MAJOR TF2 update for 10/29/13 (Fifth Annual Scream Fortress)

[wickedplayer494]

Via [URL="http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=11746"]the TF2 site[/URL]:

[quote=Valve][B]Scream Fortress 2013 has arrived[/B]
- Help settle the score in one of the longest running feuds in Mann history
- Comic and additional information available on the website ([url]http://www.teamfortress.com/bazbobarrabus[/url])
- Scream Fortress 2013 runs until Nov 11, 2013
- Added New Halloween Map Helltower
- Equip a spell book and cast spells against your enemies
- Spells can be found by pushing the cart, killing enemies and during the Witching hour
- The Clocktower contains powerful magic during the Witching hour
- Win the race to start mega healed in the final battle for your prize
- Granting Spellbook Magazine to all players who launch TF2 during Scream Fortress
- Added over 100 Halloween tagged items from the TF2 Steam workshop
- Added Spooky Crate and Spooky Key to drop list and Mann co Store respectively
- Added class Transmogrifier's to covert Scream Fortress 2013 items of one type to another
- Added item Enchantment: Eternaween
- Enabled Halloween event maps in quick play
- Enabled Halloween gifts on Halloween event maps
- Enabled Halloween Spell Potions
- Enabled Mann Vs Machine event map Wave 666 in bootcamp
- Enabled Halloween themed Unusual Effects to be found from Mann Co Supply Crates
- Haunted Quality Items can now be listed on the Steam Market place

[B]Map : Ghost Fort[/B]
- Lowered Merasmus's base health

[B]Weapon Changes[/B]
- Medic's Crusader Crossbow now silently reloads when unholstered, similar to Pyro flaregun
- Fixed the charge rate for the Bazaar Bargain when the player has 0 heads
- In PvP Medics can now see the clip status of a patient’s active weapon
- Updated the Vaccinator to use the reload key to cycle through resist types

[B]Item Fixes[/B]
- Updated The Air Raider so it can be painted correctly
- Updated The Bone Dome so it doesn't hide Pyro backpack
- Strange Part: Kills While Ubercharged can no longer be applied to Strange Equalizers and Escape Plans
- Fixed the backpack panel using the wrong "drop_sound" when items are moved around

[B]Virtual Reality changes[/B]
- Improved readability of the UI in VR
- Removed the IPD calibration tool. TF2 will now obey the Oculus configuration file. Use the Oculus calibration tool in your SDK or install and run "OpenVR" under Tools in Steam to calibrate your IPD.
- Added dropdown to enable VR mode in the Video options. Removed the -vr command line option.
- Added the ability to switch in and out of VR mode without quitting the game
- By default VR mode will run full screen. To switch back to a borderless window set the vr_force_windowed convar.
- Added support for VR mode on Linux

[B]Misc Bug Fixes[/B]
- Fixed an exploit that allowed unlimited uses of noisemaker items
- Fixed not being able to earn the Brotherhood of Steel achievement in MvM (play with 5 friends)
- Fixed the camera target not always being visible when using the replay editor
- Removed some servers that forged player counts from quickplay and the server browser[/quote]

Rumor has it:

- [B]Bring your own differ[/B] - the item schema update associated with this one is huge! [url=https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/commit/5738a60ddb4a77f2f2b1a53bcca6daff1e076dab]Available on GitHub[/url].

- [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1phqsk/major_tf2_update_for_102913_fifth_annual_scream/cd2f6g7]or wait on TheAnthal![/url]

- [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1phqsk/major_tf2_update_for_102913_fifth_annual_scream/cd2fjga?context=3]Also, look to xPaw for images[/url] of the new items.

- Size is a MAJOR ~575 MB - avoid downloading all at once if you have a data cap!

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Mirrors:

- [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1phqsk/major_tf2_update_for_102913_fifth_annual_scream/]reddit[/url]

- [url=http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3195626]Steam forums[/url]

[R.M.T.B.]

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;42690281]Via the TF2 site and HLDS:[/QUOTE]

This years Halloween map is a reskin of hightower
OF COURSE

[Sliferjam Jones]

[QUOTE]Medic's Crusader Crossbow now silently reloads when unholstered, similar to Pyro flaregun
[/QUOTE]
All glory to the halloween update

[Segab]

oh my god
bird heads got added

[Damian0358]

At the bottom of the page..... is that a baby skeleton?

[old_gus]

The Bird Head Medic is wearing that Egyptian cloak!

!!!

[ironman17]

Equippable Spellbooks for using spells against your enemies? Sign me up. SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.

YES MY GAME IS UPDATING.

[CommodoreKong]

[QUOTE=R.M.T.B.;42690322]This years Halloween map is a reskin of hightower
OF COURSE[/QUOTE]

What a disappointment.

[Scarfulhu]

[QUOTE]Added item Enchantment: Eternaween[/QUOTE]

Is that what I think it is?

[thephantur]

Well bugger it all didn't see this. No wonder I got voted late.

To be fair I was "studying". Can't blame me for falling asleep!

[Psychopath]

[QUOTE=Necrotic Fever;42690395]Is that what I think it is?[/QUOTE]

Eternal weiners, yes.

[DJF]

I think there's a tipping point where you can have too many hats

and we are quickly reaching that point

[Mr Skeltal]

[QUOTE=Damian0358;42690354]At the bottom of the page..... is that a baby skeleton?[/QUOTE]

what sick man sends babies to fight?

[Frying Dutchman]

wish I could find a tiny amount of time to contribute to halloween items somewhere along the line.

[Blueleaf]

The description for the spellbooks is still killing me with giggles.
[QUOTE]The scariest part about these books is that they AREN'T REAL BOOKS AT ALL! They're self-published! Feel the desperation dripping from their not professionally-edited pages! Written by sad, stay-at-home wizards with big dreams and rudimentary Photoshop skills, these poorly-assembled tomes contain magic spells of unspeakable lethality, nestled in between long passages of copyrighted characters having sex with each other! Awooooo![/QUOTE]

[Ele]

100 new items is cool until you realize that there might be two or three weapons and they're all just all-class melee weapons; and the of the remaining 97, 95 of them will be halloween restricted

the boss maps are usually pretty fun though so i'll probably give it a shot

[Seibitsu]

Time to get back to TF2 <3

[Coverop]

-nvm-

This is gonna be good.

[ironman17]

I can't wait to see what magicks I'll be able to fling at my enemies.

[Thatrandomuser]

Haha it's finally here, thank god.

[AwesomeX]

[QUOTE=coverop;42690503]-nvm-

This is gonna be good.[/QUOTE]

Holy shit I cant breath..

Help me..

[JoeJohns]

I'm at college with a shitty Mac laptop and my gaming desktop is back home 3000 miles away.

Guess I'm missing this year of Scream Fortress :(

[Grazony]

Oh god the tiny skeleton

[Hideous]

So I'm sitting there, playing Typing of the Dead, and my phone tells me I got an email...

[IMG]http://puu.sh/53bQ6/0b109afd04.png[/IMG]

[Laughing Stock]

why are you guys mad about new hats

you guys would be even more pissed if they added new weapons, i think the only recent one you guys haven't complained about initially was the scorch shot or something

[Ax3l]

All items restricted to halloween.

GG Valve.

[IMG]http://gyazo.com/d0b6278cfe2684688d0a06b8419dffcf.png[/IMG]

[ironman17]

[QUOTE=Hideous;42690574]So I'm sitting there, playing Typing of the Dead, and my phone tells me I got an email...

[IMG]http://puu.sh/53bQ6/0b109afd04.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
GG, enjoy the microtransaction revenue.

[TheJoey]

hell yeah 250 bucks on all the items

[Venezuelan]

a lot of really good items and a few not so good ones

[JoeJohns]

All new accepted items on Workshop
[url]http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse?appid=440&browsesort=accepted&browsefilter=accepted&p=1[/url]