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Here we go! After two years of build-up, Valve have finally taken the wraps off the long-rumoured new mode and third faction for their game of ratatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatboomdead.

‘Mann vs Machine‘ brings a co-op horde mode to Team Fortress 2, as five players battle legions of robots shaped in the image of TF2′s familiar classes. They are the Gray Horde, and they’re there for you to kill in incredible numbers. “Band together to survive all of the robot waves in a variety of missions to earn incredible loot and unlock new achievements,” it says here. And you get to do that from August 15th. That being tomorrow. Here’s a trailer for the new mode. It is a good trailer. It has good music. It has a Heavy with a head of steel. It has the suggestion of an enormous foe. It has me thinking “this is probably a very smart way to get people (back) into the game who’ve been put off by the all-knowing frenzy of the devout playerbase.” It also has me thinking “AI officially in TF2? Someone’s going to do fascinating things with that, eh?”(more…)

• Added the .nav file for Kong King
• Fixed the missing Kong King map stamp image in the Mann Co. Store

• Added the .nav file for Kong King
  
• Fixed the missing Kong King map stamp image in the Mann Co. Store
  

• Added new map Koth_King
• Added the Ready Steady Pan tournament medals
• Added new promo items
• Fixed a Medigun exploit that could leave players indefinitely invulnerable
• Fixed sentry gun sometimes placing wrong, being rotated into the ground and pointing upward
• Renamed "The Huo Long Heatmaker" to "The Huo-Long Heater"
• Updated the localization files
• Updated the Neon Annihilator
  • Materials now animate
  • Damage penalty only applies to players (not buildings)
  • Can damage sappers

• Added new map Koth_King
  
• Added the Ready Steady Pan tournament medals
  
• Added new promo items
  
• Fixed a Medigun exploit that could leave players indefinitely invulnerable
  
• Fixed sentry gun sometimes placing wrong, being rotated into the ground and pointing upward
  
• Renamed "The Huo Long Heatmaker" to "The Huo-Long Heater"
  
• Updated the localization files
  
• Updated the Neon Annihilator
  • Materials now animate
    
  • Damage penalty only applies to players (not buildings)
    
  • Can damage sappers

• Added the ESL Season VI and Season VII medals
• Fixed a client/server crash when re-connecting to the item server
• Fixed The Business Casual tie not being blue for the Blue team
• Fixed body groups not hiding correctly on ragdolls

• Added Pyromania cosmetic items to the Mann Co. store
• All ash-related items have been faded away to dust
• Fixed Strange Escape Plans not counting kills
• Fixed missing strings for the ESL medals

• Fixed a client crash on exit (after connecting to a server using sv_pure)

• Added sv_namechange_cooldown_seconds, to throttle clients from changing their name too rapidly. (Defaults to 20 seconds)
• Added sv_netspike_on_reliable_snapshot_overflow to selectively enable the automatic dumping of netspike file if a client drops due to "reliable snapshot overflow" (defaults to 0, which disables the debugging)
• Added check to prevent player names from containing color codes
• setinfo console command will now reject attempts to set / change convars with any unusual characters

• Fix a bug that caused gameservers to not properly receive client inventory updates. (Frequent cause of the "The server you are playing on has lost connection to the item server" error message.)
• Fixed not being able to equip all-class items properly
• Fixed the DX8 water effect
• Fixed the Beggar's Bazooka misfiring with 100% crits after firing a crit rocket
• Fixed the Strange Sandman not accepting the Posthumous Kills strange part

• Fixed Unicode characters getting stripped from player names

• Fixed dedicated servers not being able to set sv_region

• Fixed Replay/SourceTV clients getting kicked when quickplay servers hibernate