Sorry, what?
Is this some sort of prank?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:09 PM, N-Gon wrote:
> :O
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Eric Smith
> wrote:
>
>> We've released a mandatory update for Team Fortress 2. The notes for the
>> update are below. The new version is 3662193.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> --
>>
>> Scream Fortress VIII has arrived!
>> - Featuring 3 new community maps: Brimstone, Pit of Death, and Maple
>> Ridge Event
>> - Added the Creepy Crawly Case
>> - Contains 22 new community-created items that make-up the Creepy
>> Crawly Collection
>> - Has a chance to give one of 3 community-created
>> Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item
>> - Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
>> - Added a taunt Unusualifier
>> - A new tool that will Unusualify the specified taunt with the
>> Unusual effect listed in the tool's description
>> - Can be found as a random bonus item when opening a Creepy
>> Crawly Case
>> - Added two new taunts to the Mann Co. Store
>> - Taunt: The Victory Lap
>> - Taunt: Second Rate Sorcery (community-created)
>> - Added 8 new community-created Unusual effects
>> - 4 new effects for Unusual hats
>> - 4 new effects for Unusual taunts
>> - Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for
>> your Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting
>> the Soul Gargoyles that spawn in the maps
>> - Join Halloween matches by selecting the "Halloween" category in Casual
>> - Scream Fortress VIII runs through November 9th, 2016
>>
>> During Scream Fortress VIII
>> - All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they
>> don't already have one from last year's event
>> - Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations
>> - Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected
>> - Added 3 new Merasmissions for the featured maps
>> - Completing a Merasmission will give players a classic Halloween
>> item and the chance for a Creepy Crawly Case
>> - The chance to receive an Unusual item from a case opening has been
>> increased during the event
>> - All cases and Mann Co. Supply Crates will grant Halloween 2016 Unusual
>> effects instead of their normal Unusual effects
>>
>> Matchmaking
>> - The Competitive maps list has been updated
>> - Added pl_badwater and ctf_turbine
>> - Disabled cp_granary and cp_badlands
>> - Maps will continue to enter and exit this list over time
>> - Added "Load Saved Settings" and "Save Current Settings" buttons to the
>> Casual mode Map Selection menu
>> - Search criteria is now manually saved to give players more
>> control over the default settings when the game is launched
>> - XP earned in Casual matches has been adjusted to reward players more
>> for their personal contribution to the match
>> - XP per point has returned to 6.5 XP per point
>> - XP earned for match completion and objective completion now
>> scales based on your score relative to total amount of points scored by
>> everyone in the match
>> - Increased the matchmaker's priority of matches with imbalanced teams
>> - This should reduce the occurrence of extended imbalanced
>> matches when multiple players leave
>>
>> General
>> - Added the AsiaFortress Cup Season 10 tournament medals
>> - Added LBTF2 6v6 Season 13 tournament medals
>> - Improved several aspects of texture handling for OS X and Linux clients
>> - This should reduce the rate of "Out of memory" errors for
>> players on high texture settings, especially on level change
>> - Players still encountering this error can reduce texture
>> quality to medium or lower to greatly improve stability pending further
>> improvements
>> - Fixed a missing material issue on cp_sunshine
>> - Fixed players not taking damage when exploding as a bombhead without
>> stunning Merasmus
>> - Fixed Mann vs. Machine zombies not using the correct skin in Ghost Town
>> outside of the Halloween event
>> - Fixed a bug with the vote-kick timer in Mann vs. Machine mode
>> - Fixed taunts not restoring the proper weapon when the taunts are
>> finished
>> - Fixed the Pomson 6000 playing the shotgun reload sound
>> - Updated the sounds made when the Scout shoves someone while using the
>> Shortstop
>> - Updated some Merasmus audio files that weren't playing properly
>> - Updated the localization files
>>
>>
>>
>>
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