"COWER, FOOLS, FOR ONCE AGAIN YOUR TRADITIONAL AUTUMNAL SCHEDULE HAS BEEN CAST ASUNDER BY NONE OTHER THAN THE GREAT AND POWERFUL MERASMUS! COME HITHER, FOOLS, AND LISTEN CLOSE TO A MOST DISTURBING MESSAGE FROM THE DARKEST ABYSSES OF MERASMUS’S SPREADSHEET COLLECTION!"

"WE HAVE RUN OUT OF MONEY TO MAKE THE CREATORS.TF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL THIS YEAR!"

"...Yes, it’s true, mortal. Making those personalized hellscapes for Scream Fortress doesn’t come cheap, and it certainly doesn’t help that I, despite my infinite magical wisdom, have been blacklisted by every major criminal organization from taking out any more extremely high interest loans - and you ungrateful bunch of psychotic hat-hoarders have been taking all of my prime, death-threatening entertainment for granted, for YEARS!"

"Were it not for the federally mandated minimum amount of nefarious wizardry required to qualify for the lower-middle arcane tax bracket, Merasmus wouldn’t even bother trying to please such an abysmal audience as this!"

"BUT WAIT! Don’t you worry your supernaturally shrunken little heads, mortals! For Merasmus has come up with the PERFECT RECIPE for a budget fright night!"

"Merasmus’ Homecooked Halloween Special - 23 days prep time, serves 5,000+ people"

"This one’s a tried and true favorite for the kids - in fact, MERASMUS’s little god-nephew absolutely delights in this cheap and easy way to get your federally mandated Halloween FRIGHT on!"

What you’ll need for this recipe:

• One (1) arcanely charged stirring stick or staff, locally sourced
  
• One (1) Amazing Kindlebook loaded with a cursed Latin translation of a public domain terrifying tale (Merasmus prefers Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein for this recipe)
  
• Nine (9) souls of the damned
  
• A large cast iron cauldron, seasoned thoroughly through centuries of use
  
• Several thematically appropriate locations to collect souls, bodies, and/or candy in.
  
• And of course - some frightning costumes to confuse the police while you kill and murder your way to the perfect event!

"With these ingredients, some imagination, and a wide berth from any depictions living or dead that may alert the vampiric horde of lawyers that work for every major media conglomerate, Merasmus will show you how to single-handedly save Scream Fortress and concoct a brand new grisly gauntlet to torture your least favourite annoying whelps!"

"Let’s start cooking, shall we? First, heat up your cauldron to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s 538 degrees Celsius, for those of you who live somewhere that uses a non-arcane system of measurements). Pour in the souls you collected earlier and let them simmer for TWO THOUSAND years - or, if you’re short on time, about 30 minutes in the pressure cooker will achieve the same effect (remember to return it to the cauldron afterward!)."

"Read from the Kindlebook, doing your best to pour the loosely translated Latin into your concoction at an agonizingly slow rate. Let that continue to cook until boiling while continuously stirring with your staff - this allows all those distinctly devillish flavors to mingle nicely with each other."

"Now, bring that cauldron to your favorite culturally sensitive ancient burial ground and allow it to cool nightly for the next three or so weeks."

• Ghastlane
  
• Hades
  
• Helltrain
  
• Well Event
  
• Ghastlane
  
• Hades

"And let the spooks commence! Merasmus has included provisions in this recipe for a bunch of NEW COSMETICS he received from the donation bin behind his apartment, but store bought is fine too. DO NOT LET THE POLICE FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE OR WHO GAVE YOU THIS RECIPE, MORTALS - MERASMUS HAS A WARRANT OUT FOR HIS ARREST IN SEVERAL JURISDICTIONS!"

• Iron Sight
  
• Aquanaut
  
• Moltern Monitor
  
• Voodoonicorn
  
• Bombinoculus!
  
• Minor Magus Sleeves
  
• Body Builder
  
• Pocket Nope.avi

Merasmus has also included NEW WEAPONS as well! No idea what they’ll do, but you’re welcome to use them to defend yourself from the cops!

• The Scattershock
  
• Conjurer's Staff

Once cooled, pour out into individual haunted platters and serve. Pairs best with the tears of a tortured game developer.

That's all that Merasmus could budget out for this year, mortals! Now, I have a couple more well thought out schemes cooking to get me out of this debt hole that need attending to - so BEGONE! Happy Halloween, fools!

https://creators.tf/post/updates/124

A Creators.TF weekly* update has been released.

Changes will automatically apply after a map change.

Major changes include:

• Updated StAC to no longer kick players without a SteamID.
  
• Updated StAC with other misc. improvements.
  
• Smoothed Halloween boss animations with nb_update_frequency.
  
• Updated SourceMod chat messages to be consistent with SourceMod chat advertisements.
  
• Added Farmageddon, Sinthetic, Los Muertos, Terror, and Erebus to Halloween map rotation.
  
• Removed Viaduct Event (Eyeaduct) and Lakeside Event (Ghost Fort) from Halloween map rotation.
  
• Updated a plugin so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors.

You can see most of the in depth changes by clicking here.[github.com]

An update for Creators.TF was released. Changes will automatically apply after a map change. Major changes include:

• Updated branding for chat messages and plugin feedback.
  
• Updated ads to inform users about the !settings menu.
  
• Updated fix autobalance plugin to not spam chat.
  
• Updates chatbubbles plugin to work properly with client settings.
  
• Updated map names in end of round vote to be capitalized.
  
• Added color to rtv/nominate text.
  
• Reduced the rtv percentage from 60 to 45%.
  
• Changed "Don't Change" as the F1 option of the rtv vote (instead of F5).
  
• Updated the brick to be easier to throw.
  
• Fixed a bug causing the brick to turn into jarate. (yes, again)
  
• Enabled Halloween mode.

You can see most of the in depth changes here[github.com].

Due to a constant and unacceptable amount of server issues[status.us.ovhcloud.com] resulting in high ping for over a month, we have replaced our Virginia servers with a completely new provider located in Chicago.

We are experimenting with this new provider, so please report your experience back to us regarding your ping and connectivity.

Click here to view our server list.[creators.tf]

With every major update comes the after party clean-up. A whole bunch of bug fixes with some buffs and nerfs from player feedback. Check it out! We're aiming to try to do these every Friday.

• Fixed multiple issues related to regular TF2 items not persisting on contact with a resupply cabinet while a custom weapon was equipped (for example, having The Gunslinger equipped with a Crate Smasher would destroy your sentry.)
  
• Fixed Sourcebans not properly working on servers directly after the first map load.
  
• Fixed Store filtering not working.
  
• Fixed /ctfhats not properly saving across servers and map changes.
  
• Fixed TF2 Comp fixes occasionally not working.

• Fixed a bug where the Brick entity wasn't safely marked as "not a brick", causing a "phantom bleeding" bug with other projectiles.
  
• Fixed a bug where switching away from the Brick immediately after throwing it would spawn a Jarate instead.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Brick would sometimes spawn Jarate instead.
  
• Fixed a bug where a reflected Brick wouldn't grab the attributes from the original weapon, causing "phantom bleeding" with a division by zero error.
  
• Adjusted the brick launch position so that it matches the crosshair much more closely.

• Buffed the base brick damage from 40 to 65.

• Decreased jump distance from 512 to 384 hammer units.
  
• Increased max health penalty from -15 to -25.
  
• Added 125% decloak time.
  
• Can now leap with any weapon in hand.
  
• Using the leap now requires you to be fully cloaked.

• Mini-crits with the Quickdraw will no longer expose disguised or cloaked spies.
  
• The AFK-kick time has been increased from two minutes to five minutes.
  
• Updated Steel Refresh to RC5.
  
• Updated Process Refresh to it's workshop version.
  
• Readded KoTH Lazarus and removed PL Sludgepit. This is documenting an accidentally undocumented change from our previous mapcycle update.
  
• Updated extensions on servers to crash significantly less often.

You can see most of the in depth changes here[github.com].