Team Fortress 2's 'Love and War' #TF2

Love & War Update

Added 5 new weapons, 15 new taunts, and 43 cosmetic items for the Love & War update
Partner Taunts can now be performed with the opposing team
Added a new Taunt Loadout with 8 slots so multiple taunts can be equipped at the same time
Taunts are no longer equipped in the Action Slot
Pressing the Taunt key in game now brings up the new Taunt Selection menu
Pressing the taunt key while the Taunt Selection menu is open performs a weapon taunt, or joins a partner taunt

Mann Co. Store

Added 15 new taunts and a taunt bundle
Added 5 new weapons and a weapon bundle
Added 44 new cosmetics and a cosmetic bundle
Added "Taunt" category into the store
Added Mann Co. Stockpile Crate Key
The "Hats" and "Misc" categories have been merged into "Cosmetics"

Items

Added the Mann Co. Stockpile Crate to the droplist
Each Mann Co. Stockpile Crate can be repeatedly shuffled to contain a set of 4 possible items
Added the Mann Co. Audition Reel. Contains taunts and a rare chance at an unusual taunt
Updated Mann Co. Crates to display which Unusual Series they can potentially output
Added Bread Box Special Crafting Recipe. This recipe will no longer be available after July 9th, 2014. Items from the Bread box have a chance to be strange.
Added crafting recipes for newly added weapons
Added Killstreak Kits to MvM for newly added weapons
Added OzFortress Season 11 tournament medals

Weapon changes and updates

With The Hitman's Heatmaker, pressing ‘reload’ now activates focus when it is full
The Axtinguisher now does mini-crit damage from the front and full crit damage from behind to burning targets
The Bushwacka can no longer randomly crit
All mini-guns now have damage and accuracy ramp up after they start firing. Full accuracy and damage is reached 1 second after firing.
All Demoman stickybombs now have damage ramp up. Full damage is reached 2 seconds after firing.
Updated Loch-n-Load reload animation
Sentry bullets are now affected by damage falloff outside of sentry scan range
Sentry bullet damage has been changed so it calculates damage based on the sentry's position, not the Engineer's

Misc Changes

Updated the Halloween holiday to automatically be enabled when the server runs an _event map
Added a check to prevent achievement announcement spam
Converted several weapon models to use the c_models system
Updated the localization files
Bug Fixes
Fixed an exploit where charging Demoman could turn more than allowed
Fixed a bug where Halloween spellbooks were overriding PDAs and Disguise Kits
Fixed The Director's Vision taunt not playing both variations for the Pyro
Fixed the Pyro's spell audio not sounding like the rest of the Pyro's audio
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause items to unequip themselves
Fixed a dedicated server crash related to using 'mp_forcecamera 0' with one player on the server
Fixed a regression with the trigger_gravity entity not correctly applying its settings
Fixed another exploit where Engineer buildings could build up a large amount of health
Fixed a server performance issue related to the item_teamflag entity
Fixed the itemtest command
- Fixed cosmetics shared between multiple classes not rendering correctly
- Updated the cosmetic item list to sort by name

Map Fixes

Updated cp_granary
- Removed collision from lights and small props protruding from walls
- Fixed collision on fences
- Fixed the tire props near Blu's forward spawn so players may no longer jump up to the spawn door platform
- Fixed players shooting through gaps around forward spawn doors
- Fixed door protruding through roof on Red's forward spawn
- Fixed a collision bug that gave players access to the roof above Red's spawn door
- Prevented players from building inside spawn room doors
- Adjusted area portals to improve rendering and performance
Updated koth_harvest_final
- Added metal panel prop to Blu building, which now mirrors the jump up on the Red side
- Small performance increase through prop fade adjustments
- Players can no longer build inside spawn doors
Updated pl_upward
- Fixed physics debris triggering the payload cart’s finale explosion

¿En serio hay demanda para "the division" en PC

Creo que lo veremos en release, ojalá se estabilicé un poco la situación del F2P, yo soy de la vieja escuela y no me gusta.

Con los anuncios de esta semana, como que "the Elder Scrolls Online" vuelve al modelo de 15 USD pors mes, quiero creer que volveremos al mundo en que la elección del F2P es para ciertos juegos, pero si yo quiero tener una relación de confianza con editores y publishers, les pago antes.

Y ya que tocamos el tema de TESO


‘Skyrim’ success put pressure on ‘The Elder Scrolls Online’ team

Crysis 2 1.9 y los dos parches

Son ya muy conocidos mis problemas con Origin, como el de mi encuentro con el soporte técnico, que a fuerza de ser veraces, si se "rifa el físico" , desde la primera vez que lo vi.

Pero aprovechando que en todos lados navego más rápido que con el infinitum de mi casa, borre los installers y baje de nuevo Crysis 2.
AL correrlo nos instala el parche 1.9, que no lo lleva a DX11, pero es un requisito.

Aquí vemos las pantallas en las que aparece habilitada la opción ultra y las ligas a los dos parches, el de The Crysis 2 DirectX 11 patchY el The Crysis 2 High-Resolution Texture Pack

De ambos parches ya habíamos hablado pero hasta ahora no había habido oportunidad de probarlos.
Correr el de directx11 no requiere que pongas las nuevas texturas, pero si revisamos las texturas piteras usadas para las consolas, como hicieron (Aquí) veremos que si vale la pena.

Variance Shadow Maps Demo (D3D10)

Finally some directX 10 to play.

Así es, por fin se puede jugar (algo...lo que sea) en directx 10 con esas costosas 8800 y en sus hermanitas las 8600,8500 y demás.

Es un techdemo, así que tiene más o menos la misma historia que los Serious Sam (pero esos juegos son muy buenos)

Pero por fin se pueden apreciar los efectos de esta nueva iteración de esta API, chequenlo , aquí