Team Fortress 2 Patched, Spy Side-stabs Return

Valve today released a decent-sized patch to Team Fortress 2, making a few tweaks and changes to the game's classes and systems.

Gameplay alterations include adding a duck timer, re-enabling spy side-stabs, and a primary weapon default for disguises. Other various bug fixes round out the list.

Take a gander at the full patch notes below:

Gameplay changes

• Added a duck timer that prevents duck spamming while running around on-ground

• In-air, players are only allowed to duck once before they touch ground again

• Fixed several bounding box issues with jumping, falling, and rocket jump air-walking. Bounding box should be much more accurate there now

• Increased backstab check so that Spies can side-stab again

• When disguising, Spies now always start showing the primary weapon in their disguise, and can then switch it with the last-disguise key

TF2 Fixes

• Fixed flamethrower loophole that resulted in the flame effect being stuck on while the flamethrower wasn't really firing

• Fixed exploit that allowed players to circumvent the force-fire timeout on the pipebomb launcher

• Fixed a bug that caused Natasha's slow on hit effect to be inverted from 75% to 25%

• Restored sawmill_logs.mdl file, fixing some user maps that used it

• Fixed some localization issues with Scout achievement strings

• Removed the "Final" phrasing in the map loading screen

Engine fixes

• Fixed a server crash on startup under Linux

• Fixed a buffer overflow issue related to network string tables

• Gamestats uploading is now done asynchronously. This fixes the client timeout issues on map changes

CP_Junction

• Fixed an exploit where engineers could build a teleporter exit in an invalid area

• Fixed a few bad overlay assignments and other minor issues