Post by Dispenz0r on Dec 25, 2018 17:10:47 GMT 1
dfs.tf/xmas18/
Christmas of 2018 is here, and Christmas means one thing... Presents! Rest assured, we've been working hard to bring you all a big haul of gifts this winter, so let's dive in and get unwrapping!
Let us start with:
A new Winter event! Starting today and until January 21st, all XP and Credit drops are TRIPLED!
Everyone who joins during this event will receive free DFS gifts! You will receive a bronze/silver/gold/diamond DFS giftbox depending on your DFS level!
We also have a neat donation deal alongside with our event! Donate now to receive the following:
== DFS Plugin Updates ==
+ New Campaign: Winter Festivities!
+ Campaign Pass can be bought in the Guild Store as usual.
+ Updated Campaigns to no longer have an "Active Mission" state. All Missions can be completed at the same time!
+ Updated Quest System!
+ Reworked Tier System:
+ Players are now only eligible to have access to one tier only. If you accept a new Quest, the tier will be matched with your current Rank's tier.
+ Already existing Quests won't change their tier nor their associated requirements & rewards, if the player reached a new tier.
+ Removed Tier 1-4 sections from the Quest Board, and replaced with a single "Daily Quest" section.
+ Tier 2+ Quests were reset as a drawback. We apologize for the inconvenience.
+ Mercenary Point (MEP) rewards have been greatly increased as a compensation for the changes above and to make leveling easier.
+ Added a /campaign and a /mission(s) command shortcut.
+ Updated Quest Menu Interface, including but not only:
+ New UI look.
+ The actual amount of Bloodcoins earned from each Quest is now displayed properly.
+ Removed the "Accept new Quest" and "Reroll Quest" buttons from the Quest Infos. These options now require manual input to prevent accidential reroll.
+ Added and updated Quests:
+ Renamed "First-Aid" to "Heal" Quest.
+ Renamed "Damage" to "Hard Hitter" Quest.
+ Added a new "First-Aid" Quest, which requires 1000 heal points done per life.
+ Added a new "Damage" Quest, which counts the total amount of damage dealt.
+ Added a new "Defense" Quest, which counts the total amount of damage absorbed.
+ Added a new "Victory" Quest, which counts the total amount of rounds won.
+ Updated Low-Health condition to be below 15% instead of 10% health.
+ Damage Quests no longer count excessive damage that goes over the target's health.
+ Added 5 new Skin Modules to be used with the Model Manager: Retro Isabelle, Dark Isabelle, Ralsei, Conductor & DJ Grooves! Unlocked from the new Campaign.
+ Added a new winter-exclusive Deatheffect module: Snowburst! Unlocked from the new Campaign.
+ The AuctionHouse is now available to every member of the Mercenary Guild!
The Rank 10 requirement is now only required if people want to sell items. Browsing and buying is available to Rank 1 members.
+ Added new words to the random minigames.
+ Added new noisemaker & megaphone sounds.
+ Fixed Randomizer vote working in Zombie Fortress.
== Stadium was updated to B3F! ==
+ Winter Holidays are back! Bringing a snow-filled theme, along with Mystery Gifts that replace Credit Collectibles.
+ Disabled rtd usage during the Boss Survival Battle.
+ Fixed server freezing for a couple seconds on round start.
+ Fixed Snatcher sometimes skipping stages during battle.
+ Fixed certain sound files being corrupted if the sound.cache wasn't cleared manually after the recent map update.
== Super Zombie Fortress changelog: ==
* Added screen overlay effect for when standing in a Scout's goo ball.
* Adjusted morale formula to give more morale if the killer has low amounts of morale.
* Survivors will now always receive a minimum of 3 morale for each kill.
* Adjusted HUD position of morale.
* As a Survivor, you can now see your movement speed.
** This is added to the same part of the HUD which displays weapon cooldowns.
* Adjusted HUD position of weapon cooldowns.
* Increased the possible minimum amount the Infected's damage can decrease to.
* Damage calculations will treat control point captures as less of an incremental factor towards total Infected damage scale.
* Increased fall-off in Infected's damage when a Survivor dies.
* Tweaked and added additional conditions/situations in which Frenzy will occur.
** Frenzy is the term used for 'Zombie Rage', which gives Infected instant respawn.
* As an Infected, you will now receive DFS credits for every kill.
* As an Infected, you will now see text in the middle of your screen to indicate you have become a Special Infected.
* Increased the chance for an Infected assisting in a kill to become a Special Infected from 20% to 33%.
* Added visual imagery to acknowledge good performance.
** This currently exists just for Infected kills.(edited)
== dfs.tf/ has been updated with several new features! Including: ==
* The website is struck by a snowstorm! Until February 1st, the website will display falling, non-intrusive snow, which moves with your mouse cursor.
* Added daily credits, when visiting the website every 24 hours you will receive a sum of credits for use inside our servers!
** Gold Members and VIPs will receive more credits from website dailies.
* Profile pages now display Blood Coins / Mercenary Guild Rank, if applicable.
* Profile pages' layout has been modified to streamline specific elements.
* Added the "Major Updates" (named Updates) section, in there you can see all of the past big updates that have been released on DFS if you are interested in knowing about them / want to read about them again on any given time.
* The previous instance of the Updates section has been renamed to "Announcements", in there you can see a few of the past announcements posted on our Steam group page.
* When logging in with Steam, your login will last up to 20 days. Do note that (automatically) cleaning cookie s / running incognito mode will reset your login session.
* Moved "Donate" section to the right of the navigation bar.
* Events will no longer show up in the "Announcements" section.
* Added a notification system to the website, these will be displayed on the top right of the website just below the navigation bar.
* Profile data is now refreshed at a shorter interval.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!
Have fun!
Christmas of 2018 is here, and Christmas means one thing... Presents! Rest assured, we've been working hard to bring you all a big haul of gifts this winter, so let's dive in and get unwrapping!
Let us start with:
A new Winter event! Starting today and until January 21st, all XP and Credit drops are TRIPLED!
Everyone who joins during this event will receive free DFS gifts! You will receive a bronze/silver/gold/diamond DFS giftbox depending on your DFS level!
We also have a neat donation deal alongside with our event! Donate now to receive the following:
- Double membership time! Donate now and your Gold or VIP membership's duration will be doubled! Be it donating for a month, 3 months or a year, all of the membership durations you donate for are doubled!
- Our new Xmas update pet, The Giftspenser with exclusive effects and unique new ornaments *or* 10,000 credits!
- Any custom chat tags and colors of your choice!
- We have cleared out banlists completely, giving those who were banned a second chance to make it back into DFS! (Including bans and mutes for the servers, Discord bans/mutes and Forum bans).
- We have listened to your feedback and reduced the map times down to 30 minutes from 45 minutes, no more repetitive long map times!
- Stadium has been updated with a new winter version alongside with the event as well!
- VSH has come to DFS!
- Added new VSH maps
- vsh_2fortdesk_v8
- vsh_bianco_hills_v5
- vsh_castle_siege_b8
- vsh_hakurei_winter_v2
- vsh_manncohq_v14
- vsh_spotline_reworked
- vsh_thousand_needles_r3
- Added new maps
- boss_jevil_demo11
- cp_cathedral_b1b
- koth_frostmoon_event_rc2b
- pkmn_mountsilver_b1
- surf_surf
- surf_quack_v2
- szf_isaac_v2_1
- tfdb_temple_v1
- trade_festive_park
- trade_sakura_a4
- trade_stadium_a58
- xmas_party_b5
- boss_jevil_demo11
- Added new Playermodels
- Ralsei (Received from DFS quests, for Scout only)
- DJ Grooves (Received from DFS quests, for Spy only)
- Conductor (Received from DFS quests, for Demoman only)
- Froppy (Gold and above, for Scout only)
- Isabelle v2 (Free for all, for Heavy only)
- Dark Isabelle (Received from DFS quests, for Heavy only)
- Retrobelle (Received from DFS quests, for Heavy only)
- Added a new VIP and above only command
- /vehicle, use this command to spawn a vehicle that can be used by everyone to drive and roam around the map!
- We've also removed maps that were the most voted by you from the map removal polls, here is a list of all of them so far:
- db_volcano_a3
- dm_House_of_Fun_fix
- dr_bank_v9
- koth_tf2craps_b1
- pd_bitconnect_a5
- slender_baldi_education_v2
- supernatural_castle_v6a
- surf_10x_reload_tf2
- surf_rebound_v1
- surf_toast_llf
- tdm_ricochet_fortress_b3
- trade_beach_v3_a1
- trade_kfbd_nightclub_final
- trade_spookyville_v6
- vsh_dr_crash_bandicoot_v6
- db_volcano_a3
- Added in new Festive themed joinsounds!
- Added tons of new noisemaker sounds and minigame words/text
- You can now vote to extend the map by 15 minutes at the end of the map. (Only once per map)
- You now get XP boosts every 30 minutes instead of an hour
- The DFS Discord has seen a few improvements, such as removing obsolete channels. If you haven't joined, make sure to join it right here! dfs.tf/discord
- We have also increased the map vote cooldown from a total of 10 maps to 15 maps so the same maps aren't played over and over again often.
- Added Community Lava Cookie and Community Energy Powder to the list of Community Stone items
- Total rounds on MicroTF2 have been reduced from 8 to 6!
- Fixed the Rules popup kicking players from the server in some rare cases, you will no longer get kicked for not closing the rules popup.
- Rules menu no longer re-display on each map change and will only appear once ever.
- Updated trade_templeofdonger to the latest version
- Optimized the servers for performance boosts
== DFS Plugin Updates ==
+ New Campaign: Winter Festivities!
+ Campaign Pass can be bought in the Guild Store as usual.
+ Updated Campaigns to no longer have an "Active Mission" state. All Missions can be completed at the same time!
+ Updated Quest System!
+ Reworked Tier System:
+ Players are now only eligible to have access to one tier only. If you accept a new Quest, the tier will be matched with your current Rank's tier.
+ Already existing Quests won't change their tier nor their associated requirements & rewards, if the player reached a new tier.
+ Removed Tier 1-4 sections from the Quest Board, and replaced with a single "Daily Quest" section.
+ Tier 2+ Quests were reset as a drawback. We apologize for the inconvenience.
+ Mercenary Point (MEP) rewards have been greatly increased as a compensation for the changes above and to make leveling easier.
+ Added a /campaign and a /mission(s) command shortcut.
+ Updated Quest Menu Interface, including but not only:
+ New UI look.
+ The actual amount of Bloodcoins earned from each Quest is now displayed properly.
+ Removed the "Accept new Quest" and "Reroll Quest" buttons from the Quest Infos. These options now require manual input to prevent accidential reroll.
+ Added and updated Quests:
+ Renamed "First-Aid" to "Heal" Quest.
+ Renamed "Damage" to "Hard Hitter" Quest.
+ Added a new "First-Aid" Quest, which requires 1000 heal points done per life.
+ Added a new "Damage" Quest, which counts the total amount of damage dealt.
+ Added a new "Defense" Quest, which counts the total amount of damage absorbed.
+ Added a new "Victory" Quest, which counts the total amount of rounds won.
+ Updated Low-Health condition to be below 15% instead of 10% health.
+ Damage Quests no longer count excessive damage that goes over the target's health.
+ Added 5 new Skin Modules to be used with the Model Manager: Retro Isabelle, Dark Isabelle, Ralsei, Conductor & DJ Grooves! Unlocked from the new Campaign.
+ Added a new winter-exclusive Deatheffect module: Snowburst! Unlocked from the new Campaign.
+ The AuctionHouse is now available to every member of the Mercenary Guild!
The Rank 10 requirement is now only required if people want to sell items. Browsing and buying is available to Rank 1 members.
+ Added new words to the random minigames.
+ Added new noisemaker & megaphone sounds.
+ Fixed Randomizer vote working in Zombie Fortress.
== Stadium was updated to B3F! ==
+ Winter Holidays are back! Bringing a snow-filled theme, along with Mystery Gifts that replace Credit Collectibles.
+ Disabled rtd usage during the Boss Survival Battle.
+ Fixed server freezing for a couple seconds on round start.
+ Fixed Snatcher sometimes skipping stages during battle.
+ Fixed certain sound files being corrupted if the sound.cache wasn't cleared manually after the recent map update.
== Super Zombie Fortress changelog: ==
* Added screen overlay effect for when standing in a Scout's goo ball.
* Adjusted morale formula to give more morale if the killer has low amounts of morale.
* Survivors will now always receive a minimum of 3 morale for each kill.
* Adjusted HUD position of morale.
* As a Survivor, you can now see your movement speed.
** This is added to the same part of the HUD which displays weapon cooldowns.
* Adjusted HUD position of weapon cooldowns.
* Increased the possible minimum amount the Infected's damage can decrease to.
* Damage calculations will treat control point captures as less of an incremental factor towards total Infected damage scale.
* Increased fall-off in Infected's damage when a Survivor dies.
* Tweaked and added additional conditions/situations in which Frenzy will occur.
** Frenzy is the term used for 'Zombie Rage', which gives Infected instant respawn.
* As an Infected, you will now receive DFS credits for every kill.
* As an Infected, you will now see text in the middle of your screen to indicate you have become a Special Infected.
* Increased the chance for an Infected assisting in a kill to become a Special Infected from 20% to 33%.
* Added visual imagery to acknowledge good performance.
** This currently exists just for Infected kills.(edited)
== dfs.tf/ has been updated with several new features! Including: ==
* The website is struck by a snowstorm! Until February 1st, the website will display falling, non-intrusive snow, which moves with your mouse cursor.
* Added daily credits, when visiting the website every 24 hours you will receive a sum of credits for use inside our servers!
** Gold Members and VIPs will receive more credits from website dailies.
* Profile pages now display Blood Coins / Mercenary Guild Rank, if applicable.
* Profile pages' layout has been modified to streamline specific elements.
* Added the "Major Updates" (named Updates) section, in there you can see all of the past big updates that have been released on DFS if you are interested in knowing about them / want to read about them again on any given time.
* The previous instance of the Updates section has been renamed to "Announcements", in there you can see a few of the past announcements posted on our Steam group page.
* When logging in with Steam, your login will last up to 20 days. Do note that (automatically) cleaning cookie s / running incognito mode will reset your login session.
* Moved "Donate" section to the right of the navigation bar.
* Events will no longer show up in the "Announcements" section.
* Added a notification system to the website, these will be displayed on the top right of the website just below the navigation bar.
* Profile data is now refreshed at a shorter interval.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!
Have fun!
