14 DAY TRIAL // Valve, in-between holding massive sales on its Steam service for the holiday season, has just deployed an update for Team Fortress 2, its popular online first-person shooter.
Steam has been making headlines in recent days due to the massive sales being held every day until the New Year, but it has also been used by Valve to deploy a new update to the company's Team Fortress 2 title.
The update aims at solving a few problems with new items like the Blighted Beak or the Buffallo Steak Sandvich, as well as improve the duel system and fix a variety of other small bugs encountered by players.
Check out the major changes in the new Team Fortress 2 update below.
Team Fortress 2
-The Blighted Beak is now a misc slot item. -The Buffalo Steak Sandvich's speed boost no longer stacks with other speed boosts. -The Rocket Jumper and Sticky Jumper now have no max health penalty, and have damage vulnerabilities instead.
Duel fixes: -Duels can no longer be initiated when the round is not fully running. -If you challenge someone that has already challenged you, the duel is automatically accepted. -Fixed an issue where a dueling mini-game item was marked in-use even though the duel was rejected. -Duels are now refunded if a server plugin forces a participant to switch teams.
Loading screen: -Only shows the duel leaderboard if you've been dueling, or if your friends have been dueling. -Shows your personal stats whenever it's not showing the duel leaderboard.
Custom hitsounds: -Must now be specified by replacing the 'tf/sound/ui/hitsound.wav' file. -Can now be used under sv_pure 1/2. -Improved performance on Degroot Keep. -The "Fabricate Class Headgear" recipe no longer has a chance of creating all-class hats. -Fixed spectator mode sometimes ending up in a state where you were half-embedded in your spectator target. -Fixed a bug in the Kritzkrieg’s animations. -Fixed round restarts not cleaning up weapons correctly for a frame (fixes a variety of weapon attribute issues, such as players having less health or less ammo than they should) -Fixed painting issues in several of the Australian Christmas hats. -The Sniper scope is now visible when viewing First Person Spectator mode on a zoomed Sniper. -Medieval Mode's auto-roleplay now ignores text beginning with '!' or '/' (so SourceMod commands aren't modified)
The update is already out on Steam and will be downloaded automatically when you start up the online service.