Starting Thursday, July 3rd, Mossad league season 2 will begin.
You can read the Hebrew announcement and signup directions here, and can still vote on the rules here.
We wish everyone a great season, and an exciting summer of TF2!
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Starting today, until the end of Mossad League Season 2, you’re all encouraged to post your craziest moves pulled off in a mossad league match or in the public servers.
Top three performers will win a reserved slot in our servers, so it pays off to pull off the craziest stuff you can.
Basically any move that will make people say “WHOA” (or an extreme “ROFL”, please no “FAIL”s) can be submitted, either in a form of a .dem or as a video. Not restricted to frags and midair rockets, moves of all classes will be accepted.
Show us what you got!
Last night Mossad league came to an ending with the final deciding games.
The final game of INS vs ADHD began with a 8-0 victory for INS at cp_badlands, but at cp_well the game was very tight and ended as a 2:2 tie, resulting in an overall win for INS in the match and in the league.
1st Place: Insanity
2nd Place: ADHD
3rd Place: KYE
4th Place: C-YA
Stay tuned in the near future for live footage from the red carpet of the prizes ceremony in Zigzag’s store.
Thanks to all that made this league, first in Israel, happen, and see you next season!
Goldrush is out and VALVe are celebrating with a worldwide FREE weekend, May 2-4.
Let all your friends know so they can start preloading and join us in the Mossad servers during the weekend.
This is our biggest opportunity for helping the Israeli community grow!
The update details are:
Source Engine
- Improved particle performance on multi-core machines
- Added FOV slider to Options | Video | Advanced for all games (moved there from TF2s multiplayer options)
- Fixed surround sound initialization problems with new speaker modes defined in Vista
Team Fortress 2
- Added Goldrush
- Added Character Info and Loadout to the main menu
- Added 39 Medic achievements
- Added unique Medic items:
- The Blutsaugher, The Kritzkrieg, and The Ubersaw
- Added new attack animations to most melee weapons
- Added new speech for the Heavy and Demoman
- Added Stopwatch mode to Tournament mode
- Automatically used on Attack/Defense maps
- Teleporter effect no longer shows up on invisible or disguised Spies
- Spies disguised as their own team can now capture control points
- Increased force taken by pipebombs by bullets and explosions
- Target ID hud is now colored red or blue to match the spectator target
- Tournament mode no longer ends matches early if the time limit is nearly up when a new round starts
- Fixed exploit where clients could start benchmark mode on servers
- Fixed drowning exploit that allowed players to regenerate health
- Fixed reload exploit that allowed plays to fire instantly after switching weapons
- Fixed flamethrower bug where a player flush against a wall couldn’t be lit on fire from the front
- Fixed invulnerability overlay not drawing if the invuln player was previously on fire
- Fixed “times used” entry in teleporters maxing out at 32
- Fixed rare client crash on level change during control point capturing
- Minor fix to stat gathering to prevent players using sv_cheats to easily garner achievements
- For mapmakers:
- Mapmakers can now directly place the tf_gamerules entity into their map. Fixes Hammer thinking the inputs to it are broken
- Mapmakers can now place Engineer buildings directly into a map, with an option for them to be invulnerable
- Added “AddRedTeamScore” and “AddBlueTeamScore” inputs to tf_gamerules
- Added “SetRequiredObserverTarget” input to tf_gamerules. Force spectators to use the specified viewpoint
- Granary
- Added setup time logic, and gates to the middle
- Fixed an overlay alignment bug on one of blue’s gate signs
- Minor lighting fixes in red/blue spawns
- 2Fort
- Added medium ammo and health to basement hallways
- Added small ammo and health to top of spiral
- Fixed a clip brush exploit outside blue sniper deck
- Fixed number “2″ overlay on front of red base not being assigned to the brush face
Mossad 3 has been turned into a goldrush 24/7 esrver - enjoy!
Are you ready?
- First Do No Harm: Play a full round without killing any enemies and score the highest on a team of 6 or more players.
- Quadruple Bypass: Heal a teammate who’s taking fire from 4 enemies at once.
- Group Health: Work with 2 other medics to deploy 3 simultaneous uber-charges.
- Surgical Prep: Have an uber-charge ready before the setup phase ends.
- Trauma Queen: Deploy 3 uber-charges in less than 5 minutes, and assist in 5 kills during that time.
- Double Blind Trial: Deploy an uber-charge within 8 seconds of a nearby enemy medic deploying his.
- Play Doctor: In a team with no medics, be first to switch to medic after a teammate calls “Medic!” and then heal 500 health.
- Triage: Deploy an uber-charge on a teammate less than a second before they’re hit by a critical explosive.
- Preventive Medicine: Block the enemy from capturing a control point with an uber-charged teammate.
- Consultation: Assist a fellow medic in killing 5 enemies in a single life.
- Does It Hurt When I Do This?: Kill 50 scouts with your syringe gun.
- Peer Review: Kill 50 medics with your bone saw.
- Big Pharma: Assist a heavy in killing 30 enemies where neither of you die.
- You’ll Feel A Little Prick: Assist in killing 4 enemies with single uber-charge on a scout.
- Autoclave: Assist in burning 8 enemies with a single uber-charge on a pyro.
- Blast Assist: Assist in exploding 5 enemies with a single uber-charge on a soldier.
- Blunt Trauma: Assist in punching out 4 enemies with a single uber-charge on a heavy.
- Medical Breakthrough: Assist in destroying 8 enemy engineer buildings with a single uber-charge on a Demoman.
- Midwife Crisis: Heal an engineer as he repairs his sentry while it’s under enemy fire.
- Ubi Concordia, IBI Victoria: Assist in killing 5 enemies on an enemy control point, in a single life.
- Grand Rounds: Heal 200 teammates after they’ve called for “Medic!”
- Infernal Medicine: Extinguish 100 burning teammates.
- Doctor Assisted Homicide: Assist in killing 20 nemesis.
- Placebo Effect: Kill 5 enemies in a single life while having your uber-charge ready, but undeployed.
- Sawbones: Hit enemies with your bonesaw 10 times in arrow without dying or missing.
- Intern: Accumulate 7000 heal points in a single life.
- Specialist: Accumulate 10000 heal points health in a single life.
- Chief of Staff: Accumulate 10 million total heal points.
- Hypocritical Oath: Kill an enemy spy that you have been healing.
- Medical Prevention: Save a falling teammate from dying on impact.
- Second Opinion: Uber-Charge 2 teammates at once.
- Autopsy Report: Provide an enemy with a freezecam shot of you taunting above their ragdoll.
- FYI I Am A Medic: Use your bonesaw to kill 5 enemy spies who have been calling for “Medic!”
- Family Practice: Uber-charge ten of your steam community friends.
- House Call: Join a game that one of your friends is in and then deploy and uber-charge on him.
- Bedside Manner: Be healing a teammate as he achieves an achievement of his own.
VALVe had a party, and we were not invited. Luckily, shacknews bring the news:
The Blutsaugher
For players that earn one third of the 36 new medic achievements, they will be given a new syringe gun. Called “The Blutsaugher,” this new weapon no longer has the ability to score critical hits against an opponent. Instead it will draw health from enemies each time a syringe hits. Especially useful as a weapon to retreat away from the fight while staying alive.The Critzcrieg
Once a medic has earned two thirds of the achievements, they will be granted “The Critzcrieg.” This new medigun uses its ubercharge not for invulnerability, but to give its recipient 100% chance to fire critical ordinance. Medics and the player they are charging need to be careful though, because as much fun as it is to fire critical rockets as fast as you can, the other team will see what you’re up to and try to put a quick stop to your plan.The Ubersaw
For the determined medic that has earned all 36 of the new achievements, they will find themselves the proud owner of “The Ubersaw,” which will take damage done in melee attacks and convert it directly to ubercharge. Four hits with this new weapon will fully charge whatever medigun the medic has equpped.
- Goldrush
- 36 Medic achievements
- Three unlockable medic weapons
This one, that came today, is more recent than the one I posted this morning, and more updated.
Most interesting:
- Goldrush will use a “cinematic physics” system
- The current version of the unlockable medi-gun gives you 100% uber instead of invulnerability
- The goldrush cart will also act as a dispenser to help the attackers
So, where is hunted? First of all, goldrush is a hunted replacement:
Goldrush grew out of thinking about Hunted (Team Fortress 1’s game mode in which one team must defend a player-controlled VIP from the other - Ed),wanting to bring forward the value you get out of a Hunted game but at the same time solve some of the problems that caused Hunted to not really work in the public space.
But that doesn’t mean we won’t get our hunted in the future:
Goldrush grew out of that, and themain difference is that we’ve replaced the VIP character with, er, acart. This doesn’t preclude us from doing the original Hunted style -obviously some of the pros of Hunted didn’t come through, we did lose alittle bit. We’ll just see what people think.
Notice he means pros in the meaning of pros vs cons, not professionals (Though I know quite a bit of hardcore hunted players that didn’t move to tf2 
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Not much new information here, Robin mentions a matching system that they are making for Left For Dead, but I’ll put it in the same category of “New medic achievements coming in two weeks”.
What I found most interesting in this interview was this quote, regarding more one liners for the classes:
“We’re bringing the voice actors backfor another session soon, and one of the things we want to do is torecord even more of those lines, so that if people have actuallyexhausted the lines there’ll be a new bunch for them to discover.”