The new heavy update is here, along with some concept art for Lumberyard and details of The Sandvich (details of which are in the preceding post), as always the update will take effect as soon as you load Steam and so you can play the new levels now.

Sensing some desert fatigue amongst gamers and the Valve team a like, Valve felt that the new stages should incorporate a bit of colour. As you can see from the two concept images Valve has gone for a lush alpine setting, not dissimilar to scenes from HL2 EP2. But don’t worry the new levels have been designed to make sure they don’t look out of place within TF2 while being stunningly beautiful too!

Update Details

Added 3 Heavy unlockables

• Natascha, The Sandvich, The Killing Gloves of Boxing
• Added 35 new Heavy achievements

Added Arena game mode

• 5 arenas: Lumberyard, Ravine, Well, Granary, Badlands

Added 2 new maps

• Badwater Basin, a new payload map
• cp_steel, a community map by Jamie “Fishbus” Manson

Changes

• Added server map timeleft to upper right of scoreboard
• Added new firing sounds to The Backburner
• Removed the Custom Tab in the serverbrowser, and added the Tags field to the base Internet Tab
• Increased The Kritzkrieg’s uber-charge rate bonus from 10% to 25%
• 32 player servers can now support an extra slot of SourceTV
• Made the freezecam item panel description easier to read
• Players now broadcast whether they chose a team directly or use autoteam
• Added proper handling of cart blocking recognition to Payload maps

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where switching from flaregun-wielding Pyro to another class meant you didn’t get a full ammo loadout on first spawn
• Fixed Spy watch arm not using team skins
• Fixed weapon switching preventing you from using secondary attacks for a 0.2s window after the primary became available
• Fixed players getting stuck in a bad animation state when class switching while spinning the minigun
• Fixed a loophole that allowed players to pickup weapons of other classes
• Fixed a bug that resulted in players earning more crit chance bonus in large, single damage events than they are supposed to
• Fixed an issue with the floating HUD +X health indicators that resulted in them appearing incorrectly
• Fixed a bug which caused the minigun spinning & firing sounds to occasionally stop while the Heavy was still firing
• Fixes the Loadout player model panel causing the in-game player facial animation to perform incorrectly
• Fixed spectators not having the target ID labels display correctly
• Fixed the cart alarm sound occasionally getting stuck on in Payload maps

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