October 27, 2010 Patch

Source: 27 Oct 2010 – Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Patch notes

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Engine (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

• Removed the rate limit for the "status" command when entered into the server console
• Fixed an exploit that allowed people to send fake server messages to clients
• Significantly improved engine vertex compression (large reduction in per-model memory usage)

Team Fortress 2

• Added TF2Maps.net Art-pass contest winners:
  • Mountain Lab
  • Mann Manor
• Halloween 2010 Event
  • Mann Manor is haunted by the Horseless Headless Horsemann.
  • Random gift drop in Mann Manor.
  • 4 new Halloween achievements.
  • Added new Halloween hats.
  • Added a new Halloween weapon.
• Added Gift Wrapping of gifts to the store.
• Added Custom Description tag to the store.
• Added the community created "Swamp Theme" assets, so all maps can use it:
  • See http://swamp.tf2maps.net/ for full details.
• Updated cp_coldfront with the latest changes from the community creator (Icarus):
  • Improved visibility on last CP.
  • Moved second CP slightly closer to the attacker's side.
  • Added cover for players queuing up the health pack on the second CP.
  • Improved clipping on the zig-zag ramp to middle CP.
  • Teams that capture the middle CP are now awarded with faster spawn times.
• Added a health penalty to the Rocket Jumper.
• Added the Sticky Jumper for Demomen to practice jumping.
• Fixed the Sandvich charge meter.
• Fixed glows not drawing correctly when using antialiasing on some computers.
• Improved the checks that trigger mp_scrambleteams_auto.
• Added console commands to initiate trades directly (cl_trade/cl_trade_steamid) to help people running trading servers