We now sell team fortress 2 Mann vs Machine servers to accommodate the new mode. This is a 32 slot server for $25.00/month and it can only run the MvM game mode.
Get your server today and be the Mann that kills the Machines.
We’re obviously following Cube World very seriously. There isn’t mining and detailed construction (please add it!) but it looks like an awesome adventure game none the less. Should be a hit.
The lone wolf creator just released some information on how their spirit system works. Check it out here:
http://wollay.blogspot.com/2012/01/screenshots-spirit-system.html. I’ve always been a fan of glowing stuff on characters. Looks great. Wheee!
That’s right, as of last night there is no more fps and tick settings on the server. This is for any game under the orange box engine. We are changing to have this reflect on the site. The new price will be $1.00 per slot for public servers and $0.80 per slot for private servers.
Here is the change log:
Required updates for Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch are now available. Counter-Strike: Source has also been moved to use its own engine and dedicated server depots. Because of this, dedicated server files for Counter-Strike: Source will now be under a ‘css’ folder.
The specific changes include:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Fixed an issue with the multi-threaded renderer which could cause a crash on map change
- Adjusted whitespace to improve formatting in status command output
- Changed stats output to show KB/s instead of bytes/sec, added a connections column, and changed the users column to “Map changes”
- Fixed game servers not being able to execute the retry command due to the dependence on the connect command (which is not executable by game servers)
- Made sndplaydelay executable by servers
- Server frame rate is now based on the tickrate of the active Source mod, not the fps_max convar
- Server processing delays have been reduced, especially for servers on modern Linux kernels
- Entity processing logic has been optimized to significantly reduce CPU usage on full servers
- Multi-threaded server code is now enabled by default under Linux (already enabled on Windows)
- An exploit with non-printable characters causing lag on Windows servers has been fixed
- CPU is fully yielded back to the system whenever the server is running faster than the tickrate
- Dramatic increase in performance for low-level math librariesDay of Defeat: Source
- Removed tickrate command line parameter
- Updated the localization filesCounter-Strike: Source
- Prevent AWP cycle time exploit using quick switch
- Fixed bug causing HUD History to display item pickups from nearby players
- Increased sized of HUD History resource to prevent clipping
- Changed grenade damage so that it always hits HITGROUP_GENERIC and takes into account armor for damage calculations
- Reduced standing and moving accuracy for pistols
- Decreased accuracy while moving with sniper rifles
- Added additional legacy mode (3) to cl_dynamiccrosshair
- Updated the localization filesTeam Fortress 2
Manniversary:
- Experimenting with a new store interface with a subset of players
- Added several dozen community items in celebration of the Manniversary
- Added loadout presets — each class can now store four complete loadouts, including weapons and cosmetic items, and change between them with the press of a button.
- Added a new item type that can accept user-applied decals. Take any image off your hard drive, put it on a stick, and then smash people with it! (See the Decal Tool in the store!)
- Added new co-operative high five taunt
- Class select menu now shows the active loadout for each class
- Characters can now equip two misc-slot items at once
- Added a new in-game abuse-reporting system (see “Capture abuse report data” under “Miscellaneous” controls)
- Non-newly-released weapons in the store can now be tried out for free once per week! This will give you a fully-functional version of the weapon to be used in-game for no cost. If you decide you like it, you can purchase it for a discount during the trial period.
- All items purchased in the store can be used for crafting and can be traded after a few days
- Added a new startup music track from Meet The Medic
- Integrated with the new Steam Workshop to enable the publication and management of community contributed contentMaps:
- Added new community control point map Gullywash. Stamps are available in the store to support community map authors!
- Barnblitz is now available for offline practice
- Frontier: various geometry fixes
- Gorge/5Gorge: added team-specific func_nobuild brushes in elevated forward spawn areasReplay:
- New camera shake functionality added for replays that are not sufficiently dramatic
- New slow-motion functionality added for replays where even camera shake does not provide sufficient drama
- Added support for recording voice chat into replaysItems:
- Pocket Medic can now be equipped by the Soldier in addition to the Heavy
- World Traveler’s Hat and the Connoisseur’s Cap are now paintable
- Bonk Boy and Foster’s Facade are now misc slot items
- Fixed The Director’s Vision not playing animations correctly for all classes in the loadout screen
- The Killer Exclusive is now paintable
- When sorting the backpack, otherwise-equivalent items will sort by strange weapon rank and crate series number if possible
- When selecting items from the loadout, weapons with different kill eater ranks will all show up
- Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect animations have been added. Really.
- LOD models added to several older cosmetic itemsResponse Rules:
- Reduced the chance of many response lines occurring
- Responses related to cart progress no longer play when disguised
- Players will now always call for a medic when low on health or when on fire when a medic is under the crosshair, whereas previously the character would ask the medic to follow them
- Named base items will no longer trigger responses that were supposed to be for new item variants
- Added additional Jarate hit responses
- Demoman:
– Added achievement award response
– Removed “I didn’t need your help y’know” line if being healed by a Medic
– Saxxy kills will use the same lines as kills from the frying pan
– Taunting with The Pain Train or the Saxxy now plays the same taunt as the grenade launcher
– Added a taunt for The Ullapool Caber
- Engineer:
– Fixed a problem that caused him not to say thanks after exiting a teleporter
– Saxxy kills will use the same lines as kills from The Golden Wrench
– Added a previously unused golden wrench kill line
– Added an occasional response when swinging The Gunslinger
– Wrangler taunt now performs the pistol taunt animation
- Heavy:
– Added a previously unused fist swing line
- Medic:
– Added a line to the response that occurs when doing a battle cry while looking at an enemy while holding a melee weapon
– Taunting with a Saxxy plays the medigun taunt
– Taunting with the Solemn Vow or the Crusader’s Crossbow now plays the same taunt as the syringe gun
- Scout:
– Removed the response when killing an enemy Scout or Pyro and moved the lines to the dominating Pyro/Scout response
– Added a rare response to double jumping after getting a recent kill
- Sniper:
– Reduced chattiness when getting many sequential kills
– Added a missing line to the scoped revenge response
– Taunting with a Saxxy no longer play lines that reference a knife
- Soldier:
– Added a line to the getting übercharged response
– Taunting with the Righteous Bison, Battalion’s Backup, or the Saxxy now play the Buff Banner tauntBots:
- TFBots have a percentage chance of noticing weapon fire based on their difficulty level. Easy bots are fairly oblivious, and Expert bots notice pretty much everything.
- TFBots now treat certain weapon attacks as “quiet” (Spy knife, cloaking/uncloaking, some melee weapons, fists, etc). “Quiet” weapons can only be heard by TFBots when nearby, and their chance of being noticed is halved if the environment is “noisy” (ie., lots of non-quiet gunfire going on in the area). This greatly improves Spies ability to backstab TFBots without the entire team immediately turning on them.
- Spy bot improvements:
– Spy bots are much better about circling around and backstabbing their victims now
– Improved Spy bot target selection in some situations (ie: clusters of sentries and enemy players)
– Spy bots will give up on an attack and retreat if an enemy sentry gun aims at them
– Spy bots now avoid nearby enemies while disguised and/or cloaked so they don’t bump into them and give themselves away
– Spy bots now have a simple notion of when their “cover is blown” now
– Spy bots lead their target’s position as they chase them down for a backstab now
– Spy bots don’t go after victims until setup time has elapsed
– Hard and Expert Spy bots avoid looking at their prey until they get close and go for the stab
– Easy Spy bots don’t avoid enemies, or try to get behind before stabbing
– Normal Spy bots don’t avoid enemies
– Fixed bug where Spy bots would jump against the enemy spawn gates during setup time
- Medic bot improvements:
– Medic bots stick much closer to running patients now
– Medic bots stick much closer to their patient if they have an Ubercharge ready, or are deploying their Uber
– Medic bots hide from Sentryguns now, too
- Pyro bot improvements:
– Pyro bots are less “pushy” with their compression blast, but will use it against Ubers and to get enemies off of a capture pointOther:
- Razer Hydra support can be enabled via “sixense_enabled 1″ in the console. See http://sixense.com/tf2 for details.
- Added “tf_allow_taunt_switch”. Set to 0 for disallowed (default behavior), 1 for old bug behavior, or 2 to allow weapon switching any time during the taunt.
- Screenshots can now be hooked up to the Steam Community automatically. There is a new option to control this under “Miscellaneous” in the Advanced Options page.
- Fixed gold ragdolls playing custom death animations when they should be locked in a pose
- Fixed Buffalo Steak Sandvich not having a cooldown if the Heavy is at full health.
- Fixed touching a cabinet while under the effects of the Buffalo Steak Sandvich removing the mini-crits but not removing the melee weapon restriction
- Fixed particle effects not showing up on spy disguise items
- Fixed spies never using genuine, community, or self-made items as disguise weapons
- Fixed demoman weapons primary/secondary being backwards in the loadout screen
- Fixed effects on Sticky Jumper grenades
- Fixed net_graph not updating server framerate when FPS is greater than 1000
- Fixed game servers not being able to execute the retry command
- Renamed tf_show_voice_icons to mp_show_voice_icons
- Updated the localization filesJason
They even will eventually move away from fps all together! We will change this accordingly with our orders. This might even mean lower prices if the cpu usage goes down, YAY!
Hi all -
Free to Play brought a huge influx of new users to Team Fortress. To help server counts scale up to match the demand, we are reworking the dedicated server for performance. We want to improve player responsiveness as well as to reduce CPU usage so that hosts can run more servers per physical server.
Some of those changes addressing CPU usage went out last night. Server operators should see a big decrease in CPU load and can potentially run more instances per physical box now. However, a side effect that many of you have noticed is that server FPS has an effective cap of 500 instead of the previous 1000, or possibly even lower than 500 depending on your Linux kernel HZ setting. This should not have a noticeable impact on gameplay as the tick rate is still locked (well, mostly locked) at 66 updates per second and the frames that are being dropped are “empty” frames that do not actually run a server tick.
We’re going to address this further in another set of performance improvements. Sorry for the temporary confusion, but we wanted to get these CPU load reduction changes out quickly to help with the Free to Play user crush.
Longer term, we want to move away from FPS as a measure of performance and instead show actual load and responsiveness (jitter/latency) statistics. The difference between a tick and a frame is complicated, and fps_max sometimes affects performance in counter-intuitive ways. We would like to retire fps_max for servers and replace it with a more obvious server performance setting. We’ll give you all a heads up before we do so.
Henry G.
With the latest Uber update, the biggest update they ever released. They decided to make this game free to play for all.
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These people must of spent a lot of time making these. If you got a steam account check them out and vote for which one you like!
Check the videos out here:http://www.teamfortress.com/saxxyawards/nominees.php
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
- Added check to prevent multiplayer servers from transmitting 1 as their maxplayers value to connecting clients.
- Fixed clients being able to use particle exploits on sv_pure servers.
Team Fortress 2
- Added The Shogun Pack items
- Fixed the “Best Little Slaughterhouse in Texas” Engineer achievement not counting Wranger and Mini-Sentry kills.
- Updated several more models with optimizations and new LODs.
- Updated the Blighted Beak with a creator submitted fix.
To get the shogun stuff you must preorder shogun total war 2 from steam.
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Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
[Windows] Added support for raw mouse input. Raw input reads directly from the mouse, bypassing Windows control panel mouse settings. This addresses issues with high DPI mice, and provides for a more reliable controller experience at various resolutions
[Windows] Improved custom mouse acceleration
[Windows] Updated mouse configuration UI to support raw input and acceleration; added tooltips to some of the options
[Windows] Fixed UI tooltips so that they display correctly on first hover
Team Fortress 2
Added the “Team Spirit” paint can.
Added Telltale Games items:
Dangeresque, Too?: Strong Bad’s styling glasses (equipped by the Demoman)
License to Maim: Max’s Badge (equipped by all classes)
The Iron Curtain: The Heavy’s first love (equipped by the Heavy, obviously)
The Enthusiast’s Timepiece: Tycho’s favorite timepiece (equipped by the Spy)
Updated some item capabilities:
Employees badges can now have custom names.
The Stickybomb Jumper can now be gift wrapped.
The Spine-Chilling Skull and Voodoo Juju hats are now paintable.
Improved the Spine-Chilling Skull and Voodoo Juju hat positions on the Sniper.
Added the original Ubersaw taunt to the Vita-Saw.
Fixed an issue that prevented the game from running on Fat32 systems.
Fixed a problem with the Sackston Hale achievement sometimes not being awarded correctly.
Fixed the holiday gamestartup sound files being included in the random startup selection after the holiday is over.
Fixed numerous WebAPI issues.
Fixed a Heavy exploit that let him run at full speed while shooting.
Fixed a Frontier Justice exploit that let Engineers have infinite crits for their current life/round.
Fixed the shotgun reload animations for the Soldier/Pyro/Heavy looping endlessly.
Fixed the Medigun charge percent for other players being steppy.
Fixed not being able to light arrows after the first arrow is fired unless they’re drawn back.
Updated the localization files
hey dudes, theres a TF2 patch out…
Engine
Team Fortress 2
just restart your server to get the new update!
If you’re playing happily on your server and it all the sudden starts complaining about your connection to steam servers being down, don’t panic… it happens to everyone. Steam has decided to do their regular past-time of sucking and caused their VAC servers to go down. When this happens, everyone’s server is unable to connect to VAC and verify and thus become insecure.
The only thing you can do to your CS:S, TF2, Insurgency or otherwise Half Life Source server is to restart it every 10 or 20 minutes until Steam comes back up.
It’s not our fault! 