We've released a mandatory update for Team Fortress 2. The notes for the update
are below. The new version is 3662193.
-Eric
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Scream Fortress VIII has arrived!
- Featuring 3 new community maps: Brimstone, Pit of Death, and Maple Ridge Event
- Added the Creepy Crawly Case
- Contains 22 new community-created items that make-up the Creepy
Crawly Collection
- Has a chance to give one of 3 community-created Halloween-restricted
items as a bonus item
- Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
- Added a taunt Unusualifier
- A new tool that will Unusualify the specified taunt with the Unusual
effect listed in the tool's description
- Can be found as a random bonus item when opening a Creepy Crawly Case
- Added two new taunts to the Mann Co. Store
- Taunt: The Victory Lap
- Taunt: Second Rate Sorcery (community-created)
- Added 8 new community-created Unusual effects
- 4 new effects for Unusual hats
- 4 new effects for Unusual taunts
- Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for your
Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting the Soul
Gargoyles that spawn in the maps
- Join Halloween matches by selecting the "Halloween" category in Casual
- Scream Fortress VIII runs through November 9th, 2016
During Scream Fortress VIII
- All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they don't
already have one from last year's event
- Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations
- Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected
- Added 3 new Merasmissions for the featured maps
- Completing a Merasmission will give players a classic Halloween item
and the chance for a Creepy Crawly Case
- The chance to receive an Unusual item from a case opening has been increased
during the event
- All cases and Mann Co. Supply Crates will grant Halloween 2016 Unusual
effects instead of their normal Unusual effects
Matchmaking
- The Competitive maps list has been updated
- Added pl_badwater and ctf_turbine
- Disabled cp_granary and cp_badlands
- Maps will continue to enter and exit this list over time
- Added "Load Saved Settings" and "Save Current Settings" buttons to the Casual
mode Map Selection menu
- Search criteria is now manually saved to give players more control
over the default settings when the game is launched
- XP earned in Casual matches has been adjusted to reward players more for
their personal contribution to the match
- XP per point has returned to 6.5 XP per point
- XP earned for match completion and objective completion now scales
based on your score relative to total amount of points scored by everyone in
the match
- Increased the matchmaker's priority of matches with imbalanced teams
- This should reduce the occurrence of extended imbalanced matches when
multiple players leave
General
- Added the AsiaFortress Cup Season 10 tournament medals
- Added LBTF2 6v6 Season 13 tournament medals
- Improved several aspects of texture handling for OS X and Linux clients
- This should reduce the rate of "Out of memory" errors for players on
high texture settings, especially on level change
- Players still encountering this error can reduce texture quality to
medium or lower to greatly improve stability pending further improvements
- Fixed a missing material issue on cp_sunshine
- Fixed players not taking damage when exploding as a bombhead without stunning
Merasmus
- Fixed Mann vs. Machine zombies not using the correct skin in Ghost Town
outside of the Halloween event
- Fixed a bug with the vote-kick timer in Mann vs. Machine mode
- Fixed taunts not restoring the proper weapon when the taunts are finished
- Fixed the Pomson 6000 playing the shotgun reload sound
- Updated the sounds made when the Scout shoves someone while using the
Shortstop
- Updated some Merasmus audio files that weren't playing properly
- Updated the localization files
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