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[Duke 2.0]

 Eh, I'm playing tomorrow afternoon anyway. Loading should be better then.

 Then it's time to unlock the axetinguisher legitimately.

[Zai]

Now even spies with masks on have to be spy-checked:

Spies disguised as enemy spies now get a random mask to help complete the disguise, and their target id will be set appropriately

Holy crap. Even more usefulness:

Spies can now use enemy teleporters

They made the Pyro's air blast more useful, similar to Jarate's effect on teammates. I expect to see less of the Backburner now:

Flamethrower's air burst now extinguishes fire on friendly targets

I feel like the Spy got the better end of the update. =/

Oh well. I won't be able to get on until Monday, as I'll be away for the weekend.

[Sowelu]

Now even spies with masks on have to be spy-checked:

Spies disguised as enemy spies now get a random mask to help complete the disguise, and their target id will be set appropriately

Holy crap. Even more usefulness:

Spies can now use enemy teleporters

It doesn't stop there:

Spies disguised as medics now have an Ubercharge: line in their disguise target info

[Metalax]

Just checking through the update notes and,

Flamethrower's air burst now extinguishes fire on friendly targets

Big buff for the pyro.

Standard sniper rifle now shoots through friendly players

no more teammates mucking up a good shot.

Spies outward facing "disguise health" now matches their disguise target when they first apply the disguise

No more benefit of doubt from the pyro. Spy checks for Everyone!

Demomen can now detonate their stickies while taunting

heh. Kaboo*BOOM*

Grenades and rockets deflected by a pyro under the effects of Kritzkrieg will now be criticals

hehehe.

Engineer's dispensers now give 20%, 30%, or 40% of player's max_ammo (for each ammo type) on each use, based on the level of the dispenser

hmm going to have to check how much this effects dispenser camping.

You now find new and old items as you play, instead of through achievements

going to have to see how this works

[Zai]

You now find new and old items as you play, instead of through achievements

going to have to see how this works

Woah, woah. What? I didn't notice that one. So now we unlock the items by just playing the classes often? I like that.

[Sowelu]

No one knows how getting the new items works, yet.  Not even the Steam forum.

[JoRo]

But there's no mention of hats!  Where are my hats!?

[Soulwynd]

Some servers have been using the hat code already... I've seen one where donors get fancy hats. =p

[Metalax]

The item drops seem to be completely random. Some people have played since the update came out and have found nothing at all, others have been finding everything fast. I've only been finding items that have already been unlocked from previous updates, I had 3 backburners at one point.

[Sowelu]

I saw someone join during a pregame, and find a weapon before the round started.  There are persistent reports of unlocks being found while spectating.  There's absolutely no link to performance.  Which is okay, I guess.  Linking it to playing time is cool too.  But it's too random, and you get duplicates, which isn't cool.

Hats DO drop randomly, just at a lower frequency than other stuff.

The unlocking does make sense if Steam doesn't trust anything it hears from the server, and instead just awards them to the account for saying that it's playing...

[umiman]

I had a lot of fun just now burning the tonnes and tonnes of spies and (strangely aggresive) snipers to cinders. At one point, the enemy team was complaining about us pyros making it unfair (wtf?) so I thought I'd give them a chance by switching to shotgun. Heh, not much difference.

Man, people are so simple.

[ToonyMan]

Rock beats paper.

[JoRo]

I totally lucked out and wound up with all 3 sniper unlocks pretty quick (plus 3[!?] flare guns, a blutsauger, an ubersaw [which I actually hadn't gotten around to unlocking yet], and a duplicate Razorback) and I am totally in love with Jarate and the Huntsman.  The lack of SMG means I have to be careful not to get cornered, but Jarate works better with a teammate around anyways.  Even without the damage buff, being able to extinguish myself is so nice.
Even though I have a hard time hitting anything that isn't either stationary or really close with the Huntsman, nailing people to walls is the best thing ever.  Plus, kill taunt.

[Aribar Hunter]

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[Nilocy]

Rock beats paper.

Fire beats everything