The Gun Mettle Update is (Almost) Here!
July 02, 2015
Introducing the Gun Mettle Campaign, new to TF2 and releasing tomorrow, which succeeds in every area where the army fails: Rare guns! Mystery boxes! Skill-based prizes! Buying a $5.99 Campaign Pass lets you test your TF mettle against a series of weekly challenges, and gives you the chance to earn <b>one-of-a-kind weapons</b> to keep or trade with your friends. A portion of the sales from Campaign Passes will go towards our hardworking TF2 community mapmakers. Find out more about the new campaign here, and don't forget to read the comic!
Now, say you're the sort of person who's thinking, "You know what's more exciting to me than the Gun Mettle Campaign? Having six dollars." Don't worry, frugal guy, we've got you covered too! A new Valve map! Three new community maps! Taunts! A new way to equip new weapons in-game for free! Loads of class and weapon changes! Check out the details here. You guys, this is a big update. And it lands tomorrow, so check back.
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 01, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Updated Mann Co. Store prices for foreign currencies to current USD equivalents
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 01, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Ended the Mann Co. Store summer sale
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 17, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed an issue causing dedicated servers to occasionally hang on shutdown
- Hammer tools: Fixed vbsp -onlyents and -onlyprops compiles failing
- Updated localization files
- Updated the Maps Workshop Beta
- Fixed an issue causing clients or servers installed in long path names to be unable to load workshop maps
- Fixed an issue causing clients to occasionally be unable to launch a listen server using a workshop map via the 'map' command
- Fixed an issue causing the initial map load on dedicated servers to fail if the map is a workshop map
- Fixed dedicated servers requiring a reboot to properly handle updated workshop maps if the map name changed
- Fixed an issue causing clients or servers installed in long path names to be unable to load workshop maps
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 12, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed a client crash related to crafting
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 12, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Mann Co. Store summer sale is on!
- Updated dedicated server 'status' command to include sv_tags
- Enabled raw mouse input for Mac clients
- Added OWL 13 tournament medals
- Added TF2Connexion Season 15 tournament medals
- Fixed a client crash related to the HUD
- Updated the localization files
- Updated Mann Co. Store prices for foreign currencies to current USD equivalents
- Security/crash fixes (thanks to Nathaniel Theis for these reports)
- Fixed a remote code execution bug and a crash related to malformed custom spray files
- Added checks to the voice system that prevent loading codecs other than the files that ship with the game
- Fixed a remote code execution bug and a crash related to malformed custom spray files
- Updated the Maps Workshop Beta
- Workshop map names (e.g. workshop/cp_foo.ugc123456) can now be used in the map, changelevel, and nextlevel commands as well as the mapcycle config
- Allow fuzzy name matching in the map, changelevel, and nextlevel commands as well as the mapcycle config -- e.g. "changelevel dustbowl"
- Shorthand workshop map names of the form workshop/
(e.g. workshop/123456) will now auto-resolve to the full map name - Running tf_workshop_map_sync is no longer necessary, maps will be fetched and updated on demand during level change
- tf_workshop_map_sync is no longer blocking, and can be used to precache maps in the background
- Workshop maps are no longer copied to tf/maps/workshop/ by default, instead using the single copy in the steamapps/workshop folder
- Fixed some cases of embedded resources in workshop maps, such as cubemaps, not being loaded properly
- Fixed an issue preventing game servers from properly receiving updates to workshop map files
- Fixed game servers using registered accounts via sv_setsteamaccount not being able to download workshop content
- Fixed syncing workshop maps prior to the first map load on a dedicated server
- Updated in-game workshop import tool
- Fixed not being able to select the class/other tags for cosmetic items
- Hide unused buttons when editing an existing workshop entry
- Fixed text getting truncated when editing items with long descriptions
- Running tf_workshop_map_sync is no longer necessary, maps will be fetched and updated on demand during level change
- Workshop map names (e.g. workshop/cp_foo.ugc123456) can now be used in the map, changelevel, and nextlevel commands as well as the mapcycle config
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 04, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed a problem that was preventing clients from uploading items to the Steam Workshop
- Fixed a stability issue with dedicated servers
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 03, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Announcing the Maps Workshop Beta!
- Check out the blog post for more information
- Added bsp_repack command to repack a BSP file with optimal compression
- Maps uploaded to the workshop are automatically compressed
- Added tf_workshop_refresh command to recheck tracked workshop maps and refresh subscriptions
- Added tf_workshop_map_sync
command to immediately install a map from the workshop by ID - Added sv_allow_point_servercommand to disable point_servercommand entities. Defaults to "official" Valve maps only. Can also be set to "disallow" and "always".
- Check out the blog post for more information
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
May 19, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed crash when getting a malformed KeyValues buffer (thanks to Nathaniel Theis for the report)
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
April 30, 2015
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed a dedicated server crash related to the dispenser
- Fixed a client crash related to the material system
- Fixed a client crash related to ragdolls
- Fixed a client crash related to demo playback and skipping ticks
- Fixed not being able to launch the game in fullscreen on Windows 10 Preview
- Fixed sentries not being able to hit players who are ducking while airborne. This was most noticeable when used in conjunction with the B.A.S.E. Jumper.
- Fixed not being able to preview paint changes in the backpack, Mann Co. Store, and Workshop import tool
- Fixed the Strange Dalokohs Bar incorrectly counting food eaten
- Fixed missing ambient sounds in some maps
- Fixed the Festive Targe not using the correct Blue team material
- Fixed the Ap-Sap causing stuttering on dedicated servers
- Added ETF2L 6v6 Season 20, ETF2L Highlander Season 8, and ETF2L Ultiduo 5 medals
- Added the Tip of the Hats community medal
- Added a "no hat" style for the Batter's Helmet
- Updated the localization files