Team Fortress 2 and Source Engine Updates Released

[Shawn Zipay]

Valve has just released a number of updates for both Team Fortress 2 and the Source Engine in general. Take a look at the change log as it includes the new Poker Night at the Inventory items, balancing fixes, and other improvements.

Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2M)
- Added support for raw mouse input. Raw input reads directly from the mouse, bypassing Windows control panel mouse settings. This addresses issues with high DPI mice, and provides for a more reliable controller experience at various resolutions. (Windows)
- Improved custom mouse acceleration. (Windows)
- Updated mouse configuration UI to support raw input and acceleration; added tooltips to some of the options. (Windows)
- Fixed UI tooltips so that they display correctly on first hover. (Windows)

Team Fortress 2
- Added the "Team Spirit" paint can.
- Added Telltale Games items:
-- Dangeresque, Too?: Strong Bad's styling glasses (equipped by the Demoman)
-- License to Maim: Max's Badge (equipped by all classes)
-- The Iron Curtain: The Heavy's first love (equipped by the Heavy, obviously)
-- The Enthusiast's Timepiece: Tycho's favorite timepiece (equipped by the Spy)
- Updated some item capabilities:
-- Employees badges can now have custom names.
-- The Stickybomb Jumper can now be gift wrapped.
-- The Spine-Chilling Skull and Voodoo Juju hats are now paintable.
-- Improved the Spine-Chilling Skull and Voodoo Juju hat positions on the Sniper.
- Added the original Ubersaw taunt to the Vita-Saw.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the game from running on Fat32 systems.
- Fixed a problem with the Sackston Hale achievement sometimes not being awarded correctly.
- Fixed the holiday gamestartup sound files being included in the random startup selection after the holiday is over.
- Fixed numerous WebAPI issues.
- Fixed a Heavy exploit that let him run at full speed while shooting.
- Fixed a Frontier Justice exploit that let Engineers have infinite crits for their current life/round.
- Fixed the shotgun reload animations for the Soldier/Pyro/Heavy looping endlessly.
- Fixed the Medigun charge percent for other players being steppy.
- Fixed not being able to light arrows after the first arrow is fired unless they're drawn back.
- Updated the localization files.

[K-16]

Re: Team Fortress 2 and Source Engine Updates Released

- Added support for raw mouse input. Raw input reads directly from the mouse, bypassing Windows control panel mouse settings. This addresses issues with high DPI mice, and provides for a more reliable controller experience at various resolutions. (Windows)
- Improved custom mouse acceleration. (Windows)
- Updated mouse configuration UI to support raw input and acceleration; added tooltips to some of the options. (Windows)

Strange... Absolutely strange... I thought everybody was happy with the mouse input code as it is. I mean, the mouse acceleration in Half-Life 2 already allows customized scaling to raw mouse movement distance, along with customized pitch and yaw. With mouse acceleration essentially feeling like Quake 3 (though the actual formula used was inspired by fuhquake suggested by Vino), I can't really see why there was ever a need to improve it seven years later (the Source engine evolved for that long?).

Okay, I went ahead and put in an optional mode that allows a scale to be applied to the raw mouse movement distance:

movex/y = movex/y * ( raw_move_Dist * scale + sensitivity );

I'll add in the optional m_pitch/m_yaw scaling mode, as well, and the necessary ConVars to turn the whole thing on/off and to enable the pitch/yaw rescale.

Yahn