2.0.0

• TC2 changes:

  • Now shipping tools like Hammer, vbsp, vvis, vrad, bspzip, hlmv, studiomdl, particle editor, vpk. Please test.
  • Fixed a few crashes, including setting r_rootlod

• Gameplay fixes:

  • Fixed fractional damage to buildings being rounded down instead of up like to players
  • Fixed the Fists of Steel providing boosted Ubercharge rate due to its reduced overheal amount
  • Fixed directional bias in fixed weapon spread for the Force of Nature
  • Fixed The Phlogistinator's MMPH! taunt being cancellable
  • Fixed the Buffalo Steak Sandvich speed boost decreasing speed in some situations
  • Fixed the Ullapool Caber and Pain Train unable to Mini-Crit with a Tide Turner charge
  • Fixed the Ullapool Caber explosion damage being inconsistent
  • Fixed the Quick Fix not being able to block captures
  • Fixed the Enforcer not piercing Battalion's Backup crit immunity and "piercing" the Pain Train's bullet vulnerability
  • Fixed Detonator and Scorch Shot explosions not allowing for blast jumps while under the effects of a Quick Fix Ubercharge
  • Fixed the Jag having lower than intended damage against enemy buildings (non-Sappers)
  • Fixed the Winger applying jump height bonus before being fully deployed
  • Fixed the Escape Plan, Gloves of Running Urgently, Eviction Notice, and Overdose applying their movement speed bonuses before being fully deployed
  • Fixed the Eureka Effect teleport working before being fully deployed
  • Fixed the Atomizer fully deployed check being inaccurate
  • Fixed losing a switch from bonus when swapping between weapons
  • Fixed being able to bypass a holster speed penalty by swapping to an intermediate weapon
  • Fixed Medi-guns being charged during server pauses
  • Fixed Gunslinger guaranteed critical hit not being lag compensated
  • Fixed tf_parachute_maxspeed_onfire_z being non-functional
  • Fixed the Sniper Dot being inaccurate to the Sniper's aim direction
  • Fixed the Engineer's Sentry rockets/bullets and Pyro's reflected projectiles not contributing to the Buildings Destroyed strange part
  • Fixed the Engineer's Sentry rockets/bullets and Pyro's reflected projectiles not contributing to the Domination related strange parts
  • Fixed uncontrolled Sentry Guns not contributing to various strange trackers for the Wrench
  • Enabled lag compensation on teammates
  • Fixed throwables having the incorrect model if switched away during a throw
  • Fixed Sandman and Wrap Assassin improperly calculating critical hits

• Reflect fixes:

  • Fixed reflects not counting towards killstreaks properly
  • Fixed reflected Sandman balls not dealing damage
  • Fixed reflected Wrap Assassin balls not dealing damage/bleed properly
  • Fixed Scout playing hit/miss voice lines for reflected balls
  • Fixed some projectile lifetimes being tied to the original player, rather than the reflector
  • Fixed reflects on Stickbombs not being handled properly in some cases
  • Fixed reflected Detonator projectiles being able to be detonated multiple times during the airblast
  • Fixed reflected Rescue Ranger bolts not healing friendly buildings
  • Fixed reflected Scorch Shot and Detonator projectiles not exhibiting the correct properties associated with their flare type
  • Fixed some projectiles not using the correct team color when reflected
  • Fixed reflected Air Strike projectiles not showing the correct visual effects
  • Fixed reflected Sentry rockets causing a Flamethrower sound loop
  • Fixed reflected projectiles not dealing the correct damage in various cases
  • Fixed reflected projectiles not having the correct radius and other attributes in various cases
  • Fixed reflected projectiles not contributing to the Building Destroyed strange part
  • Fixed reflected Huntsman arrows having incorrect push force
  • Fixed reflected projectiles not using Halloween spell cosmetics correctly
  • Fixed enemy Snipers receiving the ally extinguished charge bonus from reflected Jarate
  • Fixed the kill icons for reflected ball, cleaver, flares, flare afterburn, arrow headshot, burning arrow, and burning arrow headshot
  • Fixed reflected Loose Cannon balls not being able to Double Donk

• New features:

  • Added a cvar tf_taunt_first_person_always to force taunts to be from a first-person perspective
  • Added tf_viewmodels_offset_override within a restricted range of -2 to 2.5 for X and -2 to 2 for Y and Z
  • Added tf_dingaling_lasthit_repeat_delay to restrict frequency of last hit sounds
  • Added a cvar tf_pipebomb_disable_random_launch for disabling randomness in Demoman's projectile fire
  • Added a cvar tf_skip_equip_action_hint for disabling equip action item hints (like the Power Up Canteen)
  • Added tf_debug_ballistics to preview projectile physics paths

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed Steam ID being invalid while connecting in some situations
  • Fixed crit prediction system being exploitable
  • Fixed some cvars only being able to be set in dxsupport.cfg
  • Fixed r_decals 0 not blocking dynamic decal spawns
  • Fixed some non-existant cvars still available in some systems
  • Fixed crashes on some maps with large lightmaps when using r_hunkalloclightmap 1 (default)
  • Fixed a few networking setting exploits
  • Fixed cvarlist not printing out decimal values
  • Fixed duplicate sounds overlapping too much and cancelling other sounds
  • Fixed a crash on some community maps with large lightmaps
  • Various stability fixes

• Networking fixes:

  • Fixed interpolation and packet rates being misaligned
  • Fixed prediction being out of date with server data by 1 tick
  • Fixed various networking exploits

• Demo fixes:

  • ds_enable 4 added to only record strictly competitive (matchmaking and community) matches
  • Fixed ds_min_streak 1 not logging every kill in Demo Support
  • Added demo_readinitialcommands 0 to skip applying user-specific point of view settings in demos

• MvM fixes:

  • Added new MvM response rules and sounds
  • Fixed the explosive headshot not dealing bullet damage
  • Fixed revives between waves counting towards a penalty
  • Fixed the upgrade panel closing during irrelevant game coordinator updates
  • Fixed Spy bots not using their revolver
  • Soldier and Demoman bots will now inflict explosive self damage if it will not take a significant chunk of their health
  • Fixed credits being lost in the bot spawn area
  • Fixed the Tank not crediting critical hit bonus from damage
  • Fixed the Tank not taking double damage from a player with Strength power up
  • Fixed not being able to tickle common MvM bots
  • Fixed bots being able to estimate charged Stickybomb trajectory

• Performance improvements:

  • Optimized the inspect target HUD
  • Some low quality effects applied in DX8 are now also applied with mat_reducefillrate
  • Low quality DX80 particles will now be used with mat_reduceparticles 1
  • Slightly optimized occlusion
  • TF2 now launches with above normal priority by default on Windows
  • Fixed a L4D only feature causing server overhead
  • Fixed high polling rate mice causing large FPS drops
  • Fixed ragdolls not fading out properly according to settings
  • Re-enabled cheap water LOD

• Reverted the following TC2 changes:

  • Threaded sound. Will be re-implemented with queued sound from CS:GO.
  • Mouse centering optimizations. Was causing too many regressions, might be revisited.
  • Timescale optimizations. Was causing too many regressions with legacy support and a variety of interactions in different systems.

2.0.0-b2

Changes from b1:

• Experimental networking fixes to fix incorrect local player data
• Enabled lag compensation on teammates
• Added tf_debug_ballistics to preview projectile paths
• Fixed throwables having incorrect model if switched away during a throw
• Fixed flare reflect kill icon in some cases (afterburn, Detonator kill)

2.0.0-b1

• Gameplay fixes:

  • Fixed fractional damage to buildings being rounded down instead of up like to players
  • Fixed the Fists of Steel providing boosted Ubercharge rate due to its reduced overheal amount
  • Fixed directional bias in fixed weapon spread for the Force of Nature
  • Fixed The Phlogistinator's MMPH! taunt being cancellable
  • Fixed the Buffalo Steak Sandvich speed boost decreasing speed in some situations
  • Fixed the Ullapool Caber and Pain Train unable to Mini-Crit with a Tide Turner charge
  • Fixed the Ullapool Caber explosion damage being inconsistent
  • Fixed the Quick Fix not being able to block captures
  • Fixed the Enforcer not piercing Battalion's Backup crit immunity and "piercing" the Pain Train's bullet vulnerability
  • Fixed Detonator and Scorch Shot explosions not allowing for blast jumps while under the effects of a Quick Fix ubercharge
  • Fixed the Jag having lower than intended damage against enemy buildings (non-Sappers)
  • Fixed the Winger applying jump height bonus before being fully deployed
  • Fixed the Escape Plan, Gloves of Running Urgently, Eviction Notice and Overdose applying their movement speed bonuses before being fully deployed
  • Fixed the Eureka Effect teleport working before being fully deployed
  • Fixed the Atomizer fully deployed check being inaccurate
  • Fixed losing a switch from bonus when swapping between weapons
  • Fixed being able to bypass a holster speed penalty by swapping to an intermediate weapon
  • Fixed MvM money getting stuck in the spawn area sometimes
  • Fixed Medi-guns being charged during server pauses
  • Fixed Gunslinger guaranteed critical hit not being lag compensated
  • Fixed tf_parachute_maxspeed_onfire_z being non-functional
  • Fixed the Sniper Dot being inaccurate to the Sniper's aim direction
  • Fixed Sentry rockets/bullets and reflected projectiles not contributing to the Buildings Destroyed strange part
  • Fixed Sentry rockets/bullets and reflected projectiles not contributing to the Domination related strange parts
  • Fixed uncontrolled Sentry Guns not contributing to various strange trackers for the Wrench

• Reflect fixes:

  • Fixed reflects not counting towards killstreaks properly
  • Fixed reflected Sandman balls not dealing damage
  • Fixed reflected Wrap Assassin balls not dealing damage/bleed properly
  • Fixed Scout playing hit/miss voice lines for reflected balls
  • Fixed some projectile lifetimes being tied to the original player, rather than the reflector
  • Fixed reflects on Stickbombs not being handled properly in some cases
  • Fixed reflected Detonator projectiles being able to be detonated multiple times during the airblast
  • Fixed reflected Rescue Ranger bolts not healing friendly buildings
  • Fixed reflected Scorch Shot and Detonator projectiles not exhibiting the correct properties associated with their flare type
  • Fixed some projectiles not using the correct team color when reflected
  • Fixed reflected Air Strike projectiles not showing the correct visual effects
  • Fixed reflected Sentry rockets causing a Flamethrower sound loop
  • Fixed reflected projectiles not dealing the correct damage in various cases
  • Fixed reflected projectiles not having the correct radius and other attributes in various cases
  • Fixed reflected projectiles not contributing to the Building Destroyed strange part
  • Fixed reflected Huntsman arrows having incorrect push force
  • Fixed reflected projectiles not using Halloween spell cosmetics correctly
  • Fixed enemy Snipers receiving the ally extinguished charge bonus from reflected Jarate
  • Fixed the kill icons for reflected ball, cleaver, flares, arrow headshot, burning arrow and burning arrow headshot

• New features:

  • Added a cvar tf_taunt_first_person_always to force taunts to be from a first-person perspective
  • Added tf_viewmodels_offset_override within a restricted range of -2 to 2.5 for X and -2 to 2 for Y and Z
  • Added tf_dingaling_lasthit_repeat_delay to restrict frequency of last hit sounds
  • Added a cvar tf_pipebomb_disable_random_launch for disabling randomness in Demoman's projectile fire

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed Steam ID being invalid while connecting in some situations
  • Fixed some cvars only being able to be set in dxsupport.cfg
  • Fixed r_decals 0 not blocking dynamic decal spawns
  • Fixed some non-existant cvars still available in some systems
  • Fixed crashes on some maps with large lightmaps when using r_hunkalloclightmap 1 (default)
  • Fixed a few networking setting exploits
  • Fixed cvarlist not printing out decimal values
  • Fixed duplicate sounds overlapping too much and cancelling other sounds
  • Fixed a crash on some community maps with large lightmaps
  • Various stability fixes

• Networking fixes:

  • Fixed interpolation and packet rates being misaligned
  • Fixed prediction being out of date with server data by 1 tick
  • Fixed various networking exploits

• Demo fixes:

  • ds_enable 4 added to only record strictly competitive (matchmaking and community) matches
  • Fixed ds_min_streak 1 not logging every kill in Demo Support
  • Added demo_readinitialcommands 0 to skip applying user-specific point of view settings in demos

• MvM fixes:

  • Added new MvM response rules and sounds
  • Fixed the explosive headshot not dealing bullet damage
  • Fixed revives between waves counting towards a penalty
  • Fixed the upgrade panel closing during irrelevant game coordinator updates

• Community requests:

  • Added tf_movement_maxspeed convar

• Performance improvements:

  • Optimized the inspect target HUD
  • Some low quality effects applied in DX8 are now also applied with mat_reducefillrate
  • Low quality DX80 particles will now be used with mat_reduceparticles 1
  • Slightly optimized occlusion
  • TF2 now launches with above normal priority by default on Windows
  • Fixed a L4D only feature causing server overhead
  • Fixed high polling rate mice causing large FPS drops
  • Fixed ragdolls not fading out properly according to settings
  • Re-enabled cheap water LOD

• Reverted the following TC2 changes:

  • Threaded sound. Will be re-implemented with queued sound from CS:GO.
  • Mouse centering optimizations. Was causing too many regressions, might be revisited.
  • Timescale optimizations. Was causing too many regressions with legacy support and a variety of interactions in different systems.

2.0.2

• Fixed crashes involving rockets when its owner was dead (reverts 2.0.1 Sentry rocket change and fixes it properly)

2.0.1

• Hotfix for a potential server crash with sentry rockets, this regresses some things for Pyro reflects for now on Sentry rockets. Will be fixed later.
• Fixed Winger deploy time check not applying for initial jump
• Fixed a regression in jarate models

1.6.0

• Load time improvements:
  • Fixed the game attempting to load non-existant textures
  • Fixed a reload HUD scheme on startup when using minmode
• Performance improvements:
  • Fixed the mouse cursor leaving the window on multi-monitor displays on Windows
  • Fixed FPS being reduced when moving the mouse on Windows
  • Massively improved the performance of the player model panel
  • Textures now stream in more quickly
  • Optimized particle rendering
  • Fixed a massive reduction in FPS when viewing from inside a particle
  • Minor math optimizations
  • Reduced various minor frame overhead
• Gameplay fixes:
  • Fixed various platform-specific inaccuracies in numeric values, for example the small ammo pack giving 40 metal on Linux and 41 metal on Windows

1.5.1

• Optimized map rendering
• Fixed math optimizations not applying to some systems
• Re-adjusted some networking limits

1.5.0

• Load time improvements:
  • Greatly increased map load performance
  • Improved startup performance
• Performance improvements:
  • Greatly improved animation performance
  • Improved performance of static prop rendering
• HUD performance improvements:
  • Fixed performance issues with HUD re-rendering when no data changed
  • Fixed performance issues with economy items
  • Fixed some HUD updates running when the gamemode wasn't relevant
  • Improved performance of Label panels
• Bug fixes:
  • Scaled back networking updates to reduce load and bugs (33 update rate, 100ms interp)
  • Fixed FPS over 1000 causing simulation issues in a local server without cheats enabled
  • Fixed various HUD exploits related to showing/hiding panels (should also improve performance)
  • Fixed possible arm jitter issues in player models (regression in TC2)
  • Reduced max lag compensation time to 0.5 seconds
• Gameplay fixes:
  • Fixed slow fix not affecting demoknight charges properly
  • Fixed sniper rifle reload speed upgrade not applying when auto rezoom was disabled

1.4.1

• Got rid of various causes to re-evaluating animation multiple times per frame
• Optimized how players render and handle their cloak effect
• Optimized how scenes are submitted to the GPU
• Fixed pre-round slow not applying after a weapon switch during the first round

1.4.0

• Sound fixes:
  • Reduced sound tick time from 15ms to 5ms for improved sampling and responsiveness
• Startup optimizations:
  • Particle parsing now happens in the background while other parts of the game are loading
• Server optimizations:
  • Optimized various encoding when at high server load
  • sv_minrate now set by default to the default rate
• Math optimizations:
  • Closely crafted optimization of assembly
• HUD optimizations:
  • Optimized item queries in the HUD