The Group Fortress 2 summer time replace that Valve promised again in February has arrived, and as promised, it is a huge one, with all new maps, cosmetics, taunts, and strange results. However do not thank Valve for it—thank the TF2 neighborhood members who truly made all these items.
The entire thing was an excellent transfer by Valve: It will get all the plaudits for yet one more beefy replace to a 16-year-old recreation, but needed to do not one of the work to make it occur. Which is a little bit of an exaggeration, I am positive somebody at Valve needed to collate these items and ensure it did not violate any insurance policies or copyright legal guidelines, and there have been in all probability some buttons to push and stuff to click on on and all that. However the precise work of constructing it? Hey, that is someone else’s drawback. It appears like one thing you’d learn in a Mann Co. Catalog.
Anyway, no matter the place all of it got here from, the replace is right here, and it’s a giant one. It is acquired 14 new community-made maps—Sharkbay, Rotunda, Phoenix, Cashworks, Venice, Reckoner, Sulfur, Hardwood, Pelican Peak, Selbyen, VSH Tiny Rock, VSH Distillery, VSH Skirmish, and VSH Nucleus—together with 25 new community-made beauty gadgets accessible within the Summer season 2023 Beauty Case.
There’s additionally a half-dozen new taunts accessible within the Mann Co. Retailer, and 20 new Uncommon results, eight for taunts and 12 for hats. Summer season 2020 Uncommon results, moderately than the Regular uncommon results (which is form of an oxymoron, proper?) can be granted on all beauty and taunt instances at some stage in the summer time occasion.
One way or the other, Valve has additionally discovered a lot of different issues to repair and enhance in Group Fortress 2, and all credit score the place it is due, that is Valve’s doing, not the neighborhood’s. I assume this actually is a bunch effort.
The Group Fortress 2 Summer season 2023 replace is reside now—the summer time occasion runs till September 15. The total patch notes are beneath.
- Safety and stability enhancements
- Fastened the Mann vs. Machine improve panel closing after receiving a matchmaking get together invite
- Fastened an exploit associated to the ConTracker and with the ability to transfer/shoot whereas it is deployed
- Fastened the Unusual Depend Switch Instrument not with the ability to switch stats for Sandvich gadgets
- Fastened the Engineer not with the ability to transfer for a brief time period after doing The Excessive 5 taunt
- Fastened lacking No Headphones model for the Common Translator
- Fastened Engineer teleporter audio that was referencing the dispenser by mistake in Spanish
- Fastened incorrect alpha channels for the Smissmas 2021/2022 Beauty Case fashions
- Fastened the Winter 2019 Conflict Paint Case not being proven within the Mann Co. Retailer
- Up to date/Added some match medals
- Up to date pl_enclosure_final to repair localization points
- Up to date cp_gravelpit_snowy
- Boosted quantity of snowman explosions
- Added occluders to C to enhance efficiency
- Improved clipping
- Up to date cp_steel
- Prop collision cleanup and improved participant clipping
- Explosive splash bug collisions on stairs, props, and so forth., across the map
- Spawn level points (collision, prop blocking, clipping, and so forth.)
- Repair Pyro door exploit on A
- Repair choke and spam points into Blu & Purple spawns
- Repair Pixel stroll collision points
- Fixing ceiling clipping and caught spots together with exploits
- Clear up geometry in spawns, the spawn places and their exits
- Repair roof readability points, with sticky and rocket leaping
- Repair uncommon double loss of life bug when falling into pit
- Repair Cliff caught spots and ledges in E pit
- Eliminated head glitch tele spawn on A-B connector
- Repair uncommon additional time cap bug
- Repair Purple workforce getting caught in spawn door to A
- Up to date cp_mossrock
- Fastened quite a few perch factors
- Fastened gamers with the ability to get beneath Blu spawn
- Fastened a location the place a teleporter might be construct out of the map
- Fastened collision on rock close to remaining level so it’s extra correct to the visuals
- Fastened plenty of small visible bugs
- Fastened some small exploits
- Improved optimisation