The newest mode added to Team Fortress 2 is quite possibly the most appropriately-named one yet. Highlander mode, as you're to call it, mandates the following: "there can be only one." In less referential terms, it essentially means each team can only have one of each playable class in attendance.
A neat concept, for sure. I do get the feeling people will want to quit out the second they're forced to play a less desirable class, though. Alongside the new mode, a few smaller fixes were included in the update. See the full notes after the break, for "tonight you sleep in hell."
Engine
- Enabled Steam Cloud support for key bindings and custom spraypaint images
- Added Options->Multiplayer->Advanced option to toggle off/on: default is on
Team Fortress 2
- Added new Highlander mode
- 9 players allowed per team
- Restricts each team to 1 of each class
- Use mp_highlander (0/1) to toggle off/on: default is 0
- Added "bots" to the server's sv_tags convar if the server is running bots
- Fixed a weapon name localization issue
- Fixed the "tf_teamtalk" server convar not controlling text chat between living/dead teammates
- Updated the map CTF_DoubleCross
- Fixed the map not ending correctly when using mp_timelimit
- Changed to prevent Engineers from building on top of the shack in each base
- Updated the map Arena_WatchTower
- Fixed a case where players could open and get stuck on the starting gates before the round start
- Improved clipping to prevent people from getting out of the map
- Optimized the map for better performance
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9:30 PM on 02.04.2010
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Dibs on Medic on my team! We should start playing this on SteamToid
I think Valve has FNF's ,and perfect timing too, because this Friday there will only be one.
*Dudewhoonlyplaysspy has left the game
Does an update to tf2 mean everyone gets to try the game for like a weekend or somethin? I thought i saw that somewhere that they did that but maybe im just crazy
Nah. It's usually when a major class update is live, and in a rare case, sell the game for $2.50 just because they think it's funny.
Too bad the 360 won't see this :(
Strategy is now 100x more important.
let's do it!
Hell the same note below where they fixed the tf_teamtalk convar is actually far more important and interesting.
Good fixes for doublecross too.
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