Engineer update is live

Our servers are up and the payload server has got the new maps on rotation.

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Engine

• Fixed client crash related flashlight usage.
• Fixed several issues related to alt-tabbing (invisible players, etc).

Team Fortress 2

• Added The Frontier Justice.
• Added The Wrangler.
• Added The Gunslinger.
• Added The Southern Hospitality.
• Added 35 Engineer achievements.
• Engineers can now pickup & move their buildings.
• Added Engineer main menu music.
• Added 4 new maps:
  • Thunder Mountain, a 3 stage Payload map.
  • Hightower, a Payload Race map.
  • Upward, a Payload map.
  • ColdFront, a community built Capture Point map.
• Item tuning:
  • The Sandvich now uses a cooldown timer, instead of the health pack recharge mechanic.
  • The Gunboats now reduce self-damage by 60% (was 75%)
  • The Tribalman’s Shiv bleed duration reduced to 6 second (was 8), and its damage penalty increased to 50% (was 35%).
• Added better feedback sound for Pyros on when their flamethrower is doing damage.
• Fixed blood effect on bleeding player.
• Added a glow effect to Payload carts.
• Added Romanian language support.

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Engineer update closing in

Looks like it goes live tomorrow:

http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/

It’s gonna be fun to play with the new sentry remote control.

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Zombies

A new fresh custom campaign added to the Left 4 Dead 2 servers. Get the details of the campaign here.

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Team Fortress 2 update

Valve have released a mandatory update to TF2. The most interesting thing is a new Web API for TF2 items. Maybe time to create an Android app during the vacation?

Server Browser
- Server browser now starts centered onscreen when it opens up.
- Filter panel now starts expanded, instead of hidden.
- Added a warning dialog that pops up to warn players joining games with more than the recommended number of players.
- Added a “max player count” filter setting.
- Renamed quick list checkbox from “Show Map List” to “Simplified List”.
- Mouseover the checkbox now explains the simplified list in the status bar.
- Quicklist now shows the number of other servers running each map.
- Fixed a couple of bugs related to toggling the quick list, which were resulting in you needing to refresh again.

Team Fortress 2
- Added missing earbud particles for DX8 players.
- Added new ConVar mp_windifference_min to be used with mp_windifference.
- Added Engineer to the list of classes that can equip Max’s Pistol.
- Rebuilt sound cache files that were out of date.
- Source TV:
- Fixed unlockable items not being visible.
- Stopped “player is carrying X” messages looping forever.
- Fixed overhealed particle effect being visible on your current view target when in first-person spectator mode.
- Changed in-game button colors to be less eyepoppingly bright.
- Improved Steam Web APIs for TF2 items (see http://www.teamfortress.com/)

Engine
- Fixed some graphical issues when alt-tabbing during a game.
- Fixed bullet penetration problems with Linux dedicated server.
- Removed an exploit that allowed people to change their names to something other than their Steam profile name.

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Sourcemod and Metamod updates

All servers have received an update to Metamod 1.8.2 and sourcemod 1.3.3.

Release Notes Sourcemod 1.3.3

Rlelease Notes Metamod 1.8.2

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Team Fortress 2 updates

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source Beta have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Engine

• Made several changes that improve stability for clients running low on addressable memory.
• Changed all HTML controls to use Webkit for the rendering engine.

Team Fortress 2

• Added Mac support.
• Overhauled the main menu, and added help to Loadout, Backpack, and Crafting screens.
• Added Training, with support for General gameplay & Soldier class training for now.
• Added Offline Practice mode, with support for KOTH maps and Dustbowl.
• The “Open Character Loadout” key will now go to your future class if you’ve requested a class change, but haven’t respawned yet.
• Added community submitted gameplay tips
• Community Requests:
  • Added “mp_forceautoteam”, a server convar that forces all joining players to autoteam.
  • Added “mp_stalemate_meleeonly”, a server convar that allows melee weapons only during stalemates.
  • Added “ExtinguishPlayer” input to tf_player for map makers.

And the update-to-the-update:

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed training servers showing up in the server browser for other users
• Fixed a crash related to level changes while playing a game with bots
• Fixed a potential crash on startup
• Remove debug “crash” command on dedicated servers

The servers are up and running now.

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Team Fortress 2 for Mac is here

Along with some changes to the main GUI and Mac-exclusive earbuds.

http://www.teamfortress.com/macupdate/

Read all about it here.

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Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2 get SteamPlay, Steam Cloud and Achievements

Now HL2, EP1 and EP2  syncs all save games to the Steam cloud, so you can play on any computer and not loose progress.

Read the full story here.

Oh, and Valve have released Half Life 2, ep1 and ep2 on the Mac too.

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Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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

Team Fortress 2

• Added new community weapons and hats
• Updated CP_Gorge
  • Added nobuilds to the awnings outside BLU’s forward spawn to preventing players building up there.
  • More clip work and model collision work based on community feedback.
  • Fixed BLU forward spawn door appearing through roof.
• Updated PLR_Pipeline
  • Added new stairwell in Stage 1 and window access to both teams’ platforms by main choke point to help alleviate stalemates.
  • Reverted the starting position for the cart in Stage 3 if a team had won the first 2 stages to where you no longer get a big cart-start-position advantage.
  • Fixed rare cases where stage would break when cart had no nearby capper(s).
  • Fixed carts not always moving to their starting locations correctly.
  • Fixed respawn times in Stage 3 not being set to the proper values.
  • Fixed the map not finishing correctly in Stage 3 if the two teams capture the final point at the same time.
• Removed sv_showhitboxes to avoid players confusing it with the method by which we do hit detection (see http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_Networking for info)

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Pyro balancing fixes are live

Well, sort of fix:

Team Fortress 2:
- Fixed a case where the Spy could start taunting and cloak at the same time
Flamethrower changes:
- Increased base damage 10%
- Afterburn duration increased (from 6 to 10)
- Flares that hit a burning player at mid-to-long range will crit
- Reduced Backburner damage bonus from 20% to 15%

So now he has 88% damage with the flamethrower instead of 80% since the initial nerf. The afterburn restore is most welcome. It will be fun to see how the pyro plays now.

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