TF2 Patch – 2013-10-29: Scream Fortress 2013 

This years Halloween patch is now LIVE! In addition to over 100 new items, a new event map, new unusual effects, and a new mechanic, there were some important changes to some key medic items! Read on to find out the full extent, and have fun with this years event, which is live until November 11th.

– Help settle the score in one of the longest running feuds in Mann history

– Comic and additional information available on the website (http://www.teamfortress.com/

– Scream Fortress 2013 runs until Nov 11, 2013

— 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

– Enabled Halloween event maps in quick play

– Enabled Halloween gifts on Halloween event maps

– 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

– 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 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

– 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.

– 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

Helltower is a Hightower reskin that has been turned into an event map. Except, like the other event maps, there is a twist! Players have a chance to drop a spell. If you have a Spellbook Magazine equipped (this is given to everyone for free), you can pick these pages up and cast powerful new spells. If you equip the Fireproof Secret Diary, you get a neat unusual effect, and can still use spells [credit]. Filling the Fancy Spellbook with at least 3 pages turns it into a Misc item that also allows you to use spells. The spells each have their own icon and number of charges that show on the HUD. If these do not show up, bug your HUD developer to add the relevant pieces.

Once a team has captured the coffin (cart), everyone is teleported to hell. The round is NOT over, and the capturing team has NOT won. The teams race to the gates of hell, where they battle and wait for the Monoculous to be revealed. The first team to touch the mythical book wins the round. Anyone who dies in hell is turned into a ghost that wanders the underworld, and spectates the ongoing battle. In hell, there are more powerful spells laying about, so grab them quick to destroy the other team.

There are 8 new achievements associated with the event this year.

 Helltower: Hell’s Spells – Get and use a rare spell

 Helltower: Hell on Wheels – Send Redmond/Blutarch to Hell 10 times

 Helltower: Skeleton Coup – Kill 99 skeletons

 Helltower: Spelling Spree – Use spells to kill 25 players

 Helltower: Mine Games – Perform 17 environmental kills in Hell

 Hat Out of Hell – Get the loot from Skull Island in Hell

 The Mann-tastic Four – Earn 4 of the Helltower achievements

Presents have returned this year on all of the previous maps, and on the new Helltower map. The behavior on previous year’s maps has not changed. On Helltower you earn one of two different rewards, depending on if the present was haunted or not. A haunted present nets a Spell Book Page, and a random Transmogrifier or a hat/misc from this year’s update. More on that, later. A non-haunted present earns a random Misc or hat from this year’s update!

The Spellbook Pages go into your spellbook, and make up one of 5 page sets: Tumidum, Gratanter, Audere, Congeriae, Veteris.

Transmogirifiers come out of haunted Presents. These allow you to take a Halloween 2013 item, and change it into a new, random item of the class listed on the Transmogrifier. This solves the problem of people getting multiple of the same item, but not an item for a class that they actually play. It does not expire.

Eight new unusual effects were added today. These can be uncrated from now until the end of the event.

Valve added over 100 new community items with this update. They drop from Presents in Helltower, can be purchased from the Store, and come in a big bundle. All of these items are Halloween or Full Moon restricted. They can be seen below!

A slew of the new items come with custom voice lines. Here’s a list!

The Magical Mercenary – Demo, Engineer, Heavy, Scout, Sniper, Soldier, Spy

This year’s event crate, the Spooky Crate, contains all of the items listed above. You need a Spooky key to unlock it. This is crate #74.

The Medic’s Crossbow now reloads even if it is not the active weapon, much like the flare gun does. This is a huge buff to the weapon, which should cause it to drastically increase in popularity.

The ability to see your heal targets ammo has made it’s way from MvM to the regular game. Again, this should make Medics everywhere VERY happy. You can see an example in the screenshot below. I’m using a custom HUD, but it looks very similar in the default.

The Winger got a stealth buff this patch. When active, every jump now has an increased height, instead of just the first jump.

An item now drops that enables you to temporarily turn any server, with players consent, into a Halloween or Full Moon server. This is a great workaround to disallowing the items for most of the year! It appears to drop randomly alongside other normal drops.

The update did bring a lot of bugs along with it. Here is a small list

-The Demo seems very broken. Any melee swings with an all class melee weapon broke the animations.

-The Demo’s High Five taunt is a new, unreleased taunt. So is the Soldiers. The demo has a new starting animation. This does not appear to be intended.

-If two soldiers or two demos high five each other, the server crashes.

Thanks to Soup8, whippedcream, Tysrone, Bulbamaster, canadianbacon, and more for helping me out with this tonight. Getting these screenshots and testing things wouldn’t have been possible without them.

I’ll be doing a mass unboxing on my stream on Thursday, October 31st. Stop by and watch me waste a ton of money!

I’ve setup a ton of servers for Halloween. If you’re looking for a stable, lag free place to play, this is it!

Anthal.com – Haloween Multimap Server – 207.188.214.12:27016

Anthal.com – Halloween Harvest Event Server – 207.188.214.12:27017

Anthal.com – Halloween Manor Event Server – 207.188.214.12:27018

Anthal.com – Halloween Viaduct Event Server 207.188.214.12:27019

Anthal.com – Halloween Lakeside Event Server – 207.188.214.12:27025

Anthal.com – Halloween Helltower Event Server – 207.188.214.12:28015

This year’s update didn’t add any new weapons, but did add a lot of items that community was asking for. On top of that, we got to finally see what the medic’s throwing animation was ultimately used for. The changes to the medic were not only needed, but done correctly, and should really help out anyone who enjoys the class.

Tagged: bird, haloween, helltower, medic, patch, scream, scream fortress, spell, tf2

Epic read. I cant wait to get home and play tonight!!! WHOOHOOOO

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