[psychonic]

Originally Posted by nineteeneleven Edit3: I had to add it in the metaplugins.ini and it loaded fine.

Until it's officially out, loading MM:S plugins by vdf will not work. We have a fix ready but we don't want to break MM:S snapshots for non-beta.

In the meantime, adding to metaplugins.ini will indeed work fine as well as using the 'meta load' command.

Originally Posted by zeroibis So should we do this update on top of an existing install or treat it like the OB update and do a fresh install and copy over the folders addons, cfg, maps, materials, sounds, and models without overriding the new versions and then replace mapcycle, maplist and gameinfo? Will we need to change anything with fast dl or if we do the above everything works fine?

You need to do a fresh install and recopy custom content. Do not overwrite the new gameinfo.txt as it's intentionally very different.

[zeroibis]

Will it still be possible to edit the gameinfo.txt to load MM? Will we need to type anything different than now? I assume we would just edit the new version with the missing line.

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by zeroibis Will it still be possible to edit the gameinfo.txt to load MM?

Yes.

[friagram]

Is there any word on if we can use VPK files to package our own mods, and if a tool to pack files is/will be available? It would be a lot nicer to push 1 file per model than 20-30, or 1 file for a pack of sounds.

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by friagram Is there any word on if we can use VPK files to package our own mods, and if a tool to pack files is/will be available? It would be a lot nicer to push 1 file per model than 20-30, or 1 file for a pack of sounds.

There's a tool in your client's bin directory for TF Beta.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by friagram Is there any word on if we can use VPK files to package our own mods, and if a tool to pack files is/will be available? It would be a lot nicer to push 1 file per model than 20-30, or 1 file for a pack of sounds.

Originally Posted by Dr. McKay There's a tool in your client's bin directory for TF Beta.

Specifically, in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2 Beta\bin

Although it wasn't there prior to the latest version.

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by friagram Is there any word on if we can use VPK files to package our own mods

Yes. You can put game files in there such as models, materials, and sounds. You won't be able to put plugins in there.

[nineteeneleven]

Has valve said when this update is coming and if server owners will be allowed to download it before hand?

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by nineteeneleven Has valve said when this update is coming and if server owners will be allowed to download it before hand?

They have not said when it's being released as final, but it's been available as the current TF2 Beta since the start of this thread.

[WebNoob]

NVM - loaded the 2nd try ;-)