New update, includes "Tournement Mode"!?

[HappyWino]

[-]February 28, 2008 - 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 specific changes include:

Added "Custom" tab to the server browser

• Servers can now specify metatags describing the custom rules they've adopted
  
  Players can use tag filtering to find servers running the custom rules they want to play
  
  Added options for servers who want to become custom games: Disable critical hits (tf_weapon_criticals), eliminate respawn times (mp_disable_respawn_times), and raise maxplayers above 24

Initial release of Tournament mode (mp_tournament)

• UI for handling team naming, ready mode, and win results
  
  Disables team player limits, autobalancing, and intermission

Class balancing

• Reduced Soldier's maximum rocket reserve ammo from 36 to 16
  
  Reduced Demoman's maximum sticky bomb reserve ammo from 30 to 16
  
  Reduced Demoman's maximum grenade launcher reserve ammo from 40 to 24

[Dog]

Added "Custom" tab to the server browser
- Servers can now specify metatags describing the custom rules they've
adopted
- Players can use tag filtering to find servers running the custom rules
they want to play
- Added options for servers who want to become custom games: Disable
critical hits (tf_weapon_criticals), eliminate respawn times
(mp_disable_respawn_times), and raise maxplayers above 24

Initial release of Tournament mode (mp_tournament)
- UI for handling team naming, ready mode, and win results
- Disables team player limits, autobalancing, and intermission

Class balancing
- Reduced Soldier's maximum rocket reserve ammo from 36 to 16
- Reduced Demoman's maximum sticky bomb reserve ammo from 30 to 16
- Reduced Demoman's maximum grenade launcher reserve ammo from 40 to 24

- Added protection against voice command spamming. Dramatic reduction in
teleporters needed
- Fixed mp_timelimit ending the map during the middle of a round on maps
like Dustbowl and GravelPit
- Fixed "lastdisguise" command not remembering if you were disguised as
your own team
- Added "Toggle Disguise Team" binding in Options->Keyboard to toggle
the disguise team for the Spy's PDA
- Changed PDA menus to accept keys bound to "slot1", "slot2", etc., and
"slot10" cancels
- Fixed Spectator targetID not using team colors
- Changed team autobalance code to not balance the teams when the active
round timer shows less than 60 seconds
- Fixed "-maxplayers" on the command line not correctly setting the
maxplayers value for the server
- Fixed Badlands never having Sudden Death triggered
- Fixed Engineer being able to detonate buildings that are being sapped
- Changed Engineer buildings to detonate when a player disconnects
instead of blinking out
- Fixed potential client crash for players being healed by a Medic or
dispenser
- Made several improvements to server-side stat reporting (not related
to individual player stats)

[Shifty]

[quote="HappyWino";p="76326"]

• Reduced Soldier's maximum rocket reserve ammo from 36 to 16
  
  Reduced Demoman's maximum sticky bomb reserve ammo from 30 to 16
  
  Reduced Demoman's maximum grenade launcher reserve ammo from 40 to 24

[/quote]

Ugh... I can see upsides to doing this but unless they starting scattering more ammo packs or every team automatically has a genius engie, this will be real bad. I use 16 shots before I leave the spawn usually...

[abiscuit]

[quote="HappyWino";p="76326"]

• Reduced Soldier's maximum rocket reserve ammo from 36 to 16
  
  Reduced Demoman's maximum sticky bomb reserve ammo from 30 to 16
  
  Reduced Demoman's maximum grenade launcher reserve ammo from 40 to 24

[/quote]

I approve of this. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.

[Stevo]

Sounds good. That tournament mode should make fun nights and the cup much easier.

[Buzzy Beetle]

[quote="HappyWino";p="76326"]

• Reduced Soldier's maximum rocket reserve ammo from 36 to 16

[/quote]

...That's 4 reloads...

... ;_; *is officially screwed*

[Stevo]

Sounds nice!

[So Uncivilized]

Indeed. I am surprised to see them nerfing the Demo and Soldiers a little. I am curious to find out what this means:

Dramatic reduction in teleporters needed

In context, I am assuming that the 'need a teleporter here' command has somehow been tweaked so you cannot, for instance, bind it to W or somesuch?

[Clay Pigeon]

The 16 reserve rocket limit for soldiers seems a bit harsh.

[Dog]

They have reduced the amount of times you can call for a teleporter....

[Yahoo!!]

I wasn't sure about the soldier rockets, the reduction in demo pipes is harsh and the reduction in demo stickies was VERY much needed.

Guess we can't ask for a dispenser or medic repeatedly.

[So Uncivilized]

I totally agree with the above. 16 stickies seems about perfect, but dropping the pipes... not too crazy about that... I was running out a lot as it was. Us spammers hoping for a lucky frag will have to start learning to aim..

Ultimately, I think this is going to starve out the engineers a little. On some maps (*cough* BAdlands *cough*) I feel that everyone already snarfs up the ammo/metal before I can grab it to build, esp around center point...

Those dispensers will become all the more important.. protect them


SU

[Dog]

I must've missed something coz stickies were at 24....
Pipes were at 16...

[kookoo275]

This update is so cool, except the solly and demo nerfs. I'm so pissed. Demos run out of pipes enough as it is, and they spend like half of their time reloading anyways... Why add time they need to get ammo now? I guess demo was kind of overpowered, though.... soldier, too. Rocket is the number one kill getter on the ville, after all!

[kookoo275]

Dog already made this thread... Maybe an admin should move this? Also, I know this is a problem for me, too I'm gonna have to use a looot of ammo boxes...