Team Fortress 2 Update Released February 28, 2008

[Mana 3,867]

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Added "Custom" tab to the server browser

    * Servers can now specify metatags describing the custom rules they've adopted

    * Players can use tag filtering to find servers running the custom rules they want to play

    * Added options for servers who want to become custom games: Disable critical hits (tf_weapon_criticals), eliminate respawn times (mp_disable_respawn_times), and raise maxplayers above 24

Initial release of Tournament mode (mp_tournament)

    * UI for handling team naming, ready mode, and win results

    * Disables team player limits, autobalancing, and intermission

Class balancing

    * Reduced Soldier's maximum rocket reserve ammo from 36 to 16

    * Reduced Demoman's maximum sticky bomb reserve ammo from 30 to 16

    * Reduced Demoman's maximum grenade launcher reserve ammo from 40 to 24

General

    * Added protection against voice command spamming. Dramatic reduction in teleporters needed

    * Fixed mp_timelimit ending the map during the middle of a round on maps like Dustbowl and GravelPit

    * Fixed "lastdisguise" command not remembering if you were disguised as your own team

    * Added "Toggle Disguise Team" binding in Options->Keyboard to toggle the disguise team for the Spy's PDA

    * Changed PDA menus to accept keys bound to "slot1", "slot2", etc., and "slot10" cancels

    * Fixed Spectator targetID not using team colors

    * Changed team autobalance code to not balance the teams when the active round timer shows less than 60 seconds

    * Fixed "-maxplayers" on the command line not correctly setting the maxplayers value for the server

    * Fixed Badlands never having Sudden Death triggered

    * Fixed Engineer being able to detonate buildings that are being sapped

    * Changed Engineer buildings to detonate when a player disconnects instead of blinking out

    * Fixed potential client crash for players being healed by a Medic or dispenser

    * Made several improvements to server-side stat reporting (not related to individual player stats)

I await the onslaught of anti-balancing people and the bitching related to it throughout TF2/Steam forums.

Bet some people didn't expect these changes?

[DarkClaw 0]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...ad.php?t=658481

I even bitched personally in that one

[Dovi 3]

I don't care for the changes, will kick ass no matter what. I don't know why they keep updating the game with these small insignificant to me atleast things. Who cares, game is good as it is.

[Mana 3,867]

I don't care for the changes, will kick ass no matter what. I don't know why they keep updating the game with these small insignificant to me atleast things. Who cares, game is good as it is.

4078[/snapback]

Apparently everyone cares, there's over 20 topics a day on Steam forums about how people bitching how they go in with uber as demo and kill no one, how the spy doesn't get any points when the engineer destroys his sentry and how their wife left them because of Steam... Whichever gets the most bitching gets implemented in the next update... Yay, even more bitching happens right after that.

[Dovi 3]

As I said I don't care, it don't matter to me what they care about.

[Mana 3,867]

As I said I don't care, it don't matter to me what they care about.

4083[/snapback]

But apparently it does to valve, so more of these balancing updates will come. But I for one, can adapt easily.

[DarkClaw 0]

Well, as long as they don't narf the spy more, I'll be fine