Peterscraps and Doomsday.exe are very definitely our guests on the show this week. A week that sees two updates, April 12th and April 13th (including a fix for all pre-Sandybridge processors). There are two ETF2L Experiment Cups, a Gamers Assembly viewing guide and two long lost artists return, Rammy and Hoo. Lastly, Nate confirms there’s to be a new animated short.
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An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed an exploit where players could remain Übercharged beyond the normal time period
- Added The Audio File for the Team Fortress 2 Soundtrack promo
- Added the CappingTV Ultiduo Summer Brawl 2017 tournament medals
- Updated the description for the Short Circuit to match the current behavior
The UGC League Summer Season is about to start! Come join thousands of players from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand for some competitive TF2 action! Players from any of these regions are encouraged to sign up and join the fun! The first week of matches starts May 15th for Highlander, May 17th for 6v6, and May 19th for 4v4. Remember, the deadline is May 23rd. Visit the UGC website for more information.
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed crash when running on systems without AVX support
Roundup #7 April 6th - April 13th - GamersAssembly2017, MappersVSMachine, Megaraffle & more!
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Roundup #7 April 6th - April 13th - GamersAssembly2017, MappersVSMachine, Megaraffle & more!
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TwitchThe top trio of Chronos, Uberchain and Agro are back togehter. There is much to discuss; from comic book lore to the work of Julien Renoult, TFC coming of age, a wet Pyro, Fresh Meat, MvM and Hugs dot TF. We’re interviewing Valve, need lore nerds Unpublished Team Fortress 2 comic Julien Renoult – Artstation TFC is 18 Rainy day pyro Fresh Meat TF2Map’s Mappers vs Machines and their Medals Hugs.tf […]
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Fixed a bug where players could see enemy health indefinitely when playing as Spy or Medic
- Fixed incorrect strings and HUD image for the Reflect powerup in Mannpower mode
- Added tournament medals and community medals
- ETF2L 6v6 Season 24, Season 25 and Season 26; ETF2L Highlander Season 11 and Season 12; ETF2L Ultiduo 6; ETF2L Highlander Open Season 2; RGB LAN; Chapelaria 6v6 Season 2; Chapelaria Ultiduo Season 1; Mappers vs. Machines
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Internal updates to support future development
- These changes originally shipped to game servers only on March 14th
- Fixed regression from the toolchain beta causing the r_drawclipbrushes command to hang the game
- Fixed regression from the toolchain beta causing OS X players to be unable to join certain servers
TF2Maps is back at it again with their second Mann vs. Machine contest! Red and Blu will have to put aside their differences, hit an upgrade station, and deliver exciting new robot-murdering locales.
Entrants will receive a unique medal and a place in the showcase, plus the Mapper’s Medallions and even more prizes for winners! But don't dawdle, the deadline for submissions is Monday, July 31st at 11:59 PM EDT. Click here to read rules and learn more.
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Roundup #6 March 7th to April 5th - Highlander, VNN, Kritzkast, FreshMeatChallenge & more!
published 2 months ago. 191 views, 21 likes, 1 dislikes and 11 comments.Flittzy, the impressive songsmith of TF2 is here with us to treat your eardrums. You may recognise him from such iconic tunes as “Flames” and “Edgy Scout Main“. TF2Maps.net are doing another April Fool’s Gameday Diana Nock’s TF2 Art – Pyro wants to show medic something Fan made – 3D printed Soldier – Andrew Cothill’s Artstation Page Esports Arena presents: b4nny documentary
There seem to be a big disconnect in the TF2 community, where a large portion of community members only relies on a single source of news (e.g. Reddit / community forum / Steam workshop or the TF2 blog alone). I cannot stress enough; to get most out of the TF2 community: try to join Twitter.
A lot of (big) YouTubers and SFM artists are active on Twitter, and are most of the time very approachable! If you want to get your content (let it be videos, art or whatever) exposed; post it on Twitter. Put some effort into your account: create or commission yourself an Avatar and handle your Twitter account as an artwork, that is being worked on 24/7. Check it once a day and built a follower list of things that you like!
To get you started on Twitter, I recommend you follow these accounts:
check my following list for a gross part of TF2 YouTubers and artists.
Art/SFM:
And this is just a shot in the wild! If you have any recommendations, be sure to post them below.
Tonight version 1.3.2 of teamwork.tf was released with the following updates:
- The providers page has been updated. It provides a better overview and filters to search for server communities.
- Community server providers now validate their servers based on their hostname, which is much easier and helps less technical people to get their community represented.
- Community quickplay now scans every 5 minutes instead of 10 (thanks to the Patreons and our mascot Dave).
- Webpages with gameserver information automatically update if the server scanner has completed a new scan.
- New overview called map explorer which provides an overview of which maps are currently being played in community servers.
- Added new news sources, such as OzFortress, TFCLeague, RNG Podcast and the FuckYeah tumblr. Also updated the visual styling of the news.
- Important news is now directly posted onto Discord and/or Twitter.
- Cleaned up back-end code and updated all frameworks in preparation of the oncoming YouTuber section.
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
- Added UGC Highlander Season 19/Season 20, UGC 6vs6 Season 21/Season 22, and UGC 4vs4 Season 8/Season 9 tournament medals
- Added Gamers Assembly 2017 tournament medals
Hey /r/tf2 | twitter | tumblr | pantsbook and all the other places you may have seen this message. I’m Agro, and I’m a Pyro. I’m also one of the hosts of this ‘ere TF2 podcast. Along with my other mundane duties I also get to do some fairly mad things I probably wouldn’t normally do if I wasn’t with KritzKast. One such thing was the time I wrote to […]
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There are two types of Heavies in this world; those that have beaten the cheesecake out of their opponents in a boxing ring and those that plan to do it tomorrow. We caught up with two such hardballs, Clayface and The Gentlemann’s Fedora, who have taken hand to face combat into a whole other level by creating the National Heavy Boxing League. A safe place for gentle persons of the […]
Valve have fiddled with the back end, upgrading and updating TF2 to the very latest SDK; 2013. This may seem like nothing to the layman but it means a great deal. For one thing, it broke Source Mod and for another it broke Macs. So there’s that going for it. Altogether it’s a very important step in the development of TF2, to bring it up to date smartly and allow […]
Ever wanted to get into competitive TF2? Now's your chance! The European Team Fortress 2 League is running the Fresh Meat Cup sponsored by Scrap.tf and Marketplace.tf.
This competition is aimed at new, inexperienced players interested in playing competitive TF2. So if you're fresh meat, sign up before April 6th to compete. Every team can play with an experienced mentor to help them understand meta and play their best! Visit the ETF2L website for more info.
So a few weeks before launch I posted this:
https://twitter.com/TF2teamwork/status/837244305039306752
And well, 2 days after launch the map alone already has reached 50.000 views! It's great to see the new website is so popular, but even with the great Patreon support we cannot afford a 500,- a month for the map alone. That's why I've just switched the map to Google Maps version, which might looks a bit different (Ctrl + F5 if it doesn't load directly). Anyway, this has flexible pricing, which is affordable.
Another disaster averted!
After a very busy weekend, I can finally say that this was a very successful launch of the new website. The website stayed online despite huge traffic numbers, and I did not encounter too many problems. Aside from the smooth launch, the Patreon campaign was also a great success, allowing me to start working making the indexer faster and bringing back the yellow pages for TF2.
Because I work on this website in my free time, the progress won't be super fast, but it will probably be steady! In the following month I will focus on the "community server provider" part, reflecting on project beacon and making things a bit easier to manage your servers on the website. I will probably also migrate the website to a dedicated server which will reduce the TF2 game-server scanner interval to a merely 5 minutes!
Will keep you up to date!
Website updatelog:
- News overview now has pagination. Also added Hugs.tf, OzFortress and AsiaFortress to news sources.
- Removed old white styling, breadcrumbs and about page now in the same style as community quickplay.
- Removed Workshop gamemode, these gameservers will now be categorized based on their real gamemode.
- Added various new Quickplay gamemode SFM's thanks to NyanZak and TeamSource.
- Fixed various bugs for Community Server Providers and their servers.
- Fixed credits page to show all the fame.