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Team Fortress 2 Beta Now Open
September 18, 2007, 12:20 am - Chris Bokitch
The wait is over: Team Fortress 2, the successor to the granddaddy of class-based multiplayer action games, is now playing on Steam. Those who pre-purchase The Orange Box via Steam can access the beta version of one of the most anticipated online action games.
Team Fortress 2 features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date. Players choose from a range of unique character classes such as medic, spy, sniper, or engineer and must work together to complete a variety of tactical objectives.
The PC edition of The Orange Box - which also features Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, as well as the complete Half-Life 2 experience to date - is now available for pre-purchase via Steam through October 10th for 10% off the $49.95 regular price.
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Team Fortress 2 Update Released
September 20, 2007, 4:32 pm - Jason Ruymen
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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* Linux Dedicated Server beta release
* 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
* Disabled the loading of background maps
* Exploit fix related to "join_team"
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Team Fortress 2 Update Released
September 21, 2007, 4:18 pm - Jason Ruymen
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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* Removed background map due to incompatibilities
* Optimized sound system
* 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
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Team Fortress 2 Update Released
September 26, 2007, 4:13 pm - Jason Ruymen
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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* 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
* Spectators can now see all player classes in the scoreboard
* 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
* 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 crash on startup
* Fixed crash caused by .dlls being loaded from the user's path, instead of from the install directory
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Team Fortress 2 Update Released
September 27, 2007, 3:20 pm - Jason Ruymen
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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* 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
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Team Fortress 2 Update Released
September 28, 2007, 5:30 pm - Jason Ruymen
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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* Added option to change Field-of-view, between 75 & 90, from the Options->Multiplayer tab
* Added option to disable Player sprays
* Fixed flamethrower hit detection
* Increased flamethrower damage at point blank range
* Demoman grenades (not stickybombs) no longer explode on contact after the first bounce
* 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
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Thanks
Daniel