Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:


Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM)
  • Updated some Big Picture features
  • Additional improvements for client stability

Team Fortress 2
  • Australian Christmas has begun!
    • Added community-contributed winter event items
    • Added three new community weapons
      • The Vaccinator
      • The Loose Cannon
      • The Rescue Ranger
    • Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. Store
  • Mann Vs. Machine
    • Added a new tour of duty with unique loot:
      • Operation Mecha Engine, with 3 new advanced skill missions
      • New map mvm_bigrock
      • New Engineer Botkiller items
    • Added new Engineer robot
  • Added new Strange Filter items to the Mann Co. Store to support community map makers
  • Added new checkout dialogs and taunt-activated effect to raise awareness for Community Map Stamps
  • Added +context_action command (defaults to X for controllers). This will use the action slot if your Canteen contains a charge and will taunt otherwise3
  • Added +attack3 command (defaults to middle-mouse button)
  • Added Adult Swim items to the Mann Co. Store
  • Fixed an exploit that allowed players to be permanently invulnerable
  • Fixed the Pyro’s airblast not working correctly when facing downhill
  • Made Force-A-Nature pushback more consistent
  • Updated pl_barnblitz
    • Fixed various map exploits
  • Updated sd_doomsday
    • Fixed various map exploits
  • Updated the localization files