2.0.0

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2.0.0 was a major update for Team Fortress 2 Classic, also known as the Death & Taxes Update. It was released on July 4, 2020. The patch notes were initially released on the Death & Taxes Day 4 page. It featured some map changes, weapon changes, general changes, and bug fixes. It also featured the addition of 6 new weapons, and 38 new maps.

Changes

Weapon changes

• Added The Coilgun
• Added The Dynamite Pack
• Added The Huntsman
• Added The Mine Layer
• Added The Sandvich
• Added The Shock Therapy

• Reworked the Nailgun:^(sic)
  • Fires slower than before.
  • Nerfed the clipsize down to 25.
  • Nails now do more damage than before.
  • Added a new taunt when equipped with the Nailgun.
  • Updated Viewmodel animations.
• Reworked the RPG:^(sic)
  • Rockets do more damage, and have less damage fall-off.
  • Rockets fire in an arc, and whistle upon decent.
  • Rockets fly slower than normal rockets.
  • Added a different taunt when equipped with the RPG.
  • Updated Viewmodel animations.
• Reworked the UberSaw:
  • Renamed the Ubersaw to the Uberspritze.
  • Equipping the Uberspritze will now remove 25 health.
  • Can now Taunt Kill.
  • Updated the Taunt Kill voicelines to fit the model.
  • Updated Viewmodel animations to reduce clipping from the plunger.
• Reworked the Poacher's Pride:
  • Renamed to the Hunting Revolver.
  • Uses a new model.
  • Fires 6 shots, rather than 2.
  • Added damage fall-off for bodyshots.
  • Can only headshot while zoomed in.
  • Shortened the Zoom distance.
  • Updated Viewmodel animations.
• Reworked the Fishwhacker:
  • Swings slower.
  • Causes concussional bleeding on hit for 2s.
  • Crits on bleeding enemies.
  • Marked for death whilst holding the Fishwhacker.
  • Updated Viewmodel animations to all be overhanded.
  • Uses new impact sounds.
• Reworked the Tranquilizer Gun:
  • Uses a new model.
  • Color blind's victims and reduces their move and turn speed for 5s.
  • Tranqed enemies draw, reload and swing weapons slower.
  • Reloads faster.
  • Reloads whilst holstered.
  • Tranqed enemies now have Snooze Particles to indicate they've been hit.
  • Dart Projectiles now work more like Flares.
  • Has no damage fall-off.
• Updated the Grenade Launcher:
  • Clipsize is now shown on the model.
• Updated the Sticky Launcher:^(sic)
  • Added damage ramp-up over time
  • Immediate detonations do half damage
  • Full damage is reached 2s after firing (1.3s after arming)
  • Self-damage and Sticky Jumping are unchanged
  • Damage ramp-up period starts when charging instead of upon fire.
  • Updated Viewmodel animations to include the other arm.
• Updated the Minigun:
  • Shortened the un-deploy time to allow for faster weapon switching after firing.
  • Updated Viewmodel animations to lock the hand to the front grip.
• Updated the Knife:
  • Added blood upon backstabbing Enemies.
  • Blood washes off in water.
• Added the ability to grab ammo whilst having full reserve ammo, if your clip isn’t completely full.
• Added tf2c_weapon_noreload cvar (0 or 1). Disables reloading for all weapons. All ammo is pooled into the clip.
• Added tf2c_infinite_ammo cvar (0 or 1). All reserve ammo and recharge meters are infinite. This also applies to metal.
• Added tf2c_old_pistol cvar that restores the original semi-automatic pistol behavior.
• Added more assist conditions (Under Civilian Damage Boost, Tranq, ETC)
• Added weapon clip drops upon reloading clip-based weapons.
• Updated brass shells to properly land on top of the ground.
• Updated brass shells to appear in the world.
• Updated the Heavy’s reload animations to be lower on the screen.
• Updated the Disguise Kit with GRN and YLW textures.
• Updated the Spy's Cigarette “shell” to be slightly higher poly.
• Enabled impact sounds for ejected brass shells.
• Implemented “backstab ready” animations for Knife.
• Clip Size Multiplier attribute will now round clip size to the nearest integer.
• Flamethrower^(sic) is now lag compensated. This should dramatically improve flame hit detection at higher latency values.
• Fixed a lot of minor animation errors on Viewmodels.
• Fixed an issue with The Hunting Revolver viewmodel being visible while zoomed in.
• Fixed an issue where first person tracers would sometimes be fired from an incorrect position.
• Fixed an issue where weapons would sometimes subtract reserve ammo if the player touched a resupply locker while reloading.
• Fixed an issue with grenades colliding with respawn room visualizers.
• Fixed player being able to reload Tranquilizer Gun while cloaked.
• Fixed an issue causing Minigun barrel to spin up/down too fast at high network latency values.
• Fixed an issue causing sticky bomb^(sic) detonation sound to rapidly play multiple times in a row.
• Fixed a bug preventing the attacker from hearing crit sound on headshot.
• Fixed an attack delay bug after cloaking.
• Fixed disguised Critboost for the local player
• Fixed Projectiles from being able to be shot through thin surfaces.
• Clip Size Multiplier attribute will now round clip size to the nearest integer.
• Reverted Syringe Gun's projectile speed back to 1000 (was buffed to 1500 at some point in 2015)

UI changes

• Added kill sounds.
• Added achievements.
• Added medals for Developers, Community Contributors and Beta Testers.
• Added a bubble that appears above the player’s head while they have the chat window open.
• Added a Civilian icon to the scoreboard.
• Added a new hud for 4team CTF.
• Added low health warning sound.
  • Toggle with tf2c_low_health_sound cvar. Set health percentage threshold with tf2c_low_health_sound_threshold (default is 0.49).
• Added the scrapped freezecam screenshot animation.
  • Toggle with tf2c_freezecam_model cvar.
• Added ConVar hud_combattext_overhead (Default: 1):
  • When set to 0, all damage text displayed will appear from where the damage occurred at
• Added a viewbob optional cvar that allows for visual motions similar to Half-Life 2 with tf2c_viewbob.
• Compressed viewmodel_offset_x, viewmodel_offset_y and viewmodel_offset_z cvars into a single cvar: tf_viewmodels_offset_override. Usage: ‘x y z’.
  • You can still use the old commands.
• Target ID shows player’s ammo to their healer now.
• Ported HUD for Payload and Payload Race.
• Ported an option to hide crosshair when scoped in from live TF2.
• Ported Medic heal target marker from live TF2.
• Ported scoreboard dominations counter from live TF2.
• Ported alternate ping icons from live TF2.
• Ported full charge bell to Sniper Rifle.
• Ported Uber draining faster when healing multiple patients.
• Ported the Concise Disguise menu.
• Updated default FOV to 90.
• Updated scramble vote text to clarify it forces a round restart
• Updated the 4-team class select screen.
• Updated the 4-team Scoreboard.
• Updated the win-panel to show all team's scores in 4-team.
• Updated the Spectator bars to be transparent.
• Updated the color of damage numbers to yellow and increased font size.
• Updated Damage numbers to now be shown to the attacker’s healer.
• Updated Hit sounds to show for buildings as well.
• Updated Bots with default avatars.
• Updated behavior of outline glow on flag carrier to match live TF2.
• Fixed damage numbers not being reset properly on map change.
• Fixed Buildings that're Destroyed by a Sapper Not Showing Up in the Killfeed
• Fixed the new options menu not saving Video settings properly.
• Fixed Reset Stats button in Stats dialog not working.
• Fixed a camera bug appearing for dead players on a losing team.
• Fixed avatars in freezecam and win panel being offset.
• Fixed notifications becoming unread between launches.
• Fixed a jingle playing when notifications are closed.
• Fixed an issue where the cloak/uncloak sounds would play too loudly to the cloaking player.
• Fixed avatars in freezecam and win panel being offset.
• Fixed chat breaking when a message has too much whitespace.
• Fixed a visual issue where Capture Progress arrows would show a long thin line.

Gameplay changes

• Added the VIP gamemode.
• Added the Domination gamemode.
• Added and improved upon TFBots.
• Added a Steam Friends-list to the Main Menu. (Off by default.)
• Added a server option for turning off domination/nemesis relationships.
• Added support for custom Map-based weapons.
  • Must be named “mapname”_items_game.txt in the maps folder.
• Added proximity voice-chat, tf2c_proximity_voice. (Off by default)
• Added tf2c_ctf console commands to add some balance to the CTF Gamemode
• Disabled capture crits in CTF (0 by default, 10 before the update)
• Added tf_logic_classlimits for mappers to set class limits for their map.
• Added SetCustomModel for mappers to use their own player models within custom maps.
• Added a bunch of I/O and keyfields from live TF2 to tf_gamerules, item_teamflag and func_respawnroomvisualizer
• Added all entity filters from live TF2
• Added team colored critical explosion particles.
• Added Spywalk for Spies. (Bound to Shift by default)
• Added the Engineers pelvis hitbox.
• Added tf_glow:
  • Map entity that adds a colored outline to a model.

Added tf_player_equip:

• • Map entity that gives econ items to players.
• Added tf_spectalk cvar that allows living players to hear spectators using text chat.
• Added tf2c_disablefreezecam server cvar that disables freezecam for all players.
• Added cl_fp_ragdoll (makes camera try to stay inside your ragdoll's head on death)
• Replaced tf_teamtalk cvar with tf_gravetalk that allows living players to hear dead players using text/voice chat (does not include spectators to prevent ghosting.)
• Added support for different team scramble player sorting modes, set by mp_scrambleteams_mode cvar. 0 - score/connection time ratio, 1 - kill/death ratio, 2 - score, 3 - class, 4 - random. Default is 0 (normal TF2 always sorts players by score.)
• Allowed “god” and “notarget” cheats.
• Updated the Civilian’s Speed to be as fast as the Demoman.
• Updated the Sentry Gun’s animations to be Interpolated, like the Dispenser and Teleporter.
• Updated Rockets, Arrows, Syringes and Flares to pass through Teammates. (tf2c_projectile_ally_collide 1 to re-enable)
• Updated Stickies to be able to stick to certain moving surfaces. (Example: Nucleus’ Control Point.)
• Updated required backstab conditions to match live TF2
• Updated Melee weapons to prioritize hitting Enemies if standing inside a Teammate.
• Updated Sudden Death to be on by default upon Stalemates.
• Updated info_player_teamspawn (for map makers):
  • Added support for the "Any" in the "Team" keyfield
• Updated Impulse 101 to now act like an Upgraded Resupply Locker. (Refills and fills Cloak, Uber and Recharge meters; Weapons can now be swapped out on the fly.)
• Updated Randomizer to properly work with item schema.
• Updated the Randomizer command to allow for toggling random classes, weapons and attributes.
  • Attributes are handled through a Randomizer config file, that can be modified by the server.
• Randomizer Respects the 'tf2c_force_stock_weapons' ConVar.
• The Sandvich can now be eaten by all classes in Randomizer.
• Ammo grabbed from dropped metal (from destroyed buildings) has been nerfed from being counted as Medium Ammo
• Implemented the Thriller Taunt for all classes.
• Ported special death animations for headshots, backstabs and added burning deaths from live TF2.
• Players will now make louder pain sounds when below 25% health. (Originally, players would play louder pain sounds to attacker and normal sounds to everyone else.)
• Enemy Spies that are disguised as Spies will now properly appear disguised.
• Ported concise disguise menu from live TF2.
• Ported modified push physics used by live TF2 in Payload mode. (Players will no longer get stuck inside the cart.)
• Ported Medieval mode.
• Ported Special Delivery.
• Ported func_croc for map makers.
• Ported crumpkin/crit-pumpkin, pumpkin bombs and Halloween pickups.
• Reduced maxplayers limit to 64 due to performance issues.
• Fixed “Most points” stat not being tracked properly.
• Fixed a bug with player pose parameters causing player’s moving animations to mismatch on server and client.
• Fixed disguise weapons appearing with a wrong team color.
• Fixed jump sound not always playing to other players.
• Fixed the ammo dispensing radius of the payload cart’s dispenser not matching its healing radius.
• Fixed players keeping the intelligence when auto-switched to Spectator due to inactivity.
• Fixed Engineers being able to haul sapped buildings.
• Fixed Engineers being to build out of bounds and building inside nobuilds
• Fixed disguised Spies using a wrong skin in certain cases.
• Fixed certain teleporter particles not appearing.
• Fixed a bug related to spectating causing a player to become invisible.
• Fixed Medic’s “Ubercharge deployed” response not being triggered when activating Kritzkrieg charge.
• Fixed Medigun^(sic) heal beams, Ubers & HUD not working for non-Medics in Randomizer mode
• Fixed syringes & nails colliding with players.
• Fixed teleporter exit incorrectly detecting if the target area is clear in certain cases. (RIP teleporter traps.)
• Fixed the bounding box size of Stickies to accurately depict the size of the model.
• Fixed damage fall-off on rockets fired by a sentry gun being calculated based on the distance from the sentry gun’s builder and not the sentry gun itself.
• Fixed Spies being able to destroy their own sappers.
• Fixed cloaking Spies being able to pick up CTF flags
• Fixed the flag remaining hanging in mid-air if dropped on a moving brush (e.g. elevator in sd_doomsday)
• Fixed certain teams in 4-team mode hearing disguised spies speaking in their normal voice and not as their disguise class.
• Fixed teleporter exit telefragging enemies standing on it even if the teleporting player is killed before teleportation completes.
• Fixed Hitboxes to properly match with taunt poses.
• Fixed Sentry Gun ammo being replenished when sentry gun is picked up and re-deployed.
• Fixed level 2 and level 3 Sentry Guns always firing tracers from the left muzzle instead of altering between the two.
• Fixed a bug relating to taking received knockback from the enemy beneath you on death.
• Fixed a bug causing player to retain standing view height while crouched.
• Fixed a server crash related to tf_generic_bomb.
• Fixed a game crash relating to the Engineers buildings.

Visual changes

• Added new music tracks to the Main Menu.
  • Main Menu tracks are now handled by a soundscript.
• Added support for longer profile names on the main menu
• Added Discord Rich Presence support.
• Added Arena HUD.
• Added a sound for chat messages. (Disable via tf2c_message_alert.)
• Added tf2c_invisible_arms.
• Added tf2c_spec_playerinfo client command which shows spectated player's name, FOV, viewmodel FOV and viewmodel offset
• Added Streamer mode. (Hides chat, player names and avatars.)
• Added a glow to the Spy’s cigarette.
• Added player blinking.
• Player corpses will now have their eyes closed.
• Added a visual effect upon players disconnecting.
• Added aimmatrices to the Engineer’s PDA animations. (Previously would never look around when moving around the players view.)
• Added proper Fire and Reload animations for the Hunting Revolver for the Sniper.
• Added "Clip Out" sounds on the Engineer's and Scout's reloads.
• Added special Class Select animations for the Nailgun^(sic), Huntsman and Hunting Revolver.
• Added Medieval specific health-kits.
• Added Status Effects. (Can be toggled with tf2c_show_status_effects)
• Added Last Survivor Announcer lines to Arena.
• Added Voice-lines for the Civilian. (Currently the Civilian cannot move his mouth; This will be fixed in a future update.)
• Added a Headshot death animation to the Civilian.
• Added unique HUD icons for Stickybombs, Proximity Mines, the Kritzkrieg, and the Medigun^(sic).
• Added water impact effects to projectiles. (Syringes, nails...)
• Added surface splash to underwater explosions.
• Added shells to the Minigun.
• Added an uncloaking effect to dying cloaked Spies.
• Re-used dominations for the main 9 classes to be used towards the Civilian.
• Updated Player gibs with consistent textures, illumination positions and jigglebones.
• Updated the Spy’s mask textures to be consistent with the 10 classes.
• Updated the Civilian model with proper animations.
• Updated the Civilian model to properly hold Briefcases and Party Hats.
• Updated the Civilian’s viewmodels to be more consistent with the rest of the classes.
• Updated the Civilian’s view-height to be more accurate to his height.
• Updated the 4team team select screen to be more consistent with every other screen.
• Updated the Sniper to be able to gesture while holding the Sniper Rifle and Huntsman.
• Updated the Pyro’s head to be consistent with the rest of the classes. (Uses a separate texture-sheet and higher poly mesh.)
• Updated the Fire overlay to fade out over time.
• Updated water entry/exit effects so they're properly predicted.
• Updated class selection screen so the chalkboard with tips looks like it does in old TF2.
• Updated over-the-shoulder third person mode:
  • Renamed the cvar from cl_thirdperson to tf2c_thirdperson
  • Changed camera offset from 64,30 to 80, 20
  • Bullets are now fired with an offset so that they go down the center of the screen rather than where player's character is aiming at
• Improved our Speech Bubbles to be consistent and higher quality.
• Improved our Player textures to be easily distinguishable between teams. (Especially across GRN and YLW.)
• Improved Uber textures to now be modular with custom skins.
• Improved the Stickybombs GRN and YLW textures.
• Improved the Nailgun’s^(sic) projectile trails.
• Improved the Spy’s PDA aimmatrices when crouched. (Spycrabbing has been left untouched.)
• Improved the Pyro’s Flamethrower^(sic) aimmatrices to match up with the Flame’s hitboxes better.
• Improved the Scout’s Nailgun^(sic) animations.
• Improved the Snipers^(sic) Huntsman animations to be right-handed properly.
• Improved the Birthday Ball to remove it’s^(sic) jigglebones, and updated the texture to be yearly-neutral.
• Improved Class ragdolls to have proper and consistent rotation distances.
• Improved Arrows to be ignited mid-air, both by triggers and the Pyro's flames.
• Improved Double jump particle effects to now be triggered in code rather than by animevent.
• Improved Kill Icons. (Thanks to Neodement for allowing us to use them.)
• Disabled muzzle light on Syringe Gun and Nailgun.^(sic)
• Lowered model muzzle flash duration from 0.2 to 0.12.
• Muzzle flash particle effects are no longer disabled if model muzzle flashes are on.
• Being touched as a Spy now also affects the viewmodel.
• Ported Hitsounds & Killsounds.
• Ported "Remember active weapon between lives" and "Remember last weapon between lives" options.
• Ported Medic auto callers.
• Ported low ammo warning (pulsing animation) and improved it.
• Ported "Damage text doesn't prevent overhead effects" option.
• Ported over TargetID.
• Ported 3D Player model class icon.
• Ported tf_scoreboard_mouse_mode cvar.
• Ported "Spectator TargetID Location" option.
• Fixed all viewmodels to have consistent Illumination positions.
• Ported live TF2 class selection screen positions.
• Fixed the "Toggle Weather Effects" option, so that it actually disables weather effects when enabled
• Fixed bullet shells from landing halfway into the ground.
• Fixed the railing on portable_stairs001 from disappearing on lower LODs.
• Fixed a bug involving speaking and switching classes.
• Fixed the issue with disappearing character eyes.
• Fixed the Civilians^(sic) Gibs to be ordered correctly.
• Fixed the Syringegun’s^(sic) Glass from being rendered behind viewmodels.
• Fixed the Stickybomb pulse effect to properly follow the entity.
• Fixed the Scout’s loser animations from playing faster when running slower than max speed.
• Fixed the Heavy, Pyro, and Soldier’s Place Sapper animations to be left-handed.
• Fixed the Scout’s Flinch animation to keep the weapon locked to his right hand.
• Fixed Flinch animations to lock the Classes feet in place.
• Fixed stickybomb pulse effect to properly follow the entity
• Fixed some classes not being able to look around in Thirdperson while jumping.
• Fixed the Gunboats from turning dark on the Soldier or Demoman’s ragdoll if equipped.

Map changes

• Added the following maps:
  • arena_flask
  • dom_hydro (Replacing cp_hydro)
  • dom_oilcanyon
  • vip_badwater
  • vip_harbor
  • vip_mineside
  • vip_trainyard
• Added the following maps from Live TF2:
  • arena_badlands
  • arena_granary
  • arena_lumberyard
  • arena_nucleus
  • arena_offblast_final
  • arena_ravine
  • arena_watchtower
  • arena_well
  • cp_5gorge
  • cp_coldfront
  • cp_degrootkeep
  • cp_fastlane
  • cp_foundry
  • cp_freight_final1
  • cp_gullywash_final1
  • cp_steel
  • cp_yukon_final
  • ctf_doublecross
  • ctf_landfall
  • ctf_sawmill
  • koth_badlands
  • koth_harvest_event
  • koth_highpass
  • koth_king
  • koth_lakeside_final
  • pl_frontier_final
  • pl_hoodoo
  • pl_thundermountain
  • pl_upward
  • [[plr_nightfall
  • sd_doomsday
• Updated cp_amaranth:
  • Updated the clipping of the map.
  • Fixed the grinder at the end of the map from playing across the server upon someone falling into it.
  • The grinder now gibs players upon being touched.
  • Fixed a few visual issues.
  • Fixed being able to build in RED spawn
  • Fixed being able to place Stickies on spawn doors
• Updated ctf_casbah:
  • Fixed BLU's respawn door from locking on certain occasions.
  • Fixed all soundscapes across the map. (Originally, they would never play properly)
  • Updated the team colouring of both areas around each teams base.
  • Updated RED's spawn to direct the player where to go to leave their spawn.
  • Updated BLU's intel building to tell players that there are two entrances.
  • Updated the clipping of the map.
  • Removed some pipes around RED's base to remove extreme height variation. All other previous pipes have been clipped off for the same reason.
  • Removed the overhang over BLU's spawn exit.
• Removed the following maps:
  • ctf_4grounds
  • dm_2fort
  • dm_axiomax
  • dm_devtest
  • dm_grain
  • dm_liniage
  • dm_lumberyard
  • dm_parley
  • dm_ravine
  • dm_wiseau