Dammit Valve, I cannot help but get the feeling that I’m going to be stuck spreading the word about your Team Fortress 2 patches and class updates for years to come. At any rate, there are easily a million worse things I could be doing with my time, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The latest patch brings a number of notable fixes and tweaks, including the following: Spies can now side-stab again, the flamethrower’s flame effect won’t stay on when it’s not being used, and players can’t “duck spam” any more. I’m not exactly sure what duck spamming is, but I can only imagine it looks kind of funny.
Don’t forget to take a look after the break to see the full patch notes — that way you’ll know what to expect the next time you boot up Team Fortress 2.
[Via Shacknews]
Gameplay changes
- Added a duck timer that prevents duck spamming while running around on-ground
- In-air, players are only allowed to duck once before they touch ground again
- Fixed several bounding box issues with jumping, falling, and rocket jump air-walking. Bounding box should be much more accurate there now
- Increased backstab check so that Spies can side-stab again
- When disguising, Spies now always start showing the primary weapon in their disguise, and can then switch it with the last-disguise key
TF2 Fixes
- Fixed flamethrower loophole that resulted in the flame effect being stuck on while the flamethrower wasn’t really firing
- Fixed exploit that allowed players to circumvent the force-fire timeout on the pipebomb launcher
- Fixed a bug that caused Natasha’s slow on hit effect to be inverted from 75% to 25%
- Restored sawmill_logs.mdl file, fixing some user maps that used it
- Fixed some localization issues with Scout achievement strings
- Removed the “Final” phrasing in the map loading screen
Engine fixes
- Fixed a server crash on startup under Linux
- Fixed a buffer overflow issue related to network string tables
- Gamestats uploading is now done asynchronously. This fixes the client timeout issues on map changes
CP_Junction
- Fixed an exploit where engineers could build a teleporter exit in an invalid area
- Fixed a few bad overlay assignments and other minor issues
