts 6 seconds (instead of 10)
- Fixed a case where Engineer buildings could be placed such that players would become stuck when exiting a teleporter (a.k.a. "teleporter trap")
- Fixed Flamethrower particles sometimes failing to draw on the client
- Fixed Flamethrower flames not colliding with tf_generic_bomb entities
- Fixed being able to fire flames and then quickly switch teams to attack teammates
- Fixed The Loose Cannon continuing to play the priming sound if the weapon is holstered while priming
- Fixed projectiles from The Pomson 6000 and The Righteous Bison pushing players around
- Fixed the Razorback shields not being preserved across round restarts
- Fixed the Dragon's Fury not giving health when attacking an enemy under the effects of Mad Milk
- Fixed being able to load the Beggar's Bazooka with rockets and then spam the inspect key to hold the loaded rockets until ready to fire them
- Fixed the Heavy being able to attack with secondary and melee weapons while stunned
- Fixed being able to collect organs with the Vita-Saw during a truce
- Fixed not being Marked-for-Death when doing a melee attack while under the effects of Crit-A-Cola

- Lag compensation system will now reliably restore pose parameters responsible for animation layering
- This makes server-side hitboxes for lag compensated players better match client-side rendered models

- Fixed stickybombs sometimes blocking explosive damage from other stickybombs
- Fixed The Back Scatter not mini-crit'ing when the Scout was in the air and behind their target
- Fixed the resistance-piercing property on The Enforcer not working against some items or effects (Wrangler shields, Battalion's BackUp, Fists of Steel, Spy invisibility passive resistance, The Dead Ringer, Brass Beast and Natascha)
- Fixed The Sandman and The Wrap Assassin projectiles colliding with invisible objects in team spawn rooms
- Fixed player movement speed sometimes being faster than intended while under the effect of a movement stun (i.e. Natascha, The Sandman's ranged attack, Bonk! Atomic Punch)

General
- Added the Blue Moon Cosmetic Case and Blue Moon Cosmetic Key
- New community cosmetics case with 19 items

- Reduced the base price of the Competitive Mode Pass from $19.99 USD to $9.99 USD and left it on sale for 50% off the new base price
- Added The Dragon's Fury and The Hot Hand to the list of weapons used when generating Killstreak Kits in Mann vs. Machine
- The type of badge shown on the main menu can now be changed by clicking the gear button near the badge
- The in-game action buttons (Call a vote, Request a coach, etc.) have been moved to the bottom center of the main menu
- Sped up the main menu screen transitions. Controlled via the ConVar tf_dashboard_slide_time.
- Party members will now have a status indicator on their Steam avatar when they are offline
- Improved Steam rich presence integration based on the player's current status
- Improved UI when certain match types, such as Mann vs. Machine, are unavailable for maintenance
- Fixed Squad Surplus Vouchers only being usable by the party leader in Mann vs. Machine
- Fixed the console, server browser and options menus sometimes going behind the main menu and becoming unclickable
- Fixed a client crash related to the cycling ads in the main menu
- Fixed a bug related to the ConTracker not displaying the correct number of earned contract points
- Fixed not being able to move if you opened the ConTracker menu while dead and closed it after you respawned
- Fixed Sniper ragdolls not displaying the correct state for the Razorback when the Sniper is killed (drawing when it should be hidden and vice-versa)
- Fixed the match-end map vote menu drawing if you disconnect from a server during a vote and then connect to a new server
- Fixed not using the initial observer point when first connecting to a Casual or Competitive server
- Fixed not being able to spectate observer points or your own buildings in Casual Mode
- Fixed not being able to inspect the Pain Train in-game
- Fixed a visual artifact when inspecting the Panic Attack
- Fixed The Thermal Thruster launch effects only being visible to the wearer
- Fixed the Heavy fists not showing the Killstreak sheen
- Fixed the Yeti Smash taunt not removing the Yeti prop if the taunt is ended before the animation is complete
- Fixed Mann vs. Machine robots sometimes using human voices instead of their robot voices
- Fixed Festivized items ignoring any other quality for their name (i.e. "Collector's")
- Fixed Festivized Australium weapons not using the correct skins for players on the BLU team
- Fixed Festivized Holy Mackerels, Soda Poppers, and Wingers not drawing the festive lights for the BLU team
- Fixed the Steam Community Market icons for several Festivized weapons
- Fixed training bots suiciding in the respawn room
- Fixed the Prinny Hat and Prinny Pouch not displaying their painted areas when painted
- Fixed The Hot Hand being hidden when the Pyro taunts
- Fixed the Deflect Projectiles strange part not counting deflections
- Fixed the Engineer's PDA not always honoring the "Use minimized viewmodels" option
- Fixed missing display attribute for the Rescue Ranger (client display issue only)
- Fixed seeing "Red Rock Roscoe War Paint" as a valid tool for all items in the context menu
- Fixed the Community Sparkle particle effect not drawing on the viewmodel for players with Community and Self-Made weapons
- Fixed the Wrangler's death notice icon being clipped
- Fixed the Overtime label not being centered under the team status HUD
- Fixed the Sap Auteur achievement not working with all types of sappers
- Fixed the Krazy Ivan achievement not requiring the victim to be underwater
- Added RGB sliders for Combat Text in the Advanced Options screen
- Added a unique particle effect whenever a player performs a "Stomp" attack on another player with the Mantreads or The Thermal Thruster
- Added the BLU skin to the Neo Tokyo War Paint
- Added the ozfortress Season 21 tournament medals
- Added the National Heavy Boxing League tournament medals
- Added ETF2L Highlander Season 14 and 6v6 Season 29 tournament medals
- Added the Ultimate Ultiduo tournament medals
- Added RGL.gg Pick Ban Prolander Participant Season 2 tournament medal
- Added the RGL.gg One Day Prolander Cup tournament medals
- Added the Palaise tournament medals
- Added the Newbie Prolander Cup tournament medals
- Added the ESA Rewind II tournament medals
- Added the Florida LAN 2018 community medals
- Added the Journey to the East community medals
- Added the Canteen Crasher community medals
- Updated the Harvest Moon, Dead Presidents, and Circling Peace Sign unusual effects to fix display problems

- Updated the autobalance feature to more quickly respond to team imbalances
- Will select the best candidates to balance the teams then ask the candidates for volunteers
- If no volunteers are found, candidates will be switched when they die
- If no candidates die within a reasonable period of time, candidates will be forcibly switched to the other team

- Updated past Saxxy and Memory Maker items to be Strange
- Updated the Huntsman contract to give 5 points instead of 4 on the Expert objective to fix not being able to fully complete the contract

Part 3: http://www.teamfortress.tv/post/851368/tf2-update-for-3-28-18

posted about 7 years ago
#1 TF2 update for 3/28/18 in TF2 General Discussion

Via the Steam store:

ValveMatchmaking Changes

Competitive Revamp
- The matchmaking system used for Competitive Mode has been overhauled. Players will now be ranked using a model based on the Glicko rating system used in CS:GO.
- The old 18 Competitive ranks have been consolidated into 13 new ranks. You can view the new ranks on the updated Competitive FAQ page (http://www.teamfortress.com/meetyourmatch/faq/)
- Competitive ranks have been reset and players must win 10 matches to earn a new Competitive rank
- Note: The previous system started everyone at Rank 1, and required - in most cases - considerable time for players to reach a rank that properly reflected their performance. The new system - by way of placement matches - considerably shortens the time required to reach an appropriate rank
- The requirements to access Competitive Mode have changed: If you do not own a Competitive Matchmaking Pass, you must now be at least Casual level 3 in addition to being a Premium user and having a valid phone number associated with your account.

Casual Improvements
- Casual Mode now uses the Glicko skill rating system behind the scenes to better create balanced matches and group players by skill level
- The maps listed in the Casual matchmaking screen are now sorted alphabetically
- Added ctf_sawmill, ctf_well, cp_5gorge, ctf_2fort_invasion, and ctf_foundry to Casual Mode
- Updated the match-end map voting to only vote on maps for the current game mode (if you are playing Payload, you will only vote on Payload maps)

Queue While Playing
- You can now queue for a match while already in a Casual or Boot Camp match
- While queued and in-game, queue status will be shown in the top right

Multi-Queue
- You can now queue for multiple match types at the same time
- Players can queue for all match types in parallel, but accepting a Competitive or Mann Up match will remove the player from other queues
- Players who are in a party and not the party leader are now able to freely browse any of the matchmaking menus

Gameplay Changes

Flamethrowers
- Flamethrowers were able to do full damage regardless of the spread of their flames, rewarding maximizing flame spread over focusing on a target. We've made changes geared toward preserving the current damage range of flamethrowers, but requiring better aim to do so.
- Flame damage per second now ramps up based on density of flame encountered, up to 200%
- Initial flame damage per second reduced by 50%, resulting in the max damage being unchanged

The Dragon's Fury
- We are happy with the design of this weapon, and the playstyle it brings, but it should require tighter hit tolerances in order to reach the higher-end of the damage range
- The size/radius of the fireball has been reduced by 25%
- Bonus damage against a burning target now requires the fireball's center to make contact with the target's hitbox

The Gas Passer
- We found a couple of issues with the Mann vs. Machine upgrade "Explode on Ignite" that resulted in it doing far more damage than intended. We've increased base damage to help offset some of the reduction in output these fixes bring about.
- Changes to the "Explode On Ignite" upgrade in Mann vs. Machine
- Damage from the upgrade no longer counts toward the refilling the item's charge meter
- Fixed an issue where explosive damage could be reapplied for each target in the gas cloud
- Fixed the triggering bot not taking explosion damage
- Increased explosion damage to 350 (from 250)

The Axtinguisher
- The slow deploy time -- which is there to help "pay" for the burst-damage this weapon is capable of -- hasn't been very well received, and we agree that it feels awkward. The design goal of this pass is to embrace the concept of a finishing-move weapon -- which requires planning, timing, and introduces opportunity for "combo" gameplay.
- New design:
- Attacks mini-crit and then extinguish burning targets
- Receives a damage bonus based on the remaining duration of after-burn
- Added: "Sketchek's Bequest: Killing blows on burning players grant a speed boost"
- Base damage reduced by 33%
- Holster speed 35% slower
- No random critical hits

The Thermal Thruster
- We erred on the side of conservative with the initial design -- as this item introduces a lot of mobility to a class that's typically lacked it -- but having watched players for a while, we think it is safe to make it easier for Pyros to switch back to their weapon
- Holster time reduced to 0.8 seconds (from 1.1)

The Sydney Sleeper
- Jarate is a powerful effect, and this weapon makes it too easy for one Sniper to substantially increase the damage potential of their team. And, unlike the Jarate jar, the infinite-range of the rifle means the Sniper can be far away from danger. These changes are designed to preserve the "Jarate Rifle" identity, but tone it down, add more reward for the Sniper's skill by allowing higher first-shot damage output, and offer a way for players who want to focus on providing area-of-effect Jarate to recharge their Jarate jar more quickly.
- Fully-charged body shots and headshots no longer splash Jarate on players around the target
- Reduced length of on-hit Jarate to 2 to 5 seconds (from 2 to 8 seconds)
- Added: "Nature's Call: Scoped headshots always mini-crit and reduce the remaining cooldown of Jarate by 1 second"

The Short Circuit
- The current design of zapping projectiles is interesting, but we're not happy with how much it can be done. While it would be easy to simply increase the metal cost (which we've done before), it would quickly push this weapon into the rarely, if ever, used category. Instead, we've changed the fundamental behavior of the weapon, such that it requires a bit more anticipation and positioning from the Engineer, has more skill depth, and increases the team support potential of this weapon.
- Alt-fire attack changed to launch a medium-range, projectile-destroying energy ball. Requires 65 metal.

Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol
- We underestimated how much health high-skill players would be able to recover during combat.
- Reduced maximum (close-range) per-hit heal amount to 3 (from 7)

The Panic Attack
- The recent redesign left this weapon feeling a little weak close-in, so we've increased the damage potential at point-blank and close range.
- Reduced worst-case shot pattern spread by 40%
- Reduced damage penalty to -20% (from -30%)

The Atomizer
- This is basically a bug fix. Players could perform a double-jump and then quickly switch to this item and eek out a third jump. The goal of the previous change was to require players to commit to this item in order to gain the extra jump.
- The weapon must now be fully deployed before a triple jump can be performed

Part two: http://www.teamfortress.tv/post/851359/tf2-update-for-3-28-18
Part three (RHI is over here): http://www.teamfortress.tv/post/851368/tf2-update-for-3-28-18

posted about 7 years ago
#7 TF2 (and Dota 2) GC machine broke in TF2 General Discussion

It's back to being alive, phew.

posted about 7 years ago
#4 TF2 (and Dota 2) GC machine broke in TF2 General Discussion
michael-https://twitter.com/TeamFortress/status/978734117134069762
https://twitter.com/TeamFortress/status/978811986426212352

Can anybody elaborate on this? I mean this shit's been down all day so I'm kinda curious.

Also, they pulled out the Twitter account from it's shallow grave, so it's gotta be something big.

Here's your elaboration: SQL hell. I'm not even shitting you.

posted about 7 years ago
#78 Ready Up: Competitive Team Fortress 2 in TF2 General Discussion

It's up on YouTube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DEvC47tvKc

posted about 7 years ago
#4 ESEA may be double-charging for Premium in TF2 General Discussion

Just be aware that /r/GO's been sketchy about the whole thing (no surprise), an earlier thread on the matter got removed despite one of them literally confirming that they were affected two days ago. sigh

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 3/22/18 (3/23/18 UTC, 1.36.3.0) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[GAMEPLAY]
– Adjustments to the Negev:
— Improved accuracy while firing in bursts
— Slightly reduced time until significant accuracy recovery
— Price lowered to $1700
— Reduced armor penetration
— Movement speed is significantly reduced while firing

[MISC]
– Fixed a bug related to Workshop collections when a map was deleted from the Workshop.

Rumor has it:

- There's also a blog post on the Negev changes
- ICYMI: SlothSquadron took out his thinking cap for the Negev changes, you can read what he wrote here

- Size is ~5 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO PRERELEASE update for 3/20/18 (1.36.3.0-rc1) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

ValveThe following changes are available in the 1.36.3.0-rc1 CS:GO Beta depot.

[GAMEPLAY]
– Adjustments to the Negev:
— Improved accuracy while firing in bursts
— Slightly reduced time until significant accuracy recovery
— Price lowered to $1700
— Reduced armor penetration
— Movement speed is significantly reduced while firing

[MISC]
– Fixed a bug related to Workshop collections when a map was deleted from the Workshop.

Rumor has it:

- There's also a blog post on the Negev changes
- /u/SlothSquadron will be writing something up on these changes wrote a whole bunch of words on the changes that you should go read

- Wish to opt in? Right-click on CS:GO in your Steam library, go to Properties, go to the Betas tab, then select "1.36.3.0-rc1"
- To opt in for servers: run "app_update 740 -beta 1.36.3.0-rc1" in SteamCMD
- Valve servers will be unavailable as has been the case with the last few prerelease tests

- SteamDB GameTracking services will be completely unavailable as it only keeps eyes on the public branch - be aware

- Size is ~5 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 TF2/SFM Blog: "Vote for the Saxxy Awards!" in TF2 General Discussion

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=38041
http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/post.php?id=38038

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/news/38041/saxxy2017_vote.png?t=1478892053

TF2 TeamIt's time again for the Annual Saxxy Awards! Entries have been submitted, folks, so it's time to nurse your hangover with creative SFM videos all day long. Click here to watch and vote for your favorite entries. Laugh! Cry! Get absolutely nothing done at work or school! Voting ends 3PM PDT on Tuesday, March 13th, and nominees will be announced Wednesday, March 14th, so get to voting!SFM TeamIt's our favorite time of year! That time when all the Saxxy Awards entries have been submitted, and we can watch videos all day long instead of working. More importantly, so can you! Upvote the ones you enjoy, downvote the ones you don't, and just as importantly, downvote the ones that have violated the Saxxy Awards contest rules. Specifically: no advertisements, YouTube annotations or cards allowed, any music and other assets must have links to their authors in the description, and entries should abide by the per-category duration limits. You have until 3PM PDT on Tuesday, March 13th to vote, so don't wait!

For those who have submitted entries to the Saxxy Awards, please make sure that your videos are marked public, tagged with the appropriate categories, are free of advertisements, cards or annotations, and that you've attributed the creators of any music or other assets you've used, and received permission for their use.

Nominees will be announced on Wednesday, March 14th, and winners on Thursday, March 15th. Until then - go vote!
posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 3/7/18 (3/8/18 UTC) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ WINGMAN ]
– Overwatch will now also cover Wingman matches.

[ MISC ]
– Game State Integration now supports passing information about all grenades and inferno flames in the map to external systems by setting “allgrenades” “1” game state integration config setting.

Rumor has it:

- Other than the above, just localization, made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~5 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 3/1/18 (3/2/18 UTC, 1.36.2.9) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ MISC ]
– Collectible Pins Capsule Series 3 containing a single Series 3 collectible pin is now available as an in-game offer.

Rumor has it:

- A reminder: pins obtained from the in-game capsule don't get the Genuine quality. If you'd like to grab a version you can show off in real-life that also has a digital unlock code for a Genuine pin, see the blog for details

- Size is ~5 MB (the proof's in the otherwise boring pudding)

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 2/28/18 (3/1/18 UTC, 1.36.2.8) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ MISC ]
– Weapon tracers for the local first-person player now appear to come from the weapon muzzle more reliably. Since bullets are actually fired directly along the crosshair, tracers may still be offset from the muzzle in cases where an object blocks the tracer from reaching its target. However, noise in the geometry near the target (like displacement geometry) should no longer cause this offset to happen as often.
– Guns that fire a tracer every few bullets now have a tracer on their first bullet. Fixes weapons not firing tracers at all with sv_infinite_ammo 1.
– Weapon viewmodels now reacts to weapon recoil & aimpunch. Can be disabled with “viewmodel_recoil 0”.
– Add a cheat setting convar cl_crosshair_recoil. When enabled will make the player’s crosshair also react to weapon recoil and aimpunch.
– Several fixes to address exploits and stability issues.
– Added new replay storage and download domains to allow more reliable download of match replays from Perfect World official datacenters.
– Game state integration (link) will now include players’ forward vector orientation when “allplayers_position” integration option is enabled.
– Added more detailed game information state for broadcast to friends.
– Made snd_stream load more efficiently.
– Fixed snd_stream to work on Linux.

[ MAPS ]
– Canals:
— Added cover at the back of A site near shop
— Lowered Tunnels water exit for better visibility toward Ivy
— Removed awning and adjusted clip brushes at Ivy boost/jump
— Enlarged stair landing at courtyard for better movement
— Fixed gap in B site roof that grenades could fall through
— Added stairs on left side of CT bridge for easier T access to B
— Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Rumor has it:

- Trying to use "viewmodel_recoil_scale"? You'll want to use "viewmodel_recoil" instead (thanks to /u/DukeBruno123, /u/TheCowYT, /u/Zlargo and others for the quick improvisation) (Valve's updated the notes to correct this error)

- Other than what you see above, the rest of this update consists of localization made possible in part by Translators Like You - Thank You

- Not necessarily part of this update, but for those of you that like having real-life merchandise: Series 3 blind bag collectible pins are now available to order from WeLoveFine, and will begin shipping at some point next week. You'll also get a code to unlock a digital version of the pin you open
- Direct purchasing of the digital pins isn't possible yet. If you don't particularly mind forgoing the Genuine quality, you'll need to wait a while longer

- Size is ~50 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 2/15/18 (2/16/18 UTC, 1.36.2.7) in CS2 General Discussion

Blog post (with images of the contents of both cases): http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2018/02/20073/

------------------------

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ CLUTCH CASE AND COMMUNITY CAPSULE 2018 ]
– Introducing the Clutch Case, featuring 17 community-designed weapon finishes and 24 new glove finishes.
– Introducing Community Capsule 2018, featuring 8 community-designed stickers.

[ AUDIO ]
– Added “snd_stream” option convar. Enabling this disables using audio cache and instead streams audio off disk.

[ MISC ]
– Fixed occasional crash when dropping Medi-Shots.
– Fixed ammo count not updating when dropping stack-able items like Medi-Shots.
– Updated the following weapon finishes:
— AK-47 | Frontside Misty
— M4A1-S | Chantico’s Fire

[ MAPS ]
Nuke
– Offset stairs by control room near bombsite B
– Removed some unintended positions on crane in bombsite A
– Fixed some minor bugs

Rumor has it:

- CS:GO Stash should have inventory images and Steam Community Market links up within a while, remain patient

- You can also grab images of the stickers from here: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/f63831c492d05fd69a5c50685164e914152bc2c7

- Did you know that the Steam Datagram system configuration was recently compacted considerably thanks to a format change? It's been locally synced as of this update, so if you're polling network_config.json for purposes such as making a utility to cut off access to certain clusters, have a look at Valve's new configuration format and update accordingly to make sure stuff doesn't break

- Size is ~135 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 TF2 update for 2/14/18 in TF2 General Discussion

Via the Steam store:

Valve- Ended the Jungle Inferno Campaign
- Added a contracts-only pass to allow players who did not participate in the Jungle Inferno Campaign to access the Jungle Inferno contracts. This pass does not grant campaign-specific perks such as the enhanced Casual Badge.

Rumor has it:

- Do you use Avira as your antivirus protection? Have you noticed that everyone has become Sona Buvel-uh, I mean, silent? It may have falsely detected "mssmp3.asi" as malicious. Go grab it out of your quarantine, and everyone should get their voices back (thanks to /u/DatBoi73, /u/justaponyfan, and others for the reports)

- With this more official end to Jungle Inferno, the three main menu tracks have been taken out of the game too, and the news button in-game now just tells you to read the blog

- Did you know that the Steam Datagram system configuration was recently compacted considerably thanks to a format change? It's been locally synced as of this update, so if you're polling network_config.json for purposes such as making a utility to cut off access to certain clusters, have a look at Valve's new configuration format and update accordingly to make sure stuff doesn't break

- Size is close to 30 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 2/9/18 (2/10/18 UTC, 1.36.2.6) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[MISC]
– Fixed a bug with the Medi-Shot that caused its ammo count and usage to be broken.

Rumor has it:

- Other than that, all this update seems to be otherwise to be is just a local sync of last night's item schema update that mirrored the fixed P90 description and Easy Peasy Pin image. No, literally, I'm not even kidding (other than the usual steam.inf numbers change)

- Size will likely appear as 0 bytes for most

posted about 7 years ago
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