February 11, 2011 Patch (Beta)

Source: TF2 Beta forums (Web Archive)

Patch notes

Gameplay

• Restored player health to normal values
• Replaced the no-crit attribute with -25% damage on the following:
  • The Eyelander
  • The Gunslinger
  • The Southern Hospitality
  • The Powerjack (also added +20% melee vulnerability)
  • The Horseless Headless Horseman's Headtaker
  • The Ullapool Caber
  • The Claidheamohmor

Medic:

• Vitasaw
  • Added the ability to see enemy health
• New Medigun - The Quick-Fix:
  • Heal rate increased 50%
  • Uber charge rate increased 50%
  • Not able to overheal
  • Match the speed of any faster heal target
  • Uber effect: Megaheal
    • Heal rate increased 3x on heal target
    • Heal target and medic immune to stun and damage forces

Heavy:

• Dalokoh’s
  • Removed cooldown
• Fists of Steel
  • Increase deploy times 20%
  • Ranged damage reduced 40% (down from 60%)

Demo:

• Loch-n-Load
  • +10% damage

Soldier:

• Equalizer
  • Tuned high-end damage range so it's no longer possible to one-shot certain classes
  • Suppress the medic call effect while active

Scout:

• Madmilk
  • Heal 60% of damage done (down from 75%)

Pyro:

• Flares always crit burning targets, regardless of range.
• Backburner
  • Removed the restriction on airblast
  • Ammo cost increased 150% (4 blasts at full ammo)
  • Damage bonus reduced to 10% (from 15%)
• New Flaregun - The Detonator:
  • Alt-fire detonates flare in flight
    • Does a small explosion that catches players on fire
  • 20% explosion damage vulnerability

Sniper:

• Sydney Sleeper:
  • +25% increased charge rate

General

• CombatText:
  • Added an option to display healing done over heal targets (hud_combattext_healing)
  • Display a value whenever the player does something that earns them a bonus point
  • Starting position of values is now affected by range to target, making it easier to see numbers when next to targets
• Medic overheal effect is now more noticeable
• Synced with changes from the official releases