Team Fortress 2 Beta

See also: Team Fortress 2 Closed Beta

The Team Fortress 2 Beta is a Template:W version of the game that is separate from Team Fortress 2 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 current 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 Steam account is entitled to, the complete Saharan Spy pack, the Gloves of Running Urgently, and any weapons that are currently under testing. Random drops, Trading, and Crafting are currently enabled. The Mann Co. Store, however, is not available. 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 currently under test

New weapons

Class		Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Soldier	Beta Rocket Launcher	4	20	N/A	When the medic healing you is killed you gain crit boost for 8 seconds  On Hit: -10 Health
	Beta Shotgun	6	32	N/A	While a medic is healing you, this weapons' damage is increased by 25%  While not being healed by a medic, your weapon switch time is 25% longer
	Beta Split Equalizer 1	N/A	N/A	N/A	Damage increases as the user becomes injured  Blocks healing while in use
	Beta Split Equalizer 2	N/A	N/A	N/A	Move speed increases as the user becomes injured  Blocks healing while in use
Medic	Beta Syringe Gun	N/A	N/A	N/A	Applies Mad Milk for 1 second  50% slower firing rate  90% less damage
	Quick-Fix	N/A	N/A	N/A	Über effect: Megaheal Heal rate increased 3x on heal target and medic Heal target and medic immune to stun and damage forces  Heal rate increased 50%  ÜberCharge rate increased 50%  Match the speed of any faster heal target  Not able to overheal (attempting to overheal will still build Übercharge)
	Beta Bonesaw	N/A	N/A	N/A	Allows the user to see enemy health
Pyro	Detonator	1	16	Base: 30 Crit: 90 Afterburn: 6 / sec. × 10 secs.	On hit, ignites enemy.  Alt-fire detonates flare in flight. It creates a small explosion which ignites nearby players, but does less damage than a normal hit. Knockback can be used to flare jump.  Guarantees Critical damage on burning targets, regardless of distance (only when flare is not detonated).  20% explosion damage vulnerability on wearer.

Changed weapons

Class	Item	Old	New
Scout	Shortstop	~	20% slower reload speed
Demoman	Eyelander	No random critical hits No damage penalty Base damage: 65 Crit: 195	Random critical hits enabled  -25% damage done Base damage: 49 Crit: 146
	Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker	No random critical hits No damage penalty Base damage: 65 Crit: 195	Random critical hits  -25% damage done Base damage: 49 Crit: 146  Able to taunt
	Claidheamh Mòr	No random critical hits No damage penalty Base damage: 65 Crit: 195	Random critical hits enabled  -25% damage done Base damage: 49 Crit: 146  Able to taunt
	Ullapool Caber	No random critical hits No damage penalty Base damage: 35 (149 explosion) Crit: 149 (300 explosion)	Random critical hits enabled  -25% damage done Base damage: 26 (149 explosion) Crit: 79 (300 explosion)
Engineer	Gunslinger	No random critical hits No damage penalty Base damage: 65 Crit: 195	Random critical hits enabled  -25% damage done Base damage: 49 Crit: 146
	Southern Hospitality	No random critical hits No damage penalty Base damage: 65 Crit: 195	Random critical hits enabled  -25% damage done Base damage: 49 Crit: 146
Medic	Vita-Saw	~	Allows player to see the enemy's health

Other changes

• Replay system (not currently available on Mac)
• Paint more integrated with lighting system

Previous changes

Class	Item	Old	New	Status
Scout	Mad Milk	Players heal 75% of the damage done to an enemy covered with milk.	Players heal 60% of the damage done to an enemy covered with milk.	Added to game (4/14/2011)
	Sun-on-a-Stick	Minicrits against burning players -15% damage done Base damage: 30 Crit: 90	Full crits against burning players  -25% damage done Base damage: 26 Crit: 79	Added to game (4/14/2011)
	Fan O'War	Marked for death status lasts 10 seconds	Marked for death status lasts 15 seconds	Added to game (4/14/2011)
Soldier	Battalion's Backup	Takes 175 damage to fully charge	Takes 350 damage to fully charge	Added to game (4/14/2011)
	Concheror	20% of damage done by teammates is returned as health during buff	35% of damage done by teammates is returned as health during buff	Added to game (4/14/2011)
	Equalizer	~	Damage formula tweaked, no longer possible to one-hit-kill certain classes when at low health  Automatic and manual Medic calls are supressed	Added to game (4/14/2011)
Pyro	Backburner	No compression blast +15% damage done	Added compression blast, 50 ammo per blast  +10% damage done Base damage: 153.5 / sec. Crit: 460.4 / sec.	Added to game (4/14/2011)
	Flare Gun	Mini-Crits against burning players at close range, full crits against burning players at long range	Full crits against burning players regardless of range	Added to game (4/14/2011)
	Powerjack	+25% damage No random critical hits	No damage bonus  Random critical hits enabled  +20% damage from melee sources while active	Added to game (4/14/2011)
Demoman]	Loch-n-Load	+10% damage done	+20% damage done Base damage: 103-147 Crit: 342-388	Added to game (4/14/2011)
Heavy	Natascha	~	Slowdown-on-hit effect falls off over distance.  30% slower spin-up time	Added to game (12/17/2010)
	Natascha	-25% damage done Base damage: 340 / sec. Crit: 720 / sec.	Slowdown-on-hit effect falls off over distance.  -35% damage done Base damage: 312 / sec. Crit: 648 / sec.	Not Active (1/06/2011)
	Natascha	~	Slowdown-on-hit effect falls off over distance.  -20% max health on wearer	Not Active (1/06/2011)
	Dalokohs Bar	25.7 second cooldown	No cooldown	Added to game (4/14/2011)
	Fists of Steel	60% less damage from ranged sources while active	40% less damage from ranged sources while active  20% slower weapon switch	Added to game (4/14/2011)
Engineer	Buildings	~	Damage against buildings reduced 50%.	Not Active (1/13/2011)
Medic	Medi Gun	~	Players being healed are immune to movement-impairing effects generated by hit-scan weapons.	Not Active (1/06/2011)
	Kritzkrieg	~	Players being healed are immune to movement-impairing effects generated by hit-scan weapons.	Not Active (1/06/2011)
Sniper	Sydney Sleeper	~	25% faster charge rate	Added to game (4/14/2011)
All Classes	Health	~	All Classes have double Health.	Not Active (1/13/2011)
	Health	~	All Classes have 25% extra Health.	Not Active (2/11/2011)

Patches

Main article: Patches (Beta)

Bugs

• An Engineer can prepare to build a Combat Mini-Sentry Gun, switch to either the Wrench, Southern Hospitality or Jag, and still deploy the Combat Mini-Sentry Gun without having the Gunslinger equipped. This does not work the other way around to build normal sentries with the Gunslinger equipped.
• Despite being synced with the changes in the January 10, 2011 Patch, the Kritzkrieg and other crit boost sounds occasionally continue to play after the effect ends.

See also

• Team Fortress 2 Closed Beta

External Links

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