September 20, 2007 Patch

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Added player position data to server logging of events (player_death, player_builtobject, teamplay_flag_event, object_destroyed, teamplay_point_captured, teamplay_capture_blocked)
• Improved mapcycle handling to ensure it always loads new mapcycles when the mapcyclefile convar is changed
• Fixed "CUtlLinkedList overflow!" crash
• Fixed sniper quick-switch exploit allowing them to avoid zoom/unzoom times
• Fixed an exploit allowing players to spawn into the enemy territory at the start of a round
• Fixed syringegun projectiles sometimes pushing players high up into the air, allowing them to reach bad map locations
• Removed an obscure rendering setting that would allow players to make cloaked spies appear fully black

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Fixed an audio problem in the previous update where sound corruption could occur on some systems

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Restricted sound engine updates to a max of 100fps
• Fixed the problem with mp_maxrounds not correctly counting the number of rounds for Dustbowl after the scoring change
• Fixed cloaked/disguised/disguising spy reporting his achievements to everyone else
• Added the ability for servers to have map-specific .cfg files in the cfg folder (missed in yesterday's release notes)

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Sudden death mode is now a server option (a convar) and defaults to OFF
• Sapped buildings now take slightly less damage from the Spy who sapped them
• The Medic's Medi Gun now charges at an increased rate during Setup time, to remove the need for self-damage grinding
• Fixed an rcon/console command that could cause server crashes
• Prevented players from playing the Civilian class
• Prevented players from hiding their name in the scoreboard
• Fixed exploit where the Medi Gun ÜberCharge wouldn't drain if you switched weapons
• Fixed decals not being correctly applied to the world in some cases
• Fixed critical bullet tracers not being visible to players other than the firer
• Fixed first person spectator view of the Spy watch not showing the correct cloak value
• Fixed the teleporter's player shaped particles not drawing
• Fixed the flamethrower stuttering when firing directly into a building
• Fixed a rare crash that can happen when a player being healed leaves the server suddenly
• Fixed Rocket trail effects sometimes existing permanently in world
• Added effects to players when they earn an achievement, visible to other players nearby
• Tweaked achievement HUD fonts and color palette for more readability
• Improved stat gathering for map play times to increase accuracy
• Improved stat gathering around draws to better understand why they're occurring
• Fixed occasional misreporting of Syringe Gun & Fire Axe damage distances to the stats system
• Fixed an occasional crash caused by an achievement not being found during a game announcement

Dustbowl

• Now waits until either team wins fully before changing to another map on server timelimit expiring
• Teams now score a point per captured control point, rather than per sub round
• Prevented Demomen being able to launch grenades into the stage three alleys while standing at the final cap point
• Fixed gaps in stage gates that allowed Snipers to kill defenders during setup
• Fixed several model and brush perch exploits in stage three
• Added stair access to the upper area in stage three after the first cap
• Limited line-of-sight at the first control point in stage 3 to remove a griefable Sniper spot

Source Engine

• Fixed some audio buffer support issues with Vista
• WorldVertexTransition under dxlevel 80 + 81 now correctly uses vertex alpha to blend the two textures
• Improved the console in the graphical UI version of the dedicated server

SourceTV

• Relay proxies can now record demos now with tv_autorecord 1
• Fixed an interpolation code bug during demo playback that was resulting in view jitter
• Added several TF specific game events to SourceTV auto director logic
• Increased the average shot length by 2 seconds

Undocumented changes

• Fixed model exploit in stage one allowing Sentry Gun/Teleporter to be placed behind chain link fence on Dustbowl
• Added the ability for servers to have map-specific .cfg files in the cfg folder

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Source Engine

• Fixed surround sound not working properly when running Windows Vista
• SourceTV relay proxies can record demos now with tv_autorecord 1
• Fixed jittery demo playback

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Source Engine

• Took a more aggressive approach to solving the exploit that would allow players to get underneath terrain in Team Fortress 2

SourceTV

• Fixed building bone merge cache from dormant entities. Fixes weapons in SourceTV attached to wrong bones
• Pass over spectator UI and scoreboard in SourceTV mode, disabled/changed some VGUI elements
• ALT will switch to Auto-Director mode in SourceTV

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Changed some networking code to help alleviate the lagouts some clients are experiencing
• Added sv_pure to the server, currently defaults to off. Type "sv_pure" in the console to get the full description
• Added DoAskConnect command to serverplugin sample
• Added server log entries for: Round_Start, Round_Setup_Begin, Round_Setup_End, Round_Overtime, Round_SuddenDeath, Round_Stalemate, Round_Win, Round_Length, Mini_Round_Selected, Mini_Round_Start, Mini_Round_Win, and Mini_Round_Length
• Server log entries for Round_Win and level changes will now detail the team scores and player counts
• Updated server log entries for flag captures to detail the number of captures and the tf_flag_caps_per_round value
• Removed some legacy math convars for turning off SSE/MMX
• Fixed terrain collision bug that allowed players to get under the terrain in some maps
• Fixed jump/taunt exploit
• Fixed Windows dedicated server running in -console mode moves its window to the front instead of the back upon startup
• Fixed Windows dedicated server bug (in -console mode) where typing anything in the console window was slow and tedious
• Fixed an error when updating name of 32nd player on server
• Fixed extra ascii 0x01 character at the beginning of " connected" console spew
• Fixed a bug that could cause a slight delay on engine startup

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Source Engine

• Fixed a bug in networking that would cause long stalls (up to 10 seconds) when a split packet would not be reassembled properly, which forced a full update to all clients
• General optimization to tracelines
• Fix for broken .dem file playback
• Added backward compatibility code to allow demos recorded with protocol 12 to continue to be playable under protocol version 13
• When showing "WARNING: Connection Problem", now indicate the number of seconds remaining before an auto-disconnect will occur
• Fixed a bug that would cause NULLNAME to be shown as the player's name in the scoreboard for a short time

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed exploit where spectators could spawn into the world without actually joining a team

Hydro map changes

• Fixed an exploit that would allow players to jump out of the map

Granary map changes

• Cover changes to the first capture points of both teams. Reduces some of the sight lines for defenders, and should make the area easier to capture
• Teams that are holding more points will receive a greater spawn time bonus (spawn timer reduced for the winning team). This should help attacking teams build momentum
• Minor visual tweaks to the BLU side between capture points 2 and 3
• Clipped off a super high (demo pipe jump) perch in the middle area
• Increased base round timer to 10 minutes
• Added windows overlooking the final cap from the capture point 2 building (via new room next to conveyor route)
• Minor changes to lighting in the middle area
• Moved the middle spawn points farther forward (saves 6-7 seconds off a Heavy's run from this spawn to enemy capture point 2)
• Reduced spawn advantage/penalty to a total of -/+ 6 seconds when on the final cap (from 10 seconds)
• Fixed material alignment and model interpenetration issues in home spawn rocket rooms

SourceTV changes

• Increased default bandwidth rate from 5 to 8 KB/sec for spectator clients
• Increased SourceTV demo buffer size for table class descriptions from 64 to 96KB. Team Fortress 2 was running over this
• Performance improvement for copying unreliable data buffers to SourceTV clients
• Updated the list of events in TF2 tagged for the director to play

Undocumented changes

• Added "The Art of War" as main menu music.

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Improved paged pool memory tracking
• Fixed crash on importing spray logo that claimed to be a valid jpeg file, but wasn't
• Fixed Medic's uber-charge stats tracking
• Fixed a bug in scoring Engineer building destruction
• Engineers no longer earn points for using their own teleporters
• Freezepanel HUD improvements now trigger on usage of the "jpeg" command
• Fixed Spies exploit enabling them to attack while disguising, without losing disguise
• Fixed Spies being able to attach sappers through thin walls
• Fixed several melee weapon switching exploits
• Fixed exploit that allowed players to teleport with the intelligence
• Fixed a client crash related to MP3 playing
• Improved client handling of stats when a connection couldn't be made to the stat servers. Fixes several cases of stat loss

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Fixed a performance regression

Source: Part 1, Part 2

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Part 1

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed problems with 3d sound in surround mode for some Audigy X-Fi users
• Medigun no longer continues to heal enemy Spies who have lost their disguise
• Fixed a weapon switching exploit that allowed Snipers to fire slightly faster than intended
• Tweaked shadow filtering to make shadows look more smooth
• Fixed Server Plugin "StartQueryCVarValue" falsely returning CvarNotFound for cvars that did exist
• Fixed crash in HTML control in IE7 on page load, most often seen in the server Message of the Day
• Fixed small memory leak in HTML controller
• Made HTML output more compatible with new XHTML document styles
• Fixed physics crash involving bad ragdoll friction values
• Fixed detail sprite fading
• Added anti-bunny hopping code

Part 2

• Fixed crash when viewing some HTML MOTDs

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Improved compatibility for direct sound
• Deathcam screenshots now move the player id panel to the lower right, and hide other hud elements until the freezecam fades
• Improved autobalance calculation code when determining who to switch
• Improved networking compatibility for some routers
• Fixed a crash during level init related to model loading
• Fixed issues on Dustbowl and Hydro that could occur when a server emptied in the middle of a round
• Fixed a bug in the clientside player avoidance code, and smoothed it a little more
• Further crash fixes related to paged pool memory usage
• Fixed scoreboard team scores label getting cut off
• Engineer buildings now explode when the Engineer dies during sudden death
• Fixed a Spy backstab exploit where you could stab a player who was not facing away from you
• Fixed flailing at the low end of the cloak meter when the player gets uncloaked automatically
• Fixed texture detail level setting "Very high" not being preserved
• Improved various error messages, and added links to steampowered support pages
• Fixed scoring problem where destroying a buildable added a phantom point, not attributed to any scoring bucket but still included in the total score
• Fixed honeypot server problems
• Fixed a rare crash caused by a Medi Gun losing its owner
• Fixed an exploit that allowed disconnected Medics to continue Übercharging their target until they timed out
• TeamMenu now disables the spectate button if mp_allowspectators is zero
• Added a missing "cannot_be_spectator" localization string
• Re-added class count numbers above class buttons for non-zero classes, in addition to the class images
• Removed prefixes (tc_, ctf_, etc.) from map names in various places where they're printed
• Fixed some edge cases where grenades could go through player or buildings
• Fixed rocket/grenade explosions being able to impart damage through thin ceilings
• The Engineer's "build X" commands will now behave properly when bound directly to keys

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Improved driver checks for various cards that can have problems with specific driver versions
• Various updates to Russian and Polish localization
• Fixed loading screen and intro movie showing up on Windows Vista with full screen AA
• Spies can no longer reload their Revolver while cloaked
• Demomen grenades now collide with players and Engineer buildings after the first bounce, but still won't explode on contact
• Improved startup network initialization to catch issues with server firewalls popping up in the background
• Fixed a sound corruption issue which could cause audio popping
• Fixed achievement storage issues that caused a problem with the Head of the Class achievement

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Fixed Heavy minigun exploit
• Team Goals panels stop appearing after you've played a map several times
• At map time limit, Sudden Death now only kicks in if teams are drawn
• Sudden Death only starts in CTF mode if both flags are at home
• Team Fortress 2 stats are only gathered when playing a real game
• Added the player class counts in the class selection dialog
• Various fixes to localized text

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Fixed certain crashes with paged pool memory
• Added a warning for when paged pool memory is low
• Fixed some prediction errors with player avoidance
• Fixed columns and row bunching up in server browser
• Fixed a rare bug where the wrong launcher.dll was being used to launch the game
• Fixed teleporter/spawn doorway exploit

Undocumented Changes

• net_graph 1 shows graph not just text.
• sv_gravity no longer available as a server cvar (might have happened in a previous patch)

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Added "Very High" texture resolution option
• Added "Minimal HUD" option to Options->Multiplayer
• Fixed headshots not always registering for crouched players
• Fixed player interpolation bug that caused jittery player animation in some cases
• Fixed rare crash when players exited water
• Fixed server crash related to Spy Sappers
• Fixed overlapping UI elements in Options->Video->Advanced
• Fixed non-English language text overlapping in a few places
• Fixed players being able to use spectator points in Dustbowl that were not in play
• Removed "listdeaths" command that could be abused by clients

Undocumented changes

• Extra options added to 'Game' tab in "Create server" menu option
• Team select page now displays number of each class currently playing

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Added option to change Field-of-view, between 75 & 90, from the Options->Multiplayer tab
• Added option to disable Player sprays
• Fixed the Flamethrower hit detection
• Increased the Flamethrower damage at point blank range
• Demoman's grenades (not stickybombs) no longer explode on contact after the first bounce
• Fixed a startup crash
• Fixed a case where players could get stuck in tc_hydro
• Fixed player movement prediction errors
• Fixed third-person sniper aim animation not matching player's view exactly
• Fixed achievements and stats being awarded when watching other player's demos
• Fixed rare server crash due to data corruption in networking
• Fixed a case where some sounds had incorrect volumes

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Added Team Fortress 2 events and cameras to SourceTV
• Fixed memory fragmentation crash
• Fixed prediction error that caused jittery sticky bomb launcher behavior
• Fixed rare crash when creating muzzle flashes

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Fixed a crash with ATI cards running on Vista
• Fixed a networking problem that could cause a crash certain types of home networking hardware with out of date firmware installed
• Fixed a networking problem that could cause some animation jittering
• Fixed bug causing incorrect .dem files to be written (all files after first .dem file would be corrupted)
• Fixed bug with placement of teleporters that could result in players being unable to move
• Removed mp_friendlyfire cvar for servers. Team Fortress 2 breaks in a number of ways if this is on
• Fixed some truncated strings in the destroy menu
• Spectators can now see all player classes in the scoreboard
• When a round finishes, if there's less than 5 minutes left on the timelimit, the server now goes ahead and switches level right away, instead of going into Sudden Death
• The affinity of the main thread is not set explicitly for dedicated servers. This will properly load balance multiple instances of the dedicated server running on a multi-processor machine. The affinity is still set to CPU 1 for clients and listen servers
• Fixed crash on startup
• Fixed crash caused by .dlls being loaded from the user's path, instead of from the install directory

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Removed background map due to incompatibilities
• Optimized sound system
• Fixed a Direct3d device restore problem causing crash and/or black screen
• Fixed Windows Vista crash bug
• Fixed achievement manager crash
• Fixed occasional sniper zoom crash

Source: Team Fortress 2 Update Released

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Team Fortress 2

• Linux Dedicated Server beta release
• Fixed not being able to issue rcon commands with empty strings like: rcon sv_password
• Fixed refresh rate video mode issue
• Fixed crash on opening the scoreboard after having changed between windowed and fullscreen
• Fixed a hitch problem related to mouse updates happening too frequently
• Fixed sentry muzzleflashes not drawing unless sentry was near the map origin
• Fixed a crash during loading while starting the game in fullscreen mode
• Disabled the loading of background maps
• Exploit fix related to "join_team"