Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2)
- Fixed a case where servers would lock-up while writing .dmp files
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed some minor smoke grenade bugs
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a bug in the Steamworks internal stats reporting
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine ( TF2, DoD:S, CS:S )
- Fixed hang when typing "map" twice in the console
Counter-Strike: Source
- Smoke Grenades
- Made them bloom faster
- Made them more opaque
- Fixed "one way" smoke
- Changed walk speed to be 0.52x of run speed ( Counter-Strike 1.6 )
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam
- Fix a bug where installing a game with a demo may not initial install all content with some left to download on first launch
- Fix a bug with ISteamNetworking getting available packet size for Steamworks Partners
- Steam Cloud improvements to support save games in more cases for Steamworks Partners
- Windows: Fix a case where minidumping due to an error could deadlock the client on startup or shutdown
- Windows: Fix a memory leak that could lead to too much memory used or a crash if you remained in a busy group chat for several days
- Mac: Fix client errantly opening a script in a text editor at startup (rare bug)
Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Left 4 Dead 2
- Encore mutations: Gib Fest (PC) and Chainsaw Massacre (Xbox 360)
- Fixed accessing corrupted sentence data after flushing sound caches, likely the cause of an audio crash.
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2)
- Fixed a crash on startup with some video drivers
- Fixed a bug where the speaker config would be lost on Windows Vista / 7
- Fixed a case where alt-tab would stop rendering models
- Made the ‘X’ that closes the achievements screen visible by default in 1280x720 resolution
- Made disconnect messages wrap so they don’t get truncated
- Made kick / disconnect messages more legible
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed a memory leak in the dedicated server
- Fixed a problem that could cause the crosshair to expand briefly after the trigger is released
- Made crosshair scale independently of framerate, matching the old behavior at 100 fps. This does not affect actual recoil, fire rate, or spread – only the expansion of the crosshair. Added cl_legacy_crosshair, which defaults to the new behavior
- Made the crosshair for the Glock and Famas scale correctly upon firing in burst mode
- Removed ability to jump to inaccessible locations using grenades (flashboosting). Added sv_enableboost (defaulted to 0) for those who prefer to allow this behavior
- Fixed an issue with involving incorrect armor protection vs. grenade damage. Added sv_legacy_grenade_damage (defaulted to 0) to allow servers to revert to the original behavior
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the freezecam sound to be heard when spectating a player who dies
- Fixed an issue that could cause KeyHintText to generate junk characters
- Prevented ragdoll spasm that could occur when using the jointeam command
- Addressed a problem with the sniper rifles that prevented unzooming during auto-reload after shooting all the bullets in a clip
- Fixed an issue with the AWP and Scout that could cause their zooms to vibrate briefly after a reload
- Fixed map cycling so that the cycle now starts from the map selected by the user instead of going back to the first map
- Fixed mp_restartgame so that it resets MVPs as well as score and deaths
- Removed fun fact from achievements summary screen and associated playerblotter functionality
- Throttled warning messages for disabled achievements to no more than once every 60 seconds
- Made the silhouette that appears when you hit AUTO-SELECT on the Terrorist choose a class screen fit within its borders
- Fixed lock radar rotation option in the GUI. Setting this option now works
- Fixed a potential crash with custom huds
- Fixed a bug in walk prediction
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a bug in the Steamworks stats reporting
- Fixed the new Worms gear not playing the correct sound during the Equalizer taunt
- Fixed map cycling so that the cycle now starts from the map selected by the user instead of going back to the first map
- Fixed a memory leak in the dedicated server
A Steam OSX client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam
- [OSX] Improved font handling of non-english (unicode) characters
- [OSX] Restored ability to enter offline mode
- [OSX] Improved performance of in-game overlay
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Added a new server ConVar "sv_competitive_minspec" that enforces the following restrictions on clients when set to 1:
- r_drawdetailprops 1
- r_staticprop_lod (-1 to 3)
- fps_max minimum 60 (or 0)
- cl_detailfade minimum 400
- cl_detaildist minimum 1200
- cl_interp (0 to 0.031)
- cl_interp_ratio (1 to 2)
- Fixed ragdolls popping when using mp_fadetoblack 1
- Fixed a buffer overrun exploit that could be used to attack/crash servers.
- Fixed a crash at startup when no sound emitter scripts were loaded.
- Fixed a crash that could happen if a custom model was loaded with missing materials.
- Fixed a crashed related to alt-tab.
- Fixed a potential crash in the shaders.
- Fixed a crash when running custom maps with missing model files
- Removed the client console commands "mat_supress" and "mat_debug"
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam
- Fixed a case where the Steam client could hang on startup for some users with unusual environment variables
Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Mutation
- Developer Choice - Last Man On Earth
UI
- Added vote option to enable All Talk in Versus.
- Added vote option to Restart Chapter in Versus.
- Added the ability in the lobby for all players to vote on starting the game.
Gameplay
- Removed Defibs and First Aid Kits in Realism Versus. Survivors start with a First Aid Kit, but all world spawns are disabled.
Addons
- To avoid conflicts between Community Campaigns, only content vpks get loaded when starting a campaign.
- Added console command "show_addon_load_order" that prints out the order of loaded vpk files.
Authoring Tools
- VPK files now support their own sound.cache file.
- Use the command "snd_buildsoundcachefordirectory " to create the sound.cache file that you should include when you create your vpk file.
