Multiplayer options

Multiplayer options is a set of user changeable settings in the options menu found on the main menu and under the multiplayer tab.

Standard Multiplayer Options

Crosshair Appearance

The Crosshair Appearance section allows you to customize and edit your crosshair for your in-game HUD. It allows the user to edit the color, size, and shape of the crosshair. The advantage to editing the color, size, and shape of the crosshair allows users to use the crosshair more effectively or make it more visible.

Spraypaint Image

Sprays in TF2 are not necessarily useful but they can be comedic or even somewhat helpful. This section allows you to upload different images with the max of 256x256 pixels, and works the best as a VTF (valve texture file) format. Once a spray has been imported into TF2 the user can use their spraypaint key (default 'T') to place the image onto different surfaces.

Custom Content

This allows a user to set permissions for what a server can download onto your computer. The drop box has three settings- allow all custom files from server, do not download any custom sound files, and do not download any custom files.

Multiplayer Advanced

The advanced options can be found via Options | Multiplayer | Advanced... from the main menu. Below is a table of advanced multiplayer options and their default values.

Option	Default Value	Notes
Multiplayer decal limit	200.000000	Limits the amount of visible sprays, bullet holes, and similar visual effects. Lowering the number may improve performance on low-end systems.
Enable minimal HUD	No	Makes the HUD much smaller and less intrusive.
Suicide after choosing a player class	Yes	Makes you commit suicide when changing class outside of the spawn room.
Automatically respawn after loadout changes in respawn zones	Yes	This prevents the need to go to the Health\Resupply Cabinet whenever the loadout is changed and needs to apply said equipment.
Medigun continues healing without holding down fire button	No	Click the fire button once to lock on and heal with the Medi-Gun\Kritzkrieg.
Sniper Rifle will re-zoom after firing a zoomed shot	Yes	While enabled, the re-zoom may be canceled by right clicking after firing a shot.
Automatically reload weapons when you're not firing	No	When enabled, your weapon will automatically begin reloading when not firing. This can be interrupted by firing again, which will cancel the current reload sequence.
Auto-save a scoreboard screenshot at the end of a map	No
Remember the active weapon between lives	No
Remember the 'last weapon' between lives	No
Draw viewmodels	Yes	Shows the classes hands and currently equipped weapon in the field-of-view.
Flip viewmodels	No	Changes 'right-handed' viewmodel to 'left-handed' viewmodel.
Viewmodel field of view	54.0	Setting to minimum value, 54, will make weapon appear closer to the screen and larger. The highest value, 70, will appear farther away, but smaller. Highest value shows incomplete view model glitch on some classes.
Disable sprays	No
Turn on colorblind mode	No	Adds an icon above the heads of players who are soaked in Jarate. Ideal for colorblind users who have trouble seeing the yellow tint.
Disable HTML MOTDs	No	Changes the downloading HTML "welcome" web page to the standard Team Fortress 2 chalkboard. Useful for when the pages are either offensive or impact system resources.
Show non-standard items on spectated player	Yes
Use advanced spectator HUD in tournament mode	No
Disable weather effects	No	Rain and snow will be disabled.
Enable simple disguise menu	No	Changes the 1 through 9 disguise menu option into a three sets of three menu that requires pressing one of the 1, 2, and 3, buttons twice.
Display damage done as text over your target	No	Shows damage as a red number floating over each hit (e.g. -98). Damage done to buildings does not display the floating text.
MEDIC: Display a marker over the player you are healing	No	Shows a little triangle above your healing target. Useful for keeping track of your target in crowded situations.
MEDIC: Injured teammates automatically call out	No	Displays an icon similar to the Medic! speech bubble above wounded players who have not called for healing. Useful for prioritizing and searching for low health allies, and in some cases, disguised Spies.
MEDIC: Auto-call health percentage	60.00	Sets the maximum player health to display the Medic auto-call icon on.
Play a hit sound every time you injure an enemy	No	Makes a loud DING with each hit.
Use glow effect for Payload objectives	Yes	Makes outlines of Payload carts visible through walls.
Synchronize with Steam Cloud	Yes	Useful for moving sprays, key binds, and player options between computers.
Show pop-up alerts while in-game	Yes
Show trade requests from...	Anyone	Can also be set to Friends Only, Friends and In-Game Players, and No One.
Close server browser after connecting to a server	Yes	Useful if you use the Manage Items and Trading menu often.

Known Advanced Multiplayer Bugs

• When Automatically reload weapons when you're not firing is activated the Pyro will always attempt to load the last bullet even when its there, the reload animation never stops.
• When Medigun continues healing without holding down fire button is activated the Medic will continue to heal even when the Medic is taunting.