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

• Added a new command line option: -strictportbind
  
  • If you launch the game with this option it will quit with an error message if it can't bind to the default or specified port
    
• Fixed a server crash caused by the replay system
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by disguising spies
  
• Fixed a server crash on startup caused by writing to the console
  
• Fixed a server crash triggered during entity cleanup
  

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<ul><li><a href="http://tf2maps.net/">TF2Maps.net</a> is wrapping up their <a href="http://asymmetrycp.tf2maps.net/">Asymmetry/Symmetry Control Point Map Contest</a>. Authors had a choice of making a symmetrical or asymmetrical control point map and five months to complete it. Head over to their <a href="http://asymmetrycp.tf2maps.net/">contest page</a> to download and play the collection. There are a couple servers running the collection. When you're done be sure to help them choose a winner!</li>
<li><a href="http://ozfortress.com/">OZ Fortress</a> wrapped up their 6th Ultiduo with yuki and bonobo taking top prize. More information and demos can be found their summary page.</li>
<li><a href="http://ozfortress.com/">OZ Fortress</a> also has a <a href="http://ozfortress.com/showthread.php?t=45983">highlight video</a> from their Cup 2 season compiled by Kaiza.</li>
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• TF2Maps.net is wrapping up their Asymmetry/Symmetry Control Point Map Contest. Authors had a choice of making a symmetrical or asymmetrical control point map and five months to complete it. Head over to their contest page to download and play the collection. There are a couple servers running the collection. When you're done be sure to help them choose a winner!
  
• OZ Fortress wrapped up their 6th Ultiduo with yuki and bonobo taking top prize. More information and demos can be found their summary page.
  
• OZ Fortress also has a highlight video from their Cup 2 season compiled by Kaiza.
  

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

• Fixed some server replay publishing bugs
  
• Added a new ConVar “replay_fileserver_offload_aborttime”
  
  • Any replay publishing thread that takes longer than replay_fileserver_offload_aborttime seconds will be killed
    

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

• Added the Spiral Knights promotional hat
  
• Updated The Superfan, The Essential Accessories, and The Hero's Hachimaki so they can be painted
  
• Updated The Conjurer's Cowl and The Maul so they can be crafted and traded
  

Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a problem related to spawning multiple entities unnecessarily between mini-rounds
- Fixed a bug that caused players to see the wrong backpacks on some classes
- Fixed a problem with honorbound weapons not allowing themselves to be holstered after killing a Spy using the Dead Ringer
- Fixed the Ubersaw and the Vita-Saw not displaying the Medic's ÜberCharge progress

Team Fortress 2

• Added the Saxxy
  
• Updated the kill icons
  
• Updated the vote system
  
  • Added a convar to prevent voting on the next level if one has already been set (sv_vote_issue_nextlevel_prevent_change)
    
  • Fixed scrambleteams resetting how many rounds have been played
    
    • Updated mp_scrambleteams to support a parameter of 2, which prevents resetting the number of rounds that have been played
      
  • Fixed the server automatically creating votes while in training or using itemtest
    

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Hot damn! We're just minutes away from live-feeding the First Annual Saxxy Awards, and the anticipation is thick here at TF headquarters. Why? Because tonight, <strong>we are going to announce a contest winner every five minutes until someone dies!</strong> Hold on, there's somebody at the door. Keep rereading this paragraph until we get back.

Okay, we're back! Valve's lawyers said we need to make it clear that absolutely nobody is going to die as a result of these awards, and that we should erase that last paragraph. But guess what? We can't! We're live-feeding this blog post too! There's no going back! We're working without a net here. Literally anything could happen! Except for us claiming someone will die as a result of these awards, because we had to sign a pretty serious-looking stack of papers just now guaranteeing we will not mention it again.

What we can tell you is that all twenty of tonight's winners are going home with a <strong>handsome 100% Australium-plated Saxton Hale statuette</strong>, which'll look great on your virtual mantle, and even better buried waist-deep in the skull of one of your enemies, since it's also an in-game melee weapon. So technically we were right, and someone IS going to die as a result of these awards. Hold on, there's someone at the door again. While we go see who it is, why not settle in with a bowl of popcorn and <a href="http://www.teamfortress.com/saxxyawards/winners.php">click on over to the awards</a>, which by the time you finish reading this might have already started.

Hot damn! We're just minutes away from live-feeding the First Annual Saxxy Awards, and the anticipation is thick here at TF headquarters. Why? Because tonight, we are going to announce a contest winner every five minutes until someone dies! Hold on, there's somebody at the door. Keep rereading this paragraph until we get back.

Okay, we're back! Valve's lawyers said we need to make it clear that absolutely nobody is going to die as a result of these awards, and that we should erase that last paragraph. But guess what? We can't! We're live-feeding this blog post too! There's no going back! We're working without a net here. Literally anything could happen! Except for us claiming someone will die as a result of these awards, because we had to sign a pretty serious-looking stack of papers just now guaranteeing we will not mention it again.

What we can tell you is that all twenty of tonight's winners are going home with a handsome 100% Australium-plated Saxton Hale statuette, which'll look great on your virtual mantle, and even better buried waist-deep in the skull of one of your enemies, since it's also an in-game melee weapon. So technically we were right, and someone IS going to die as a result of these awards. Hold on, there's someone at the door again. While we go see who it is, why not settle in with a bowl of popcorn and click on over to the awards, which by the time you finish reading this might have already started.

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Tune in for the First Annual Saxxy Awards Show <strong>LIVE at 3:00PM PDT this Wednesday, June 8th</strong>! We'll be revealing a new category winner every five minutes! That's one hundred frantic, furious minutes of award-bestowing! As far as we know, nobody has ever attempted to hand out this many awards in so short a time.