Team Comtress 2 Update - September 16, 2025

Changes

• Fixed flamethrower DPS
  • Reworked flame density mechanic introduced in the Blue Moon Update from a glorified accuracy mechanic to one that is aware of the accuracy thresholds of the Flamethrower
  • New strategy is to simply track missed flames in between flame damage checks, reducing damage based upon the missed fraction, which provides a smoother ramp between actually missing flame damage checks, and only missing some particles in between.
  • Initial flame damage is now set to full DPS again, and decays upon misses, but can quickly be regained upon maintaining accuracy.
  • The lifetime of the oldest flames no longer adversely effect DPS
  • DPS is consistent and correct regardless of range or wall reflection
• Improved visibility of ÜberCharge on team status panel
• Fixed ÜberCharge not displaying at 0%
• Fixed overheal flickering when at max overheal
• Disabled FPS reduction when unfocusing game window
• Some minor sv_pure fixes
• Enhanced bloom coloration slightly
• Minor performance fixes
• Fixed various graphics settings exploits
• Fixed a case of a speed hack exploit
• Fixed the Thermal Thruster being affected by burning on custom servers
• Fixed being able to set server tickrate higher than max networking rate
• Fixed an exploit involving cl_smoothtime
• Fixed various issues involving water quality LOD
• Added r_waterforcecheap to force cheap water
• Setting the ConVar cl_hud_chat_notification 1 will play a sound on each chat message
• Stats no longer increment in between rounds in competitive games
• Actually fixed buildings taking different damage than players in certain edge cases
• Darwin’s Danger Shield no longer flinches from afterburn
• Enabled cinematic quality models
• Added various content mods for testing
• Fixed cl_showfps coloration being different on different dxlevels
• Fixed low shader quality differences with dx8 quality changes
• Fixed dropped weapons processing glow logic when glows are disabled
• Fixed players being assigned to spectator when there are bot slots available to be replaced
• Fixed bots with ÜberCharge or Engineer buildings being kicked before other available bots
• Fixed hackers being able to bypass kicks/bans in some cases
• Fixed currency packs being picked up automatically in situations where they shouldn’t
• Fixed switch spawns button not working in Casual when re-entering a respawn room
• Fixed switch spawns button not working in Competitive after moving slightly
• Melee enemy hit priority disabled in Medieval and MvM
• Restored various update teaser models from over the years, but removed the Invasion Update teaser posters
• Fixed The Scottish Play achievement not working with the Pain Train
• Fixed Shots Hit stat not updating
• Fixed the Soldier grenade taunt passing through walls
• Reduced first blood timers for competitive mode
• Enhanced class limit customization for highlander and 6s
• Added Reset Class feature to all modes for easy access to self-kill rather than through console
• Add competitive self-kill feature on disconnect to all modes

Fixes

• Fixed floating health icon getting stuck and appearing where it shouldn’t
• TC2 now reads from tf/download folder
• TC2 now entirely relies on TF2 app content, rather than Source SDK content
  • Still uses engine binaries from Source SDK
• Fixed some HUD/UI files not loading correctly
  • Fixes missing game icon, missing new game intro, and some HUD bugs
• Properly fixed listen server crashes when hosting players with cosmetics
• Fixed g15 exploit check being reverted in a previous update accidentally
• Reverted balance changes and various changes which are not ready for release
• Fixed sapped building resistance being 66% instead of 33%
• Disabled pings for now
• Fixed sentry rockets not hitting teammates
• Fixed auto-ready being enabled in competitive matchmaking emulation
• Fixed some incorrect movement calculation changes for the grappling hook
• Removed competitive spectator changes for now
• Fixed pain sound interval being too long
• Adjusted match summary time for competitive
• Fixed the candy cane not actually spawning a cupcake on kill
• Restored original spawn timers for 6s play