Badlands Coming on V-Day

[CSN NewsBot]

Update: If you're someone who absolutely needs to see the lengthy change log ahead of time, you might want to read this. The changes are numerous and contain a ton of exploit fixes, minor changes, and a lot of performance improvements. You do not want to miss this.



Original: A major update is coming for Team Fortress 2 on Thursday, February 14. This update includes a number of optimizations, and updated versions of existing maps, but is highlighted by the release of Badlands.

The free update includes global optimizations for networking, graphics, and player statistics, plus improvements to Source TV for tournament viewing.



In addition, three of the currently available maps (Dustbowl, Granary, CTF_Well) have been iterated for enhanced performance and gameplay.



The release is headlined by the introduction of "Badlands," a new map that pushes control-point gameplay onto vertical landscapes.

This is just Valve's way of saying "Happy Valentine's Day" to all of the lone gamers in the world. I kid, I kid.



The update is set to arrive at 11AM PST for the PC version of TF2.

[meowmeow]

Will the Medic achievements be included in this update as well?

[Thortok2000]

I just want to be able to make a keybinding and/or script to select a random class. It would be even better to be a random class again every time I die. I've been waiting patch after patch for this...

[Diamond Dust]

Thortok2000 wrote..

It would be even better to be a random class again every time I die.

That would be swell, wasn't it like that in TFC also?

[Thortok2000]

So everyone says, but I didn't play the original. All I want is one Simple little feature but it just seems to stay missing.

[xbbdc]

did this patch break anything? i cant even hit the steam forums... curious how much it improved or f'ed things up...?