January 27th Update

[Rorschach]

[-]January 27, 2010 - Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2


Added 3 new hats that can be worn by any class

Towering Pillar of Hats"

Noble Amassment of Hats"

Modest Pile of Hat"

Added Propaganda contest winners' hats for First Place, First Runner-up, and Second Runner-up

Added "Edit Loadout" button to the class menu

Changed the main menu background to randomly use the Red, Blue, and Soldier/Demo background images

Fixed Snipers being able to shoot enemies through gates

Fixed Linux servers not properly reconnecting to Steam when they lose their connection

Fixed stickies being destructible before they're stuck to something

Fixed the return progress bar above a dropped flag not animating if the return time on the flag is less than 30 seconds

Fixed the CTF HUD not properly handling flags being disabled/enabled during the round

Fixed player health panels sometimes using the wrong animations for buffed or low health values

Updated the net_showevents convar to be marked as a cheat

Updated the main menu news buttons to direct players to the most recent TF2 update and the TF2 blog

Updated Italian localization strings

Updated the custom TF2 fonts with Polish characters

Updated CP_Gorge

Added more cover outside of the initial BLU spawn area

Added a forward spawn for the BLU team after Cap1 is captured

Added another access point to the upper level from the front of the RED base

Added more cover in the room just before Cap2

Decreased RED team's respawn time while they own Cap1

Fixed a few areas where players would sometimes become stuck


Community requests

Added new options for the Invade CTF game mode flag. Default is 1

0 : No neutral time

1 : Flag goes neutral in 30 seconds (current behavior)

2 : Flag goes neutral in 1/2 the return time

Added scoring choice for the Invade CTF game mode. Default is 0

0 : Increment score (current behavior)

1 : Increment capture count

Added new inputs to item_teamflag

ForceDrop : Force the flag to be dropped if it's being carried by a player

ForceReset : Force the flag to be dropped if it's being carried by a player, then reset the flag to its original location

SetReturnTime : Set the length of time (in seconds) before a dropped flag returns to base

Added new output to item_teamflag

OnTouchSameTeam : Sent when the flag is touched by a player on the same team

[Rorschach]

Making a separate post due to that being long.

I think the new hats look average at best. No colours, makes the Billycock, Stovepipe and Panama a bit useless.
Yay, the backgrounds are finally back.

Here are the hats:

http://www.tf2items.com/allitems.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hANXc2_S3oc

[King Weavilian]

So basically, they pretty much nullify the Billycock. I saw these yesterday and was really dissapointed in the supposed Tower of Hats. The one in Daimao's Hat Emporium was way better, and to top it off, was an original design...

It looks a bit silly, I'd wear the Modest Pile of Hat for the Spy and maybe the Pyro; the rest are a bit naff in my opinion. Less is more. Fingers crossed for it randomly dropping for me this week when I play. Apparently it's as common as muck so you never know. At least it gets rid of the ugly Gibus.

In the next update, I forsee Valve making the Texas Ten Gallon null and void by creating the Egghead's Head Warmer, an unlockable hat that is spread by dominating an Engineer. It looks exactly like the Texas Ten Gallon except an extremely tiny grey smudge is on it.

[Leo]

Yes, at least they could have made some new hats, not like recolour the previous ones...

[King Weavilian]

It's kind of bad for those who won the propaganda contest. Their hats just have a ribbon on; a barely noticeable ribbon. I would have prefered a flaming rocket launcher myself.

[BrittTheJoker]

I'd probably wear the Towering Pillar of Hats.. Just cause it looks so funny XD


But I'm very disapointed at the laziness here... =/

[King Weavilian]

News just in: Snipers praise new Tower of Hats. According to sources, there is a 69% chance of you being shot at first by merely wearing this... hat. And it's not cause it's an eye sore.

That's a thought; someone needs to get the Tower of Hats and do the Kukri taunt as Sniper. It'd be a laugh to see him take off his tower of glued hats.

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