Tough Break Update / Campaign & Smissmas 2015!

BobbyDigi

http://www.teamfortress.com/toughbreak/

Will detail out as time permits... Star Wars and all.

Similar to Gun Mettle, new skins, cases for particular skins and also a cosmetic case with new cosmetics.

And Game play changes!

All
Base weapon switch speed changed from 0.67 seconds to 0.5 seconds
Upon spawning, friendly players will show an outline for 10 seconds
Updated various weapon descriptions to better detail their functionality

Multi-Class

• Panic Attack
  No longer auto-fires when fully loaded. Shots can be held and released at will.

• Reserve Shooter
  No longer boosts all-around switch speed, instead boosts switch-to speed by 20% and switch-from speed by 15%
  No longer mini-crits any airborne target (i.e. jumping). Target must be forced in to the air via blastjump, knockback, airblast, or grapple.

• The Half-Zatoichi
  Now considered a sword (increased holster and deploy time and increased range)
  Honorbound changed. Deals 50 self damage on holster if no kill was made. Cannot be holstered if player is below 50 life and no kill was made.
  100% life restore on kill changed to 50% health gain on kill that can result in overheal
  No random crits

Scout

• Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol
  Increased health recovered on hit from +3 to +5

• Mad Milk
  Extinguishing an ally will now reduce the cooldown by 20%

• Wrap Assassin
  Now 42% more festive! Ornament shatters on all impacts, dealing a small amount of damage in a small radius. Bleed effect still only applies to a target that is struck directly.
  Ball recharge rate increased by 25%
  Damage penalty reduced from -70% to -65%

Soldier

• Beggar's Bazooka
  Decreased blast radius by 20%

• Concheror
  Doubled health regeneration rate. Regeneration rate is now decreased if player has been recently damaged.

• B.A.S.E Jumper
  Removed hidden property of up draft when on fire

• Market Gardener
  Added 20% Attack Speed penalty

• Air-Strike
  Reduced blast radius by 20% when rocket jumping (28% reduction when compared to stock)

Sniper

• The Cleaner's Carbine
  Reduced firing rate penalty from 35% to 20%
  Added 'CRIKEY' meter which is filled by dealing damage
  Mini-crits are no longer activated by kill, but can instead be activated by alt-fire when the 'CRIKEY' meter is filled

• Cozy Camper
  Quadrupled health regeneration rate. Regeneration rate is now decreased if player has been recently damaged.

• Jarate
  Extinguishing an ally now reduces the cool down by 20%
  Pyro
  Pyros like to collect rainbows! Extinguishing a teammate will now return 20 health to the Pyro.
  Consecutive Airblasts will no longer prevent enemies from air-strafing until they touch the ground
  The base Flamethrower's damage fall off over distance has been decreased, resulting in higher damage output at range

• Degreaser
  No longer boosts all-around switch speed. Instead, boosts switch-to speed by 60% and switch-from speed by 30%.
  Removed damage penalty
  Increased Airblast cost by 25%
  Increased afterburn penalty to from 25% to 66%

• Phlogistinator
  Removed 10% damage penalty.
  When activating 'MMMPH', the taunting Pyro gains temporary invulnerability and immunity to knockback effects

• Axtinguisher
  Properties changed
  100% Chance to crit against burning targets
  33% Damage penalty
  20% Slower attack speed
  75% Slower switch-to speed

Medic
Medics now have slightly higher health regeneration when healing a hurt patient
During setup time, ÜberCharge build rate is now increased by 3x

• Amputator
  Taunt can now be activated by alt-fire
  Healing done with the taunt now grants small amounts of ÜberCharge

• Vaccinator
  Removed 10% health regeneration on proper resist
  Added slight ÜberCharge build on proper resist
  Increased ÜberCharge rate from +50% to +67%
  Reduced overhealed ÜberCharge build rate penalty to 33% from 66%. As this penalty is applied after the base increase, healing an overhealed patient is now 33% more effective.

• Crusader's Crossbow
  Healing a player with an arrow now grants a small amount of ÜberCharge

• Quick-Fix
  Fixed cases where Quick-Fix ÜberCharged players could still be affected by certain knock-back effects
  Players can no longer capture objectives while under the effects of Quick-Fix ÜberCharge

Spy
The HUD 'Cloak' meter now displays 'MOTION' and 'FEIGN' when Cloak and Dagger and Dead Ringer are equipped respectively

• Dead Ringer
  Initial damage reduction when feigning death increased to 75% from 50%

• Spy-cicle
  Fixed a bug where ammo packs from dead players were not filling the Spy-cicle meter
  Fire immunity shield no longer appears when fire immunity is triggered

Heavy

• Fists of Steel
  Removed deploy time penalty
  Added penalty of increased holster time by 100%

• Gloves of Running Urgently
  Increased holster time penalty

• Warrior's Spirit
  Now heals 50 health on kill
  Damage received and dealt increased by 30%
  Removed health penalty

• Eviction Notice
  Now provides 15% move speed bonus
  Now increases damage taken by 20%

Demoman / Demoknight
Shield bash now deals damage at all ranges, scaled by distance
Melee damage boost after shield bash is based on amount of charge consumed. Now provides mini-crit at 25% depleted, and full crit at 60% depleted.
Charging now removes debuffs from the Demoknight (Bleed, Fire, Mad Milk, Jarate)
All Swords now have a slower deploy and holster speed compared to base weapons in addition to their increased melee range

• Splendid Screen
  Removed the ability to deal charge impact damage at any range (now native to all shields)
  Now increases recharge rate by 50%
  Increased blast resistance from 15% to 20%

• Tide Turner
  Now grants mini-crit instead of full-crit on charge bash
  Reduced resistances to 15%

• Chargin Targe
  Reduced blast resistance from 40% to 30%
  Removed fire immunity

• Claidheamh Mòr
  Removed charge duration bonus
  Now restores 25 health on kill
  Removed health penalty
  Now increases damage taken while active by 15%

• Persian Persuader
  Removed ammo pickups granting health instead of ammo
  Added penalties of reduced primary and secondary ammo
  Ammo pickups now replenish charge
  Now gains charge meter on hit

• Quickiebomb Launcher
  Fizzle time increased from 2 seconds to 4 seconds

• Ullapool Caber
  Base melee damage increased from 35 to 55
  Added 20% fire rate penalty
  Added 100% switch-to time penalty

• Loose Cannon
  Reduced projectile speed (now a visible attribute)
  Reduced cannon impact damage from 60 to 50. Damage also scales with distance.
  Reduced knockback from cannon hit. Knockback strength is now similar to airblast.

Engineer
After removing a Sapper from a sentry, there is now a 0.5s delay before the sentry is active again
Sentries brought into a respawn room no longer detonate outside of Mann vs. Machine

• The Jag
  Added damage penalty against buildings. Now takes 3 hits to destroy a Sapper.

• Rescue Ranger
  Healing per bolt reduced from 75 to 60

BobbyDigi

More from the release notes:

General

• Smissmas 2015 has begun! Launch Team Fortress 2 to receive your Spirit of Giving badge, Gift-Stuffed Stocking, and Winter Holiday noise maker
• Added Smissmas 2015 Mystery Gift. Can be found by opening a Tough Break Weapons Case. Have you been Naughty or Nice?

• Added Strange Count Transfer Tool
  - Takes the Strange scores from one item and adds them on to another. The count for the source item is reset to zero. Strange part scores are only transferred and zeroed if a matching Strange part is found. Can only be used between Strange items of the same base type.
  - Can be Crafted by 2 Strange parts in the crafting menu under Rare Items

• Updated Case opening item drop algorithm. Going forward players are now less likely to get duplicate items from the same rarity tier on repeated Case openings.

• Updated several weapons sounds with consistency fixes from community member Mateusz Grzesik

• Updated the scoreboard
  - Re-ordered some of the columns
  -Added an image to represent player ping values instead of the actual ping values. Added an option in Adv. Options to use the actual ping values.

• Updated several weapon descriptions to better detail their functionality

• 'Gifted by' Tag can now be removed from items via 'Restore?' Context action from the Backpack view
• Fixed a bug in Mann vs. Machine where Medic bots with unusually long uber effects could have the effect time-out prematurely
• Fixed a bug where Unusual Slider was not properly saving
• All Strange parts can now be applied to Strange cosmetics items
• Strange parts added to the Backpack Context Menu for Strange items
• Paints now display both Market and Mann Co. Store prices in the Backpack Context Menu on paintable items
• Added case and crate opening animation in Backpack view
• Fixed seeing the fire texture on the Captain Space Mann, A Head Full of Hot Air, and The Tomb Readers in DirectX 8
• Updated the models/material for Der Wintermantel and made it paintable
• Updated the Caped Crusader to include a team-colored style for the cape

• Players can no longer use blast damage to move during the pre-round freeze period
  - Added server convar tf_preround_push_from_damage_enable for servers to utilize the old behavior

• Fixed the Spy-cicle not melting properly if the Spy is burned while stunned

• Added an option in Adv. Options to batch overhead combat text

Performance Improvements

• Mac and Linux improvements (Windows Direct3D 9 players have these already)
  - Texture streaming now enabled
  - Reduced memory consumption by ~500 megs
  - Faster map loads!

• Players on Mac can now select 'High' texture settings

• Eliminated many cases of hitching when using painted weapons
• Eliminated occasional hitching caused by using mat_picmip 2 (or selecting low quality textures in Video Options -> Advanced)
• Massively reduced memory consumption when using painted weapons
• Improved particle system performance, boosting overall framerate, especially in particle-heavy situations.
• Fixed two most common forms of framerate stuttering / hitching when using popular FPS configs

• Added -default launch option to help players triage performance / stability problems.
  - When run with -default, the game will ignore most convar settings and run purely with default options
  - Upon exit, -default runs do not overwrite the player's config.cfg file. If a player wants to save the settings of a default run, they should execute host_writeconfig in the console.

• Fixed 5 second stall when opening options menu

• VR players: You must now pass -vr to launch options to play TF using VR
• Fixed multiple cases of FPS stutter related to the sound system

Mannpower Changes

• Flags will become poisonous (mark the carrier for death) 90 seconds after having been stolen
• If both teams flags are stolen and poisonous, they will return when next dropped
• Fixed players being able to grapple during the pre-round freeze period
• Reduced the number of flag captures required to win from 10 to 7 on official servers

• Regeneration powerup:
  - Health regeneration amount changes - Scout, Sniper and Spy increased, Engineer decreased

• Reflect powerup:
  - Added pushback force to players who damage the powerup carrier (except for flame damage)

• Added overheal effect to players whose max health is increased by a powerup

Myrmidon

It was absurdly overpowered buuuut...

...I am sad to see the half-zatoichi go.

Karma

Fucking thank god. The half zatoichi getting random crits was absurd. The reserved shooter getting mini crits for no other reason than I was jumping. Most importantly fuck pyro airblast was broken still is but a little less so now. That not being able to air straffe was the dumbest shit ever. Makes scout that much better. If they could just fix airblast so it is no longer a giant sphere that would be awesome. The range on all flamethrower and airblast should be reduced though. All in all not bad changes.

Karma

They still should just not have reserve shooter on pyro

oni_dels

@Karma said:
They still should just not have reserve shooter on pyro

U mad bro?

Karma

@oni_dels said:

@Karma said:
They still should just not have reserve shooter on pyro

U mad bro?

Mad may be overstating it. Since 98% of pyros aren't smart enough to actually kill me that way but those 2% are annoying as fuck

RahnalH102

I love the taunts the community comes up with.

BobbyDigi

Added Strange Count Transfer Tool
Can be Crafted by 2 Strange parts in the crafting menu under Rare Items

Amazing. Mere hours after the update and release of this new tool, it has stabilized on the market. All strange parts are selling at their lowest $1 each, previously as low as 40 cents and the Transfer tool itself is selling for about $2.

oni_dels

@Karma said:

@oni_dels said:

@Karma said:
They still should just not have reserve shooter on pyro

U mad bro?

Mad may be overstating it. Since 98% of pyros aren't smart enough to actually kill me that way but those 2% are annoying as fuck

98% of pyro are w+m1

BobbyDigi

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BobbyDigi

Dec 22 update:

Introducing the Festivizer!

Just like in the classic final scene of A Christmas Carol, when Tiny Tim breaks out of Scrooge's cryogenic storage and unleashes a psychic explosion, Team Fortress is delivering a Smissmas miracle. That's right, Smissmas gifts can now be opened! Also, spoiler on the gift: You'll be getting a Gun Mettle and Tough Break Festivizer. Festivizers let you take your favorite weapons from the campaigns and craft them to your diabolical festive will, just like Tiny Tim when he blasted Ebenezer Scrooge's loanhouse/cryofreeze facility to splinters with his psychokinetic onslaught. Festivizers can be found through January 11th by unlocking a Tough Break Campaign case.

Also! The Mann Co. Store Winter Sale is on! Look for big discounts on lots and lots of items until January 4th.

BobbyDigi

Had a visitor while working through a couple contracts today...

(I apparently have some sort of setting that hides most of the UI in kill cams, That's @XGPHero )

Hero

@BobbyDigi, you should show the one where I killed you. oh...wait...

BobbyDigi

@XGPHero said:
@BobbyDigi, you should show the one where I killed you. oh...wait...

That's a death cam from my perspective, that was you killing me

Hero

Nu uh?!