14 DAY TRIAL // The Team Fortress 2 multiplayer game developed and published by Valve on Steam for Linux has been updated yet again and the devs have made numerous changes and improvements.
Team Fortress 2 has been in the top ten most played on Steam for years and nothing seems to slow it down. It's been around for a long time and it was one of the first games ported by Valve for the Linux platform.
Team Fortress 2 is also a free-to-play game, which means that anyone can download and play it without having to pay anything. The developers make their money in a different way. Most other companies provide better weapons or various other shortcuts that allow users to improve by using real money, but in Team Fortress 2 everyone is equal.
This means that players can't buy weapons and items to improve their skill, which in turn makes everyone equal. Even with this restriction in place, users find all kinds of ways to mess with the gameplay in order to get advantage, and developers need to make constant changes.
What the changes made to Team Fortress 2 are
According to the changelog, taunts have been added to the items that can be uploaded to the Steam Workshop, new "Taunt" and "Halloween" tags have been added to the Steam Workshop, tournament medals for the ETF2L and RETF2 EE22 have been implemented, a number of client/server performance improvements have been made, the client memory usage has been improved by updating weapon models to only be loaded on demand, the edict usage on servers has been improved to help eliminate "out of edicts" errors during round restarts, and a server crash that was caused by using the "map" command in the console while the server was running has been fixed.
Also, a client crash that occurred when switching between windowed-mode and fullscreen for Mac OS X and Linux clients has been fixed, the HTML MOTD support has been re-enabled for Mac OS X and Linux clients, a Hammer crash related to changing entity types for an existing entity has been fixed, and a number of maps have been updated as well.
Team Fortress 2 features a large number of multiplayer modes, such as Capture the Flag, Control Point, Payload, Arena, King of the Hill, and more. Moreover, players can choose one of the nine classes available: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Sniper, and Spy.
Check out the official announcement for Team Fortress 2 for more details about the changes and make sure you let the game perform the update.
