Steam Client Gets Updated

Valve’s Steam client has received a brand new update:

Steam Client

• Fixed not correctly pausing any current downloads when launching a game
• Improved cache mounting checks. This should decrease the startup time when launching Garry’s Mod
• Fixed startup to only request info about apps once
• Fixed rare cache corruption caused by defragging
• Fixed vgui crash when hitting pageup/pagedown in a sectioned list-panel
• Fixed rare crash when downloading
• Fixed -voicerelay steam command line to actually force use of the relay

Team Fortress 2 Update, Pyro Nerfed

Valve’s team based shooter has recieved a brand new update and would you know it, the update nerfed the game. Pyro’s bonus HP gained by backburner weapon has been removed.

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed team switches on Attack/Defense maps spamming the console
• Fixed the Kritzkrieg not working on servers with crits turned off
• Fixed some clipped localized strings in various in-game dialogs
• Fixed several cases where files were synchronously loaded while the game was running
• Fixed a shutdown crash in the material system
• Cached rendering of item model panels to improve performance, in particular while weapon selection was visible
• Added a gear symbol behind the health bar for Engineer buildings, in both target IDs and freeze panels
• Players killing themselves will now give a kill credit to the last enemy who damaged them
• Fixed grenades, rockets, and flamethrower being able to fire through grates at round starts
• Fixed players being killed and creating ragdolls during team switches
• Fixed various exploits and performance problems in CP_Badlands, CP_Well, and CP_Fastlane
• Removed health bonus from the Backburner

Steam Client Updated

Valve has released an update for their Steam client. This update adds lots of improvements and adds PtT (Push-to-Talk) function.

Steam Client

• Improved cache defragmenter to both defragment at the OS level and internal files
• Improved defrag progress dialog
• Improved download status reporting in games list
• Increased background update frequency
• Improved voice quality
• Added audio recording device selection for voice chat
• Added push-to-talk support for voice chat
• Fixed apps getting stuck at Updating 0% when downloading
• Fixed possible crash when resuming from Standby mode
• Fixed Steam preventing some PC’s from entering Standby mode
• Fixed overlay sometimes getting stuck up and not responding to hot-keys after server join
• Fixed uninstalled apps becoming installed when viewing their Properties page after Steam restart

Garry’s Mod - Update Abound

Another update for GMod10.

Garry’s Mod

• Fixed crash when prop’s physics object couldn’t be created
• Fixed Team Fortress 2 blood overriding Half-Life 2 blood
• Fixed shotgun having wildly reduced damage
• Changed default jump height so you can jump on a crouched player
• Fixed not being able to override materials on clientside entities
• Fixed not seeing hunter blood in MP

Source SDK Updated

Valve’s Source SDK has gotten an update:
Enhancements

• Particle Editor, Material Editor, and Commentary Editor are now included in the Source SDK
• Updated SDK source code for Orange Box mods
• Added example particle system files to SDK content

Bug Fixes

• Updated Linux binaries and makefiles for dedicated servers and server plugins
• The Faceposer phoneme editor now pops up a warning message when a phoneme cannot be saved
• Fixed crash in ’splitskybox.exe’
• Day of Defeat: Source now appears in the list of Orange Box games

Team Fortress 2 - Updated….With Fixes

 

Another Team Fortress 2 update that fixes some age old exploits like intel clipping and also fixes the broken medigun taunt. (HAHA! Octoberfest!)

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed rcon crash caused by too many incorrect password attempts
• Fixed clients experiencing connection problems during round restarts
• Fixed flares not always being removed on impact
• Fixed 32 player servers not working correctly with SourceTV enabled
• Fixed dropped flags sometimes falling through the world
• Fixed number key menu input sending 2 key events
• Fixed PING field being clipped in the scoreboard at 800×600 resolution
• Fixed broken Medigun taunt
• Changed mat_showmiplevels to only be allowed when cheats are on

As always, available from Steam.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare v1.7 Patch

Another patch for CoD4 that fixes exploits and bugs.

This patch fixes an exploit that allowed players to access certain console dvars during multi-player matches. It also fixes a crash that could occur when a Chinatown Sabotage match would go into over-time.

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Garry’s Mod Update Released

Garry’s Mod

• Fixed crash on startup
• Fixed broken particles
• Removed server crashing console commands
• Fixed ‘Touch’ Lua errors on some custom SENTs
• Spectated entities are now automatically added to PVS
• Added pl_goldrush to map menu
• Gamemodes can now organise their maps on the map screen
• Added example gamemode ‘melonracer’

As always, get the update from Steam.

Day Of Defeat: Source Beta Update Released

Valve has released an update for the BETA of Day of Defeat: Source Steamworks edition. Info about the update below:
Day of Defeat: Source Beta

• Achievements are now all stored locally as well for offline achievement dialog
• Fixed view model lag being jittery
• Fixed some viewmodels occasionally skipping their fire animations
• Fixed quickswitch exploit
• Fixed some overlays being too transparent
• Fixed a case where an enemy player could be credited for an area capture
• Playtime statistic now records time spent as class, not time alive as a particular class
• Upload stats when we join spectator, change class and on changelevel
• Fixed crash with ai_test_los console command
• Adjusted global bloom scale
• New nemesis icon

Grab the update from Steam.

Steam Client Update

Another update for Valve’s Steam client.

Steam Client

• Fixed input coordinates being off for the overlay in full screen OpenGL games on the secondary monitor
• Fixed possible game overlay crash
• Fixed incorrect reporting of app metadata

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