October 29, 2009 Patch

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The Hallowe'en Update was released on October 29th 2009 and marked the first Special Event update, introducing holiday specific events and taunts for a short period of time.

Changes

• Added a new community map: Koth_Harvest
• Added a Halloween edition called Koth_Harvest_Event
  • Contains a variety of Halloween related features: New hats, achievements, exploding pumpkins, ghosts, and more!
• Updated the CTF, Arena, and KOTH versions of Sawmill
  • Fixed Engineer exploit
• Added check to prevent clients from sending empty or all whitespace names to the server
• Fixed "item_found" announcements coloring the player names if the player has :: in their name
• QuickSwitch improvements
  • Added key input so you can cycle through it using the slot input keys
  • Added all loadout slots (not just primary, secondary, and melee)
  • Removed duplicate entries (should only see 1 flaregun, etc.)
  • Fixed a few small layout & empty slot bugs

Community requests

• Updated item_teamflag with flags to toggle the trail effects: 0 none, 1 all, 2 paper only, 3 color only
  • Added a "both" selection to the invalid winners field for team_control_point_master and team_control_point_round entities

External Links

• Hallowe'en Special