Team Fortress 2 Update Reactions

 

This just went live, and makes me happy in several ways.

  • Added an option in the Options->Multiplayer dialog to filter custom game files being downloaded from servers

Ahhhh.

  • Fixed cases where ragdolls were falling through the world

Ahhhh!

  • Graphics optimizations for mid and low end hardware

Ooh.

  • Fixed players blocking doors in Well

Heh.

  • Fixed engineer building in exploit areas on final caps in Well

Oh?

  • Increased starting round timer to 10 minutes in Well

Hmm.

But my favourite Steam Update News – and I apologise if you’d hoped I might do something like a ‘Films of the Year’ post instead of this – was actually a little while ago.

  • Added effects to players when they earn an achievement, visible to other players nearby

Cool. But isn’t there an achievement for tricking an enemy Medic into healing you while you’re disguised? Would this not give the game away somewhat?

A few days later:

  • Fixed cloaked/disguised/disguising spy reporting his achievements to everyone else

Reason Valve should hire me #26: totally saw that one coming.

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roBurky: Heh. I experienced that spy achievement one the day they put that in. Healed my soldier buddy as he ran past me. Fireworks go off above his head.

Needless to say, I decided he needed something amputated.

 
Pentadact: The bonesaw is so awesome. I needed a screenshot of it in action today, so I hopped on PC Format's server and went on a rampage, expecting to die repeatedly before I got the money shot. Instead, I beat my record for consecutive Medic kills: 4.

I like that he doesn't attempt to saw them with it, he just kind stabs it, into their face. That's medicine.
 

Alek: "Fixed players blocking doors in Well"

Hm. Is this the bug that resulted in the TRIVIA TIME section of that one Team Fortress 2 Griefing Video?

roBurky: Killing as a medic is my favourite thing in TF2. It's like my elaborate plans to kill people with cargo haulers in Eve, I just love the ironic role reversal of it. I think my highest record is still 7 kills as a medic, though.

Spartacus Morbidia, Destroyer of Dreams: All of this is pure chocolate in update form. What other developer but Valve would do this? Perhaps Well will stop ending so often in those tiresome stalemates.

Stalemates were invented for France, not my Team Fortresses.

 
Pentadact: Best. Username. Ever.
 
 
 

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