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June 8, 2009

Team Fortress 2

– Added a “Discard” button to the item pickup panel.
– Added a backstab custom death animation to the Heavy.
– Changed default for tf_arena_use_queue to 1. This was the original behavior prior to the last update.
– Changed the Dead Ringer so it can be activated while carrying the flag.
– Increased the Force-A-Nature’s damage by 10%.
– Fixed not being able to reflect arrows with the Flamethrower.
– Fixed The Huntsman drawing a muzzle flash under lagged conditions.
– Fixed the background color of the Spy disguise panel not always matching his disguise team.
– Fixed idle players being kicked when the server has tf_arena_use_queue set to 0.
– Fixed Spies not being able to sap a building if an enemy player was colliding with the building.
– Fixed getting a real target ID on an enemy Spy that’s disguised as one of your teammates if you are disguised as an enemy.
– Fixed the Ambassador not shooting enemy sticky bombs.
– Fixed Spies being able to automatically cloak after uncloaking at the moment of a weapon switch.
– Fixed Jarate instantly exploding when thrown in some places, like the final area of Badwater.
– Fixed spectators not having their items removed when they enter spectator mode.
– Fixed Sniper “civilian” exploit where players could crash the server.
– Fixed a couple of cases where viable backstabs would fail.

A few people is using the fan now, with this update, could be better than the scattergun :O ?

“- Increased the Force-A-Nature’s damage by 10%.”

fu arx and arnold, you’re annoying enough. kthx.

yes but you could 2 shot the medic with the scattergun as well, so i don’t see what that really has to do with anything (in fact, the FAN only used to do 94% damage compared to the scattergun)

it does make it a bit more viable, but you still only have 2 shots before you have to reload, so if you miss one, you’re still fucked

i might try it out for a bit, but i doubt its gonna be much better

letting the scout get behind you without you knowing about it is fail :(

It was -20% before the update

I don’t really see this making FAN equally effective as the scattergun, because the basic flaws are still there (have to reload often, knockback is often undesireable)

But for those moments where the FAN already was decent, this makes it a bit more valuable and a good buff.

it was -20% damage and +20% pellets, bringing a total of 94% damage compared to the scattergun

Sorry if my maths is fail but:

Say a full meatshot with scatter does 100 dmg, and the scatter fires 10 bullets (just as an example).
That means that 1 pellet does 10 dmg.

If FaN was 20% less dmg, then 1 pellet does 8 dmg?

So with 20% more pellets, the FaN fires 12 pellets.

12 pellets at 8 dmg each would be 96 damage.

These are just examples, and idk if that actually makes sense or i’ve made something up along the way, someone confirm for me :D

(so now, with “9” damage per pellet, FaN can do 108% damage per shot where scatter can do 100%.
This isnt counting that they enemy gets knocked back by the first shot unless pinned against a wall so that the 2nd shot doesnt do full damage, and that if you miss one of your shots you’re fcked)