The 'Highlander' mode limits teams to only one of each class for jolly action up to 9v9 where teams must strategise beyond throwing demomen at a problem.

Highlander has been played unofficially in TF2 for some time now, both spontaneously by players using the honour system and through server-side plugins created by fans to alter the game rules. There have even been competitive Highlander ladders.

The patch brings a handful of other changes, including fixes for maps added by the recent 'War' update. Valve recently announced it would be bringing player-created content into the game in another way, by adding cosmetic custom items.

Engine

Enabled Steam Cloud support for key bindings and custom spraypaint images

• Added Options->Multiplayer->Advanced option to toggle off/on: default is on

Team Fortress 2

Added new Highlander mode

• 9 players allowed per team
• Restricts each team to 1 of each class
• Use mp_highlander (0/1) to toggle off/on: default is 0

Added "bots" to the server's sv_tags convar if the server is running bots

Fixed a weapon name localization issue

Fixed the "tf_teamtalk" server convar not controlling text chat between living/dead teammates

Updated the map CTF_DoubleCross

• Fixed the map not ending correctly when using mp_timelimit
• Changed to prevent Engineers from building on top of the shack in each base

Updated the map Arena_WatchTower

• Fixed a case where players could open and get stuck on the starting gates before the round start
• Improved clipping to prevent people from getting out of the map
• Optimized the map for better performance