Today saw the release of the long awaited Scout Update for Team Fortress 2 and to celebrate the event, Valve will be selling the game on its online Steam service at half price for the rest of the week.
The update is a significant one, including three new community maps, 35 Scout achievements, a handful of new sounds and new weapons and items for the Scout class. A full list, courtesy Valve Software, can be found below.
The discount now in effect on Team Fortress 2 via Valve's Steam drops the price to a minuscule $10. If you're one of the few who hasn't played Team Fortress 2 yet, this would be a great time to buy one of the best multiplayer shooters of the last decade.
New features
- Added The Force-A-Nature, The Sandman, and Bonk!
- Added 35 new Scout achievements
- Added crit boosted on/off sound effects
- Added new sounds for upgraded teleporters
- Added new sound for a fully charged medic dying
- Add bonus points section to scores
- Scouts earn a bonus point for killing Medics who are actively healing a target
- Added several new speech concepts, mostly hooked up to new Scout lines
- Added new "Remember last weapon between lives" option to the Multiplayer Advanced dialog
- Spies can now control which weapon the enemy team sees them holding. Hitting the "last disguise" key while disguised updates the disguise to show the Spy's currently held weapon
- Added several new Arena mode announcer speech events.
- Added "First Blood" to Arena mode
- Removed 2x item respawn times in arena
- Changed backstab handling to fix facestabs
- Spies disguised as enemy team can now see player IDs for enemies
New maps
- Added community maps: cp_egypt, arena_watchtower, and cp_junction
- Updated cp_fastlane with Arttu's new version
Mapmaker requests
- Added new input for forward speed modifier to FuncTrainTrain
- Added TeleportToPathTrack input to func_tracktrain
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where players would sometimes gib from non-gib damage kills
- Fixed stat screen showing an entry for a class called "map."
- Fixed item model panels not using team skins
Image courtesy Valve Software
