March 21, 2021 Patch

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Patch notes

Team Fortress 2

• Featuring Team Comtress. Read more about it at www.teamfortress.com/teamcomtress.

Casual Improvements

• Random critical hits have been disabled by default in Casual
• Added "Enable/Disable Random Crits" votes
• Quickplay has been added back while also being optional
• Added captcha for bots.
• Improved the votekicking system.
• Added rd_asteroid, rd_uranus, rd_planet to map rotation.
• Computers running on linux can no longer join Casual or Competitive matches due to the bots.
• Unmuted Free to Plays.

Balance Changes

• Reverted to Pre Jungle Inferno Ambassador.
• The Darwins Danger Shield now has a 20% bullet vulnerability.
• The Ullapool Caber is now rechargable.
• Buffed heavy's movement by 10%
• Removed ctf_turbine from competitive map pool.
• The Thermal Thruster now has a 0.6 holster time.
• Gave Dead Ringer the "Sketchek's Bequest" stat.
• Added The Assault Cannon and The Condensed Compressor.

General Improvements

• Optimized Dragon's Fury particles due to lag spikes.
• Finished rd_asteroid.
• Added 3 new official Robot Destruction maps.
• Updated the gamehaptics.txt file
• Made higher quality loading screen hud elements. (1366x768 to 3840x2160)
• All servers now allow custom first person mods.
• Added MasterComfig's configs in the settings.
• Added a timer to all Capture the Flag maps
• Fixed a server crash caused by a mismatched items schema.
• Removed any trace of Wutville.
• Players can no longer build on the inside of spawn inside Pier.
• Added new promo items
• Fixed hats sometimes appearing multiple times in incorrect locations when changing classes
• Fixed Demoman shields not reducing explosive damage in non-MvM games
• Fixed the tf_bot_add command using the same name for all of the bots when adding multiple bots simultaneously
• Moved map descriptions into the localization files
• Map descriptions will still be loaded from the maps folder first if they exist
• Fixed seeing the fire texture on Gold Botkiller items in DirectX 8
• Fixed a bug that allowed malicious servers to execute restricted console commands on players
• Fixed a bug that allowed malicious servers to prevent players from executing console commands
• Fixed MvM intro video not playing on some Macs
• Fixed the sound precache string table being nearly full in non-MvM games
• This was causing the "error writing string table baseline" and "failed reading message net_SetConVar" errors.
• Added bot compatibility for Capture the Flag maps.
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
• Updated the localization files

Undocumented Changes

• Fixed tf_mm_strict to work as documented
• Added the .nav file for 2Fort.
• Compressed 2Fort using bspzip.