UPDATE RELEASED



Gameplay Changes


Players who are stunned by a Scout now take 50% less damage

Increased the minimum distance to stun a player with the Sandman


Fixes

Fixed problem where clients were unable to join a team or maintain a connection to the server

Fixed Scout taunt kill achievement firing for people who didn't actually qualify

Fixed client crash in when creating muzzle flash effects

Fixed client crash when determining which disguise weapon to use for a spy

Fixed Natascha's chain not being drawn on the view model

Fixed stun code regression that resulted in a subtle reduction of Natascha's slowdown effect

Fixed rocket & grenade jumps not propelling players as far as they're supposed to





The Ball nerf has now come. Natascha has been fixed. Rocket jumps which I didn't notice are now fixed. Looks like our server problem is fixed. Scout taunt kill is fixed as well. God bless Valve.

Ball nerf makes De4dW0lf cry

cheer up!

Ball nerd make DR4G0N cry

But is Natascha ACTUALLY fixed? xD

Lack of balls Makes SKILLERS cry

Whoops

Looks like a good update.

For those of you who don't like the nerf, think about it.
The ball up until this update could be used at point blank to stun anybody for 2 seconds, which is more than enough for a Scout to do some serious damage to a Heavy, sometimes even killing the Heavy completely if the Scout crits. Now it is unable to stun unless you fire from some distance apart. And stunning even if through a normal distance did 95% of the time guarantee yourself a kill which would be considered by almost everyone as overpowered.
I have not tested Natascha yet but I do believe from what I've heard that it is fixed finally. The damage is correct and the slowdown always works now. Scouts trying to achievement grind, beware!

http://www.xfire.com/video/821de/

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Met why did you kick him?

That was ages ago. I can not remember.

Breaking the rules, although I was probably a bit quick. I'm not touching the admin menu any more except for sane requests and map changes. And retaliation against other admin abuse towards me if there is any.

That Watchtower bug is rather lolworthy.

May I inquire as to which rule?

Just forget it people

BLOG POST!

Wave goodbye to yer head, wanker
April 2, 2009 - Greg Cherlin

It's been a couple of weeks since we posted, so we thought it'd be good to do some housekeeping. The next class pack will focus on the Sniper. It's actually shaping up to be the largest TF2 update yet, with multiple new maps and a bunch of gameplay tweaks. In addition, we've got another update in the works that should be done before the Sniper, and that one will include some new content for all classes.

The XBox 360 update is still being worked on. If you're wondering what's taking so long, since the content is "done" on the PC already, it's mostly been around fitting it all onto the XBox. The original version of TF2 in the Orange Box was very close to the XBox's memory limit, and all the additional TF2 content we've produced has pushed well beyond it. We've found a couple of nifty ways to get back a bunch of that memory, but it's turned out to be a lot of work, and that's what most of our time is being spent on. In the meantime, we're going to get a code update out to address the server cheating that's going on.

Like many other folks online, the TF2 team has been loving the Top 10 TF2 Plays of the Week videos that Push Gaming has been doing. If you haven't seen them yet, you can catch week 1, and week 2. We're hoping for a third one soon, but we can't really complain. If we were doing them ourselves, you'd probably see the third one sometime next year. While waiting though, you can check out the exploits of some of the Sniper's countrymen in the second frag video of Aussie clan Mad Dogz.

COUGH

Oh well, now it's in both XD

Heh, yeah, I started a new thread for a new class, makes things slightly easier to follow

Players who are stunned by a Scout now take 50% less damage
Oh come on..

It's an odd fix, but something needed to be done.

It made a change to being stunned and easily killed by the Scout. That tactic worked for ANY class that got stunned apart from an Overhealed Heavy. I prefer the update as the stun isn't an instant kill anymore but still leaves you vulnerable to take a lot of damage from being stunned.

It still usually results in instant death for the spy.

the scout update was incredibly annoying and I don't play tf2 very often!

But then again... once found out, the Spy is usually dead regardless anyway unless he is lucky or is an absolute master of evasion.


The Scout is designed to be the annoying class of the game. He is built for quick hit and run techniques and for harassing players like Heavies and Soldiers, as well as being a soft counter to the Sniper due to his speed, making him a difficult target and the fact that once up close with the Sniper, the Scout should always win unless the Sniper is like someone I know who can kill anybody as Sniper regardless of range (he can be seen taking down 2 scouts in a row at close range).
The update enhanced the Scout's ability to be annoying, that is all. He still stands little chance against aware opponents who are wise to the techniques the Scout will try to pull off on you (jumping on your head, circle strafing, hit-run-come at anohter angle-repeat etc)