Team Comtress 2

Team Fortress 2, but with a lot of fixes, quality of life improvements and performance optimizations!

About

What is Team Comtress 2? It's a version of Team Fortress 2, based on the recent leak which aims to fix many bugs, performance issues, etc. Imagine it like mastercomfig super charged!

Obviously, as a leaked build, it's not useful for getting better performance in Casual on its own (you can't use this build to connect to any existing servers), but it can help me a lot if you all can test it, so that I am more confident in sending many of these changes to Valve for them to include in the base game! Please let me know how it works for you!

Install

1. Download game_clean.zip from the latest release.
2. Copy your current Team Fortress 2 installation to a new folder.
3. Extract the ZIP download to this new folder.
4. Make sure you don't have any configs installed.
5. Double click start_tf2.bat. Note that you must have Steam running.
6. Enjoy!

New console commands and launch options

Although configs are not recommended (use video options to customize), there are some new customization variables you can try that haven't been added yet!

Console commands/variables:

• tf_taunt_first_person_enable: Forces first person taunts
• tf_viewmodels_offset_override: Unlocked from base TF2, format is x y z
• tf_disable_weapon_skins: Disables skins
• tf_skip_halloween_bomb_hat_translucency: Halloween bomb hat will disappear if spy cloaks, instead of turning translucent along with cloak
• r_skybox_lowend: Use low quality skybox textures only meant for DX8
• tf_hud_target_id_disable: Disable searching for a player to show the target ID for
• tf_viewmodel_alpha: Controls how translucent viewmodels are (1-255)
• dsp_off: Unlocked from base TF2, disables sound positional effects
• cl_ragdoll_disable: Disables all corpse effects (gibs, disintegration, ragdolls)
• tf_fx_blood: Controls blood splatter effects
• fx_drawimpactdebris, fx_drawimpactdust, fx_drawmetalspark: Unlocked from base TF2, controls bullet impact dust
• cl_hud_playerclass_playermodel_lod: Controls LOD for the player model preview in the HUD
• g_ragdoll_fadespeed, g_ragdoll_lvfadespeed: Controls how fast ragdolls fade (lv is for low violence mode)
• cl_particle_retire_cost: Unlocked from base TF2, set to 0.0001 to force lower quality particles
• r_force_fastpath 1: Forces shader fast paths for higher GPU performance.
• tf_weaponspread_continuous_seed: If set to >-1, the base seed for fixed recoil spread for continuo us single bullet fire weapons.
• tf_weaponspread_continuous_seed_multishot: If set to >-1, the base seed for fixed recoil spread for continuous multi-bullet fire weapons like the Minigun.

Launch options:

• -particle_fallback: 2 uses DX8 particles, 1 uses lowend DX9 particles, 0 uses default.

Build

DISCLAIMER: If you are not a developer, building the game from source is not what you want. Use the pre-built Releases. Also, building this on Mac/Linux, while possible, is not covered here. Please let us know if you get it to work!

Building

1. Get Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition for building TF2. The required installation components are: "Desktop development with C++" and the "C++ MFC for latest v142 build tools (x86 & x64)".
2. Clone this repo
3. Open /thirdparty/protobuf-2.5.0/vsprojects/libprotobuf.vcproj
4. Run both the Debug and the Release builds
5. Run regedit and add an association for the latest VS (add a key at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Projects\{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}, add a String property named DefaultProjectExtension, set the value to vcproj)
6. Set the environment variable VALVE_NO_AUTO_P4 to true and PreferredToolArchitecture to x64.
7. Run /creategameprojects_dev.bat
8. Open /games.sln
9. Build the VS project
10. The executables are placed at ../game/hl2.exe for the client and at ../game/srcds.exe for the server. Note: this path is outside the repository.

Running and Debugging

1. For the compiled binaries to run, you will need to copy your current TF2 installation to ../game (relative to your repostiory, outside of it).
2. To setup debugging, in Visual Studio, select Client (TF) as the startup project, then go to its Properties->Configuration Properties->Debugging. Set Command to your ../game/hl2.exe binary, the Command Arguments to -steam -game tf -insecure -novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1 -noborder -particle_fallback 2 -dev -allowdebug and Working Directory to your game installation folder i.e. ../game/bin. Note: all the paths here are relative to your copy of the repository (same place where games.sln is located), do not set these values verbatim.
3. For server, follow the same procedures but choose the Server (TF) project and set the Command to ../game/srcds.exe. The suggested server launch options are -game tf -console -nomaster -insecure +sv_pure 0 +maxplayers 32 +sv_lan 1 -dev -allowdebug.

NOTE: Team Comtress 2 is no longer compatible with mastercomfig. Please do not use mastercomfig or any other TF2 config.

See the Valve dev wiki page for another explanation of the last two steps.

Other launch options to consider:

• sw to force windowed mode
• -w WIDTH -h HEIGHT to set the resolution
• +map MAPNAME to automatically launch a map on startup

Legal

Valve, the Valve logo, Steam, the Steam logo, Team Fortress, the Team Fortress logo, Source, the Source logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Team Comtress 2 is not sponsored, endorsed, licensed by, or affiliated with Valve Corporation.

See license for details.