Team Fortress 2 Beta

The Team Fortress 2 Beta is a beta version of the game that is separate from TF2 itself and is open to all owners of it, released on December 2, 2010. This is the second period of public beta testing, the first one occurring before official release of the game. The beta is used for purposes including, but not limited to:

• Testing and tuning various class, item, and weapon changes
• Testing map changes and variants
• Running higher level, game-wide experiments (like doubling player health)
• Testing new technologies without the risk of breaking the game

Players receive all achievement-related items, all promotional items their account is entitled to (excluding promotional items received from a trade), and the complete Saharan Spy pack. In addition, there are no random drops, trading is disabled, and the Mann Co. Store is disabled. Crafting, however, is still available, and the items given to every player upon starting the beta can be crafted, meaning hats and other weapons are still obtainable. The current Team Fortress 2 beta differs from the beta first released to any user who pre-ordered the game back in 2007, and is more similar to the closed beta from 2009.

Changes

Weapons

Class		Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Heavy	Unlock	Natascha	200	N/A	Base: 340 / sec. Crit: 720 / sec.	On Hit: 100% chance to slow target   Slowdown-on-hit effect falls off over distance   -25% damage done   30% slower spin-up time
	Beta	Natascha Variant 1	200	N/A	Base: 312 / sec. Crit: 648 / sec.	On Hit: 100% chance to slow target   Slowdown-on-hit effect falls off over distance   -40% damage done
	Beta	Natascha Variant 2	200	N/A	Base: 340 / sec. Crit: 720 / sec.	On Hit: 100% chance to slow target   Slowdown-on-hit effect falls off over distance   -25% damage   -25% (75) max health on wearer

Maps

• cp_granary: New entrance added into the RED and BLU mid ramp room.
• cp_5gorge: 5 CP version of cp_gorge.

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  New entrance on RED from inside.

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  New entrance on RED from outside.

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  New entrance on BLU from inside.

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  New entrance on BLU from outside.

Balance

Class		Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Medic	Stock	Medi Gun	N/A	N/A	N/A	ÜberCharge grants Medic and patient 8 seconds of guaranteed invulnerability.  Players being healed are immune to movement-impairing effects generated by hit-scan weapons.
	Unlock	Kritzkrieg	N/A	N/A	N/A	ÜberCharge grants patient 8 seconds of guaranteed critical damage.  Players being healed are immune to movement-impairing effects generated by hit-scan weapons.  Has 25% faster charge rate.

Patches

Main article: Patches (Beta)

Bugs

• The names of the Poker Night variant items come up as their item reference title.
• The Iron Curtain shows up on the left hand side of the screen instead of the normal right hand side.
• An Engineer can prepare to build a Mini-sentry, switch to either the Wrench or Southern Hospitality, and still deploy the Mini-Sentry without having the Gunslinger equipped. This does not work the other way around to build normal sentries with the Gunslinger equipped.

See also

• Beta weapons – for weapons of the previous closed beta.

External Links

• Official TF2 Beta Forum on Steam Users' Forums
• TF2 Beta Blog Post
• TF2 Beta Update history