Team Fortress 2 Goldrush and Medic Update Arrives; Free Weekend TF2 Trial Begins Friday

The long-awaited PC update to Valve's Team Fortress 2 has been released.

TF2 owners looking forward to earning Medic achievements, scoring the three new weapons, and playing on the cooperatively-focused Goldrush map can now log onto Steam and receive their free satisfaction.

Valve also notes that a worldwide Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend will begin on Friday at noon PDT, allowing access to the entire game for anyone with a free Steam account from May 2 to May 4.

Full patch notes after the link.

Source Engine

• Improved particle performance on multi-core machines

• Added FOV slider to Options | Video | Advanced for all games (moved there from TF2's multiplayer options)

• Fixed surround sound initialization problems with new speaker modes defined in Vista

Team Fortress 2

• Added Goldrush

• Added Character Info and Loadout to the main menu

• Added 39 Medic achievements

• Added unique Medic items:

• The Blutsaugher, The Kritzkrieg, and The Ubersaw

• Added new attack animations to most melee weapons

• Added new speech for the Heavy and Demoman

• Added Stopwatch mode to Tournament mode

• Automatically used on Attack/Defense maps

• Teleporter effect no longer shows up on invisible or disguised Spies

• Spies disguised as their own team can now capture control points

• Increased force taken by pipebombs by bullets and explosions

• Target ID hud is now colored red or blue to match the spectator target

• Tournament mode no longer ends matches early if the time limit is nearly up when a new round starts

• Fixed exploit where clients could start benchmark mode on servers

• Fixed drowning exploit that allowed players to regenerate health

• Fixed reload exploit that allowed plays to fire instantly after switching weapons

• Fixed flamethrower bug where a player flush against a wall couldn't be lit on fire from the front

• Fixed invulnerability overlay not drawing if the invuln player was previously on fire

• Fixed "times used" entry in teleporters maxing out at 32

• Fixed rare client crash on level change during control point capturing

• Minor fix to stat gathering to prevent players using sv_cheats to easily garner achievements

For mapmakers:

• Mapmakers can now directly place the tf_gamerules entity into their map. Fixes Hammer thinking the inputs to it are broken

• Mapmakers can now place Engineer buildings directly into a map, with an option for them to be invulnerable

• Added "AddRedTeamScore" and "AddBlueTeamScore" inputs to tf_gamerules

• Added "SetRequiredObserverTarget" input to tf_gamerules. Force spectators to use the specified viewpoint

Granary

• Added setup time logic, and gates to the middle

• Fixed an overlay alignment bug on one of blue's gate signs

• Minor lighting fixes in red/blue spawns

2Fort

• Added medium ammo and health to basement hallways

• Added small ammo and health to top of spiral

• Fixed a clip brush exploit outside blue sniper deck

• Fixed number "2" overlay on front of red base not being assigned to the brush face

Portal

• Fixed a rare crash related to bone setup