Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Released
August 26, 2010 - Valve
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
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
August 20, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed bug with holiday date computation that turned on Birthday Mode a few days too soon
Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Released
August 17, 2010 - Valve
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)
- The mat_hdr_level, r_rootlod, and r_waterforceexpensive settings are now saved in the user’s config file.
- Fixed clients being able to connect to servers with spoofed SteamIDs.
- Fixed a bug where some video configurations could get reset by restarting the engine.
- Fixed materials compiled into a map not being loaded correctly if they're in the root materials folder.
- Fixed a case of uneven performance on multicore machines.
- Fixed point contents not respecting detail brushes. This fixes a bullet penetration bug in some community maps.
- Fixed clients being able to spam servers using the ai_set_move_height_epsilon, mission_show, and sv_querycache_stats commands.
- Audio fixes:
- Reduced overlap in the sound timing code.
- Fixed a case where audio could skip.
- Fixed voice communication getting corrupted while playing on a Mac.
- sv_pure 2 now protects the game_sounds files in the scripts directory.
Counter-Strike Source
- Fixed prediction errors that were causing greater weapon inaccuracy (bullet spread) on client than server.
- Made the bomb the primary target of a +USE command. This fixes a problem with objects placed around the bombsite interrupting defuse attempts.
- Fixed the ‘skating’ behavior that could occur when a bomb planting attempt was aborted. Also fixes the resulting out of sync hit boxes.
- Fixed bug in which a player who crouched rapidly and repeatedly was seen as stationery by other players.
- Fixed problem in which the sound of a reload that was occurring when a player was killed persisted into spectator mode, making it sound like a reload was taking place near the spectated player.
- Gave chat interface priority over scoreboard to reduce conflict between the two.
- Increased size of HUD icons.
- Fixed bug with env_hudhint that caused problems when its value was greater than 255 characters.
- Made the message of the day screen dismissible by hitting ENTER.
- Fixed servers not being able to set sv_hudhint_sound.
- Gun sounds now match up with the framerate dependent sound timing, and fixed the framerate dependent jittering bugs.
- Stats:
- Fixed an issue that could cause loss of player stats if network connectivity was lost briefly, just after launching the game.
- Fixed an issue that caused the favorite weapon to display incorrectly on the stats summary page when a player achieves the most kills with a knife or grenade.
- Made newly-earned achievements and stats immediately update in the achievements and stats panels instead of showing stale data.
- Improved the font on the achievement toast.
- Community Requests:
- Added cvar sv_enablebunnyhopping, defaulted to 0. ( A value of 1 autotags the server with "bunnyhop" )
- De_dust and De_dust2 updated.
- Fixed several exploits.
- Fixed collisions on crenellation and domes.
- Fixed minor visual glitches.
- Adjusted HDR settings.
- Removed dust clouds.
- Added console variable cl_hudhint_sound.
Team Fortress 2
- Added server ConVar "sv_max_usercmd_future_ticks" which prevents clients from running usercmds too far in the future.
- Added missing Mac intro movie for cp_coldfront.
- Fixed "Hit '%disguiseteam%' to Toggle Team" string and code so they're not hard coded to 'e' and '-'.
- Fixed servers trying to validate backpack positions in inventories.
- Fixed clients validating inventories other than their own.
- Fixed item selection HUD elements showing un-acknowledged items, which resulted in items in invalid backpack positions.
- Fixed players not always getting "recent damager" credit for player suicides.
- Fixed the weapon selection menu not displaying properly when using hud_fastswitch and lastinv at the same time.
- Updated Engineer startup music.
- Updated localization files.
- Updated Pl_ThunderMountain
- Clipped off sticky outcrops for smoother movement
- Clipped various exploit ledges
- Increased environment ambient exterior light level
- Stage 1
- Fixed hole in respawn room brushes in RED spawn
- Shifted respawn times to favor BLU by two seconds
- Stage 3
- Clipped rocks off by BLU's spawn exit that leads to building B (allowed Snipers to snipe the entire area)
- Removed embedded displacement (building B interior roof)
- Removed rogue clip brush from building A balcony
- Updated Plr_Hightower
- Fixed players building in the RED spawn room.
- Fixed players building on the back window decks of the barns.
- Fixed players getting on the satellite dish platform.
- Fixed players building on the elevators.
- Reduced the ammo packs in the barns down to small ammo packs.
- Increased the hill speed modifier to 1.2 (up from .95)
- Fixed explosion particle effects playing in the skybox.
- Mine cart "window" collision fixed.
- Upped Scout-loop health to large.
- Updated Pl_Upward
- Fixed respawnroom entities not reaching the floor of split-level spawns
- Fixed griefable fence facing BLU spawn near RED base
- Added BLU high flanking route at RED base
- Added health & ammo along BLU flanking route at RED base
- Sealed BLU base left exit with block bullets brushes
- Extended clip between C and BLU spawn to prevent sticky jump spawn camping
- Fixed non-clipped non-solid railing in RED base
- Fixed kill brush in middle spawn not extending to the ceiling
- Put a block bullets brush on grate below middle spawn
- Fixed some high micro-ledges accessible to sticky-jumpers
- Community Request
- Added "item_pickup" game event for ammo/health packs.
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Released
July 21, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Server Browser
- Fixed the server browser not saving filter settings properly
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a speed exploit related to benchmarks
- Fixed Parasite hat not being posed correctly on class loadout panels
- Fixed a level change crash
Team Fortress 2 Updates Released
July 19, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Added a Parasite hat to celebrate the release of Alien Swarm (http://www.alienswarm.com/)
- Fixed a client crash when opening the backpack while running in a language other than English.
- Fixed not being able to pick-up buildings in Arena mode.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed team kills with Wrangled sentries.
- Fixed a bug where teleporters could be given more than their normal amount of health.
- Fixed old demos with different data tables thinking the SourceTV player entity was burning.
- TF Bot Changes
- Improved performance of bot computations that are done when a point is captured, a round starts, or a checkpoint reached.
- Fixed Engineer bot infinite build-destroy behavior loop regression
- Fixed Medic bots losing their charge if they touch a resupply cabinet
- Fixed a crash due to having multiple types of bot systems running in-game simultaneously
- Fixed bot behavior issue resulting in bot pile-ups near level 3 teleporter entrances
- Bots no longer consider sapped sentries a dangerous threat
- Bots will not try to navigate through enemy spawn rooms (unless they have won the round)
- Bot Engineers will avoid building teleporters on steep slopes which can hinder teammate movement
- Added tf_bot_pyro_always_reflect cvar. Set to 1 to make Pyro bots always reflect projectiles, regardless of difficulty level.
July 15, 2010 - Valve
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:
Engine
- Tuned thread initialization to improve performance on CPUs with more than four cores
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed leftover shadows when ragdoll physics are disabled
- Added stats gathering to track client and server performance
- Added instrumentation to help debug network issues
- Disabled some unsupported threading convars
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Released
July 13, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Engine
- Increased the resilience of client/server data table mismatches when playing back demos. This will make most old demo files playable again, but with potential visual side effects
Team Fortress 2
- Updated CP_Coldfront
- Added map to the default mapcycle and motd files.
- Fixed a server crash issue related to increased maxplayer servers.
- Fixed a couple Engineer building exploits.
- Updated the localization files.
- Improved the performance of the critboost particle effect.
- Fixed a server crash related to carrying buildings at round start.
- Fixed players picking up buildings before a round has started.
- Fixed an exploit where Engineers could create level 3 mini-sentries.
Team Fortress 2 Updates Released
July 9, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed an exploit that allowed Engineers to build level 2/3 mini sentries.
- Fixed a bug that allowed sapped buildings to be picked up by the Engineer
- Fixed a bug where Wrangled level 3 sentryguns would still fire rockets when they were out of ammo.
- Fixed a bug where players would go into reference poses when switching classes while carrying a building.
- Fixed seeing the changeclass label in the spectator HUD when using cl_hud_minmode.
- The amount of revenge crits a player can have at one time is now capped at 35.
- The Wrangler no longer shows the shotgun's ammo count.
- Engineers can no longer pick up buildings while stunned or in loser state.
- Fixed Engineer shotgun and piston not using team skins for the Engineer's arms.
- Fixed an issue where Wrangled sentrygun effects wouldn't be attached to the sentrygun.
- The Gunslinger 3 hit combo now only increments the combo count when hitting enemy players.
- Fixed a crash in the control point progress bar.
- Fixed a server crash in the player death code, related to building carrying.
- Fixing performance spikes that occur at round start, and after each point capture, when TFBots are present in the server.
- Achievement fixes:
- The "Rio Grind" achievement limit is now correctly set to 50.
- Fixed a typo in Six-String Stinger achievement name.
- Fixed a bug in the "Death Metal" achievement that caused it to rapidly complete itself.
- Fixed getting the Six-String Stinger achievement without playing the guitar.
- Fixed sentrygun detection code in "Best Little Slaughterhouse in Texas" and "Deputized".
- Missed notes from yesterday's release:
- New response rules and sounds added for some classes
July 8, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed missing class descriptions on the class menu blackboard.
- Fixed a server crash related to carrying buildings.
- Fixed a HUD element issue in DX8.
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Released
July 8, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Engine
- Fixed client crash related flashlight usage.
- Fixed several issues related to alt-tabbing (invisible players, etc).
Team Fortress 2
- Added The Frontier Justice.
- Added The Wrangler.
- Added The Gunslinger.
- Added The Southern Hospitality.
- Added 35 Engineer achievements.
- Engineers can now pickup & move their buildings.
- Added Engineer main menu music.
- Added 4 new maps:
- Thunder Mountain, a 3 stage Payload map.
- Hightower, a Payload Race map.
- Upward, a Payload map.
- ColdFront, a community built Capture Point map.
- Item tuning:
- The Sandvich now uses a cooldown timer, instead of the health pack recharge mechanic.
- The Gunboats now reduce self-damage by 60% (was 75%)
- The Tribalman's Shiv bleed duration reduced to 6 second (was 8), and its damage penalty increased to 50% (was 35%).
- Added better feedback sound for Pyros on when their flamethrower is doing damage.
- Fixed blood effect on bleeding player.
- Added a glow effect to Payload carts.
- Added Romanian language support.
Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 6, 2010 - Valve
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:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed incorrect stat collection by forcing all dedicated servers to update to the new version.
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a Mac client crash that occurs when joining a server
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
July 1, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Server Browser
- Server browser now starts centered onscreen when it opens up.
- Filter panel now starts expanded, instead of hidden.
- Added a warning dialog that pops up to warn players joining games with more than the recommended number of players.
- Added a "max player count" filter setting.
- Renamed quick list checkbox from "Show Map List" to "Simplified List".
- Mouseover the checkbox now explains the simplified list in the status bar.
- Quicklist now shows the number of other servers running each map.
- Fixed a couple of bugs related to toggling the quick list, which were resulting in you needing to refresh again.
Team Fortress 2
- Added missing earbud particles for DX8 players.
- Added new ConVar mp_windifference_min to be used with mp_windifference.
- Added Engineer to the list of classes that can equip Max's Pistol.
- Rebuilt sound cache files that were out of date.
- Source TV:
- Fixed unlockable items not being visible.
- Stopped "player is carrying X" messages looping forever.
- Fixed overhealed particle effect being visible on your current view target when in first-person spectator mode.
- Changed in-game button colors to be less eyepoppingly bright.
- Improved Steam Web APIs for TF2 items (see http://www.teamfortress.com/)
Engine
- Fixed some graphical issues when alt-tabbing during a game.
- Fixed bullet penetration problems with Linux dedicated server.
- Removed an exploit that allowed people to change their names to something other than their Steam profile name
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 16, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Engine
- Fixed crash in SourceTV relay
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed blood splashes not appearing on bullet hits
- Fixed Achievement dialog text being cut off for certain resolutions
- TFBot Changes
- Medics now respond when nearby humans call for Medic
- If a Medic Bot is healing you and has an ÜberCharge ready, use the voice commands "Go go go!" or "Activate Charge!" to force the Bot to activate the ÜberCharge
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 14, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed client crash when rendering model panels
- Fixed client crash when rendering text strings
- Fixed client crash in the main menu
- Fixed server crash related to bots and health kits
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
June 11, 2010 - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Engine
- Fixed a crash related to model caches.
- Fixed a crash related to empty proxy files.
- Fixed a rare crash involving corrupted voice-comm playback.
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed some issues with the community submitted tips.
- Fixed a case where servers could get stuck in an infinite loop while spawning bots.
- Made the training HUD code more robust, so it doesn’t crash if the client has modified HUD resource files.
- Fixed a potential crash in the HUD during startup.
- Fixed a level change crash related to Bot navigation meshes.
- Disabled quickswitch UI in training to reduce confusion.
- The Demoman's battleaxe now sounds like a sword.
Missed a note from yesterday:
- The Eyelander now collects the heads inside Eyelanders of Demomen it decapitates.
