Team Fortress 2, Steam Updated

October 22, 2008 4:00 AM

The Steam website notes that updates for both Team Fortress 2 and the Steam client are now available.

Team Fortress 2 will update on its own after you restart Steam, while the Steam update can be installed by selecting "Check for Steam Client Updates..." from the File menu.

Steam Client

Added support for registering CD keys that do not contain any games
Added support for running an external process when Verifying or Deleting a game

Team Fortress 2

Added rate limit for several client commands to prevent server spamming
Added consistency checking for particle systems
Updated r_particle_timescale ConVar so it can only be changed if the server has sv_cheats set to 1
Updated loading/disconnect dialogs so they're easier to read
Updated Dustbowl, Granary, and Badwater Basin with several exploit fixes
Updated Granary to remove the setup time and gates

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Love-Man

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October 22, 2008 4:09 AM

Didn't they just add that to Granary? What is it like now?
- mad-d00d
  
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  October 22, 2008 4:38 AM
  
  I like granary better with the setup and gates : \
  - tidic
    
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    October 22, 2008 5:21 AM
    
    Me too, now its back to 5 scouts a side rush tactics at the start rather than the pretty epic battle you got like in Well CP.
    - Beady
      
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      October 22, 2008 7:02 AM
      
      As it is, the team that takes the central point will win the majority of games (or just hold more points when the timer expires). The setup timer just encouraged engineers to turtle at CP2/4
      
      But at least now (and before) there are multiple clashes at the mid-point as waves of people clash, and its quite possible to re-take that point if you keep trying to.
    - Mister Fister
      
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      October 22, 2008 8:26 AM
      
      Learn to rocket jump/sticky jump
  - Benoit Stordeur
    
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    October 22, 2008 6:21 AM
    
    I think they are trying to give Scouts back some luvin'.
    I don't really mind either way, scouts did feel alot weaker on that map without the initial rush.
  - SFtheWolf
    
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    October 22, 2008 8:10 AM
    
    I completely agree, it was MUCH better with gates. As much as I love Valve they really do listen to forum whining far too often.
- Lunaran
  
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  October 22, 2008 5:21 AM
  
  fastlane and badlands are kind of unique now in that they're the only maps that don't devolve into March of the Ubers at the start of the round. granary used to be like that too.
  - Pneum0
    
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    October 22, 2008 7:02 AM
    
    2fort isn't a march of uber either.
  - DewFuel
    
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    October 22, 2008 7:53 AM
    
    iawtp. uberfest gets boring quickly. this new granary might eliminate that.
    - K1Bond007
      
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      October 22, 2008 10:22 AM
      
      new old. This is what it was previously like and it was just a big scout rush. It killed the struggle over the middle point IMO and put too much emphasis on defense at the 2nd point.