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Update Notes of as 01 Nov, 2007
Update News - Team Fortress 2
Latest Update: October 9, 2007
[-] October 9, 2007 - Current Release
Changes/Additions
- Improved driver checks for various cards that can have problems with specific driver versions
- Various updates to Russian and Polish localization
- Spies can no longer reload their revolver while cloaked
- Demomen grenades now collide with players and Engineer buildings after the first bounce, but still won't explode on contact
- Improved startup network initialization to catch issues with server firewalls popping up in the background
- Fixed loading screen and intro movie showing up on Windows Vista with full screen AA
- Fixed a sound corruption issue which could cause audio popping
- Fixed achievement storage issues that caused a problem with the Head of the Class achievement
[-] October 8, 2007
Changes/Additions
- Team Goals panels stop appearing after you've played a map several times
- At map time limit, Sudden Death now only kicks in if teams are drawn
- Sudden Death only starts in CTF mode if both flags are at home
- Team Fortress 2 stats are only gathered when playing a real game
- Added the player class counts in the class selection dialog
- Fixed Heavy minigun exploit
- Various fixes to localized text
[-] October 5, 2007
Changes/Additions
- Added a warning for when paged pool memory is low
- Fixed certain crashes with paged pool memory
- Fixed some prediction errors with player avoidance
- Fixed columns and row bunching up in server browser
- Fixed a rare bug where the wrong launcher.dll was being used to launch the game
- Fixed teleporter/spawn doorway exploit
[-] September 28, 2007
Changes/Additions
- Added option to change Field-of-view, between 75 & 90, from the Options->Multiplayer tab
- Added option to disable Player sprays
- Increased flamethrower damage at point black range
- Demoman grenades (not stickybombs) no longer explode on contact after the first bounce
- Fixed flamethrower hit detection
- Fixed a startup crash
- Fixed a case where players could get stuck in tc_hydro
- Fixed player movement prediction errors
- Fixed third-person sniper aim animation not matching player's view exactly
- Fixed achievements and stats being awarded when watching other player's demos
- Fixed rare server crash due to data corruption in networking
- Fixed a case where some sounds had incorrect volumes
[-] September 27, 2007
Changes/Additions
- Added Team Fortress 2 events and cameras to SourceTV
- Fixed memory fragmentation crash
- Fixed prediction error that caused jittery sticky bomb launcher behavior
- Fixed rare crash when creating muzzleflashes
[-] September 26, 2007
Changes/Additions
- Spectators can now see all player classes in the scoreboard
- The affinity of the main thread is not set explicitly for dedicated servers. This will properly load balance multiple instances of the dedicated server running on a multi-processor machine. The affinity is still set to CPU 1 for clients and listen servers
- Fixed a crash with ATI cards running on Vista
- Fixed a networking problem that could cause a crash certain types of home networking hardware with out of date firmware installed
- Fixed a networking problem that could cause some animation jittering
- Fixed bug causing incorrect .dem files to be written (all files after first .dem file would be corrupted)
- Fixed bug with placement of teleporters that could result in players being unable to move
- Removed mp_friendlyfire cvar for servers. Team Fortress 2 breaks in a number of ways if this is on
- Fixed some truncated strings in the destroy menu
- When a round finishes, if there's less than 5 minutes left on the timelimit, the server now goes ahead and switches level right away, instead of going into Sudden Death
- Fixed crash on startup
- Fixed crash caused by .dlls being loaded from the user's path, instead of from the install directory
[-] September 21, 2007
Changes/Additions
- Optimized sound system
- Removed background map due to incompatibilities
- Fixed a Direct3d device restore problem causing crash and/or black screen
- Fixed Windows Vista crash bug
- Fixed achievement manager crash
- Fixed occasional sniper zoom crash
[-] September 20, 2007
Changes/Additions
- Linux Dedicated Server beta release
- Disabled the loading of background maps
- Fixed not being able to issue rcon commands with empty strings like: rcon sv_password
- Fixed refresh rate video mode issue
- Fixed crash on opening the scoreboard after having changed between windowed and fullscreen
- Fixed a hitch problem related to mouse updates happening too frequently
- Fixed sentry muzzleflashes not drawing unless sentry was near the map origin
- Fixed a crash during loading while starting the game in fullscreen mode
- Exploit fix related to "join_team".