Jungle Inferno Update

This article is for content released in the update. For the patch itself, see October 20, 2017 Patch.

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If Jurassic Park taught us one thing, it's life finds a way. If Jurassic Park taught us two things, it's life finds a way and Jurassic Park is a good idea to steal for an update. And if Valve's legal team has taught us one thing, it was by screaming at us about not telling you the second thing Jurassic Park taught us. If people screaming at us has taught us one thing, it's that loud noises make us so anxious we forget where the backspace key is, so we're just plowing ahead and are happy to announce our wholly original update about deadly animals escaping from a theme park. Because life finds a way, which is the only thing we stole learned from Jurassic Park. — TF2 Official Website

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The Jungle Inferno Update was a major update for Team Fortress 2 that spanned throughout 4 days, starting on October 16th, 2017 and finally releasing on October 20th, 2017 after a 1-day delay. It introduced 5 new weapons, 5 new community-made maps, 1 new Valve-made map, 7 new taunts, 1 new kill taunt, 49 new cosmetics (though 4 all-class items are currently unreleased), and many rebalances for existing weapons as well as the Pyro class. It also introduced an overhaul to the contract system with the ConTracker, and introduced War Paint in place of weapon skins.

Announcements

The Jungle Inferno Update page officially began on October 16th, 2017, as announced on the TF2 Official Blog post "Welcome to... Mercenary Park!"

Update progress

The Jungle Inferno Update was released over time through a four-day update.

• Day 1 included 7 new taunts, 6 new maps, and a short SFM trailer.
• Day 2 introduced War Paints and a new contract PDA with free and paid contracts, with the free contracts giving out the new weapons and the paid ones giving out Blood Money and War Paints.
• Day 3 showed the new weapons: the Dragon's Fury (a primary weapon/flamethrower), the Thermal Thruster (a secondary weapon/jetpack with a unique taunt kill), the Gas Passer (a secondary weapon/toxic gas), the Hot Hand (a melee weapon/glove), and the only non-Pyro weapon in this update, the Second Banana (a secondary lunchbox weapon for the Heavy).
• Day 4 was the final day, accompanied by a blog post with the complete patch notes and a release date of 1 day away.

Day 1

The Jungle Inferno Update revealed 1 new Valve map and 5 new community-created maps, along with 2 new Valve taunts and 5 new community-created taunts.

Maps

Community maps are identified in italics.

Name	Picture	Game mode	File name
Banana Bay		Payload Race	plr_bananabay
Brazil		King of the Hill	koth_brazil
Enclosure		Payload	pl_enclosure_final
Lazarus		King of the Hill	koth_lazarus
Mercenary Park		Attack/Defend	cp_mercenarypark
Mossrock		Attack/Defend	cp_mossrock

Day 2

Day 2 revealed the Jungle Inferno Campaign and War Paint cases which will be replacing campaign weapon drops and weapon cases, 2 new cosmetic cases, and the new campaign system. This campaign involves 36 new contracts that can be completed in co-op. Completion of the contracts earns either a campaign-specific item or "Blood Money", which can be used to buy War Paints and cases.

Campaign

The Jungle Inferno Campaign requires the purchase of a Jungle Inferno Campaign Pass. The ConTracker PDA has also been introduced, which allows customized contract progression and access to the Mercenary Park Gift Shop. Friendly-Fire is a new feature accompanied by the campaign and the party system, which allows players to play with/against their friends and help each other in completing contracts if they are on the same Valve server with them.

Cosmetics

Main article: Cosmetic items

Tools

Main article: Tools

Day 3

Day 3 revealed 4 new weapons for the Pyro, a kill taunt for one of the new Pyro weapons (the Thermal Thruster), a lunchbox item for the Heavy, and changes to the flamethrower.

Tweaked Classes

Class	Changes
Pyro	Changed: Airblast hit detection for both players and projectiles is now a consistent cone
	Changed: Airblast strength increased
	Changed: Airblast now causes the target player to have reduced footing and air control for a short period, rather than losing all control
	Changed: Airblast now factors in the momentum of the Pyro and target, giving both more control over the interaction
	Changed: Airblast now factors in the upward angle of the airblast, rather than having a fixed upward force
	Changed: Afterburn duration now based on how long the flamethrower was actively hitting an enemy

Tweaked Weapons

Class	Weapon	Changes
Pyro	Flame Thrower + Variants	Changed: Better visual sync, more consistent (no visuals/damage mismatch)
		Changed: New particle effects

Day 4

Day 4 released the patch notes for the Jungle Inferno Update, including various weapon changes, information about the new weapons, multiple bug fixes and changes to the matchmaking system. It also introduced the first-person inspection mechanic to all weapons.

Tweaked Classes

Class	Changes
Heavy	Changed: The 1-second damage and accuracy penalty now applies to the first second of spun-up time, whether or not the Heavy is firing. Previously, the 1-second damage penalty only be removed after 1 second of firing.
	Changed: Accuracy and damage penalties now reset when the Heavy spins down, rather than when the Heavy stops firing. This means if you stay spun up beyond one second, and fire in bursts, damage and accuracy will remain at 100%.
Engineer	Added: Doubled the amount of metal applied (per wrench hit) when upgrading buildings during the "Setup" period

Tweaked Weapons

Class	Weapon		Changes
Scout	Bonk! Atomic Punch		Added: Apply a slow effect to the player after phasing wears off, based on the amount of damage they absorbed, from -25% at low damage, to -50% at 200+ damage.
			Note: The slow effect lasts 5 seconds
	Crit-a-Cola		Removed: Marked-For-Death when effect expires
			Removed: +10% damage taken penalty
			Added: Each attack while active adds Marked-For-Death debuff for 5 seconds (does not stack)
			Removed: +25% move speed bonus
	Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol		Changed: +15% firing speed (from 25% slower firing speed)
			Changed: Increased max health on hit to +7 (from +5)
			Removed: 20% damage vulnerability on wearer
			Removed: Wearer never takes falling damage
			Added: -25% clip size penalty
	Flying Guillotine		Added: Long range hits reduce recharge time (by 1.5 seconds)
			Changed: Distance considered "long range" reduced by half of the previous value when determining mini-crits
			Removed: Crit vs stunned players
			Removed: Mini-crits at long range
	Sandman		Changed: Max range balls now do 50% increased damage (from a base of 15)
			Changed: The flight time required to trigger the "max" effect has been reduced by 20%
			Changed: Ball regeneration time reduced to 10 seconds (from 15)
			Changed: Long-range ball impacts no longer remove the victim's ability to fire their weapons (but the victim is still slowed)
	Atomizer		Added: Melee attacks done while airbone mini-crit
			Changed: Reduce damage penalty vs players to -15% (from -20%)
			Removed: Self-inflicted damage when performing a triple jump
			Removed: Attack speed penalty
			Added: 50% slower deploy speed penalty
			Changed: Triple-jump is now only possible while the bat is deployed
Soldier	Cow Mangler 5000		Removed: Cannot be crit boosted
			Added: Granted/earned crits will converted to mini-crits instead
	Mantreads		Added: +200% air control when blast jumping
			Changed: +75% push-force reduction now includes airblast
	Righteous Bison		Note: This weapon has been reverted to its previous design
			Changed: Projectiles are no longer limited on the number of times they can hit the same target(s)
			Changed: Projectile velocity increased to 1200hu (from 840hu)
			Changed: Reduced damage per tick to 20 (from 45)
Demoman	Claidheamh Mòr		Note: This weapon has been reverted to its previous design
			Added: 0.5 second increase in charge duration
			Removed: +25 health on kill
Heavy	Gloves of Running Urgently	Bread Bite	Removed: Marked-For-Death effect while active
			Removed: 25% damage pernalty
			Added: Max health is drained while item is active (-10/sec), and regenerated while holstered
			Note: Health will regenerate only the amount drained while active - minus any damage taken during that time
			Note: Each time the gloves are deployed, the drain rate is accelerated for a brief period of time.
	Fists of Steel		Added: 40% overheal reduction while active
			Added: 40% healing rate penalty while active
	Eviction Notice		Removed: 20% damage vulnerability
			Added: Max health is drained while item is active (-5/sec), and regenerated while holstered
			Note: Health will regenerate only the amount drained while active - minus any damage taken during that time
			Note: Each time the gloves are deployed, the drain rate is accelerated for a brief period of time.
Engineer	Rescue Ranger		Changed: Ranged repairs now consume metal (at a 4-to-1 health-to-metal ratio)
Medic	Crusader's Crossbow		Changed: Ubercharge gain rate reduced in the same way that the Medigun's healing (and therefore, Ubercharge build rate) is - based on the last time the target was in combat
			Note: Reduced by a third when 1 - 10 seconds outside of combat, and scales up to normal over 10 - 15 seconds
	Vita-Saw		Added: Each hit with the Vita-Saw harvests the victim's organs (shown on the HUD)
			Added: On-death, preserve 15% ubercharge per Organ harvested. This effect caps at 60%.
			Removed: On death up to 20% of your stored ÜberCharge is retained
Sniper	Razorback		Added: Shield regenerated after 30 seconds
			Added: -100% overheal penalty
	Darwin's Danger Shield		Added: Afterburn immunity on wearer
			Added: +50% fire resistance on wearer
			Removed: 20% explosive damage vulnerability on wearer
			Removed: +25 max health on wearer
			Removed: +15% bullet damage resistance on wearer
Spy	Ambassador		Changed: Headshot damage is now subjected to distance falloff effects
			Changed: Headshots beyond 1200 world units do normal (non-crit) damage
	Your Eternal Reward	Wanga Prick	Removed: Cannot disguise penalty
			Added: Non-kill disguises require (and consume) a full cloak meter
			Added: +33% faster cloak drain rate
	Dead Ringer		Removed: No cloak meter from ammo boxes when invisible
			Removed: -35% cloak meter from ammo boxes
			Added: Ammo kits and dispensers no longer refill the Spy's cloak meter
Soldier Pyro	Reserve Shooter		Added: Attacks on targets flying via the Thermal Thruster mini-crit
			Changed: Attacks on targets knocked into the air by Pyro airblast no longer mini-crit
Soldier Demoman	B.A.S.E. Jumper		Changed: Reduced amount of air control while deployed by 50%
			Changed: Removed the ability to re-deploy the parachute once retracted (until the player lands on the ground again)
Soldier Pyro Heavy Engineer	Panic Attack		Added: +50% more pellets per shot
			Added: Fires a wide, fixed shot pattern (regardless of server settings)
			Changed: 50% faster switch speed (previously deployed 50% faster)
			Removed: 50% faster reload speed
			Added: -30% damage penalty
			Removed: Fire rate increases as health decreases
			Changed: Shot pattern grows with successive shots, but resets after you stop firing or reload (previously, weapon spread increased as health decreased)
			Removed: Hold fire to load up to 4 shells

Update Delay

On the expected day for the update's release, Day 4, a blog post gave notice of a delay of one day for the update in order for the TF team to do additional stress testing.

Trivia

• The last update that followed a four-day-long system of daily content previews was the Über Update back in 2011.
• This was the longest wait for a major update in TF2 history, timing 10 months and 29 days (272 days total) since Smissmas 2016.
• Several new weapons were teased in the days prior to their reveal:
  • At the bottom of the Day 1 Update Page, there is a Gas Passer lying on the ground, and in the background, the Pyro can be seen flying with the Thermal Thruster.
  • On the Day 2 Update Page, in the pile of weapons shown that War Paint can be applied to, there is a Dragon's Fury in the background. Also, in the lineup of the team showing off new cosmetics, the Pyro is seen holding the Dragon's Fury and the Heavy is holding the Second Banana.
• At the bottom of the Day 2 Update Page, Saxton Hale is seen holding a ConTracker. On the screen, there are two names. One says "Mercenary Park", and the other says "Pyroland". It was later revealed that through the "Pyroland" option, players would be able to earn all of the four new Pyro weapons and the Heavy weapon via completing six free contracts. Additionally, on Saxton Hale's shoulder, a parrot can be seen. Three red lasers are shining near the parrot's head. Moving the cursor near the parrot causes its head to explode, leaving a comical bone sticking out, some blood on Hale's shoulder, and feathers floating in the air. The triple laser sight is a reference to the Predator film series, as the eponymous alien hunters use a similar sight to aim their Plasmacasters. The first Predator movie involves people being hunted in a jungle. Using inspect element on the website shows the image's name as "parroter."

Gallery

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  In-game notification about the release of the update.

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  Day 1. Maps and taunts.

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  Day 2. Campaign Pass and cosmetics.

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  Day 3. Pyro's new class pack and subcampaign.

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  Day 4. Final Patch-notes.

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  Jungle Inferno title during the Halloween event.

External links

• Welcome to... Mercenary Park!
• Hit the Campaign Trail!
• Hot Stuff!
• We're Almost Live!
• Jungle Inferno is Live!
• Jungle Inferno Update Day 1
• Update Day 2
• Update Day 3
• Update Day 4